Reposted by Nicki🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸 @dean-tane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Three years into this genocide there’s still many who think this is too “nuanced” or “complicated” to have an opinion on it 06433
Reposted by NickiMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Excellent analysis. There is no sugarcoating what is happening here in Germany. Most of the political centre is enabling if not actively supporting the rise of fascism. The Left‘s remarkable performance in the Berlin elections is not being heralded as an earthquake but treated as a threat. 6385132
Nicki @nickinde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I’ve marked several essays about the terrible crimes of King Leopard II in the Belgian Congo 020
Reposted by NickiPaul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So are we saying that if I got a van and started ramming ambulances, slashing their tires and assaulting their staff, I'd be fine as long as I was a fascist. Mahmood should be sacked. The situation with this government is intolerable. 310128
Reposted by NickiJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23/09/2026Don't know what to say anymore 6492101
Reposted by Nicki👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A very dear friend and antifascist comrade is facing serious charges resulting from defending migrants housed in hotels in Bristol from a far right march in 2025. He's a father, has £11k in legal fees up front, and may be facing prison time if he doesn't win. Please dobate below.chuffed.orgSupport a Bristol antifascist on trialSupport a Bristol antifascist facing charges for resisting far right attacks 14232216
Reposted by NickiAnna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The Centre of African Studies is the only academic institute in Scotland of its kind - with its own budget, space, and leadership - and has produced, and brought to Edinburgh, generations of scholars. The proposal to close ('restructure') it diminishes the university, and Edinburgh, as a whole. 15132
Reposted by NickiDaniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes: 13598709
Reposted by NickiIndependent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Plans for university restructuring and cuts follow the same pattern - an announcement of voluntary severance schemes, followed by risk of redundancy letters and then a 90-day consultation period. What happens during these negotiations? Our latest dispatch explores further f.mtr.coolNegotiating the cuts: Reflections on a University Statutory Redundancy Consultation 023
Reposted by NickiTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026they've been pushing "AI in the classroom" for years now and while the studies of its detrimental effects pile up, and *student* as well as instructor resistance builds, the arguments for it haven't gotten any better or even changed from this tired, greasy attempt at giving orders 935486
Reposted by NickiJack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Can you imagine, can you imagine, what the cops, the media and the political class would be doing right now if a left group dressed in masks and uniforms to go blockade a port 714143
Reposted by NickiLaurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026No compulsory redundancies is good news, but it means that management was successful in scaring enough people to leave. And that has serious implications, outlined in this thread. Solidarity 13414
Reposted by NickiLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 03/09/2026On the one hand, the press hound a black scholar to death, on the other hand, on this one, where the academic fraud is front and centre and the dude is an Epstein pal... crickets... www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...dukechronicle.com‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraudNew evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ... 6315112
Nicki @nickinde.bsky.social · 23/08/2026And/or: you are an academic with racist, sexist and/or transphobic views who needs to maintain this fictional version of “academic freedom” to help avoid your own consequences 120
Reposted by NickiEnd Political Homelessness Now @raaleh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The British Press routinely hounds named individuals to suicide. Break up the papers and regulate them into nonexistence because their continued operation is a threat to everyone who lives here who they may choose to target. 221634
Reposted by NickiEd @notdred.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Kind of hard for Bluesky people to argue this was all about academic standards when these guys are openly crowing that it was about race 11362115
Reposted by NickiJohn Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This is an absolute travesty. Northwestern has, probably, the 2nd best library collection for African History/Studies in the USA (behind Yale and ahead of MSU, UCLA, etc). A self-inflicted wound that is absolutely, 100% unnecessary given the massive wealth of Northwestern--north of $15 billion.thepurplewire.beehiiv.comSCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies 471937806
Reposted by Nickiarnie @arnie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026one of the absolute best ways to reinvigorate the high street is to fix housing & rents (& there are several ways to do that), so ppl who would spend their money locally rather than it going to ppl who hoard it for a 4th or 5th btl property & their annual 2-3 week trip to barbados every february 13610
Reposted by NickiSteven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 30/07/2026“Look I am quite capable of destroying higher education *and* kicking trans people in the teeth at the same time and I deserve to be allowed to continue” 062
Reposted by Nickimattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/07/2026what the fuck do you mean "everyone is using AI and nobody admits it." what the fuck do you mean. who are you talking to. you have allowed a demon to devour your soul. begone 91768400
Reposted by NickiClive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 29/07/20261/4 A growing number of higher education institutions are using dirty tactics to undermine staff pension rights, pay and working conditions. 15927
Nicki @nickinde.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Cardiff Uni have proudly put out press about this to celebrate 100
Reposted by Nickidaviddoddington.bsky.social @daviddoddington.bsky.social · 06/07/2026🧵Bittersweet in the bonfire of UKHE, and some personal disappointment from my Uni, but receiving recognition from my peers is the most incredible honor, and I'm lucky in so many ways. A huge thank you to the Social History Society for awarding me the book prize. www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/30...cardiff.ac.ukCardiff University historian receives award and multiple nominationsDr David Stefan Doddington has won the Social History Society’s (SHS) Book Prize 2026. 4383
Reposted by NickiAlan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 06/07/20266 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates." 12806335
Nicki @nickinde.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Today is ten years to the day since my dad died, and I am finding reading this wonderful thread of real computer science comforting. I have some ideas of what he would think of AI code, and I treasure his 1970s programming punch cards. Miss you dad 110
Reposted by NickiDavid Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Given ongoing attacks on university staff and research (at @exeter.ac.uk and many other institutions) with arts and humanities, critical social sciences, environmental science and sustainability particular targets, it’s worth resharing ‘Universities Degraded’.zenodo.orgUniversities Degraded: Staff Experiences & Employer Practices of Redundancies in UK Higher EducationEXECUTIVE SUMMARY Conducted between August and October 2024 and publicised mainly by members of the University and College Union (UCU), the ‘Survey for UCU Members on HE Redundancies’ invited response... 155
Reposted by NickiAlex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 02/07/2026@exeter.ac.uk is not in deficit, has £200m+ cash reserves, hasn’t invested in white elephants, doesn’t have a recruitment problem, never had 1000s of international students, and deliveres outstanding outcomes in teaching and research. If UEB’s data projects a deficit won’t they share it with UCU? 02917
Reposted by NickiDr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 24/06/2026And now it is Exeter's turn. Along with c.500 other academic staff, mostly in humanities, my job is 'at risk' in order to make c.150 of us redundant 😞 428532
Reposted by NickiBen Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide. 16231273
Nicki @nickinde.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Other kids must study how to survive and work most efficiently within the real world (apprenticing, skills, AI) and their kids must get to explore new intellectual frontiers 000
Reposted by NickiJulie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 19/06/2026It's never just about saving money, the point of university restructuring is to be cruel and bring about trauma, based on an assumption that traumatized subjects do not fight back. 1103
Reposted by NickiRoyal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 18/06/2026The Society now invites applications, from PhD students, for the 2026-27 Martin Lynn Scholarship in African History bit.ly/4xD5ZyN The Scholarship provides funding to support doctoral research in Africa and is named for the late Professor Martin Lynn (QUB). Closing date 4 September #Skystorians 1/2bit.lyMartin Lynn Scholarship in African history: applications now invited from PhD students - RHSApplications are now invited for the Society's annual Martin Lynn Scholarship in African history. The Scholarship supports graduate students undertake doctoral research in Africa during the academic y... 12318
Reposted by NickiMark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"Cardiff University has admitted that it doesn’t know how much it is spending overall on external consultants or hold a central record of what work they are doing." Staff expenditure: Count every last penny or you may lose your job. Their expenditure: Meh.nation.cymruCardiff University criticised over consultant secrecyMartin Shipton Cardiff University has admitted that it doesn’t know how much it is spending overall on external consultants or hold a central record of what work they are doing. Academic sources have ... 512151
Reposted by NickiBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026writing about Rabban Sauma and he is definitely the funniest of the Mongol-era world traveller guys because he literally spends thirty-five years living in a cave and aged 55 or so is like 'well i guess it's time to travel the length of Eurasia.' 939340
Nicki @nickinde.bsky.social · 15/06/2026This is an incredible win using really powerful strike threat, huge congratulations to @ucuhallam.bsky.social It’s coming for the rest of the sector, and we need to learn faster than the velociraptors 053
Reposted by NickiBOOsky Eldritch 🖤👻🦝 @tenredpencils1.bsky.social · 12/06/2026citizen! to deal with you accordingly we must know - are you holding the firebomb of legitimate concerns, or the placard of illegal opinions? 1258128
Reposted by NickiNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Every staff update in every university right now: 1. We are excited to announce a strategic investment of eleventeen squillion pounds in ACRONYM, a new AI-powered centre for the development of strategic acronyms. 2. Staff have until Friday to apply for enhanced Voluntary Death. 7295112
Reposted by NickiPete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social · 03/06/2026Cory Doctorow was interviewed by Anna Foster on BBC Radio 4 Today on the topic of AI. I've captured a transcript of the questions here in a short thread (with the help of Google AI voice-to-text. Good AI, thank-you.) 1/5 6444181
Reposted by NickiGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 03/06/2026Three quarters of universities in deficit, tens of thousands of jobs being lost, & the government tells us there’s no money. They can, however, find close to the entire budget allocation for teaching from the Office for Students on a private theme park. 23114
Nicki @nickinde.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Just to note, Cardiff Uni management has paid over £1m to this dangerously bad consultancy in only the last 11 months. At redundancy rates over 2025/26, that’s about 13 full time academics (who are just “costs”) 01815
Nicki @nickinde.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Excellent thread on UK uni sector risks, can vouch for the cardiff non-crisis 021
Reposted by NickiAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 20/05/2026It must be emphasized that we need powerful, robust ACADEMIC history IN universities to sustain history OUTSIDE universities. If we can’t employ people in higher ed to train future generations of public historians, we will not have future generations of public historians. 🗃️ 9604177
Reposted by NickiDavid Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Jesus Christ - this is Uni of Herts. Solidarity to all colleagues there. 47023
Reposted by NickiPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 20/04/202615 minutes; no questions; government got the blame; my department to have 60% of us sacked. Apparently sacking us will lead to a ‘new, improved’ curriculum. No voluntary scheme, straight to selection and legal minimum redundancy payment. 23031976
Reposted by NickiOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/03/2026everyone is going to be assigned Deleuze and Guattari readings until we figure out what is going on 1135243
Reposted by NickiQM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Just declaring that job security and workable workload are 'simply gone', as if it's some abstract, outside entity has irreversibly imposed that, and not the decisions made by *her* and her team -- and their refusal to actual advocate for what universities are. 143
Reposted by NickiBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her? 36940306