I joined the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social picket line this morning to show solidarity and hear first-hand about the devastating plan for £140 million of cuts to jobs and courses They are asking people to email the university principal to oppose it

European universities benefiting from the assaults on higher education in the United States

Sorry to see colleagues at Edinburgh going through this. £18 million a year is a drop in the bucket when the deficit is £140 million. uk.news.yahoo.com/around-350-s...

Columbia Agrees to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...

BBC News - Big drop in overseas students at Scottish universities www.bbc.com/news/article...

Scary website that can detect your #accent. We don't need humans to do racial profiling. #AI can do it for us. Go test it. #language start.boldvoice.com/accent-guesser

My anecdotal experience is that PhD funding in the UK is dismal compared to North America www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A small measure of justice after 50+ years of deceit for personal gains while exploiting indigenous culture! nationalpost.com/news/politic...

This is our lively community of comparative & international education researchers at Glasgow with a packed room every week!

Op-Ed piece from Samantha Power, former head of U.S.A.I.D. and US Ambassador to the UN www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

If Bluesky is the alternative to X, when will we get an alternative to Facebook? These are serious changes at Meta far beyond deregulation of speech... Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...

An interesting webinar on UK-German #highered collaborations... #Germany #UK #transnational www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/latest/event...

I'm not convinced the #Brexit disruption is over. #Academics in UK move among institutions far more frequently than counterparts in US/Canada. We also don't have an imminent REF amplifying #mobility at the moment. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/unprece...

Science under conflict and surveillance. Inspiring #womenInScience #Palestine #higherEd The Plight of the Palestinian Scientist www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/s...

www.instagram.com/reel/DC9QaTG... #GlasgowIntCompEd #comparativeEd

A challenging year, dominated by threats to academics and higher education in #Gaza, #Ukraine, #Sudan, #Afghanistan, with many others needing help too. Full Report at bit.ly/CAR2023-2024. Many thanks to all our donors, university and other partners! We couldn't do anything without your support.

Thank you Glasgow and Glaswegians for an incredible night watching Charli XCX blow off the roof of the arena. Great vibes! Brat Scottish winter! #charlixcx #glasgow

We can debate the extent of this language problem in British #highered but the business model is very clear! - Universities enrolling foreign students with poor English, BBC finds - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Important reflections on the West's relationship with Africa. Some pop singers are more forward thinking than social scientists! www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...

Can Men in China Take a Joke? Women Doing Stand-Up Have Their Doubts. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/w...

1st snow in Scotland this winter! Walked like a penguin all day but quick thanks to training in Norway and Kazakhstan

Upcoming free webinars by colleagues at @uofglasgow.bsky.social on #peacebuilding #peaceeducation Nov. 26 + 27 on Peacebuilding? An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Registration links below #Glasgow

Another kind of climate change: How can I adjust to -4C in Glasgow, Scotland after trying to cope with 30C in southern Taiwan for the last 2 weeks?

@profstevenjones.bsky.social hi Steven, great to see you here. I just opened Bluesky account. Please add me to your list of HE researchers. Thanks

Very interesting development in my former home Toronto especially given the connection w controversial figure (Dundas) in my current home Scotland. Surprised that they didn't go with an indigenous name in Ontario.

An excellent piece on wokeness rhetoric vs. action that echoes some of my ideas in my 2023 paper on #decolonization within academia... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...