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Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The VC of the Uni of Greater Manchester has just been sacked for misuse of over £1m of university funds. Hardly a mention in the media. Not black so not newsworthy.

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I expect to be reading of the resignation of the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University very shortly at the very least.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

One phrase sums up what happened to Jason Arday. Hounded to death.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Every single article should include Nathan Cofnas’ name as the instigator of this.

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Resist and reject AI inevitability.

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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Eddie Dempsey general secretary RMT said: “We are devastated to learn that a train driver and former RMT rep has tragically died as a result of today’s crash between Luton and Bedford. The thoughts of RMT are with their family, friends, colleagues and the ASLEF trade union at this awful time.”

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I am very excited to have contributed to Hannah Kemp-Welch's upcoming book, 'Listening Glossary', published by Silver Press's Spiral House imprint. Thank you, Hannah! 👂 🖤 You can pre-order the book here: www.silverpress.org/products/lis...

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Great report from Grant. Technocrats on the right of the union/leadership once again undermining democracy and transparency.

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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Join a union, and be an active member

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Join NATO so that like Denmark you too can have one member publicly threatening to invade and annexe your sovereign territory, while another refuses to even state that doing so is wrong.

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I am genuinely tempted to add something like "This email was written by me, for you to read. I do not and will not use LLM AI in any of my work." to my office signature.

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nicol @nicolnicol.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I've uploaded two new albums to bandcamp. Recordings of performance art and noise, exchanging roles of lead voice and atmosphere/environment. nicolnicolnicol.bandcamp.com (I like them!)

album titled 'inside birds outside', a person on all fours is pushing and gathering seeds with their face

album titled 'outside birds inside', a small pile of sorted seeds, the number 5, circled in charcoal

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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

LMAO Noam Chomsky doesn’t surprise me one bit. Integrity isn’t exactly a trait for someone who picks and chooses his genocides and genocide denialisms.

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Cafe Oto | Sun 7 December 2025 Playing new music for guitar by Thanos Chrysakis, Tim Hodgkinson, and David Ryan . . . and old music by Feldman, Takemitsu, and Wolff . . . alongside Jason Alder and Atsuko Kamura. Tickets: bit.ly/49A4lVa

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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/11/2025

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-a…

Claim: Mamdani is a communist.

False: Any real communist will happily spend six hours explaining why this isn’t true.

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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

AI is not sentient. It doesn't have a survival instinct. What's happened is that corporations have decided that we'll all obey capital if it can pretend to talk.

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🧵 The last month or so in UCU world has left me feeling very concerned. I’m not a member or fan of any faction, but the recent NEC elections have given the hard-right of the union a majority on our highest council. Meanwhile, our senior leadership appear to be half heartedly launching our (cont…)

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

This treatment of staff by a trade union employer (or any!) is despicable. Jo Grady must resign (in shame). She is not fit to have her name associated with the trade union movement.

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

@drjogrady.bsky.social, you need to demonstrate the change you want to see. You cannot go after our Vice Chancellors while you’re yourself employing some of their worst practices. Remember what you said, “a fairer future for all”. FOR ALL.

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Jo is intentionally omitting key details here. General Secretary, be transparent with your members for once, the ballot is on 3 issues: 1. Pay uplift = at least RPI+3.5% or £2,500, on all pay points 2. Protection of national agreements on T&C's 3. A national agreement to protect jobs & subjects

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Grant Buttars @gbuttars.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

There is no trade-off between pay and jobs. Don't let the employers fool you otherwise. This dispute is on three things: 1.Pay uplift = at least RPI+3.5% or £2,500, on all pay points 2.Protection of national agreements on T&C's 3.A national agreement to protect jobs & subjects #WeAreTheUniversity

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Looking forward to speaking at ‘Thinking Through Sound’ @ Sheffield Uni tomorrow! Can a ‘muddy’ episteme resist capitalist and colonialist conceptions of clarity, convenience, and knowledge production, and can new ways of thinking with/through sound mess up, or ‘muddy‘ the waters, of the academy?

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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

UCU policy: “To work with the TUC and other TUs to campaign for a change to the law to prevent such deductions, including lobbying government and opposition parties” Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh! policy.web.ucu.org.uk/motion-infor...

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UCU: Fighting punitive ASOS deductions

Motion from UCU Congress 2022-2023: Fighting punitive ASOS deductions

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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Jo Grady finds new ways to undermine UCU every week. TUC attendees should let her know their views. Oh, and where is the outcome from HEC @drjogrady.bsky.social?

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u... UCU senior leadership once again channeling the worst of our sector’s Vice Chancellors in how they treat their own staff. These people are not trade unionists, they are self-serving cowards and a stain upon our movement. Solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social

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UCU deploys “vindictive” union-busting tactics in attempt to crush staff union

Unite the union members working for the University and College Union vote to take further industrial action with a 76% Yes vote for strike action on a 77% turnout This was their third consecutive s…

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Amy @amzomac.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"But they came here illegally" 1. No, they didn't. Seeking asylum is a human right protected under Article 14 of UDHR. 2. Even if they did, who even gives a fuck?! We would ALL break the law in a desperate situation. Less chat of legality more chat of justice & morality pls They're not the same.

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Everyday I become more and more disgusted by and ashamed of UCU senior leadership, and those pockets of the membership that continue to support them and/or bury their heads in the sand. UCU supposedly stands for a “fairer future for all”. That has to mean ALL. Not just the SMT’s sycophants.

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

👋 Excited to announced that @ceciliawee.bsky.social and I will be Associate Artists for GroundWork Gallery’s fifth annual artist residency! This year’s residency is titled Fluid Earth, and is part of their ongoing residencies themed around extractivism. [📷 : Sea Wall Postcard by Sophie Marritt]

An image of the Norfolk horizon, taken from Gibraltar Point near Skegness. Image taken by Sophie Marritt.

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sahouraxo @sarahabdallah.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Spain’s MEP Irene Montero: “Israel is starving to death those it hasn’t already killed with bombs in Gaza.” “90% of the population is in phase 5 famine, and soon 400 people a day will die of hunger.” “This is extermination.” “And Europe is on its knees before Israel.” 🇪🇸 🇵🇸

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Everyone bar the Greens here are fucking cowards

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Amazing win, well done everyone. Yet another victory for militant industrial action, and a rejection of the nicey-nicey approach to SMT. ✊

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

But what does “Never again” mean when they stay silent now? When they ignore Gaza? When they honour the victims of one genocide while enabling another?

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Unis Resist Border Controls (URBC) @urbc.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The liberation of #Palestine & the sovereignty of #Iran are connected struggles❗ Print off our poster. Colour and black & white versions available (copy & paste link): tinyurl.com/4fmjyeka Stop Israel-US Imperialism❗ End Genocide in GAZA ❗ Stop War in IRAN ❗

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Wil Hardman @wilhardman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Deeply ashamed of my union behaving like the bosses we fight. Imposition, victimisation and union-busting needs to stop right now @ucu.org.uk. Solidarity with UCU Unite staff ✊

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Much adored and admired musicy-soundy darling, Louise, needs our help ❤️ please give if you are able. www.justgiving.com/page/louise-...

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Louise's fundraiser for life after spinal injury

Help Louise Marshall raise money to support Aspire

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I’ll be speaking at IR/RELEVANT, King’s College London’s English Department PGR Conference, tomorrow. My paper, ‘muddy listening: making a mess in the academy’, will detail recent doctoral research, and speak in defence of unclean and messy ears! Amazing line up of speakers and fellow UAL folks!

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

UK is woefully unserious re arts & humanities research, let alone research/education in general. The UKRI “has chosen to allocate a higher proportion of its awards to themes likely to excite politicians and taxpayers”. www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/will-f... [non paywall in comments]

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Will funding cuts devalue arts and humanities PhDs in the UK?

From next year, the AHRC will fund vastly fewer student-initiated PhDs, focusing more of its reduced funding on specific challenges. Critics say this will undo a decade of improvements in PhD supervis...

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Solidarity, @ducu.bsky.social. Leadership’s expressions of solidarity are insulting and hypocritical while the @uniteucu.bsky.social dispute remains unresolved. UCU members and staff deserve more than a leadership model built on tweets and photo opportunities.

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Super grateful to and proud of our NEC members for taking this difficult but necessary action. It’s also good to see publicly who of our elected members truly understand and care about trade unionism, and are willing to stick up it. Solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social ✊

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Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

STATEMENT RE UCU NEC 2 MAY reclaimucu.wordpress... I am proud but saddened to be a signatory to this: I will not cross a picket line and I am in full solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social, on strike again this week. So I will not attend #UCU NEC on Friday this week. We all urgently need resolution.

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Statement on NEC Meeting of 2 May 2025

On Friday, members of Unite UCU will be taking the final day of an unprecedented six weeks of industrial action. It is also the penultimate NEC meeting before Congress. One of the core principles o…

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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Still Out-of-Office We are not currently at work due to taking part in strike action called by Unite, the trade union for UCU staff, over our Campaign for a Safe & Professional Workplace Culture. Our strikes this week run for 3 days from 23 to 25 April. #UniteVoices

“l'm livid that those same dedicated colleagues, who should currently be focusing on pulling together to fight to protect UCU members, are instead being forced off sick or, worse, are resigning, one by one by devastated one, having reached the end after being repeatedly victimised, bullied and silenced?”

“What faith can UCU members have that the UCU senior managers actually believe in the principles of trade unionism when they are imposing agreements and portraying industrial action as being stirred up by a few troublemakers... I've been angry when distorted messages from the management team and the union President have come out."

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

‘Our Muddy Inheritance: sounding from the ground-up’ [workshop] (CWxWC) (Cecilia Wee and William Crosby) will be facilitating a workshop at the @livingmapsnetwork Conference: More-Than-Human Mappings this Friday (25 April 2025) @ 3.30pm at Senate House, University of London.

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

We need every UCU member to read this (& the myth busting page linked within) + urge their general secretary to talk to us, stop the unionbusting, put back the out-of-office advice for UCU members, & take steps to resolve the dispute for staff & members' sake. uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/p...

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Putting the record straight

Dear UCU member As we begin taking a full week of strike action from today, we wanted to put the record straight on what our employer has been reporting to you and your members about our dispute. E…

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