“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.” Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡

Yes, who would have thought. If you adopt a bash-liberals strategy, liberal voters will vote for someone else. And despite what they think in No.10, liberal voters do actually exist.

The Epstein survivors have released a PSA. These were children. They were harmed. The people who did this must be named. A world that lets powerful men hide behind sealed documents is a world that invites the next monster in. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Amnesia, dishonesty or hypocrisy?

We need to stop shipping in vastly overpaid, underperforming ‘executives’ who don’t care about OUR university or OUR city. These people (in this picture) are the people who CAN save OUR university.

Do you think staff at the University of Dundee were misled when we were told there would be no redundancies? Or when he told us they hadn’t said there would be no redundancies?

Solidarity to all of Dundee’s workers as they strike in the face of some of most caricaturishly mismanagement this sector has seen to date (although god knows the competition is heating up). May this venerable institution survive and thrive; victory to the strikers!

Our students aren’t being heard. “students aren't told anything at all." "You really have to dig for all the information - online, on the website, through emails... unless you have the time to sit and dig through emails, you don't know what's going on," she says. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I had to change my degree because of university cuts - the impact on students of the Dundee Uni crisis, and the reason @ducuuo.bsky.social is on strike #WeAreTheUniversity www.bbc.com/news/article...

Glad to be able to pop by the @ducuuo.bsky.social picket line as they were just getting set up this morning. Staff are on strike in the cold & damp to say NO to compulsory redundancies. Management must engage with staff properly: co-design a recovery plan, do not impose cuts! #Solidarity

Very strong turnout this morning on the first of our five days strike. On Friday, in a meeting with the interim Principal, he confirmed his ideology is to cut as many jobs as possible. Support our action to save jobs and save the University! #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni #WeAreTheUniversity

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

Want to find out how your voice can stop job cuts at the University of Dundee? Take the first step towards having influence on what happens to you next. Come along to our Stop The Jkb Cuts rally tomorrow at the Queen’s Hotel, 12:30-13:30pm. #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni

Me, every time I see/ hear another Russian, sorry Reform asset on a politics programme.

A week off. Tfft.

The University Executive Group have not met with us to try to pause our industrial action. So, we will be out on strike from Monday 10th November to Friday 14th. Join us at the picket if you can from 8:30am each day. #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni

On the off-chance this one hasn't been done yet.

This might be of interest to a few people The Boring Fund: Small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc Apply by 30 November www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund

This feeling is called hope: Three lessons from a week of progressive victories iandunt.substack.com/p/this-feeli...

@coldwarsteve.bsky.social Life imitates art.....

I've never really understood the logic of "targeted vaccination". Of course, money is a huge issue and we seek to get the most out of every £ spent. Of course COVID and flu waves would be far worse without it. But, what doesn't sit well for me is the following...

You have 12 days left to order your Law Paw Calendar... So welcome to the 12 Days of Law Paw! www.billablehour.org/calendar/uk2...

Order your calendar, featuring ALL these pets AND MORE on our website. Calendars cost £20, and all the money raised goes to @savechildrenuk.bsky.social . Plus we think they make great Christmas presents!

⭐️⭐️⭐️BOOK GIVEAWAY⭐️⭐️⭐️ To celebrate the return of #Shetland detective series I am giving away 2 signed copies of Ponies at the Edge of the World with 2 wish bottles with Shetland shells or seaglass. To enter just like, share and comment on this post

If you missed it, here’s the interim Principal talking about substantial future job cuts at University of Dundee. He refers to the number of job losses recommended in the recovery plan. This is 390FTE with 340FTE via redundancies. We believe redundancies are not necessary. #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni

What a difference a day makes... Sunset 4th November v 5th November afternoon

We’re leading 5 days of industrial action at the University of Dundee. We’re calling on all our members to participate in this action. You can join us on the picket line or strike from home. You can legally join the strike if you aren’t a member of a union The people united will never be defeated.

This really the cracking of speeches: a banger. Worth reading in full.

Wait, no frosted glass or blind for the window? You can see Trump sat on the bog having a 💩?

Genius! #MuaHaHaHaHa

From the CWS Archives. June 2020.

Our members have been voting all week. Get your ballots in as soon as you can. #SaveHE #WeAreTheUniversity

I don't know who to credit this image to, but anyway, they got the price wrong. That 2/9d should read £122 million

Braverman deleted this tweet which made me wonder who that previous prisoner was. His name was Junead Ahmed. He was a conman mistakenly released in 2023. She was Home Secretary at the time. Oh. news.sky.com/story/migran...

It is a little known fact that tonight's clock re-adjustment was pioneered by German-British artist Frank Auerbach, to the great dismay of the proponent of the original change, politician Konrad Adenauer

Bye, bye BST......

If it's mandatory for work, it's de-facto mandatory share.google/ulfGaMN5b9Jt...

When the Gillies report was published, the expectation was that governance at the University of Dundee would improve. In all truthfulness it’s got worse. Much worse.

Morning.

@dundeeuniunite.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social #DundeeUniUnison Ballot paper posted this morning, the day after it arrived. Fill in your ballot paper & post ot in. Your vote is your voice, every vote counts. #OneOfUsAllOfUs #FairPayInHE

From the CWS Archives. 18th January 2021.

Final push before bed: Daphne is 50 votes behind Bert the dog, and would love to be the face of March in the excellent @lawpawcalendar.bsky.social, which raises lots of money for charity. Thank you! lawpawcalendar.com/vote-here-fo...

⏱️21 mins ago "The Israeli Premier League derby between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv was cancelled by police after "violent riots" before kick-off." There are MANY politicians who owe West Midlands police a profound apology. List/tag them. 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Very quick update on Covid in England from latest UKHSA hospital data. Looks like current Covid wave *might* have peaked, and also that flu season is starting a little earlier than normal. If you can get vaxxed for either, I'd do it! christinapagel.substack.com/p/very-quick...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

A wee work break. About to eat final piece of #OrkneyShortbread Bye, bye holiday feeling😢

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.