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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 13h

Sir Peter Mathieson will leave Edinburgh University once his current term of office ends in early 2028, the institution announced today. Full story at heraldscotland.com

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 9h

I guess the consultancy firms will miss him.

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Sara Rich Dorman @srd.bsky.social · 17h

Great turnout at the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social demo today!

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 12h

The unmitigated disaster of his time at the head of the institution goes on. If I knew that only 6% of my colleagues had confidence in me (staff survey 2025), I don't think I could stay one more day in the job.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 19h

A new trade union has just been officially registered, the UK Hospitality Union It's a v under-represented part of the workplace re. unions: "Members include...baristas, hotel staff, restaurant staff, chefs, event caterers, bar staff, housekeeping." Be interesting to see how they fare

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UK Hospitality Union | trade union

At the UK Hospitality Trade Union, we are the united voice for workers across the UK's hospitality sector. Our mission is simple: to advocate for fair treatment, safe working conditions, and equitable...

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Crisis at Nottingham University has been worsened by senior-management financial decisions Staff & students pay the price -- but not the previous Vice Chancellor who precipitated the disaster Shearer West is now VC at Leeds thetimes.com/uk/education...

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Lecturers on strike till Christmas: welcome to Nottingham University

Bad business decisions have been blamed for the decision to shut entire departments — as academics protest it is students who suffer

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

At least one for Scots Gaelic, but quite possibly a few more for Irish too.

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Did somebody say October? Enjoying a weekend between bouts of strike action with @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social by embracing the fall and opening pumpkin season with a baked pumpkin cheesecake. Battery recharged, ready for the Monday picket line.

Views of a pumpkin cheesecake, autumn leaves and a munchkin pumpkin. The chessecake is dense, orange brown, and dusted with icing sugar.

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Edinburgh book launch! I’m going to be having an Edinburgh book launch for An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class on the evening of Tuesday 27 October. Venue and time will be confirmed soon. Save the date! Get your tickets 🔽

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Argonaut Books - Leith's Independent Bookshop

We are Argonaut Books, a community bookshop for Leith, Edinburgh. We hold a curated selection of books; we only stock books that we are genuinely passionate about. We specialise in Science Fiction, Fa...

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thanks Kate, not that I am a lawyerly law person, but I can imagine this is just the sort of scholarship where an LLB degree in Law and Celtic would be an excellent starting point... ...Checks notes... ...had it not just been binned by Edinburgh University.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Day 5 of the UCU workers' strike against massive job cuts by highly remunerated senior management. “We are looking at hundreds of job losses, dozens of course closures ... Without even mentioning the removal of opportunities for people up and down Scotland." Jo Grady, UCU President, 01.10.2026

A pop-art depiction by Roy Lichtenstein of a blonde blue-eyed woman crying. Accompanying text highlights the worsening teaching conditions and likely impact on student education.

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our strike action yesterday wasn't the first step in this fight and it for sure won't be our last. Our members, our students, and our community members know what is at stake. And we will all keep going toe to toe with management until they listen to reason.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 02/10/2026

"Students know whose fault this is." Students turned out alongside staff at the University of Nottingham, with a clear message to management: stop the cuts and listen. "We aren't going anywhere." Staff and students are united.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

#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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Sign the Petition

Save the Craft and Design Courses at Edinburgh College of Art

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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

✊🏽 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 · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

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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