The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The removal of individual institutions’ student number caps was a disaster.

These are really useful questions for workers fighting useless university senior management across the sector.

The last person I want to hear from on employment rights is the woman overseeing the destruction of one of the UK’s most valuable sectors.

Not only is it at risk of closure, the current plan is to gut human geography at Leicester by merging Geosciences and Chemistry - please sign this!

I'm a member of the Green Party, and I've just donated. If you can afford to and you want to see decent, humane local and national government policies that support the poor, migrants and the environment, please donate as well. Either way, please repost. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere

It's on Linguist List so I guess it's official....Language & LGBTQ+ Youth is out now!! 🎉 📚

Wonderful to see latest in Special Issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social edited @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and me out! Christina Thomas on educator Geraldine Wilson: "A Black Girl's Coming of Age in Jim Crow Philadelphia, Pennsylvania" 🌟 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

A huge turnout in Nottingham today, around 300 staff and students standing together against cuts. Powerful speeches, real solidarity, and a clear message: we won’t let our universities be dismantled. We are the university. ✊if you’ve not voted there is still time! Get it in! @uonucu.bsky.social

Putting aside the fact that Farage’s racism has and continues to be well-documented, his claims he may have “misspoken” and that he had never *directly* racially abused anyone nicely summarises the views many white supremacist apologists hold…

University pressing ahead with course closures plan despite 'profound' warning www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

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

Publication – « Aristocratic networks. Elites and social dynamics in Italy in the age of Lothar I », éd. Giuseppe Albertoni, Manuel Fauliri, Leonardo Sernagiotto rmblf.be/2025/11/25/p...

Nottinghamshire MPs have written to @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, urging the university to reconsider proposed course suspensions and potential closures, which would significantly impact staff, students, and our wider city and county.

Rally against course closures at University of Nottingham this afternoon. Round 2 tomorrow @ 10am

University warned closures will be 'colossal blow' ahead of decision www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts. Sign the petition here to save jobs: www.change.org/p/save-ameri...

Who could possibly have forseen this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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

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

It's worth noting that this is NOT a protest about the genocide in Palestine. This is a protest about the British government overreaching and using the law to ban peaceful protest by citizens.

I'll just leave this here without comment... Nottingham live updates as activists led away by police at Palestine Action protest www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

A GB News presenter tells Trump that she "loved" his UN speech because he was "relating… to so many people watching at home and particularly in Great Britain, who were agreeing". Meanwhile a recent YouGov / Eurotrack poll found that *77%* of Brits hold an unfavourable view of Donald Trump...

So the solution is… to join in? I'm afraid the “dark forces” are calling from inside the house at this point.

Covid prevents me from being on the picket line but solidarity to everyone there. An isolated management, censured by its own academic senate, seeks to literally decimate its own staff. Oh, and it has the third largest uni endowment in the UK.

Two student organised events happening this week. We will be doing our best to amplify actions by student groups, so if you hear of anything pass the word along! #StopTheCuts #SaveHE

The UK does not have an asylum problem. What it does have is a far-right problem. The govt is inventing the former to appease and deflect from the latter.

Ah yes Leicester, a tip-top History UoA in REF2021 currently eviscerating it’s History provision (among other subjects). Have they also won the THE irony of the year award?

Latest in defence of Music department at University of Nottingham can be found here protectuonmusic.com

In Birmingham for tonight’s concert of Schumann & Stravinsky by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Simon Rattle and picked up this flyer about UoN’s dreadful Music Dept plans. Spread the word.

Yesterday was a monumental day for Nottingham and the Green Party. Through the efforts of our Green Councillor Shuguftah Quddoos and Party Activist Animah , as well as countless others, a motion to Boycott, Divest, and Sanction Israel has been passed uncontested.

Gay dating apps removed in China, reflecting a social shift that has also seen LGBTQ organisations closed and Shanghai Pride suspended since 2020.

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Horrified by the proposed closure of Modern Languages @uniofnottingham.bsky.social This would end language higher education in the East Midlands & decimate the uni’s research profile. Shortsighted and reckless. #University_of_Little_England #SaveNottinghamLanguages #WeAreUoN

This is a good rebuttal to ludicrous attacks from the hardly impartial hard right. We must defend the BBC before it is too late. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Another strike so it's time for #PupsOnPickets 🐕🐶

Blast of a morning, even if my back gave up just after 10am @uonucu.bsky.social out in force making noise bringing the colours to the picket line

Great and brave reporting by the upstart startup Sheffield Tribune. A reminder that the internet is still available for the proper reporting of ‘local’ news if you do it right

Shocking article in the Sheffield Tribune. A solicitor, Andrew Milne, buying up freeholds of houses and then making (false) threats to the leaseholders to bully them into buying the freehold at a huge premium.

There will only be more of this if the university is left unchecked. Join us as we fight back against the short sighted choices of this university. Picket line on monday and 4 more weeks of strikes. We will win this. www.reddit.com/r/UniUK/comm...

Good for them, it's madness what has been proposed.

Huge thanks to @tregenza.bsky.social who came to photograph our second Agnes Flues parkrun. Photos to follow! People were appearing at Wollaton to join us right up to the event starting - you can catch a glimpse of @uonucu.bsky.social folk in this lovely video www.facebook.com/share/r/1BUG...

And if you can't make it, you can support the run here as we raise funds for our branch activities: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Taking a quick step back from yesterday's news to remind everyone that the annual Agnes Flues memorial park run will take place tomorrow (8/11) at 9 AM. Throw on some @UCU.org.uk colours and join us as we honour this absolute legend.

And as far as I am aware that has not yet happened. Whether a higher education institution can be a proper university without these subjects ...I don't think so.

You know it's a pretty bad decision when the response from people is to create about 100 different petitions... Sign every one. Let's fight this by all means necessary.

"The consultation is set to conclude by the end of February and includes a redundancy review of 163 colleagues". With Nottingham closing modern languages, East Midlands comes monoglot. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Although I am inevitably caught up in the likely dire implications for my department (Music), it isn’t just us in the Faculty of Arts or in the university under threat. Do consider signing this petition in support of colleagues teaching Theology! c.org/6kntRm2JVh