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adam searle

@admsrl.bsky.social
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cultural and historical geographer interested in ecology, technology, and 'the future' Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham Member and co-founder, @digicologies.bsky.social

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 9h
i legitimately wonder if it’s just being ill-informed and naive on AI, but when i see so many of these orgs reaching out to cultists like Nate Soares instead of left tech critics to make sense of this, i feel we’re seeing the problem of a business model that relies on sensationalism to drive traffic
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 19h
Our members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.
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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thanks to Aya Nassar, Sterling Johnson, Paroj Banerjee and AbdouMaliq Simone for their reviews of For a Liberatory Politics of Home @dukepress.bsky.social in @dialogueshg.bsky.social In my response, I focus on the inner violence of our institutional homes journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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On complicity: Home, the military and the university - Michele Lancione, 2026
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Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org · 27/09/2026
From the Archive: Eva Giraud and Gregory Hollin, 'Care, Laboratory Beagles and Affective Utopia' - focuses on the ambivalent role of care within the first large-scale experimental beagle colony at the University of California, Davis (1951–86). (2016) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
'In the most notable case, the University of Nottingham’s University and College Union (UCU) branch has declared strike action of 67 days, expected to last for the majority of the autumn term, as the institution looks to cut 600 full-time equivalent jobs.'
timeshighereducation.com
UK universities face autumn of chaos as ‘prolonged’ strikes planned
Unprecedentedly long strikes at Nottingham, Edinburgh and Dundee could be the shape of things to come, observers say
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When blackshirts are marching through the streets of Dover and Portsmouth, the focus shouldn’t be on the disruption they cause, but on their fascist ideology and deliberate intimidation of migrants and people of colour. [1/2]
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Plagiarism is only one part of a much broader scope of academic misconduct, and ‘race realism’ is itself a form of academic misconduct: using academia to launder long-discredited and empirically refuted white supremacist propaganda. It is disseminating pernicious lies into broader society
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Do your interests lie at the intersection of climate change, nature and human wellbeing? We invite researchers, policymakers, practitioners and independent experts to submit proposals for discussion papers on our new programme ‘Humanity, Climate & Nature’. Find out more: bit.ly/4hH2qlA
A colour block social media card promoting a call for discussion papers on humanity, climate & nature
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Now do everywhere else www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta glasses banned from courts in England and Wales
Exclusive: Court service says anyone trying to enter buildings with glasses will have them confiscated and returned when they leave
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The thing is, I think these are all fundamentally correct & completely reconcilable political economies of the contemporary.
Technofeudalism (Varoufakis, Durand)
Too Late Capitalism (Kornbluh)
Muskism (Slobodian & Tarnoff)
End Times Fascism (Klein & Taylor)
Vectoralism (Wark)
Gutenberg Parenthesis (Sauerberg, Jarvis)
TESCREAL (Gebru & Torres)
Neofeudalism (Dean)
Tech Fascism (Duran)
Platform Capitalism (Srnicek)
Surveillance Capitalism (Zuboff)
Klepto-Keynesianism (Seybold)
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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
📢 Another addition to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy! 📜 In "Rite to mine: Bitcoin, ritual, and oligarchy," Owen Marshall examines crypto-mining as a foundational ritual practice of tech oligarchy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
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Rite to mine: Bitcoin, ritual, and oligarchy
Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
excellent article journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Geography and the classics? - José Luis Romanillos, 2026
This paper examines the interdisciplinary relationship between geography and ‘the classics’. It attends to the relative paucity of (re)engagements with antiquit...
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
that was fast LOL
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
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Prof Rob Dover @robdover.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The sec of state who has seen at least 15000 academics lose their jobs just said this. Out loud. Mercy me. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotion
Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/07/2026
What a harrowing story and an incredible work of #scicomm in the reporting. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
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Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public
Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals
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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#newbookalert Daniele Valisena's "Italian Lives, Belgian Coal: An Environmental History of Labour and Migration" will be published this fall with @upittpress.bsky.social #envhist 👇 upittpress.org/books/978082...
b/w cover page of Daniele Valisena's Italian Lives, Belgian coal. The cover features a p/w photograph showing an urban landscape with coal mining excavation material in the background
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Working in partnership with the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, the Food Museum, the Glasgow Life Museum, the Hastings Museum & Art Gallery and the Museum of Free Derry, the Migration Museum (London) is seeking 10 Community Curators. Might this be you?
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Migration Museum partners with museums and galleries to launch new UK-wide Community Curators programme
The Migration Museum is partnering with five museums and galleries across the UK to launch a new programme bringing diverse voices, lived experiences, and perspectives into the creation of a series of...
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Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
In the new article, ‘Digital fire technologies and community networks’, Jennifer Gabrys, Paula Tiara Torres and Pablo González Rivas analyse how digital technologies influence fire prevention, response, and recovery in La Araucanía, Chile: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Front page of the paper ‘Digital fire technologies and community networks: Cultivating just sociotechnical practices for living with planetary change’ by Jennifer Gabrys, Paula Tiara Torres, and Pablo González Rivas, published in People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70377.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I strongly believe in giving the man a chance. But keeping Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary suggests the vicious attacks on immigrants and refugees, and self-defeating attempts to outrun the far right, are likely to continue. Which is pretty damn depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot
Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot
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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 16/07/2026
Before the Luddites and the arrival of capitalism, it wasn’t just workers pushing back against technology; governments did too. This week @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how refusal of technology has a very long history. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/337_...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
'Students’ positivity about all aspects of UK higher education courses has increased despite the problems facing the sector, according to the latest National Student Survey (NSS) results.' 80.9% positivity, up from 78.4% last year. So go on, sack us. 1/3
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NSS 2026: positivity scores up across the board despite pressures
Students more positive about teaching and free speech but some institutions still perform poorly on course management
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
'Politicians from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages have told the university’s executive “in the strongest possible terms to reconsider” the plans, in a letter seen by Times Higher Education.' 1/3
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‘Cold spot’ fears over Nottingham language cuts
Plans to close courses would have national impact, politicians write in letter urging university to reconsider
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/07/2026
New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline amid the suffocating presence of Big Tech.
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Inside the Luddite Festival Harnessing Gen Z’s Rage Against Big Tech
New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline amid the suffocating presence of Big Tech.
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Redundancies at a post-92 are just as catastrophic--if not more--as redundancies at the institutions that are members of a group specifically set up to structurally advantage themselves at the expense of post-92s. Solidarity with everyone at risk. We are all very much needed.
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Join our #FAccT2026 CRAFT session on resistance to & refusal of AI this Sunday, June 28 at 2:15pm! panel discussion w Renée Sieber @cyberlyra.bsky.social @ali-alkhatib.com @jordant.bsky.social @stoopt.bsky.social @hagenblix.bsky.social & collage workshop to explore resistance together
Poster for the “Visioning Resistance” CRAFT workshop at FAccT 2026, held on June 28, 2026 in the Hémon Room from 2:15-4:30pm. 

Panel & Collage Workshop on Adversarial Responses to Artificial Intelligence. What can FAccT researchers learn from resistance and refusal of Al?

Panelists: Renée Sieber, Janet Vertesi, Ali Alkhatib, Jordan Taylor, and Sophie Toupin
Moderator: Hagen Blix
Organizers: Alicia DeVrio, Inha Cha, Shira Abramovich, Audrey Le Meur, Ali Alkhatib, and
David Widder

Optional: Bring your own scissors and scrap paper. Collage your conference ephemera!

The poster is a collage using brightly-colored paper in yellow, blue, green, pink, and red; the title is styled in chunky black paper-cutout letters. Images of pencils and raised fists are also pasted around the text.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
only baltimore's largest employer higher ed is the largest employer in 10 states, 60 cities, dozens and dozens of counties; destroying universities is economic sabotage
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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
new episode of is it a satirical plotline from Venomous Lumpsucker or real life just dropped
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
As the Trump administration moves to weaken endangered species protections, it's backing an effort to build a national biobank for endangered and threatened species. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/coloss...
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Colossal and the US Government Are Creating an Endangered Species ‘BioVault’
The move comes as the Trump administration is trying to weaken the act that’s meant to protect endangered species from going extinct in the first place.
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Second day of 'The Fetal Archive' workshop today in London with curators, biologists, philosophers, geographers, geneticists, historians & sociologists from 7 different countries. We're looking at how we understand, interpret, display & analyse, historic fetal & embryological remains.
Group of people in front of museum display
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I don't feel sorry for Starmer. I feel for the Palestinians whose slaughter he enabled, for the trans people and refugees he's victimised, and my colleagues who've had their careers wrecked by Labour's assault on universities. A record to be ashamed of.
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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
He didn’t even pay for his own spectacles … he only ever saw the world through the lenses of a plutocrat.
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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
having heard @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social present this work a few weeks ago, I am really excited to read this critical work which seems at its heart a discussion of how technology and infrastructure affect what counts as a “good life,” and I suppose how this might be resisted at the micro scale
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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
last week to register interest for our Blue Speculations group, if you are based near the coast and interested in experimental approaches to reading and writing about coastal futures... PLUS you will get free copies of Eva Meijer's "See Now!" and Ben Smith's "Doggerland" bluespeculations.cargo.site
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Blue Speculations
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gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
reposting this which enthuses not only about Sarah Sharma's book but also the work of Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social. @dukepress.bsky.social @goodrobotpod.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @ahjackman.bsky.social @melhogan.bsky.social @alinau27.bsky.social
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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
One of my favourite ever articles!
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"Decisions arrive without clear rationale. Restructures are announced before the evidence that triggered them has been shared. Policies are reversed before they have been embedded. Courses are closed or launched with speed."
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In Doppelganger, @naomiaklein.bsky.social shows how white supremacists assume the victimhood of those they oppress, presenting the evils they do as evils done to them. In Britain, where black people are 7 times more likely than white people to die after police restraint, this is what we are seeing.
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Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Thomas Dekeyser's TECHNO-NEGATIVE (www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...) has only been out a couple months but it's crossed over into the culture in ways few scholarly books do, and rarely so quickly. Reviews & discussion of the book in Vox, New Yorker, New York Times Magazine...
a cover for a book that shows black and white stills of flames devouring objects with the book title and author name appearing.
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Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Ted Chiang is my hero and this piece is so calming to my very soul. Properly counter to all the absolute nonsense sloshing around
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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Really can't cope with the fact that Nottingham's now departed VC (now VC at Leeds - god help them) wasted £80 MILLION on a building it is now selling at a crushing loss (£14m), and is attempting to recoup some of that by sacking 100s of academics and decimating the institution. Absolutely criminal.
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Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A hugely rewarding moment to see how our research + advocacy is having impact in the House of Lords as @pollyneate.bsky.social proposes an amendment to the Social Housing Bill to ensure that domestic abuse survivors no longer face exclusion from social housing on the basis of housing-related debts.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 03/06/2026
“Unfortunately, the policymakers best-positioned to sound the alarm are ignoring the rapidly growing AI bubble because they are too distracted by Silicon Valley’s sci-fi-esque prophecies.”
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The Real AI Threat is the Bubble, not the Apocalypse
The most pressing AI-driven crisis is the overestimation of AI’s capabilities and impacts, which has produced a historically large speculative AI bubble. To safeguard against this economic catastrophe...
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Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Our special feature of People and Nature on the Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery is coming into being! The special feature emerges from our 2024 conference at the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub, Jesus College, Oxford besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @peopleandnature.bsky.social
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The Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery: People and Nature
<em>People and Nature</em> is an international journal publishing interdisciplinary research with ecological relevance that explores the relationships between humans and nature.
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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
a point that is worth hammering home: the mass redundancies happening across higher education in the UK are pretty much going to all be career ending. Thousands of people who’ve worked their whole life to become experts in something they care deeply about. It’s absolutely criminal.. such a sad waste
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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
latest piece in THE on “Future Nottingham” and it’s devastating implications to staff and students www.timeshighereducation.com/news/careers-are-going-flames-inside-nottinghams-cuts-crisis
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‘Careers are going up in flames’: inside Nottingham’s cuts crisis
With hundreds of jobs on the line and dozens of courses at risk, staff living through one of the biggest university restructuring projects of recent years fear they are shouldering the blame for wider...
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This chilling ruling suggests that people without the mental capacity to consent lack any concept of freedom and therefore cannot have their liberty removed. Welcome to the return of eugenics (if it ever went away). www.mencap.org.uk/press-releas...
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‘The biggest rollback of disability rights in a generation’ – Charities respond to Supreme Court ruling
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Was "Let's charge exorbitant fees and make universities financially dependent on international students." Then "Let's make international students feel unwelcome in the country." And "Let's cut services and support." Now "Hey, why don't you come any more? Who's going to pay for our universities?"
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University of Sussex aims to cut 200 jobs in £35m annual savings drive
Trade union Unison says the cuts will only heap "strain and uncertainty" on the staff who remain.
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