Staff ,supporters and students gathered outside Firth Court today in solidarity with colleagues locked out and facing withheld pay after lawful strike action at @sheffielducu Punishment is not negotiation. ✊

There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree

First publication of the year 👇 We discuss what social and cultural sustainability mean for food systems, and how life cycle thinking can move beyond looking just at carbon to consider the people involved at each step from farm to fork. bsky.app/profile/gran...

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...

Data centres that briefly wind down during grid stress are shaving a small slice off a net harm, they are not 'supporting the transition' In the same way CCS *might* slightly reduce emissions, but overall end up facilitating new fossil fuel use.... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Christmas gift already broken? You’re not alone. 🎁😢 Dr Stuart Walker from our Sustainability Assessment Team volunteered at a repair café to help fix people's faulty gifts. Read his @uk.theconversation.com article to find out how these community hubs are tackling waste ⬇️ tinyurl.com/5x5dzhkf

As things wind down for the holidays, @sheffielducu.bsky.social members are facing a threat of 100% pay deductions from January, thanks to our Scrooge-like management. We’ve now set up a fundraiser to bolster our local solidarity fund. If you can spare some change, please do! gofund.me/ac2b3adcb

Day 11 of our current strike at @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk … The story goes that we can’t afford to keep staff in their jobs but we can afford this 👇

There is absolutely nothing left to the UK but bigotry and spite. A hateful place, you can almost taste it in the air, makes it hard to breathe.

We will resist the bullies with our usual courage and resolve - for the good of our students, our university, and our city. We won't allow the dismantling of higher education without resistance. @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucuhallam.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great to see media coverage of the hostile and punitive approach taken by management at @sheffielduni.bsky.social towards @sheffielducu.bsky.social staff striking to protect jobs. Threats and intimidation won't work. We're out until we win! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Check out this post about our current situation from a colleague at another university. @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Tuesday my union offered to call off 2 weeks of strikes, in return for postponing the redudnacy of, maybe, 5 people for three months. Yesterday the uni wrote to all staff saying "not interested", unless we completely caved. Today we toured picket lines across campus: @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Some of our furrier members have been enjoying our strong turnout over the past couple of weeks. Lots of comrades to cuddle #picketpups

On the picket today (until it starts raining at least) cc @sheffielducu.bsky.social

JOINT RALLY ANNOUNCEMENT: Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.

Spending my Friday night lost in UK renewable fuel statistics for some more 'Sustainable' Aviation Fuel work.. Some good news is the UK seems to be on track to meet the target of 2% SAF use by 2025 (provisional data indicates being very close to meeting this in 2024) www.gov.uk/government/s...

"𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗹𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻"

Last week we brought together academics, artists and activists for the @sheffielduni.bsky.social Sustainability Symposium 2025 🌎 The day was full of fascinating discussions about interdisciplinarity, communities of practice, and the role of art and storytelling in activism. #SheffSustSymp 1/4

BREAKING: Our members at the University of Sheffield have voted overwhelmingly for strike action against the University Executive Board’s ongoing campaign of job cuts, and the threat to staff workload and wellbeing that they represent.

@sheffielducu.bsky.social member? This is your last chance to vote. Whatever your views, please protect democracy in your union, and do so immediately. Thank you. Please share. @ucu.org.uk #UCUstrike

University of Sheffield @ucu.org.uk members, have you voted? If you haven't, please do so immediately as the deadline is soon. Trade union solidarity is one the most important tools we've got left in our much troubled world. Don't waste it. @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucuhallam.bsky.social

The Reform UK led #Kent County Council is on the verge of ditching its #climate emergency declaration, despite the motion being at odds with the latest research. @richsulley.bsky.social from our #GreenWatch team shares his expert views. Read the full story here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/bdyz5zfs

An unwelcome boost to our ongoing @sheffielducu.bsky.social industrial action ballot as our VC announces more work areas to be targeted by cuts. It is unclear that this has much to do with finances, but is more an ideological push to change the University's "size and shape".

Kinda good (but also infuriating in a told ya so kind of way) to see #CCS being more widely recognised for the techno optimist tool of distraction it always was. Political ecologists & many others have called out CCS BS for years. Good to have this new study⬇️ www.imperial.ac.uk/news/255614/...

Really recommend this by @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social Incisively cuts through dangerous big tech bullshit surrounding so-called 'AI' Worth emphasising that 'AI' is a marketing term for a wide range of tools that are pretty shit outside of very specific uses thecon.ai

Here goes my vote for strike action at the University of Sheffield. When your management treats staff & students as disposable commodities, it's your duty, even more than your right, to respond. @sheffielducu.bsky.social @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk #sheffield #university #workersrights

Don’t like to have to keep doing this, but management has left us again with no choice. We will vote again to take action and massive numbers will again be out on picket lines. And like last year, management will again back down. All of that can be prevented if management chooses to negotiate.

Ballot papers drop today for local industrial action to defend jobs at the University of Sheffield against redundancy and further workload pressures. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1415...

OpenAI is an evil company and should be shut down.

if you see someone shoplifting food or baby formula or nappies, no you didn’t

With the advent of powerful new synthetic opioids, health workers fear we could be about to see an explosion in the rate of drug deaths in #Sheffield. Could 'The Thistle', a pioneering project in Glasgow that allows drug users to inject on-site, be part of the solution? @sammgreg.bsky.social ✍️

We are so thoroughly cooked.

One really consistent pattern whenever I look at the energy and financial data for large big tech companies is that energy + revenue are being decoupled. They keep having to buy more and more energy each year to make the same $1 of revenue. This is a pretty new thing ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/31/t...

Three months ago, we were told that workers at the Uni of Sheffield’s AMRC had been overheard joking about making nuclear weapons. There couldn’t be anything to it – could there? THREAD 1/n

Great article from @sheffielducu.bsky.social on how, despite what university leadership might suggest, the data clearly shows any financial issues at the institution are not a result of 'sector-wide' problems, but a result of their mismanagement. Please read! ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/campaigns/st...

Great to have collaborated with José Bruno Fevereiro, @ecoclassical.bsky.social, and colleagues on this review, now published in Ecological Economics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #CircularEconomy @ussee.bsky.social

Great day of #SUCUstrike action at the University of #Sheffield. Today we started our #Palestine support roving picket, which much solidarity around the campus. Join us! ucu.group.shef.ac.uk @drvaleriehobbs.bsky.social @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Huge rally of staff and students today rejecting cuts at Sheffield 💥

New job, new picket line! Some things never change… New University Management next please! @sheffielducu.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/benp...

Our members out in force today! 👊

🚨 We are thrilled to be partnering with Festival of Debate this year 🙌 We are hosting a variety of fascinating events throughout the festival on subjects covering everything from rethinking plastic to eating bugs. View our full programme here ⬇️ grantham.sheffield.ac.uk/grantham-cen... #Sheffield

Tomorrow our members are taking strike action to say no to job cuts! 💪 Join our picket lines from 8:30am, as well as various teach outs from 10am, and a Demo on the SU Concourse from Midday. 📣

Was great to present at the @britsoci.bsky.social Conference last week. Lots of interesting discussion and connections! Repping our sustainability assessment work at @granthamcsf.bsky.social

A huge turnout at Sheffield's trans rights rally, with around a thousand people gathered outside the Town Hall to protest the Supreme Court ruling. #TransRights #Sheffield

We're not the organisers of this protest but we'll be there showing our support on Saturday 🏳️‍⚧️❤️

📣📣 We have notified our employer of 10 days of escalating & hard hitting strike action to hit the last three weeks of teaching (30th April - 16th May).

It's a unusual framing for the @yorkshirepost.co.uk, that the big question is whether the airport can be a financial success. Most of it's supporters have seemingly abandoned that plan, now simply claiming a Teesside style loss making airport is worth it for the wider gains.

Over 240 staff have urged the University Executive Board to safeguard and preserve the service provision of the English Language Teaching Centre, following a restructure that has led to the loss of 35 staff. ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/proposed-elt...

Partly inspired by the "official" response but mainly inspired by the work of @sheffielduni.bsky.social's Jayne Carrick and others, I wrote this on reimagining how we could have responded to our Citizens' Assembly for @nowthenmag.bsky.social nowthenmagazine.com/articles/it-...