Three quarters of universities in deficit, tens of thousands of jobs being lost, & the government tells us there’s no money. They can, however, find close to the entire budget allocation for teaching from the Office for Students on a private theme park.

Just to note, Cardiff Uni management has paid over £1m to this dangerously bad consultancy in only the last 11 months. At redundancy rates over 2025/26, that’s about 13 full time academics (who are just “costs”)

Excellent thread on UK uni sector risks, can vouch for the cardiff non-crisis

Horrific. The university executive should not know peace

It must be emphasized that we need powerful, robust ACADEMIC history IN universities to sustain history OUTSIDE universities. If we can’t employ people in higher ed to train future generations of public historians, we will not have future generations of public historians. 🗃️

Wes Streeting [redacted] challenge

Jesus Christ - this is Uni of Herts. Solidarity to all colleagues there.

15 minutes; no questions; government got the blame; my department to have 60% of us sacked. Apparently sacking us will lead to a ‘new, improved’ curriculum. No voluntary scheme, straight to selection and legal minimum redundancy payment.

everyone is going to be assigned Deleuze and Guattari readings until we figure out what is going on

Just declaring that job security and workable workload are 'simply gone', as if it's some abstract, outside entity has irreversibly imposed that, and not the decisions made by *her* and her team -- and their refusal to actual advocate for what universities are.

Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?

But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned

A Palestine solidarity campaigner has been convicted under POA s.5 for calling a police officer a "fucking terrorist" at a Defend Our Juries protest in Parliament Square last year. Incredibly, Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring is considering a prison sentence at a hearing scheduled for 1 April

all the the mighty and morally superior “West” knows how to do anymore is murder children

"I have given this a lot of thought, and: I really, really need Matt Goodwin to lose tomorrow’s Denton & Gorton by-election. For the good of us all, that man needs to be repudiated, and his ideas stomped into the dust." On one of the worst people in British politics.

Ah, surprise, surprise. Our VC's second job at a UoE spin-off *is* paid after all. We'd like to know since when, and why his SFC declaration of interests has only recently been updated. www.theferret.scot/edinburgh-jo...

m23 you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever kigalidailynews.rw/reports-emer...

Barrister’s powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge Keir Starmer and the media need convictions to justify Palestine Action’s proscription as a terrorist group. Rajiv Menon KC spells out to the jury…a vital last defence… www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-01...

Niall Ferguson 59 appearances in the Epstein papers database, is it

Happy anniversary to us 1800 academic staff at Cardiff University. One year ago we were put at risk of redundancy by June 2025 in huge meetings flanked by security. Solidarity with Essex, Sheffield, Leicester & all colleagues faced with similar destructive cruelty ❤️ voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.

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...

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.

Saint Sinwar said it best.

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