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Daniele de Rigo

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In Europe, in the context of Internet Archive Europe @stichtinginternetarchive (internetarchive.eu/brewster-ka ), @brewsterkahle underlined the concept of "Public/Collective Intelligence" noting "the importance of freely accessible knowledge across cultural and linguistic barriers"

As #redundancy of #DigitalPreservation infrastructure is becoming more and more vital, how the @stichtinginternetarchive will be able to potentially support part of this redundancy may matter even more

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Pauline von Hellermann

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 54/n

This article is hard to stomach for all those of us currently looking for work, and not finding anything suitable, or anything at all. But it’s good that at least rising #unemployment is recognised now.

My own #redundancy last year and subsequent struggles have made me so alert to all these wider structural changes; I am really scared that this may be just the beginning. Terrible combination of AI and money going only to the rich

theguardian.com/money/2025/feb

RESUME Job hunting 'It's nightmarish': why 1.5m Britons are still hunting for a job UK jobseekers say employers are hiring fewer staff - whom they expect to do more for less pay
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Pauline von Hellermann

Nice Labour government.

My own redundancy this summer has made me kind of super alert to all redundancy announcements, I feel each one really strongly - I really feel for these 10,000 people.

It is happening in so many sectors, but a Labour government doing this just just 😡

#ukpolitics #redundancy

theguardian.com/politics/2024/

Screenshot of top of this article DOWWING STREET SW1 CITY OF WESTINISTER WHITEHALL SW1 CITY OF WESTMINSTER Civil service Ministers planning to cut more than 10,000 civil service jobs Exclusive: Sources say there is belief that service has become too big after growing during Brexit and pandemic years Rowena Mason Whitehall editor @ Follow Rowena Mason (0)) Notifications off Wed 11 Dec 2024 18.00 GMT
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JanPV

In 2006, I was made redundant due to unending erosion of the UK university sector.

People's response to this was odd. First, most colleagues avoid you like the plague. They don't want to be associated with someone who's been targeted for eviction. Or they don't know what to say. Or both.

Two decades later, whenever I meet someone from that place, they seem to believe - hope even - that I ended up in a cardboard box. When they realise I didn't, they lose interest.

#redundancy#work#humans
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Pauline von Hellermann

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 44/n but also: #Redundancy has made me think deeply (of course!) about the role of money in personal decision making. I may be wrong but it feels like this is something we don’t talk about much, and yet it is is so central to everything! I DO want to talk about it, even if I have nothing insightful to say actually. Just a few observations.

1. Money was at core of my decisions around redundancy. I have two teenage children and a high mortgage.

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Pauline von Hellermann

#FollowTheMoney 🧵42/n Firstly, I am conscious of my own #redundancy being very much part of the wider hollowing out, draining out of both public services and professional, creative industries everywhere (see many posts ⬆️). I am really scared about this - it’s strange how this is happening but not really talked about; no #unemployment crisis narrative at all, as of course most people, like me, end up not being “unemployed” but doing smaller, precarious jobs; very few of us on benefiso no stats

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Pauline von Hellermann

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 41/n Ok so the reason for the long pause in this 🧵 was being made rdundant in July, by my lovely (not) employer of 13 years, Goldsmiths University. You can read all about it in this long #AcademicVenting 🧵, tracing the whole sorry saga from first rumblings in Nov ‘23 to the bitter end. But of course, #redundancy is all about money, and I think about money all the time now (I have to), so really should write it about it all here a bit

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Mastodon.greenPauline von Hellermann (@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green)Half thinking of starting an #AcademicVenting hashtag here, about the dire, dire state of UK (global?) higher education. Sharing nuggets of senior management decisions, neoliberal language, and overall slow collapse. Won’t work of course because most of us can’t risk honesty, but honestly: the everyday reality of what is happening deserves recording in all its depressing and damning detail. #Universities #AcademicChatter #neoliberalism
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Pauline von Hellermann

@curmudgeonaf ❤️ yes! I hadn’t applied for anyrhing in 13 years and coming from academia now having to look beyond (NO jobs within) makes it all the more bewildering, but i fully agree: the process as a whole is insane now! All the AI, and all the extra work and stress this creates for applicants , just trying to ensure your application will be seen by a human…. it is all so hard (and so existential, in so many ways). Wishing you all the best for your search 🍀 #Redundancy

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Pauline von Hellermann

I haven’t been able to post here much recently and just wanted to briefly explain.

My #redundancy is quite central - i am having to prioritise work and job hunt all the time, and it’s knocked my confidence, of course.

But I am also. just completely floored by the state of everything. It feels like this last year we have slipped into dystopia more quickly and further than I thought was possible before: genocide, war normalised, climate collapse in full swing, 1/2

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Pauline von Hellermann

#AcademicVenting #Redundancy 🧵

Interesting but scary - at this moment of wanting to branch out into the “more-than-Academic” world , and in general - to read about large scale redundancies at Save the Children. The process, language, and comments from affected staff (“It’s a shitshow”) are all too familiar.

A friend of mine was recently made redundant by Mind, the mental health charity. HE redundancies all part of a larger process. Which only makes it scarier.

thenewhumanitarian.org/news/20

Screenshot of top of this article Aid and Policy News 12 August 2024 EXCLUSIVE: Save the Children to cut hundreds of jobs as funding gap looms 'We face a forecasted gap on our operational budget of $15-$20 million.' Save the Children Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto
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Pauline von Hellermann

#AcademicVenting 🧵#Redundancy But by yesterday afternoon I somehow turned a corner; I am beginning to work out strategies for being an environmental anthropologist in my own right, even without institutional backing. I may have a new book contract; a small consultancy for the RSPB; and some teaching for the wonderful New School of the Anthropocene. No huge earners but all really helping psychologically right now. Here’s to #RegenerativeAnthropology!
#ClimateDiary

nsota.org/

NSOTA SITE 2022New School of the Anthropocene | NSOTAIn collaboration with October Gallery London, New School of the Anthropocene offers an affordable, experimental education and a radical alternative to mainstream university.
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Pauline von Hellermann

#AcademicVenting 🧵#Redundancy then I spent this last week with two very different but equally misery-inducing aspects of extrication:

a) sorting out future of my PhD students (4 current, 2 that were due to start now) - many conflicting emotions, and it’s all just so sad;

b) battling with the intersection of email, Outlook, Google, Teams, Adobe, Microsoft, etc. The horrors of this really showed how helplessly entangled we all are in all these platforms! (Not asking for tech advice).

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