So management came to us last week with an offer to end the boycott. It increased buy outs for VR, extended the VR time, and offered to pay back some of the pay they stole from those participating in IA.

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British Academy President's statement on the UK's higher education crisis, July 2026.

And this is what we all need to remember: just because it's not your job, institution or discipline this time, doesn't mean it won't be next time

Barely a week has gone by without more news about university cuts this summer. This feels like a haphazard collapse of one of our -once - finest sectors of employment, export, research and soft power. It seems like the worst kind of laissez-faire policies...is the government even interested?

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I think this quote really demonstrates for me something that is quite weird and hard about watching reactions to sector redundancies while precarious - because I am expected to do exactly this next year. And no one seems to find it a problem. (1/2)

Exeter management has a plan costed out with no job losses but is choosing to axe 25% of a faculty anyways?! What is the rationale for this one, I mean really what?

Morning all. Week two of the fight back:

Wonderful to commemorate the centenary of Eva Gore-Booth’s death with Patrick Geoghegan on Talking History with an excellent panel @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social & Catherine Healy. Seems fitting to share during Pride month @manchesterup.bsky.social link.goloudplayer.com/s/pGyDrCbH7wIk

While it may be tempting to read my posts and return to your book (all the while thinking 'let's hope it doesn't happen at my uni'), I do think this storm is coming for all of us in one way or another in the Humanities. 4/?

📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?

They talk so much about Britain ‘making things’. WE MAKE KNOWLEDGE. Britain is KNOWN for her universities, where we MAKE KNOWLEDGE. Just bc you can’t get it on Temu doesn’t mean it isn’t a thing. Fuck’s sake. It’s too hot for this.

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

the media and voter messaging should be this: the current government and the government in waiting do not want your children to be able to go to university, they will not support people in the UK to do original research, they do not care about job losses in one of the largest sectors in the economy

Exeter rasiert Geistes-und Sozialwissenschaften. 👉Brexit zerstört nicht nur britisch Wirtschaft, sondern auch die brit. Softpower, auf der die globale Bedeutung GBs beruht. Zurück bleibt eine mittelgrosse Insel. Es steht zu befürchten, dass ganz Europa folgt www.bbc.com/news/article...

Found out yesterday that my job is at risk. Feels terrible: multiple video-only "consultations" without even a q and a... Humanities and social sciences overwhelmingly targeted... Whole thing feels deeply ideological and also like payback aimed at the departments with high union density...

Die Wirtschaftsprofessorin Cora Berliner wurde am 24. Juni 1942 gemeinsam mit weiteren Mitarbeiter:innen der Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland mit dem "16. Osttransport" wohl über Königsberg nach Minsk deportiert. Die meisten wurden kurz darauf im Vernichtungslager Maly Trostinez ermordet.🧵

It’s wild that politicians don’t seem to grasp the degree to which universities contribute to the economy- local, regional, national. The failure to intervene is a stain on this govt - a shocking dereliction of duty to every worker, every local business, every student, every area that is suffering

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

Along with almost all of my colleagues in history, this afternoon I got an email telling me that I am at risk of redundancy. It looks like the University of Exeter sent this email to the vast majority of people in Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty. Bit hard to breath right now.

None of us is safe until all of us are safe

'The University of Exeter is proposing to cut about 150 staff roles. A spokesperson for the university said it was "consulting with colleagues over limited and specific potential changes across some areas of our academic faculties".' 1/4

I never apologise for cross posting because I'm not sorry. If I were sorry then I wouldn't be doing it in the first place

In June 1917, 1,000 delegates attended the Leeds Convention at the Coliseum (now the O2 Academy), with goals including a democratic and anti-imperial peace, votes for women and working-class men, freedom of the press, workers’ rights, and an amnesty for conscientious objectors.

A damning 97%. That's how many University of Lincoln staff who voted have lost confidence in senior management, after the university cut a third of its workforce and refused to rule out more compulsory redundancies. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1454...

First management @northumbriauni.bsky.social came for our pensions and pay - for no good reason. Now they're coming for our colleagues. This is terrible news for staff, students, and the region. @timeshighered.bsky.social @chroniclelive.co.uk @ukhenews.bsky.social @21group.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Job cuts fuel staff discontent at Lincoln and Northumbria www.timeshighereducation.com/news/job-cut...

Staff at Northumbria University are being balloted for strike action. ✊ UCU has declared a dispute over plans to cut 1 in 10 jobs before Christmas with management refusing to rule out compulsory redundancies. Fewer staff, more work, less pay. Worse for students. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1454...

We have had reports that some colleagues who are not at risk of redundancy, have been making derogatory comments about the value of colleagues who are now at risk. This behaviour is having a disproportionate effect on BME staff. 1/2

Permanent lectureship in International Relations at @rhulpir.bsky.social! Particularly interested in people who can broaden our range - people working on Russia, China, Race/Ethnicity & Environment/Climate Change very welcome Deadline is 20/8/26 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

'Sheffield Hallam University has abandoned plans to transfer staff to a subsidiary firm to save on pension costs ahead of expected falls in employer contribution rates next year.' 1/2

oh permanent full-time pre-1800 job at Limerick! Deadline 14 August -- start of the job in January 2027. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a... #earlymodern #MedievalSky #Skystorians #Jobfairy

Amazing victory for comrades at Sheffield Hallam, whose extended industrial action halted management plans for a subsidiary which would have seriously undermined working conditions & pension entitlements. A powerful message for us at LSBU & nationally, showing what collective strength can achieve

Sheffield Hallam University abandons plans to transfer staff to subsidiary firm to save on pension costs ahead of expected falls in employer contribution rates next year www.timeshighereducation.com/news/sheffie... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

Meanwhile, management @northumbriauni.bsky.social are pressing on regardless with (very costly) plans to cut the pay of those who stay in @teacherspensions.bsky.social. @ucu.org.uk @ucea.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social. Hence this:

PRESS RELEASE: UCU Hallam secures major win as Sheffield Hallam University drops plans for subsidiary company. See ucuhallam.org/ezm8 for more info.

In Newcastle for the European Conference on Politics and Gender and getting ready for some great discussions in our section "Feminist Theory: Between Hope and Disappointment" with @mmrovlje.bsky.social

Bradford's streets stage a global celebration of outdoor arts Over 100 global artists set to transform Bradford’s public spaces in July into performance stages for music, dance and more By John Heywood @handhyorkshire.bsky.social

Counter protest against the far-right in Liverpool. Please share it. Even if you're not in Liverpool, you might have followers who are and help is gonna be needed

'Dundee University has approved a recovery plan requiring around £20m in further annual savings, raising renewed fears of job losses after hundreds of posts have already gone or been earmarked for redundancy.' And that's in a nation where the state has stepped in with funding.

Hosted as part of Refugee Week. The three short films feature conversations around the graphic novel Making it to the Registers. Professionals, researchers and artists discuss the challenges faced by refugee nurses and doctors, and the co-creation of a graphic novel based on their experiences!

📢 Coming soon! This year, as part of #RefugeeWeek, @lsjleeds.bsky.social is hosting: Making it to the Registers: a migrant healthcare workers' story 📅 Thursday 18th June ⏰ 12:00-13:00 📍 Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds Seats are limited so book your free ticket now! 👇 tinyurl.com/429cuj7y

Great thread on the importance of community organising and neighbourhood solidarity. A much better answer to "what can we do about fascism" than I usually give!

Minority absence blindness: Study finds when participants read an article w/ quotes from 6 male surgeons, only 17% noticed the absence of women. When a female surgeon was included, participants were much more likely to notice her presence. @kimelsesser.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Permanent, full-time Lectureship in Digital Culture and Society at UCL. Closing date 28 June www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...