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Assoc Prof in Russian, University of Leeds. Not the views of my employer.
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George Eaton
4 days ago
Why is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by
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for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care.
www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
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The quiet collapse of British universities
One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away
https://www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-collapse-of-british-universities
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Bryan
3 days ago
Yorkshire, indeed the world, has lost some of its colour today. Garrowby Hill, a Yorkshire landscape by David Hockney, 1998. So long, David.
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Good Law Project
3 days ago
A judge has sentenced the Filton 4 as terrorists, behind the back of the jury, who only ever considered charges of criminal damage. This grotesque distortion of the law tightens the screws on the public’s right to protest, placing even more limits on our freedom to fight injustice.
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Russ Jones
3 days ago
Billionaires only exist because of grotesque failures in competition law, regulation and monopoly enforcement; because of the fundamental distortions of late-stage capitalism; and because of vast, indefensible exploitation. A trillionaire is the same thing, only a thousand times worse.
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Byline Times
4 days ago
‘The Two Big Lies About Trans People at the Heart of the EHRC Codes of Practice’ The EHRC are increasingly struggling to justify their interpretation of the law on the rights of…
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/06/11/the-two-big-lies-about-trans-people-at-the-heart-of-the-ehrc-codes-of-practice/
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‘The Two Big Lies About Trans People at the Heart of the EHRC Codes of Practice’
The EHRC are increasingly struggling to justify their interpretation of the law on the rights of trans people, argues Helen Belcher
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/06/11/the-two-big-lies-about-trans-people-at-the-heart-of-the-ehrc-codes-of-practice/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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punkacademic
4 days ago
If folks wouldn't mind reposting that would be great as I am trying to find/reconnect with folks. Thanks :)
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Good Law Project
4 days ago
If the NHS won’t protect trans children, we will 🩵 🩶 🩷 We are dedicating funds to support at least 10 trans kids’ gender affirming care after the NHS suddenly dropped their treatment If you'd like to help us support more trans children's access to healthcare click here👇
https://goodlaw.social/nl30
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Stéphanie says… 🏴☠️🦈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
4 days ago
Make that one-fifth now…
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Faine Greenwood
4 days ago
To all the people glumly stating you can’t go after Elon Musk because he’s rich: you have been trained into holding this false belief. There is absolutely no physical or natural law stating that really rich men cannot be punished. The only barrier is cowardice.
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Eliot Higgins
5 days ago
I hope the MPs who use this platform use this moment to tell their colleagues they should quit the race riot and non-consensual pornography platform once and for all, and call them out when they refuse. Musk clearly has no intention of cleaning up his platform, quite the opposite in fact.
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Mark Hamill
5 days ago
Heart-Melting Post of the Day: ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
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Alex von Tunzelmann
7 days ago
This is exactly it. The work is the point.
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Plashing Vole
9 days ago
The 95% completion rate requirement certainly explains why my union branch is defending colleagues being told to adjust individual students’ marks by unqualified managers.
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Research Professional News
10 days ago
British performance in Horizon bounces back to pre-Brexit levels. UK share of EU research funding rose in 2024, reversing downward trend since 2016 referendum. Good news! Free to read.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
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British performance in Horizon bounces back to pre-Brexit levels - Research Professional News
UK share of EU research funding rose in 2024, reversing downward trend since 2016 referendum
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-politics-2026-6-british-performance-in-horizon-bounces-back-to-pre-brexit-levels/
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Sophie Molly
10 days ago
"Women's health clinics offering breast screenings would be unable to provide this service to trans women. This is despite the fact that trans women who have had more than five years of Gender-Affirming Hormons Therapy (GHAT) are forty-seven times more likely to develop breast cancer than men"
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Gaby Hinsliff
13 days ago
I have a student son Henry Nowak’s age & I can’t imagine what it took for his family to respond outside court with the grace they did, asking that their son’s death not be used for division and hate. That Reform & Restore chose to throw that back in their faces makes me feel sick.
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Jolyon Maugham KC
13 days ago
The Supreme Court has today "strip[ped] fundamental human rights protections from potentially hundreds of thousands of severely disabled people" say a group of National Charities for disabled people.
www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...
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‘The biggest rollback of disability rights in a generation’ – Charities respond to Supreme Court ruling
https://www.mind.org.uk/news-campaigns/news/the-biggest-rollback-of-disability-rights-in-a-generation-charities-respond-to-supreme-court-ruling/
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innes mck
13 days ago
important to remember, since the press will rarely remind you, that the UK supreme court is not supreme in the way the US one is. Parliament is sovereign and can overturn or legislate counter to court decisions, they just choose not to
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance
13 days ago
🚨 NEW: 27 Members of Parliament have signed a motion to reject the EHRC Code of Practice
edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...
Ask yours to join them:
equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
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Draft Code of Practice on Services, public functions and associations - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
That the draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations, a copy of which was laid before this House on 21 May, be disapproved.
https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/65938
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Disability Rights UK
13 days ago
🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights." Full statement👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...
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Rosalynd Southern
14 days ago
A whole 10 minutes on the
@uonucu.bsky.social
strikes on C4 news framed (mostly!) as a systemic problem across the sector. Wonder if people in charge will start listening now the extent of the crisis becomes clearer by the day?
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Gav Maclean
17 days ago
If I hear one more university leader say they're making "tough decisions" about redundancies or worsening our employment conditions, I will scream. They are not making tough choices, they're making the easiest decisions in the world. Tough decisions would be fighting the inevitability of job losses
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Liberal Democrats
16 days ago
The new EHRC Code of Practice is not fit for purpose. It does not provide clear guidance or do enough to protect everyone from discrimination, and it is not compatible with longstanding British values.
@EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk
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@MarieCGoldman.bsky.social
have written to Bridget Phillipson. ⬇️
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Neil Evans
17 days ago
Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Stop Cardiff University from scrapping the ASSL's second floor!
thousands of books and crucial study spaces are at risk. Cardiff Uni wants to repurpose the busiest library on campus into classrooms. Help protect our library and sign the petition today.
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-the-second-floor-of-cardiff-university-s-arts-and-social-studies-library-assl?source=bluesky&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=bluesky&share=3be2a430-2f96-4e38-be4b-5982c73b5e7e
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The TransAdvocate
17 days ago
The dialectic of "biological sex" is about rhetoric, not science for the same reason the dialectic of "biological race" is about rhetoric, not science. Specifically, this dialectic is about a particular sort of political rhetoric.
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Prof. Pam Birtill
18 days ago
What other sector could make severance payments to over 28,000 people in 2 years and no one in government even blinks? These are skilled, highly educated people who should be contributing to UK productivity.
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Jonn Elledge
18 days ago
I do sometimes worry that all the worried headscratching about youth unemployment might be missing the point. Everyone is always talking about how it relates to the education or welfare systems, no one wants to say "well the economy just produces far fewer entry level jobs than it once did"
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QM_UCU
19 days ago
Relieved to see more coverage of the grip Nous is getting on
#UKHE
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@privateeyenews.bsky.social
! A million pound
@cardiffucu.bsky.social
alone. That’s a lot of money for the very same PowerPoint…
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Oleksa Drachewych
22 days ago
When scholars like myself speak of the genocidal nature of Russia's War against Ukraine, this is part of it. Russia attacks and destroys cultural and historical landmarks of important identity too.
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Jolyon Maugham KC
23 days ago
Notions like these, common throughout the law ("reasonable man" is perhaps the most famous), are invitations to judges (overwhelmingly White, wealthy, straight, born to privilege) to impose, by carving them in the stone of the law, their personal prejudices on others.
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CN Lester 🏳️⚧️
23 days ago
3/3. Thinking specifically of that Independent piece designed to drive a wedge between disabled and trans people (ignore the massive intersection) - please don't fall for it. Don't mistake gladiatorial media framings for real world possibilities. The EHRC has repeatedly failed us both. Join forces.
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Cas Mudde
23 days ago
This 💯 👇 Some easy ways to prevent this: 1. Invite female speakers first. Wait till they are confirmed. 2. Invest in creating a broad base of female experts (not just the few everyone knows and wants). 3. Invite more than “the one” female panelist. (do same for other underrepresented groups)
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TACC
24 days ago
Shocking figures from the UK Samaritans, who have seen a 40% rise in calls following the Supreme Court Anti-Trans judgement, respond to the EHRC guidance. 💔
www.samaritans.org/news/samarit...
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Samaritans responds to EHRC guidance after 40% rise in calls following Supreme Court ruling
Samaritans responds to EHRC guidance after 40% rise in calls following Supreme Court ruling
https://www.samaritans.org/news/samaritans-responds-to-ehrc-guidance-after-40-rise-in-calls-following-supreme-court-ruling/
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Dave Andress
24 days ago
The Labour Party, strangling higher education to appease racists who will never, ever vote for it.
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Ian Dunt
24 days ago
EHRC chair Mary-Ann Stephenson, said: "The supreme court was very clear … if you are providing separate toilets for women and men, that has to be on the basis of biological sex." It wasn't clear about that at all. It literally never even mentioned toilets.
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Jo Wolff
25 days ago
Also we are constantly innovating to improve teaching and learning. If improvement is all down to grade inflation then it’s hard to see the point of striving to do better.
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Arthur Webber 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
25 days ago
Gov straight up admitting that any attempts at gender policing are unworkable because "There is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex." So bin it??
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Alex Andreou
25 days ago
So we have full 2025 immigration stats - Total net down by 2/3rds in 2025 (3/4 from peak) - Small boat arrivals in 2026 down 40%. Asylum backlog down 48%; returns up 9% - Asylum seekers in hotels down 35% (down 48% from peak) YET PUBLIC PERCEPTION 49% think 2025 saw increase; only 16% know it fell
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Jo Wolff
25 days ago
“It’s just common sense!” Bertrand Russell:
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University of Hertfordshire UCU
26 days ago
Today staff in the School of Creative Arts, including the Humanities department, were called to a redundancy consultation meeting. We were informed that 23 posts were to go by August this year, with further redundancies as the Humanities programmes are taught out over 2 years.
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Dan Sohege
26 days ago
Not a fan of Burnham anyway, but seriously, what is the point of changing leader if they are going to keep the same inhumane and hostile policies Starmer supports which have pushed so many voters away from Labour. Whoever takes over needs to u-turn on them, fast.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham to back Shabana Mahmood’s immigration changes, allies say
Exclusive: Greater Manchester understood to support home secretary’s push to limit legal and illegal migration
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/20/burnham-to-back-shabana-mahmoods-immigration-changes-allies-say
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University and College Union (UCU)
26 days ago
Nottingham VC Jane Norman called plans to cut 700+ jobs and axe 40+ degree programmes “exciting.” Staff disagree. Today a marking boycott begins. 62 days of strikes follow from June. We will keep fighting.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1450...
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https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/14509/62-strike-days-confirmed-at-Notts-Uni-as-marking-boycott-begins-over-destructive-cuts
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Ian Sudbery
26 days ago
I am currently locked out of my job at the University of Sheffield, without pay as punishment for missing two teaching sessions while on strike.
#ucu
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Sherrill Stroschein
26 days ago
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’ and needs urgent changes to survive global heating, report warns
Landmark report calls for widespread air conditioning and says UK temperatures forecast to exceed 40C by 2050
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/20/uk-built-for-climate-that-no-longer-exists-and-needs-urgent-changes-to-survive-global-heating-report-warns?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Mark Pendleton
27 days ago
East Asian Studies is being gutted at Sheffield - all staff at risk with 8.6 FTE proposed to go (a third of us). Biggest cuts in Chinese and Japanese Studies. We’ll be taking a few days to process. Solidarity to Materials and Chemistry colleagues who are also dealing with similarly bad news.
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Ian Dunt
26 days ago
Utterly the wrong call. Weak.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK loosens Russian oil sanctions as fuel prices rise
The waiver reflects increasing supply concerns over certain fuels due to the effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy42x3g7r89o
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Equality Network
about 1 month ago
We are concerned by the nature of the media attention focused on the election of Dr Q Manivannan to the Scottish Parliament at the recent election.
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A very good analysis with which I completely agree
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/i-dont-thi...
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I Don’t Think Starmer Should Be Removed. I Also Think Labour Has Earned This Revolt.
Britain cannot keep replacing Prime Ministers every five minutes, but Labour’s slow political collapse is now becoming impossible to ignore.
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/i-dont-think-starmer-should-be-removed?r=2k00jt&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis
about 1 month ago
Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
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