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Mariya Ivancheva 🍉

@mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social
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feminist sociologist & anthropologist of highered & labour in digital era; social/ist mvts; author of #AlternativeUniversity, own views

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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seattle
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
THIS 👇 IS TRUE.......
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Matthew Waites (he or they) @matthewwaites.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
From years of collective work, Colonialisms and Queer Politics has been published! Presenting chapter analyses of 11 empires, and their colonial legacies, plus comparison of both legal and social regulation. #Colonialisms #Queer #LGBTIQ+ @uofgsociology.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
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Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Article is now out in a SI #Pedagogy of #Care in contexts of #HigherEducation - I discuss the #digitalisation of academic #teaching already before pandemic emergency of #onlineeducation & the advent of #LLMs #GenAI - bleak picture in both #UK and #SouthAfrica... journals.sagepub.com/toc/JOS/curr...
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 24/08/2026
Why do UK mental health services increasingly rely on trainee therapists working for free? Jennifer O’Neil and @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social @strath-ioe.bsky.social on unpaid labour, “coerced voluntarism” and the Big Society programme. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/b6DDryH
Jennifer O’Neil and Mariya P. Ivancheva
Coerced Voluntarism: The Precarity and Insecurity of Free Labour of Trainee Counsellors in the UK 
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Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
#ASAPeopleFest in Edinburgh on Sunday afternoon, 31/03 3pm - come to our roundtable on the crisis of #highered and #academiccapitalism. With all amazing presenters Cris Shore (co-organiser), Janja Komljenovic, Yvette Taylor, & Ogonna Nnamoko. Free to attend but book your place here lnkd.in/eDjppYTm
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Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
My short text in @berlinergazette.bsky.social 's #DeepDemocracy series reflects 2 decades researching #HigherEd as tool of democracy (+current limitations). I discuss an #AlternativeUniversity model like UBV in Venezuela (book) & UK's concerning developments . berlinergazette.de/the-alternat...
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The Alternative University: Higher Education as a Tool for Democracy? · BG | berlinergazette.de
In the face of the planetary polycrisis, anyone who wishes to speak of social transformation and democratization cannot avoid addressing the role of higher education. Education, in general, and higher...
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HWUCU @hwucu.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Staff at Strathclyde think threats to jobs are FLAMINGOutrageous🦩 The Dons of Aberdeen are DOG tired with cuts🐕 And Dundee are MEGA DONE with redundancies @ducuuo.bsky.social (they don't have a mascot just a 📣) Heriot-Watt think threats of compulsory redundancy are BANANAS🍌
3 inflatable picket flamingos parade the streets of GlasgowA group made up equally of human picketers and dog picketers in sunny Aberdeen A picket line at Heriot-Watt with a banana manDundee UCU Co Pres addresses assembled Pickets with a megaphone
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Breaking news after 65 years! 65 years after Congo’s independence leader Patrice Lumumba was murdered, one of the accused - a VIP who had great status and power - is to face trial. Impunity is temporary - even if long.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
An Omani mediator said last night a peace deal between the US and Iran was within reach. This morning, the US and Israel bombed Iran. No imminent threat. No legal basis. Another illegal war dressed up as “security” and “democracy”.
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Ms T 🐘💙🎵📚 @elephantlass.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Wednesday
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Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
An excellent report on this was published last year, based on a survey in 2024, and written by two excellent folk who are no longer working in UKHE. Their report, Universities Degraded, can be read at the below link We have the data, we know the impact. Time for action. zenodo.org/records/1563...
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Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs — around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education
These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...
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Giovanni Picker @giopicker.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Important action to supoort Gazan students. Please consider signing this petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
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Petition: Grant visas & scholarships for Palestinian students, collaborate with Gazan Unis
We demand that the Government extend the Gazan student evacuation policy that ended on the 31st December 2025 indefinitely, grant further scholarships for studies and facilitate twinning partnerships ...
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Giovanni Picker @giopicker.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Postgraduate Summer School on Anti-Racism, Social Justice and the European City - Padua, July 6-11. - Scholarships available - Application deadline March 15, 2026 - Queries arjec2026@gmail.com
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Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I stand firmly with @markpendleton.bsky.social for UCU Vice-President (HE). Mark manages uniquely combines three traits - emphatic driver of political change; a close reader of letter/spirit of protocol; a caring human with deep collectice sense. The only person I trust can change UCU from within.
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Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This from my fellow departmental #ucu rep Anna means a lot. We have been through the wringer in recent years but we built power through a focus on unity, organising and empowerment, doubling density in the process. We can do the same in UCU nationally. ucucommons.org/endorsements...
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The Trump administration’s secret police force has again murdered someone in broad daylight and is blatantly lying about it. It’s time to abolish ICE.
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Trump and ICE Are Driving the Country Off a Cliff
The Trump administration’s secret police force has again murdered someone in broad daylight and is blatantly lying about it. It’s time to abolish ICE.
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Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Looking forward to participate in this symposium in Glasgow this Friday 16/01. My talk from 2pm is titled The digitalisation, casualisation and outsourcing of academic labour. organised @strath-ioe.bsky.social by advanced pedagogical theory network www.pedagogicaltheory.co.uk/event/whats-...
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What’s the ‘Use’ in Higher Education? Symposium 2 – Present – Advanced Pedagogical Theory
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Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
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No lockout for University of Sheffield staff
UCU members have been standing up against the continual cutting and restructuring of the last several years which has significantly damaged the University’s international standing, the quality of educ...
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Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
📢 Varieties of academic precarity across (and beyond) Europe: @easainfo.bsky.social Anthropology of Labour network Webinar TOMORROW w/ Bhargabi Das, Martin Fotta, @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social , Roberto Mozzachiodi & Aslı Vatansever ! easaonline.org/event/variet...
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Varieties of academic precarity across (and beyond) Europe: Anthropology of Labour Network Webinar
Join us for the upcoming Anthropology of Labour Network webinar on experiences of academic precarity. 12 November, 17-19 CET. With Bhargabi Das, Martin Fotta, Mariya Ivancheva, Roberto Mozzachiodi and...
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
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FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
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Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Glasgow, join us for this exciting book launch from 18h tonight, 09/10/2025, at CAA for a conversation with amazing thinkers, activists, artists, humans about a versatile new book on common grounds and commoning in the ruins of post/communism ... www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/po...
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Post-Communist Grounds. In Search of the Commons
CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts is Glasgow’s hub for the arts, hosting exhibitions, films, music, literature, workshops, festivals and performances.
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Strath_Fem @strathfem.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Thanks to @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social and everyone who came along for a great start to our 2025/26 seminar series! Looking forward to many more interesting talks over the coming year 😊
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Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Was great to present LevFem's report "Who cares? Feminised care and social reproduction in post-socialist Bulgaria" at the @strathfem.bsky.social seminar today and have a deep discussion afterwards.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Chicago journalists are doing a helluva job staying on top of the ICE incursion here.
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Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
New SI now out with journal Organization : " #Intersectionality #Precarity #Subjectivities: #Labour and #Organisation Perspectives" edited by Amanda Peticca-Harris, Annalisa Murgia, Gabriella Alberti and myself journals.sagepub.com/toc/orga/32/7
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Organization - Volume 32, Number 7
Table of contents for Organization, 32, 7
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Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
If you're a Bulgarian citizen/resident/voter, please sign and share for the government to stop its support for the g3noc1dal mob running 1sra3l chng.it/Rjv66GpvsL
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Sign the Petition
Не на стратегическото сближаване на България с Израел и позициите ѝ в ООН
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Máire Ní Mhórdha @mairenimhordha.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Text reads: BREAKING In Italy, the general strike has shut down train lines, ports, highways, schools and shops. With a genocide ongoing, there can be NO business as usual.

Stay peaceful, everyone. Do not react to any provocation. Freedom for all allows no mistakes.
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Strath_Fem @strathfem.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
@strathfem.bsky.social seminar series restarts this acad year with @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social's talk on a report coauthored with Bulgarian feminist NGO LevFem #carework #whocares @strath-gender.bsky.social @strath-ioe.bsky.social @unistrathclyde.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/mariya-iva...
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Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This is a terrible war crime by an Israeli extremist government. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Severe malnutrition in under-5s has tripled at Gaza City clinic, charity reports
Charity says number of people needing care for malnutrition has quadrupled and blames Israeli ‘policy of starvation’
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10/07/2025
The injunction would bar Trump from denying citizenship to US-born babies based on their parents’ immigration status.
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Judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order in class-action lawsuit
The injunction would bar Trump from denying citizenship to US-born babies based on their parents’ immigration status.
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Let's all be the rain on this motherfucker's parade. #NoKings #NoKingsDay
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Bruce Hinze @brucehinze.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/06/2025
I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/06/2025
Weeping Trump Boys Told ‘Uncle Elon’ Blown Up In Rocket Accident
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Weeping Trump Boys Told ‘Uncle Elon’ Blown Up In Rocket Accident
WASHINGTON—Making sure the pair were sitting down before she delivered the news, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles reportedly told the Trump boys Friday that their Uncle Elon had been blown up in...
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees. They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires. If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.
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Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
My piece on 80 years since the #liberation of #Europe from #fascism is now on @jacobinmag.bsky.social - with focus on #antifascism in #Bulgaria s 1923-1944 period and its difficult legacy . Read here : jacobin.com/2025/05/euro...
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Europe’s Liberation 80 Years On: Bulgaria
Bulgaria has one of the oldest traditions of anti-fascist struggle in Europe, dating back to the 1920s. The self-serving narratives of contemporary political forces have obscured this rich heritage.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/05/2025
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat
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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat
Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war The former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has launched a blistering attack on Israel, accusing its government of committing genocide in Gaza and “carrying out the largest ethnic-cleansing operation since the end of the second world war in order to create a splendid holiday destination”. Borrell, a former Spanish foreign minister who served as the EU’s top diplomat from 2019 to 2024, and president of the European parliament from 2004 to 2007, also criticised the bloc’s failure to use all the means at its disposal to influence Israel, saying expressions of regret were simply not enough. Continue reading...
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Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Our project on the free labour of #trainee #counsellors #therapists with Dr Jen O'Neil from @edinburghnapier.bsky.social 's Business School is featured in the 2024-25 Impact Report of the sponsoring body, the British Association of Counsellors & Psychotherapists #BACP @BACP on 'the other place'
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 02/05/2025
The 6 votes shouldn't be a headline What should be is Labour's politically and morally despicable strategy Far-right discourse is now mainstream, Reform will become further entrenched and Labour has lost its base Don't expect any lessons to be learnt though - they'll just turn further right
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Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Monsters, monsters, monsters...
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Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Very proud of our EdD student, and colleague Jan Smith, important systematic review article on care leavers in UK higher education #highered
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Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A US-UK trade deal threatens our food standards, our NHS, and our ability to control Big Tech. Join the campaign to say no trade deal with Trump: act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4305
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Say No to a Trade Deal with Trump
The UK government wants to do a trade deal with US President Donald Trump. We know the US will push for a deal that puts big business ahead of protecting people and the environment, including: Lower
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Sophie @anxi0usvirgo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year
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