Where is the money? @qmul.bsky.social haven't paid many cleaners their overtime since August; unions haven’t had their Facilities Time paid since August; many Teaching Associates & Teaching Fellows have not had any pay in September. All since the new financial year.

I’m desperately sorry for staff at these institutions. I’m also sorry it wasn’t news when my institution did it to us two years in a row, 2020-2022.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

International agents get the moment the students they recruited are enrolled. If they drop out after, if they aren't actually prepared, that doesn't matter to them, because the measure of their success is the fee at point of enrollment. Should we rely on them this much? www.ft.com/content/3f49...

GWL is commissioning new works for our #WeMakeMuseums project to be exhibited at Glasgow International 2026. We’re seeking women artists with socially engaged, intersectional practices informed by environmental, class-aware, & anti-racist approaches. womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/09/24/a...

Short-term post-doc for arts/humanities researchers! Do you love rare books, manuscripts, archives, art and/or objects? Would you like to explore one of our amazing Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social for c. 6 weeks (longer part-time)? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-f...

You what now? Who gets to define 'hobbyist'? The REF 'funds' research. Anti-intellectual, utilitarian, ignorant approach from the UUK president.

Slightly diminish a book EasyJet Flights

The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Skatepark excavation by @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social the absolute legend: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyone want a quick graphic illustration of what poverty does?

12 funded PhDs in "Aesthetics of Democracy" at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Perfect for anyone who has absorbed my book 'The Landscape of Utopia' ;) aesthetics-of-democracy.de?lang=en

Colleagues based at UK universities: please sign and share this letter to support Gazan students coming to study in the UK, in order to request Governmental deferral of the biometric data requirement and safe evacuation.

🎉 The Bernat Klein Studio has been saved! A coalition of Scottish heritage orgs secured it at auction for £279,000. This modernist gem by Peter Womersley will now be restored for public + creative use. 👏 Huge congratulations to all involved!

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

NEW: The Scottish community-owned island of Eigg has announced a boycott of Israel The island of 120 people has backed BDS and its sole shop will stop stocking goods from Israeli firms www.thenational.scot/news/2533509...

Hepworth with feather.

The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.

The danger signs of possible extremist violence are there for all to see. At least the NI parties condemned this shaming display of hatred. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

'The most recent figures show that 13 per cent of school-leavers from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, go to university, compared with 70 per cent from Wimbledon, southwest London.' Is shrinking staff at University of Cumbria wise in this context?

It’s not the law yet, and I suspect it will go to the Supreme Court and EHRC. In the meantime, I support Palestine Action and any non-violent civil disobedience of the kind suffragists, Quakers, Trident Ploughshares and others have engaged in over the years.

✊🥂Huge congratulations to the whole @newcastleucu.bsky.social membership and team. Compulsory redundancies withdrawn. Sends a message to university management everywhere. Just shows what you can do with organisation, solidarity, and right on your side.

Not the most important thing to worry about here, but the burden of support is often carried by union reps one way or another.

Reminds me of how every extension for a student deadline is just accommodated by reducing staff time for marking.

I wrote a piece on the Leicester Vaughan College in the Leicester Gazette. @thegazettecoop.www.leicester.news.ap.brid.gy Why not to seek alternative university models! www.leicester.news/is-leicester...

This week on Wonkhe: The long awaited register of university-owned or university-founded spin-outs is here. David Kernohan and James Coe check for absences

VACANCY: P/T Project Co-ordinator, Calanais. calanais.zohorecruit.eu/jobs/Careers...

Thank you dear Hebrides for all of your weather, so reliably occurring and all at once

Looking forward to meeting lots of cool archives and neurodiversity people at our first 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' workshop on 4th July! Travel funding available; apply by the 4th June forms.office.com/e/vNXha2TEUr @edicaucus.bsky.social

For the record, the unit of resource (i.e. income received, from all sources, per home UG student) at English unis is now roughly where it was at the beginning of the Blair government. That government almost immediately perceived a problem. #r4today

«doctoral research supervision is not being adequately calculated into workload allocations, with a typically described workload model allocating 42 hours per candidate, per year, but supervisors reporting investing an average of 62 hours » wonkhe.com/blogs/resear...

Are you an artist who specialises in painting? We're looking for a 0.5 L/SL and if you have a phd that would be v helpful. Come and work with me. Even better, come and share an office with me. This will come out on jobs dot ac dot uk soon, but get a head start dmuhub.dmu.ac.uk:444/sap/bc/webdy...

I've now published my remarks from the great 'Multiple crises in higher education' event organised by @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social @qmucu.bsky.social on Tuesday - quick write-up so excuse any typos! janabacevic.net/2025/05/23/t...

REF2029 Sub-panel leads have been announced. Whatever your views on REF, it's a huge labour for the disciplines and the sector they are undertaking on our behalves over the next several years.

'A rush to embrace artificial intelligence risks hampering universities’ net zero targets, with leaders being accused of generally overlooking the “hidden” huge environmental impact of the new technologies.' Said this in our Academic Board a year ago and was greeted with resounding silence. 1/2

'don't waste money on unfunded or unproductive research', so if it were to Matt someone like Peter Higgs should have never had the time to theorise the missing particle which was decades later confirmed at CERN. Also I do wonder where the best teaching comes from? 😔

The Mezzo-Soprano Faustina Bordoni and a Fox, Meissen Manufactory, c. 1743, Hard-paste porcelain (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

A funded PhD opportunity for a lens based practitioner with RCA and the National Martime museum www.rca.ac.uk/study/apply-...

The most ambitious crossover event in history? I think not…

THE PRIMARY REASON TO VISIT THE BARBICAN THIS TIME OF YEAR.

'If you’re designing a subsidy that the public will be grateful for, my top tip is to never design it (or at least communicate it) in such a way as to suggest that you’ll get a bung, in a few decades, if you don’t do very well in life.'

Our latest blog on the #OrkneyingaSaga #PlaceName Geitaberg is out! #Orkney blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/ragnasisland...

"What are you laughing at?" Red-Figure rhyton in the form of a braying donkey's head, ca. 480-470 BC. A decidedly sympotic vessel given the Bacchic associations of the donkey. #InternationalDonkeyDay Image: Art Institute of Chicago (1905.345). Link - artic.edu/artworks/408...

arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/h... This is funny: one way to tell that openAI scraped YouTube, is that its Whisper transcription is biased toward transcribing inaudible or garbled text to "drop a comment in the section below" or "please like subscribe and share" and such

'It matters because my understanding has long been that students can challenge and appeal all sorts of decisions – right up to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA) in England and Wales – but not if the decision is one that relates to matters of academic judgment.' Important: read this.

We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.