The Trump administration is paying offshore wind developers nearly $2 billion in taxpayer money to abandon energy projects while the U.S. faces a looming energy shortage. Why this is a bad deal for American taxpayers explained: tcnv.link/IfpQpnv

How loudly does everyone have to shout before those who are making these decisions back down? We can keep gathering voices. We WILL keep making noise and drawing attention #JoinUCU www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Nearly half of our universities are forecasting deficits. Institutions across the country are closing departments and issuing redundancy notices. The government don’t yet consider this a crisis. How many more jobs must be lost before ministers act?

ChatGPT and other AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds

Journalist Ed Augustin, reporting from Havana, calls the Trump administration’s strict fuel blockade of Cuba “collective punishment of a population, particularly targeting poor communities, pregnant women, children and the elderly.”

Newsletter #17 is out! Featuring reports from recent meetings, @matthewbarnard.phd on HoC Education Committee HE funding report, @vthuppil.bsky.social on settlement proposals, @matildaf.bsky.social on UCU Workload Survey & @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social petition! #UCU ucucommons.org/ucu-commons-...

Just installed '10 Blue Links' Google Chrome extension and it has removed all the AI junk at the top of the page that had been obscuring my search results. Hooray! Recommend💯

If you've ever thought to yourself, "I wish there were a theorist of ecological communism who also made great wallpaper," then I have an article just for you. doi.org/10.1177/1474...

Consistent humanism means opposing the genocide in Gaza, AND antisemitism. It means opposing the US/Israeli invasion of Iran AND the Iranian regime's murder of its own people. It means opposing the US/UK invasion of Iraq AND the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It means confronting violence everywhere.

Almost there! Release date 9th of October, hopefully before. #anarchism #poltheory #internationalrelations #democracy #sociolegal #hpt

Dr @hannahbunting.bsky.social has been analysing the impact of this year's local elections www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The modern United States has experienced 11 recessions. Ten have happened under Republican presidents. This isn’t a coincidence. They screw things up because they try to impose a fairy tale on the country. trib.al/v5TFTFc

Actor Javier Bardem: “We are killing women because some men think they own them. They possess them. “The big balls men saying my cock is bigger than yours and I'm gonna bomb the shit out of you. “It's a fucking male toxic behaviour that is creating thousands of dead people.” (Variety)

Our undercover reporter went on the Tommy Robinson rally this weekend, posing as a far right news channel, and found Tommy Robinson supporters fuming about his criminal record youtu.be/qtUSs7ODzZU

As Trump’s tirade reveals too much, a political scientist explains how his pathologies badly undermine him on the global stage—and why his failures abroad are producing worsening autocracy at home. trib.al/2yHTvZE

Congress paperwork is often very daunting, so @bparsia.bsky.social has reorganised UCU's Second Congress Business Committee (CBC) report to make it more navigable, accessible and easier to collaborate on! #ucu ucucommons.org/some-techyto...

I won't pretend that I didn't really want Alonso to manage Liverpool because I did. But if your response to being sacked by a dodgily-funded clown car of a club where the players run things & they go through managers like toilet rolls is to sign for Chelsea, you may not be playing with a full deck.

This IPO is one of those unstoppable schemes people like Musk specialise in. It's not worth what it will go for, but that doesn't matter because the buyers will be passing it on to index funds (X has a special deal on early indexing) and leave them, i.e. regular investors, holding the bag. Gross.

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Lobo disdaining Marx. More proof that cats are anarchists.

Millionaires and billionaires already control the vast majority of wealth in the United States, and it's rapidly getting worse. The greater the disparities, the less rational it is for us to accept the social constructs—such as private property and money itself—that enable them to dominate us.

It would be brave of #lfc to keep hold of Slot now. I’d admire them if they did. But the question is do the players and the rest of the fans agree? Doubt it. In which case, #ynwa mate, but it’s out the door with yer.

Zionist thugs chant 'death to Arabs' and 'may your villages burn' in annual Jerusalem Day violence while storming Al-Aqsa Mosque

Look, if the UK can piss away one of its only leading sectors, then certainly America can do it!

Cursed. “a conservative estimate of 146,932 hallucinated citations in 2025 alone” “hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars” “As researchers increasingly use LLMs, they risk introducing hallucinated artifacts into the permanent record”

Good piece, brief and to the point from @drjogrady.bsky.social Gen Sec of UCU: “We are calling for direct government intervention before the crisis spirals further.” Intervention is cheaper than most think, and pound for pound excellent investment in our future economic prosperity.

Great to be in Belfast briefly today to meet with members and branch reps at Queens and Ulster and stand in solidarity with the 450+ members whose jobs have been threatened by Ulster management. The whole union is behind you @ucu-ulster.bsky.social!

Please sign this open letter to avoid cuts at University of Nottingham physics and astronomy dept nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/...

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Financial crisis is being used to bypass tenure protections. University of Essex fired me & 11 others from the Business School in a clear targeting based on our philosophical orientation & social justice commitments. Please sign the public statement: sites.google.com/view/mmpubli...

Along with the General Secretary of @ucu.org.uk, we stood with colleagues of @ucu-ulster.bsky.social outside @ulsteruni.bsky.social this morning in protest at the shocking plans to make 450+ redundancies.

Josh Simons to stand down for Burnham as predicted on Bluesky yesterday.

After recent elections it is more urgent than ever to hear white working class voices within a shared national story. New paper with @tariqmoodod, Sam Taylor Hill 'Multicultural nationalism and the White English working class: Minorities within the majority?' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

For every £1 universities receive from the taxpayer, they pay on average £14 back. They are one of the UK's major success stories, but have been left to wither on the vine by successive administrations, particularly those that shift the goalposts.

UK universities contribute over £265 billion to the UK economy. The higher education sector generates income through tuition fees (52%), research grants, and commercialisation, with total sector income reaching over £52 billion annually. Source: Universities UK share.google/4CWme65VuYV9...

Yes, Bluesky progressives can frequently be irritating. But if you prefer X to Bluesky because you find progressives more irritating than you find Nazis intolerable, that's a flag something's gone wrong with your ethical reasoning. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mlqxgn3hzk2i

if bluesky indeed sucks at building platforms of power for influencers and pundits, that would at least partially explain why i like it here i guess

I want to write an essay explaining how Angel Dust is the best concept album EVER. Ever I tell You

Music and cultural studies folks! Jasmine Hazel Shadrack and I are co-editing the first scholarly collection of essays on Faith No More. Please share across your networks. It'd be great to hear from anyone here who might be interested in contributing. www.iaspm.net/call-for-pap...

If you think Bluesky sucks, you are not using it correctly. I have curated my feed to be full of DeliciousWeirdos™️ and KingShitposters™️ which means endless nerdiness (complimentary), bangers, and really insightful threads. Sorry you aren't having fun you aren't playing right. Try harder!

That Wes Streeting leadership bid in full:

IF YOU TOLERATE THIS, THEN YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE NEXT IS A SONG WRITTEN BY WELSH COMMUNISTS ABOUT THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR AND THE THREAT OF NATIONALIST FASCISM.

The age of anarchism is upon us

#OtD 13 May 1985 Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmental group MOVE, then dropped a bomb on it, killing 5 adults and 6 children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless.

“This is the first energy shock with a superior alternative” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

Incredible to watch Wes Streeting being taken seriously as a candidate. It's the truest form of Westminster bubble to conclude the solution to Starmer is replacing him with an empty suit who's neck deep in Labour's political mess and hated by everyone outside a few centrist crash test dummies. ~Rr

For those of you concerned about university solvency, there is actually a lot of good work out there. What about this from m'learned colleague at Brunel on the financial health of every single uni? I count 40 universities rated 'Red' on the Critical List. policycommons.net/artifacts/48...

The Metaphor claxon is deafening