Fascinating

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...

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...

Massive workloads causing workplace stress and illness in UK universities??? Shocked!! 😱 www.timeshighereducation.com/news/birming...

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...

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-...

Awesome from the chemistry department students at @sheffielduni.bsky.social in support of @sheffielducu.bsky.social 👌 youtu.be/TxdDV0G9Ys0?...

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

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 ✨

It’s arrived!

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...

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/...

Let's do as the bees. Bumble bees can catch good moods from each other share.google/lujx0KHv85Ha...

Randalls Department Store, Uxbridge 1938 William L. Eves www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/randalls.html

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...

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.

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.

Delighted to be supporting the launch of @togetheralliance.bsky.social Together we need to take on the far right. Togetheralliance.org.uk

The Vaughan City Explorers exploring the Belgrave Road, Leicester - art, architecture and lots of history both ancient and recent! #DiscoveryCircles

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

In the spirit of this motion supporting Leicester - please support the petition they have to keep Geography c.org/7Bn9Lh22YX

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 share.google/KpfvVDi6wbJD...

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.

Everything must be THE MARKET!!!!

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

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...

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.

Today's demo in support of colleagues @leicesterucu.bsky.social ✊🩷💜 Great to see so many people there

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...

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

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!

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

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.

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...

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...? #ukhe

Our Exhibition Visitors are gathering this Friday at 1pm in the Phoenix arts cafe to visit this exhibition 👇

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.

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.

'Gas Lamp, Goodwin's Court, Bedfordbury End' by Jack Russell jackrussell.co.uk

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.

ooh nice!

Another interesting perspective on this week's Post 16+ Skills white paper.

It's UK Black History Month. Resharing @lanre-bakare.bsky.social'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...

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...

This is disappointing but not unexpected. Post 24 adult education is continually sidelined.

Check out @vaughancoop.bsky.social

Should be a good talk - and there'll be cake too!

You are never too old to learn! Everyone deserves a chance to learn, whatever their age. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....