Important event in Westminster today with UCU Union: A 25% cut in FE salaries since 2009 -this cannot go on: we need a new deal for FE

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

FAO every university I’ve ever worked at

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52825/ University post in Modern German Studies, Cambridge UK

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

Demokratie ohne Moral - können wir uns das leisten? Diese Frage stellt Bestsellerautorin Anne Rabe in der diesjährigen Theodor-Heuss-Gedächtnis-Vorlesung, gemeinschaftlich organisiert von der #UniStuttgart & der @heusshaus.bsky.social. Jetzt bis zum 07.12. anmelden & mitdiskutieren sohub.io/chum

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

"A @nytimes.com investigation has finally decided to admit that prisoners who have reported routine, ongoing abuse by state prison guards for decades were maybe not lying all that time." FIFY

"Meta soll Studie zu psychischen Schäden vertuscht haben: Weniger Depression, Angst, Einsamkeit, schon nach einer Woche Social-Media-Abstinenz. [...] Anstatt die Ergebnisse zu veröffentlichen, habe Meta das Projekt jedoch beendet." www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/fac...

From French and Spanish to Albanian and Farsi, languages have opened doors for me, grown understanding and taught me to see the world in full colour. Cutting them from schools and universities doesn’t just shrink the curriculum, it shrinks the life choices that all students should enjoy.

Next one soon!

#Zürich Heute Abend geht es weiter. Und wie letztes Mal - auch online ⬇️ #ImVertrauern

This was 🔥🔥🔥 What an honour to be there in person 🙏🏽💜

@uniofnottingham.bsky.social @uniofleicester.bsky.social

Podiumsdiskussion: Rechte Hochburgen in West- und Ostdeutschland — Geschichte und Gegenwart Mit Julia Reuschenbach (FU Berlin) Sabine Volk (Universität Tübingen) Gideon Botsch (Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum Potsdam) Moderation: Frank Bösch (ZZF Potsdam) 11. Dezember 2025 #il_liberal

Sehen wir uns morgen Abend in Soltau? Ich hoffe schon.

We are delighted to welcome @sarahcolvin.bsky.social (Cambridge) to the HI for a talk, ‘Haunting Times: Ghosted Memory & Epistemic Revenants in Zhadan’s Ukraine (Voroshilovgrad, 2010) & Bulawayo’s Zimbabwe (Glory, 2022)’ | Fri 21 Nov 2025 @ 11am | Free event; register on Eventbrite: bit.ly/4nOqwul

🚨The BBC is under attack 🚨 Sign the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protect the BBC, not let its enemies tear it down: 38d.gs/2sa8

˙ „Mopsas unbedingte Schwere“ 19 Jahre lang hat Dorothea Sternheim an ihrem Roman über die NS-Zeit gearbeitet. 70 Jahre nach Vollendung ist „Im Zeichen der Spinne“ nun im @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social erschienen. Von Frank Keil für die @taz.de. . taz.de/Wiedergefund...

"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes" New piece in THE on #Nottingham and #Leicester proposals to close MLs. @ucflangs.bsky.social

#swordfighting Check out the fabulous Yellowhammer rashguards, tees and hoodies hematees.co.uk/products/wom...

Huge congratulations and happy publication day! 💜🙌🏽💜

Congratulations dear Sarah! ✨️🎊🙌🏾

#booksky Free and open access

Publication day! How writers respond to authoritarians www.routledge.com/Literature-a...

A terrible idea @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is proposing to cut languages degrees www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...

Wie toll, dass es gestreamt wurde und wie gut, dir beim ersten Brief zuzuhören, wie sich so viele verschiedene Ereignisse, Debatten und persönliche Geschichten (❤️‍🩹) miteinander verbinden zu neuen Worten und zur Hoffnung! Ich bin sehr gespannt auf nächste Woche!

Daaaaaanke lieber Michael Krämer!! 🎉 #HappyBirthdayISD

Ich empfehle all denen in der Union, die gerade hoffen, die AfD würde bisschen mehr Kreide fressen, damit sie endlich mit ihnen zusammenarbeiten können, mal ein paar Tage in Höckes Telegram-Kanal mitzulesen. Aktuell werden dort Journalist*innen mit Nazisprache beleidigt und namentlich markiert.

So lovely to finally be joining Bluesky with the happy news that my debut poetry collection Nettles is out now! 🌿 To celebrate its launch, signed copies are available here nazaretranea.com/item/nettles/

Hmm ...

Außerdem gab es bereits einen Streik am 14.02 dieses Jahres. Organisiert u.a. vom Schwarzen queerfeministischen Verein ADEFRA #IhrHabtAngefangen #EinTagOhneUns Leider fand es in den Medien kaum Aufmerksamkeit Weitere Infos im Artikel von @bababoutilabo.bsky.social in @analysekritik.bsky.social ⬇️

We need constantly to remind ourselves that there's nothing normal or inevitable about it. It would be a catastrophe from which we would not recover for many years, in which terrible things are done, to minorities, to vulnerable people, to the rest of the living planet. We cannot let it happen.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

After nearly 1,500 years, the see of Canterbury has its first female archbishop. Congratulations to Sarah Mullally! And good luck - she's going to need it!

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil. (Hannah Arendt) Bench in Ljubljana

Am 25.09. ist Assata Shakur im Exil auf Cuba gestorben. Sie war Schwarze Aktivistin, Antirassistin, Feministin. Die in den USA geborene Shakur war Mitglied der Black Panther Party, sowie der Black Liberation Army. Ein Nachruf... #Antirassismus #Feminismus rdl.de/beitrag/assa...

It is official! My book, Birth Politics, has been released @JHUPress. Hopeful that it makes an impactful contribution to conversations around improving maternal health care in Nigeria. Happy to honor invited talks to discuss the book and my research. #maternalhealth #reproductivehealth #Nigeria

The summary from the Summer School on "Schreibweisen der Gegenwart" which took place at @unigreifswald.bsky.social earlier this summer is available to read now! Written by Leonie Sroka (Bern), Hannah Willcox (Greifswald) and me – German version here: germanistik.uni-greifswald.de/institut/arb...

The full summer school summary is now also available to read in English: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... @leoniesroka.bsky.social

Great, important piece by Mark Chadbourn.

Our flag does not belong to one creed or to one race. It belongs to one people, the British people. We will not let our flag be used to intimidate.

Und so beginnt sie die Unterwerfung einer traditionellen Institution Europas durch US Tech Oligarchen. Ich bin nicht gegen die Nutzung von LLM. Universitäten sollten ihre eigenen Open Weight oder Open Source Modelle bauen, um nicht ihre Autonomie aufzugeben und sich an Firmen wie OpenAI auszuliefern

No surprise here. It’s grim but it’s no surprise. The political temperature has been at a dangerous level for a while now. “Far-right AfD’s vote triples in elections in German bellwether state” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Wishing, threatening, or doing harm to people who are doling no harm to anyone except making them uncomfortable by their mere existence. Attitudes like this are always with us, unfortunately. The difference today is that those holding them are being encouraged to express, even act on, these views.

"Rather than prioritise investment in staff, the beating heart of the university, management has spent an average of over £40m a year on capital expenditure and splashes out £1.5m a year on external consultants." (UCU branch chair Joseph Choonara) #UKHE www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicest...

When do you think was the last time Michael Gove spoke to a member of the public?