It’s been great attending the Child Language Symposium at the University of Reading and meeting so many extraordinary researchers and practitioners. Shout out to the organisers and all the talk/poster presenters!

🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will: - Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender" - Teaches children the laws about "biological sex" - Removes all references to the word transgender What we know so far 🧵

There is no sea like home!

📣 2 DAYS TO GO! This saturday thousands of workers from across education and beyond will unite in London to defend our sector. 📍 Meet at Bessborough Gardens 13:00 🗣️ Rally and speeches: Old Palace Yard 14:00–16:00 We’ll be there. Will you? #ProtectEducation #UCU #May10

Excited to share the MuLaVaN reading group programme for July-September 2025. Many valuable papers to be discussed and an invited talk by @kimmears.bsky.social titled "Semi-speaking and the neurodiversity paradigm: A challenge to dominant discourses in speech and language therapy".

Happy International Workers Day! Solidarity with all workers + love especially to striking members @bcu-ucu.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social @newcastleucu.bsky.social @uniteucu.bsky.social out on strike today & @sheffielducu.bsky.social striking yesterday & to all branches in dispute. We’re with you!

Happy International Workers' Day! A perfect day to join a union!

Not sure what the point of words is any more. We are witnessing pure evil, and even worse, we are witnessing the full-throated support of that evil among all our institutions, from governments to political parties to media organisations to judiciary. It's a masks off moment.

london today ❤️‍🔥

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

Another strike day. I am very concerned about not only the impact of this strike on the people my work supports but also the wider impact of this dispute as a lesson to some employers on employment relations. The lesson seems to be to attack the union and ride out the strike.

The Safe & Professional Workplace dispute must be resolved. I'm deeply concerned by the tone of multiple emails received from #UCU HQ about the dispute and urge members to look at @uniteucu.bsky.social's website too. There's also an open letter to UCU GS and SMT here: tinyurl.com/ucuunitesoli... 7/7

I hoped #UCU would redouble efforts to resolve the @uniteucu.bsky.social staff dispute Instead our own union-as-employer has issued management instructions NOT to use tactics #UCU members have routinely been advised to use *by #UCU* Then this page was deleted: web.archive.org/web/20230218... 1/7

Energy bills up 6.4% — while network providers raked in £4 billion in “excess” profits over four years. Water bills up 26% — while firms paid £78 billion in dividends since privatisation & racked up £64 billion in debt. End this scam. Bring water & energy into public ownership.

The Crossing Language Borders project hosts research partner Annie Beatty for a talk titled "Bilingualism reveals how experience shapes language and the brain." 🗓 April 4, 2025 | ⏰ 16: 00 – 17:30 CEST 📍 Attend in person (Bushuis, E1.02, Amsterdam) or online. aclc.uva.nl/shared/subsi...

'The US government claims the First Amendment — the founding principle of the constitution which guarantees freedom of speech — does not apply to non-US citizens in deportation cases. The argument has been highly disputed by experts.' www.dw.com/en/us-revoke...

No Other Land depicts the horrifying violence Palestinians in the West Bank endure under apartheid. Yesterday, its co-director Hamdan Ballal was beaten in his home by settlers before being detained by Israeli forces. People applauded Hamdan. Now they are silent. Free Hamdan.

Solidarity with our colleagues at UEA who are also out on strike this week!

Israel has blown up Gaza's only specialised cancer treatment hospital, the Turkish-Palestinian Hospital, along with an adjacent medical school, drawing condemnation for yet again targeting a medical facility ⤵️ aje.io/wpl2e4

Solidarity with all striking workers. As #UCU Edu Committee Chair I'd chair Cradle to Grave (flagship education policy conference) on 29 March. It's sadly been cancelled by HQ citing @uniteucu.bsky.social strike in preceding days. The dispute must be resolved Please sign: tinyurl.com/UCUUniteSoli...

In under 24 hours, Israel has massacred over 400 people in Gaza — including 174 children. Words of condemnation ring hollow. The UK government must end ALL arms sales, trade & diplomatic ties with a state facing genocide charges at the ICJ & leaders under ICC arrest warrants.

🚨🚨🚨 my bestest best friend is a brilliant poet and her first collection of poetry has been translated into English and you should all pre-order it 🚨🚨🚨 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/797465...

"We call on the world to stop the injustice & stop the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people," says Oscar winner Basel Adra to applause from the audience. 'No Other Land' just won the Best Documentary Oscar. Also a fantastic speech from fellow winner Yuval Abraham on "ethnic supremacy".

Are we surprised that yet again Trump is siding with the oppressor… Solidarity to Ukrainian people!

This is the first of many strikes in the Higher Education sector and if the major employer in your town or city is a University, your local economy is at risk. Academic and academic-related jobs are being threatened in huge numbers. Don't let it happen. Solidarity with @ducuuo.bsky.social

An extremely important read! Full paper can be read here: doi.org/10.48516/jcs...

Did you vote yet in the UCU NEC elections? I’m standing for VP on a record of unifying & building membership. I’m honoured to be endorsed by these strong women who have all fought for members in UCU. You can read Vicky, Maria & Liz’s endorsements here rhiannonforucuvp.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/e...

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

You beauties, UCU @tuccymru.bsky.social! This is absolutely a step in the right direction, and thanks to the refusal to be cowed into letting Higher Education crumble.

Today, thousands of us demonstrated outside the US embassy with a message for Donald Trump: hands off Gaza. The resilience of the Palestinian people will not be broken — and nor will our solidarity. We will be here for as long as it takes until there is a free and independent Palestine.

🚨Now: hundreds of thousands marching for Palestine in London 🇵🇸

#HandsOffGaza #FreePalestine

WE HAD CLOSED OUR BROWSERS, GUYS. At this point, UCEA and UUK should just start springing us some coins to make up for the number of times they make us update The List and the consequent hours spent. Only mid-way through February, the dust from UCAS isn't fully settling yet... 😵‍💫

QMUL UCU is doing the kind of work we need UCU to do nationally to highlight the catastrophic destruction of higher education across the regions & nations. Thousands of jobs & so much talent and expertise lost. Shame on this Govt for sitting by & letting it happen qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

🚨The route and accessible route for the march for Palestine on 15 Feb have been announced The full route will start at Whitehall and finish at the US Embassy. The shorter accessible route will meet at Riverside Walk Gardens and join the march when it arrives. #FreePalestine #StopGazaGenocide

✊ Well done to our @ucuscotland.bsky.social members raising the alarm and getting the scandalous behaviour of Edinburgh University onto the front page of The Scotsman 📢 Read here 👇 www.scotsman.com/education/no...

Join our lovely team at Essex! We are recruiting two lecturers (one full time, one part time) who specialise in dysphagia and Eating, Drinking and Swallowing. For any questions about the posts get in touch with our division lead Prof. Rachael-Anne Knight www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLT171/l...

This is ethnic cleansing, plain and simple. But will the UK government condemn this?

The President of the United States welcome a leader wanted by the ICC and officially endorsed ethnic cleansing. Now would be a good time for our government to defend international law. If they won’t say it, we will: Palestinians aren’t going anywhere.

🚨 Stop Trump's plan for ethnic cleansing 🚨 🪧 Take to the streets on Sat 15 February to march to the US Embassy. 🇵🇸 Palestine Coalition statement on US president's monstrous plan 🔽 #HandsOffGaza #NoEthnicCleansing #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine

We are appalled by the Foreign Secretary’s failure to condemn President Trump’s call for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. A statement from the Independent Alliance.

Defend the Right to Protest! Defend Chris Nineham – Drop the Charges! We are asking all our supporters to join us to protest outside Westminster Magistrates Court on Thursday 13 February at 12:30 pm. More info 🔽 stopwar.org.uk/events/defen...

I mean "defend the university" sure sure but how about we have a discussion about what "the university" is, how it's run, and whom it serves, and then let's also talk collective ownership, participatory budgeting, and democratic decision-making

If you are voting in the UCU elections, check out this post for voting suggestions! rhiannonforucuvp.wordpress.com

It was always white male supremacy.

Deeply concerned by Cardiff Uni’s plan to cut 400 jobs & degree courses. Many in Cardiff North will be affected. I’m seeking urgent talks with the VC & UCU to support staff & students. If you’re impacted, contact me: [email protected]. I’m here to help. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fascism doesn’t arrive in uniform overnight. It arrives with suited politicians, one piece of legislation — or executive order — at a time. My piece for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/01/jere...

'Linguistic justice: a summer school for teachers' - workshop for teachers in/around Manchester. Looks amazing with @iancushing.bsky.social, fyi @ilcs.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social @nalalanguages.bsky.social: ahead.mmu.ac.uk/2025/01/16/l...