This is about as comprehensive as things get. Would love to know what - if any - pushback it could receive from those representatives of the system itself. But maybe there aren’t any left. Even VCs would agree with much of it www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Let's end the week by celebrating our next @ojcollective.bsky.social library member - we are thrilled to announce that University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums has joined us!

Read @c21literature.bsky.social special issue “The Century at 25”, guest edited by Denise Wong, Arin Keeble, alice and Dr. Melissa Schuh: c21.openlibhums.org/...

We haven't had to fire any shots so it's not obvious but a blockade of this magnitude would generally be considered an act of war. We did not do this in the 1962 missile crisis, we allowed ships not carrying weapons to proceed to Cuba

Just to be clear how little I’m exaggerating, in 2016, the UK Government actually advised trans people against travelling to certain US states due to the implementation of bathroom bans. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is now implementing those same bans across the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

The last few articles of @c21literature.bsky.social's latest issue 'The Century at 25' went up this afternoon. Huge congrats to the editors @alicebennett.bsky.social @melissaschuh.bsky.social @keeblearin.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i...

the Labour party must die for anything to get better in this country

Today's university job losses info is from Edinburgh Napier. The crisis is still accelerating. Nothing will be done. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2610095...

Hey Bluesky folks. If you’re in education or just follow for my thirst traps, would you please sign this if you can, and share far and wide? c.org/dCKk9vjqxY It’s much appreciated. My university is cancelling all UG humanities degrees. We need support and love right now x

This is section 28 again btw. Not teaching that trans people exist as fact, when it is a fact, is a ban on teaching about us.

A genuinely useful checklist here for UK academics navigating the perma-crisis.

waltham forest green majority let's gooo

"Killing student writing outside the classroom means an enormous reduction in the volume of time spent writing, and learning more generally: it is a loss of thousands of hours of reading, thinking, puzzling over problems, writing, revising."

One of the best History depts in the country is having its undergraduate degree closed. This will happen almost everywhere, progressively, if the Bad Behaving institutions are allowed to swallow the entire sector. Doesn't matter how good teaching or research is: all that matters is the bottom line.

Hertfordshire runs wonderful history programs & are especially strong on heritage, public and local history, which is exactly what this country needs more of. What's being allowed to happen to humanities in the UK HE sector is going to have dire consequences for generations to come.

On Friday afternoon before the Bank Holiday, colleagues in the Humanities department were called to a meeting on Tuesday. They were informed that the University Portfolio Review had decided that English Language, English Literature, Philosophy, History & Creative Writing UG degrees would close

honestly i'm glad that the labour party are finally being honest that they've accepted the tory argument on shrinking higher ed fuck labour, now and forever x

if you work in a UK uni, drop everything and read this (not news to many of us, but sobering to have the dots joined up; the stories are outrageous and heartbreaking)

lol the labour party just knocked on my door

one fun interaction i had last summer was with a labour cllr in my ward of waltham forest (st james)—when i told him i was concerned about the govt's revival of section 28 in its RSHE guidance the dickhead just laughed and said section 28 was 'a bit before his time'

“A sprightly account of writers’ rooms on both sides of the Atlantic.” Read the @wsj.com’s review of The Writer’s Room by @kdclewin.bsky.social:

Is this extremely predictable, extremely predicted outcome unplanned, though? Or have capital and its assistant, the state, been relentlessly shaving down the mediating layer between public funds and private profit, "education," for decades?

Nobody understands this about the government’s settlement reforms. People think it's 10 years for most & 15 years for care workers But its 15 years for all midskill roles, whatever the salary, if not a graduate job role classified at RQF level 6. Lab technicians, data analysts, hotel managers

Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece explores how major academic publishers are becoming “infrastructure landlords”, not just publishing research, but owning the systems around it. 👉 www.openlibhums.org/news/931/ #OpenAccess #ScholComm

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

Has anyone written a review of the restructuring going on across UK HE? Trying to understand what is common across institutions: large, team-taught courses, centralised workload models, limited to no research time, promotion directly tied to grant income. How many consultancy firms are pushing this?

👇 excellent article that we were very pleased to published ♻️

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

Universities pay copyright fees. Libraries pay copyright fees. Theaters pay to perform copyrighted work. Artists and authors pay licence fees to quote others in their own work, usually out of pocket.

Call for Editors! The 'Critical Insights in American Studies' series from Edinburgh University Press is seeking a new co-editor. Apply before 18:00, 13th March. @edinburghup.bsky.social @emilysharp.bsky.social

Find me, nestled in amongst the absolute bonkers news, on @npr.org in a lovely conversation with Andrew Limbong about my book - Limbong goes on a little visit to Lucille Clifton's house...

over and over they say it out loud: big ideas for the elite class, and only widget grunts for the working people. ideas are for everybody. art is for everybody. education is for everybody.

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity / Isabelle Torrance (ed) www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... #openaccess @clic-erc.bsky.social @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @daireach.bsky.social @pomuirch.bsky.social @ciaranruaoneill.bsky.social @kironward.bsky.social

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years. Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

📞 Gerald David Naughton & Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton's '"Unstable, in Chaos": Reading Ali Smith’s How to Be Both and Percival Everett’s Telephone in the Age of Cruel Optimism' is one of the articles in our latest issue c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

Really happy to share this roundtable - thanks to all those who were involved and to @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social for putting it together!

🗣️ Hanne Bolze's 'Charged Readings and Momentous Expectations: The Curious Case of Climate Change Fiction' is one of the six (and counting) articles in 'The Century at 25'—a brilliant assessment of the emergence CliFi as a genre. c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

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In some ways I'm philosophical about The End these days. It is what it is. But for the final wave to hit because of the crisis when we worked the hardest we possibly could, we nearly broke ourselves, and did exactly what the govt told us to do? It seems.. painful.

Hey so Grammarly is now basically Search Party / Ring cameras for education, enabling large-scale surveillance of both users (students) and educators alike

I have an article in the new special issue of @c21literature.bsky.social, 'The Century at 25'—working through some research that didn't make it into the book while processing Lucy Ellmann's _Ducks, Newburyport_ and Olga Tokarczuk's _Flights_

Part one of 'The Century @25' SI of @c21literature.bsky.social ed by @alicebennett.bsky.social @melissaschuh.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and I, is out now (part two coming soon): please check it out! c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i...

It’s so exciting that this @c21literature.bsky.social special issue on ‘The Century at 25’ is finally out! Such a labour of love, and I’m so grateful we got to work on it together for over two years @alicebennett.bsky.social @keeblearin.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social 🎊

Excited to announce that our new issue has opened! c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i... 'The Century at 25' was guested edited by Alice Bennett, Arin Keeble, Melissa Schuh, and Denise Wong

This was not quite the last collection I catalogued before my retirement from Wellcome: wellcomecollection.org/works/hrsyzq94 He began his research in the 1970s.

Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition. Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.

We are looking for review essays! You can see some of our selected titles at the post below. Get in contact with our review editors @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social to request some or for further info

💃🏽 awesome to read my brilliant comrade @kdclewin.bsky.social's brilliant book reviewed in the new yorker: archive.is/202602131103...

this consultation closes on 12 feb at 23.59