This is a truly shitty way to treat your staff. You can't deduct pay for work that you already haven't paid them to do. Shame on Sheffield Uni and its cruel managers who clearly know nothing about maintaining positive staff relations or good will!

@dalegothic96.bsky.social Look, got my Christmas dinner sorted today 👍

And where the heck is the lazy @dalegothic96.bsky.social this evening?? 🤯

Delish 😋

I’ve been told so many times that I should just get British Citizenship to avoid being scapegoated as an immigrant. Who in their right mind would want to give up their nationality to become British at this moment in time? I’d rather leave if you so wish. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The lovely @dalegothic96.bsky.social has delivered us a delicious apple pie on this beautiful Sunday morning. Just because ❤️

Our local ballot is open ✉️ Vote Yes and Yes! A successful ballot is our most important tool to push the employer to negotiate. LUCU reps are organising departmental meetings with officers. Join in to ask questions and raise concerns. #WeAreTheUniversity #StopTheCuts

@dalegothic96.bsky.social 👊👊👊

Very interesting 👇 "Compensation for Newcastle students sets precedent, union says" - BBC News www.bbc.com/news/article...

🌟 Join us for a special #ThiemeCheminar honoring Prof. Erick Carreira! Hear outstanding talks from Profs. T. Ritter, S. Lin @songlin1.bsky.social & S. Reisman @reiswoman.bsky.social. Chaired by Prof. M. Lautens @marklautens.bsky.social 📅 Aug 14, 2025 ⏰ 3 PM (CET) 👉 Register now: buff.ly/aKtx0Fx

Triple trouble Wednesday 😆💪 @dalegothic96.bsky.social

Graduate students! Lecture or poster at the 39th Annual RSC Heterocyclic and Synthesis Group Postgraduate Symposium? Thursday 18 Sept 2025 in Oxford 8 lectures by final-year postgraduate students Attendance is free (registration mandatory) www.rsc.org/events/detai... Please share

- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University - 1 in 4 people will be made redundant But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action? Please read 👇 Sign the petition 👇 chng.it/7F52bThYqn

A petition against the mass redundancies proposed at my university: www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

A postdoctoral position, funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk for up to 36 months, is available to join my group @edinburghchem.bsky.social. The project focuses on biomimetic approaches to natural product synthesis. Deadline: 28th August 2025. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

A crisis of leadership’s making and staff pay the price. Lancaster University plans to axe 462 jobs to ‘save money’ while its senior leadership team, paid a combined £2.3 million, faces no cuts. @LancasterUCU www.lep.co.uk/education/la...

🔹 Join us for the next #ThiemeCheminar! Dr. Stephen Fielden @stephenfielden.bsky.social (University of Birmingham) will present: “Systems Chemistry of Polymer Nanoparticles” Dive into the future of materials #science! 📅 July 17 | 🕙 10:00 AM CEST 🔗 Register now: tinyurl.com/ThiemeCheminar

Lancaster University looks to cut jobs and save £30mn amid rising costs and fewer international students, which means less income. Robbie MacDonald northwestbylines.co.uk/news/educati...

Bittersweet moment to receive cards and expressions of thanks from students on the last day of term ar Lancaster University when 1 in 4 of us will be made redundant in a couple of months’ time 😔

Eight compulsory redundancies. Just how much do you hate your staff that you go through the trouble of destroying the livelihoods of these colleagues, for just *eight* salaries. What's that, in relation to the entire operating budget of the university? www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/s...

“These are the actions of the worst type of rogue employer.” @drjogrady.bsky.social The University of Greenwich wants to axe up to 319 staff, a quarter of its workforce. Students lose. Staff lose. Only the VC wins (pay up from £299k → £374k). #UCU #Stopthecuts www.ucu.org.uk/article/1401...

Farage’s immigration hysteria is now setting Labour’s agenda. I’m seriously doubtful - to put it mildly - of the political wisdom of accepting and amplifying Reform’s migration myths 👇🏻

Universities U.K. teaming up with an AI grifter to endorse AI system for feedback on assignments is incredibly stupid. They want students to pay 9.5K a year to be assessed by AI? Who sat around a table and saw no difficulties with this idea? Utter gobshites.

Our second university getting deeper and deeper into the mire today is the University of Nottingham, which is going to join everyone else shedding jobs. Every single day in UK Higher Education is like this, and it will get worse and worse until someone gets a grip. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says students must be "have their views challenged and be exposed to uncomfortable truths." So trans students, living away from home for the first time, should expect to have their very existence rejected by gender critical adults working at their university?

Family includes everyone! ❤️

She’s got a rather high opinion of herself. She might find the world is a kinder place without her spiteful rhetoric 🤦‍♀️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Cardiff University has proposed merging its chemistry department with the earth and environmental sciences and physics and astronomy departments to form a new school of natural sciences. It has also proposed other mergers, and ending several programmes. www.chemistryworld.com/news/cardiff...

What enormous damage the marketisation of universities has done, to staff, the debt-laden students, to the generation of knowledge. One more #Financialisation www.theguardian.com/education/20...

My first chemistry professor in Vienna, Erich Zbiral, shall not be forgotten. Everybody loves the Tanabe-Eschenmoser Fragmentation but the analogous Zbiral-Fragmentation of epoxy vinyl azides is equally cool.

PhD projects available in a range of areas - something for everyone! Join us to do cool chemistry using the mechanical bond in catenanes and rotaxanes for real world applications in the shiny shiny new Molecular Sciences Building @uobchemistry.bsky.social 😊 Reposts appreciated! #chemsky

Our group’s Christmas dinner. So proud of these guys ☺️

That’s very sad 🥺