This is absolutely outrageous. @ref2029.bsky.social need to put in safeguards on the FTE counting to ensure this kind of thing isn't rewarded in the REF.

I’m not ready for conversations with my kid about why other children are being incinerated by bombs but only certain ways of ‘protecting the kids’ matter apparently.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

9,600 redundancies at just 24 universities. Imagine what the picture is for the sector as a whole. This is the other half of the student loan scandal picture, which has been national news lately. Nothing at all from the government on a key sector effectively in freefall…

Calling on other UK immigrants and pro immigration citizens, today is the last day (til 11.59pm) to fill in the public consultation on the proposed changes to Earned Settlement, most notably moving the timeline from 5 years to 10 years www.gov.uk/government/c...

I really wish venues offered 'family' passes which were 'named kid plus one adult'. Often annual memberships are good value if the same people are going to visit more than a couple of times - but the realities of childcare are that my kid is likely to go somewhere 4 times with 3-4 different adults

Solidarity to colleagues over the road as they fight back against pension robbery

When people talk about the idea that some universities must go under, there’s a certain tendency to behave as if these smaller local campuses are negligible- regrettable casualties perhaps but not ‘real’ universities. This report does a great job of illustrating why that’s wrong.

Researchers in Modern Languages: consider submitting your research to the brand-new @ucflangs.bsky.social Languages Research Database, created for policymakers. Even if you don't think your research has policy implications – you never know! university-council-for-languages.org/research/lan...

In the UK academic recession, you will be at one of these stages since many unis buy the same cuts model from the same consultancies. It is always the same process: *Talk of belt-tightening *Incidental savings (e.g. printing, refreshments) *Travel budgets cut *Promotion freeze (1/4)

Mass detention camps. Or, as they were called in other contexts (such as South Africa during the Boer War and a few places since), concentration camps.

This street passes a school with over 2000 students and prioritises vehicles. People are hemmed in to narrow pavements which are blocked by bus shelters, side roads have fast, sweeping entrances, crossing points have tiny islands, and the cycle lane is narrow, painted and has a rough surface.

As a parent, I find social media terrifying and want to keep my child off it as long as possible. However the calls for a ban for under 16s continue a long pattern of seeking to shrink young people's presence in the public realm rather than tackling other issues.

This is a super awesome opportunity!

ah well at least we restructured the entire contemporary university, the product of many centuries of slowly accumulating human ingenuity, to boost this

Really struggling with the idea that multiple people at Darlington Memorial have been wasting time over manufactured shit about changing rooms. Anyone who has experience of that hospital knows there are many many issues relating to patient care that deserve this kind of energy

I’ve been to two of these conferences and they’re very lovely! They’re also super welcoming to children’s literature so if you don’t think of yourself as a historian don’t automatically count yourself out!

I realise this is too niche to be cost effective, but I wish academic books were available as audiobooks. Increasingly find that this is a good way for me to really take in information

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

On #HumanRightsDay we reiterate that human rights cannot be applied selectively. #OurEverydayRights are also the rights of Palestine Refugees. What is at stake are the values enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international law. Human Rights must be upheld without exception.

This is a very very good show and if you haven't watched it you should

Feeling quite emotional as I read through the many submissions for our special issue of Children's Literature in Education on Aidan Chambers. What a testament to his enduring legacy all over the world. It's going to be incredibly hard to choose from these!

This. I’m so sickened by the whole narrative that ‘oops we just have to go with the SC ruling’. The courts don’t make the law: Parliament does.

Thanks to the 'gender critical' lot trans girls will now be excluded from being Girl Guides, despite their desire to be inclusive and the fact that's been working brilliantly for them www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

Last chance to submit your proposals for our special issue of Children's Literature in Education on the late, great Aidan Chambers! link.springer.com/collections/... Deadline 1 December!

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

Cannot imagine what these families must be going through. This road is so dangerous but it doesn’t seem to matter how many times parents complain of this, cars come first. Hope some people in Newcastle City Council are taking a long hard look at their priorities and working out how to change this.

I submit that even if it’s true that refugees are more attracted to Britain, if they’re attracted by things that recognise their basic human dignity that’s not actually a bad thing

A permanent Lecturer position in Children's Literature and Creative Education is available at Goldsmiths, University of London. Please consider applying and/or sharing with others. As the Head of the MA Children's Literature, I'll be working closely with the successful applicant! Deadline: 4 Dec.

Did you take part in a mock election at your UK school or college between 1983 and 2001? Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain! Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f

The fundamental problem with the shift to team teaching is that universities see it as a way to save money. Team teaching can be amazing but in my experience it's at its best when it represents additional resource compared to solo teaching.

Is it just me, or have spellchecks gotten worse? I've repeatedly had the experience of getting a word slightly wrong and then having spellcheck offer me either entirely the wrong word, or the root of the word I was searching for. I feel like Word etc used to be better at this sort of thing?

Just fund school libraries. Just fund school libraries. Just fund school libraries.

A mess. One thing that would be super helpful is abandoning the dog eat dog marketisation of HE which results in massive uncertainty over student numbers year to year, and returning to capped recruitment which would allow for more planning. Of course this would require funding HE properly...

Oh, this is terrible news. They have published such great stuff and been a brilliant force in children's publishing. It's so tough out there for independents.

Oh this is such sad news. Knights Of have been such a force for good in this industry - we need more companies like them, not fewer. www.thebookseller.com/news/indepen...

Solidarity to BL workers. I know from experience that going on strike is pretty horrible and (despite the fact it looks like a 'holiday') exhausting. Wishing them success in the fight.

It is totally insane to me that such a thing as a 'government shutdown' is even possible.

I propose that for the safety of all we just stop letting adults out on the roads on Halloween. Clearly they’re not responsible enough.

Great to see the Booker value children’s books, and to see a new participatory award appear on the scene (very interested to see how precisely they approach the use of child judges which seems to be tbc).

This makes me feel better about my funding failures yet also... bleak stuff.

Just filled in my child’s school survey on ‘PE outside school’ with a strong reminder that play is the key form of exercise for children!

Please do sign up for - and share - this webinar, on Dec 3rd, to hear about some of the amazing work going on nationally and locally to restore children's ability to play out on their doorsteps. @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @edwardlamb.bsky.social @playingout.bsky.social @aliceferguson.bsky.social

Excited to see submissions for this special issue of Children's Literature in Education, which I am editing with Hazel Sheeky-Bird! Our work on the Aidan and Nancy Chambers archive (held at Seven Stories in the UK) highlighted how important they both were to children's lit #kidlit #aidanchambers

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research. Reposts welcomed.

The description of the attempts to land here are almost exactly what happened on my Ryanair flight in Storm Éowyn. Ryanair were the only airline who ran flights from Dublin at that time. I wonder how much fuel was left when my Newcastle flight landed in Stansted? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

We're opening our 2025-26 Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing x Outside in World webinar series Explorations in Translation for Children on Thurs Oct 23rd, @ 5pm GMT Discussing the project: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101 Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

Good.

Thinking a lot today about how the digital works to increase stress and alienation in HE. So often we receive emails from e.g. a student we've never met and it just feels like another item on the to do list. If you actually see someone in person the same query takes on a social quality