Cold weather sunrise.

First #IIRLeiden2024www.bostonreview.net/articles/bey...

Beyond the Nation-State - Boston Review

Sovereign states have been mythologized as the natural unit of political order. History shows how new they are—and how we can think beyond them.

Happening today. Zoom link here: unive.zoom.us/j/89532456643

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This RTD will explore the experiences of women’s labour movements in putting domestic and caring labour on the global agenda. Sept 9, 14h CET, online. Please feel free to share the info, re-tweet, etc. #gendersky #polisky #contentiousky #migcitsky

We're so fucked. "Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing."

GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation | HKS Misinformation Review

Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, genera...

This RTD will explore the experiences of women’s labour movements in putting domestic and caring labour on the global agenda. Sept 9, 14h CET, online. Please feel free to share the info, re-tweet, etc. #gendersky#polisky#contentiousky#migcitsky

This RTD will explore the experiences of women’s labour movements in putting domestic and caring labour on the global agenda. Sept 9, 14h CET, online. Please feel free to share the info, re-tweet, etc. #gendersky#polisky#contentiousky#migcitsky

First time in a French city that isn't Paris. Hehe 🙂

As many as 1 in 3 women in parts of the rife-with-labor-abuses sugar-producing region of India have had hysterectomies, largely as a way to try and keep working and avoid having to go to doctors. Coke and Pepsi are among the companies using this sugar. Deeply disturbing investigative reporting:As many as 1 in 3 women in parts of the rife-with-labor-abuses sugar-producing region of India have had hysterectomies, largely as a way to try and keep working and avoid having to go to doctors. Coke and Pepsi are among the companies using this sugar. Deeply disturbing investigative reporting:

The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies

An investigation into the sugar-cane industry in the Indian state of Maharashtra found workers ensnared by debt and pushed into child marriages and unnecessary hysterectomies.

I "abandoned" this paper three years ago. I've had a chance to revisit it recently. Wasn't so bad as I thought. Looking forward to presenting at #EISAPEC24

The ILO includes university professors in its definition of care workers. It is correct that the focus is on those at the lower end of the skill spectrum. But those in higher ed, especially where marketisation is most advanced, are no less precarious or insecure...The ILO includes university professors in its definition of care workers. It is correct that the focus is on those at the lower end of the skill spectrum. But those in higher ed, especially where marketisation is most advanced, are no less precarious or insecure...