Lucy Faire
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Historian of everyday life; enthusiast for adult education and cooperation; personal account
Fascinating
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4 days ago
Entirely unrelated (obvs): here’s a book about universities, the way they’re managed, and the state they’re in. Give it a read.
www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/o...
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Shaping for Mediocrity from Zer0 Books
In 2021, as part of a programme called Shaping for Excellence, bosses at the University of Leicester made redundant numerous scholars in what wa...
https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/shaping-for-mediocrity
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Municipal Dreams
6 days ago
A wonderful collection of historic films on London - personal favourites on Thamesmead and The Changing Face of Camberwell (good on the Sceaux Gardens estate) ...
alondoninheritance.com/london-histo...
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From Thamesmead to Covent Garden - London in Film - A London Inheritance
A sample of the many films made about London over the last 100 years. Films that show a very different city, socially, architecturally and working
https://alondoninheritance.com/london-history/from-thamesmead-to-covent-garden-london-in-film/
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Ruth Holliday
15 days ago
Massive workloads causing workplace stress and illness in UK universities??? Shocked!! 😱
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/birming...
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Birmingham reprimanded over management of work-related stress
Investigation by Health and Safety Executive found institution ‘does not have appropriate arrangements in place’ to manage burnout among staff
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/birmingham-reprimanded-over-its-management-work-related-stress#
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Ben Williamson
15 days ago
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Rosa Campbell
15 days ago
Here, for
@historyworkshop.org.uk
I discuss the history of a refuge for trans women. I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans. I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women.
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
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Reconsidering Violence Against Women through the History of a Refuge for Trans Women
Abstract. Both right-wing forces and gender-critical feminists currently frame cis and trans women’s needs as fundamentally different and conflicting. Viol
https://academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hwj/dbaf032/8383722
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Graeme
24 days ago
Awesome from the chemistry department students at
@sheffielduni.bsky.social
in support of
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
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youtu.be/TxdDV0G9Ys0?...
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Express support for our chemistry lecturers!
YouTube video by Hector HH
https://youtu.be/TxdDV0G9Ys0?si=f94UQOLPIZLKrfjD
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23 days ago
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
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Dr Ruby Rutter
22 days ago
Really excited to share that the first episode of my podcast with
@universityofleeds.bsky.social
Cultural Collections is now live! 🎧 Based on my 2024 Bedford Fellowship research into emotion in advertising. This episode looks at fairy lights — a Christmassy listen ✨
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Selling Sentiment 1: Comfort and Joy
Podcast Episode · Gloves Off: Stories from Cultural Collections & Galleries at the University of Leeds · 11/12/2025 · 37m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gloves-off-stories-from-cultural-collections-galleries/id1860678848?i=1000740889343
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Michelle Henning
22 days ago
It’s arrived!
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Jim Ambuske
25 days ago
New Episode! "Recovering Black Mariners in the Atlantic World with Mary Hicks" Check out my conversation with Dr. Hicks about the stories she tells in Captive Cosmopolitans Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery
@uncpress.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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University and College Union (UCU)
26 days ago
Last week, staff at the University of Derby were out on strike over more than 250 planned redundancies. Yesterday’s Canary piece digs into what happened on the picket lines, from student support to staff anger at the chaotic, unclear process from management.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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UCU members strike at Derby University over 'punitive' job cuts
UCU members at Derby University worry about losing their jobs before Christmas, as one person says "we are here to defend our colleagues"
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/12/06/ucu-strike-derby/
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Let's do as the bees. Bumble bees can catch good moods from each other
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Bees ‘infect’ each other with optimism that spreads through the colony
Bumblebees have a way of looking both adorable and slightly overserved, wobbling from flower to flower like fuzzy little potatoes. They seem simple, almost carefree. But a new study suggests there’s f...
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Modernism in Metro-Land
29 days ago
Randalls Department Store, Uxbridge 1938 William L. Eves
www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/randalls.html
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University and College Union (UCU)
29 days ago
NEW: Strike ballot opens Monday at Northumbria Uni Management is forcing staff out of the industry standard Teachers' Pension Scheme through the threat of a pay freeze. Our members say no!
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...
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Strike ballot launched at Northumbria University in pay and pensions row
Staff at Northumbria University will be balloted for strike action in their fight against plans to pressure them to leave the Teachers' Pension Scheme.
https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/14281/Strike-ballot-launched-at-Northumbria-University-in-pay-and-pensions-row
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Jeff Sharlet
30 days ago
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
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Neil Goodrich
29 days ago
Zack P: When are we going to have a cost of living special...? Fiona Bruce: ...we talk about cost living every week..not sure why we need a special programme for it. You talk about immigration every week. Yet, here we are, with a question time special on...immigration. Not sure that logic follows.
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Zack Polanski
about 1 month ago
Delighted to be supporting the launch of
@togetheralliance.bsky.social
Together we need to take on the far right.
Togetheralliance.org.uk
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VaughanCoop.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
The Vaughan City Explorers exploring the Belgrave Road, Leicester - art, architecture and lots of history both ancient and recent!
#DiscoveryCircles
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VaughanCoop.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
This Friday (5 December) at 1pm the Vaughan Exhibition Visitors are viewing the Exhibition 'Mary Linwood: Art, Stitch and Life'. Meet in Soft Touch Arts Cafe at 1pm.
www.leicestermuseums.org/MaryLinwood
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UCU University of Kent branch
about 1 month ago
In the spirit of this motion supporting Leicester - please support the petition they have to keep Geography
c.org/7Bn9Lh22YX
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Sign the Petition
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
https://c.org/7Bn9Lh22YX
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Depressing letter although I thought worship of the liberal arts stopped long ago, at least in the UK. It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Universities | The Guardian
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It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters
Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng
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about 1 month ago
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The Green Party of England & Wales
about 1 month ago
The COP30 deal has fallen short. Morally, economically, environmentally and scientifically. There are reports that a record number of fossil fuel lobbyists (1,600) attended this UN climate summit. Banning vested interests from the COP process is long overdue.
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Ruth Holliday
about 1 month ago
Everything must be THE MARKET!!!!
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Farrukh
about 1 month ago
Shabana Mahmood's Indefinite Leave To Remain Culture War 3 years - if you're earning £125k+ 15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall
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University and College Union (UCU)
about 1 month ago
Lancaster University UCU members have beaten back compulsory redundancies. After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026. This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News
The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8drd8ppymro.amp
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Adam Tranter
about 1 month ago
Compare and contrast the Government language. £3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’. Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’. And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
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Victoria Ruby-Granger
about 2 months ago
Today's demo in support of colleagues
@leicesterucu.bsky.social
✊🩷💜 Great to see so many people there
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Polly McMichael
about 2 months ago
Petition started by students in Modern Languages at the University of Leicester. The department has been told it will close despite its stellar NSS record and brilliant teaching and research - the same devastating short-term thinking as elsewhere. Please sign and share
www.change.org/p/save-moder...
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Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester
https://www.change.org/p/save-modern-languages-courses-at-the-university-of-leicester
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Margot Finn
about 2 months ago
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation? Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
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The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/automatic-organ-donation-was-meant-to-save-lives-but-opt-out-has-been-a-fatal-failure
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The UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester
about 2 months ago
We remind all members that we want to have a large show of solidarity - as large as possible - for our colleagues across the city. Please join us next Wednesday!
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Dr. Aaron Thierry
2 months ago
I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the
#climate
crisis 🎥 There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️ They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬 Thread:🧵Plz RT
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The Green Party of England & Wales
2 months ago
Almost 100% of children in 73 neighbourhoods in England are living in income-deprived families. Labour could choose to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty immediately by scrapping the two-child benefit cap. Child poverty is a political choice.
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Michael O’Neill
2 months ago
Less prominent in the Chemistry reporting (to my knowledge) has been the enormous growth of voluntary severance schemes in UK Universities. Some of them are mentioned in this
@qmucu.bsky.social
list. 4/
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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UK HE shrinking
a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.
https://qmucu.org/qmul-transformation/uk-he-shrinking/
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Richard Hall
2 months ago
I'm speaking about a new book project, The Dissolution of the Universities next Thursday, online c/o DECkNO at Bath. Should be full of lols
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dissol...
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#ukhe
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The Dissolution of the Universities
Join Professor Richard Hall in discussing the crisis of the university with the DECkNO community.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dissolution-of-the-universities-tickets-1848159738529?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1*18z5i6x*_up*MQ..*_ga*NzQ1MTUxOTg3LjE3NjA5NTc4MTQ.*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3NjA5NTc4MTQkbzEkZzAkdDE3NjA5NTc4MTQkajYwJGwwJGgw
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VaughanCoop.bsky.social
2 months ago
Our Exhibition Visitors are gathering this Friday at 1pm in the Phoenix arts cafe to visit this exhibition 👇
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VaughanCoop.bsky.social
2 months ago
The Vaughan City Explorers are meeting at 2pm on Sunday 2 November outside the Freemason's Hall on the London Road. We'll be having a tour of the Hall before exploring the road itself between the Station and Victoria Park Gates.
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The Green Party of England & Wales
2 months ago
A new report shows the US’s super-rich are burning through carbon emissions at 4,000 times the speed of the world’s poorest 10%. Some would have you believe climate action has to cost you money. They're lying. Tax the polluters. Tax the super-rich.
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Paintings of London
2 months ago
'Gas Lamp, Goodwin's Court, Bedfordbury End' by Jack Russell
jackrussell.co.uk
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Paul Langley
2 months ago
Just in case anyone is listening, please note that UK universities cannot operate successfully on the basis of continuous reduction of academic staff and academic staff pay. No amount of staff wellness sessions will change this.
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ooh nice!
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VaughanCoop.bsky.social
2 months ago
Another interesting perspective on this week's Post 16+ Skills white paper.
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Sarah Elizabeth Cox
2 months ago
It's UK Black History Month. Resharing
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's article from Feb! The stories of Black boxers in 1880s England are missing from every boxing history or Black British history I've read. But there are LOTS! Feel privileged to help find them:
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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From racist bans to lion-tamer fighters: the wild history of Britain’s unsung Black boxing superstars
A Thousand Blows, the knockout new drama from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, puts Victorian-era boxer Hezekiah Moscow in the spotlight. But it doesn’t even begin to do justice to the astonishin...
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/feb/26/from-racist-bans-to-lion-tamer-fighters-the-wild-history-of-britains-unsung-black-boxing-superstars
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VaughanCoop.bsky.social
2 months ago
Tomorrow - perhaps the last chance to hear Chris William's huge knowledge of police history technology! At Secular Hall on Humberstone Gate at 6.30. Tea and cake at 6.15.
www.tickettailor.com/events/leice...
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VaughanCoop.bsky.social
2 months ago
This is disappointing but not unexpected. Post 24 adult education is continually sidelined.
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Check out
@vaughancoop.bsky.social
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#StreetFurniture
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Matt Houlbrook
3 months ago
#20s30s
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Should be a good talk - and there'll be cake too!
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VaughanCoop.bsky.social
3 months ago
You are never too old to learn! Everyone deserves a chance to learn, whatever their age.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Londonderry: 90-year-old woman graduates from university
90-year-old Maryette was the oldest of more than 300 graduates at the Open University's ceremony in Belfast on Tuesday.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24kkxgwxlo#:~:text=Great%2Dgrandmother%20graduates%20from%20university%20at%2090%20years%20old&text=Seventy%20years%20after%20starting%20her,long%20time%2C%22%20she%20said
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