LUCU Weekly Restructure Update for all members 📅 Wed 10 June, 1:00–1:50pm (MS Teams) Join us to hear updates on the Professional Services restructure, discuss developments, and share your views. Open to all members, solidarity matters. See post in replies for more info. #LboroUCU #LboroFamily

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...

WHO IS TURNING BACK THE CLOCK WES YOU STUPID FUCK

Nice. The two goes on the fourth was only because of a finger slip 🙄 #Keywords > 8 June 2026 I found all 5 words! 🟩🟩🟩🟩 ✓ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 6✗ 💡 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ✓ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 2✗ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 1✗ 🔥 Play streak 14 🏆 Win streak 1

Any parent and applicant planning to attend the Sussex University Open Day today, we can save you the trouble: these are the non-answers staff is told to give you. To send your staff out with this nonsense and treat visitors to this ChatGPT approach is disrespectful to all.

Oslo Pride video 🥹 🏳️‍🌈 #Pride #LoveIsLove

Like a toy having its string pulled...

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I'm at 175 responses for my survey on personal tutoring! I want to smash the 200 threshold, so if you're an academic in UK HE who's had pastoral repsonsibility for students in the last 5 years under any title, I'd love to hear from you - it only takes ten minutes. Please do share.

My mum made me a little pot of coffee 😭 she's so lovely. "I'm not sure how much coffee one uses so I added four dessert spoons" she's made rocket fuel, I love her so much

Solidarity with Tom Barker and @unison.org.uk members at Ash Field Academy. #Unison are on strike Wed-Fri 3-5 June & have pickets from 7:30am outside Ash Field Academy each day with a rally with GS @andreaegangs.bsky.social on Thurs. Please support the picket lines & attend the rally if you can.

It’s Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺 My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521 New for Pride 2026: 🌈Scientist🌈 🏳️‍🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️‍🌈 🌈pronouns🌈 www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop

@uonucu.bsky.social, @sheffielducu.bsky.social & now @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social? Who’d have thought that UCU setting an example by making punitive ASOS deductions against its own staff would lead to VCs doing the same? Given how much UCU senior managers are paid members should expect so much better.

Relatedly, does anyone need any teaching or research done, around London or remotely? I'm really good at both those things, my contract finishes at the end of June, I will take any scraps the current HE hellscape leaves.

📢JOB ALERT 📢 We are looking to appoint a F/T open-ended Lecturer in Late Medieval / Early Modern History (1400-1700) @lancasteruni.bsky.social. This is an amazing opportunity that we are very proud to announce, so please spread the word far and wide! www.hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Couch to 5K week 5 complete! Today's run was the first with no breaks, 20 mins straight. Today was hot, and I was slow, but I made it through without stopping. I'm very proud of myself as was pretty worried before it. #C25K #CouchTo5K #Running

Nominations are now open for the 26/27 #LboroUCU committee. Members can check the AGM Notice email sent last week for details of how to nominate & what roles are available. Any questions, get in touch with the branch. The deadline for receipt of all nomination emails is 3rd June at midday.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

This time next week I will have been running for 11 and a half hours and, if my coach’s plan is right, will have about an hour more running to go. I’ll likely be on (or near) Ditchling Beacon.

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

The next Labour prime minister should be issuing an apology for what he’s done and insisting never again will transphobes and transphobia shape medical provision! Take this stuff seriously! Take victims of prejudice and exclusion seriously, even if they seem a small group you’re not familiar with!

Given the average age of the typical Bluesky user, I'm sure everyone can appreciate this. (BRB, going to play Counter-Strike 1.6 while I'm at it...)

Work question: in the Archers a while back, there was a vision panel in the dairy to allow visitors to see the cheese making: but was it referred to as a vision panel, or just a window?

Management are proposing targeted cuts to Professional Services, most roles will be safe, but some face uncertainty. Now is the time for #solidarity, unions are collective action. Over the next 30 days, let’s support each other and share alternatives to protect jobs. ucu.lboro.ac.uk/a-time-for-c...

We'll be on the pickets tomorrow, 11-2, Victoria Park Entrance. See you there!

Reform starting as they mean to go on.

Streeting needs to be put in a bin with Palantir 🤬

Took a little while, but the total is inextricably building… It’s now at 104,000. 105,000 is next. So if you haven’t signed, and you’re disgusted by the abuse and harassment of trans women, then please sign at: Notinourname.org.uk Then tell your family and friends: every signature matters. 🫶

it's been 18 years since the financial crisis, the entirety of my adult life. in that time i've gone through university, got engaged and started a long-running podcast, and these fuckers have abjectly refused to come up with any ideas that reckon with the reality we now inhabit. thoughts and prayers

Gustav Klimt was 17 years old in 1879 when he drew (with charcoal and black chalk) this portrait of a young girl. His superb technical ability as a draughtsman is evident even as a teenager in the way he uses shadow to create a three-dimensional picture on paper.

The one thing that would reset the whole political debate would be if Keir Starmer announced on Monday that he wanted to rejoin the EU. Reform would have a field day, but he would unite the left and make politics a binary choice between the two.

One thing that would also reset the whole political debate would be if Starmer legislated to scrap ‘ First past the post ‘ 😊

It's almost like, 100 years ago, he planned his birthday in 2026...

Be a David Attenborough in world of Trumps, Farages, Musks, and Putins.

Now confirmed that Reform came *third* in their target London borough of Bexley, behind Labour on its worst day in one of its least favourable boroughs – what a failure!

It's been a while but I'm finally back at it again 🎉 If you can, please please do consider donating blood🩸it's quick, easy and relatively painless. Just one donation could save multiple lives.

Oh my god, read this

Happy World Password Day, everyone. May your PIN forever be dark on a data-breach heatmap

Outrageous treatment of staff, careless behaviour by senior decision makers, disastrous effects on student choice at Sheffield. Love and strength to @sheffielducu.bsky.social ✊🏼

Ballot. After ballot. After ballot. It’s an extraordinary record …. an amazing branch.

(1/2) Sending solidarity to @uonucu.bsky.social who are fighting against compulsory redundancies. The proposals are leading to potentially 600+ redundancies. Staff will be taking strike action on 22 May with ASoS including marking & assessment boycott starting on 20 May.

Hi, does anyone in the UK know a reasonably priced pension lawyer? I was in a small scheme where the trustees will vote on returning the surplus to an employer most of us have never worked for.

Join our rally with @uonucu.bsky.social and our local Unison and Unite colleagues 10:30am-12 to make some noise outside the South side of Trent Building where UoN Council is meeting. Future Nottingham does not have to happen. There are other ways. Come and support us. Bring your voices #JoinAUnion

if you haven't seen Last Week Tonight's long report on AI Chatbots, it's worth seeking out; John Oliver's voice trembles with fury when reporting on how chatbots advised and encouraged young people who then took their lives. Intercut with interviews with those tech bros, it is riot-inducing

notably his cure is from CAR-T therapy, which is so new I didn’t even learn about it in med school THIS is why we invest in science

My lush friend Benek was part of this trial. Three years on, he and everyone else on the trial are completely cancer free. It’s incredible. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/ap...

Freelance work is coming in for the summer with people's research fund pots needing using up; so do contact me via www.joanneedge.co.uk sooner rather than later for your archive/transcription/editing needs! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern