🚨🧵The 2024 UCU General Secretary was so corrupt that @vickyblake.bsky.social + I are fighting a Certification Officer case to re-run it, 10 Feb. Grady won by 182 votes from 114,310 members, turnout 15%. In secret, Grady ordered UCU managers to "Re-elect GS" +said she'd "destroy" her opponents...

The @timeshighered.bsky.social has reported that @ewanmg.bsky.social and I have applied to the Certification Officer regarding concerns over the 2024 UCU general secretary election. UCU has characterised this as “smearing”, via a spokesperson. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/jo-grad... /1

🚨EMERGENCY PROTEST Mon 26 Jan 5:30pm 📍Buchanan Steps, Glasgow Yesterday ICE shot & killed Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse. People are rising up across the US in response. Stand in solidarity with them, against deportations everywhere & to fight Farage’s Trumpism in Britain

Glad to be joining the team 🤓✨

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it

SUTR EXCLUSIVE: Meet John Watt, the organiser of the upcoming far right "Unity Rally" in Glasgow on 20th Sept He's been involved in nearly every far right protest outside hotels housing refugees under the guise of wanting to protect women but SUTR Scotland can now expose who he really is...

There is no trade-off between pay and jobs. Don't let the employers fool you otherwise. This dispute is on three things: 1.Pay uplift = at least RPI+3.5% or £2,500, on all pay points 2.Protection of national agreements on T&C's 3.A national agreement to protect jobs & subjects #WeAreTheUniversity

No time for far right losers #RefugeesWelcomeHere

Proud to have been amongst many @ucuscotland.bsky.social comrades standing against the far right today ✊✊✊

Edinburgh is #ANTIFASCIST!!!! 250 anti-racists standing up to a miserable 80 racists ✊✊✊

Very proud supervisor today! Raghav Venkatesh presenting his incredible research at #BAAL2025

The poster competition at #BAAL2025 includes an entry from LASS member @danielcalvert.bsky.social on Glasgow-based refugee community groups, looking at the role of translanguaging and decolonial struggle in the lives of people seeking refuge in Scotland.

One symposium participant gave the example of this recent letter, co-signed by 7,500 citizens and 400 academics stopreturnfascism.org/english/

LASS member @katyhighet.bsky.social co-hosted a symposium on scholar-activism in Applied Linguistics today at #BAAL2025. How are researchers received when they position themselves as activitists? And how can we work in strategic collaboration with others beyond academia? @baal2025.bsky.social

Good first day at #BAAL2025 talking politics, struggle and research on our panel!

It’s re-ballot time! After an 88% YES vote that narrowly missed threshold by 4 (!!!) votes, our re-ballot is open! Post your ballot before 25th September! Let’s do this! ✊✊ @ucu.org.uk @ucuscotland.bsky.social

One of our members had a very cute assistant to help post the ballot this morning! Get yours in before 25th September ✊✊✊ #babiesandballots @ucuscotland.bsky.social @ucuscotpresident.bsky.social

Join us tomorrow: NAE PASARAN ✊✊✊

After 4 years in the making, our special issue on the translated works of Josiane Boutet is finally out! Larissa Schedel & I are deeply indebted to all involved. Our editorial introduces our ethnographic, dialogical translation approach & the politics of academic #Translation Message me for copies!

📣 calling student activists! ☀️ @nusscotland.bsky.social proudly joins the list of supporters mobilising for the national demonstration in Glasgow marking #WorldRefugeeDay -10 days to go! #AyeWelcomeRegufees #StopTheFarRight #StopDeportations #SafePassage 🗓️Sat 21 June 📍Barrowland Park, 12noon

“We stand together and fight or fall apart alone” Right now in Newcastle, members from far and wide in solidarity ✊ UCU and PROUD

We send full solidarity to Newcastle & all other branches being hit by these devastating cuts. UWS is at the beginning of a redundancy battle and while this is full of anger and anxiety, it is heartening to see branches organise to come together in solidarity and to coordinate a national response.

#Solidarity from UWS UCU to @NewcastleUniUCU & all branches being hit by these devastating cuts. Despite our anger & anxiety, it’s heartening to see branches organise together in solidarity & to coordinate a national response ✊ #NOredundancies #defendHE #SpreadTheResistance

Utterly shameful behaviour. All solidarity with Unite ✊✊

🛑Say no to Reform UK OPEN LETTER: since launching at the end of last year, +160 trade union reps & individuals from across Scottish civil society have signed our letter pledging united anti-racist opposition to the far-right party ✍️Initial list of signatories: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Vote Melissa!!

Many congratulations to Thomas Kral who successfully defended his thesis on 25/3. He completed a #PhDinESJ and was supervised by @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social. Many thanks to the Examiners Melis Cin and @katyhighet.bsky.social. www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...

Solidarity with Dundee uni workers on strike right now ✊✊ #SaveDundeeUni #WeAreThe362

Calling all anti-racists in Scotland 📣 Join us for the STOP REFORM 2026 summit on 31st May ✊✊

Solidarity with striking workers at Dundee ✊✊✊ #SaveDundeeUni

The process of mainstreaming far-right politics is a multi-faceted (but fairly obvious) one Starmer & his supporters claim reclaiming far right issues is what won them the election as it addressed "the people's legitimate grievances" Yet this has been tried many times and... 1/

It is not an overstatement when I say that I could genuinely weep: this is 100% the *exact opposite* of what they need to do: you cannot out-Reform the Reform Party. The only thing this will do is drive more voters to Reform: voters always choose the original. *Every* bit of research shows that. 🧵

Yesterday a story about 1k possible job losses in the automotive sector was top of the morning news. 10k possible job losses in HE was buried in the sector trade paper's coverage of redundancies at Sussex. Gov't & media refuse to recognise a crisis in HE. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/around-...

UCU out today in the snow and sleet with hundreds of us marching for Palestine 🇵🇸✊ Proud of Glasgow ❤️

This is a particularly bad sign, because it was my understanding that Edinburgh University had quite a lot of cash on hand. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In the interest of not having a blank timeline, here’s a link to my most recent paper. I look at the affective economy of desire for English in India & the production of desiring subjects. Open access! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

UK HE is where it is because its corrupt and incompetent managers spent vast amounts of money that unis didn't have for schemes irrelevant to core investments in research and education. To make up for these shortfalls, cuts will start where they always do: core research and education

Looking forward to the next Researching the Far Right: Methods & Ethics webinar (@crexuio.bsky.social @reacpolrn.bsky.social & CASEI) on Positionality, standpoint, & intersectionality with Imo Kaufman, Rae Jereza & Elsa Bengtsson Meuller 21 Nov 3-4pm CET/2-3pm BST Join us! reacpol.net/webinar-3/

Any suggestions for easily finding bird-app followers over here??