Universities of Dundee, Kent, Brunel, Coventry & Swansea defer pay rises Kent’s “review in the coming months” is temporal evasion at its finest, while Coventry’s “break even position” heroically rebrands “we won’t pay” as “fiscal courage” The academic austerity opera continues

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Richard Tice with his Reform chum Nathan Gill, who has just admitted taking bribes for spreading Kremlin misinformation. What could be more patriotic than that?

The #spycops scandal contains half a dozen aspects that frankly warrant an inquiry of their own. One of these is blacklisting. For decades, every constabulary's Special Branch routinely & illegally passed details of political activists to illegal employment blacklisting organisations. 🧵

Windsor Castle Tuesday night. Four of us arrested for 'malicious communications'. Now released. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8V4...

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".

Yesterday Panteion University of Social and Political Science withdrew its patronage from the Eurocrim2025 conference in Athens #eurocrim #criminology #crimsky via @brunildapali.bsky.social www.panteion.gr/wp-content/u...

Aaaand this is why I voted for him. Calling out a former cabinet minister on her nonsense. More of this please. As Zack says: "Astounding."

The Trump administration is fully aware that anti-vaccine disinformation campaigns can cause incredible harm. After all, it is he who ordered the United States to do exactly this to China. The difference is that this time The Regime is running the op on Americans.

Boss. I'm tired boss. We been doing these experiments and studies since the 60s and 70s and the outcome has been the same in them all. The pushback against these measures aren't because they don't work. It's because they DO work and they'll include peoples they wish to exclude from society.

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Grim picture of bullying at Dundee University Cultural change may take ~5 years, but it must start by removing those who upheld the leadership's moral failures & mirrored its bullying top-down style of management This pattern of management occurs in many unis www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/5...

extremely insightful report from Liverpool Hope about the financial state of the university and the long-term risks posed by the course closures and redundancies. drive.google.com/file/d/1qcu1... #UKHE #SaveHe

The Department of Homeland Security has imposed new limits on congressional visits, saying its offices are not subject to an existing law that allows members of Congress to make unannounced oversight visits to ICE facilities that detain migrants.

This is a devastating piece of writing. Highly recommend. 🔥✊👇 www.iwa.wales/agenda/2025/...

"The university needs to look at the election of a leadership that staff can get behind and which is committed to resolving the current situation without the use of compulsory redundancies.” @carloucu.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2525296...

Together with @forthe100.bsky.social, we are conducting survey to find the Hateful Eight The 8 worst UK universities for discrimination, bullying, harassment & lack of care Whether staff or student, if you've been mistreated, tell us in our survey 21percent.org?p=2124 Who'll top the Hateful 8 ?

Vice Chancellor Wendy Larner of @cardiffuni.bsky.social must go Reckless & chaotic cuts have created a climate of fear, worsened staff mental health & triggered protests and no-confidence votes Now her management team has been reported to Health and Safety Executive nation.cymru/news/cardiff...

""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..." www.wnep.com/article/news...

❗Yesterday Cardiff University Senate, the body responsible for upholding academic standards, voted to NOT recommend management’s toxic 'Academic Futures' cuts plan to Cardiff University Council.❗ The ball is now in Council’s court at its meeting next Tuesday, 17th.

'We were told by our Vice Chancellor that the 2021 “Shaping for Excellence” redundancy programme would “strengthen the university in the long term”. Surely the “long term” is more than four years.' Solidarity with my former colleagues at Leicester. 👇 www.uculeicester.org.uk/the-fight-to...

Just one university - UCL - employs almost twice as many people as there are working in fishing boats.

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War on the poor. If the DWP makes error and overpays certain benefits, the Bill allows Ministers to recover money from the claimant’s bank account. No court order is needed. What if benefit claimants can't afford to repay, or face hardship? No equivalent law for fraudsters and scammers.

Today's university making redundancies is Greenwich. Yeah, like we don't need any architects do we. This madness will run and run until someone - anyone - gets a grip. While it continues, loads of the cash down the drain used to be yours. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/greenwi...

Unions including @uniteneyh.bsky.social will rally in support of @newcastleucu.bsky.social members tomorrow - join us at the picket line www.tuc.org.uk/events/stop-... #ProtectEducationNow #UCU

📣Pushing through with compulsory redundancies is not in the moral, strategic or financial interest of UEA. 🚩Join us on the picketline, tomorrow from 8am, as we continue to make the case for a brighter future for our university. #SaveUEA

Brutal account of what it’s like to teach at the University of Florida right now in the NYT—extraordinary climate of fear. People afraid to say intersectional and talk about lynchings. Fake students trying to entrap Muslim faculty or just making things up altogether. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...

OK, everyone! Achievement unlocked: one week of striking over the university’s refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies. What comes next?

This sums the whole situation up quite nicely.

Another sunny day with some big pickets @ducu.bsky.social. A picket line visit from local MP Mary Foy and the mighty @newcastleucu.bsky.social! Students also voting for refucing senior management numbers as opposed to cutting professional services staff.

📣 Join us for an event on the multiple crises that are currently affecting UK Higher Education,at QMUL hosted by AARG and the Mile End Institute (MEI). More info here: www.tickettailor.com/events/queen... @mileendinstitute.bsky.social

It’s on! BCU @ucu.org.uk members take strike action this Thursday 1st May. Pickets: - Seacole: 8:30 - 10 - Benjamin Zephaniah: 8:30 - 10:30 - Curzon, Parkside & Millenium Point: 8:30 - 12 Rally for jobs and professional respect: 12-1 in front of Parkside Building Teachout 2-3.30 Woodman

Commenting on the announcement of an alternative recovery plan for the University of Dundee, Dundee UCU branch co-president Melissa D'Ascenzio said: 1/3

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Eye-watering details of the sums big firms are giving Trump and what they get in return - “the Trump administration has dropped federal investigations and lawsuits against 89 corporations, many of whose leaders donated heavily to Trump’s inaugural fund.”

Jesus wept.

We unequivocally support UCU staff on strike today! They have been so supportive, knowledgeable and hard working for our branch over the years. We can always count on them to have our backs. It's time to have theirs. Read our branch statement to Jo Grady the GS too. It's time to resolve this dispute

Cod liver oil futures skyrocketing

A month ago, a member of the Senior Executive Team declared "If it looks like we're making it up as we go along, that is because we're making it up as we go along across the sector." @qmul.ac.uk deserves so much better than this flippancy & cuts that aren't strategised.

UCU - UCU declares academic boycott of Brunel University over mass redundancies www.ucu.org.uk/article/1399...

All this because they didn’t have a hotel pre-booked when they arrived. Insane.

Just astonishing that this is being allowed to happen in the US. I can't imagine how terrifying and insecure citizenship must feel for American citizens with any foreign ancestry. Raises so many questions about [lack of] robust checks and balances protecting US citizens and US constitutional crisis

“The assault on universities and on the knowledge they produce has been disorienting in its swiftness, animus, and savagery. But universities are not starfish, flopping about helplessly on a beach while a cruel child slices off their arms one by one.” arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

This administration sent 200+ fathers, sons, and husbands to be tortured in a foreign prison for the rest of their lives. 9 in 10 have no criminal record. None received any due process. If you *aren’t* outraged, you need to check your fucking humanity.

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

While we're on the subject of ways in which uni management teams are completely failing to actually address our issues, worth noting that Durham UCU will be striking for five days from Mon 28th April. FOR STARTERS. Because our jobs and those of our colleagues MATTER, and so we will fight for them.

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I've been running informal Redundancy Buddy groups over the last 6 months with UK uni staff at risk of dismissal. There are several key things people are shocked by which I'm sharing here so others who're precarious feel less alone and recognise what to prepare for. Please add your ideas. A thread 🧵