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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17h

'“What I’m focused on is not only how we can deliver that curiosity-based research but how we can get the benefits of it in the economy by attracting more private sector investment to sit alongside that as well,” McDonald said.' Creative industries anyone? Heritage anyone?

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Politics and Rights Review @polrightsrev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Professor Cheryl Thompson discusses her new book, Staging Blackface in Canada (WLU Press, 2026), on blackface in vaudeville and how Canadian coverage of US lynchings kept anti-Blackness out of national discourse. Open access in EN, FR, ES. @drcherylt.bsky.social politicsrights.com/black-perfor...

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Black Performance Under Empire and Anti-Blackness

A historian traces how blackface vaudeville and lynching coverage in Canadian newspapers, 1898–1919, exposed anti-Black sentiment.

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trump has moved to significantly reduce automobile fuel efficiency standards, according to a Saturday rant he posted on Truth Social. In addition to the environmental impact, the government’s own analysis shows the decision will drastically increase gas prices. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Gas pump | text: TRUMP JUST REVERSED CRITICAL BIDEN-ERA AUTOMOBILE FUEL EFFICIENCY STANDARDS

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

friends in Ireland, HOW can I actually talk to someone IN A BRANCH in Ireland without being IN IRELAND? I have had the most aggravating, pointless, time-wasting series of calls w/ the call center (all ending w/ promises for callbacks which I ask for on US time but which inevitably come at 3 a.m.)

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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Still gathering signatures, still reaching new people, still receiving largely positive feedback and messages of support. Lots more to do of course but some meaningful activities planned. Compassionate cis women in the UK please keep signing, everyone self, please keep sharing notinourname.org.uk

Spoiler alert:
Trans women were never the issue

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notinourname.org.uk

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Those of you with a home office in a shed, Kate has a logistics question.

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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Feminism doesn't require women to see trans+ people as the enemy. For many of us, feminism has always meant challenging inequality, standing alongside people whose rights are under threat, and refusing to accept that one group's equality must come at another's expense. That's our feminism too.

Woman walking down a street outside, wearing a scarf and shoulder bag. The quote from one of the women who signed our letter reads

“I have grown incredibly exasperated at the portrayal of ‘gender critical’ perspectives as representing all women when my feminism has ALWAYS been inclusive and intersectional.”

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2yrs after I finished my MA History at Goldsmiths, my research rights were bought and I was hired to work as historical consultant on this TV show. It's had BAFTA and International Emmy nominations. I got a book deal, too. Goldsmiths: "No point in MA History, let's fire everyone and delete it."

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is unethical

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Our massive strike action for the fall begins on Wednesday, but we will be facing some intense financial hardship to do so. Please consider supporting our members by donating to our solidarity fund. 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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Andrew Defty @adefty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

University of Lincoln has disposed of over 500 staff since 2024. As we start a new academic year management have refused to rule out further compulsory redundancies. @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social is balloting its members on their willingness to take industrial action. If this is you please vote.

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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The myth Alberta 'subsidizes' the rest of Canada is the most powerful meme in the separatist armoury. But it's utterly false. I show that most Albertans get more back from federal programs than they personally pay in federal taxes, for @thetyee.ca: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026... #abpoli /2

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No, Alberta Does Not ‘Subsidize’ the Rest of Canada | The Tyee

The vast majority of workers get more from federal programs than they give.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

'Reading for pleasure – from tucking into a Jane Austen classic to devouring a Heartstopper graphic novel – is linked to better mental health, greater empathy and a lower risk of dementia, say researchers.' Just make sure it's not reading English (instead of science) at university, say ministers.

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Reading for pleasure has benefits at all ages – from improving health and wellbeing to staving off dementia – say scientists

Reading for pleasure – from tucking into a Jane Austen classic to devouring a Heartstopper graphic novel – is linked to better mental health, greater empathy and a lower risk of dementia, ...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/09/2026

it’s so in our faces: these camps are not places people are meant to survive

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Karen “the good kind” @kpsinging.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Today would have been my brother David's 60th birthday. We lost him in late 2021 to Covid. He had Down Syndrome and had developed dementia. One exposure to Covid and he passed within days. Whenever I read "yes but they had comorbidities" I want to scream because those are also people we loved.💔

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Of all the late stage Trump theories, wants the world to die with him seems increasingly credible.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is utterly idiotic. We don't know what skills future workforces will need. We do know that will change & that students perform best if they study something they're actually interested in. And for the pig-ignorant in the back row, fewer than 50% of STEM graduates ever go into STEM employment.

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Can you futureproof your career by choosing an AI-resistant degree?

Humans will have to compete with AI-powered virtual employees in the near future. Here are our tips for the last human holdouts

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Leftback @leftback.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well at least we've heard the worst of this story oh wait the mob got into the hotel onto the floor the players were on and were knocking on bedroom doors. I think I'm moving to rage now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants

Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Reform is the richest party in Britain. Its leaders are almost all millionaires. It is funded almost exclusively by billionaires. It has a supportive TV station and widespread media backing. So naturally, this donation comes with the usual attack on "elites". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire

Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump

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Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

At least 28 anti-migrant vigilante groups have formed in the UK in the last 18 months, ranging from unauthorised street patrols claiming to protect women and children to groups harassing migrants in France and blocking ports.

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Number of UK anti-migrant vigilante groups surges in last 18 months

Exclusive: Many ‘use community protection as a cover for racist thuggery’, raising concerns about fresh disorder

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Lisa Rullsenberg @rullsenberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So much everything in this thread + original article. UKHE is absolutely addicted to outsourcing, to 'efficiencies' (that don't make things effective) + often via technological solutions (that aren't solving anything). It doesn't do ANY of these well + utterly lacks the governance to try.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Trump called for a national boycott of a Canadian company that employs hundreds of Americans at plants in Kansas and Indiana, which pays their bills and feeds their families. Which would put them all out of work if successful. On Labor Day. Because he’s mad at Mark Carney.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'For many, closure did not begin with the formal announcement. Instead, many described months of cancelled classes, staff turnover, and declining provision. By the time the provider closed, many already felt that their educational experience had deteriorated.'

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Student protection needs to start with what closure actually feels like

Charlotte Corrish outlines new research on how students experience provider closure and sets out what student protection should look like

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 04/09/2026

It was 20 years ago that I first heard of the devastating health impacts and cancer cluster in Fort Chipewyan, home of the Mikisew Cree First Nation downstream from oil sands tailings "ponds”. 🧵 www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/n...

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Alberta exempts Suncor's tailings pond dump from review, angering downstream communities

The oil giant won't need an environmental impact assessment before treating and dumping millions of litres of oilsand tailings into the Athabasca River.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nobody: Universities: what if we kept trying to expand while having fewer and fewer staff

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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Times, which is super concerned about plagiarism when they can hound a Black academic, really outdoing itself here. 🧵

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Maybe I picked a bad time to quit my job and strike out on my own - I have no health insurance, and no sick days. Luckily I was able to push back my obligations and not lose my project funding, but I have no income right now. If any sugar settlers want to chip in: www.paypal.com/paypalme/api...

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Pay Chelsea Vowel using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/apihtawikosisan and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Gillian Roberts @citizenofblue.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Not at all surprising, although I suggest this piece should replace what “universities” are failing to do with “university managers.”

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 30/08/2026

British higher education is in crisis. We moved from an elite university system to mass higher education within a single lifetime. That brought huge benefits writes Stephen McNair - but without a settled answer to a fundamental question, what do we really want from our oldest institutions?

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What do we really want from our universities?

British universities are under attack from multiple directions. After decades of expansion is it time to ask what we want from higher education?

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NPR @npr.org · 30/08/2026

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has unveiled a giant billboard reading: "Lake Ontario — Now and Always." But tech giant Google has said it is renaming the lake for U.S. users, as President Trump demanded.

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Canada claps back at Trump's efforts to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America'

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/08/2026

Pathetic -- Google is now referring to Lake Ontario as "Lake America"

screencap of Google Maps showing "Lake America"

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Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

#1 - Return of measles #2 - Assault on vaccines #3 - Threatening mifepristone #4 - Cyclospora outbreak #5 - Rolling back fluoridation And what about decimating public health agencies, slashing research funding and global health support, spreading autism misinformation & reducing healthcare access?

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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

BREAKING: sucks to have stuff renamed by white people, doesn’t it?

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NHS cancelling surgeries for adults even after they’ve already paid for travel + accommodation and waited years to get there. Some were about to be wheeled into theatre! Every manager responsible for this decision must be sacked and every patient paid compensation.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026

Here’s the thing I will say about books, in their paper format: they don’t have ads or pop ups in the middle. There are no notifications that will pop up on the page. It’s just you and those sentences and those ideas. You’ve got to think. There’s no likes or comment section. It slows you down. Good.

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

For the record

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States." W. E. B. Du Bois, who died on this day in 1963

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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Signed. Especially appreciate this bit at the end: “Cofnas is not an isolated case nor an anomaly…A broader network provides the architecture for legitimizing & actively (re)affirming racist & white supremacist conceptions through attempts to infiltrate academic research and journals. /

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Everyday I wonder how things can get stupider and everyday I am informed how, against my will.

Truth social post where Trump threatens to call Lake Ontario, Lake America

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