Here is a poem Renee Good, under her earlier name Renee Macklin, wrote, "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs." It won a prize. It's really good. "it’s the ruler by which i reduce all things now; hard-edged & splintering from knowledge." poets.org/2020-on-lear...

Charities are facing "a concerted effort to delegitimise their right to speak up for marginalised groups across the country, whether that was trans people, or refugees and asylum seekers.” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Give and be doubled! We're matching all week to help these families survive. Six families & a camp depend on this link for essentials. Right now, that's especially emergency healthcare for several young women and kids, unfortunately. Click "weekly"!: chuffed.org/project/hope...

My book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism, will be out March 17, 2026 It is now available for pre-order from @princetonupress.bsky.social and other online booksellers! cart.press.princeton.edu/checkout/car... press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Via Prisoners for Palestine… take action: linktr.ee/prisoners4pal #Palestine

Amnesty: Growing transphobia and authoritarianism go hand in hand – they must be resisted www.amnesty.org/en/l... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

We know this time of year can be difficult for many. If you are struggling, you can reach out to the following services: Mindline Trans+: 0300 330 5468 Samaritans: 116 123 SHOUT: Text 85258 Switchboard LGBT+ Voda App – self-care for LGBTQIA+ communities Mind’s Support Line: 0300 102 1234

We mourn the victims of the mass shooting on Bondi Beach at a celebration on the first night of Chanukah, bringing darkness into a festival of lights. Our hearts go out to those attacked and their families and friends, as well as the entire Australian Jewish community.

Support the hunger strikers In prison for over a year without trial. They are victims of a system that has used the Terrorism Act to attempt to silence opposition to Israel’s genocide. They are now at serious life-threatening risk. They must be given fair trials. www.prisonersforpalestine.org

Horrific vandalism at Essex and of HE in general.

More than 100 medical professionals have declared a ‘medical emergency’ after queer activist Amu Gib refused food in prison, beginning one of the largest coordinated prison hunger strikes in the UK in four decades. www.wearequeeraf.com/queer-activi...

The only person to come out of the SPeggie/NHS tribunal vindicated and with a completely untarnished reputation is Dr Beth Upton. Not SPeggie, Not the NHS management, Not Four Women Scotland, Not the media, Just Dr Upton.

An important point to come out of the Sandie Peggie case is that 'gender critical' employees can't take matters into their own hands and confront trans employees. If they do that it is likely to be harassment/ bullying/ a hate incident.

Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment. We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out! It’s a mess and a disgrace. Lift it up!!

For those who don't already know of the ridiculous lengths trans people have to go to, after waiting years, to 'prove' we're who we say we are and access healthcare, here's my experience & take on life under trans medical gatekeeping. Ch.10. Open Access. share.google/r5p2vF1zXPDL...

@tgeuorg.bsky.social calls it. As an academic I have been consistently saying this all along. The “Pathways” “study” is totally unethical. And it won’t even address the main pretext used to justify it; the issue of long-term negative effects (of which there is no evidence whatsoever).

Save 30% on #NewBook "Inhabitants of the Deep" by Jonathan Howard, which undertakes a black ecocritical study of the deep (oceans, rivers, lakes) in African American literature. #BlackStudies buff.ly/ejHedv7

Love, rage, and solidarity for my trans sisters. We will build new spaces of belonging, the old ones don't deserve you anyway.

Solidarity with every trans person struggling to keep their heads in the game today. Along with everything else, this is absolutely a war against our collective and individual mental and emotional health - against our very sense of self. It's expected to feel the blow. But we stay fighting.

Allow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK Transgender girls deserve a safe, nurturing space where they can learn, grow, and contribute to the community, just like anyone else. Sign the petition... 👇

Awful behaviour from management at @sheffielduni.bsky.social, ashamed of my Alma Mater and outraged for my colleagues there. If management want to ensure students' quality of learning, they should stop threatening courses and staff.

"Edinburgh held 12 contracts and received 26 documents from Nous or related entities between January 2022 and September 2025. As early as February 2022, it had provided the university with a “draft vision” and a “strategy and roadmap” report."

📣 2026/7 MA in Medieval Studies scholarships 📣 We are delighted to announce that we will be awarding two MA scholarships for the 2026/7 MA in Medieval Studies cohort. Full details can be found on the CMS website: www.york.ac.uk/medieval-stu... Spread the news!

There is not one PhD between the directors of Nous, they have no experience of research or teaching and yet they're advising universities, student unions & governments on how to run HE.

And here, how they've ravaged Australian universities: ‘Mind-boggling stupidity’: The consultancy that captured universities | The Saturday Paper share.google/hS5qnWOkhSW0...

Edinburgh Uni has paid ££££s to Nous Group to restructure their staff and curriculum. I suspect far more unis have been paying millions to Nous Group, for longer than we realise. A complete undermining of university governance & academic expertise & autonomy. www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...

The question also needs to be *which* staff are “lost”. My prediction would be that those “lost” are disproportionately women, non-white, queer and non-UK citizens.

Congratulations to Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn, Nicholas Draper and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book Teaching Slavery published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/48vnDdJ #Education #Colonialism #Slavery #Racism

"Today’s Budget was an opportunity for the government to offer further detail and clarity on the state and finances of the higher education sector, building on the recent White Paper." Read our response to the Autumn Budget in full: https://bit.ly/4rs7bCc

Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Council is hiding behind locked doors with security guards blocking corridors but they can't escape from the anger of over 200 staff and students condemning management's incompetence and protesting course closures and redundancies. Who is the university? We are!! @uonucu.bsky.social

Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...

Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk

Get your pitches in before the end of the month

Writing History in a Time of Genocide | History Workshop share.google/yQWWFlkhfbqI...

Surely the EHRC can see how INSANE this sounds? Right!? 😬 “Under the new guidance, places…will be able to question transgender women over whether they should be using single-sex services based on how they look, their behaviour or concerns raised by others” Full article 👉 archive.ph/LWfAM

Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer

“She was clear—and became more and more brave and vulnerable about sharing — how she was a true weirdo freak who loved pleasure unapologetically, an Asian disabled radical and someone who was not there to make people feel better or go along with the okie doke.” Vale, Alice Wong.

🚨 🌈🎓 🚨 The University of Edinburgh is recruiting for a funded full-time post-doc researcher to help with the "Rain within the Rainbow" project exploring LGBTQ+ suicide and suicide prevention through the life course in the UK. Apply here by November 21st: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH708/r...

What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation? Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8

This pup is as bewildered as you are by planned course closures at UoN. What kind of future will the next generation have without languages, music, theology, education, social work, microbiology & plant sciences, agriculture & nursing?? @uonucu.bsky.social photo credits @rullsenberg.bsky.social

The Government have published the Curriculum and Assessment Review report and their own response. We have a short statement expressing our views. www.history.org.uk/secondary/ne...

I teach this article EVERY time I teach philosophy of tech.

I think lots of you all will be as excited as I am to see Jess Moody’s “Plants, Enslavement and Public History” project website and you can sign up for the mailing list in the little box in bottom right corner plantpublichistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🗃️🌿🪴

Mathematical Physics MSci at UoN earmarked for closure as mgmt start the cuts. As the custodians of Einstein’s famous blackboard, this is especially worrying. Will we still teach his greatest ideas in years to come? @uonucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

This week, UoN announced course suspensions for all modern languages, music, theology & religious studies, biosciences, mental health nursing and more. @uonucu.bsky.social fighting management tooth & nail to prevent this reckless, shortsighted stupidity. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Parenting in the animal world is nothing like what Bluey, Peppa Pig or 101 Dalmatians would make us believe. Louise Gentle explains what children's stories with animal protagonists are getting massively wrong (cannibalism alert). Always love a good debunking. 🧪🦊🪶 theconversation.com/childrens-bo...