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My university hasn’t reached this level of clarity yet. Managers tell themselves it’s all going brilliantly *because* they’ve sacked so many people.

When you’ve got United in the 21st century at 8pm and vigils in the 14th century at 5am

Did not expect to spend this much of my adult life wondering if we would still have the same prime minister by the time I came out of a meeting.

Before Covid I never would have imagined that a clear and looming disaster would be met with... zero preparation. Yet here we are again. Why are we not ALREADY rationing fuel to ensure we can maintain food supplies, emergency services etc? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Managed to start writing two separate articles on extremely metafictional texts. Every paragraph entails painfully separating the multiple strands of idea and allusion, then reweaving them in order to explain how they work. Remind me to choose something simpler next time!

But don’t make them be the one thing you really want, the cost of freeing up your time

one final comment: project hail mary is widely described as "hard science fiction," which is internet for "a Boy wrote it, and that Boy was not george lucas"

Another reason to hate death vehicles www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... (in case killing pedestrians isn’t enough)

This sounds brilliant!

Lovely to have made it to Bristol despite the UK train system making its usual effort to ensure you never want to get the train ever again

If anything incentivises diagnosis it's the fact that our education system is so unfit for purpose. If we had smaller class sizes, a less test focused environment, more opportunities to play and move, then many children would be able to cope without the 'adjustments' allowed by a diagnosis.

Every word of this rings true. Universities make sweeping changes and meet concerns raised by frontline staff with the bland assurance they have completed an EIA despite the fact said process didn’t engage with staff at all

There is an imagined working class, that largely no longer exists and a modern working class that the political class rarely interact with outside of service provision.

'A third of [Danish] women no longer work in academia eight years after having a child, according to new research that suggests extra childcare responsibilities are hindering women’s abilities to climb the career ladder.' 1/2

Good HE is really simple: quality time spent with subject experts who know and care about their students. My university and many others are deliberately abandoning this truth in favour of financial and organisational efficiency.

This. Is. Insane. Oxbridge are uniquely placed to resist AI because of the tutorial model (which no other university can afford to copy). OpenAI have just paid them to wipe out this advantage.

#CFP: Transporting Childhood through Play: the Making of the World in Board Games, 19th-21st centuries Strenæ. Recherches sur les livres et objets culturels de l’enfance Deadline: June 8, 2026 Website: journals.openedition.org/strenae/12618

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.