#Precarity

I never used to think precarity was a useful term because I thought it was too niche. Then a global pandemic happened and not only showed we can change our

Anne Helen Petersen

Most millennials I know have just been waiting for the last decade for the other shoe to drop. That's the thing I feel like we rarely talk about: that we

I just had a realisation and perhaps it will help others:I'm always exhausted. I've felt this deep fatigue most of my life. I just realised I've lived my entire life

Dr Roxanne Douglas

Love waking up to an email from @warwickuni stating that my job is actually neither a job, nor essential to operations. How are you going to deliver all this high

1) I regret to inform you I have thoughts about 'cancel culture.' The first is... 2) When people call something a 'culture' it's good reason to be on guard. 'Culture'

At my institution I worked casually and on fixed short term contracts over a period of 4 years before getting a permanent contract last year for... 1 day a week.

Dr. Virginia L. Campbell

Thread. Tomorrow begins the #UCUStrike. I have so so many thoughts and feelings about this. @bigfridge224 has a thread about the difficulties of precarity, and @KatExe about the impact this

Maitiú Mac Ricéid / Mathew Rickard

maitiumacriceid

So before #COVID19 ruined the best laid plans of mice & men, I was to speak at #SDNBelfast2020 today. This was my only conference for the foreseeable (#precarity), so I

Doctoral & Early Career Research Network

Save the datesfor our online Professional Development Days 27 & 28 May! It is FREE and open to all. Join us and hear from our fantastic line-up of speakers incl.

Alice Reid is on strike

I am on strike, picketing in person and on the #DigitalPicketLine (no work tweets) #UCUstrike. We are striking about pensions and work conditions, especially precarity and pay gaps. I got

Dr Kandida Purnell

. @lmphbutlerperks just reminded me that we graduated exactly 2yrs ago! I was replying to student emails during my graduation ceremony, since then have had 3 jobs & moves w/the

it's very hard to internalise that so many people who were killed by covid were set up to die from it years before the pandemic emerged, by austerity, privatisation, nhs

Dr Kay Guccione

When I started being a Researcher Developer in 2010 my role involved organising training for postdocs (the visible 30%) and also advocating for postdocs (obscured work, but ~70% of my

💃🏾Tracey Norman's Cheek Bones 🐙🏴☭

the problem w b*s*xual discourse is that queer sexuality is not purely abt attraction its abt community. no one is accountable to the "straight community" cuz its not a community.

People look at me like I'm crazy when I say folks are gonna start taking matters into their own hands faster than anyone would like.https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1250482670326472705 This was a bottom up

send reparations 🌻🧸💐

homeofallhaints

Imagine a reality where mutual aid and reparations networks exist in abundance and widely accessible to Black people which enable them to strike/withhold their labor. Imagine a world where Black