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At a time when we need more than ever to reinvigorate and innovate in our approach to teaching and learning in HE, this is an incredibly shortsighted decision from the University of Edinburgh. But those of us who love to teach and care for our students will fight on. #HEincrisis

All because some of you out there are still buying Teslas from a Nazi.

Nothing says “university in perfect health” quite like power struggles, toxic culture & intimidating senior management Don’t worry -- external consultants advise that a few “clarified roles” & “shift away from blame culture” should fix things at University of Aberdeen www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We need everyone to come together and support Leicester! If you can't make it down on the 12th please like and share this post and send your support!

The bleak reality of university restructuring... it breaks lives and careers #Noredundancies #WearetheUniversity juliecupples.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/f...

This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.

The East Wing was where Eleanor Roosevelt welcomed all visitors to the White House. That must have kept this administration up nights until they could knock it down. To build a ballroom we can't afford, during a shutdown, for a president who just posted himself dropping shit on the country.

Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.

The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

It bears repeating that this will do nothing whatsoever to fix the financial catastrophe inside many universities whilst also loading further debt onto the next generation. Again, the sector is burning and the government brought a half-full water gun to the battle... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is genuinely gut-wrenching. Anyone associated w this structure knows the endless ranks of people, over the decades, who have treated the structure and surroundings w respect—since they were symbols for traditions of America as a whole Too apt a metaphor for Trump and US institutions overall

Is the government ready for extreme mass unemployment? What are Tony Blair’s top tips for life without jobs? #AI

Seems like an opportune moment to re-up our paper about AWS seeking infrastructural dominance in education through a range of operations that include platforming the edtech industry on its cloud services codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/h...

The government plans to link university fees to institutional "quality". This is a nonsense because there are no metrics that actually measure teaching quality. There is no Ofsted, rather a handful of largely irrelevant statistics to actual quality. The NSS measure satisfaction, not quality.

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?

Trump posted an AI video last night of him wearing a crown, flying a jet and bombing protesters with shit. Yes, shit. Many U.S. media have ignored this latest example of Trump’s mental instability. Others have downplayed it. The response says a lot about why we’re in this mess. 🧵 1/

Clearly this was done *after* the module evaluation forms had been submitted

A mere 19 months ago, Trump’s net worth was $2.6B, and he owed hundreds of millions in civil penalties. Today, Trump is worth $7.1B, and most of the civil penalties have been tossed out. Presidential politics is by far the most lucrative business venture of Trump’s career. trib.al/XjAdogE

I did not sign up to become a forensic expert in determining whether someone made shit up and by what means, but thanks to ChatGPT this is everyone’s part-time job now.

The fact that there were no counterprotests shows that Trumpism and MAGA barely exist outside of social media. This movement has gradually collapsed completely within the population. — It’s difficult to fill the real world with Trump government troll bots.

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OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.

“AI has turbocharged the spread of bullshit and falsehoods. It is not able to produce actual, qualitative academic work, despite the claims of some in the AI industry. As researchers, as universities, we should be clearer about pushing back against these false claims by the AI industry.”

Grammarly is now an enemy of education "Universities risk putting students in impossible positions where they’re simultaneously told they can use a tool and that using certain functions of that tool constitutes cheating." Seriously, ban it. It's no friend of education wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

“Millions of Americans are coming out today not because they hate America. We’re here because we love America.” #NoKings

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Ohio University is punishing a 70-year-old professor for: 1) trying to deliver humanitarian aid to starving children 2) being kidnapped by Israel in international waters 3) being tortured in Ketziot prison for 5 days and 4) having the gall to survive to resume teaching his course

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

I wonder when Starmer's grand strategy, which is limited to outrighting the right and far right on every political matter, is going to pay The grown-ups clearly understand something the rest of us don't...

A new box!!

There’s so much research emphasizing this point yet it has no effect on centrist parties who, with little to offer on bread and butter issues, often want to boost far-right issues to create elections in which they are the only alternative to Fascism. Look at Macron, it doesn’t work for long.

When was the last time you heard a politician in the media asked anything like- -How will you make sure asylum seekers can reach the UK safely & refugees are protected? -How will you make sure people coming to this country to work or study are treated equally & with respect? I cannot remember.

Leqaa Kordia—not a Columbia student but “a simple Palestinian girl,” as she describes herself—is the last remaining campus protester still in detention from the Trump Administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the U.S.

In case you needed another reminder that bikes are bad-ass.

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A strong statement on refusing to resign to AI resignation www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Modern university ethos is invest in buildings, divest from people Concrete has better job security than the staff 200 redundancies at University of Derby Job cuts come weeks after opening of a new state-of-the-art £75m building for its Business School www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Statement of support for me from the American Historical Association (AHA)

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives" “Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

Some changes to immigration rules today, not just increasing English language requirements, mean migrants looking to live and work in UK will have to meet far far higher standards than British nationals, while paying vast sums to be allowed to do so. That isn't a system based on "fairness". 1/

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

'The UK is leading by bad example, abusing the international standards to which it itself agreed by bringing in these draconian laws that are designed to stop protest against any of the issues that are uncomfortable for the UK government." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Imagine thinking that your argument that you were unfairly passed over for a Nobel Peace Prize could be bolstered by anything a murderous dictator and war criminal like Putin might say. The corruption, narcissism and complete idiocy all fuel each other.

In the midst of massive UK wide HE crisis we have two sorts of institutions in local cri: those in genuine financial distress (like Dundee) and those not but making a nasty choice (Edinburgh). I think you can pressure the Edinburghs but it’s hard and shouldn’t be necessary.

“In the case of the US, CEOs of publicly listed companies earn 269 times more than the average full-time worker. People thought CEOs only earned 18 times as much, and they would prefer it to be just 5 times” – Christopher Hoy in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

HAPPY WEEKEND 😭 #ucu #UKHE le.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...