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Laura Chuhan Campbell

@cambiechoo.bsky.social
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Medieval literature, metal, field hockey (in any order).

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Laura Chuhan Campbell @cambiechoo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"verify your age" Learned about the fall of the Berlin Wall from Timmy Mallet on a Wacaday special
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Laura Chuhan Campbell @cambiechoo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Favourite banners from this year's Miner's Gala: Trimdon Colliery's Good Samaritan helping a stranger with improbably ripped abs and...wait for it.... raving miners!
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
As wildfires rage, Andy Burnham still won't rule out airport expansion. He still hasn't commited to ending new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. The incoming Prime Minister can't say the climate crisis is an emergency whilst backing policies that make it worse.
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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
5/ There is clearly NO SHORTAGE OF CASH at Exeter 6/ Don’t believe the hype - out of touch managers are trying to trash our fantastic uni. Our student numbers are strong, our disciplines are strong, our finances are strong. Let’s keep it that way and #DefendExeterUni
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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Missed the VC’s speech? Lucky you. Here’s the financial highlights! 1/ Confirmed Exeter uni is STILL IN SURPLUS for 25/26 2/ The top 16 execs at Exeter have a combined pay packet of nearly £4m 3/ The VC has a pay packet of nearly £400k a year 4/ Our cash reserves are going up, year on year [1/2]
Greg and Tom from the HBO show succession, with text saying "you can't do anything with five million"
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This is amazing; 40 women’s organizations standing in support of trans people’s human rights against this government’s targeting of trans people against the EHRC transphobic code. Trans people and cis women’s rights are not in opposition.
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Women’s organisations speak up against the EHRC's Code - LIVE
I’m Women’s organisations speak up against the EHRC's updated Code of Practice   We are a collection of women's organisations, networks and community groups that work with and support women across th...
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Nottingham is the only Russell Group university that will have no modern language provision at all. The East Midlands is becoming a language cold spot. It's not too late to reverse the cuts and closures. @uonucu.bsky.social has a fully-costed plan to save our university.
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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 03/07/2026
With trans rights under attack as never before, we need to show our support for the trans community. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/d23a8a
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I stand with trans people | Good Law Project
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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is an excellent thread summarising the state of UKHE and why we should be angry. These intellectual losses have very real effects for UK society as a whole, making us less creative, less intelligent, less healthy, and altogether poorer.
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A REMINDER! WILL WORK FOR MONEY! joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
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Freelance Work
Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Exceptionally important and positive news for our sectors!! #UCU #UKHE
Times Higher headline:

TPS employer contribution rate to drop below 20 per cent

Universities could save up to £900 million after years of sky-high payments 

Published on July 1, 2026

Last updated July 1, 2026

Juliette Rowsell
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
@exeter.ac.uk is not in deficit, has £200m+ cash reserves, hasn’t invested in white elephants, doesn’t have a recruitment problem, never had 1000s of international students, and deliveres outstanding outcomes in teaching and research. If UEB’s data projects a deficit won’t they share it with UCU?
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Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Shocking news about redundancies in the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire, despite their exceptional research activities. I have signed the petition against these actions: it would be great if you would as well: c.org/kDQynZV7J4 @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social
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Sign the Petition
Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire
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Laura Chuhan Campbell @cambiechoo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Attended a fantastic panel at the Society for French Studies this week by valued colleagues from Modern Languages at Exeter. It’s absolutely heartbreaking that these brilliant academics are in scope for redundancy.
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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
There's a template letter that folks might like to use to the President. Adapt at will.
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Template e-mail to support Exeter colleagues against redundancies
To: president @ exeter.ac.uk [remove spaces] Subject: Opposition to compulsory redundancies at Exeter Dear Professor Roberts, I am writing to express my strong opposition to the recently announced r...
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Laura Chuhan Campbell @cambiechoo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Please sign and share!
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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🗣️ Medievalists! 🏰 Check out this page, we’ve done a reconstruction the medieval chapel at Chester Castle! www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places... Please share widely! There’s loads of info and *lovely* images from the repertoire of medieval art - and also more reconstructions!
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The Chester Castle Chapel Wall Paintings
The walls of the medieval chapel in the Agricola Tower at Chester Castle were richly painted around 1240 with scenes including miracles of the Virgin Mary and St Edward the Confessor. From the fragmen...
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Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Hi #UCU. l wrote a response to Lorna Finlayson's latest NLR piece, 'Irreversible'. It's from the heart as a precarious academic, a trade unionist and, frankly, someone who thinks the climate change metaphor used in the original piece is unhelpful and damaging. ucucommons.org/we-shouldnt-...
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‘We shouldn’t mourn those who are not dead’: A reply to Lorna Finlayson’s ‘Irreversible’
By Matilda Fitzmaurice There is no arguing with many of the facts stated up front in Lorna Finlayson’s ‘Irreversible’, published in the New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’ on 29th May. Climate change is irre...
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Laura Chuhan Campbell @cambiechoo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Hope to see the far right squashed into oblivion in my native constituency of Makerfield today. Come on Wigan!
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Hello, if you want doggy day care in London at your house, I charge competitive rates. I work around your dog's routine and get on with my work in a fun new environment so it's win-win. Contact via website, link in bio!
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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
If I hear one more university leader say they're making "tough decisions" about redundancies or worsening our employment conditions, I will scream. They are not making tough choices, they're making the easiest decisions in the world. Tough decisions would be fighting the inevitability of job losses
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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 20/04/2026
I’d like to use my freedom of speech to call for the destruction of the Office for Students that basically does nothing beneficial for universities, students, education, or society.
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Brunel UCU #nocompulsoryredundancies @brunelucu.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Hello all on bsky 👋 As with so many of our @ucu.org.uk sister branches, here @brunelucu.bsky.social we are again this year fighting compulsory redundancies. Please circulate and sign: Stop compulsory redundancies at Brunel University of London 👇 speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/stop-brunel-...
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Stop compulsory redundancies at Brunel University of London
Brunel University of London management have expressed their intention to move forward with plans for further compulsory redundancies in 2025-26. This comes after a year of decimation in 2024-25, when ...
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Miriam IRL @miriam.blacksky.app · 14/08/2025
“We’re here to talk about A levels” “Free Palestine the BBC is complicit” 💀💀
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Laura Chuhan Campbell @cambiechoo.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The Reform-led council in Durham have withdrawn funding for the annual Durham Pride march. The TUC and Miners Association are organising a fundraising event in September: redhillsdurham.org/event/we-are...
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We Are Still Here | Redhills Durham | Empowering Durham Coalfield Communities
Durham Pride, in partnership with the Durham Miners Association and the TUC, will present a screening of ‘Pride’, a decisive moment of solidarity that you can experience at Redhill’s, the […]
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Laura Chuhan Campbell @cambiechoo.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Name a TV show you are positive nobody remembers but you
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Removing departments is about removing academic nodes of power and autonomy (and plenty of attendant responsibility by the way) and it is being done practically everywhere outside of college system unis. It always leads to consolidation of power and budget lines in fewer hands. Always.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Gaza Soup Kitchen w mult locations across Gaza, they also provide medical aid through visiting physicians+ supplying food to the infirm. On the ground op w vast experience in the humanitarian sector. Things are still available to purchase but prices are exorbitant www.gofundme.com/f/Hot-meals-...
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Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun
Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza
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Laura Chuhan Campbell @cambiechoo.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I’m done
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🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸 @dean-tane.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The realest of the real ones ❤️
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Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Shaimaa’s PhD will be funded by @sgsah.bsky.social (supervised by @hannahkateboast.bsky.social Will Tattersdill & me, in partnership with @commapress.bsky.social) - but she is currently trapped in Gaza unless the UK Gov relaxes its requirement for biometric data bsky.app/profile/comm...
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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
There was a time when Masterchef judges upheld the highest standards of ethics.
Vic Reeves in the Reeves and Mortimer sketch saying “you’re just a fakey cake maker and I ain’t got time for you”
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Pete Davies @pete-davies.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Really cool image of women's football, dating back to 1923
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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
In all this Bob Vylan pearl clutching some are conveniently forgetting the IDF is committing genocide.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 02/07/2025
I have had death threats for my work on trans rights. I have been stalked. I have had people try and have me thrown out of my University. I am by no means alone, and lots of trans-inclusive academics have spoken publicly about the violence and harassment they face. But no mention of that here.
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I'm struck by how the major political theorist Giles of Rome (c.1278) described the ways tyrants cling to power, including: –prohibiting study –impoverishing the people –promoting discord –monitoring citizens –restricting gatherings –fomenting war But that list was a bit hard to fit on a placard...
Photo of a protest sign made of a brown USPS Priority Mail box being held in a white woman's hand. The sign reads "no tyrants", shown as the word written in black with a blue prohibition circle over it.
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Laura Chuhan Campbell @cambiechoo.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I once got hammered in a pub in Darlington with Chico (as in, It's Chico Time!) after a panto he had acted in with one of my friends. There was also a performing chicken from the panto running round in the pub. Chico and I were speaking French. I know this sounds like a dream, but it's honestly true
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?” This was their response:
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Laura Chuhan Campbell @cambiechoo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Feisty one you are
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 27/02/2025
Management's threat to make £140million of cuts at the University of Edinburgh is shocking. Yesterday, we heard from branch president, Sophia, on the questions this announcement has raised. The Scottish govt must call on university management to halt these devastating cuts.
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Laura Chuhan Campbell @cambiechoo.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In events that seem to have seeped in from an alternative timeline where everything in universities ISN'T terrible, medieval and early modern studies at Durham have just had a large injection of funding! www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
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IMEMS Inventing Futures Programme - Durham University
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Laura Chuhan Campbell @cambiechoo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Found this old key in the woods around Shincliffe Hall in Durham. Anyone know what period it’s from? It seems to be made of iron and is very fragile. Dating objects isn’t my forte, so would be interested to hear what anyone with an Archaeological or museum background thinks!
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I signed this open letter calling for UCU HEC to call off the ballot for industrial action on pay and to refocus on the urgent reform needed to stop the sector collapsing entirely. Much as I'd like a nicer deckchair, I'm increasingly worried about that iceberg we nudged a little while back.
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Motion to HEC: Focus on Defending Jobs and Reforming UK HE
Two UCU Commons HEC members are bringing the following motion to the special HEC meeting on Wednesday 19th February. We are looking for UCU members in HE to add their names in support of the motion…
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Laura Chuhan Campbell @cambiechoo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Totally agree with this. Calling members "right wing" if they support anything other than immediate industrial action right now all the time is incredibly alienating and just puts members off.
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Laura Chuhan Campbell @cambiechoo.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Check out the fantastic @venetiabridges.bsky.social talking about Penthesilea in the War of Troy tapestry! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Moving Pictures, The War of Troy tapestry
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Modern languages has been under threat in British HE for some time — really not helped by the policy change, in 2004, when the requirement for all pupils to take a language to GCSE was dropped. Fewer GCSEs: fewer A levels: far fewer students who want study at degree level, even as a minor.
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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 28/01/2025
And, for the record? PS staff are who actually make the university run. First person to say "oh well at least they're mostly sparing academics at Durham" is getting yeeted into space: those academics are going to have some of the worst working conditions in the sector.
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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Durham University has just announced intention to save £20m over the next two years, including through staff costs. Reminder that it has never been a better time to join a union - not only to defend yours and your colleagues' jobs, but to rethink HE for the future: www.ucu.org.uk/join
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Join UCU
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Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
I found this discussion paper from Bijan so helpful and clarifying in thinking about the next steps for managing our pay and conditions dispute. This is being submitted for discussion at the special HEC on Friday. Please share widely.
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UCU Commons @ucucommons.org · 13/12/2023
🚨new blog 🚨HEC member Bijan Parsia submitted a discussion paper, 'A New Strategic Approach' to the special HEC on 15th Dec. It explores some general principles for managing our pay and conditions dispute. Please have a read 👇 @bparsia.bsky.social ucucommons.org/2023/12/13/a...
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