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Mike Rowe

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Academic. Ethnographer of street-level bureaucrats and discretion, most recently police in particular. Liverpool.

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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UCU members at the University of Lincoln have voted overwhelmingly to tell University managers - no more compulsory redundancies or face industrial action. A huge mandate to protect jobs, protect our programmes and support out students! @ucu.org.uk
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Gavin Hales @gmhales.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A really important factor in Home Office-calculated stop and search disproportionality is that the Census denominator is only updated every 10 years. GMP illustrates the impact of this demographic drag: a sharp step down when the denominator switched from 2011 to 2021.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 02/10/2026
"Students know whose fault this is." Students turned out alongside staff at the University of Nottingham, with a clear message to management: stop the cuts and listen. "We aren't going anywhere." Staff and students are united.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You will hear a lot about the violence of protestors in France but little about the violence of the police. Here the officer shoots one lone protestor in the face with a stun grenade launcher, causing him to lose most of his teeth As usual the Police are the MOST violent
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 02/10/2026
The Belgian Equal Opportunities Institute, Unia is to take 'race realist' researcher Nathan Cofnas to court over remarks it believes repeatedly breached the country’s anti-racism law. www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2341...
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Unia to take 'race realist' researcher Nathan Cofnas to court
Unia said the US philosopher was spreading ideas in Belgium that rank people in a hierarchy on the basis of supposed scientific knowledge.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📌 ICYMI — Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations — Samantha Asumadu The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK…
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Day 5 of the UCU workers' strike against massive job cuts by highly remunerated senior management. “We are looking at hundreds of job losses, dozens of course closures ... Without even mentioning the removal of opportunities for people up and down Scotland." Jo Grady, UCU President, 01.10.2026
A pop-art depiction by Roy Lichtenstein of a blonde blue-eyed woman crying. Accompanying text highlights the worsening teaching conditions and likely impact on student education.
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Call for greater openness to change by the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge, Prof Deborah Prentice ... ... who engaged in whistleblowing retaliation & has not yet found the time to apologize She's set up a committee to reflect on the judgement www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Call for 'greater openess to change' at University of Cambridge
The vice-chancellor says the death of former professor Jason Arday "is on many people's minds".
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 01/10/2026
Hundreds gathered outside the Scottish Parliament today. UCU general secretary Jo Grady brought solidarity to striking staff at Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow Caledonian. We stand with you. ✊
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Day 4 of the UCU workers' strike against massive job cuts. “Senior management can stop this strike by prioritizing cuts to non-staff budgets and stopping redundancies that are decimating our university, while leaving those who remain with an unmanageable workload & exhaustion." UCUE co-president
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Day 3 of the UCU workers' strike against 1000s of job cuts at the University of Edinburgh. UoE's VC Peter Mathieson earns nearly half a million pounds. Under him, the UoE has acquired over £1billion of capital assets, for which the UoE continues to pay in spiralling interest and depreciation.
Peter Mathieson poses cheerfully next to Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine and their latest £1billion pound capital asset, the Death Star.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scenes from the Picket Lines: Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike against the University of Edinburgh's avaricious, exorbitantly paid senior management and their campaign of mass cuts against staff.
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Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at UoL @livancworlds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dundee University is continuing with compulsory redundancies. It argues this is required for the financial survival. However, the University’s cash is so high they may not qualify for £27m of the £40m additional SFC funding. The SFC have asked PWC to investigate. www.theferret.scot/dundee-unive...
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Dundee university might have too much cash to qualify for its taxpayer bailout
The university has continued to argue staff cuts are needed to make ends meet. But a growing cash balance has raised questions about the need for more redundancies, and whether it qualifies for millio...
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 29/09/2026
Can’t make it up: Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus as.ft.com/r/21e300e9-e...
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Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus
Long-awaited S1 filing reports Claude maker lost $8bn last year on $4.6bn in revenue
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026
The Chronicle Against Higher Education gives the Vanderbilt report endless publicity while not running a single story on the World Humanities Report, which shows that the disciplines slandered in the Vanderbilt report are actually making vital contributions to the world. worldhumanitiesreport.org
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Home - The World Humanities Report
The World Humanities Report Demonstrating the vitality of the humanities throughout the world
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Overwhelming response today from the protests and picket lines at the University of Edinburgh, on Day 1 of the UCU workers' strike. This includes at the university's Medical School ...
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great news: the School has sacked a third of its academic but we've acquired 2 new interim managers on top of the extra permanent ones. Fine work all round.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Day 1 of the strike by the workers of UCU Edinburgh against the manufactured deficit (which is not really a deficit), and against a senior management earning millions while staff disappear and education suffers. Solidarity against this parasitical form of management of our higher education.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 28/09/2026
Our members at Edinburgh University commence a 5 week strike today over crippling job cuts. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cambridge University has compulsory course on active bystander responsibility What happens if institution itself is the bystander? Vice-Chancellor was criticised for retaliation against a whistleblower at Tribunal Maybe she needs the online training herself? www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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University of Cambridge whistleblower who reported alleged bullying wins employment tribunal
Prof Wyn Evans, who raised concerns over treatment of female staff at Institute of Astronomy, was subject to ‘baseless’ investigation, judge rules
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 27/09/2026
Our members at Edinburgh University are on strike over outrageous cuts. Here at Labour Party Conference we heard from students who stood in solidarity with our members in a huge rally this week. Inspiring.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Amazing turn out from students and staff at the University of Edinburgh, in protest at senior management's greed and manufactured cuts. This is what solidarity looks like - as our campaign of industrial action begins this coming week in protest at the cuts. www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/student...
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900+ at inaugural Student & Staff Assembly! — UCU Edinburgh
More than 900 students and staff gathered for the inaugural Student-Staff Assembly on Thursday 24 September.
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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our massive strike action for the fall begins on Wednesday, but we will be facing some intense financial hardship to do so. Please consider supporting our members by donating to our solidarity fund. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £10000 to support the Nottingham UCU hardship fund – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to support the Nottingham UCU hardship fund. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🟡 Print Edition Nathan Cofnas and America’s Protection for Anti-Black Racism By Karam Bales The reinstatement by Ghent University of a key figure in the Jason Arday affair followed pressure from Trump’s State Department. It reveals a wider ideology of ‘injustice as illusion’. Karam Bales reports
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Nathan Cofnas and America’s Protection for Anti-Black Racism
The reinstatement by Ghent University of a key figure in the Jason Arday affair followed pressure from Trump’s State Department. It reveals a wider ideology of ‘injustice as illusion’. Karam Bales reports
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Day 5 of 25. It's never too late to join the strike. If you're a member come and join us on the picket line at the front of the Tower Building from 8am this morning. The turnout has been higher than ever, so you'll be joining a successful collective action to save the jobs of your colleagues.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony.
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Voice of Victim "At my university, harassment & bullying are treated as another viewpoint that ought to be heard -- as though there are two sides to an argument Refusal to take sides by treating bullying as an argument that needs to be heard is to side with the bully"
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Day4 of 25. The sun is out and we need everyone to come and join us today on the picket line. If you’re in Dundee and well, get yourself down to the front of the Tower!
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Amazing turnout today on Day 4 of our picket to rule out compulsory redundancies.
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's the classic “sustainable footing” argument from University of Essex Axe 400 jobs, close a campus & tell the people left behind to do the extra work that it’s all for the future www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Essex university staff walk out in Colchester over 400 job cuts
About 50 people wave their placards on the picket line in Colchester.
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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Someone explain to me the point of REF 2029
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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Since the dead & the redundant can be entered, isn’t it likely that no one will be left and that the winner will have died in 2022? I also wonder who will be on the panels? Can you remain on a panel if you are made redundant beforehand? Or if you die? A posthumous panel would be quite humorous. 😂
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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#AcademicFrredom
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Do you think it’s good for a university when an employment lawyer giggles and says things like ‘surely they know this stuff’ and ‘it’s unbelievably obvious’ and ‘anyone could take this apart’?
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Day 2 of 25 of our strike action. Students, colleagues, members come and join us on the picket line as e fight for the future of the University of Dundee. Who’s University. Our University.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🔴 NEW Bonnie Greer: The Golden Thread By Stephen Colegrave Read below. ↓
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Bonnie Greer: The Golden Thread
Stephen Colegrave pays personal tribute to our much-loved Byline Times contributor, who died last week
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Brighton UCU @brightonucu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Press release regarding the situation at University of Brighton here. www.brightonucu.org.uk
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Welcome to the Brighton UCU website On this site you'll find information about the branch, current campaigns and more. Brighton UCU exists to protect its members' interests, above all to defend jobs...
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UCU University of Kent branch @ucukent.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Again Higher Education in the UK permanently under threat. In the south and south east we're fighting: Brighton UCU being threatened with de-recognition, Sussex UCU fighting against yet more redundancies, Essex UCU were on strike to prevent redundancies, we've done the same. NOWHERE IS SAFE
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Day 1 of teaching. I would have been running Round the Wrekin, an introductory module exploring the cultural history of the West Midlands across centuries and multiple media, plus academic skills. It’s been replaced by a generic skills module across multiple subjects to save money on staffing.
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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
University staff begin five-week strike on day one of new term #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dundee University staff begin strike on day one of new term
UCU members at the University of Dundee will not take part in lectures, seminars or tutorials until the end of October.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
'In the most notable case, the University of Nottingham’s University and College Union (UCU) branch has declared strike action of 67 days, expected to last for the majority of the autumn term, as the institution looks to cut 600 full-time equivalent jobs.'
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UK universities face autumn of chaos as ‘prolonged’ strikes planned
Unprecedentedly long strikes at Nottingham, Edinburgh and Dundee could be the shape of things to come, observers say
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Adam Levitt @adamlevitt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I feel like it’s time to put this statement to the test. Off the fuck with you, you slimy cunt.
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Manchester United: Sir Jim Ratcliffe says abuse would lead him to walk away
Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he would walk away if he gets "abused" by fans in the same way the Glazer family have.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The brutal reality of universities' suppression of wages (in KPMG's report for DfE on cost of undergraduate provision in England) assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6aabfa...
Table 1 – Cost increases since the last study by cost type
Actual % increase
between 2016-17 and
2019 study cost groupings
2023-24 weighted
average unit cost
Staff costs 14%
Non-pay costs 46%
Indirect departmental costs -24%
Centrally allocated indirect costs 29%
Estates costs 40%
Sustainability adjustment -2%

Source: Analysis of Data Returns
Table 1 shows that costs have not increased equally in the time between the two costing studies. Non-pay costs have increased slightly ahead of inflation and estates costs have increased in line with inflation. Universities have managed staff costs significantly below inflation, increasing only by 14% compared to the 41.2% increase in RPIX. By contrast, indirect departmental costs have reduced by 24%, but this may be due to differences in the universities participating in the 2019 and this study. The movement in MSI is reflective of changes in financial performance rather than any inflationary impact.
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