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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026

University of Brighton management has given notice to terminate its recognition agreement with UCU alongside collective agreements covering key terms and conditions. This isn't just about Brighton. What happens here could have implications for branches across the UK.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026

Turkey is raiding LGBTQ+ groups and detaining activists across 15 provinces. Turkish academics in UK universities are watching friends and colleagues detained at home. LGBTQ+ Turkish academics face this most acutely. We stand with them. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1467...

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UCU condemns Turkish state crackdown on LGBTQ+ people and civil society

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 29/09/2026

“People who work in universities are feeling absolutely betrayed by being dragged into this conversation as if their contribution is not recognised.” Migrant staff put down roots, build lives and make an enormous contribution to our universities and communities.

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Dağhan Irak @daghanirak.com · 15/09/2026

this is all fine and good, but the Western media should really focus on why their governments are complicit in this shit. For instance, while all these were happening, the Turkish opposition was stonewalled by the UK Labour Party and their leader Özgür Özel repeatedly called Labour out on that.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 15/09/2026

If I were to count up how much of my own time I have spent as a precariously employed academic writing grant applications and paid myself minimum wage I could fund my research for a fair while. And all of that is time I didn’t spent doing actual research too. It’s so depressing being precarious.

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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fewer, larger grants means narrowing the scope of research to a few pre-selected topics. Fewer, larger grants means wasting talent and having fewer eyes on the problem. Fewer, larger grants means losing steady, reliable progress. Fewer, larger grants means more pressure and more failure.

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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

For the record, "fewer larger grants" is the opposite of how to fund good research. Give a bunch of researchers financial stability and basic funding, without wasting their time on increasingly competitive applications and widening the have/have-not gap, and look how far we'll go.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026

i don’t want “accelerated”, “increased-speed” or “fast-paced” research. in fact, am not interested in any shortcuts to mindful, intentional, and slow science

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nigel Farage is a grifter. He always has been and he's continuing to grift. He knew he was heading towards a byelection anyway so has pulled the trigger early. The people Vs the establishment?! Reform are literally part of the establishment.

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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

data visualization is my passion.

fox news showing weekly temperatures: 92, 92, 92, 94, 94, 92, 92, with a very strong gap between 94 and 92.

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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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Troy McCron @robotninjabread.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Discussing grind culture and the games industry on X. And unsurprisingly, 280 characters wasn’t enough, so I accidentally wrote an essay instead It’s about why I think we’ve started confusing self-sacrifice with professionalism. I hope people still read😅 open.substack.com/pub/troymccr...

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The Games Industry Doesn’t Have a Talent Problem. It Has an Opportunity Problem.

How the games industry started confusing self-sacrifice with professionalism.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

“Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them. Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place.”

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PalantirWatch — Tracking Palantir Technologies

Independent watchdog tracking Palantir's contracts, executives, lobbying, legal exposure, and global footprint. OSINT-driven public interest research.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 12/06/2026

A London bus stop. Seems accurate to me.

A bright pink poster covers the front of a London bus shelter. A picture of Elon Musk in black tie, waving his arms about. Above it: 'If you have a trillion dollars in a world where children are starving, you're not a visionary, you're just a cunt.'

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 06/06/2026

Up to half of FE lecturers walk away within three years. Not because they stopped caring but because the workload broke them. Chronic overwork. Escalating stress. No support. This is a workforce crisis.

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Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

This isn’t an internal battle over party leadership no matter how global media keeps framing it. Riot police stormed the CHP’s headquarters today, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at party members and supporters gathered outside. This is state violence against Turkey’s main opposition party.

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Michael Merrifield @astromikemerri.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Have to suspect that some of my erstwhile senior managers, who are usually so keen to turn every list into a league table, might be less keen to see how far up this one they have driven their institution.

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Sereneprincess @sereneprincess.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

A rambling: Capitalism is deeply rooted in the economic model created slavery by legitimising wealth extraction, labour exploitation. Enslaved Africans were accounted for in balance sheets as capital assets and created hoards of profit on plantations for the imperial power. 1/

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Ege @iolairdhubhalba.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Superb post! I fully resonate with this although my experience has had differences but plenty of common points. #UK #HigherEducation #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

University staff : 1.4% pay rise Vice Chancellor: 5.6% pay rise This is University of Staffordshire -- but pattern is widespread across UK universities Executive pay up Staff pay down (in real terms) Goodwill & trust gone www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Strike threat over University of Staffordshire pay offer

The Unison union says it is balloting members on whether they will be prepared to go on strike.

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Dağhan Irak @daghanirak.com · 11/03/2026

Labour is not the alternative to Reform, it's the gateway to it.

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Julie Cruse @academicabuse.com · 07/03/2026

Higher Ed retaliation is real. The fact that so many survivors stay silent isn’t proof that it doesn’t happen—it’s proof of how well universities suppress it. 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾‍🔬 👩🏼‍🔬 👩🏾‍🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd

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Dağhan Irak @daghanirak.com · 27/02/2026

In the next days, we'll see Labour, Reform and the whole lot trying to decide whether the Greens are sectarian Islamists undermining Britain or reckless hippies who are attempting to force-feed the PM's son crack cocaine.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Think there might be some truth in this matrix... (creator: unknown)

A grid showing how different IT roles (Developers, Designers, Project Managers, QA, and Sysadmins) perceive each other. The matrix format uses humorous images for each intersection - like developers seeing designers as children with crayons, QA seeing everyone as problematic, and sysadmins being viewed as either chaotic or mysterious by others. The images range from professional photos to memes, creating a satirical take on tech workplace stereotypes and interdepartmental relationships

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition

The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away

What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse

The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Loving this. "Antirender" engine converts architects presentation drawings into the likely reality of the designs :) antirender.com

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Harvard just opened an investigation into Larry Summers's ties to Epstein. That's just PR cover for Harvard. They've known this entire time. Epstein literally had an office at Harvard for years.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 31/10/2025

👏 "There are over four million kids in child poverty in the UK and there are four and a half million people who can't get a dentist appointment." "We spend 90% of the political capital and discourse and media focus discussing 37,000 people."

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Ege @iolairdhubhalba.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Happy Republic Day of Turkey ! Without the foundation of the Republic, there would not be academics from Turkey who made significant contributions to the world literature. #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #HigherEducation

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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Just in case anyone is listening, please note that UK universities cannot operate successfully on the basis of continuous reduction of academic staff and academic staff pay. No amount of staff wellness sessions will change this.

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Julie Cruse @academicabuse.com · 24/10/2025

Diversity doesn’t lower quality. Gatekeeping does. When the same voices dominate academia, we don’t get excellence—we get elitism. 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾‍🔬 👩🏼‍🔬 👩🏾‍🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd

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Ege @iolairdhubhalba.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Imagine doing it in a foreign language, in a different country away from where you were born and grew up with limited funding, difficult bureaucracy e.g. visa and in isolation. #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #UK #HigherEducation.

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The impact of PhD studies on mental health - A longitudinal population study PhDs can be and some would likely argue, should be hard. But surely not *this* hard? #AcademicSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The impact of PhD studies on mental health—a longitudinal population study

Recent self-reported and cross-sectional survey evidence documents high levels of mental health problems among PhD students. We study the relationship…

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

How can some bus companies thrive while other are making cuts? Bringing bus companies into public ownership would mean your ticket fare would go back into the service, instead of lining private pockets. People, over profit. It works in Edinburgh, and it could work in Dundee.

ALT TEXT: A headline on The Courier website, reading "Tayport bus users threaten protest over Stagecoach plan to cut routes
Tayport travellers were "incredibly angry" at a packed public meeting to discuss bus service changes to and from the town." Beneath is a photograph of around 40 people, seated in a public meeting.

ALT TEXT: A headline on The Courier website. The headline reads "Xplore Dundee posts record profit as ticket prices rise and wages increase
The bus firm posted increased revenue and profit in the wake of ticket price increases." Beneath is a photograph of the male CEO of Xplore Dundee, smiling, standing in front of a large green bus.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Speak up and you risk retaliation University culture has decayed so far that retaliation is default HR opens “investigations” with no evidence Whistleblowers are sidelined, "troublemakers" victimised or dismissed It's a system that punishes truth Change is overdue -- & coming

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Julie Cruse @academicabuse.com · 14/09/2025

We know academia runs on insular, tightly knit circles. That makes speaking out harder & retaliation more common. Survivors are silenced, pushed out, or followed from one institution to the next.

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Ege @iolairdhubhalba.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

#Turkey 94 #Greece 68 at EuroBasket semifinal. Seriously? What? Wow... Never been more proud of the national basketball team. What an amazing achievement! #Eurobasket2025

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Ege @iolairdhubhalba.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

The famous tagline from the film, Alien: "In space, no one can hear you scream." In UK academia, it is the same. #UK #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

How to tell lies about 'illegal migrants', a 12 year-old girl and Dundee: all amplified by the British right-wing media and Elon Musk. #PrivateEye

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Never change, Scotland

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Paul Gribble 🇨🇦 @gribblelab.org · 03/09/2025

academia is a v. strange mix of “we expect you to behave like an employee” (forms, webinars, insanely bad admin software, etc) but also “go fund your entire research operation yourself including paper towels for the sink in the lunchroom we don’t have the budget for that”. #academicsky

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Richard Budd @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I was asked by the editor of The Geographer, the @royalscotgeosoc.bsky.social magazine, to comment on the discussion around imposing domestic student fees in Scotland. This is an online accessible version of my piece. ddubdrahcir.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/f... #academicsky #studentfees #highered

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Fees for Scotland? Best not to

This piece appeared in the Summer 2025 edition of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society’s “The Geographer”, and is replicated here with their kind permission. The spectre of fees for domestic stu…

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Paulo Hoffman @off-man.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

But Americans still believe that they have lived in a "democratic" country when in reality their country is run by the corporate oligarchic plutocracy in a corrupt political and justice systems that mainly exist to punish the poor and allow the rich to do whatever they want... That's despotism...!

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