Outside/Inside La Caverne de Pont Neuf 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽#JR & #Christo #JeanClaude

Without wishing to fat shame the local bird population this pigeon just waddled into view...

Kraftwerk landing a flying saucer in Nottingham last night...weird nostalgic version for 1970s hopes for a future that never materialised???

"As there is no disputing that management has its hands on the reins during reorganizations ... managers soon discovered that it is best for them to keep their institutions in a permanent state of reorganization." (Chris Lorenz, 2012) #HigherEd www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Massive Attack stunning tonight (Camera/phone effed...so dodgy pics 😔)

BBC News - Israel put on UN sexual violence in warzones blacklist for first time www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Collegiality'..."operates within a White hegemonic normative framework to benefit White groups perpetuate White supremacy...collegiality & citizenship are exclusive concepts used as forms of weaponisation against academics of colour who fail to conform to White standards" doi.org/10.1080/0142...

Being a ‘good’ citizen: white collegiality & academic citizenship w/ @kalwantbhopal.bsky.social how collegiality masks racism in academia. "White collegiality is a process that allows evidence of racism to be overlooked, excused and explained as a natural state of affairs." doi.org/10.1080/0142...

Our new article explores how collegiality only applies to white groups to perpetuate white supremacy @martinmyers.bsky.social Being a ‘good’ citizen: white collegiality and academic citizenship share.google/WvMY4Shvw4LP...

Being a ‘good’ citizen: white collegiality & academic citizenship w/ @kalwantbhopal.bsky.social how collegiality masks racism in academia. "White collegiality is a process that allows evidence of racism to be overlooked, excused and explained as a natural state of affairs." doi.org/10.1080/0142...

GRT Traveller flag taking pride of place @ucddublin.bsky.social business school 😎

'Exciting' times according to VC putting 2700 jobs at risk. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/notting...

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Birmingham City University urged not to axe Black studies MA www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Ever more sophisticated technologies deployed by university security to protect uni leadership from job cuts protestors...if the broomstick craks the university falls

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"the rankings’ design and implementation encourage symbolic sustainability, wherein institutions prioritize reputation management and procedural compliance over substantive change" #HigherEd www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Something intense for the weekend please..

University of Nottingham using private security firm Horus to spy on pro-Palestine sudents and academics? Pretty disgusting if true @uniofnottingham.bsky.social? @uonucu.bsky.social @uonsoe.bsky.social #WeAreUoN libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/bri...

youtu.be/L-57FrioeuE Stunning old school protest song from #TomWaits #MassiveAttack & #thefinaleye

Telegraph moaning about rising cost of private education and too many foreigners...poor dears www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consum...

The degree of complicity of UK academics in recruiting international students has been obvious for years ...as it unravels so too does UK academic labour market.. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Florida dumbs down some more www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Question for HE educational philosopher types: Does an emphasis on teaching 'critical thinking' skills undermine achieving rational certainty? I.e. does the skill lead to knowledge or just knowledge of the skill? (And if so, is that a good or a bad thing?) #education #philosophy

Segregation embedded within UK education - as it always has been: Top English schools take in half as many Send pupils as average comprehensive www.theguardian.com/education/20...

This might be the single most inane thing I've read about Bowie. Clearly he was the patron saint of mundane pop consumers. The weird kids identified he was a bit of a tosser? (E.g. "D Bowie lookalikes permeate the car parks" - MES insightful etc etc)

Spent my lunch time trying to work out why I still love The Birthday Party but have largely been bored by Nick Cave ever since...No answers forthcoming...but fuck yeh The Birthday Party ...it's raining on my house but not on the others...🤣 youtu.be/TLpkJApqdpQ?...

‘If you do not go back, we will definitely deport you and your family, and if you or your child tries to get away, our officers will handcuff you, your child and your wife and put you all on a plane using physical force’ Home Office 2026...the state we're in.. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Leslie Woods formerly of, and currently leader of, the Au Pairs and Gina Burch formerly of the Raincoats now with the Unreasonables kicking up a storm

Good, detailed article but the tendency to blame either university leaders and/or 'professional services' seems to let 'infantilised' academics off the hook...as always 🤣 www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/why-ar...

facebook.com/share/v/1BTpzw… Fine work as always from @katiedahlmusic In Solidarity with Minnesota ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

On Tuesday, the Israeli military invaded Birzeit University, attacking students with live ammunition. Israel's scholasticide is a core part of its attempt to obliterate the collective life of the Palestinian people. We have written to Yvette Cooper urging the British government to take action.

Trinity College Cambridge targeting recruitment of privately educated pupils from elite public schools...they don't even feel the need to pretend where their interests lie. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing 💩✍️ theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

Sorting through box of books...some cracking cover art

British universities’ reliance on Chinese fees fuelling self-censorship, say academics www.ft.com/content/a123...

Nottinghamshire MPs have written to @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, urging the university to reconsider proposed course suspensions and potential closures, which would significantly impact staff, students, and our wider city and county.

Cool 1972 Panther paperback cover. Nabokov short stores in pulp edition. £1 #charityshop bargain

How Shabana Mahmood uses her ethnicity & origin story to justify white supremacy...I can think of similar examples within academia. Can you? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How Shabana Mahmood uses her ethnicity & origin story to justify white supremacy...I can think of similar examples within academia. Can you? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Lots to get irritated by in Shabana Mahmood article. I’m mostly disturbed by the emphasis on support for Ukrainians as evidence of British tolerance. Whiteness as a key characteristic of refugee status? Undermines Mahmood’s claim about people who ‘look like me’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“We were absolutely gobsmacked.” 48 courses axed, music, languages, mental health care, childcare. No consultation. No vision. This is why we’re voting YES, to stop the destruction of our universities. #WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYES @uonucu.bsky.social

Terry Eagleton on Andrew 'surplus to the needs of humanity' Windsor: "Andrew doesn’t know very much. No doubt he has some knowledge of ships, horses and dubious commercial dealing, but like almost all of the rest of his family, he’s probably never read a book." unherd.com/2025/11/the-...

More of that blogpost on protected conversations in slide form: qmucu.org/2024/08/30/m... ⭐ACAS guidance: acas.org.uk/sites/defaul... ⭐Unite information sheet: learnwithunite.org/assets/Uploa...

Darker times ahead www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is ridiculous. Sky journo interviewing suspect before and during arrest. Performative policing. Performative news coverage.

Counter-terror police investigate claim UK university halted research after Chinese pressure www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Raising a glass to Dave Ball tonight 🍷 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Pursued by the ghost of Gene Hackman