"They want our stories, not our authority." wonkhe.com/blogs/the-gr...

8 things to look for when we get the judgement on University of Sussex wonkhe.com/blogs/eight-...

Authenticity and accountability are key for assessment in the age of GenAi wonkhe.com/blogs/what-d...

How companies like Palantir use Gaza as a laboratory for AI algorithms www.youtube.com/shorts/BGp0q...

We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Another day, another report setting out the grim experiences of disabled students in #UKHE. As usual there are no real surprises in this for university disability practitioners like me, but the fact these issues persist should make unis hang their heads in shame www.gov.uk/government/p...

State of the Sector report is out now from @theeauc.bsky.social - highlights that delivery lags behind ambition, and institutions need ring-fenced funding, accountable leadership, and aligned policy to enable change. www.eauc.org.uk/resources/re...

Yet JKR and friends are claiming trans people are the risks... While sucking up to Jeffrey Epstein *AFTER* Epstein was convicted of one round of child abuse offences... This needs sharing like all heck, to show transphobia was not and has NEVER been about protecting (cis) women (or children).

What does sustainability education look like when economic survival, inequality, and decolonisation shape the classroom? New paper on ESD in South African business & economics education. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Staff ,supporters and students gathered outside Firth Court today in solidarity with colleagues locked out and facing withheld pay after lawful strike action at @sheffielducu Punishment is not negotiation. ✊

Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after

If you work in HE - please read this!

Important thread - well worth the time to read for anyone who works in HE.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

NEW on Wonkhe: A new 10-year workforce plan for the National Health Service ought to be an opportunity to think carefully about higher education’s role. Susanna Kalitowski explains buff.ly/Ej6aOYE

Succinct, wise and hopeful as always

To reiterate: (The fact that he had a gun he never drew is immaterial; the videos show that they attacked him before they knew it; they murdered him after they confiscated it.)

Our analysis at @bellingcat.com on the killing of Alex Pretti breaks down the video evidence. He never reached for his gun. Agents sprayed/tackled him while his hands were up. He was disarmed before he was shot. The first shot came from an agent firing at him. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Monday and the start of a second week of being prevented from working by my employer, the University of Sheffield. Management has decided that massive damage to staff morale, student experience and the university’s reputation is worth it in a futile attempt to break the union. Shame on them.

The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff. Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for. This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...

This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.

To snatch a five year old carrying a school bag from the street and tell the parents nothing as you send that child to a prison thousands of kilometres away is unalloyed evil. Every person in this chain of command should be prosecuted. Every single one. They have to be.

Many of my colleagues @sheffielducu.bsky.social are 'locked out' for refusing to replace teaching missed during strike. Deductions have already been taken for that action. If you have any cash spare, donations gratefully received so that branch can support members. gofund.me/9b971e2a8

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Seeing a lot of retweets of this. I don't disagree with the conclusion but is everyone missing the 'I set a trap for my students' bit? Feels like there are kinder ways of making your point. www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

NEW on Wonkhe: Despite sector-wide consensus on how to tackle belonging gaps, Jim Dickinson explores how the latest APPs risk entrenching disadvantage by misreading the social psychology behind inclusion buff.ly/PDsei4E

National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign. 35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee 12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate Non-slate candidated www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

If you want kids to read: -Reopen the closed libraries -Give them free books -Sponsor author visits in schools with high % pupil premium or FSM students -Work on adult literacy Then Y8s will have a chance of passing this test www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt via Smithsonian Magazine

Three excellent books on what the #ClimateEmergency means for higher education & how universities should respond 📚 🧵 1️⃣ Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis by @edufuturist.bsky.social www.universitiesonfire.com

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

“The responsibility for these atrocity crimes lies with Israeli authorities at the highest echelons who have orchestrated a genocidal campaign for almost two years now with the specific intent to destroy the Palestinian group in Gaza.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Tommy Robinson is lying about the police estimate, by a factor of nearly thirty, to turn 110,000 into 3 million. He is spinning "MILLIONS" quite hard. It is a lie.

While I think it is fantastic that #endometriosis is getting more attention and there is less stigma, I can't help feeling that there's a downside to this as I see adverts across Instagram asking me to spend a fortune on 'endo support' products. The products here cost around £70.

Absolutely astounded that the UCU and Unison branches at Kent and Greenwich were not consulted, and that staff only found out about the merger this morning via BBC news and Kent Online. Solidarity to all colleagues.

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Great article about the work being done by pioneering female scientists on #endometriosis (just think what could be done if it was actually well funded!!) www.science.org/content/arti...

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

It's that time of year again, annual elections for election to Council of the National Trust. Lots of candidates to choose from. Read carefully and vote wisely if you don't want the direction of travel to be backward.

Great to see that government WILL ban moorland burning on peat deeper than 30cm, and over a much greater area than previously Big win for communities who've suffered the smoke + floods stemming from this Victorian practice Only losers are ~150 wealthy grouse moor owners www.gov.uk/government/n...

So why are people who wear Plasticine Action T-shirts assumed by the police to be supporting Palestine Action but people putting up flags of the Patron Saint of Palestine aren’t? Shouldn’t we arrest them all to be on the safe side? #twotierpolicing

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Broken hearing aid, no appointment before I go to Japan 😰. Praying to the gods of the NHS for a cancellation!! It is semi-functional, but I really want 100% for my trip...

this is a very minor subskeet but! It has come to my attention that not everyone realises that BDS is actually a concerted effort and not just ‘I dislike this one company’. Here’s the current list! Along with an explainer of how they were chosen: bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Agai...

Ballot papers drop today for local industrial action to defend jobs at the University of Sheffield against redundancy and further workload pressures. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1415...

Had a fun time writing about bread and circuses vs. bread and roses and whether in crises we're allowed to have fun. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/circuses-vs-...

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?