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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Multiple UK universities took down their policies relating to trans inclusion after the OfS's unprecedented fine of Sussex over its wholly anodyne approach to discouraging transphobia. Today is a very good day to demand to know when those policies will be going back up.

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

A useful reminder on UCU's position on trans inclusion, while the EHRC undergoes a consultation following last month's Supreme Court Decision. Short version: we're pro-trans inclusion! This is true at the national level, and true at our branch.

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Gender identity and sexual orientation discrimination

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

This is absolutely awful. So horribly stressful for the students, who had to convince the invigilator there was actually a problem on top of everything else. Say, you don't suppose this is connected to the uni moving heaven and earth to shed dozens of PS colleagues during an exam term, do you?

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Exams interrupted by incorrect papers, missing data booklets, and typos across the university - Palatinate

Students have been sent the wrong exam papers and additional resources have been missing as multiple departments have made errors in examinations this year.

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Coming out soon: www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

If you're interested in more #ai from H&A at #sjsu, check out our other event recordings: *Data Feminism in AI @laurenfklein.bsky.social youtu.be/p9vbNA5_t44 *AI in Creative Spaces youtu.be/o84CcpLqmNk *The AI Con book launch @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social youtu.be/1FcD3-FRWD4

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Data Feminism for AI: A Talk by Dr. Lauren Klein

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Again, if Cardiff can do this after a much, much worse 2024 than Durham has had, why is the employer continuing to rule out compulsory redundancies?

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This is today, everybody! Let's show everyone - our university included - that we're not just going to sit quietly in a corner while people's rights are on the line. #UnionswiththeT

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Katie Muth @kmuth.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

One more day to sign sign sign! ✍️

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Katie Muth @kmuth.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Hi Bluesky! 👋 @ducu.bsky.social spent the week out on the picket lines in a local trade dispute over proposed staff cuts. Anyone can sign our petition to let DU management know we're not the only ones who think these staff cuts are a big NOPE! durhamucu.org.uk

Durham UCU members with placards and armbands gather for a rally outside the Bill Bryson library. We are in a trade dispute over University management's plan to cut £20M in staff costs over the next two years. Staff cuts are unnecessary and threaten our capacity to deliver world-class teaching and research. Sign the petition to let Durham University management know you oppose staff cuts.

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Day four! Striking for our jobs! We are not a drain on the university! We ARE the university!

The Durham UCU picket line outside of Bill Bryson library

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Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Another sunny day with some big pickets @ducu.bsky.social. A picket line visit from local MP Mary Foy and the mighty @newcastleucu.bsky.social! Students also voting for refucing senior management numbers as opposed to cutting professional services staff.

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Thank you Caleb! This action, along with many others, would be made easier if Unite UCU were being treated fairly and with respect, in the same place way UCU members demand for ourselves. #SettleTheDispute

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Jamie Callahan @profjamiec.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

New picket day, new sign. As cuts go up, services go down. Upset by the cut in library hours? Just you wait until cuts take effect! Anise pine nut cookies ready to go for the morning! @ducu.bsky.social #veganpickets #NoCuts #SaveOurStaff

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Day two of the strike, and we've ben getting a lot of questions from students about the action. What's it for, why are we doing it now, and how can they help. So let's run through some Strike Questions! 🧵

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Jamie Callahan @profjamiec.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Friendly reminder from an HR professor: voluntary severances aren’t really “voluntary” if future compulsory redundancies are still on the table. #NoCuts #SaveOurStaff @ducu.bsky.social

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Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Great turnout today on @ducu.bsky.social pickets. On strike to protect professional services staff jobs. An attack on one is an attack on all! Management tried to pit academics against professional services staff - they've failed! We are *all* the university!

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Sign sign sign! Our jobs are on the line!

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Exactly. The hyperfocus on limitless growth 2017-2022, and now on unplanned-out shrinking, all driven by a sole focus on financial targets does not a university make. Know what we do, make the money support that. The other way round, you just get a monstrosity ever on the brink of failure.

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Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

. @uniteucu.bsky.social's dispute needs to be resolved. It needs to be resolved bc Congress voted for @ucu.org.uk leadership to do so. It needs to be resolved bc it's the right thing to do. It needs to be revolved bc not resolving it makes things harder for branches in dispute. Solidarity!

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Katie Muth @kmuth.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We're not surprised to read this reporting, are we @ducu.bsky.social. Wonder if management are bothered?

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

This is a really important point — when we point out that governments are crippling HE by attacking visas, we also need to a) talk about international students as people not £££ and also b) point out *why* overseas tuition fees have become an apparent panacea for UK universities

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Katie Muth @kmuth.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Metaphors are context dependent.

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Katie Muth @kmuth.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Found poem, WaPo 5 Apr. Lutnick, who was clutching a large poster board sign in the Rose Garden ahead of Trump’s remarks, had been tasked with the printing of the visual aids Trump displayed there — though the breezy conditions Wednesday afternoon prevented them all from being displayed.

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The results are IN for our industrial action ballot! On a 64.0% turnout (our highest ever confirmed %age), 72.2% of voters said they were prepared to strike, with 81.2% prepared to engage in action short of strike. So what's next? Well. The employer knows where to find us. Time for a chat, perhaps?

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Operation Ballot CONTINUES. A reminder to Durham UCU members: get your vote in, and tell us you've gotten your vote in :)

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 20/02/2025

I heard the NEA is only considering proposals related to 1776 & the USA’s 250th birthday & I was feeling intensely patriotic, so I’m printing these really big posters inspired *directly* by the Founding Fathers The cut was carved from the masthead of a 19th century newspaper

Two large posters on off white paper with blue ink reading:

NO TYRANTS!
& NO KINGS!

In large wood type font. There is a large image cut of a wooden printing press with a banner of text above it reading “THE TYRANTS FOE THE PEOPLES FRIEND”

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 24/02/2025

A message from @ducuuo.bsky.social 📢 We're calling on university management to rule out the use of compulsory redundancies 🔥

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 18/02/2025

📡 at very long last, today is the big day! my beloved book, OTHER NETWORKS: A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK, is officially available for pre-order! 1/5 #othernetworks shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...

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Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology.

Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 19/02/2025

Does anyone know of good work on the philosophy of ‘style’? What is style? Context: I’m teaching neural style transfer with convnets and the method operationalises 'style' in a strange and simple way that may bear no resemblence at all to traditional theories of style. I'm interesed in comparing.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

If you missed the ACH roundtable at #MLA25 on "Book History and Digital Humanities" The blog post about the session now has slides/talks/info @ryancordell.org @natmcgartland.bsky.social @whitneytrettien.bsky.social @elikaortega.bsky.social @bibliowingate.bsky.social ach.org/news/2024/12...

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ACH@MLA25: Book History and the Digital Humanities

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 17/02/2025

Data Analyst position @theul.bsky.social responsible for 'collecting, analysing, and presenting a wide range of data, including operational, financial, collections, publishing, and qualitative user research data'. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX212/d...

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Data Analyst at University of Cambridge

Apply for the Data Analyst role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

BREAKING NEWS: Durham UCU's consultative ballot on strike action over redundancies closed this afternoon. The results, with 61.5% of potential votes cast: 87.0% YES on a ballot to mandate industrial action.

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Full solidarity with @newcastleucu.bsky.social. If our senior management don't start listening to their staff, we may not be all that far behind!

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Indira Sen @indiiigo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Check out the CfP for the WikiNLP workshop at ACL in Vienna, open to submissions on #NLProc + Wikipedia: Reasons to attend: - Wikipedia is awesome - Vienna is awesome - can submit provocations on how NLP could help Wikipedia - can submit non-archival papers Reasons not to attend: - none

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Lots of people showed up to express their anger. We also passed a motion with over 80% in favour: cap uni salaries at £100,000 a year. If senior management are right that we desperately need to cut costs, let's see them shoulder some of the burden.

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

All colleagues at Durham received an email this morning telling us there need to be £20 million cuts in staff costs over the next two years.

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Alt: a man standing in front of a crowd with the words "everybody panic"

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Durham UCUs statement on the cuts announced today. durhamucu.org.uk/durham-ucu-s...

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Durham UCU Statement on Durham University Proposals to Cut Staff Costs by £20 million – Durham UCU

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

200 is a conservative estimate, assuming that more PSS staff on higher grades than lower grades go. We at @ducu.bsky.social will fight to protect the jobs and working conditions of members: durhamucu.org.uk/durham-ucu-s...

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Durham UCU Statement on Durham University Proposals to Cut Staff Costs by £20 million – Durham UCU

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"There is no university without its staff." sending much solidarity @ducu.bsky.social, another devastating cut that does not solve the structural problem of a faulty funding system.

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Solidarity with colleagues at Cardiff. This is horrifying.

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Early engagement with this vote has been encouraging, but we still need a lot more colleagues to let us know your position. Having sent our claim last Monday, we're hoping senior management will tell us something we can share with you all soon, though frankly silence is a message all in itself.

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