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Dr Hayley Gibson @hayleyandthecomet.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Up past the Russell Hotel Up to the Heaviside Layer [From Senate House Library, Tower 2]

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Dr Hayley Gibson @hayleyandthecomet.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Unless you are referring to an actual journey, this isn't a "journey". Stop it.

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Dr Hayley Gibson @hayleyandthecomet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Congratulations to the organisers at Law and Theory Lab (Uni of Westminster) for hosting a wonderful CLC

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

UK based PhD (or equivalent) in Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences received in the last decade (excluding career breaks)? These training and funding resources as well as this support is designed for you. Free to join and belong. 9 regional hubs across the 4 UK nations.

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

'as reading declines and more people turn to videos for political information, the literate culture that sustained sophisticated argument and rational debate is crumbling.' Worth contextualising with 18th-c upper-class horror at the advent of reading by working-class readers (esp. women). 1/2

thetimes.com

The death of reading puts the world in a perilous place

Books and newspapers are increasingly giving way to social media content as the habit of reading fades. This isn’t just dumbing down, it’s a threat to democracy

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Dr Hayley Gibson @hayleyandthecomet.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Is the media going to start hounding all the white academics who have done so much worse and are still in their posts? For balance?

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Dr Hayley Gibson @hayleyandthecomet.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Do your care about the University of Dundee? If you do, join us to ask the University to stop the cuts to staff, courses and community assets. We will gather peacefully on Thursday 16th July at 12:30pm outside Bonar Hall. Bring signs, and tell your friends. Spread the word!

A cartoon hands holds a red and cream megaphone.
Text states
"Defend Dundee University
Thursday 16th July
12:30pm outside Bonar Hall, Dundee
Supported by Dundee Trades Union Council"

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money". But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

Screencap of page for linked article, reading:

Contents
Introduction
AI Is a Research Field
AI Is an Approach to Cognitive Science
AI Is a Parlor Trick
AI Is an Ideology
AI Is a Way to Hide and Devalue Human Labor
AI Is a Way to Shift Accountability
AI Is a Way to Centralize Power
Conclusion
Notes

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Dr Hayley Gibson @hayleyandthecomet.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We married our jobs Then they killed them.

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Anyone keeping track of how many HE redundancies are threatened now? Where’s our cobra meeting??

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If the energy regulator’s job is rubber/stamping price rises; the water regulator’s job is sighing and tutting at shit in rivers; the press regulator’s job is requesting minuscule retractions of frontpage lies, and the equality regulator’s job is innovating in discrimination: what is “regulation”?

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

As a casualised member with no branch at this current moment, the idea I should have to have a branch nomination to do anti-casualisation work is patently absurd. Let's get this changed and let's get more members on board. #UCU

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Sam P-F @smhwpf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Very, very bad. The folks at Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social are fighting back all they can, but I suspect it'll need intervention from Holyrood to stop the worst of it.

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Dr Hayley Gibson @hayleyandthecomet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Speaking about Powers of Attorney on Morning Live (BBC 1) this morning.

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Dr Hayley Gibson @hayleyandthecomet.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Someone needs to explain to me why a succession of governments would deliberately and systematically orchestrate the decline of one of their country's most lucrative exports.

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Dr Hayley Gibson @hayleyandthecomet.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Law & Humanities Summer Party | The Law and the Humanities Hub | Institute of Advanced Legal Studies share.google/CfKMdjPmYXJw...

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Dr Hayley Gibson @hayleyandthecomet.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The recording angel in the copula "Soul of Music" at the Wigmore Hall

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Dr Hayley Gibson @hayleyandthecomet.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Sweltering here in the literal rectum of Kent, where nobody can go and stand in the sea like the do in normal countries with publicly owned water. Thanks SEW. Short for "sewage".

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 23/06/2026

I am once again begging universities to realise that staff - academic, professional services, estates, all of them - are the product they are trying to sell. Without staff there is nothing to sell. No amount of flashy buildings will replace staff in universities. UKHE is in freefall.

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

How I imagine the Central Line is this morning.

A medieval depiction of a hell mouth with the naked damned meeting their fate.

The purgatory of Bank station, and the salvation of air con on the Circle line not illustrated.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

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Dr Hayley Gibson @hayleyandthecomet.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

My first experience of filming for TV! 31° outside so I mainly melted in a corner

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

We have written to the First Minister and deputy first minister. We have written and met with the SFC. We have asked local and regional MSPs to lobby on our behalf. We have informed SFC and UEG they have breached the conditions of funding. There has been no effective action to stop job cuts.

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Dr Hayley Gibson @hayleyandthecomet.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The cognitive dissonance required to identify with an occupying force while also demanding "immigrants out" is quite something.

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Dr Hayley Gibson @hayleyandthecomet.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Rained on twice but still very nice @ canterbury pride 🏳️‍🌈

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