Not to mention the effects of 2 local universities making staff redundant, closing taught programmes and reducing their research and civic engagement capacities (in response to government policies).

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests | Mark Cunliffe @markcunliffe76.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

Fears for future of students and lecturers as Universities make cuts | @itvcentral.bsky.social (East) youtu.be/iJCHq2tRKf4

Not much happened during the day with steady rain, but now everything is saturated and river going up. With another 7 hours of heavy rain predicted it could still get close.

Fantastic news!! Unions do make a difference - maybe join one today if you are not already a member @leicesterucu.bsky.social

Another Midlands university shedding staff. This one blaming it on national insurance hike (that was mostly offset by fees increase)

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ah yes Leicester, a tip-top History UoA in REF2021 currently eviscerating it’s History provision (among other subjects). Have they also won the THE irony of the year award?

Properly raining now - and set to rain for the next … 29 hours #stormClaudia

Lancaster Leicester Derby Nottingham Lincoln etc.* When are #Labour going to wake up to the damage to the regions? *All these universities, and more, are trying to make staff redundant.

This might be a first test for the people who have built a wall around their house since the flooding in January.

The someone is of course a cyclist 😭

UK universities cannot thrive while continually cutting academic staff No amount of wellness webinars, Lego play workshops, communal climbing events, bounce back sessions, desk yoga, jigsaw puzzle nights or Vice Chancellor's Special Awards for Resilience can change this

Monday morning and back on a very wet picket line at Leicester University. Fighting the massive job cuts and downgrading of jobs. #academicsky Solidarity to all HE staff trying to work through this decimation across the country.

Please sign and share this petition. I care deeply about geography and want to do everything I can to save our jobs and the school, and protect our students 🌍 #Geography #SchoolClosure c.org/Z2ZK6fQVgf

Ok I am highly emosh this week, but seeing this simple act of human kindness by arguably the most powerful person on Earth at the time had me burst into tears

If you have any friends or family that work in higher education in UK right now (or probably anywhere really) - they are NOT doing OK. Universities are being gutted. It's a horror show and I'm not even sure people outside understand this is happening. #academicsky

UCU (@ucu.org.uk) has called a national demonstration against the planned redundancies at the University of Leicester. Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November. All welcome!

Dozens of staff stood up and displayed these signs at the beginning of today’s address by the VC to demonstrate their lack of confidence in him and his ability to impose such devastating staff cuts across the university.

I'm giving my vote to tetrahedrite! As Sack & Loucks showed in 1985, the multisite reciprocal replacement of Cu <-> Ag, Fe <-> Zn, Cu <-> Fe, and As <-> Sb make it the "Rolls Royce" of indicator mienrals for the pressure, temperature, and pH conditions of an ore deposit. Vote for the ore with more!

Can’t believe this beauty - and gateway drug to mineral collecting - #galena, is losing to something that isn’t a modern ore mineral #copper #orecup Native #copper is a real hazard in crushing circuits because it is malleable and gums things up.

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

Huntingdon - This comment from Simon Calder is worth repeating. My thoughts with all involved

"Please make no mistake. Climate change is the biggest threat to global security that modern humans have ever faced." Sir David Attenborough. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #stopfossilfuels #go100re

'Staff at the University of Nottingham are preparing to strike for the second time this term, announcing a further 22 days of action before Christmas, in addition to the 20 days already taken.' Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam, Leicester, and Edinburgh also striking.

👻BOO‼️ I can't think of anything scarier than this. The greenhouse gases we have added to the atmosphere now force over a billion Hiroshima bombs worth of heat into the Earth system every year.

How things are going… Please support us if you can!

Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance. on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT

Just re-upping this for no particular reason whatsoever

The person behind this was immediately recruited by Cardiff University as 'global talent'. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Welcome to big school - where we teach the exact same thing as everywhere else, the only difference being the buildings and the night life. #academicsky

One, possibly only, pleasure of long ✈️ travel is that for once I get to watch some films: Warfare **** Tornado ** Mr Burton ***** The Black Sea *** Civil War **** Solid work there by Alex Garland for the first and last, but quite grim too.

Great day doing a keynote at #Metcon2025 in Palawan representing our PROMT (Philippines remediation of mine tailings) NERC-DOST PCIEERD joint project.

Sitting here having breakfast at my Philippine hotel and it has slowly dawned on my jet lagged brain that the plinky background muzac is a medley of #christmas songs. No Wham! yet… Merry Christmas everyone!

Bingo

Buildings don’t make a university - people do

In the same vein I’ve always wondered what sort of people purposefully choose an undercoat-grey paint for their new car

Headed out into the field. Josh printed out 3D maps of the region for reference. ⚒️

“Don’t look up!”

Mum threw rocks away #geoscience ⚒️

Staff and students came together early on a Friday morning to show their support before negotiations. The negotiations did not lift the threat of compulsory redundancies, so we'll be on strike again in the coming week.

Heading to negotiations on day ten of our strike action.

Philippines earthquake: tsunami warning issued after 7.4 quake hits Mindanao

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

Fake microscopy images generated by AI are indistinguishable from the real thing www.chemistryworld.com/news/fake-mi... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Research #Ethics #Microscopy #Nanoscience #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #Misconduct #Fraud

Fantastic! I’ll finally get my dream of an ore mineral winning!

Day 3: more placards and a percussion workshop!

Day 3: the rain did not stop us!

My super-talented tutee there with her balloon skills that says it all. When I have a moment I’ll do a thread explaining what is going on but in brief LEICESTER IS ON STRIKE!