Ethnographer of Internet infrastructure | Lecturer @kingsdh | Makes sounds from music
London, UK
Joined April 2009
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So proud of my brilliant wife @Anasuyashh for the honourary doctorate from @SASNews. It wasn't an easy decision to attend the graduation ceremony on a day that @ucu is striking, so she spoke for fair pay and good working conditions. @IWGBunion #ucuRISING
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Join us for @BristolCyberSec Guest Seminar by Dr Ashwin Matthew (KCL)
@ashwinjm on "Trust and governance in cyber security"; 18th Jan 12-1pm! email me about further details.
ALT Poster for guest seminar: trust in governance in cyber security 18th Jan 12-1pm (hybrid) - email [email protected] for joining instructions. Background image is one from the Mel Hogan's series 'humans in data centres at the end of the world' depicting a technicolor fuzzy dome in a remote arctic location
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🚨 Shamefully, the university employers' body UCEA haven't even brought a pay offer to the table despite having had months to prepare.
They are yet again blocking negotiations and still won't acknowledge the cost of living crisis.
Joint statement:
ALT Joint statement from EIS, GMB, UCU, Unison and Unite after pay talks with UCEA. Explains that UCEA did not even present a pay offer, and are clearly not serious about negotiating.
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Make sure you read this powerful piece in @tribunemagazine from our member 'Teleola Cartwright, a lecturer on a zero hours contract.
She writes that her pay and job security are worse now than when she worked at Sports Direct. tribunemag.co.uk/2022/03/uni…
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What a wonderful week of strike action, our fifth this year! We showed our determination to win these disputes. As @amazonlabor said: “The power to connect with the people you work with & care about is the power to change the world.” Please vote this weekend in the @ucu ballot!
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It's #DalitHistoryMonth & we created a Media Kit for our community, partners & allies.
Suggestions on who to follow, what to read, listen to or watch, events to attend and orgs to support, along with our posters and other assets.
It's all here: bit.ly/DHM-MediaKit
Share!
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Wonderful and informative video from @KCL_UCU Privileged to be working with @LuGuangMing @JohnCNarayan to fight for equality as part of @kcldecol and #UCUstrike #FourFights #OneOfUsAllOfUs youtube.com/watch?v=U3909XoH…
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Can it really be that @EdinburghUni would rather spend over £30 million on a fictitious predicted future deficit, than concede that the @ucu is right and the valuation is flawed? #USSmess
Think what it could do with that money if it cared about staff, students or education
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"The higher education sector is too important to be abandoned to this needless arson perpetrated by employers. In the medium to long term, it is not only staff and students but Britain’s economy, society, and soft power that will pay the price."
thetimes.co.uk/article/c6952…
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USS news: from 1st April @lborouniversity will be paying over £9.4m/year to service the March 2020 ‘deficit’ that USS themselves now accept (even with their crazy 0% real-terms growth assumption) has shrunk by 87% since that date. That’s 224 lecturer salaries.
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Over 840 women professors demand the #USS pension cuts halt. Organised by Prof @jelkeboesten and Prof Anne Pollock.
The cuts have “gendered impacts”, and April 1st is an arbitrary date. Stop them!
Story here 👇🏽
theguardian.com/education/20…
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The @UniversityLeeds will be paying a USS deficit recovery payment of £12,431,900 in the 2022/23 academic year, even though they now know from the USS directly that the deficit recovery cost is 0%. Why do you think they want to squander money like that?
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Huge thanks to @dawnbonfield @ashwinjm @KCL_WIP women in computing for speaking about decolonising science and engineering
Feeling empowered by sharing stories + planning first steps towards a decolonised @KingsNMES #collaboration #IWD
🤝💪🏻💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿
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With 14% sexist & 19% racist pay gaps, @KingsCollegeLon just decided to cut our pensions, knowing all too well that this will disproportionately affect women & workers of colour. But yes, let's ask the architect of the hostile environment what they feel. #NotOurFeminism #IWD2022
"Women having the courage to come forward and talk about their experiences is so important, because if we don't do that than the message will never get out to those sorts of people who think these sorts of attitudes against women are acceptable"
@theresa_may at #MayGillardIWD
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Less than 24 hours until @KingsNMES #IWD2022 celebration: Decolonising Science and Engineering with @dawnbonfield @ashwinjm
Looking forward to seeing you there @kcl_engineering @kclchemistry @kclmathematics @KCL_Physics @kclinformatics @ChemKcl @KCL_WIP @KCLWiSTEM
ALL WELCOME
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What does it mean when we talk about real terms pay in Higher Education dropping by over 20%, what impact is it having on individual members, & how does it practically interact with precarity & promotions inequality?
TLDR: It's dire, & there is no valid reason for it to be.
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Amazing to be out with UNISON this morning - what a boost for our day 10! @KCL_UCU @KCLUnison Strand party picket is rocking. Fair pay and conditions for EVERYONE in OUR university #OneOfUsAllOfUs
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KCL President @ewanmcg and Neil Davies @Bristol_UCU win a crucial legal battle in their case against USS and the USS Directors.
The USS deficit is democratic not economic. We will stop the pension theft!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs