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Joseph Ward
4 days ago
Great to see media coverage of the hostile and punitive approach taken by management at
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towards
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staff striking to protect jobs. Threats and intimidation won't work. We're out until we win!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning
University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78v7k8vn20o
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Lisa Stampnitzky
4 days ago
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You can donate to our strike fund here
ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/hardship-fund/
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University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning
University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78v7k8vn20o
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Jess O'Thomson
4 days ago
I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.
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Today’s news has bitterly disappointed and angered me as a member of the Guiding community. This policy absolutely does not represent the views of the vast majority of those in Guiding today.
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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE!
5 days ago
Soon on my way to a cold, wet, and windy picket - the one place in world where is my duty to be.
@ucu.org.uk
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
@ucuhallam.bsky.social
#Sheffield
#UCUstrike
More info on our strike, here:
ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a...
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Heather Wallace
9 days ago
Ittttttts Gävlebocken time! Straw goats for all! People, the goat survived last year. *gestures at 2025*. We cannot let this happen again.
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Kathrine Jensen
9 days ago
On strike again today, though it is
##DigitalPicket
for me being so far away from Sheffield. Solidarity with all the amazing colleagues that have been on the picket lines for
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
you can read here about why we are on strike
ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a...
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Industrial action- information for students
Information for students about why University staff are taking industrial action, and how you can show your support.
https://ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-action/students-and-industrial-action/
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Ian Sudbery
9 days ago
Tuesday my union offered to call off 2 weeks of strikes, in return for postponing the redudnacy of, maybe, 5 people for three months. Yesterday the uni wrote to all staff saying "not interested", unless we completely caved. Today we toured picket lines across campus:
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Comrades out in force on the pickets today
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Mark Pendleton
11 days ago
Day six going strong at the Jessop West picke, joined by today’s running picket! Sun’s out too so at least we’re not tooooo cold
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Sheffield UCU
9 days ago
Some of our furrier members have been enjoying our strong turnout over the past couple of weeks. Lots of comrades to cuddle
#picketpups
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Jess O'Thomson
15 days ago
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies. This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
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Solidarity with comrades on the picket lines today
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Abi O'Connor
17 days ago
We’re on our 3rd day of (v cold) strike today
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@ucu.org.uk
HE is being dismantled by mgmt on eye watering salaries, whilst staff delivering teaching, research & admin are casualised, burnt out & forced out Pls donate to our fighting fund if you can
shorturl.at/EpeTe
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Donate to the Sheffield UCU Industrial Action Solidarity Fund
What is the Sheffield UCU Industrial Action Solidarity Fund, and how to contribute.
https://shorturl.at/EpeTe
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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE!
18 days ago
#PalestineSolidarity
roving picket visiting the excellent picket at Firth Court.
#UCUstrike
@ucu.org.uk
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
@ucuhallam.bsky.social
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Kirsty Liddiard
18 days ago
Day 2! People out in force on the picket lines 🙌 Nice to see a relatively active
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@sheffielducu.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Staff at University of Sheffield begin strike action
Staff at the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University are taking part in strikes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx3n5g7ee4o
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UCU Hallam
18 days ago
📢 Day Four: Resilience in Full Display! Another strong showing on our picket lines! Our fight continues for no compulsory redundancies, fair working conditions, our dignity and our future. Solidarity is our strength. We will not be silenced.
#SaveSheffieldHallam
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Tori Herridge
19 days ago
I am on strike this week, in support of colleagues placed at risk of compulsory redundancy.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
If you a student and want to know more/how to support the strike, see here:
ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a...
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Mark Pendleton
20 days ago
Tomorrow I’m back on strike with
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
over the university’s refusal to rule out redundancies and stop the neverending cycle of unjustified restructures. East Asian studies remains under explicit threat of job cuts, but I’d be there even if we weren’t. We stand together.
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UCU Hallam
22 days ago
JOINT RALLY ANNOUNCEMENT: Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
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Museums Association
22 days ago
News | Tate workers vote in favour of week-long strike, as Science Museum formally recognises union that won pay rise for security guards. More than 150 members of PCS union are due to walk out later this month. Read:
https://ow.ly/LSY750XrTBX
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Tate workers vote in favour of week-long strike - Museums Association
More than 150 members of PCS union will take industrial action later this month
https://ow.ly/LSY750XrTBX
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Dr Beth
about 1 month ago
Yes! My favourite moments are always when meme of the day hits icebox plums 😁
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Lucy Jones
about 1 month ago
So good to see
#LavLang32
being shared so widely! Join us for the annual Queer Linguistics conference, which in 2026 travels to Scotland for the first time thanks to
@christianilbury.bsky.social
and University of Edinburgh
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
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LavLang32 - Lavender Languages & Linguistics 32
2-4 September 2026: Queer (dis)belonging
https://lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk/
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Laura Bailey
about 1 month ago
SynTeach is a project looking at how syntax is taught in higher ed. Our next stage is FOCUS GROUPS—whether you loved or hated syntax, we'd love to talk to you! Sign up to be contacted as we're recruiting now:
forms.gle/PiBYpVPr1yg2...
#linguistics
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SynTeach Focus Group Interest Form
SynTeach is a project researching peoples' experiences teaching and learning syntax in higher education. We have conducted surveys of the field including syntax instructors and students, and we are pl...
https://forms.gle/PiBYpVPr1yg2RKCu5
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UCU UWS
about 2 months ago
📣 UWS HAS RULED OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES After 8 days of strike action from EIS, and a further 12 days planned from Monday which UCU were due to join, management has today announced that CR has been taken off the table 🎉
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Jess O'Thomson
about 2 months ago
It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
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That BG Dork
3 months ago
if you see people parroting the "trans ideology on the bullet" theory, send them this
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Elizabeth Bear
3 months ago
Been threatening to do this for ten years and I finally made a Halloween costume for my car.
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Mark Pendleton
3 months ago
Don’t like to have to keep doing this, but management has left us again with no choice. We will vote again to take action and massive numbers will again be out on picket lines. And like last year, management will again back down. All of that can be prevented if management chooses to negotiate.
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Heidi Harley
4 months ago
STAR's first issue is out! (STAR is an open-access journal publishing syntactic research from the same editorial team that brought us Syntax)
#Linguistics
star-linguistics.org
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Syntactic Theory and Research
https://star-linguistics.org/
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Alice Bennett
4 months ago
But Gen AI is fine?
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Ariadne Griffin
4 months ago
a rare and excellent deployment of Double Knitwear! (I assume they were very cold)
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My 34 followers should know that I’m very proud of my wonderful partner who is captaining this year’s Manchester
#UniversityChallenge
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4 months ago
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Sarah Clarke
4 months ago
It's likely that M&S inboxes will be flooded by angry GCs in the next few days. The smartest thing we can do is send some emails of our own and make it clear to M&S that screwing us over isn't cost free. You can contact M&S on
[email protected]
Example template email:
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Daniel José Older
4 months ago
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
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Patrick Ness
4 months ago
The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.
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My 29 followers should know that I’m very proud of my friends on this year’s Sheffield
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5 months ago
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hannah
7 months ago
Solidarity with all my friends at Sheffield on strike! Great to see my old home of Geography represented and some familiar faces 😎
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Ranjan Sen
about 1 year ago
National Linguistics Day (UK) - Tue 26th Nov!
www.linguisticshq.co.uk/national-lin...
Spread the word about what an exciting discipline it is to study! Some ideas on how to participate at
awareness-days.co.uk/awareness-da...
#NationalLinguisticsDay
#Linguistics
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Sheffield UCU
about 1 year ago
On Thursday, in an all-staff meeting with over 1000 attendees online and in person, 944 attendees participated in a vote with 93.3% saying they have “no confidence” in the VC and University Executive Board.
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Lucy Jones
over 1 year ago
Some important voices to hear from - young trans adults and parents of trans kids - on the day that the Cass Report is published.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Mother criticises ‘agenda from above’ after release of Cass report
Parent of trans girl says report promotes agenda that ‘things need to be made more difficult’ for children with gender dysphoria
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/10/mother-criticises-agenda-from-above-cass-report-trans?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Go check out my latest blog post - I’ve been thinking about Christmas traditions
everythingallison.wixsite.com/everything-a...
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Festive Traditions - Part 2, The Present
This is part two of a two-part set, please see https://everythingallison.wixsite.com/everything-allison/post/festive-traditions-part-1-the-past for part 1. In the first part of this 'duology' of sorts...
https://everythingallison.wixsite.com/everything-allison/post/festive-traditions-part-2-the-present
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The blogging returns. You can also enjoy my favourite bit of corporate pride (the gay tram). See below my latest post!
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Hey. It's been a while hasn't it?
The last time I wrote, it was February, the final semester of my undergraduate degree had barely started. I'd not even begun writing my dissertation. Now, it's nearly November and the year is drawing ...
https://everythingallison.wixsite.com/everything-allison/post/hey-it-s-been-a-while-hasn-t-it
about 2 years ago
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