Karen Gregory
@karengregory.bsky.social
Soc of Work + Platform Labor | U of Edinburgh | Created MSc Digital Sociology | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society | CAHSS Digital Lead | Critical Data Studies @ EFI
Writing: Enchanted Entrepreneurs: Media, Work, and Meaning in the Spiritual Marketplace
Writing: Enchanted Entrepreneurs: Media, Work, and Meaning in the Spiritual Marketplace
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Karen Gregory
@karengregory.bsky.social
· Jul 24
Workers Observatory — We See The City
The Workers’ Observatory is an Edinburgh-based project run by workers to monitor new forms of work in the city and develop tools and tactics to take advantage of them
workersobservatory.org
You can now follow The Workers Observatory on Bluesky:
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And see more here:
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And see more here:
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The Economist claims that Musk's $10M donation to UT-Austin's Population Wellbeing Initiative is specifically to "provide academic ballast to pro-natalist ideas."
Fomenting population panic to provide cover for sexist, racist, ableist, nativist social engineering. www.economist.com/1843/2025/11...
Fomenting population panic to provide cover for sexist, racist, ableist, nativist social engineering. www.economist.com/1843/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The Economist claims that Musk's $10M donation to UT-Austin's Population Wellbeing Initiative is specifically to "provide academic ballast to pro-natalist ideas."
Fomenting population panic to provide cover for sexist, racist, ableist, nativist social engineering. www.economist.com/1843/2025/11...
Fomenting population panic to provide cover for sexist, racist, ableist, nativist social engineering. www.economist.com/1843/2025/11...
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Brilliant idea - when you're a tiny community group it can be so hard to cover those boring but essential costs like insurance!
Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open!
£200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Brilliant idea - when you're a tiny community group it can be so hard to cover those boring but essential costs like insurance!
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The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide
Supreme Court Rejects Call To Overturn Its Decision Legalizing Same-sex Marriage Nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
www.huffpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide
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The week of industrial action comes one year after the financial crisis at the institution put hundreds of jobs on the line.
Week-long strike begins at Dundee University as staff say resolve is as strong as ever
The week of industrial action comes one year after the financial crisis at the institution put hundreds of jobs on the line.
dlvr.it
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The week of industrial action comes one year after the financial crisis at the institution put hundreds of jobs on the line.
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Happy University Press Week! Have you told your university press how much you love them lately?? 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Happy University Press Week! Have you told your university press how much you love them lately?? 🥰
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BREAKING: Starbucks baristas at Downtown Disney couldn’t stand another day of their managers’ unfair labor practices & kicked off our nationwide strike this weekend. These workers have shut down one of largest Starbucks stores in the country — and we’re just getting started! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks baristas at Downtown Disney couldn’t stand another day of their managers’ unfair labor practices & kicked off our nationwide strike this weekend. These workers have shut down one of largest Starbucks stores in the country — and we’re just getting started! #NoContractNoCoffee
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“.. As the raids have continued, consumers have started to question whether the company’s silence makes it an accomplice to the sweeps rather than merely the backdrop. .. A backlash is coming for the company.”
@bloomberg.com $HD
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
@bloomberg.com $HD
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“.. As the raids have continued, consumers have started to question whether the company’s silence makes it an accomplice to the sweeps rather than merely the backdrop. .. A backlash is coming for the company.”
@bloomberg.com $HD
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
@bloomberg.com $HD
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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I know, I know--most of us are mainly going to talk today about Democratic cave-in. My recommendation: You know that story. Give yourself a break. Stay on the beat, but come at it sideways, via some real writing, like this from Brendilou Armstrong, a new writer telling the truth.
Gorgeous prose from Brendilou Armstrong, latest in a series of stories by new writers reported for a
@dartmouthartsci.bsky.social
course on documenting small corners of the Trumpocene. (Detail from photo by Matt Black, Armstrong's inspiration.) callingallsyllables.substack.com/p/desperate-...
@dartmouthartsci.bsky.social
course on documenting small corners of the Trumpocene. (Detail from photo by Matt Black, Armstrong's inspiration.) callingallsyllables.substack.com/p/desperate-...
Desperate Remedy
One writer's American geography
callingallsyllables.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I know, I know--most of us are mainly going to talk today about Democratic cave-in. My recommendation: You know that story. Give yourself a break. Stay on the beat, but come at it sideways, via some real writing, like this from Brendilou Armstrong, a new writer telling the truth.
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Great to see @caileangallagher.bsky.social and @workersobservatory.org here:
New book alert!📘
Our book on workers talking about their experiences of workers inquiry research, and working with academic workers to build power! with the Capacitor Collective
Our book on workers talking about their experiences of workers inquiry research, and working with academic workers to build power! with the Capacitor Collective
NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY by The Capacitor Collective delivers first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s burgeoning labor movement.
Preorders save a couple bucks and get a free zine on the history of workers' inquiries! Checkout with coupon code DIGITALWORKERS: buff.ly/9Li5A3U
Preorders save a couple bucks and get a free zine on the history of workers' inquiries! Checkout with coupon code DIGITALWORKERS: buff.ly/9Li5A3U
November 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Great to see @caileangallagher.bsky.social and @workersobservatory.org here:
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The Big Yin spinning the Big Wheel this evening in St Enoch Square in Glasgow
#glasgow #glasgowtoday #billyconnolly #streetart #streetartphotography #mural #stenochsquare #glasgowmurals
#glasgow #glasgowtoday #billyconnolly #streetart #streetartphotography #mural #stenochsquare #glasgowmurals
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The Big Yin spinning the Big Wheel this evening in St Enoch Square in Glasgow
#glasgow #glasgowtoday #billyconnolly #streetart #streetartphotography #mural #stenochsquare #glasgowmurals
#glasgow #glasgowtoday #billyconnolly #streetart #streetartphotography #mural #stenochsquare #glasgowmurals
Tomorrow's Monday. How many of you are getting in there to ruin the workplace? Tell me your plans.
November 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Tomorrow's Monday. How many of you are getting in there to ruin the workplace? Tell me your plans.
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LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Putting this on the office door:
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Putting this on the office door:
"The administration ballooned, and inside the administration the financial technocrats took over. There was less and less sympathy with Columbia as a place of thought. It was more about Columbia as an enterprise..."
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
Mahmood Mamdani Doesn’t Want to Talk About Zohran
The Columbia scholar, and father of the mayor-elect, on politics, academe, and antisemitism.
www.chronicle.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
"The administration ballooned, and inside the administration the financial technocrats took over. There was less and less sympathy with Columbia as a place of thought. It was more about Columbia as an enterprise..."
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
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'The oldest and best-known preprint repository, arXiv, has announced that it will no longer accept review or position papers in computer science. The website will make exceptions only for papers that have been previously accepted by a peer-reviewed venue, such as a journal or conference.'
Preprint site arXiv is banning computer-science reviews: here’s why
The repository is taking steps to tackle a surge in low quality, AI-generated content.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
'The oldest and best-known preprint repository, arXiv, has announced that it will no longer accept review or position papers in computer science. The website will make exceptions only for papers that have been previously accepted by a peer-reviewed venue, such as a journal or conference.'
Great to see @caileangallagher.bsky.social and @workersobservatory.org here:
New book alert!📘
Our book on workers talking about their experiences of workers inquiry research, and working with academic workers to build power! with the Capacitor Collective
Our book on workers talking about their experiences of workers inquiry research, and working with academic workers to build power! with the Capacitor Collective
NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY by The Capacitor Collective delivers first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s burgeoning labor movement.
Preorders save a couple bucks and get a free zine on the history of workers' inquiries! Checkout with coupon code DIGITALWORKERS: buff.ly/9Li5A3U
Preorders save a couple bucks and get a free zine on the history of workers' inquiries! Checkout with coupon code DIGITALWORKERS: buff.ly/9Li5A3U
November 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Great to see @caileangallagher.bsky.social and @workersobservatory.org here:
Unplug. Delete.
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Unplug. Delete.
This is incredibly sad, unnecessary, and shows a real distain for the actual and honest work of the university:
Edinburgh University is closing the Institute for Academic Development. Download these student resources while you can. Making notes, reading strategies, time management, dissertations and so on.
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
November 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
This is incredibly sad, unnecessary, and shows a real distain for the actual and honest work of the university:
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
"Most immigrants are already net fiscal contributors; decreasing their numbers will only decrease their contributions."
"Most immigrants are already net fiscal contributors; decreasing their numbers will only decrease their contributions."
Lower migration is bad news for the UK economy - UK in a changing Europe
Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, and that the recent collapse in immigration will harm the UK's economic p...
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
"Most immigrants are already net fiscal contributors; decreasing their numbers will only decrease their contributions."
"Most immigrants are already net fiscal contributors; decreasing their numbers will only decrease their contributions."
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We are really on a roll this week.
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
We are really on a roll this week.
👏
Jeanine Pirro tried to make an example of Sean Dunn.
She ended up delivering a hero to Washington, D.C.
www.huffpost.com/entry/dc-san...
She ended up delivering a hero to Washington, D.C.
www.huffpost.com/entry/dc-san...
DC ‘Sandwich Guy’ Found Not Guilty After Defense Successfully Highlights Absurdity Of It All
Jeanine Pirro tried to make an example of Sean Dunn. She ended up delivering a hero to Washington, D.C.
www.huffpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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'Can sociology meet the moment?' by Adrian Favell
Book Review of 'Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World'
Published as part of our latest #Symposium:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @mlamont.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Book Review of 'Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World'
Published as part of our latest #Symposium:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @mlamont.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
'Can sociology meet the moment?' by Adrian Favell
Book Review of 'Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World'
Published as part of our latest #Symposium:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @mlamont.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Book Review of 'Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World'
Published as part of our latest #Symposium:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @mlamont.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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NEW YORK CITY: I hear you're in a celebratory mood over there. Well how would you like to use some of that energy to help dismantle big tech?
Join me, @parismarx.com, @edwardongwesojr.com, @jathansadowski.com, @veenadubal.bsky.social, and special guests for the Second NYC Luddite Tribunal.
Join me, @parismarx.com, @edwardongwesojr.com, @jathansadowski.com, @veenadubal.bsky.social, and special guests for the Second NYC Luddite Tribunal.
RSVP to THE LUDDITE TRIBUNAL | Partiful
It's time to put technology on trial, and to smash it if necessary. Join Paris Marx, Jathan Sadowski, Ed Ongweso Jr, Veena Dubal, Brian Merchant, and special guests for an evening of booze, discussion...
partiful.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
NEW YORK CITY: I hear you're in a celebratory mood over there. Well how would you like to use some of that energy to help dismantle big tech?
Join me, @parismarx.com, @edwardongwesojr.com, @jathansadowski.com, @veenadubal.bsky.social, and special guests for the Second NYC Luddite Tribunal.
Join me, @parismarx.com, @edwardongwesojr.com, @jathansadowski.com, @veenadubal.bsky.social, and special guests for the Second NYC Luddite Tribunal.