‘What do we want? £15!’ Hundreds join Amazon picket line for Black Friday strike
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Chris N. H. Street
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Psychology Senior Lecturer / PGT Director at Keele University, UK. Cognition of lie detection and trust in information. Bi 🏳️🌈 he/him. Views are my own.
Tom StaffordThe preeminence of ethnic diversity in scientific collaboration https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07634-8
Ethnic diversity - far more the diversity of discipline or affiliation - in a collaboration predicted citation impact of research outputs
The preeminence of ethnic diversity in scientific collaboration - Nature Communications
Diversity is believed to raise effectiveness and performance but it contains many aspects. Here the authors studied the relationship between research impact and five classes of diversity and found that ethnic diversity had the strongest correlation with scientific impact.
UK research funding body in row with ministers over free speech and Gaza
Black Friday strikes: Amazon's profits triple but workers conditions still intolerable // https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/27/make-amazon-pay-black-friday-strikes-planned-in-30-countries-including-uk?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Dave in 🏴EIS-ULA statutory ballot is now open!
Employers ignored the cost of living crisis and the stagnation of wages over the past decade plus and offered a pay rise which did not keep up with inflation, let alone make up for lost wages over time.
Make sure you #VoteYes for #strikes and #ActionShortOfAStrike (i.e. doing only the work they pay you to do) when your ballot papers arrive.
#EIS joining #ucuRISING in #Solidarity for #UKHE as a whole!
We've just set up the final picket for this week. Come join us for a bit of drum beating!
Keele has had exceptionally punishing indefinite deductions for boycotting marking. We are out on strike this week in response @keeleucu
Liz Ellis She/Her🌳We’ve hit an amazing 600 signatures!
I want to thank folks for the amazing support, advice & job alerts over the last few weeks. It looks like they really are going to return the 3 days of external funding I have with little regard for the communities I’m working with.
I don’t know what my future is, but I hope I’ll eventually regain my positive outlook
@academicchatter @academicsunite
#Scotland #academia #UHI #UCU
https://www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/stop-staff-cuts-at-uhi
Stop Staff Cuts at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI)
The University announced on Monday 14 August plans to make £3 million cuts to the staffing budget which could lead to up to 40 job losses in the University’s Executive Office (EO). Cuts of this scale will have a devastating impact on those individuals losing their jobs and their families, but also on the future of the University and the Highlands and Islands’ economy. Many of the staff employed by EO are in roles which deliver critical functions like student support, student experience,...
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