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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The VC has planned to cut 400 jobs, close the Southend campus, demolish the Essex Pathways (foundation year) department, and decimate other departments like language & linguistics, maths & stats and business. She met us for an all-staff meeting on Thursday. It was... fascinating! Let's fact-check.

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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals. Please share widely.

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Draško Kašćelan @drasko-kascelan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

It’s been great attending the Child Language Symposium at the University of Reading and meeting so many extraordinary researchers and practitioners. Shout out to the organisers and all the talk/poster presenters!

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 15/07/2025

🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will: - Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender" - Teaches children the laws about "biological sex" - Removes all references to the word transgender What we know so far 🧵

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 08/05/2025

📣 2 DAYS TO GO! This saturday thousands of workers from across education and beyond will unite in London to defend our sector. 📍 Meet at Bessborough Gardens 13:00 🗣️ Rally and speeches: Old Palace Yard 14:00–16:00 We’ll be there. Will you? #ProtectEducation #UCU #May10

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Draško Kašćelan @drasko-kascelan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Excited to share the MuLaVaN reading group programme for July-September 2025. Many valuable papers to be discussed and an invited talk by @kimmears.bsky.social titled "Semi-speaking and the neurodiversity paradigm: A challenge to dominant discourses in speech and language therapy".

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leedsucu.bsky.social @leedsucu.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Happy International Workers Day! Solidarity with all workers + love especially to striking members @bcu-ucu.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social @newcastleucu.bsky.social @uniteucu.bsky.social out on strike today & @sheffielducu.bsky.social striking yesterday & to all branches in dispute. We’re with you!

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Happy International Workers Day! Solidarity with all workers and love especially to striking members out on strike today and to all branches in dispute. We’re with you! Picture of a diverse set of workers in different professions with fists raised.

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Draško Kašćelan @drasko-kascelan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Happy International Workers' Day! A perfect day to join a union!

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Not sure what the point of words is any more. We are witnessing pure evil, and even worse, we are witnessing the full-throated support of that evil among all our institutions, from governments to political parties to media organisations to judiciary. It's a masks off moment.

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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

london today ❤️‍🔥

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

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Alan Smith @mralanjohnsmith.eurosky.social · 16/04/2025

Another strike day. I am very concerned about not only the impact of this strike on the people my work supports but also the wider impact of this dispute as a lesson to some employers on employment relations. The lesson seems to be to attack the union and ride out the strike.

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Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The Safe & Professional Workplace dispute must be resolved. I'm deeply concerned by the tone of multiple emails received from #UCU HQ about the dispute and urge members to look at @uniteucu.bsky.social's website too. There's also an open letter to UCU GS and SMT here: tinyurl.com/ucuunitesoli... 7/7

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UCU - End the dispute with Unite and embody the union’s commitment to equality

Please NOTE: This letter has been sent to Jo Grady at 9am on Thursday 27 March 2025. Signatures are still accepted after this time. Dear Jo Grady, We, the undersigned UCU members and members of the...

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Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I hoped #UCU would redouble efforts to resolve the @uniteucu.bsky.social staff dispute Instead our own union-as-employer has issued management instructions NOT to use tactics #UCU members have routinely been advised to use *by #UCU* Then this page was deleted: web.archive.org/web/20230218... 1/7

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Out of office messages

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Energy bills up 6.4% — while network providers raked in £4 billion in “excess” profits over four years. Water bills up 26% — while firms paid £78 billion in dividends since privatisation & racked up £64 billion in debt. End this scam. Bring water & energy into public ownership.

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M. Carmen Parafita Couto @parafitacouto.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The Crossing Language Borders project hosts research partner Annie Beatty for a talk titled "Bilingualism reveals how experience shapes language and the brain." 🗓 April 4, 2025 | ⏰ 16: 00 – 17:30 CEST 📍 Attend in person (Bushuis, E1.02, Amsterdam) or online. aclc.uva.nl/shared/subsi...

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ACLC Seminar | Annie Beatty-Martinez - ACLC

Dr Annie Beatty-Martinez is the guest speaker for this ACLC seminar. The title of this talk is: "Bilingualism reveals how experience shapes language and the brain."

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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

'The US government claims the First Amendment — the founding principle of the constitution which guarantees freedom of speech — does not apply to non-US citizens in deportation cases. The argument has been highly disputed by experts.' www.dw.com/en/us-revoke...

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US revoked around 300 visas in crackdown on students — Rubio – DW – 03/27/2025

The US secretary of state called the students "lunatics" and claimed they were involved in anti-American activity. Few if any of the individuals have been formally accused of a crime.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

No Other Land depicts the horrifying violence Palestinians in the West Bank endure under apartheid. Yesterday, its co-director Hamdan Ballal was beaten in his home by settlers before being detained by Israeli forces. People applauded Hamdan. Now they are silent. Free Hamdan.

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UCU University of Kent branch @ucukent.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Solidarity with our colleagues at UEA who are also out on strike this week!

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22/03/2025

Israel has blown up Gaza's only specialised cancer treatment hospital, the Turkish-Palestinian Hospital, along with an adjacent medical school, drawing condemnation for yet again targeting a medical facility ⤵️ aje.io/wpl2e4

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Israel blows up Gaza’s only specialised cancer hospital in massive blast

Destruction of Turkish-Palestinian hospital has been condemned as being part of Israel’s ‘systematic state terrorism’.

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Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Solidarity with all striking workers. As #UCU Edu Committee Chair I'd chair Cradle to Grave (flagship education policy conference) on 29 March. It's sadly been cancelled by HQ citing @uniteucu.bsky.social strike in preceding days. The dispute must be resolved Please sign: tinyurl.com/UCUUniteSoli...

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UCU - End the dispute with Unite and embody the union’s commitment to equality

Dear Jo Grady, We, the undersigned UCU members and members of the community, urge you to do everything in your power to resolve the dispute with UCU Unite as soon as possible. UCU proudly signed up ...

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In under 24 hours, Israel has massacred over 400 people in Gaza — including 174 children. Words of condemnation ring hollow. The UK government must end ALL arms sales, trade & diplomatic ties with a state facing genocide charges at the ICJ & leaders under ICC arrest warrants.

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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

🚨🚨🚨 my bestest best friend is a brilliant poet and her first collection of poetry has been translated into English and you should all pre-order it 🚨🚨🚨 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/797465...

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Say Fire by Selma Asotic: 9781962770439 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Bosnian poet Selma Asotić’s fearless debut on memory and resistance Wounded bodies are at the heart of Say Fire. Bodies cringe and crouch (years after the war) as fireworks shoot through the...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

"We call on the world to stop the injustice & stop the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people," says Oscar winner Basel Adra to applause from the audience. 'No Other Land' just won the Best Documentary Oscar. Also a fantastic speech from fellow winner Yuval Abraham on "ethnic supremacy".

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Draško Kašćelan @drasko-kascelan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Are we surprised that yet again Trump is siding with the oppressor… Solidarity to Ukrainian people!

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This is the first of many strikes in the Higher Education sector and if the major employer in your town or city is a University, your local economy is at risk. Academic and academic-related jobs are being threatened in huge numbers. Don't let it happen. Solidarity with @ducuuo.bsky.social

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Draško Kašćelan @drasko-kascelan.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

An extremely important read! Full paper can be read here: doi.org/10.48516/jcs...

The image of the following paper abstract is included: This paper is a collective statement from over 250 scholars and practitioners across the world in the speech-language-hearing sciences and related disciplines, who are responding to the profound suffering and ongoing genocide faced by Palestinians in Gaza. In our shared roles as advocates for communication and human rights, we confront the silence, complicity, and silencing tactics of major professional institutions, whose ostensible neutrality obscures the full scale of this humanitarian crisis. We center the experiences of Palestinians with communication disabilities in order to bear witness to their lives and to awaken our ethical and professional responsibilities. Through the stories of Muhammad, Omar, Moaz, and others, we urge a collective breaking of silence on behalf of all impacted by genocide in Gaza and around the world. We call for a commitment to professional ethics grounded in a moral clarity that aligns with anti-racist, anti-colonial, and disability justice principles. Our stance is both a protest against inaction and a plea for accountability, pressing the global community to recognize and support the humanity, dignity, and rights of Palestinians in Gaza.

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Did you vote yet in the UCU NEC elections? I’m standing for VP on a record of unifying & building membership. I’m honoured to be endorsed by these strong women who have all fought for members in UCU. You can read Vicky, Maria & Liz’s endorsements here rhiannonforucuvp.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/e...

Vicky, me, Maria & Liz sat on a bench, evening light

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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

You beauties, UCU @tuccymru.bsky.social! This is absolutely a step in the right direction, and thanks to the refusal to be cowed into letting Higher Education crumble.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Today, thousands of us demonstrated outside the US embassy with a message for Donald Trump: hands off Gaza. The resilience of the Palestinian people will not be broken — and nor will our solidarity. We will be here for as long as it takes until there is a free and independent Palestine.

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Palestine Solidarity Campaign @pscupdates.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

🚨Now: hundreds of thousands marching for Palestine in London 🇵🇸

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

WE HAD CLOSED OUR BROWSERS, GUYS. At this point, UCEA and UUK should just start springing us some coins to make up for the number of times they make us update The List and the consequent hours spent. Only mid-way through February, the dust from UCAS isn't fully settling yet... 😵‍💫

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Lucy Burke @lucyburkemcr.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

QMUL UCU is doing the kind of work we need UCU to do nationally to highlight the catastrophic destruction of higher education across the regions & nations. Thousands of jobs & so much talent and expertise lost. Shame on this Govt for sitting by & letting it happen qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

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UK HE shrinking

This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…

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Palestine Solidarity Campaign @pscupdates.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

🚨The route and accessible route for the march for Palestine on 15 Feb have been announced The full route will start at Whitehall and finish at the US Embassy. The shorter accessible route will meet at Riverside Walk Gardens and join the march when it arrives. #FreePalestine #StopGazaGenocide

The full route for the march for Palestine - proceeding from Whitehall to the US Embassy via Vauxhall bridge.

The Accessible route for the march for Palestine. From Riverside Walk Gardens to the US Embassy. The route is 1,000m and step-free. Meeting from 1PM at Riverside Walk Gardens. Follow @ParentsForPalestine on Instagram for information on the families bloc meeting point.

Closest step-free station for accessing the meeting point is Vauxhall Station (10 mins). The families and children bloc will be having a seperate meeting point - find out more @ParentsForPalestine on Instagram. The full and short routes are step-free, with shallow inclines on the north sides of Lambeth and Vauxhall Bridge. All speeches will have BSL interpretation. Some access stewards will have RADAR keys for toilets along the route - ask someone in a yellow or pink hi-viz for more information.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 13/02/2025

✊ Well done to our @ucuscotland.bsky.social members raising the alarm and getting the scandalous behaviour of Edinburgh University onto the front page of The Scotsman 📢 Read here 👇 www.scotsman.com/education/no...

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Draško Kašćelan @drasko-kascelan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Join our lovely team at Essex! We are recruiting two lecturers (one full time, one part time) who specialise in dysphagia and Eating, Drinking and Swallowing. For any questions about the posts get in touch with our division lead Prof. Rachael-Anne Knight www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLT171/l...

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Lecturer at University of Essex

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This is ethnic cleansing, plain and simple. But will the UK government condemn this?

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The President of the United States welcome a leader wanted by the ICC and officially endorsed ethnic cleansing. Now would be a good time for our government to defend international law. If they won’t say it, we will: Palestinians aren’t going anywhere.

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Stop the War Coalition @stwc.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

🚨 Stop Trump's plan for ethnic cleansing 🚨 🪧 Take to the streets on Sat 15 February to march to the US Embassy. 🇵🇸 Palestine Coalition statement on US president's monstrous plan 🔽 #HandsOffGaza #NoEthnicCleansing #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

We are appalled by the Foreign Secretary’s failure to condemn President Trump’s call for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. A statement from the Independent Alliance.

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Stop the War Coalition @stwc.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Defend the Right to Protest! Defend Chris Nineham – Drop the Charges! We are asking all our supporters to join us to protest outside Westminster Magistrates Court on Thursday 13 February at 12:30 pm. More info 🔽 stopwar.org.uk/events/defen...

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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I mean "defend the university" sure sure but how about we have a discussion about what "the university" is, how it's run, and whom it serves, and then let's also talk collective ownership, participatory budgeting, and democratic decision-making

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Dr Liz Geriatrics @drlizgeriatrics.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

It was always white male supremacy.

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Anna McMorrin MP @annamcmorrin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Deeply concerned by Cardiff Uni’s plan to cut 400 jobs & degree courses. Many in Cardiff North will be affected. I’m seeking urgent talks with the VC & UCU to support staff & students. If you’re impacted, contact me: anna.mcmorrin.mp@parliament.uk. I’m here to help. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs

Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says "it is no longer an option for us to continue as we are".

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