Great to see Rayner criticise grossly unfair tripling of settlement period, plus call to raise care workers' wages and not to tie visas to specific employers, recognising it increases exploitation risk. Burnham should follow instead of doubling down on anti-migrant line www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The amount of unpaid work hourly paid lecturers are expected to do is bad enough as it is but when it's due to students using AI in assessments it takes the mick.

Yesterday I met a friend for lunch, a mother grieving the suicide of her trans child. I thanked her for speaking to QueerAF about her son, for bravely sharing her darkest thoughts…the ‘silver lining’ of Zach’s death is that at least he’s not here to see how far things have fallen since he died.

Hearing that Russell T Davies stepped aside so Andy Burnham could save Doctor Who

Could basic research income help fix a funding system in crisis? Thanks to Matthew Smith @healthhistory.bsky.social, Jonathan Grant @jonathancgrant.bsky.social and others for sharing their thoughts. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

The clue's very much in title, not that the article really gets to the key issue, being much happier delivering kicks at feckless students. Students spend thousands, so they're burdened with debt but still have inadequate maintenance loans. Many are stressed and working multiple jobs. Class suffers.

The I'm concerned that the EHRC guidance isn't clear about whether trans people and their partners can still have their relationships fully respected and recognised in law. The right to family life should not be up for debate. #TransRights #EHRC

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What they are doing to trans kids is hitting harder than the fucking toilet ban. My god those poor kids.

Emailed @liamconlon.bsky.social again. Emphasised that it is misogyny masquerading as 'protecting women', and pointing out that if a man wants to attack me in a toilet, he will just walk in, or pretend to be a cleaner. This one's on us cis women. equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode

*Statement in regard to recent racist protests in Northern Ireland* We are shocked and appalled at the racist carnage that took place in pockets of Belfast last night, as well as in other towns and cities across Northern Ireland.

Over 10% of these have since yesterday’s EHRC grilling, and 3 of them actually sat on the committee. Mary-Ann Stephenson clearly did not impress Labour backbenchers.

The incident is racist neo-Nazis wandering around in a pack and attacking anyone they decide looks like an immigrant.

This is hateful cruelty.

And it looks like @alexsobel.co.uk agrees!

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Why would anyone want to work in this sector then? Serious question. We don't all want to *just teach*, and it's not how the vast majority of us *train*. I know it's unfashionable to say it but I got into this primarily to research and write and it's what I am good at.

I am the person who exclaims loudly what is that stink and then looks to see who is not making eye contact. I am available for hire.

Yes because the Russell Group are quite happy with the status quo, where smaller providers are literally shutting courses because of the lack of negotiated, equitable student distribution.

YESSSSS

I've written to my MP @liamconlon.bsky.social, to ask that he please sign. Keep up the pressure!

Someone's gone and cooked fish in the common room microwave. WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?

Anyways here's a breakdown of how silly it is, and thankfully how unlikely it is to form anything close to policy direction until Farage is our overlord and at that point, we have bigger problems anyways.

Did the radical preacher John Ball come from Thrandeston in Suffolk rather than Colchester? Did he ever have anything to do with York? Were the letters said to be by Ball written by him? Join us @essexarchives on 13 June to hear new evidence about Ball's early life: www.1381.online/media/?story...

8 June 1666 #OTD Alice Thornton wrote to her husband William thanking him for his letters letting her know that he was better after taking the waters at Scarborough. Dr Wittie, the Thornton family doctor, had written a book on the benefits of 'Scarborough spa'. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚

Thank you to the dozens & dozens of constituents who have emailed me about the EHRC code of practice, and the impact it will have. I have just added my name to EDM 240- which would disapprove the code. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

Remember to get your funding applications in by the end of the month! #funding #researchfunding #CDBU

Office for Students and Advance HE (CEO Alistair Jarvis, remember him?) using the Slop Machine to generate images for press releases? #aesthetic Source: www.officeforstudents.org.uk/news-blog-an...

Beatings will continue until morale improves

Absolute idiot

Thanks Lisa! 💜

In a bad mood so working on my book.

Underemployment is a particular sort of exhausting which my ADHD and autism *both* hate, because it's a total lack of certainty combined with tasks giving very little immediate gratification (job apps, pitches etc).

Race Across the World: dyspraxic special.

Finally (FINALLY) caved due to freelance stuff. www.instagram.com/joedge1/

Welcome aboard Wales's newest rail service...The Pwllheli Express

Over the past week or two, I have had a couple of quite bruising encounters on BlueSky with British people who simply refused to accept that something that I said was possible in the UK is actually possible. I ended up blocking because. They were unreasonably protective of their helplessness.

This is absolutely tragic

He also claims on his website that he is writing a FOURTH book called "The Tattoo Book", so is Timming Lab becoming Matt Lodder's Wario?

Reviewing our data and the story of our campaign to discuss with MPs. Hoping the show of support from cross-party MPs over the last week means we can engage more.

All fart no shit

me explaining using our book catalogue to a customer

This twerp

Incredibly lazy article here, which rather gives the game away when she tells us how her history degree has proved useful to her

The government actively want universities to fail don’t they. www.gov.uk/government/n...

What a horrid piece of work. If Prospect is your union, please vote this down.

theres so much about this that pisses me off, but right now its that a decade ago the 'invasion of mass migrants' these fuckwits were going on about were Polish people like the Nowaks www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A reminder that I do freelance work. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...