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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just found myself in the weird position of turning down an academic job offer. I’ve decided not to apply for them before (recently enquiring about a research role I was told the ‘research budget’ came out of your salary) but never encountered t&cs so awful and exploitative that I’ve declined one

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

Has the time come for us binned staff to start setting up our own actual universities? Leave the wreckage of neoliberal academia and publishing to the corporate warlords and their enablers and start again? I switch between this thought and settling down with the cat for a quiet life.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 12/09/2026

Euphemisation has been a key strategy for the far right to escape the margins and return to the mainstream for half a century Back in the early 90s, Jean-Marie Le Pen pushed for the term "populism" to replace "extreme right" or "fascist". It was then taken up by mainstream actors and here we are

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I agree with this but also most work should 'only be a 3 in the REF' because ... honestly, not everything needs to set a field on fire. It should make a contribution but ...

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant piece from @hannahforsyth.bsky.social . Of course, nobody or almost nobody reads academic “outputs”. Their function is to get jobs, secure promotion, avoid redundancy, get better scores on dubious metrics. Which makes AI almost the perfect tool for the unscrupulous professor.

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If you can't be bothered writing it, I can't be bothered reading it.

The producerist vision of AI seems to assume an endlessly expanding market for reading. And reading. Well. It is rather more than a market.

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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#PSA27 Call for Papers 📢 Paper & panel proposals invited for the PSA27 Annual Conference at the University of Hull, 22-24 March 2027. 🌎️ Conference theme: 'Seismic Politics – impacts and responses from the global to the local' 📆 Deadline 12 October 2026

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PSA27 Annual Conference - Political Studies Association

Join us in Hull for PSA27 to discuss Seismic Politics – impacts and responses from the global to the local “PSA [conference] was really great. It gave much-needed exposure to interact with…

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Things are so bad I joined WhatsApp (still don't have a smartphone though, no). In amongst the serious stuff in our 'at risk' chat are some Very Lovely Things. For instance, my colleague who works on the Italian Renaissance shared this photo of the Archivio di Stato di Roma, where she currently is:

A photo taken through an archway at the State Archives of Italy. All around are magnificent old buildings with a clear blue sky above.

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Benjamin Farley @brfarley.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Just totally unacceptable that countries of origin--including many, wealthy Western countries--continue to refuse to repatriate their nationals detained or displaced during the conflicts in Syria. www.ohchr.org/en/statement...

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UN Syria Commission concludes latest visit to Syria

Commissioners Monia Ammar and Fionnuala Nì Aolain of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic concluded their latest visit to the Syrian Arab Republic, where the...

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

When officials say shit like this, they're not thinking about Oxford and Cambridge. They're thinking about the post-92s and the lower-ranked Russell Group schools—in other words, the universities that serve working class & BIPOC students whom the "political strategy" would love to ignore completely.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

'A less than five-minutes-long Teams call with no opportunity to respond is how staff at the University of Dundee heard that their jobs, the courses that they teach and their livelihoods might be at risk. I ask members to think about that for a moment.' (Maggie Chapman (North East Scotland) 1/5

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The Scottish Parliament examines what the Scottish Government is doing, makes new laws on devolved matters and debates the issues of the day.

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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

First management @northumbriauni.bsky.social came for our pensions and pay - for no good reason. Now they're coming for our colleagues. This is terrible news for staff, students, and the region. @timeshighered.bsky.social @chroniclelive.co.uk @ukhenews.bsky.social @21group.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

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LeonieBJackson @leoniebjackson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Times are very hard, but waiting for things to get better before celebrating tiny wins would be waiting forever. This book, written during 3(?) rounds of industrial action as the HE sector and world falls apart, finally reached us, so a trip to the local to celebrate was had.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Our society has spent the entirety of teenagers' lives systematically destroying every alternative to online interaction, from youth-clubs to broadcast TV, and now wants to cut off their access to the one thing that was sold as replacing it all.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It seems a good day to remind people that in the UK 3 times as many people work in Indian restaurants or for McDonalds as in the whole coal and steel industry. 5 times as many are academic staff at universities. If Labour does not understand its electorate, there is no way to appeal to it.

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

'Unsettling feelings: colonial archives, decolonial possibilities' 🌍 Upcoming BISA Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group event w/ Alice Finden looking at 'How does the turn to colonial archives in social research connect to decolonial politics?' 📣 👉 ow.ly/SyJc50ZcEaU

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Current Postgraduate Network Chair, Konstantinos Manakos (@irpnorthumbria.bsky.social) says the role has been the best experience ever 🎉 Have you got what it takes to be part of the next committee? 🌟 Applications are open now! 👉 ow.ly/2T3r50ZbUlj

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

A good summary why UK HE has ended up in such a mess. I’d also add the growth of a managerial layer who refuse to take any responsibility for things they are responsible for; fall in available research funding, which wastes huge amounts of labour; and the pointless hamster wheel of REF! 🫠

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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social on strike again tomorrow - pickets from 9.30, free film screening @ Tyneside Cinema from 11.00. See y'all there, for 'One Battle After Another' - in real life and on screen! @onebattlemovie.bsky.social @paulthomasanderson.bsky.social

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

More on the state of British academia. Such cruelty and brutalisation effected through these processes that are dismantling disciplines and universities in the face of governmental indifference

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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

“I want to talk about the way that the survival of the AI industry depends upon you, the generation coming of age right now, agreeing with them that you have essentially no say in your own future.” medium.com/center-on-pr...

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An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements about "Generative AI"

Image source: Bibliothèque nationale de France An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI” Dear students, As you know, in …

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Alex Kanefsky (he/him) @alexkanefsky.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

When people say “but what about the good policies” they fail to understand the anger these things produce. As someone living on benefits due to disability & *still trying* to get PIP, the attack on disability alone was so personal, so cruel, literally nothing they do now would make me trust them

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Amna Kaleem @amnakaleem.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

📣Call for abstracts 📣 If you do Critical Security/Terrorism Studies, join our #EISAPEC26 section. We welcome papers, panels, or roundtables. Feel free to get in touch with either myself or @marinegueguin.bsky.social if you have any queries. Deadline is 19 Feb. eisa-net.org/abstract-sub...

This section showcases research that critically analyses the politics of (counter)terrorism and security. We invite papers, panels, and roundtables covering intersectional critiques of international and domestic counter-terrorism policies, critical knowledge production, and methodological innovations and challenges in critical research.

In addition to this, we welcome contributions looking at the practicalities of critically researching terrorism, safeguarding issues for both the researchers and their subjects, the challenges of publishing critical work, and communicating with mainstream audiences.

We will also provide space to focus on academic freedom and discuss how scholars can undertake research-led teaching and bring criticality into the classroom. Given the attacks on academic freedom, especially on scholars involved in Palestine solidarity work, we must also address the need to embody the ethos of scholar-activism in the current climate and discuss how critical research and activism can survive in the neoliberal academy.

If you have any questions about this section, please get in touch with us:
M.Gueguin@leedsbeckett.ac.uk and amna.kaleem@sheffield.ac.uk

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

🚨Want to improve your teaching? Applying for a Teaching Fellowship?🚨 Join our upcoming BISA Postgrad Network event 'Voices in learning and teaching: Participatory methods for inclusive education' 📚 With LeonieBJackson and Dr Maísa Edwards sign up now! 🌟 ow.ly/CGQl50XrsiL

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Kathryn Cassidy @kathrynlcassidy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If you or someone you know might be interested in doing a PhD or Masters+PhD, you can apply for funded opportunities within the NINE DTP Human Geography & Environment, Climate and Sustainability pathways with colleagues at Northumbria. There is more info here: www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

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FindAPhD : ESRC-Funded PhD Studentships in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Northumbria University (NINE25/EE/GEO/KCKJ) at Northumbria University

Apply for a PhD: ESRC-Funded PhD Studentships in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Northumbria University (NINE25/EE/GEO/KCKJ) at Northumbria University

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Graduate students & ECRs writing on (anti)colonialism, race, indingenaiety, racial capitalism: do consider submitting your work for the CPD (colonial-postcolonial-decolonial) paper prize 👇

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