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I’m sorry to miss this but you should all go. John‘s writing is full of care and it makes for brilliant books and events about his books.

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Miserable stuff from Nottingham.

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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

41% staffing cuts in the Faculty of Arts at UoN. We're entering a wilderness of creativity and critical thinking.

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Train staff doing a great job in the face of much adversity though. It must be a soul destroying experience, working for them at the moment.

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I will not ‘embrace AI’ for all of these reasons.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This presents a serious challenge to those of us in 'AI positive' institutions, where we have no choice but to engage with AI to some extent. (Tho' students here have an ethical opt-out, teachers do not.) We must educate our students about ALL aspects of AI, including the (un)ethical underpinning.

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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This collection is a true collaboration. My partner's illustrations. Brian Lewis's impeccable design and production scrupulosity. The happenstance of North Sheffield, filtered through Japanese forms. And I promise, no order is more carefully packaged than orders from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is really important. Academics (on the whole 😬) are good at engaging with the public, enthusing them about research and showing them that universities are doing useful and interesting things. Let them do this.

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the thing that fries my brain is that the whole HE fees system is utterly broken, everyone who knows anything about it knows it is broken, and nobody who can do anything about it (legislators) seems to want to do anything about it

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

About 2.7 million hours of work for no return.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Celtic (UG), Chinese & Russian (UG), Contemporary History, Economics & Statistics (joint degree), Inclusive Education (MSc), Intellectual History, Italian & Classics (joint), Law & Social Policy (joint), Medieval History, Persian Studies (UG), Portuguese (UG), Psychology & Economics (joint)....

heraldscotland.com

Full list of the 90 programmes earmarked for closure at leading Scottish university

Managers say the cuts are necessary “to protect our world-leading reputation and resilience in research and teaching” but staff members have hit…

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Voluntary redundancy extended, *this* time with the explicit message that the now-possibly-inevitable compulsory redundancies will get smaller payoffs. Plus we’ve got a figure now that the university is trying to save, and lots of fun ways they might try to save it.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 16/09/2026

If you needed evidence that universities are getting rid of some of the best people, you will find some here.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My understanding is that the evidence shows LLM-based assessment gives better 'marks' to LLM-written things (essays, grants etc). So by choosing to use LLM-based assessment, UKRI will likely penalise every academic who actually writes their own grants unassisted. Grim.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 14/09/2026

The government’s university funding policy is forcing women out of the academy. The example below is a pattern. This is one of the many ways the whole mess is unjust.

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is beyond appalling. I’m so sorry you are being treated with such contempt. How can this even be a possible solution.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

'Britain’s debate about universities has become strangely one-sided. We scrutinise the supply of graduate skills....Far less attention is paid to the demand side: whether Britain’s economy is creating enough high-skilled opportunities to make full use of the talent universities produce.' Good stuff

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Universities Produce Talent. Economies Produce Returns. - HEPI

Join the Policy Institute at King’s College London and HEPI on Tuesday 15 September, from 6.30pm to 7.45pm, at Bush House, London, for a free event exploring the future of higher education in England....

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

No care for staff or students here. An absolutely appalling process which has been going on for months.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Derby Museums currently has the Joseph Wright of Derby: From the Shadows exhibition that was on at the National Gallery. That was great but small and paid. At Derby it is bigger, better displayed and FREE. Until November.

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The recent European Research Council grant starting grant results shows the real strength of UK social science and humanities. The UK won 18% of the SSH starting grants, compared to 8% of physical sciences and engineering and 7% of the life sciences grants erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

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ERC Starting Grants: €705 million to back Europe's next generation of researchers

The European Research Council (ERC) has today announced the winners of its latest Starting Grant competition. The funding, worth €705 million in total, will go to 421 early-career researchers across E...

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Very wise. I try not to but slip up sometimes. Today was a bad day to slip up

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you work in a University, had the misfortune to hear this bit of the World at One and aren’t now sitting with your head on your keyboard in despair, I salute you.

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Arrghh, I totally missed this. I take it all back about him being less obnoxious than usual. Absolutely vile behaviour.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Anyone working in the sector already knows, but still good to see it in black & white. Professional services *people*--not just interchangeable hubs of administration--are essential to a good university. Their institutional knowledge has been consistently undervalued & their loss is catastrophic.

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you’re going to sack people at least have the decency to do it when you’ll say you’ll do it.

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The British police have historically struggled to appreciate fascists as anything more than a colourful and fleeting public order disruption; despite what fascists themselves claim, they’ve generally been policed in a disproportionately accommodating manner.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Last few days for our current special offer

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you can get to Tideswell (8th) or Hathersage (30th) in the Peak District in October then I can highly recommend an evening watching Stone of Stone, a brilliant film made by the villagers of Edale. Trailer and tickets linktr.ee/edale.film It's amazing what a village can do. 🎉

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Edale Film Official: Instagram | Linktree

View edale.film’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like Soundcloud here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Beautiful words @helenmort.bsky.social which capture the loss to the creative and outdoor community and (more importantly) family and friends. x

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 02/09/2026

Sheffield UCU members have had enough. Repeated restructures, job cuts and relentless change facing staff at the University of Sheffield. 84% of voting staff and PhD students recently said they have no confidence in university management. Please watch and share.

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I‘m really sorry to hear this news, Brian. I loved reading Paul’s tales of Scout’s adventures, as well as his later writings about life. He seemed like a thoroughly good egg and we need more of them, not fewer. x

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If ’mainly women’ made the Bayeux Tapestry, why would the sentence about who made it put men first? BBC Today programme, infuriating as usual.

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"Applications may be made by independent scholars" klaxon! 🫪🙌🏼 @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

See also the way Google Maps mangles Welsh place names.

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In 1860, a local landowner tried to interfere with public access to a ruined church & graveyard on his land in Killone, Co Clare. Letters to the paper give us a sense of the local reaction - ‘for he who wars with the handful of dust at his feet is no friend to the living’ (Munster News, 14 Jan)

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is the most fucked up and immediately harmful policy decision I think I've ever seen in adult trans healthcare in the UK, and that's saying something. The Welsh Gender Service is one of the best in the country. It is widely praised by the patients it helps. That is why it is being targeted.

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Honestly! Why was this even a dispute? When people (politicians) complain that ‘no one wants to work’ it’s because employers can be absolute shits. 😬 Well done @prospectunion.bsky.social #JoinAUnion

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I sometimes entangle my hair in a low hanging branch. The struggle is real. Good luck.

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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A thread on the dispute at Exeter Uni. #ucu #defendexeteruni @ucu.org.uk On 15 June HR called Exeter UCU into a confidential meeting and informed us they would be putting over 500 colleagues at risk of redundancy and expected to loose around 200 staff. The number of c.150 you’ll have seen is FTE.

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Ok. Didn't plan this, got friends waiting, and I'm writing it anyway. Jason Arday resigned a week ago, saying the accusations had "taken a profound toll on me and on those I love." Friday they found him dead in Battersea. This is one newspaper. 🧵

A dark-mode Google search results page showing around forty-four articles about Jason Arday, every one of them from The Telegraph, dated between 24 July and 14 August 2026. Headlines include "Jason Arday found dead", "Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow", "A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance – take it from Dr Arday", "We are all Jason Arday now", "The Cambridge fantasist is proof that stupid intellectuals…", "Cambridge diversity poster boy faces questions over pig's…", "The Arday debacle is a great opportunity for the Left", and "Police investigated journalist who tried to expose…". Most of the standing descriptions refer to him as Cambridge's youngest black professor.

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