Why are you threatening #UCU staff with pay deductions for ASOS? UCU policy is to oppose punitive deduction for ASOS And why are you asking staff to fill out a form when UCU members at QMUL were advised not to do this?

Paracetamol during pregnancy does NOT cause autism. More bollocks non-science shaming pregnant people is JUST what we don't need. We are already told what to do and what not to do so much during pregnancy (much worse in the states of course). This has made me furious tbh.

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Well said by @dougiamas.bsky.social at #mootglobal25 “Getting an AI to do your assignment for you is like getting a friend to go to the gym for you.”

ANU cuts are impacting an innumerable amount of people. Here are just some of their stories. www.shoesofanu.com

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached. They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others. Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further. #UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

Poverty is a political choice. Homelessness is a political choice. Suffering is often a political choice. People are much closer to becoming disabled/unhoused than they realize. Help us build networks of community care and better social supports.

Lxds, do me a favour and sign/repost this please. We need a boost Petition - Call on Westminster to give carers the legal right to a break share.google/rfATvbZmG7RK...

A study in Nature Human Behaviour finds that four-day work weeks without a reduction in income boost workers’ job satisfaction and physical and mental health, driven by enhanced work performance, lower levels of fatigue and fewer sleep problems. go.nature.com/3Um75MP #econsky 🧪

(Though I suspect if they go after Pensions the backlash will be much more, because ableism etc. means far too many are okay with disabled folk being killed… and many more are ignorant to the fact that the state pension is a benefit)

If you are shocked at the government is now “reviewing” the state pension age… you didn’t really think they’d stop a disability benefits did you? Once you open the door, they come after the entire welfare system.

Very much saddened by the devastating loss of Diogo Jota and his brother. I'm hardly the biggest football fan, but the lovely tribute below, and those from his colleagues all add up to the loss of a very good person. Condolences to his family, friends, and fans.

A Glastonbury chant caused a national meltdown, but the Bear’s incisive analysis reveals the real story. Don't miss this insightful dive into Britain's moral panic.

BREAKING: Labour MP Rachel Maskell has tabled a new reasoned amendment, designed to defeat the welfare bill at tomorrow’s second reading vote 👏 So far it has the backing of 35 Labour MPs, with organisers suggesting more could add their names

”Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.” George Orwell, English novelist, journalist, critic, born #OTD 1903; author of Animal Farm (1945), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). BBC Archive | UCL Special Collections @uclspeccoll.bsky.social

“Almost every cabinet minister was asked to call up Labour MPs to get them to back down and the numbers just went up” Chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman tells #BBCBreakfast about the growing rebellion from Labour MPs over the government's planned welfare changes

Join with us to fight redundancies at Liverpool Hope University. The branch website is liverpoolhopeucu.github.io/home/ and you can read about upcoming events, why you should join UCU, and how to donate to the local and national fighting funds.

This is a hell of a thing to read.

A thread of how you can support my former colleagues at Liverpool Hope and their transformative work in #DisabilityStudies.

#UCU2025 Congress has voted to raise a trade dispute with the government. @drjogrady.bsky.social On BBC Radio 4 this morning our general secretary @drjogrady.bsky.social lays out the stark reality of the crisis facing our sector

This is not all about income v outgoings. It's about a systematic destabilisation of the higher education sector. You may scoff at Trump's behaviour with universities in the US, but what is happening here is no different.

Staff members in the Disability Studies Centre at Liverpool Hope University have been put at risk of redundancy. Please sign and share this open letter opposing the cuts: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #DisabilityStudies #DisabledSky

It's the last day of teaching at Liverpool Hope, where ALL of my brilliant #DisabilityStudies colleagues have just been told they're at risk of redundancy (along with many others). Ways to support in🧵 - please do what you can.

Then UK Higher Ed situation is in such turmoil that there is a live map of redundancies......and we are on it. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

Sadly I could not be there but I adore each and everyone of them for their support. It really helps to bolster us up to know how much the students care too.

Liverpool Hope University is threatening 39 job cuts, despite strong finances. "This is shameful" @drjogrady.bsky.social We will fight to defend jobs and student provision. #StopTheCuts #UCU www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wonderful Hope students are supporting our fight to prevent the loss of 39 jobs across our Faculties by creating this petition. chng.it/HtNHhcPRJp

This is what we are facing, here, now, in the UK. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Please support our colleagues who are facing redundancy at Liverpool Hope. We are a small institution and 39 redundancies is a large chunk of the academic staff. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

For the morning crowd - please do sign and share. Every single one of my former #DisabilityStudies colleagues at Liverpool Hope is at risk of redundancy. This isn't just about individuals; it's a threat to the field itself.

Hardly a shocker.

Solid advice for the end of the semester, too. #AcademicSky #EduSky #WednesdayWisdom

#WednesdayWisdom #AcademicBlueSky #EduSky

In the context of Labour targeting welfare & disability benefits here’s just a few of the conditions are believed to actually be under diagnosed. Many people fly under the radar & Labour are making it even less likely they will have access to support. Stigmatising mental health/disability again.

What do you mean? Of course I’m not spending my Friday night nerding out with Edwin Dalmaijer and @hirstrj.bsky.social and @peircej.bsky.social

Can anyone help with links to good free ways to create H5P content? I know of the H5P website and Lumi, hosting not needed. Interested in good practice and accessibility etc too. #H5P I'm very much at the start of this but am an experienced tech type, but just looking for some thoughts #learning

The irony of us celebrating VE Day whilst enabling a genocide, legitimising far-right ideology, and the Government doing everything it can to harm disabled folk and trans people...

Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan will distance herself from Labour's benefit cuts and warn the Government that she will stand up against "unfairness" www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

The government has published no evidence to suggest that cutting disability benefits will get people back to work. The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty. I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink

Dear Labour… Scrap the benefits cuts. Tax the rich. Stop punching down on marginalised people. End austerity. Aggressively stand and campaign for equal rights for all. Become anti-Reform, anti-Fascist. What we need now is true hope.

It turns out that starving kids, freezing pensioners, attacking the disabled, the biggest rollback of LGBTQ+ rights since section 28, genocide and telling everyone to the left of Wes Streeting to fuck off isn't a great vote winning strategy. If only someone could have predicted this

Screaming into the void here, but it seems that Labour have learnt nothing from the ascent of Trump etc. If you don't offer a meaningful alternative and actively seek to improve people's lives - while calling out the right for its perniciousness (rather than leaning into it) - you're doomed.

Just sitting here thinking exactly the same thing.

Daft things that students do or say? I once had a class with 10 students in attendance. The register indicated 11. I threw a wobbly about how insulting it was as I have a degree, a pg cert and a PhD and given I teach statistics and programming, you’d like to think I can count to more than 10.

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

I went into nerd mode in my session today. Students were generating word stimuli using online databases (MRC/wordnorms/ARC) for a LDT they are creating in @psychopy.org we talked lots about controlling for confounds, the hierarchies in word recognition and being too controlling in experiments. Fun!

I’m finding it very hard to understand the stance of the Royal Society here. Science is part of society, not separate from it, existing in some strange metaphysical bubble. I look across the Atlantic, aghast at the damage being done to science and scientists. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

saying you’ll stand up for attacks on science in the US while honouring the person responsible for the attacks is like handing out bandages to people who are being savaged by your pet dog, while doing nothing to restrain him

Three entirely cost-free interventions that would save time and resources that HEIs currently can't afford: 1. Reinstate number controls 2. Cancel REF 3. Loosen visa restrictions Can't see the RG supporting 1 and 2 as core sources of their current dominance. And yes, we need a major rethink.