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Martin Myers

@martinmyers.bsky.social
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Sociologist of education, writer, researcher, poet.

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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Have just encountered a 'Lean Practitioner' for the first time. Apparently they are based in 'Transformation Central'. I despair...🤮🤮🤮
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Another ridiculous Professor of Practice appointment. These mealy mouthed appointments highlight universities' abandonment of any intellectual legitimacy. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University
Role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
To some extent a rip-off album leaving a sour taste in the mouth I could accept. But missing out on a cover of Material Girl sounds like the real tragedy. #TheFall www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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‘Love and respect’ or ‘a cash grab’? The furious battle over the final album by the Fall
Creators of Post Script, made with vocals by the late Mark E Smith, defend it as ‘a great, positive record’, but fiancee describes it as ‘ethically wrong’
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
18 September 1924 | A German Sinti woman, Emilie Guttenberger, was born in Reutlingen. In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 18 March 1943. No. Z-4720 She perished in the camp on 26 April 1943. --- The fate of the Roma in Auschwitz: Podcast: youtu.be/eb31osDbyk0
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"On Auschwitz" (7): the fate of Roma and Sinti in Auschwitz
YouTube video by Auschwitz Memorial / Miejsce Pamięci Auschwitz
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=nHuz... This is stunning (as always) from Eilen Jewel. #Woody #EilenJewell #Deportee
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Deportee
YouTube video by Eilen Jewell - Topic
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Problematically this is the journal owned by my union @ucu.org.uk who don't have a great record on academic freedom at the moment. @drjogrady.bsky.social any thoughts?
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Gentle stirring of something resembling a moral backbone from Labour. Hopefully its the first step of many. #gaza #WestBank www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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UK accuses Israeli ‘terrorists’ of ethnic cleansing in West Bank with government backing
In strongest condemnation ever by UK government, Ed Miliband announces sweeping sanctions on trade with Israeli settlements
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Lidl quite quick off the blocks with Christmas cheer
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
cartrarian.substack.com/p/jason-arday-… This is pretty much the most detailed summary of Jason Arday's claims. Striking how little investigative journalism was required to unpack the story. Mostly just basic fact checking of the things he said.
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Great cover of Jolene by Jack White tonight at Hammersmith Odeon. Didn't know Dolly had passed would have been in bits if I knew. youtube.com/watch?v=yXlU...
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The White Stripes - Jolene (Official Music video)
YouTube video by The White Stripes
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Sad to hear @tinyglobalmusic.bsky.social calling it a day😔 been relying on them for years. This photo however made my day. Best album ever👍🏽
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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Decades of research on bullying in academia tells us abusers are usually known in HEIs (including to HR). They typically stay in post, or are promoted. Their victims (within and outside the uni) are the ones who quit, step down, or are hurt. HEIs generally only act when their reputations are hit /1
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/w... The details here about hiring process and the failure to meaningfully address plaigirism are significant.
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Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring
Jason Arday, the school’s youngest Black professor, was found dead on Friday. The school ignored a series of warnings about his life story and his work.
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Some cool brutalism in north of France
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Worth noting Arday's @britsoci.bsky.social 2026 BSA keynote. The claims made of legal threats and anonymous attacks on his scholarship bear all the hallmarks of Arday's own attempts to silence critique. How did he get that platform @academicdiary.bsky.social ? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Jason Arday is now the stick the right will use to beat back racial equality. Don’t let that happen | Afua Hirsch
The UK is far from equality in academia or society. You don’t need a Cambridge degree to see that Arday’s story is being used to stop any progress in its tracks, says journalist and academic Afua Hirs...
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is problematic: 'people signed the petitions for Arday because we are overwhelmed by very legitimate, abundant instances of racism and the sometimes onerous task of doing the due diligence': 1. The Baron-Cohen petition caused actual harm to real people 2... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Why was the Jason Arday story broken by a racist blogger and not the mainstream press? Because Times Higher Education was intimidated off the story by a letter from notorious libel firm Carter-Ruck. I'm publishing the letter. Its central claim may be false.
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"ask whether and how critique would enable ‘us’ to crawl out of the wreckage caused by neoliberalism and the increased marketisation of universities and business schools?" Good question.
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Where are the friends of Jason Arday? Deafening silence from former colleagues at Roehampton, Durham, Glasgow, Cambridge; from signatories to the Simon Baron-Cohen petition; and former cheerleaders.
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Elizabeth Spring unpublished article for Varsity on consequences of Jason Arday affair open.substack.com/pub/arthurbr...
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Cambridge is culpable in plagiarism row
Elizabeth Spring
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Arday affair is inevitably dismantling critical scholarship of race and racism. Complete shit show orchestrated by enablers/supporters of Arday. Time to move on from personal to defend the field? www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d30c3d0...
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Cambridge professors who hired Arday attacked ‘whiteness’ in education
Academic who called for ‘re-education of Whites’ among those on panel that selected university’s youngest black professor
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Arday affair is inevitably dismantling critical scholarship of race and racism. Complete shit show orchestrated by enablers/supporters of Arday. Time to move on from personal to defend the field? www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d30c3d0...
telegraph.co.uk
Cambridge professors who hired Arday attacked ‘whiteness’ in education
Academic who called for ‘re-education of Whites’ among those on panel that selected university’s youngest black professor
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If true explains how (and to some extent why) Jason Arday was able to employ Carter-Ruck. He is using the resources of a celebrity to stage manage his narrative. Possibly used the same means to spike academic critique as well as media interest? www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Jason Arday claimed he was paid ‘1.4 million’ by publisher for memoir
Simon & Schuster still plans to publish book by Cambridge academic who resigned this week amid plagiarism claims
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Thinking about the signatories to the round robin petition used to spike the Jason Arday story in @timeshighered.bsky.social last September. Lots of them are on Bluesky but seem to be keeping a very low profile when it comes to offering Jason support?? Does anyone have the full list of signatures?
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
'Collegiality' & 'Citizenship' in HE... "operate within a White hegemonic normative framework to benefit White groups perpetuate White supremacy...they are exclusive concepts weaponised against academics of colour who fail to conform to White standards" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Being a ‘good’ citizen: white collegiality and academic citizenship
UK Academics face multiple pressures that foster competition. These include, a failing funding model leading to universities cutting academic posts; increasing reliance on short-term, insecure cont...
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Thinking about the signatories to the round robin petition used to spike the Jason Arday story in @timeshighered.bsky.social last September. Lots of them are on Bluesky but seem to be keeping a very low profile when it comes to offering Jason support?? Does anyone have the full list of signatures?
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Good article on consequences of Jason Arday using police to close down academic debate. If you're an academic how would you feel if police turned up at your front door to ask if you are harassing another scholar? afcomm.org.uk/2026/08/05/j...
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Star Cambridge Professor Jason Arday Lied for Years About Raising Millions for Charity: Simon & Schuster Scrubbed Financial Details From His New Memoir and Falsehoods From His Bio By @benryanwriter.bsky.social
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Star Cambridge Professor Jason Arday Lied for Years About Raising Millions for Charity: Simon & Schuster Scrubbed Financial Details From His New Memoir and Falsehoods From His Bio
The celebrity Cambridge education professor Jason Arday—whose rags-to-riches memoir from Simon & Schuster lands August 11—has repeatedly lied about his charitable fundraising prowess, according to 16 ...
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
If Arday is using lawyers and police to close down journalists then is he also doing the same to academics asking similar questions?
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Jason Arday (not Cambridge Uni) called police on journalist (&Carter-Ruck?) for asking questions. (anyone remember Arday's BSA performance? People using 'dark arts' etc to cancel him? Was he talking about himself?) www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It's the level of detail that is out there...
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/education/ng... Guardian breaking cover with detailed piece on Arday plagiarism. Mentions the BSA conference keynote 🤣 the playbook he complains about is pretty much Arday/Cambridge playbook to suppress scrutiny/criticism.
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Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor
Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Sounds like nostalgia for the Tripartite system. Technical education will inevitably be targeted at working classes. Middle classes will monopolise academic/university careers.
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Martyn Hammersley's comments at the end of this article that Cambridge could have dealt with this from the outset are spot on - it will now be a field day for the right
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
21percent.org?p=4036 Drip drip drip. More on J Arday plagiarism
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The Tail Tells the Story: Extreme Textual Overlap - 21percent.org
There is now a lot of press coverage of in The Times, the Telegraph and the Mail. From a mathematician's or programmer's perspective, we highlight an outstanding piece of work by Alexey Titorenko, ava...
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This (paywalled) @Telegraph article has been a long time coming. Suspect the floodgates will now open…. Cambridge’s diversity poster boy in plagiarism row www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Interesting/detailed account of institutional racism at the V & A www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/20/h...
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Head of V&A’s academic programmes resigned citing ‘racist’ and ‘culturally insensitive’ behaviours, letter reveals
Yuko Kikuchi wrote a letter to the museum’s leadership that was supported by 12 academics and included student testimonials
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Always suspected Elvis was a big Velvets fan. But obvs he would have Metal Box not Album on the wall...
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Still recovering from great Patti Smith performance. Still also remember shock of hearing Horses for the first time too many years ago...
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Outside/Inside La Caverne de Pont Neuf 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽#JR & #Christo #JeanClaude
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Without wishing to fat shame the local bird population this pigeon just waddled into view...
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Kraftwerk landing a flying saucer in Nottingham last night...weird nostalgic version for 1970s hopes for a future that never materialised???
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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"As there is no disputing that management has its hands on the reins during reorganizations ... managers soon discovered that it is best for them to keep their institutions in a permanent state of reorganization." (Chris Lorenz, 2012) #HigherEd www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Screenshot of the title page of the paper If You're So Smart, Why Are You under Surveillance? Universities, Neoliberalism, and New Public Management.
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Massive Attack stunning tonight (Camera/phone effed...so dodgy pics 😔)
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
BBC News - Israel put on UN sexual violence in warzones blacklist for first time www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Israel put on UN sexual violence in warzones blacklist for first time
Israel says it rejects allegations in a new report by the office of the UN secretary general.
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
'Collegiality'..."operates within a White hegemonic normative framework to benefit White groups perpetuate White supremacy...collegiality & citizenship are exclusive concepts used as forms of weaponisation against academics of colour who fail to conform to White standards" doi.org/10.1080/0142...
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Being a ‘good’ citizen: white collegiality and academic citizenship
UK Academics face multiple pressures that foster competition. These include, a failing funding model leading to universities cutting academic posts; increasing reliance on short-term, insecure cont...
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Being a ‘good’ citizen: white collegiality & academic citizenship w/ @kalwantbhopal.bsky.social how collegiality masks racism in academia. "White collegiality is a process that allows evidence of racism to be overlooked, excused and explained as a natural state of affairs." doi.org/10.1080/0142...
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Being a ‘good’ citizen: white collegiality and academic citizenship
UK Academics face multiple pressures that foster competition. These include, a failing funding model leading to universities cutting academic posts; increasing reliance on short-term, insecure cont...
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Kalwant Bhopal @kalwantbhopal.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Our new article explores how collegiality only applies to white groups to perpetuate white supremacy @martinmyers.bsky.social Being a ‘good’ citizen: white collegiality and academic citizenship share.google/WvMY4Shvw4LP...
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Being a ‘good’ citizen: white collegiality and academic citizenship
UK Academics face multiple pressures that foster competition. These include, a failing funding model leading to universities cutting academic posts; increasing reliance on short-term, insecure cont...
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Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Being a ‘good’ citizen: white collegiality & academic citizenship w/ @kalwantbhopal.bsky.social how collegiality masks racism in academia. "White collegiality is a process that allows evidence of racism to be overlooked, excused and explained as a natural state of affairs." doi.org/10.1080/0142...
doi.org
Being a ‘good’ citizen: white collegiality and academic citizenship
UK Academics face multiple pressures that foster competition. These include, a failing funding model leading to universities cutting academic posts; increasing reliance on short-term, insecure cont...
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