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Loves working in HE, hates the b******t.

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Melanie Simms @melaniesimms.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Understanding what’s happening at Dundee takes a good working knowledge of HE finances. But I strongly recommend that if you work in the sector, you gen up fast. It’ll resonate beyond Scotland. www.theferret.scot/dundee-unive...
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Dundee university might have too much cash to qualify for its taxpayer bailout
The university has continued to argue staff cuts are needed to make ends meet. But a growing cash balance has raised questions about the need for more redundancies, and whether it qualifies for millio...
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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The Ferret @theferret.scot · 29/09/2026
NEW: Audit firm PwC is examining whether the University of Dundee has too much cash to be eligible for £27m in taxpayer bailout funding.  The university had £85m in cash at the end of June, we understand. Read the full story 👉 bit.ly/4iSUO0a
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The Ferret @theferret.scot · 29/09/2026
🔴 800 jobs have gone at the University of Dundee since 2024, with redundancies continuing. Management says the cuts are needed to make ends meet  So why is PwC investigating if they have too much cash to get £27m in taxpayer bailouts?  Full story 👉 bit.ly/4iSUO0a
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Le Dog @ledog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
After another busy @ducuuo.bsky.social picket I’d like to highlight another way we’re fighting back. This is to cover the legal costs for a judicial review of the governance decisions that led to the threat of compulsory redundancies. Please help if you can. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/judicial-r...
Dundee UCU members on the picket line.
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Andy in Scotland @andyrewscotland.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ski Sunday was the spark that got so many of us into snowsports. But right now, there's hardly any free-to-air coverage to inspire the next generation. Let’s get the BBC to bring back this iconic show and celebrate our winter athletes! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Bring back Ski Sunday
For generations, Ski Sunday inspired us to hit the slopes and follow British athletes. Let's tell the BBC to bring back this iconic show so the next generation doesn't miss out on the magic of the mou...
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Would anyone care to guess which university has the highest NSS score in Scotland for mathematical sciences?
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I've now seen the management proposals for maths at Dundee. Basically: shutter the UG degrees; lose 3FTE (on a headcount of 16); maths continues "as a discipline" but only for service teaching, "interdisciplinary contribution" and MScs including, inevitably, one in AI.
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The Scottish Funding Council waved through the University of Dundee's Strategy to Recovery, even though it broke their funding conditions. The Scottish Gov need to ACT NOW and ask the SFC to reverse their decision, and stop the redundancy process TODAY. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
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EXCLUSIVE: Funding council waved through Dundee University £20m cuts plan despite own concerns
The strategy is crucial to the university unlocking another £20 million in rescue funds.
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The University of Dundee is proposing to close the English for International Students unit. Graduates like Kalani Ruchitra benefitted hugely from the programme and the support of the dedicated team. Listen to Kalani’s plea to save the English for International Students team. #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni
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Le Dog @ledog.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Hugely unimpressed with the SFC, the @snp.org government and many ( certainly not all ) of our local and regional MSPs. I’ve been an @snp.org member for years. I can’t see that continuing. @scottishgreens.org will be getting my vote from now on.
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Edzia Carvalho @edziac.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
@johnswinney.bsky.social, you can expect that we will not go out without a fight. Your government is standing idly by while one of the biggest assets of the Yes City in Dundee is being destroyed.
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A 5 mins proclamation from the interim Principal of the University of Dundee announcing voluntary redundancy pools. No offers of additional support for staff. No chance for questions. No engagement with staff of students @scotfundcouncil.bsky.social hope you are monitoring this continued failure
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Le Dog @ledog.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Piss poor response from @johnswinney.bsky.social here. As a (different) University employee and @snp.org member I expect better. Fair work principles?
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
£20m more staff cuts being put to the University’s Court today. Around 250 people will be made redundant if the plan goes through and remove all of that £20m every year from the local economy and high street. Over 1000 staff gone. @dundee.ac.uk @thecourier.co.uk @eveningtelegraph.bsky.social
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Andy in Scotland @andyrewscotland.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 29/01/2026
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Directed by Thom Zimny Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 07/01/2026
Live updates: Around 200 people marched more than two miles from the scene of the shooting to Minneapolis City Hall, shouting “ICE out now!” after police hurried away from the scene Wednesday afternoon. The crowd of is continuing to snake its way through downtown.
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Live: ICE agent shoots, kills woman in Minneapolis
Video of the shooting shows an agent firing at a vehicle as it drives toward him. The governor and Minneapolis mayor called for calm after the incident. ICE said the agent acted defensively.
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Andy in Scotland @andyrewscotland.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
A paddle up the river Tay from Broughty Ferry to Balmerino (17km) done properly.
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Joss @josstified.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Waterfall, John Knox's pulpit, Fife.
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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Glad to be able to pop by the @ducuuo.bsky.social picket line as they were just getting set up this morning. Staff are on strike in the cold & damp to say NO to compulsory redundancies. Management must engage with staff properly: co-design a recovery plan, do not impose cuts! #Solidarity
Maggie wearing a dark blue coat standing next to 5 people, 4 of whom are wearing bright pink UCU beanies. They are holding the Dundee UCU banner. The Tower Building is in the background.
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Le Dog @ledog.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Interim Principal clearly said on STV News there would be no redundancies. Now he is trying to make hundreds of us redundant. Was that misleading people? Was it lying? Total ineptitude? Whatever it is, staff and students have no trust in this ‘leadership’.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/11/2025
It's so cool that when the right person lands a direct hit on ol' Elon he can't stop from lighting up and spinning his bowtie like a carnival game clown
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🪷 Christopher 🪷 @coffeeshopsage.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I once had a landlord that owned the shopping plaza we had a store in. He was busted by the town for dumping chemicals into the sewer system, several times. He was the biggest asshole I've ever met in my life. It takes a certain type. share.google/offzp2x6o0cv...
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped tunnel drilling fluids into Las Vegas manholes—and then ‘feigned compliance’ and was caught doing it again | Fortune
A Nevada regulator accused Boring of dumping wastewater into a county sewage system, the latest in a series of violations against the tunneling startup.
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
www.facebook.com/share/p/19C1... My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
They’ve buried it so thoroughly my colleagues know little about the thousands of studies on problems… and even more importantly… almost nothing about the solutions.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Hahahahaha!
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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
"Can't expand economy without healthy workforce." Letting Covid disable so many people in the UK was a deliberate choice by Johnson & his pathetic cronies. If the economy will continue to struggle as a result, then we know who to blame, don't we?
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The impact of the recent VS scheme at the University of Dundee on the art and design student experience. Unsurprising and no doubt similar challenges being seen across all academic disciplines. thejutejournal.com/2025/10/13/f...
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From Studio to Struggle: The Real Cost of Cuts at DJCAD
“There is at least a sense that the teachers and the students are sort of in it together in all of their confusion… There’s a disconnect not between student and teacher but betwee…
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Snowy Winter🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️🇪🇺🇺🇦😷❄️🏔️🍸🫖 @oneeyedlizzie.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
@dundeeuniunite.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social #DundeeUniUnison Ballot paper posted this morning, the day after it arrived. Fill in your ballot paper & post ot in. Your vote is your voice, every vote counts. #OneOfUsAllOfUs #FairPayInHE
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
When the Gillies report was published, the expectation was that governance at the University of Dundee would improve. In all truthfulness it’s got worse. Much worse.
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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Have a look through my website wgsaraband.com and get yourself some handmade, unique art made with all the strengths, faults and emotions of an actual human being. Added bonus of supporting an independent Portuguese-Scottish artist 😉
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Our members have voted to support industrial action to fight against job cuts passed today! In the ballot our 72% of members were in favour of strike action, and 90% in favour of action short of strike. Turnout was 58%. Thank you to all members, reps and officials for helping us get the vote out.
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Le Dog @ledog.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Thank you @ducuuo.bsky.social comrades for returning this result. We will not give up. We care about our university, our students and our city. It has been a very long time since anyone at the top did. That’s got to change.
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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The implication from Labour is that we, migrants, don't contribute enough, don't integrate enough, don't work enough. Meanwhile I've volunteered in political activism for no pay, I've taken Gàidhlig evening classes, I make a living as an artist creating abstract renditions of Scottish landscapes.
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Remember when UEG told us “there was no plan B” for further redundancies. Now we know, from the published Recovery Plan, that at the same time they were proposing over 400 future job losses including over 350 redundancies. We cannot trust their words. Vote in our ballot now to protect jobs.
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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Painted this after some random troll sent me a message on Instagram saying my art "reeked of communist degeneracy", and I can't thank him enough for the high praise. "Communist Degeneracy" - 21x29cm, fine liner on paper Available here: wgsaraband.com/geometric-co...
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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
4 of the 5 criteria to define genocide have been confirmed by this report - two years of this madness unfolding before our eyes whilst our political class, particularly Starmer and his government, gaslight us.
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Andy in Scotland @andyrewscotland.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Solidarity with colleagues from @edinburghuni.bsky.social who are striking because they are threatened with compulsory redundancy despite the fact _There is NO Deficit_ Just a reduction in income curtailing vanity projects
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Andy in Scotland @andyrewscotland.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Solidarity with colleagues from @EdinburghUni who are striking because they are threatened with compulsory redundancy despite the fact _There is NO Deficit_ Just a reduction in income curtailing vanity projects
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This is a real tweet from the official account of the US Department of Energy.
"Wind and solar energy infrastructure is essentially worthless when it is dark outside, and the wind is not blowing."
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Andy in Scotland @andyrewscotland.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The Scottish Government kicked out a proposal for 632 compulsory redundancies and that was replaced with 300 voluntary. Our interim principal submitted a "Recovery Plan" (aka evisceration) with over 400 more redundancies and said we were happy with it. sites.dundee.ac.uk/ducu/crisis-...
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DUCU Position on University Recovery Plan – Dundee University and College Union
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Visit our website, and read about our strong opposition to the recently rejected University Recovery Plan: a plan created by the short-term team in charge at University of Dundee. sites.dundee.ac.uk/ducu/ #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni
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Dundee University and College Union
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
You said there would be no redundancies on national television. Then confirmed on 1st July to 1000 staff and @thecourier.co.uk there is no Plan ‘B’ for redundancies. Then six weeks later it’s revealed your failed “recovery plan” wanted 190 compulsory redundancies. m.youtube.com/watch?v=X3hF...
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Scottish Government announces £40m bailout for university
YouTube video by STV News
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Andy in Scotland @andyrewscotland.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Now what does this remind me of??
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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Amazing that when a distressed university's financial situation is subject to parliamentary hearings and an independent investigation, the senior leaders and governors resign and redundancies are called off. We need this level of scrutiny for every university in England.
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Thank you Prof Seaton for confirming this.
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
NO REDUNDANCIES at the University of Dundee. Fantastic news in our fight to save jobs, as interim Principal Prof Nigel Seaton confirms that there will be no redundancies. A massive victory for everyone who has supported us. Looking forward to receiving the removal of Section 188 in writing.
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
We are extremely concerned by the letter from Ernst and Young, auditors at the University of Dundee. The letter suggests that executives submitted inaccurate responses during the auditing process. 1/2 www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-...
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Letter from Ernst and Young LLP to the Court of the University of Dundee
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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
A suicide hotline pushing "extreme gender ideology"? Riiiight... Utterly soulless and spiteful. Dehumanising already marginalised people with suicidal thoughts, wonderful idea 💔 Live and let live, folks, ffs. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump administration ends LGBTQ youth option on US suicide hotline
The Trevor Project, an organisation involved in the service, called the change "incomprehensible".
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