Reposted by Fuk Ying TseWonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026NEW on Wonkhe: New science minister Chris McDonald loves brass bands. Will he grow to love the REF in the same way? buff.ly/CMrX5Db 044
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Just called out two people leaving an empty beer can on their table seat. They replied 'there is no bin in the train', thus everyone does that, and refused to take it with them. It's an overcrowded train thus the seats are taken instantly. AITA? @crosscountryuk.bsky.social 001
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Long awaited part 2! www.theguardian.com/football/202...theguardian.comEngland deserve a tide of goodwill, yet somehow Jude Bellingham is still a target | Jonathan LiewIt’s hard to disagree with Ian Wright when he suggests the midfielder has been subjected to a timeworn double standard 010
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 13/11/2025The next Department of Management, Birmingham Business School research seminar will launch the forthcoming book by Dr Xiaojun Feng (China Agricultural University) on labour precarity in China since 1949. 1-2pm, 10 December 2025. All are welcome. www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...cambridge.orgThe Making of Labour Precarity in China since 1949Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - The Making of Labour Precarity in China since 1949 110
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseAlkim Karaagac @alkimkaraagac.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Only three months ago, Human Geography at Leicester was ranked No.1 in the UK for overall positivity in the 2025 National Student Survey. Any decent university management would be fighting to keep them. In solidarity, please sign the petition: www.change.org/p/save-geogr...change.orgSign the PetitionSave Geography at the University of Leicester 072
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseTony Dundon @tonydundon.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Should business schools be trying harder to help businesses? My answer would be a definite no. Try harder to help people, workers, citizens, society. 121
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Somehow I just find it really funny that people in Taiwan, Japan and South Korea tend to use AI for fortune telling more than the rest of the world ig.ft.com/ai-personal-...ig.ft.comHow AI became our personal assistantNew data shows the ways millions have integrated the technology into their everyday lives 010
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 17/09/2025The story is strikingly similar to Hong Kong immigrants (or high-skilled individuals from any Global south country) relocating to the UK - see if the 'lack of local experience' becomes a problem in employers' initial screening of job applications for them www.ft.com/content/64a3...ft.comThe US workers escaping for a career overseasUnhappy under the Trump administration, some professionals are plotting an exit — but there are costs 010
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2025I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home. bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...bestforbritain.substack.comMy place or yours? - Flags and the far right from someone who looks different to youBy Alex Andreou 121945339
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed. 605122429692
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Temu anti-racism of Labour (thanks to @edgranter.bsky.social introducing me to the term I have used it twice today already...)theguardian.comThe Diane Abbott row shows how impoverished Britain’s conversations about race have become | Jason OkundayeWe should be able to discuss the different ways in which minorities are racialised in a thoughtful – and sometimes confronting – way, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye 020
Reposted by Fuk Ying Tsedissociação games @mthlimao.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Acabei de descobrir que o goleirão do Auckland trabalha com empilhadeira em depósito de marketplace e ta preocupadíssimo com o campeonato ultrapassar o tempo sua licença das férias e ficar sem grana pra pagar as contas. Muito gente como a gente 3258109
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseFuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Hi Bluesky, I'm conducting research on the opportunities and challenges in the #UKHE sector that involuntarily displaced mid-career/senior academics face. Particularly interested in speaking to those in humanities and social sciences, regardless of their current employment status. 1/4 #academicsky 138
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Hi Bluesky, I'm conducting research on the opportunities and challenges in the #UKHE sector that involuntarily displaced mid-career/senior academics face. Particularly interested in speaking to those in humanities and social sciences, regardless of their current employment status. 1/4 #academicsky 138
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseGylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025“The English have a fierce reputation for conquering the world.. invading loads of different countries and then getting upset when those people follow them home.” - Tommy Tiernan 812448
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 27/04/2025The new #observer layout, both in print and online, is driving me nuts... 000
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseEmily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Francis very much looking like he’s in a Pet Shop Boys video here 1331646
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseJohn Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 24/04/2025II wrote about the Lib Dems' idea of stopping unwanted noise/music/speakerphones on public transport. No-one's said it yet, but this is a neurodivergence/autism issue maybeimamazed.substack.com/p/why-speake...maybeimamazed.substack.comWhy speakerphones and blaring music on public transport is a neurodivergence issueThe UK Liberal Democrats want to ban loud music, videos and phone calls on buses and trains. Respect to them 1912349
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseInterregnum @intrrgnm.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Find us in Glasgow (9th May) and in London (12th May) for the launch of The Precarious Migrant Worker! @politybooks.bsky.social More info here: interregnum.ghost.io/book-launch-...interregnum.ghost.ioBook launch: The Precarious Migrant Worker, Polity (Glasgow and London)In the desert of neoliberal precarity, how do we struggle? We invite you to the book launches for The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialization of Precarity, taking place in Glasgow (9th of May 202... 056
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Does anyone know if manual letter forward is still a thing for #royalmail? Aka cross over the name of the recipient who moved out, write down their new address and put it back into the mailbox. 100
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseJonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 26/03/2025a column on jordan henderson, and the double standards of English football’s leadership discourse www.theguardian.com/football/202...theguardian.comWhy the double standards on ‘leadership’ when it comes to Black players? | Jonathan LiewJordan Henderson is a great English leader. But he has been encouraged and applauded for the very same acts for which minority ethnic players are castigated and stigmatised 2114653
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 13/03/20253+ years of work finally done! Thank you Guglielmo, Elaine, all authors and reviewers for making this happen. Hui, E. S., & Tse, F. Y. (2025). Industrial relations in Chinese multinational corporations in Europe: A regional lens. European Journal of Industrial Relations. doi.org/10.1177/0959...doi.orgSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 000
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseThe Dispatch @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social · 12/03/2025From celluloid to cinemas - Birmingham's contribution to film is surprisingly significant. Today's members-only story is about the great Brummie inventors of the 20th Century, by Jon Neale. www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/lights-camer...birminghamdispatch.co.ukLights! Camera! Edgbaston! How Birmingham supercharged the film industryCelluloid and cinema created by Brummies brought the 20th Century to life 011
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Indeed!!! Watched it on Sunday evening and could not wait to recommend to students in class on Monday morning 020
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Sans the music on loud speaker please, from a fellow cyclist 010
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 27/02/2025CfP: Inclusive Futures? 2025 Work Inclusivity Research Centre (WIRC) Research Conference, 7 May 2025, Birmingham. Deadline for extended abstract: 10 March 2025birmingham.ac.ukWork Inclusivity Research Centre (WIRC) - University of BirminghamWIRC is based within Birmingham Business School but includes colleagues from across disciplines. 010
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Next Department of Management seminar (26 Feb) by Prof Jan Ottosson, on the roles of unions and the employer's organisations during peacetime crises facing the Swedish steel and metal industries. Preceded by an Economic and Industrial Democracy meet-the-editor session. All are welcome.birmingham.ac.ukLost between state and business. Economic defence and the funding of metal stockpiling in Sweden, 1973–1987Prof Jan Ottosson (Uppsala University) presents at the Birmingham Business School, Department of Management Research Seminar Series 2024/2025 000
Reposted by Fuk Ying TsePaul Jonker-Hoffrén @pjonkerhoffren.bsky.social · 05/02/2025I think today it is appropriate to read this essay by #MichaelBurawoy on #sociology: burawoy.berkeley.edu/PS/Sociology... Especially this last bit may provide some inspiration in these incipient dark times. RIP Michael Burawoy 0144
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Putting the sickening ageism aside, this take and comments underneath oddly speak to the indeterminacy of labour power www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...bbc.co.ukMarcus Rashford: Ruben Amorim suggests he'd rather pick 63-year-old coach over forwardManchester United boss Ruben Amorim suggests he'd rather give a place on the bench to his 63-year-old goalkeeping coach over Marcus Rashford because of effort. 000
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseFuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Book launch - AI and Work: Transforming Work, Organisations, and Society in an Age of Insecurity at Birmingham Business School on 29 Jan 2025 (Wed). Colleagues and union reps responsible for education/bargaining esp welcomed! DM for Zoom link for joining online. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/busi...birmingham.ac.ukArtificial Intelligence and Work: Transforming Work, Organisations, and Society in an Age of InsecurityWe are living in an age characterised by insecurity and paradox. 032
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/12/2024‘Love exists beyond death’: Andrew Scott on All of Us Strangers – and whether his character was deadtheguardian.com‘Love exists beyond death’: Andrew Scott on All of Us Strangers – and whether his character was deadThe co-star of the Guardian’s film of 2024 talks about director Andrew Haigh’s ‘unabashedly romantic’ love story, loneliness – and the idea of seeing your parents as your peers * The Guardian’s No 1 film of the year: All of Us Strangers * The full… 413724
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseResearch Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Health and Safety Executive to inspect University of Birmingham. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u... 013
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseMat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Read the first dispatch from myself and @justinsalhani.bsky.social from Syria. The torture and disappearance of Syrians under Assad was so extreme and gruesome that those who died may never turn up, while those who survived sometimes can't recall their own names. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...aljazeera.comCorpses, men who don’t know their names: Scenes from a Damascus hospitalOver 100,000 Syrians were disappeared by the Assad regime. At a hospital in Damascus, their families search desperately. 17539
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseMollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Deleted the “headphones on public transport are good” because it’s got to the stage where people are like “but what if that kid has to listen to their videos out loud because otherwise the entire train will blow up? what then? What if that child is Henry VIII reincarnate and it’s his divine right” 1035608543
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Book launch - AI and Work: Transforming Work, Organisations, and Society in an Age of Insecurity at Birmingham Business School on 29 Jan 2025 (Wed). Colleagues and union reps responsible for education/bargaining esp welcomed! DM for Zoom link for joining online. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/busi...birmingham.ac.ukArtificial Intelligence and Work: Transforming Work, Organisations, and Society in an Age of InsecurityWe are living in an age characterised by insecurity and paradox. 032
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Will Small Things Like These (2024) become the next Die Hard (in terms of appropriateness for Christmasy viewing)? #filmsky 000
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Is academician a synonym for academic? When should one call themselves and their colleagues academicians? Asking for a friend. #academicsky #academicchatter 310
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseHelen Pidd @helenpidd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024I am on strike today, along with many other journalists from The Guardian and Observer. We have downed tools for 48 hours and will be back at work on Friday. For more information please follow bsky.app/profile/gonu... and @NUJofficial, or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserverbsky.app 1016535
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Literally all that is solid melts into air: 'This £324.9 million of expenditure in just eight years has contributed to our current financial situation, but still left us having to evacuate two major buildings on the main campus deemed unsafe this year.' 000
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseDon Censelio @censelio.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Are celebrities workers? South Korea says no www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comNewJeans: Are celebrities workers? South Korea says noIn a high-profile dispute involving a K-pop band, the South Korean government has made its decision. 042
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseModern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 20/11/2024If someone earned 50 shillings a week 100 years ago, was that... good or bad? Our handy guide 'What could you buy with a working class wage?', c.1900s-1920s, may be able to help! Explore examples of weekly budgets, ads for consumer goods & more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #genealogy 915665
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseAlejandro Godino @agodino.bsky.social · 18/11/2024🔓 Our article 'Coffee and cigarettes in industrial relations: A comparative network analysis of the role of informality' (together with Oscar Molina and Joel Martí) is now open-access in Journal of Industrial Relations. doi.org/10.1177/0022... 0157
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 18/11/2024As long as they are stocked in the university library, reading them means work right??? (Students, you are too young for Akira, please) 000
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseEzra Cubero @ezracubero.bsky.social · 15/11/2024NO OTHER LAND is as urgent as documentary filmmaking gets. The harrowing images of Palestinian communities bulldozed, families displaced, lives shattered. These are ongoing events that are essential for everyone to see. The film has no distributor. Spread the word. 092
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseChina Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 14/11/2024Thoughts from a young journalist: "I have to keep on surviving—so that I can outlive a few old men, until their generation finally dies out. Even if the world doesn’t change, I want to stick around to see what happens." 112
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Old news: Lineker and Baker (2020) is one of my 2024 personal favourite www.penguin.co.uk/books/440367...penguin.co.ukBehind Closed Doors***Includes a new foreword by Gary Lineker about football in lockdown*** Shortlisted for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards 'Lineker is nearly as good a presenter as I was a footballer' DIEGO MARADONA... 000
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseEmile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Since I'm new here, can I re-up a project of which I am v proud? It's the complete Eric Hobsbawm Bibliography - a fully searchable database of all his published & unpublished works + a set of curated thematic lists to introduce select topics. It was a labour of love. Link: hobsbawm.shca.ed.ac.uk 426584
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Got loaned a Brompton bike from the Sustainable Travel team at work. It survived peak-time trains but not so much on UK country gravel roads full of potholes... @bike.community 010
Reposted by Fuk Ying TseNina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024As promised (threatened?), I made a starter pack of heterodox and political economists! You'll see a range of pluralist theories here, as well as some heterodox-friendly economists that may be more mainstream. go.bsky.app/J86RtKh 3016776
