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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 21h

Day 4 of the UCU workers' strike against massive job cuts. “Senior management can stop this strike by prioritizing cuts to non-staff budgets and stopping redundancies that are decimating our university, while leaving those who remain with an unmanageable workload & exhaustion." UCUE co-president

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 14h

Strike day 4. Joined a picket line with Edinburgh University colleagues, sang some non-English protest songs with our university's wonderful languages lecturers, and attended the joint Edinburgh / Dundee / GCU UCU rally outside the Scottish Parliament. A day of joyful solidarity. ✊🏻

A crowd of staff and students outside Holyrood

A person (Maggie Chapman MSP) addresses a crowd.

A papier-mache lecturer alongside people with signs protesting job cuts at Dundee University.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 13h

Raucous, joyouse scenes at the demo of the UCU workers and students of Dundee and Edinburgh University, protesting the cuts to thousands of jobs: "Management has already pushed through hundreds of hidden redundancies, with some classes doubling in size over the past couple of years as a result."

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Bicerin @bicerin.bsky.social · 13h

#UCU Our universities are attacking the Arts. In this instance, Edinburgh University is cutting courses & staff because Management are claiming the university is in financial crisis. It isn’t, but it is mismanaged. By THEM. But students & staff suffer. Please sign this petition. c.org/yjzn4Dc9Gg

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Save the Craft and Design Courses at Edinburgh College of Art

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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 12h

Scottish Parliament concourse full to the brim for the rally by striking branches fighting cuts and defending jobs. Speakers from UCU Dundee, Edinburgh and GCU branches striking today, cross party MSPs, students supporting the strikes and @DrJoGrady #SaveHE #StopTheCuts

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 12h

Today I stood with UCU Scotland members outside the Scottish Parliament as they fight for their jobs, their students and the future of higher education. I’m proud to stand with them. 1/2

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 12h

We cannot keep asking university staff to do more with less while jobs, courses and student support are cut. Solidarity with UCU Edinburgh and Dundee UCU ✊ 2/2

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 11h

✊🏽 Back strikes as onslaught of cuts hit universities Workers at the University of Edinburgh launched five weeks of strikes this week over cuts that they say are “cruel and unnecessary”. And students actively support the workers. buff.ly/IunmXz6

View of students in the Socialist Worker Students Society at University of Edinburgh with a banner reading "Edinburgh students support the strikes"

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adoyleaustin.bsky.social @aliceaustin.bsky.social · 20h

It certainly seems that dignity and respect are qualities that only apply in some directions (as seen in this email exchange shared in the student staff assembly)

An email exchange between a redacted student and the principal of the University of Edinburgh, Peter Mathieson.

The student email ends "thanks for taking the time to read this email, and I hope that soon you will begin to take the feedback of my peers and professors seriously. Regards, (redacted)."

Peter Mathieson's reply: "(Redacted), maybe you will learn to spell 'although'. Peter."

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 20h

Still it’s good to see the Dignity and Respect policy applies to someone in a university. Because things it lists - Transparency! Communication! Responsiveness! Have been very short in supply the past few years. Weaponising it is exactly the tone deafness that is making us all rage. 🧐

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 29/09/2026

Colleagues at Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Caledonian are all on strike today over job cuts. Please show your solidarity as they take to the picket lines to defend jobs and education.

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EIS @eisunion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lecturers at GCU are united on the picket line this week. EIS and UCU colleagues are fighting against job cuts with our Unison colleagues due to strike alongside us on Thursday. Join our picket, tell fellow students and staff about the strikes, help us protect quality education at GCU! #Savethe100

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And if you cannot join us on the picket line, please consider supporting our solidarity fund. This will help supplement the lost income our members will face during our 2+ months of strike action. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Help raise £10000 to support the Nottingham UCU hardship fund – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to support the Nottingham UCU hardship fund. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. The 1,800 jobs UCU estimates will be cut is unprecedented in Scottish higher education. It is happening in the wealthiest Scottish university, and the third richest in the UK, currently sitting with over £3billion reserves.

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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

EXC: A leading theatre has joined the fight against programme closures at the Edinburgh College of Art. "Decisions about specialist courses have consequences beyond the institutions in which they are taught," said Lyndsey Jackson. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2659071...

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Leading Edinburgh theatre condemns 'deeply concerning' design programme closures

The executive director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh has spoken out against the cuts, saying they are of “deep concern” to creatives…

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Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today, staff @ University of #Edinburgh are striking to protest recently announced cuts - incl. the forced closure of >90 courses. Principal Prof Sir Peter Mathieson accused the union of "weaponising" students. I find this enraging, so: a short (quite personal) thread. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts

Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And its protests on Bristo Square ...

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Its Law School ...

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Its Moray House School of Education ...

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Overwhelming response today from the protests and picket lines at the University of Edinburgh, on Day 1 of the UCU workers' strike. This includes at the university's Medical School ...

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm on strike for the next five weeks with @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social because management continues to threaten mass compulsory redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts

Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 28/09/2026

£140m in cuts. Up to 1,800 jobs at risk. 93 programmes set to go. UCU members at the University of Edinburgh begin five weeks of strike action today. We back our branch. We need you to do the same. Education belongs to all of us.

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Kirsten Lloyd @klloyd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This was the largest picket I have ever seen at Edinburgh College of Art (& I’ve been at a fair few). Massive support from students as we fight against compulsory redundancies. @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

large group of people stand outside sandstone buildings holding UCU placards

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 28/09/2026

Solidarity with our members at the University of Edinburgh from Richard Burgon MP as they begin five weeks of strike action to defend jobs and education. Stand with Edinburgh UCU.

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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you want to support this strike action Email senior management (like Mathieson) Donate to the UCU to support the hardship fund. Or lobby your MSP and let them know funding alone won't solve this crisis of leadership and representation.

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Lobby Your MSP! — UCU Edinburgh

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Solidarity with all our striking colleagues at Edinburgh facing down a managerial massacre of courses and jobs. An injury to them is absolutely and inevitably an injury to us all. This is not going to stop here.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Day 1 of the strike by the workers of UCU Edinburgh against the manufactured deficit (which is not really a deficit), and against a senior management earning millions while staff disappear and education suffers. Solidarity against this parasitical form of management of our higher education.

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Christine Ferguson @cferguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Solidarity to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social as they fight what have clearly been proven to be unnecessary and disproportionate cuts within an institution that remains the wealthiest university in Scotland. Victory to the strikers! www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/five-we...

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Staff at the University of Edinburgh start five-week strike — UCU Edinburgh

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Edinburgh today (Monday) start five-weeks of strikes in a dispute over £140million cuts and compulsory redundancies. The strike f...

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Walk to work, stop at the threshold, don't go in. @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social is on strike. www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/strike-news-...

Web page with news of 900 staff and students coming together in solidarity

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 28/09/2026

Our members at Edinburgh University commence a 5 week strike today over crippling job cuts. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 27/09/2026

RCN 🤝 UCU

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How was my weekend? Up and down, I guess 😄 Early autumn at Dalkeith country park.

View down to feet on forest floor covered in brown leaves

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Amazing turn out from students and staff at the University of Edinburgh, in protest at senior management's greed and manufactured cuts. This is what solidarity looks like - as our campaign of industrial action begins this coming week in protest at the cuts. www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/student...

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900+ at inaugural Student & Staff Assembly! — UCU Edinburgh

More than 900 students and staff gathered for the inaugural Student-Staff Assembly on Thursday 24 September.

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/five-we... 90 courses to be closed at Edinburgh, most in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, incl. Portuguese, Persian studies, and apparently Medieval History. 1,800 job losses estimated. The University has confirmed there is no financial deficit.

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Five-week strike at Edinburgh University at start of new academic term — UCU Edinburgh

UCU SCOTLAND PRESS RELEASE 11:00 AM Thursday 17 September 2026 Members of the University and College Union (UCU) Scotland at Edinburgh University will strike for 25 days over five weeks from 2...

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Edinburgh University adds another entry to the imaginative lexicon universities use to say, “We’re cutting” "We are refreshing our programme to consolidate our offering for future students and make their degree pathways easier to navigate" www.heraldscotland.com/news/2656140...

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University defends closure of 48 language and literature courses, including Celtic

Forty-eight programmes in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) are among the casualties.

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Jelena Đureinović @jelenadj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What do the logistics, agency and organisation of the 1958 commemoration of the Battle of Sutjeska reveal about the social production of war remembrance in socialist Yugoslavia? Super excited about my new article in @conteurohistory.bsky.social and it’s open access: doi.org/10.1017/S096...

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The programme I run - the MSc in Contemporary History - will be axed, amongst so many others. We've also been told our undergrad courses will need to have a minimum of 20 students over a 3 year period. The bonfire of the universities has truly come for Edinburgh.

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We will start 25 days of strike action next week as we fight to save jobs at University of Dundee. Join us on the picket line on our first day of our action (Monday 21st September) and you will find a delicious selection of home baked treats. Raising money for the student hardship fund and members.

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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...

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Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape

According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.

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Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

These cuts disproportionately target the arts & humanities: the Business School loses only three courses; the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures loses 48 – many of these are joint degrees, removing the optional breadth of study which has always been one of the appeals of a Scottish degree

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We are taking 25 days of strike action starting on Monday. We want the University of Executive Group rule out compulsory redundancies. To our students - this is a last resort to retain jobs that are essential for your education during your degree at the University of Dundee. Support the strike!

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you're a union member, and an external examiner at Brighton, you should resign. The game's changed, and you won't like what's coming next.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 11/09/2026

Every worker facing redundancy at the University of Birmingham is from a migrant or minority ethnic background. UCU members will meet on 17 September to decide whether to ballot for strike action. No compulsory redundancies. Release the equality impact assessment. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1463...

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University of Birmingham staff to consider strike ballot over redundancies that fall entirely on minority ethnic staff

Staff at the University of Birmingham will meet next week to consider potential strike action in a battle against redundancies, the University and College Union (UCU) said today (11 September).

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

4-year postdoc(s) at Copenhagen Business School on project The Business of Corruption: Why Business Elites Collude or Combat Political Corruption, led by @mkjustesen.bsky.social. Start: summer 2027, deadline 18 September. www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs...

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Curtains close on the annual @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social conference, #Eurocrim2026, & the flag passes hands from Warsaw to Skopje.

White neoclassical library building with formal garden.

Dagmara Woźniakowska standing at lectern addressing an audience

Yellow tee shirt-wearing volunteers receiving warm applause

Representatives of local conference organisers 2026 Warsaw, and 2027 Skopje, holding the conference flag.

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