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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX #LlynCerrigBach #ExDruidSacrifice

Me playing a carnyx beneath a storm blackened sky

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

On 7 October, a video shared by Stand Up to Racism Scotland, with the caption This is what happens when you keep telling racists that they have "legitimate concerns"... appeared to show a group of black-clad men ‘patrolling’ the streets of Glasgow while making racist threats.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Navi Pillay — the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a former International Criminal Court judge — happened to be at the Nuremberg Court in Germany when she learned that she had won the Nobel.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Day 10 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh, over major job cuts, worsening terms & conditions, and the continued financial mismanagement of the senior leadership. Scenes from the picket lines reveal how we continue to fight. In this image, members of our UCUE leadership ...

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Here's something that hurts: being told your team of 28 is being cut to 11, & you have to compete for your job. Instead of inviting us to a pity party, Sir Peter could reflect on why only 6% of staff have confidence in him. Rebuilding needs meaningful consultation instead of hired consultants.

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M. J. Grant @campaignbear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Absolutely delighted that Navi Pillay has won the #NobelPeacePrize, a decision that, as the committee makes clear, is absolutely about emphasising the role of the rule of law in stopping war, genocide, crimes against humanity. Fantastic news.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

While Rebecca notes its explicitly pseudoscientific and racist framing, I’ll pipe up to fixate on the comparison between ‘most anthropologists themselves, geneticists, and other university academics’ with the Nazis because they oppose ‘scientific anthropology’. Classic bonkers right-wing rhetoric

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

UCU Edinburgh is hearing alarming stories of UK universities employing strike-breaking tactics to undermine the various industrial action. The latest story by Novara Media below underscores the depths to which some senior management will stoop to maintain their ethos of profits before people ...

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Goldsmiths University Hires ‘Fake Teachers’ for Arts Psychotherapy to Break Strikes | Simon Childs

Students say the London university is putting their Arts Psychotherapy course at risk by bringing in inexperienced temporary staff while lecturers strike against a third round of redundancies. Simon C...

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M. J. Grant @campaignbear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Current Principal Peter Mathieson (salary: > £420,000 plus benefits) came fresh from suppressing student protest at his previous gig in Hong Kong. The university‘s working group on „academic freedom“ was set up with zero representation from marginalised groups. I could go on.

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M. J. Grant @campaignbear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is scarily on target for Edinburgh Uni, its cuts programme, its suppression of transparency and its record on academic freedom 1/2 @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

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Wilson McLeod @wilsonmcleod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A satirical poem by Tyler Baxter on Sir Peter Mathieson (soon to be but not soon enough former) Principal of the University of Edinburgh

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M. J. Grant @campaignbear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ok, I‘ll let you off this time — hope you made the flight!

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M. J. Grant @campaignbear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Straight out of Edinburgh senior management‘s rulebook. Solidarity with colleagues at my alma mater, which was doing fine until a change of VC.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Day 8 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh against the job cuts imposed by senior management and their burgeoning salaries. Yesterday, a victory: the Principal announced he is stepping down in 2028. We must, however, change the system that elects Principals ...

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M. J. Grant @campaignbear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For once he‘s absolutely right — shocking revelation that a strike to stop redundancies has been timed to do just this. Is it any wonder we‘re in this mess?

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Edinburgh University Vice Chancellor to step down Edinburgh will use recruitment agency to search for new VC Agency approaches & puts forward the same kinds of candidates again & again New VC will be the same as the old VC, other than the name No change www.edinburghminute.com/breaking-new...

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🚨 Breaking news: Peter Mathieson to leave University of Edinburgh

Principal will not seek a third term and plans to step down in 'early 2028'

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is an important story, less for the impact of the strike on core training, but for the national social science graduate school's concerns about current university management's actions damaging social science in Scotland. @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is of course worth noting that many at Edinburgh are not afforded the luxury of getting to decide on their own future, so that’s nice for him. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/peter-m...

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Peter Mathieson to step down as Edinburgh vice-chancellor

Leader of strike-hit Scottish institution will not seek third term of office

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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 05/10/2026

Standing up to the balaclava nonces. Inspiring.

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Melissa Smith ❌👑☮️✌🏻❤️💪 @melissa4thrivingmt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Do you really, really need to shop at Amazon? Really? #ditchprime

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mathieson standing down, but not until 2028, despite votes of no confidence from the Senate, students and MSPs around his secret budgets. Instead of his PR team's chosen words, let's remember his real legacy: ideological cuts to teaching, staff and student experience. www.ed.ac.uk/news/princip...

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Principal pledges dedication to role, as 2028 departure announced | News | The University of Edinburgh

Professor Sir Peter Mathieson has announced that he decided earlier this year that he will not seek a third term as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University.

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As an alumni of the University of Edinburgh, it is a tad surreal to receive an email from the university secretary, implying we all ought to be rending our garments at the news Peter Mathieson will be demitting office as principal some time in 2028. What can I say? Haud me back.

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Sara Rich Dorman @srd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 05/10/2026

UCU members at Edinburgh uni are on strike today. Over 400 film and TV professionals, including Alan Cumming, Hugh Bonneville and Michelle Dockery, back their call to reinstate three creative programmes. Cuts are hitting universities across the UK: educationitsours.org.uk/map/

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cable Street 1936-2026: Not Then Not Now roughtradebooks.com/products/cab...

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rickypo.bsky.social @rickypo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Britain’s first black philosophy professor has accused universities of using freedom of speech to suppress scholarship about racism and colonialism | Professor Tommy Curry said black professors are “ridiculed for incompetence”. www.scotsman.com/education/al...

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'All black academics are ridiculed' in UK universities, claims Edinburgh professor

Free speech event organised by Edinburgh University rector will bring together academics and experts to discuss how to stop cancel culture

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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“It’s like my degree is now unimportant,” said Nahla Smyth-Daly, 19, a third-year student at Edinburgh University. “It makes me worried for my future career.” Read more as Edinburgh lecturers strike as more than 90 arts and humanities courses are dropped bit.ly/3VmJ2RW

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Edinburgh lecturers strike as more than 90 arts and human...

Vice-chancellor says £140m of cuts are necessary, but critics claim the university has been on a ‘spending binge’

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I promise you if I tried this even once I'd be hauled up into a disciplinary. But Dr Orr? Little research, no teaching, no problem. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175

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Orr’s lectures covered by a postgrad

James Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge

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M. J. Grant @campaignbear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is … interesting given that the University‘s own advice on racial harassment suggests that the victim should seek dialogue with the harasser. I can only hope the below means management have realised how absurd and offensive that advice is.

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Marcus Hill @drmarcushill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fellow academics, if you are an external examiner for any course at Brighton (I have been), can I urge you to tell them you will quit prior to the June boards unless the University withdraw their notice that they are derecognising the UCU, and not to take any position if they come up.

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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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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dundee Uni staff are taking strike action to fight compulsory redundancies and cuts. I stand firmly with them. Staff and students did not cause this crisis, but they’re being asked to pay the price for it. Solidarity with Dundee UCU, UOD Students Against Cuts and all those standing with them. ✊

Graphic advertising a Dundee picket to oppose higher education cuts. It gives the time as 8–11am on Monday 5 October 2026, at the Tower Building, University of Dundee, 3 Perth Road, Dundee. The graphic features a map of Scotland and a row of illustrated people holding hands at the bottom.

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I haven’t said anything about the strikes yet (I am so ANGRY but despite all my rage I’m still just a rat in a cage etc etc). So it can’t be me the carefully worded HR email is about, telling us all to be nice to everyone (implying SMT?) including on socials, on threat of disciplinary action?

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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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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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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hundreds of staff and students gathered outside Holyrood on Thursday afternoon to protest cuts and closures at universities across Scotland 🎓 Edinburgh University principal Peter Mathieson was a chief target of UCU general secretary Dr Jo Grady 🎤 @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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Sean Wallis @seanawallis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A serious fight for the future of Higher Education is taking place in Scotland right now. Dundee and Edinburgh UCU branches are all out for 5 weeks against mass redundancies due to government cuts. That's half of the first student term, or around a quarter of the year's key teaching period.

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