Strike starts TODAY!!! Branch members will be picketing from 8 to 11 today, tomorrow, and Wednesday at UP's west, south, and north entrance and Jubilee's main entrance on Derby road. Come show your support! #StopTheCuts #SaveHE

Hey Siri, explain what a University is, for Peter here, because he doesn't seem to have a clue.

We're drowning in wake-up calls, with not even an inflatable ring's worth of action for anyone (looking at you @teamlabouruk.bsky.social)

"If you want to understand what England will look like with a Reform government, just come to our town. Racists and thugs are acting with impunity, intimidating local residents and people of colour, who are living in fear." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's welcome week and I'm on strike (again) over the University of Edinburgh's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies. UoE has no deficit, but cuts of £90 million are already underway, damaging teaching, research, and the future of education at our university.

Covid segment on R4 about rise in cases. Clinician guest speaking in a slightly weary sensible way, Evan Davis making himself sound like an ignorant idiot. Good. 😬

Big up and a high five to @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social for providing a proper laugh this morning, in amongst the rest of a pretty grim feed. Historians are the best.

Clearly, Women‘s voices and engagement in democracy don’t matter. The Hampstead Women’s Pond user group has repeatedly upheld that Trans Women are welcome to swim in the Hampstead Women’s Pond. What matters instead of democratic process is having the money for expensive lawyers to litigate.

TWO MORE SIGNATURES and we'll have 450 - every voice counts, you don't have to be an academic or involved with universities in any way <3

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"We didn't come here to listen to a load of stuff about famine and colonialism and genocide and being forced into exile, we came to hear some Irish folk songs!"

400 signatures and counting!!!

Looking forward to this. 🥰

An excellent no nonsense statement from the Women's Institute.

Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Why was there a Kindertransport? Because we wouldn't let their parents come with them. Five years into the Nazi persecution, we wouldn't let their parents come with them. And we insisted every child had someone to meet their "costs". And we only agreed on condition most would "re-emigrate".

Once again, the prestigious universities have pillaged the market, to their own destruction as a brand and the detriment to the students they are recruiting but can't teach properly. All the while laying financial waste to the post-1992s that can. When is government going to step in and fix this?

The kids are alright

I imagine these will be in pretty much perfect condition, and definitely in better nick than when you've read them a few times. At half price, they're an absolutely beautiful bargain too. Highly recommend Rob Hindle, Nancy Gaffield and Matthew Clegg but the others will be ace too.

There is a real disconnect between media outlets putting together live coverage of A-level results and celebrating those going to university whilst also ignoring the decimation of the higher education sector and the impact that, over time, this will have on the experience of most of these students.

The circle is squared by those students going into larger classes with fewer options

A heartwarming story for A-Level results day.

Like so many people, I am utterly sick of being asked to solve systemic problems that have been created by people making money out of things they shouldn’t be making money on and governments failing to regulate anything. There aren’t enough eff offs in the world.

👇Continually surprised at the number of British people on this website and indeed in British politics who haven’t grasped this.

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Just a reminder that this is still very much accurate and relevant. Even when the EHRC publish the Code of Practice, which does not change the actual law.

Parliament has to block it, write to your MP (not mine, mine is the Chancellor and a lost cause)

Please write to your MP and demand that the Home Office act to help these students make it out of Gaza to study in the UK this September. Time is running out to get the government to move on this; they absolutely could take action and are — so far — choosing not to.

GCs are not afraid of men. Some are, most aren't. They hate trans people. That's it. They don't complain about male football managers or male shop assistants or male police. Only trans people. Everything they say and do to justify that hate is just noise.

this is widely thought to be because on the current trajectory no one believes there will be any people, culture, or environments to measure in 2029

"What is an acceptable death toll that justifies getting to work two minutes faster? That's what people who want to get rid of it need to answer." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I remain astonished by the number of flights, often long haul, often for very short trips, my institution continues to book and fund, with no thought about their impact whatsoever.

This is wild and I love it.

Ah. Goldsmiths has folded the history department into the School of Global Change along with other hums and social sciences. All using the same philistine management consultants.

How about the government does some things that make people’s lives better. Then we can all be ‘influencers’

And now we get to the heart of why these young women were not taken seriously by the police. The police were just another grooming gang:

Wow! In a very bad kind of way.

Rare good news from the HE sector. Congrats to the unions of the University of Surrey. Collective action works.

Revolting piece on BBC Radio 4 PM questioning whether there is really a famine in Gaza. How much evidence do you want or need? 🤢

#UCU HE members. PLS VOTE in the consultative ballot! You’ll have a unique link in the email you use for UCU. If gmail it may be in ‘promotions’ & check spam/junk if you can’t find it. More info including how to ask for new link here. PLS RT AND SHARE W COLLEAGUES. /1 www.ucu.org.uk/heconsultati...

In case it hasn't been clear: whole host of us academics at Warwick are, yes, bemused by the ridiculousness of the "rebranding" but also really quite angry at the potential exorbitant money spent on this (and the denied FOI) when told there must be extreme savings (on staffing) & bigger workloads.

UK's Air Chief Marshal Sir Rich Knighton is made to look like the boob that he is by journalist Phil Miller when questioned about his complicity in Israel's genocide. Excellent reporting.

In 2025, you can watch a genocide live. It’s entirely right the media should report on Israel’s mass murder of Palestinians but “live feeds” sums up the horror: the world watches fellow human beings starve as those with power do nothing.

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

So, just to reiterate: PLEASE REGULATE THE USE OF EXTERNAL CONSULTANCIES, Government. We all had a good laugh today, but it wasn't worth the millions this will have cost in tuition fee money going to some consultancy that is about to do exactly the same two towns over.

Universities getting any of their basic admin functions right challenge.