I'm a computer scientist who began working in 'AI' 36 years ago. I've been warning of the contradictions and dangers to try to create a debate in my union, UCU, about the #TripleThreat to UK higher education for over a year. I wrote this last summer: seanwallis.uk/2025/12/31/t...

Higher Education in the UK faces a clear and present danger from the 'Reform' project. The US under Trump makes clear what is at stake, from ICE to anti-science. If we care about our disciplines, our colleagues and our students, we need to organise. seanwallis.uk/2026/02/13/s...

My vote for Sean Wallis @seanawallis.bsky.social (VP HE) and Regi Pilling @regipilling.bsky.social (VP FE) is in the post! Make sure you get your vote sent on time and vote for Sean and Regi! And vote UCU left candidates (myself included!) for #ucu #nec

What a great turn out on the picketline. Your members are really turning up in force to put management under the most pressure possible! Solidarity from us all in Dundee

I think things are shaping up really badly for #andrew after his arrest. God knows what the police will find on his devices and in his papers - and what other charges will follow. Will we have our own version of the #epstein files - the #andrew files?

Here is the intro to my VP hustings speech - solidarity to all on strike and in dispute! We need a leadership who will support all branches and ensure members have the backing of the national union. The crisis facing post-16 education is a national issue, needing a national strategy.

400+ redundancies, Southend campus closed, the foundation year department closed, other departments decimated... ...not a popular plan, it seems! Our tireless picketers have been chatting to hundreds of staff and students a day, and we've secured loads of new UCU and Unison members and supporters ✊

Whatever the court decides, you cannot ban solidarity. Our latest donation to the @unitetheunion.bsky.social Birmingham Bin Strike has just been sent. ✊We have now raised over £4,000 for this strike. #StrikeMap #YouCannotBanSolidarity

Sean & I wrote this. Reform UK are topping the polls & they hope to repilcate Trump's policies here. Reform are a threat to migrants & all marginalised people. They are a threat to education, trade unions & democracy. We must mobilise to stop them. @seanawallis.bsky.social #Together

" #Transgender patients are #patients. Their #wellbeing and their access to safe, evidence-based care deserve exactly the same regulatory #protection as that afforded to any other patient group. To look away because the subject matter is politically difficult would send a deeply troubling message."

From 1 January 2027, the Qualifying Period for Ordinary Unfair Dismissal will fall from 2 years to 6 months as a result of the commencement of #EmploymentRightsAct2025. This provides union reps with a serious organising opportunity in the fight against casualisation. seanwallis.uk/2026/01/20/f...

If you are undecided in the UCU elections, @seanawallis.bsky.social @regipilling.bsky.social for VP in HE and FE will do brilliant work.

Why Trans Elder tells her Story (video) www.youtube.com/watc... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Solidarity to all colleagues at Herriot-Watt. An amazing turnout!

Men lose their Y chromosome as they age. 40 % of 60-year-old men show loss of of their Y. Science shows that human biology is “dynamic” and adaptable, even in “adulthood.” reshaping long-held ideas about sex differences and hormone effects. www.downtoearth.org.in/health/men-l...

This is great! I wish they were also making blue bunny hats like the one little Liam was wearing. I could use a bunny hat right now: I'd put a Bad Bunny pin on it! But I'll support this wonderful Craft store w the purple hats too, won't you? www.npr.org/2026/01/31/n... Google "Melt the ice hat".

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Powerful stuff.

Those protesters should never have been arrested, and there are adequate laws in place to deal with vandalism and criminal damage (although I think all of them deserve an award).

In the UK, we are mobilising for a major demonstration in London on UN Anti-Racism Day, 28 March. www.togetheralliance.org.uk

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

Jeremy Corbyn Joins The Fight to Save London Met. YouTube: youtu.be/PyUghmlVjvg Facebook: www.facebook.com/share/p/1EHF... You can’t have social justice if you dismantle the structures that support it. Fight for justice for students and staff at London Met ❤️

Support our brave London met students fighting for inclusive decent education❤️Raising this at Heart Unions Grand Tour tomorrow ❤️

I encourage Starmer to keep getting people to resign before he is forced to resign at the end of the week. Finally something I can get behind.

In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions. Then covered it up again when caught. Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Show Education some Love 🎉 Londonmet staff and students fight for Justice against cruel cuts ❤️

It may be worth explaining a little more about what is happening at Southampton Solent. It's a story about a legal loophole and an employer seeking to exploit it to excuse itself from a basic principle - to maintain staff in the state-backed pension scheme that staff signed up to when they joined.

Looks like the #Labour government is divided between those who want #Starmer to go before the May local elections and those who want him to go after

Ship, sinking. Rats, leaving. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Is it time to start this again yet?

Necessary but not sufficient. He knew. And still appointed him. Starmer needs to go.

This … is a parody, right? Right? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I hate everything about this "Lady Victoria Hervey, ex girlfriend of Andrew Windsor who previously claimed that the picture of him and Virginia Guiffre was fake and she could prove it. Is now calling people who are not in the Epstein files "losers." " www.reddit.com/r/AbolishThe...

One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

Vote for me for UCU NEC for a fighting accountable leadership Vote Sean and Regi for UCU VPs Join our demo at London Met to save our university 9am and 1pm at Holloway Road Monday 9th February

In these dark days of February, a little something to look forward to.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

A resident named Walter calmly took the mic and recounted an April 9, 1945 newspaper clipping about the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp... "And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough." www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...

Forgive me, Jesus, because I genuinely deeply enjoy how perpetually unhappy and desolate these losers are.

"We want to stop them bleeding people dry." The Green Party want to see stricter regulations on gambling to reduce harm. Nigel Farage thinks gambling shops are great places for lonely people to hang out... What do you think?

To everyone who can openly declare that they are transgender, and to everyone who cannot yet come out to those around them🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 The world has not yet fully seen the dawn, but let’s continue to support one another. Chiitan is here with everyone’s hearts. Everyone is beautiful♡

I have some concerns #moltbook

The (not so?) weird thing about #moltbook, the social network for AIs, is that the posts there resemble a lot of what’s written on Twitter/X

I'm proud to endorse Christina Paine for London & the East HE. Christina was one of the few surviving co-com reps in London Met UCU branch after David Hardman and Mark Campbell were victimised. She has held the branch together and built it in extremely difficult times. uculeft.org/nec-election...

I’m standing for UCU NEC I hope you can vote for me ❤️

A loud minority wanted to exclude trans people from the ponds. They've failed. Most women just want to swim in peace with their sisters.