We're taking 25 days of strike action in September, unless the University Court and UEG make a decision to stop the cuts to staff and courses, and closures of services and cultural assets. Listen to Dundee City Council. Listen to the Scottish Government. Listed to the people of Dundee.

I often say the rise in students coming to our dept with diagnoses of various kinds of neurodivergence has been matched with a corresponding fall of students coming with generalised depression. Because, you know. They're getting a diagnosis of the actual problem rather than feeling they don't fit.

The Scottish Parliament's decision to collect and present data based on 'biological sex' has made it harder for researchers to use data to understand and tackle inequalities. 📝 I've written to the Scottish Parliament requesting information on this change: kevinguyan.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

They are trying to force some universities into bankruptcy. Total madness. Remember - they have pledged more money to a privately owned theme park than they‘re going to spend on the teaching grant.

If you work at a university or in any of the many adjacent sectors of the economy, you are not important to the Labour Party.

📚 New Review Essay: Rahul Bishnoi on Glenda Carpio's Migrant Aesthetics and Kevin Potter's Poetics of the Migrant c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

Each uni has a consultancy in that tells them how to run a degree cheaply. They all simply say 'mega lectures' (LOL, infrastructure) & 'generic modules staff is interchangeable on'. It's pitched as rationalising, creating a 'sustainable' portfolio. But its destroying what university actually is.

We’re thrilled to announce that Queer Flora, Fauna and Funga has come off press 🥁 ! Edited by Frances Cannon. Order your copy 👉 valiz.nl/en/publicati...

Newest from the brilliant Prof Kandice Chuh. *The Distinterested Teacher: on pedagogies of im/possibility* in @universitypress.cambridge.org 's Elements in Feminist and Contemporary Theory series. Read now! Available free now: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

🗣️ New Article! Cynthia Quarrie, 'Helen Oyeyemi’s Exquisite Corpses: Race, Authorial Multiplicity, and Aleatory Play in Boy, Snow, Bird' doi.org/10.16995/c21...

"Decisions arrive without clear rationale. Restructures are announced before the evidence that triggered them has been shared. Policies are reversed before they have been embedded. Courses are closed or launched with speed."

📚 New Review Essay: Svetlana Stefanova on Kaisa Kortekallio’s Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking with Embodied Estrangement (2023) and Emily Horton’s 21st-Century British Gothic (2024) c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

Edinburgh has a budget surplus

'A leading US civil rights scholar has urged Birmingham City University (BCU) to reverse its decision to close its black studies course, comparing it to the attack on diversity, equity and inclusion in the US.' 1/3

A busy June upcoming! I'll be at York Festival of Ideas on the 7th of June: yorkfestivalofideas.com/2026/calenda... And then the London Library on the 12th: www.londonlibrary.co.uk/whats-on/361...

Our new issue—13.1 (Summer 2026)—has just opened! Featuring Tommaso Villa on the contemporary sports novel, Frankie Hines on waste and _White Teeth_, and review essays by Yian Zhu and Mortada Haidar c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1941/i...

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...