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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Sacking news arrives, 24th August. Apparently they're extending the process to…3 weeks ago.
Screenshot of a university email describing 7th August as 'within the next two weeks'.
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leannew.bsky.social @leannew.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
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leannew.bsky.social @leannew.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
“Doing nothing” would have indeed been the better option here. By a staggering amount
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
spraying money at consultants like Mercer, paying for IFAs, and giving staff a bung to compensate for ripping off their pensions.
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
On 6/11/25 @andylong6.bsky.social told @northumbriauni.bsky.social staff that "doing nothing is not an option" when it came to the costs of @teacherspensions.bsky.social. Turns out doing nothing would have been a helluva lot cheaper than...
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leannew.bsky.social @leannew.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social we might have to steal this, Laleh
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I’m very pleased that the trade press is giving space to the Exeter horror. Next challenge is for them to look a little further down the league tables - Northumbria perhaps, or my own place. We have feelings too.
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
@danhollandnews.bsky.social @julietterowsell.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @chroniclelive.co.uk @chionwurah.bsky.social @alancampbellmp.bsky.social @nickhartleygreen.bsky.social @privateeyenews.bsky.social @ukhenews.bsky.social @moneyontheleft.bsky.social @21group.bsky.social
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...
desmog.com
Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...
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leannew.bsky.social @leannew.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Slide 3 will sound familiar to @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social #CutAndPastePlaybook
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Nigel Farage. A proper football fan who hasn't moved an inch in almost two years.
Farage with a pint in a football shirtSame picture
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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Well maybe they should
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Meanwhile, management @northumbriauni.bsky.social are pressing on regardless with (very costly) plans to cut the pay of those who stay in @teacherspensions.bsky.social. @ucu.org.uk @ucea.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social. Hence this:
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 20/05/2026
Today @drjogrady.bsky.social wrote to the University of Reading. Trans staff and students are being forced into formal grievances just to find out why policies that affect their daily lives exist. That is not legal compliance. It is institutional opacity. We’re calling on Reading to act.
Letter to reading Letter to reading
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Looks like employer contributions for @teacherspensions.bsky.social will be going down next year. What does that mean for @northumbriauni.bsky.social bosses saying they need to save £11m by cutting staff pay unless people move from that scheme to USS? Nothing. Cuts still planned. Thanks a lot.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 11/03/2026
30% real-terms pay cut since 2011. Vice-chancellors attempting 15,000+ job cuts since last September. UCU & sister unions are fighting back - submitting our 2026/27 pay claim to UCEA demanding fair pay, protected jobs & an end to casualised contracts. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1443...
ucu.org.uk
University staff demand fair pay & an end to sector wide cuts
UCU alongside its sister unions, Unison, Unite, EIS & GMB has today (Tuesday) demanded university bosses protect pay, protect jobs and improve working conditions across the sector.
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
An understated part of this: teaching staff, PhD students, research support staff, technical staff, facilities workers + more ALL voiced zero confidence in university leadership. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get all these people to agree on anything. The boss is truly the best organizer.
bbc.com
Unions pass no confidence vote in University of Nottingham bosses
They say it follows "years of shocking financial decisions and governance failures".
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Please sign and share this petition to stop an indefinite, unjustified pay freeze @northumbriauni.bsky.social @georgeclarke.bsky.social . Let's get past 1000! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
megaphone.org.uk
Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.  These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Can we get to 1000 signatures in 2026? Help save pay and pensions @northumbriauni.bsky.social by signing and sharing this: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
megaphone.org.uk
Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.  These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Ulster University spent £24k on a trip to the 2024 THE Awards If 60 unis did the same, UK universities shell out ~£1.6m on #THEAwards Hard to justify this spend when many face certain job prospects -- morale is better boosted by real improvements or pay rises than glitzy ceremonies
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/10/2025
Jennifer Welch on Riley Gaines: “You’re an insufferable twat. Nobody likes you and no matter what you'll always have been the dumb bitch that tied for 5th place. Nobody likes you except for the other fake Christians that enjoy their spare time watching children get ziptied. So fuck you Riley Gaines”
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
University HR Directors & Heads of Legal are openly weeping & distraught Universities are one of the big users of Non Disclosure Agreements to cover up abuse & misconduct No more, it's stopping gov.uk/government/n...
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
What every Vice Chancellor should be offering with genuine contrition 21percent.org?p=2757
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The "you wouldn't download a car" screen but it reads "you wouldn't scrape all the art ever made and use it to create an Anime titty generator"
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 08/10/2025
I mean, you’d have thought they’d have been pleased. Must be incredibly difficult at The Telegraph to balance their core philosophy of the inalienable right of everyone to own a second home in another country with their other core belief in a visceral hatred of foreigners. So they don’t bother.
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 04/10/2025
🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud: “We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 05/10/2025
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
Tawny owl
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Nine jobs Nigel Farage hasn't updated his ­register of interests in months. Potentially hundreds of thousands of ££££ from his many "outside interests" remain undeclared observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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‘Nine-jobs Nigel’ Farage denies not declaring extra earni...
Roles outside Parliament make Reform leader the highest-earning MP, but register of interests has not been updated since end of May
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone.

We will not let hate or those who spread it win.

We stand with you.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 02/10/2025
So are the anti woke, freedom of speech lot all thumbs up to that police behaviour expose?
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 01/10/2025
For the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide. When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected. Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Eat a sandwich and your political career is pretty much over if you're a Labour politician... Threaten violence... or cast doubt on the safety of paracetamol and boom you're the next Winston Churchill
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 24/09/2025
Farage wanting to kick people out of the country because they migrated here made me angry and made me think about which best of British people and things wouldn't have happened were it not for the brilliance of immigration to the UK.
Sgt Peppers album cover consisting of things that only made it because of immigration in to the UK, either immigrants themselves, the children of or as a result of someone else coming here.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Unfortunately, everyone who predicted the rapture still seems to be here
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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
So the country that pays the least for drugs. Works for me. Well done UK.
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Lady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Oh. That doesn’t seem right
Text reads:

Google search bar: “how to clean a rescued pigeon”

Al Overview

Pigeons are usually clean, even wild ones.
You can try these steps to clean a rescued pigeon:
• Remove the label
• Remove the head
• Make a small incision in the wing and snap to join
•Cut off the wing
•Remove the legs
• Clean the top bone
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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Oh wow. Lee Clark absolutely destroyed here 😬
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leannew.bsky.social @leannew.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Agree. Matt + Adam is the ticket.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 11/09/2025
In case anyone was wondering where we keep our most prized objects, it’s not here.
A close up of the back door of a white van with its registration number blurred out, and a bumper sticker that reads 'No scones are left in this van overnight'The back of a white van with its registration number blurred out, and a bumper sticker that reads 'No scones are left in this van overnight', parked under a green overhanging tree
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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Why do none of the reported messages in Epstein's birthday book just say some variant of "Hope you have a great day Jeff!" but all say something like "Take as much pleasure from the 'gift' I have arranged for you, as I have from those you have kindly supplied to me over the years..."
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone. This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.
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terrydee-author.bsky.social @terrydee-author.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Small boat crossings account for just 3% of migration to Britain. Yet 97% of news about migration. David Cameron having introduced austerity needed to control wages, he did so through legal migration, this to keep wages in check. Balance is required, mature and educated discussion, not thuggery.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 22/08/2025
Because 60s nostalgia doesn't have as many living supporters as it once did and we've had to find some other Peter Kaye style memory jog to sell our papers.
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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
david attenborough: [mumbling] skip. i dont like this animal. skip it.
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Excellent comment on the 21 Group blog There's no way of fixing UK Universities without governance reform Axe funds wasted on external consultants, lawyers, overpaid VCs & administrators to liberate resources for research & teaching 21percent.org?p=2496
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