Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

studies have shown that bodycams have zero impact on police brutality complaints but do lead to higher conviction rates for ‘assaults against officers’ in case youre wondering why they seem to be the one thing politicians push in times like these

Was thinking this last week as the head of a school of creative and critical subjects presented us with a ChatGPT-generated list of teaching topic ideas.

this is fucking incredible

sign below the mailbox, “we don’t dial 911”

I interviewed Wasim Said, author of "Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide", from Gaza about current conditions in the Strip, the process of writing a book amidst a genocide, and his critiques of popular narratives about Palestinian resilience. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/the-rapid-...

it's worth noting 1) that there's a longstanding tradition of trying to play solidarity against basic self-respect and 2) that the Combahee River Collective's coining of the term "identity politics" was directly in response to this

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Thank you Wendy for providing great reasons why all my Cardiff University colleagues should post their votes today in our current industrial action ballot over cuts, closures and horrific workloads ❤️

if I see another academic describe LLMs - a tech owned by a small elite of white billionaires, built from extracting data from humans and minerals from the earth, and refined by the labor of underpaid workers in the global south - as an ‘important tool for decolonization’ I may simply just explode

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Two pro-Palestinian activists found guilty of harassing a Welsh Labour MP and Government minister have had their convictions overturned

I'm in Nairobi this week for the opening of the inquest into my sister Kate's death here, almost four years ago, which is still very much unsolved. The case has been beset by obstructions and evasions; it's taken us a long time to get this far and there may be more to come.

This is what happened at Coventry; I did not apply to their fire and rehire scheme because I couldn't stomach the changes they were making to our contracts - not only getting us off the pension but totally changing our academic contracts.

RIP Saleh al-Jafarawi

The situation with Blackboard - now its owner is bankrupt and it's coming under new private equity ownership and control - is serious enough the UK agency for HE tech is advising all affected universities to seek assurances regarding data security inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/s...

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

BBC Radio 4's hourly news headlines today have been an unrelenting Two Minutes' Hate against immigrants. The UK's national broadcaster is deliberately fomenting hatred against some of the world's most vulnerable people, while license fee payers pick up the tab.

“I lived pain in all its details. I tasted grief and loss many times. Yet I never hesitated for a single day to convey the truth as it is, without falsification or distortion. May God be a witness against those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing.” qudsnen.co/if-you-recei...

Proud personally to have both written evidence for the Supreme Court lately, AND not signed a facile and racist letter whinging about free speech alongside JK Rowling etc. But then I guess I’m just a different type of historian to Sam here

ITV were interviewing a guy who was holding a white flag in the street in early 2024. As soon as the cameraman switched off his camera and they started to walk away, an IDF sniper shot the white guy flag through the heart. The problem here has not been a failure of understanding.

I would say “extreme views” do not come much more extreme than “this genocide is a golden opportunity”.

"No one knows what will come to replace the international system that is currently collapsing around us, but any political system that prioritizes punishing those who protest genocide rather than stopping the killing has clearly exhausted itself." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

While the focus is rightly on the proscription of Palestine Action please remember that the UK government has criminalised asking your MP to oppose genocide: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think Palestine Action is right for disrupting the Israeli weapons supply to the genocide in Gaza and they have my full support

Rachel Reeves crying is great and all, but what I’d really like to see is Keir Starmer weeping openly as the Revolutionary Tribunal carries out sentencing

“The pace of cuts, commercialisation and techno-speculation at the Welsh flagship institution risk its collapse.” www.iwa.wales/agenda/2025/...

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As the university's management escalates by pressing ahead with up to 38 compulsory redundancies, after losing over 260 of our colleagues through voluntary severance, our membership’s clear message remains: STOP this. Members are upset angry and aghast by the behaviour of university management.

Alaa and Marysam have both recently been displaced from Gaza City and are heading south with nothing to their name. They're both trying to keep their own families fed and are hoping to raise enough to evacuate! chuffed.org/project/1286...

Israel has deliberately refused to allow any food, water, medicine, or fuel to enter Gaza for 2+ months. As Palestinians die from illness and starvation, WHO trucks filled with food and medicine are sitting outside Gaza waiting to be let in.

Oppose UKIP - Black Bloc 🏴 - 11:30am, Saturday 17th May - The Cenotaph, Bristol City Centre 📍 UKIP's leader Nick Tenconi, has called a protest in Bristol to demand "mass deportations" of migrants and asylum seekers. We will not allow this to happen unopposed.

This is very good and if you work in a UK university you should read it.

Another example of university managements weaponising dignity at work rules to silence critique of the rulers by the serfs. Something my colleagues and I have experienced here too.

What’s fun about this job - which is to explore the impacts of arts and humanities research on parliamentary policy - is that you need an academic contract to be eligible to apply, just as those are rapidly going extinct

I hate how there was this pause in Gaza where things were better but still bad and now it’s just right back to desperation for everyone- it’s a stain on humanity that no one has intervened to stop these blatant war crimes

I talk about why academics in Cardiff University are angry, why I’ve voted for a strike, and higher education policy more generally from about 15 minutes in. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

7 years ago, I described the exact same situation that Coviello describes here, happening in my own dept, in an article that The Chronicle decided to call “My University Is Dying.” But as I tried to explain in that essay, it wasn’t just my university or dept — it was, and is, all of them.

"...there is now a worry that REF2029 will enable a different injustice: that institutions can hold onto the outputs of staff they have sacked, while making it harder for them to gain new academic employment because they are no longer linked to the work they created."

This piece is absolutely brilliant, not just for how completely it tears apart Edinburgh's Senior Management on their complete failure to justify *any* cuts, let alone *140 million quid's worth*...

Schrödinger’s pope

Cambridge is trying to criminalise protest on campus. But not all protests. Only protests related to *one specific viewpoint* they consider inconvenient. They claim to do this in the name of "scholars of the university." Sign our open letter if you weren't consulted docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Oh no, bad news for my academic career

"the presentation’s slide on ‘mental health support’ prompted collective laughter (which was edited out of the official recording)" Seldom seen such a neat encapsulation of the Absolute State Of #UKHE.

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...

if you’re 25 years old with control of the entire treasury system and you don’t delete every student debt file, you are the biggest loser the world has ever seen