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Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Rejoice! Edinburgh’s got a new contender for the world’s worst cycle lane! Imagine a dark stormy night 😱 - needs a “cyclist dismount”, “road narrows on left”, “cycle lane closed” or whatever sign. Or maybe make the “keep right”permanent?
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...
heraldscotland.com
Hundreds of staff leave Edinburgh University amid cuts drive
According to the university, 345 of these departures were the result of a targeted voluntary severance (VS) scheme run by the institution in 2025.
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
It’s Friday. May I be blunt? F*ck this. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Over a third of animals lost in test deep sea mining - scientists
The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
One should be in no doubt that most of Britain's elites will simply make their peace with Farage and do a deal, so long as they get left alone or benefit. Tho there is resistance to Trump in the US, it's v much the exception.(1/2) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
thetimes.com
Cambridge University cosies up to Reform
The vice-chancellor expects Nigel Farage to model his policies on Trump and says other Russell Group members are meeting his allies
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The consultancy Nous takes hundreds of thousands of pounds from universities, leaves the exact same path of destruction everywhere, and keeps trying to avoid transparent contracts. We’re urgently need control over consultancy spent in #UKHE, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
theferret.scot
‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts
Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.
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The Ferret @theferret.scot · 30/11/2025
🔴 NEW: The University of Edinburgh has quietly paid more than £750,000 to a controversial consulting firm amid job cuts - staff say bosses ignored "repeated" questions about its role. Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...
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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
At last, some properly rigorous reporting on the vampiric management consulting behind proposed cuts at Edinburgh Uni. Grab some garlic, read and weep.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Some of our most precarious members, tutors and demonstrators on 'guaranteed hours' contracts, have had their work hours cut or disappeared entirely in management's cost cutting spree. All the money paid to Nous could have gone to them. #StopStaffCutsatUoE www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
theferret.scot
‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts
Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
theferret.scot
‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts
Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.
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cpduncanson.bsky.social @cpduncanson.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
£750k?!?! 😡😡😡 Nothing like waking up at the weekend after another exhausting week to find out your employer is paying a consultancy firm £750k to set out ways staff are not efficient. www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
theferret.scot
‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts
Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I've said it before and I will say it again many times, people using "AI" to design and deliver 'teaching' to students, to mark their work, and in this case to (!) generate literal voice overs are risking their jobs, and frankly they *should* be at risk if they do this sort of thing:
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‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/11/2025
VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
www.beyond.radio/news/local-n...
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Strikes off at Lancaster University after bosses withdraw compulsory redundancy threat
Planned industrial action at Lancaster University has been suspended following talks.
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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Cross-party support for the UCU Edinburgh rally this lunchtime @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #WeAreTheUniversity #Solidarity
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Great placards from the rally at the parliament #StopaStaffCutsatEoE
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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
An amazing turnout at our UCU Edinburgh strike rally at the Scottish Parliament @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #StopTheCuts #WeAreTheUniversity
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Great turnout at the Edinburgh UCU rally at parliament to demand an end to the University of Edinburgh management reckless budget cuts and redundancies! #StopStaffCutsatUoE @ucu.org.uk
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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Amazing turn out of Edinburgh University staff outside the parliament building right now to defend education against needless cuts @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
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Sara Rich Dorman @srd.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Great turn out at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social rally at the Scottish Parliament!
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Pickets, pickets, and more pickets! Join us and show your support #StopStaffCutatUoE
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Lively picket with great music outside Old College
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Morning! Here is our schedule today⬇️ Join us at the rally in front of the Scottish parliament at 1pm today!
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The Scotsman @scotsman.com · 18/11/2025
SNP minister 'could force' Edinburgh University bosses to negotiate with unions over job threats www.scotsman.com/education/sn...
scotsman.com
SNP minister 'could force' Edinburgh University bosses to negotiate with unions on job threats
Minister Ben Macpherson said he is considering whether to use special powers to force Edinburgh University chiefs into union negotiations
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3
theguardian.com
University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees
Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
www.scotsman.com/education/sn...
scotsman.com
SNP minister 'could force' Edinburgh University bosses to negotiate with unions on job threats
Minister Ben Macpherson said he is considering whether to use special powers to force Edinburgh University chiefs into union negotiations
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Kirsten the Goblin Keeper @librarykirsten.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Solidarity to all at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social! I studied there in 2010-11 and staff were on strike then - I remember one of my tutors explaining that she felt it was part of her responsibility to us as her students to protect the future of academic pay and conditions.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
RALLY TOMORROW! Join the fightback against job cuts! Wednesday 19th November at 1pm at the Scottish parliament.
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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
A soggy morning challenging damaging cuts with my @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social colleagues at Old College. Read about the dispute here: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d... #ucu #StopTheCuts
Picketers with placards before a stone archwayMe in bobble hat holding sign saying stop thd cuts. Picket line seen to rear.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Join us tomorrow at the Parliament for a staff and student rally against the cuts!
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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
UCU Edinburgh strike rally. 1pm, Wed 19 Nov, on the concourse outside the Scottish Parliament. Speakers from @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social UCU, Unite and Unison branches at the university and students #StopTheCuts #StopStaffCutsatUoE
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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Intervention from @alex.scotlibdems.org.uk on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh university as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social UCU take three days of strike action this week to save jobs. Strike rally at the Scottish Parliament tomorrow, Wed, at 1pm #SaveHE #StopTheCuts #NoCompulsoryRedundancies
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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Question from @martinwhitfieldmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh University as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social take third day of strike action this week #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563152...
heraldscotland.com
SNP minister told to intervene in Edinburgh University crisis to protect 1,800 jobs
SNP ministers have been warned they must intervene in the University of Edinburgh's dispute with staff amid fears 1,800 jobs could be lost.
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cpduncanson.bsky.social @cpduncanson.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563152...
heraldscotland.com
SNP minister told to intervene in Edinburgh University crisis to protect 1,800 jobs
SNP ministers have been warned they must intervene in the University of Edinburgh's dispute with staff amid fears 1,800 jobs could be lost.
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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Hi Alex, thanks for raising this; it’s difficult to say that the uni is ‘facing financial trouble’ because the details and provenance of alleged trouble are being withheld by management. We need much more transparent accounting, given the public implications of 1800 job losses.
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Alex Cole-Hamilton 🔶🇺🇦 @alex.scotlibdems.org.uk · 18/11/2025
Edinburgh University is facing financial trouble, and the UCU said as many as 1,800 jobs could be at risk. Our universities are built on the hard work of their staff, and we lose them at our peril. That's why I raised this issue with the Minister for Higher Education today.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
ECA students ❤️ 2/2
email to UoE principal from ECA students expressing solidarity with staff on strike
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Andrea Paterlini (he/him) @apaterlini.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Staff is currently striking here at the University of Edinburgh. Senior management is planning widespread compulsory redundancies (without a real need for the same). You can read more here @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/rd72kte...
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A message to our students about the upcoming strike, 17-19 November 2025 — UCU Edinburgh
Dear students, UCU Edinburgh will again be going on strike Monday 17th, Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th November as a result of University management’s refusal to commit to no compulsory redundancie...
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Another morning, another picket✊ Come and support striking workers outside the Main Library and get some baked goods! All the proceeds go towards our Hardship Fund to support UCU staff going on strikes
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Ms Marchmont @msmarchmont.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Edinburgh University UCU staff are on strike protesting compulsory redundancies and students are protesting the university’s investments in Israel. Staff and students were in solidarity with each other this morning at Old College, which the students closed down. @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Back on the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social picket line, standing with colleagues against senseless cu ts. Cover in The National by Lucy Garcia with quotation from @drjogrady.bsky.social pictured, and in The Herald, www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562598... #UCU #StopTheCuts
UCU Edinburgh picket line outside a university building. Picketers are dressed for the cold weather, holding signs against cuts. Headline, Three-day strike begins against £140m cuts at university, byline Lucy Garcia, image of Union rallyQuotation from Jo Grady of UCU.

If Peter Mathieson, on £400,000 plus a year, can't set out a way forward thar doesn't involve decimating the university and its staff, and if senior managerd aren't willing to engage with the uniom to resolve this dispute, tgen we need government and politicisnd to intervene.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Don't cross the picket line! We are on strike because of UoE's budget cuts that have and will affect students and staff. We are striking for a better university, join us! #StopTheCuts
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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
If Edinburgh Uni, with no operational deficit, gets to sack 1800 people, imagine what this will signal to more fiscally challenged Scottish universities? MSPs need to realise that this is more than a local crisis – we need urgent public scrutiny of Edinburgh’s governance.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
And here's a whole new shift of picketers later today at CMB! UCU staff saying No to compulsory redundancies.
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cpduncanson.bsky.social @cpduncanson.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Warming up from the picket line by calling all my MSPs to ask them to support our struggle against devastating job cuts at the University of Edinburgh #StopStaffCutsatUoE Hope to hear back from you soon @suewebbermsp.bsky.social @lornaslater.bsky.social @foysolchoudhury.bsky.social
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Lorna M. Campbell @lornamcampbell.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I can't join the strikes today as I'm off work recovering from stage 2 cancer. That hasn't stopped me emailing all 8 of my MSPs, inc @patrickharvie.bsky.social, asking them to show support & calling for an inquiry into the University of Edinburgh’s finances & failure to avoid redundancies.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Via @Staff-Student Solidarity Network at Edinburgh. Please take a minute to read and sign: "Between 1000 and 2000 people will lose their jobs if these cuts are implemented, adding up to as much as 1 in 7 workers across the university" docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
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Staff-Student Solidarity Network Open Letter 2025
Students of the University of Edinburgh, The Principal of our University, Peter Mathieson, together with the senior management team continue to move forward with huge cuts that will hurt our quality ...
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Calling all staff and students at UoE, and all those who care about its future: join us on the picket lines! Teach outs, picket locations, bake sale... see our FAQ #UCU #WearetheUniversity #StopStaffCutsatUoE www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...
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Industrial Action FAQ — UCU Edinburgh
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Citizen Participation @oliverescobar.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
📣 Strike at University of Edinburgh 17-19 November against unjustified compulsory redundancies @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social 📌 JOIN OUR RALLY AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, Wed 19 November 1 pm 🙏🏼 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rally-to-s... ℹ️Info about the dispute 👉🏻 www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...
ucuedinburgh.org.uk
Local Industrial Dispute FAQs — UCU Edinburgh
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
There was moment I thought perhaps we had movement here, but the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social strike is on. You can read more about why here: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423... Please write and call your MSPs on Monday: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp
ucu.org.uk
Edinburgh university staff back industrial action again in longstanding dispute over cuts and redundancies
Staff at the University of Edinburgh have today (Tuesday) backed industrial action for a second time in a longstanding dispute over £140million cuts, job losses and compulsory redundancies.
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