It's European Day of Languages today! 😀 "Languages open hearts and minds" - to connect us, inspire new ideas and broaden horizons.

We are already excited! Mandy Poetzsch, our Language Director for German, will discuss why language learning is still relevant in times of AI.

📣 IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE UPCOMING STRIKE at the University of Leicester, Prof. Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social has CANCELLED his talk next week! The strike takes place in response to the threat of staff cuts with History being one of the areas affected: www.uculeicester.org.uk/information-...

Everybody knows that universities emerged historically due to the social need to generate student satisfaction surveys.

£140m cuts. 1,800 jobs at risk. Edinburgh staff are voting again. @drjogrady.bsky.social: “The quickest way to force their hand is a resounding YES vote. We stand with our members at Edinburgh as they ballot to defend jobs, students, and education. ✊

Some practical tips here (as well as some examples of terrible behaviour)

🌸 #ECPG26 @ecprgender.bsky.social Section seeking Papers ⤵️ 🌦️ Feminist Theory: Between Hope and Disappointment 🪑 @corinnepainter.bsky.social @mmrovlje.bsky.social @deryaozkaya.bsky.social ⌛👇 7 Nov buff.ly/3C2Xwn2 #Gender #Governance #PoliticalTheory #Sociology #Feminism

An inspiring first day of picketing to kick off our 4 weeks of strike action! Faculty, students, AND a dog or two made an appearance.

Really pleased to have a chapter about Rosa Luxemburg and prefigurative politics in this exciting new book about Ambivalent Activism. Out now! @brisunipress.bsky.social @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ambivalent-a...

Do you want to know how UCU senior management has responded to UCU branches calling on them to remove their threat of deductions? This is how. How would you react? uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...

Delighted to have a chapter in this new book about Dr Kathleen Lynn and the other great, innovative female doctors during the first decades of St Ultan’s hospital for sick infants. #speirgorm #irishhistory #history

A real, honest to goodness, entry-level, permanent, academic job in Economic History! #Economic #history #ecr #academic www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT480/a...

It's wonderful to be back in Granpré for the launch of nothing unchanged but the clouds, a contemporary photographic exhibition

Very excited to see all the proposals about this cfp on Feminist Theory! Get in touch with questions or ideas

NEW: Our members at the University of Bradford will begin 10 days of strike action on Monday in a fight to protect jobs. Time for management to listen to staff, rethink the cuts and rule out compulsory redundancies. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1418...

Looking forward to reading this and exploring the other articles in this issue!

Delighted to see my article “Fail better: Utopia, Rosa Luxemburg, and learning from failure” published in the European Journal of Social Theory. It‘s available here open access: doi.org/10.1177/1368...

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

Looking forward this great symposium on Friday. Especially with @caitbeaumont.bsky.social @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @profingrid.bsky.social and Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner.

It's been bleak for a while but it wasn't cataclysmically bad before

'The union said it disputes claims from the university that a higher pay offer is unaffordable, instead arguing that Imperial has “unusually large reserves” and an £81 million operating surplus.' (Offer was 2%).

Battle of Holbeck Moor, Leeds, UK (1936): 30,000 anti-fascists with red flags and trade union banners turfed out Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts, who'd hoped to foment hatred against Jewish immigrant workers in the area. #riots #FarageRiots #history #Fascism

🚨Meeting point and route change🚨 Saturday 13th September, Epsom, Surrey Trans+ Pride Surrey will assemble in the middle of Rosebery Park, Epsom from 12pm. The march will depart Rosebery Park’s west side at 12:30pm.

Major university merger announced. The start of a wave?

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨 ✅ strike action: 76% ✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80% ✅ turnout: 77% ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages." Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all. #ReclaimUCU

The German Screen Studies Network is excited to announce a CFP for the conference, "Rethinking Weimar Cinema Conference" to be held at Oxford University 17-19 June 2026, co-organised by Lawrence Alexander and Molly Harrabin! germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/08/c...

Lecturers and other staff at the University of Edinburgh are set to begin a five-day walkout in a dispute over plans to cut £140 million from the university’s budget

#AnDiesemTag vor 110 Jahren startete die sozialistische Antikriegskonferenz von Zimmerwald. 👉 Den ganzen Text von Reiner Tosstorff dazu jetzt auf www.rosalux.de/news/...#AnDiesemTaglesen.

in Kilkenny there was a significant queer Georgian revolt in the 18th century ‘In a world where queer rights and dignities are again being questioned and pared back, these histories matter more than ever’. #queerhistories #irishhistory #history #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Oh FGS, they're just making REF29 more and more complex as they twist and turn. The central dilemma will not and cannot go away: how can you give out hundreds of millions to subject areas that won't exist in the 2030s? (1/2) www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

The scale of loss in UK Higher Education really is astonishing. Most of you can't see: only the actual redundancies (of which there are tens of thousands) really show up in the news. The real destruction goes far deeper. (1/2)

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

I'm not under 35 so ymmv but it's great for nodding off too (sorry to all my colleagues who've featured on it!)

We are calling on the UK Government to not introduce a levy on higher education provider income from international students, reduce visa costs to attract global talent, and to review higher education funding to create a sustainable model www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...

Another day, yet ANOTHER stupid, pointless announcement on immigration from this stupid pointless government. Today: you are a student - we're going to write you a stern letter about how you better not be thinking of staying! Insanity. Racist, cowardly, insanity. #r4today

Redundancies and closures mooted at the University of Leicester in Schools of Education, Chemistry and Geography, Geology and the Environment plus disciplines of Modern Languages, Film Studies and History. Shrinking HE provision shrinks opportunity and exacerbates regional inequality.

“We reject the far right’s racist lies about ‘protecting’ women and girls. They are not defenders of women – they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division." Words that very much need to be said.

Please fill in the Leeds Council survey to protect biodiversity (and also add comments about the other topics too!)

🧵1/ Our branch just passed a motion condemning the stealth closure of the MA in Black British History. We did this to demand accountability — for the future of the MA and for the College’s promises on racial justice and equality. shorturl.at/gIUVG

For anyone who's feeling overwhelmed and unsure what to do: lassn.org.uk/standing-tog...

Today's university with the job cuts is Sheffield (again). Every single day in Higher Education is like this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

British "debate" on migration is in the gutter, but we should still be shocked that Labour's response yesterday was to criticise Farage for being insufficiently detailed in his plan for mass detention camps.

Not shocked 🙄

Time for a reality check: Britain cannot be a big player on the world stage unless we speak more languages | Sophia Smith Galer

The APPG Modern Languages has shared a Letter to The Times by Baroness Coussins, Co-chair of the APPG, in response to their recent leading article arguing falling languages uptake narrows young people's horizons (www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...)

Facebook decided to promote the Leeds far right protest group to me. I've reported and blocked it. Instead of that hate, here's the link to Manuel Bravo, a charity which provides legal representation to asylum seekers and refugees: manuelbravo.org.uk/donate/

📢 "We reject – completely and categorically – the active discrimination and exclusion of trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people"... This is the second line from our collective letter - 'Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community' Read our letter here: www.change.org/nion_women

Excellent news for unis who can now ride the trend, have an excuse to take on more male students, and benefit from the gender pay gap as their average graduate salary increases, thus improving the uni’s outcomes and TEF score! Winning!