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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 05/10/2026
Nottingham bought a campus for £37.5m. Spent £40m more on it. Its own accounts say it could now sell for £14m. Staff and students are paying for that. 609 jobs. Three departments. More than 40 courses. That's why we're on strike. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
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Lecturers on strike till Christmas: welcome to Nottingham University
Bad business decisions have been blamed for the decision to shut entire departments — as academics protest it is students who suffer
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If it doesn't get inside you, it can't make you sick. N95 respirators and air cleaning stop the aerosols that plague, COVID, etc transmit in. If you need advice on protecting yourself, talk to someone #Covid / #longCOVID aware. Even if you think we're nuts, we're pretty 🤬 good at this by now.
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
41% staffing cuts in the Faculty of Arts at UoN. We're entering a wilderness of creativity and critical thinking.
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Kate Louise Mathis is on strike @drmaudbailey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you see this, recommend a short book. Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü.
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Duille @duille.com · 04/10/2026
"Street Nocturne". Lyonel Feininger. 1929.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Please, for the love of God, leave me behind with all the books because you don’t read. I want to be left behind!
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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think it’s a big problem that most of the public is totally unfamiliar w/one of the worst yet common outcomes from Covid, namely ME/CFS. I often share this Sundance doc bc I think being able to visualize the harm (as we can for, say, polio) makes it easier to understand the desire to mitigate it.
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UNREST Feature Documentary (With Captions and Multilingual Subtitles)
YouTube video by Unrest Film
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Kate Louise Mathis is on strike @drmaudbailey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Aye, quite. And I presume you know you have a Gaelic-speaking colleague? It's not as if any other Gaels, or anyone else, mightn't want to study law and the language together. Cothrom na Fèinne for tomorrow's picket!
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Mona Lisa of Faras, an eight-century masterpiece of late antique African art. This wall painting of St Anne, mother of Mary, comes from the cathedral of Faras in Nubia. Today in the National Museum in Warsaw.
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 02/10/2026
The world's largest data centre is being proposed for Chapelcross in Dumfries and Galloway. The proposals could use more energy than over two million homes in just one year! Join the campaign to stop these dangerous plans: greens.scot/ChapelcrossD...
Stop Chapelcross Data Centre. Join the campaign. greens.scot/chapelcrossdatacentre
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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 02/10/2026
A very special lady is celebrating her 80th birthday today. 80 years ago today, on 2 October 1946, the paddle steamer Waverley was launched at the A. & J. Inglis Pointhouse shipyard in Glasgow, where the River Kelvin meets the Clyde. 📷 Bob Dougans #Glasgow #history #waverley
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A bit of Friday fun with moquette! Looking back at this shoot, where Andreya tried her best to go incognito in her camouflage jackets, blending into the colourful upholstery of the Circle, Bakerloo and Victoria lines.
Moquette jacket Moquette jacket Moquette jacket Moquette jacket
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Super pleased to see this out (and open access!). Moluag was clearly an important figure in Pictland, here we got to help the team who made such important discoveries at Moluag's monastery get the word on the street about the importance of Lismore and the new findings! tinyurl.com/5cb9vf3p
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A major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
A major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain - Volume 100 Issue 413
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Kate Louise Mathis is on strike @drmaudbailey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thought you might like this @andy8chi.bsky.social
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Societas Celtologica Europaea @soccelteuropaea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great video about Dr Fangzhe Qiu's ERC project FLEXI, exploring how medieval legal digests ensured the survival of Early Irish Law, through scribes re-interpreting the texts over many centuries. #AncientWorld_UCD www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCvS...
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Ancient World: Exploring early Irish Law in ancient texts
YouTube video by UCD Research
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Kate Louise Mathis is on strike @drmaudbailey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@brendankanect.bsky.social?
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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Help with #palaeography please! What is the contraction here? It is from a court case involving a heated argument in a craft meeting: '...and did that lay in him to have movit tham to [cu[ ]t] upoun him for his invasion gif that thaj had nocht bene better myndit...'
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
GRANTS ANNOUNCEMENT: Audrey Henshall Legacy Fund Reopens We are offering a grant of up to £10,000 for the successful applicant to develop and undertake a significant research project which supports research or fieldwork on pre-Roman antiquities in Scotland: www.socantscot.org/news/audrey-...
Woman sitting in a field with overlaid text that reads: Grants Announcement
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just saw folk who join the uncritical rush towards AI referred to as "LLMings", and I am stealing that.
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Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings
Alt: Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings
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Kate Louise Mathis is on strike @drmaudbailey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Very happily, I will never unsee this! Iconic.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Scottish high school has paid tribute to one of its former pupils who has died whilst fighting for Ukraine
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Scottish high school pays tribute to former pupil killed while fighting for Ukraine
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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am not given to hyperbole when it comes to university industrial relations, but this feels like an existential event. The heart of the university is being torn out, with long-lasting consequences. These strikes are a last-ditch attempt to stop that. Will anyone listen?
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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This university has a 3% surplus, this is not a school in a funding crisis! Yet they're making £140 million in cuts with £90 million in staffing budget cuts. You wanna know what they have plenty of money for though?
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Kate Louise Mathis is on strike @drmaudbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As am I... Solidarity with all my gorgeous colleagues and our amazing, amazing students, today, tomorrow and (hopefully not), every day of the 25 we've notified. #StopTheCuts @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Covid everywhere again... high fevers, coughs, and I've heard already of two cases of vertigo (probably ear-related or brain-related). People are not being told, and they don't tell themselves either, that there is not such a thing as acquiring immunity to sars2.
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Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, staff @ University of #Edinburgh are striking to protest recently announced cuts - incl. the forced closure of >90 courses. Principal Prof Sir Peter Mathieson accused the union of "weaponising" students. I find this enraging, so: a short (quite personal) thread. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts
Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.
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Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Accusing striking staff of 'weaponising students' ignores the extent to which students have ALREADY become nothing but £££ signs for a University management depriving generations of future students of much more than 5 weeks of teaching.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Overwhelming response today from the protests and picket lines at the University of Edinburgh, on Day 1 of the UCU workers' strike. This includes at the university's Medical School ...
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Scottish Historical Review @scottishhistreview.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Registration is required: In-person: lnkd.in/dZQGpT9c Online: lnkd.in/deCyrYnm
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Karie Ghoulish 👻 @kariebookish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I can only second this. If you are in Glasgow, visit Category Is. It's much more than a bookshop. It's a community hub, a place of active resistance, and a big fucking hug.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Duille @duille.com · 26/09/2026
ITC Willow Typeface. Tony Forster. 1990. Possibly one of the most influential uses of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's letterforms; it adapted and standardised numerous hand-lettered sources for the digital age. NB: Mackintosh never actually designed a 'font'.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There are no words for how much this disgusts me #research #humanities #ukri
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Night all. ❤️😴 Episode 134 - Night waves rolling onto Coldingham Sands (34mins *sleep safe*) It's 3am on the path from St Abbs to the beach. Just the sound of gulls and the sea.
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134 Night waves rolling onto Coldingham Sands (sleep safe) | Radio Lento podcast
Up steep steps from the sandy beach, and a birds-ear view of ocean breakers from a thicket, perched half-way up the cliff. Several hours to go before low tide. Directly ahead slow rolling waves, break...
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: Train drivers have warned they will boycott vehicles manufactured by a company linked to illegal Israeli settlements www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Two Masks COVID-Informed People Wear: One for the airborne virus — one for the frustration of watching people repeatedly get sick while public health messaging continues to fail them. Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...
A screenshot of a social media post on X (formerly Twitter) by the user tern (@1goodtern).
The text of the post reads: "I wear two masks: a visible one to reduce my exposure to airborne pathogens, and an invisible one to hide the scream behind my eyes every time I encounter yet another person with long-term health problems caused by covid infection."
The post is dated 3:55 PM · Sep 20, 2026 and shows a metric of 11.2K Views.
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Kate Louise Mathis is on strike @drmaudbailey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Exhibit B: 'our most adventurous reimagination of our curriculum for a generation' llc.ed.ac.uk/understandin...
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Understanding our programme changes | Literatures, Languages & Cultures | Literatures Languages and Culture
In 2027, we are embarking on our most adventurous reimagination of our curriculum for a generation.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
AI is screwing up journal papers: Journal editor asks authors of 10 submitted papers to meet and discuss their paper. Of the 7 that showed up, 3 were unable to answer basic questions about the paper and 3 had difficulty when asked further questions on technical details… medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...
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Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
By Nihar B. Shah
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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A university founded in the Middle Ages in a city that centers itself around a Medieval castle does not see a need to study Medieval History
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Kate Louise Mathis is on strike @drmaudbailey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
'Budget constraints' = fall-out of deliberate prioritization of capital expenditure now laid at the feet of all sorts of staff (other than management, of course) and our specialist programmes www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/depreci...
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Depreciating the University of Edinburgh into the Ground — UCU Edinburgh
There are four key takeaways from the University of Edinburgh’s 2024-25 annual report, which this post explores: The University continues to make a sizeable surplus. What financial pressures exi...
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tell your boss that I gave you the week off so you can explore this amazing interactive map showing the road network of the Roman Empire. This is so much fun to explore you can compare the Ancient and Modern road network for example. Great stuff. Your boss will understand... Source: itiner-e.org
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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why @ucu.org.uk is taking an unprecedented five weeks of strike action in the wake of 90 programme closures at Edinburgh University. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2656382...
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'Our last option': Why UCU is escalating jobs fight amid cuts at leading university
There is a war of attrition between the University and College Union (UCU) and senior managers at the ancient institution.
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Kate Louise Mathis is on strike @drmaudbailey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thanks :) Scrabbling to find the glossy veneer that our HoS are still demanding, but it's perhaps as much a PR debacle too bsky.app/profile/drma...
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M. J. Grant @campaignbear.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Some reassurance here on Scottish Stuidies & co. As another colleague pointed out, the way these closures have been announced (internally and externally) has the hallmarks of a PR disaster. (But then, they ARE gearing up to sack swathes of our PR staff, so mibbes get used to it).
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price
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Kate Louise Mathis is on strike @drmaudbailey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Such a pity we can't all have an Outlander superstar on staff☺️ I'm happy to hear you're having such a good experience; UoG Celtic staff are and remain very dear colleagues, and I was very fortunate to work there myself for several years.
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