"Edinburgh university staff walk out in latest strikes over £140m cuts"

Coventry is really one of the worst and a good demonstration that these staff hostile policies wreak your precious rankings. #ucu @ucu.org.uk speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/vote-of-no-c...

Standing together with many UCU colleagues from #SheffieldHallam and #SheffieldUni and students #HallamSU, #SheffieldSU standing up to save our public universities. #HallamUCU #HallamStrike Proud to support the strike and rally for respect and dignity. #UCUStrike #HigherEd #UCU #RallyForChange

...off the table for 2026, it was a victory. A small one, and not sustainable protection from management. But, as my own school UCU rep put it, eight more months of employment is significant at the level of the individual worker's experience. Nottingham has secured 14 months. That's still a victory.

Result for Nottingham! That was quick. Please, though it's exhausting, keep up the fight. All of us need to protect not only our workplaces and work conditions but also the social values our work (teaching and researching in the humanities) uphold and strengthen.

Horrified, Becky read Milne’s words. “I accordingly am entitled to vacant possession of the property”, he asserted. “I am writing to give you 7 days notice that I will have a locksmith and agent attend to recover possession for me and change the locks”. Latest update in our Andrew Milne story 👇

Manchester Xmas markets are wonderful! What's not so wonderful is my hotel room that overlooks the markets which means I have Xmas songs in my room

This is a key point bsky.app/profile/mili...

Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food. @paneurope.bsky.social

MeToo did not go far enough. People were saying "MeToo has gone too far" when it had barely just picked up momentum. It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.

I hope that my MP @chionwurah.bsky.social will, to use her words, "use the platform" provided by her damehood, to speak against the home sec's plans to change asylum law. Many ppl in Newcastle Central & West have migrated, it is not a crime. Labour MPs speak must oppose this disgusting proposal.

Greetings and good morning it’s the Mo-day farm rush hour with George & our farmily friends of donkeys and sheep

This is fascinating. It was a linguistic twist - greeting people saying “hiyas” - that opened a doorway into McCoole’s dark web of child abuse and his eventual arrest and conviction theconversation.com/forensic-lin...

Dr David Schudel's fire trilogy series has proved very popular. If you missed it, it's a must-read for Solicitors and Barristers. Find it in the news section of our website now ⬇️⬇️⬇️ buff.ly/dRcj9ob

Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence. Every single human in the world is the product of migration. It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human. That’s never going to change. Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.

There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million In New York - population 8.5 million - there were 391. London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago. And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing

MPs urge Reeves to raise gambling taxes despite ‘scaremongering’ from firms. Quite right. Bet365 CEO collected £323m in pay and dividends last year. Company paid 12.7% corporation tax on £1.4bn profit. Almost all betting companies have offshore tax haven operations, solely to dodge UK taxes.

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want

when I hear Starmer speak about immigration and race he's spitting in the face of the Labour voters I knew growing up in Manchester, who put themselves on the line against the National Front - and often the police - in the 1970s and 1980s.

Cut to RTE in Dublin: We're hearing reports that the Spanish ambassador has been summoned.

Ulster University spent £24k on a trip to the 2024 THE Awards If 60 unis did the same, UK universities shell out ~£1.6m on #THEAwards Hard to justify this spend when many face certain job prospects -- morale is better boosted by real improvements or pay rises than glitzy ceremonies

There are twice as many referrals to Prevent for far right extremists than there are for Islamist extremists. I'm sure GB News will be all over this... Just you wait... ...

As a modern linguist, I agree that the proposed closures of MFL depts are short-sighted. HE should contribute to reversing the UK’s poor record in language learning not embed it further. My UoN degree was transformative allowing me to understand people and cultures far from my Yorkshire roots

"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes."

Above all it’s offensive that we should deliberately try to reduce the number of *successful* asylum claims. We are still a wealthy country. We welcome a (shamefully) tiny share of the world‘s refugees. It should be an honour & pleasure to welcome people who need sanctuary. Shame on Labour. /end

Does Shabana Mahmood realise she is in the Labour party? I'm struggling some days to see how some Labour MPs even joined the party.. they don't seem to have any of the ideals I associate with being a Labour supporter.

This government has said the UK is "the destination of choice" for asylum seekers in Europe. That is simply untrue. Now saying: claims in the UK are rising, while they are falling across Europe. Accurate of Germany (the destination of choice), of France (still more claims than UK), but not Spain

Arguably the most important 100 minute briefing our MPs will have ever attended👇 Hundreds of Parliamentarians expected. Is your MP coming? Check with your postcode: www.nebriefing.org We can rise to the challenge, but need the courage to face it. #NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp @nebriefing.bsky.social

Labour policy is being celebrated by Tommy Robinson. That's it. That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.

If a man said what Megyn Kelly said, you would assume he was a trafficker. This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…

“Many of our contemporaries now want to combine the worst of these two worlds. What could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot.”

Attempts at fixing gender equality at leadership level all tell us to adopt behaviours largely exhibited by men to ‘get there’: be more assertive& ambitious, less humble, sensitive & reflective etc. They don’t tell men to adopt any of our dominant behaviours. This messaging is in itself patriarchal.

Evergreen.

NYT’s euphemism plug-in is now generating enough waste heat to warm all of Manhattan. The word you are avoiding is “CORRUPTION”.

Britain’s biggest housebuilder urges government to support first-time buyers. Not a word about cutting profit margins, ever rising profits, gobbling previous stamp duty support, building substandard homes, builders secretly exchanging data to hike prices.

Confirming some things.... you cannot make definitive assumptions about DNA transfer and activity level reporting is dangerous. And mens hygiene leaves a LOT to be desired.... bioengineer.org/dna-and-sali...

Have to say I find the proposals to take away the route to permanent settlement of refugees both shocking and repulsive. It's code for 'whatever you do and contribute you can never become one of us so we won't allow you to try.' Racism, pure and simple.

Pretty sure it’s racism which is tearing Britain apart

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

Nobody at Edinburgh U really wants to go on strike again but the threat of mass jobs cuts means we're withdrawing our labour this week to try protecting our colleagues. If I see one more vaguely worded threat about "savings" via automation I may combust. @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

Let's just pray this gets everyone some answers. DNA testing started in the West Memphis 3 case. katv.com/news/local/e...

Someone told me Friday that they had recommended me to another person as a "a good human". Honestly - that has meant the world to me (esp. as in a rough patch). We all have goals in life and god knows I've not met many, but being considered a 'good human' is surely one of the highest achievements?

It doesn't eliminate *all* traditional yard work, but it's amazing how much nature will actually do for you if you let it. This is especially true for traditional fall tasks. (Also: you do not need to "cut back" most things and in fact it's better for them if you don't.)

wow - made it onto 'Today in Parliament'! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... - (from 6 mins) (though sounding like an idiot) - but they did talk about my fave thing - police archives!!! (and no - I'm not a forensic scientist which they originally thought, and also not an academic AND a lawyer!)

Salesman keeps talking to me about my "dream" kitchen. Have told him honestly, I have never spent more than 5mins thinking about kitchens in my life, and if I find myself "dreaming" of them, I will take a long run over a short cliff! He looks bemused...

'After vigorous and partially successful attempts to save modern languages degrees at Cardiff...and the University of Aberdeen in the past two years, linguists are now called upon to point out the equally obvious folly of cutting modern languages at the universities of Nottingham and Leicester.' 1/3

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975