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Wullie Broon. @wullie-broon.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

My son inlaw is in that business and the amount of hours he's worked on 'trial' shifts he's not been paid for is shocking.

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Jeanette Findlay @jeanettefindlay.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

@scottishtuc.bsky.social Went into Off the Rails, wee cafe on Dundas St today. The lassie said she was on a 'trial' shift. Asked if she was getting paid - the guy training her smirked and went red in the face - I took that as a no and left. Disgusting abuse of young workers.

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Jeanette Findlay @jeanettefindlay.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Just finished Lianne Moriarty's Here One Moment. What a story it was! It never went where you thought it would. I listened to it as an audiobook and the two readers were fantastic. #booksky

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Jeanette Findlay @jeanettefindlay.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The trick is to get them picked when they are just ripe enough to eat and before the magpies eat them all! 🌱

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Skotia @theskotia.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Nest of Fearties is available to WATCH exclusively for members of Skotia's Patreon. 📺 Support Skotia: buff.ly/8uDG0tR

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Skotia @theskotia.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

In the latest episode of Nest of Fearties, Jeanette Findlay and Brian Reynolds discuss the costly, delayed and error-strewn delivery of the MV Glen Sannox and MV Glen Rosa. ⛴️ Listen to 'Behind The Ferry Fiasco' now: buff.ly/rRbYFnu

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Jeanette Findlay @jeanettefindlay.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

My Hebe was cut back a few years ago and I wasn't happy with how it was done. Does it need cut back now and, if so, any tips on how to do it properly? The bees love it by the way.🌱

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Jeanette Findlay @jeanettefindlay.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

My hanging basket strawberries are producing more fruit than ever this year. Not bad for the east end of Glasgow in a pretty dismal summer.

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Jeanette Findlay @jeanettefindlay.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I can only listen to podcasts and audio books when I am walking, driving, lying in bed or ironing. Can anyone else just sit and listen while doing nothing else?

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Jeanette Findlay @jeanettefindlay.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Just used home made banana peel fertiliser on my hydrangeas - will let you all know how it goes!

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Jeanette Findlay @jeanettefindlay.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Just finished Department Q. It was an absolute treat. The characters were brilliant and the one liners hilarious. Story was tricky but kept the tension till the very end. Left a few loose threads so hopefully a second series coming.

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Jeanette Findlay @jeanettefindlay.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

My hydrangea is looking quite the part!

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Sophie Watson @sizzleleg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I was supposed to be attending UCU Scotland Congress. Was looking forward to seeing UCU comrades across Scotland and seeing what we can do to build our fight. Some might say I should keep quiet about this, but I want to keep fighting cuts. The sector is in crisis. It's so frustrating.

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Sophie Watson @sizzleleg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This is getting beyond a joke. My UCU friends and colleagues are furious about this dispute and rightly so. @ucu.org.uk @drjogrady.bsky.social get round the table!

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@Henriklubo @henriklubo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Just listened to this it’s a fantastic must listen podcast re the kettling last Sunday by Police Scotland. Very impressed as always by @jeanettefindlay.bsky.social Liam O’Hare @grahamspiers.bsky.social www.patreon.com/login?ru=%2F...

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Shug Sharkey1888 @shug-sharkey.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

You can watch this on channel 4 tonight 11-15 please share

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Colin Lindsay @clindsaystrath.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

With my colleagues Patricia Findlay @triciafindlay.bsky.social & Robert Stewart, I recently published this paper in Industrial Relations Journal: Co-Producing Employee Engagement Approaches in a Workplace Partnership: A Route to Partial Success in Public Health Workplaces doi.org/10.1111/irj....

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Co‐Producing Employee Engagement Approaches in a Workplace Partnership: A Route to Partial Success in Public Health Workplaces

While employee engagement might enhance staff wellbeing alongside organisational performance, delivering mutual gains can be challenging. This article assesses co-production as a route to engagement ....

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Was just disinvited by @bbc5live.bsky.social to a discussion of Brexit 5 years on- on the entirely reasonable/correct grounds that I know what I am talking about and would give an expert, objective view. What they actually wanted was a "hard Remainer" (to balance a know-nothing Brexiteer). FFS.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

See also @thomsampson.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/thom...

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Overall, as forecast, the overwhelming consensus among economists is that the impact of Brexit has been significant and negative, but not catastrophic. Some of the downsides on trade have been partially offset by increases in migration.

rexit resulted in major changes to the United Kingdom’s economic relationship with the European Union. The U.K.–E.U. Trade and Cooperation Agreement provides for tariff-free trade but has also resulted in the introduction of customs controls and various non-tariff barriers. In addition, the ending of free movement of workers between the United Kingdom and the EU was accompanied by major changes to the UK’s system for work-related migration.

These changes have resulted in a reduction in UK trade compared to other advanced economies, with goods exports most adversely affected. However, the proportion of overall UK trade that is with the EU does not yet appear to have fallen. Investment has also suffered. However, a fall in migration from EU countries has been at least offset by very large increases in migration from the rest of the world, particularly in the health sector.

Overall, UK GDP growth has underperformed synthetic counterfactuals by about 5% since the Brexit referendum, but a substantial proportion of this is likely to reflect factors not directly related to Brexit: comparisons with other large European economies are much less negative. Nevertheless, Brexit has had a negative impact on growth. Looking forward, this impact is likely to grow, although it could in part be offset by improvements to the UK’s regulatory framework, or mitigated by changes to the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.

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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

'Simply obscene'. UCU comment on Stirling Principal's 40% £119k pay rise over 2 years making him highest paid VC in Scotland on £414,000 plus benefits. Salaries like this when we're facing funding challenges and redundancies across HE are unconscionable www.scotsman.com/education/th...

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The 'staggering' £119,000 salary rise for best paid university principal in Scotland

‘Simply obscene’ hike in pay for Scottish vice chancellor who now earns more than double the UK prime minister

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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

UCU Scotland RALLY TODAY, Wed 29/1, at the Scottish Parliament. 12.30 for 1pm start. Rally against job cuts in Scottish universities and for a budget for higher education #SaveHE

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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We had support from across the political spectrum at our rally on the crisis in universities ✊👩‍🎓 thanks to MSPs Pam Duncan Glancy, Miles Briggs, Willie Rennie and Ross Greer for addressing the rally today! #SaveHE

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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We also heard direct from members affected by cuts and casualisation. The politicians need to do better #SaveHE

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Michael Marra MSP @michaeljmarra.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Outside the Scottish Parliament today for @ucuscotland.bsky.social rally on the crisis in Scottish HE. Good to speak with colleagues from Univeristy of Dundee. With the huge challenges the uni faces, it is vital that trade union voices are heard.

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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We had amazing solidarity from the National Union of Students, thanks to Sai Shraddha Suresh Viswanathan, Scotland president for joining us today. #SaveHE

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Jeanette Findlay @jeanettefindlay.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This book both delights and informs. Hugely detailed empirical evidence of the lives of all sorts of women in England over 900 years. I don't buy her take on all of the material she discusses and she contradicts herself over the binary nature of sex but it didn't stop me loving this book. 📚💙

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 03/01/2025

The devastating cuts at Dundee University harm staff, damage the university’s reputation and student experience Senior managers must work with the union to rule out compulsory redundancies 👇 @ucuscotland.bsky.social

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University staff balloted on strike action over proposed job cuts

The University of Dundee recently announced a projected shortfall of £30m amid a fall in the recruitment of international students.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 10/01/2025

On Jan 27 we mark Holocaust Memorial Day 🕯️ Register for this webinar exploring the build up to the Holocaust 👉 bit.ly/3WBIKo7 Led by the eminent expert, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Zoe Waxman & introduced by UCU General Secretary, Jo Grady.

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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

We're hiring... Branch administrator/organiser position with our @ucustandrews.bsky.social branch at St Andrews. Part time, permanent position. More details and how to apply... www.ucu.org.uk/vacancies#BAO1

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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Universities in Crisis: Rally at Scottish Parliament - Wed 29 Jan, 12.30 for 1pm. With universities across Scotland announcing cuts & redundancies incl possible comp redundancies, join our rally to save jobs & for a budget for higher education. Speakers incl UCU branches @NUSScotland & MSPs #SaveHE

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Jeanette Findlay @jeanettefindlay.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Ant tips for those of us living in Scotland to keep our poinsettia's going? I have tried a few times unsuccessfully. Mine is getting a bit leggy now but still has some red leaves.🌱

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Michael D. Grubb @michaelgrubb.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

We find that a simple nudge, “just-in-time” text message alerts, reduce unarranged overdraft and unpaid item charges 17% to 19% and arranged overdraft charges 4% to 8%, implying annual market-wide savings of £170 million to £240 million.

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Give people housing and they'll have kids! Obtaining housing increases the average probability of having a child by 3.8% and the number of children by 3.2%. For 20 to 25-year-olds, the corresponding effects are 32% and 33%.

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Jeanette Findlay @jeanettefindlay.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Adeste Fideles laeti triumphantes, Veníte, veníte in Bethlehem. Natum vidéte, Regem Angelorum: Veníte adoremus, Veníte adoremus Veníte adoremus Dóminum!

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Jeanette Findlay @jeanettefindlay.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I don't want no peace I want equal rights and justice Just give me my share

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Jeanette Findlay @jeanettefindlay.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

For those, like myself, who are struggling to understand some of the big events of the last week, it is important to remember that there can be more than one bad actor.

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Jeanette Findlay @jeanettefindlay.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Loving the subtitle version of Rio Hatate's name....

Subtitles on TV screen calling Rio Hatate, Radiohead Tat

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