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Onni Gust

@onnigust.bsky.social
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Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 13h
Our strike action began today. The management at our university has seemingly shackled itself to course closures and compulsory redundancies, despite neither being financially necessary. So we fight for our members, our students, and our community until they change their minds.
A photo of a UoN UCU rally
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 19h
We gear up for major strike action, with picket lines on Thursday while council deliberates on c.600 job losses, 48 course closures, 1:22 staff-student ratios, all for a 9% surplus. @uonucu.bsky.social put forward a comprehensive alternative financial plan to save jobs, education & research.
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Alexander Kasprzyk @amkasprzyk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The ability to end these disruptive strikes lies in the hands of @uniofnottingham.bsky.social managers. The staff on strike are trying to save the university and the education of current and future students. #UCU #UKHE www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Student: University of Nottingham strikes 'not what we signed up for'
The University of Nottingham said it was "disappointed" by the timing of industrial action.
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Stephen Green @stephenrgreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
UoN: "While we know many of our students will be unaffected by this action, the timing of this to deliberately disrupt the start of the new academic year for our students is particularly disappointing.” What about your timing to decide to fire a quarter of the academics at your university?
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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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Al Worth (they/them) @alworthprobably.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I made a doc for @wearequeeraf.com and @transhistoryweek.com! Jan Morris lived a fascinating life, so this was a treat to work on. I interviewed Twm Morys, Paul Clements, and Sara Wheeler, and you will even hear the voice of Sir Michael Palin. Listen here. www.wearequeeraf.com/the-triumphs...
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The triumphs, trials and conundrum of Trans+ journalist Jan Morris
Jan Morris is the world-famous journalist, writer, and historian, known for her travel works, and Conundrum - a book covering her very public transition
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
LGBTQ+ youth are hugely overrepresented in homeless populations cos their folks kick them out or chase them out. Where is the moral panic over that? Why do we, as a culture, place the blame for bad relationships on abused kids and not their abusers?
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 26/09/2026
What our oceans can teach us about natural gender and sex variations 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/what-our-oce...
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What our oceans can teach us about natural gender and sex variations
In an unpredictable world, fluidity and adaptability are signs of strength, not weaknesses
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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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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2yrs after I finished my MA History at Goldsmiths, my research rights were bought and I was hired to work as historical consultant on this TV show. It's had BAFTA and International Emmy nominations. I got a book deal, too. Goldsmiths: "No point in MA History, let's fire everyone and delete it."
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
John M MacKenzie, the founding editor of the Manchester University Press Studies in Inperialism series that i have the honour of co-editing, has sadly passed away. Our tributes here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/09...
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Celebrating the life and contribution of John M MacKenzie - Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press remembers Professor John M. MacKenzie, founding editor of Studies in Imperialism, with tributes from colleagues reflecting on his scholarship, generosity and lasting legacy...
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Andrew Defty @adefty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
University of Lincoln has disposed of over 500 staff since 2024. As we start a new academic year management have refused to rule out further compulsory redundancies. @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social is balloting its members on their willingness to take industrial action. If this is you please vote.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A titanic, pioneering figure in more than one field of history.
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Forgot to charge my e-bike. Pedalled 3x harder to go 2x slower just so I didn't roll down the hill. Anyway, welcome to Week 1.
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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Last night, an exhibition I've been working on was launched at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire to mark 250 years since building of 2nd mill (blue print for cotton factories worldwide) and early industrial housing. It's open all weekend, with lots of activities. Critique my graphic design efforts!
Exhibition panels printed on cotton fabric hanging in pairs down a mill building from wooden ceiling beams. On the front panels the date 1776 and 'Why did cotton come to Cromford' are legible.
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Dimitri Tilloi-d’Ambrosi @dimitri-tilloi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Magnifique ouvrage tout récemment publié aux @editions-puf.bsky.social sous la direction de @nicolasbeaupre.bsky.social et de @florianlouis.bsky.social : Histoire mondiale des impérialismes aux XIX-XXIe siècles.
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
And further to this, there are ways to be accompanied (not represented) even if they say no: - English not your first language? Bring an interpreter just in case. - Feeling very stressed? Bring someone to support your 'wellbeing'. - Declared disability? A reasonable adjustment can be a note taker.
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Interesting project and post-doc opportunity: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ013/p...
jobs.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (East India Company) at University of York
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (East India Company) on jobs.ac.uk!
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Nahyan Fancy @fancynahyan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Folks @edinburghuni.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk your vice-principal was bonding with Exeter's Regsitrar, who also moonlights as a Nous promoter, at the following conference last summer: www.humane.eu/events/resid... Coincidence that both our unis instigated these cuts within a year? #DefendUKUnis
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Programme | HUMANE
This is the programme for the 2025 HUMANE Summer School
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Derecognising unions is an own-goal for university managers. The amount of work union committees & caseworkers do to make policies not just fair & equitable but fundamentally workable is astonishing. Without us there'll be more grievances, more long term sickness & more IA.
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 15/09/2026
We're in a film that needs your support! It's called TERF Island. A couple years ago we were asked by JJ to be shadowed and sit down for some discussion with the amazing Olivia from Trans Legal Clinic, Shiv, and Jazmeen Qureshi. Please give anything you can! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/terfisland...
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TERF Island
Feature documentary TERF Island provides a much-needed loving anthology of trans lives in the UK.
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Ros Ballaster @ballasterros.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSX678/t... We are looking for a special scholar to lead our remarkable team in 18th century literature @engfac.bsky.social
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Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at University of Oxford
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Jack Gann @jackgann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There is a bit later when he finds it completely natural that afab people turn out to be men as "nature always intends and goes from the imperfect to the more perfect, but not basely from the more perfect to the imperfect." So, written with all the misogyny of his era, just in a trans affirming way
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Daniel 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:
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Quick equalities check: across English, History/Politics/War Studies 6 women have lost their jobs and 0.5 men. 4 men and one woman are safe. English goes from 50:50 (6M, 6F) to 1 woman and 2.5 men.
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.
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Brown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice | H-Net
1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
From a series of articles called Enslaving Nation tracing a network of 13,000 people who traded in enslaved Africans named in the Register of British Slave Traders. This includes the monarchy whose crown was burned onto Africans as a mark of ownership. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
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The royal crown branded on enslaved Africans: Britain’s monarchy and the slave trade
From Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 13/09/2026
Anti-trans rhetoric has been spread across a growing myriad of guidance and documents, with Trans+ children headed back to school facing segregation and teachers banned from “encouraging” them to question their gender. www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2...
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Section 28 2.0: A complex web of anti-trans guidance that will make it vastly harder to overturn
Anti-trans rhetoric has been spread across a growing myriad of guidance and documents, with Trans+ children headed back to school facing segregation and teachers banned from “encouraging” them to question their gender.
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
L'shana tova. Not feeling particularly happy about the prospect of the new year, to be honest. So we're off to the Peak District to make the most of fresh air and nature while it lasts.
A pathway along a ridge
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
@smrodriguez.bsky.social featured on Runway to Feminist Justice podcast by The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice! Listen now 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1BpZ...
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Episode 33: 10 Questions with Dr. SM Rodriguez
Runway to Feminist Justice · Episode
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Lady Helen "Bio" Rodriguez 🏳️‍⚧️ @ladytyler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Finally, after many years of waiting. My first historical article has been published on Anne Bonny and Mary Read!!! journals.gmu.edu/whc/article/...
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To Memories Now I Can't Recall: The Origins of Anne Bonny and Mary Read | World History Connected
World History Connected journal
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Bodie A. Ashton @manwithoutatan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Pals I’ve got a new listening recommendation for you! First episode coming 14 September, and featuring some amazing historians doing amazing history!
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Whatever you think of Miliband's wider politics, this was a strong and important statement. Don't underestimate the emotional toil of repeatedly claiming one's Jewishness whilst opposing Israel's genocide. share.google/tRgHtpz4nM76...
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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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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Also, as a Jewish person, I’m quite frankly burnt out by the Israeli govt’s shameless and relentless conflation of Jews and Israel Yes, there are legions of antisemites who will always try and disguise their antisemitism as criticism of Israel - they are awful What’s also true, is the…
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Shameful and saddening from Simon Schama. What is happening in Gaza is not the Holocaust. But it *is* genocidal, perpetrated by an explicitly and openly genocidal government, and he knows that. This denialism demeans him and his record as a great historian. www.jewishnews.co.uk/simon-schama...
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Simon Schama: Anybody accusing Israel of committing genocide should be ashamed - Jewish News
In speech at HET appeal dinner, the historian and professor says 'We, the victims of the greatest genocide the world has ever seen, are being called perpetrators of genocide'
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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Anyone working in the sector already knows, but still good to see it in black & white. Professional services *people*--not just interchangeable hubs of administration--are essential to a good university. Their institutional knowledge has been consistently undervalued & their loss is catastrophic.
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Police arrest climate change activists BEFORE they protest, but apparently they take their time to get to the scene when hundreds of masked thugs pour out of vans after months of very publicly organising their campaign of terror.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 05/09/2026
One patient was in a hospital bed ready for top surgery when the decision to ban surgeries was implemented.
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“Devastated”: Up to 800 Trans+ patients affected by Welsh Gender Service surgery cancellations
Questions are being raised over the evidence behind NHS Wales's decision to cancel surgeries for Welsh Gender Service patients, who tell QueerAF of their 'absolute devastation'
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Huge. Huge testament to the power of organising. Huge relief for Exeter friends and colleagues. Huge waste of time and resources. Huge reputational damage done. Huge warning to universities who want to treat their staff like they don’t matter.
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm finding I can't really read about El Nino because it's just too scary: 'Data from analysis of corals, tree rings and historical documents suggest no El Niño has reached this level in the last millennium, said Zeke Hausfather, a climate analyst.'
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Gearing up for a semester with course closures looming, threat of redundancy hanging over our heads, morale low, stress high. Our brilliant branch president, Nick Clare, explaining the situation.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“Academics want to promote their research outside of the university… However, in an increasingly queer- & transphobic public environment, this is becoming more difficult & more risky for researchers working on LGBTQ+ topics.” Apt report on how LGBTQ+ scholars in the UK navigate public harassment.
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Is all publicity good publicity? Addressing Public Harassment in LGBT+ Research Impact and Engagement | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Is all publicity good publicity is a research project funded by the EDICaucus and a collaboration between Tig Slater, Sheffield Hallam University, Charlotte Jones, Swansea University, Rosie Ola-Marie,...
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Naomi Rendina @naomirendina.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hello, #historians and #science communicators! I’m applying for a fellowship to improve translating the science side of my historical research on Pitocin- but they want me to have a few thousand followers! Could you please help a scholar out by following and sharing with friends?
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is what a decade-long anti-trans propaganda campaign, actively promoting ‘gender critical’ transphobia in the UK media, looks like! 😖 The impact of their relentless bigoted lobbying is blatantly obvious! 😣
Views on Access to Facilities
Matching Gender
Identity
By Country
0. How much do you agree or disagree with the following?
Transgender people should be allowed to use single-sex facilities (e.g., public restrooms) that correspond to the gender they identify with

The UK is bottom
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Reddit user pkunfcj has collated advice on what people in Wales can do to fight back against the trans surgical ban:: - writing to Senedd members and the First Minister (with an example email) - complain through patient advocacy services - complain to the health board - organise protests
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pkunfcj's comment on "Welsh Gender Service Review - Cancelled surgeries"
Explore this conversation and more from the transgenderUK community
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Save the date: The British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar returns on 7 October, with Miles Ogborn (QMUL) speaking on 'Law, Violence and Empire: Understanding the Jamaican Uprising Trials of 1832'. We're in person at the IHR and online on Zoom. Free registration opens soon. #Skystorians
history.ac.uk
British History in the Long 18th Century
Supported by Mark Storey and Carey Karmel, in memory of Arthur Burns
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I've been revisiting my 2021 book How to Argue With a Racist, in light of the Cofnas situation - i didn't name him or the scientifically illiterati with who he breaks bread. But I thought these sections from the end might be of interest.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 28/08/2026
🚨🆕 @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com can reveal that the NHS has cancelled all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of the Welsh Gender Service Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...
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NHS cancels all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of Welsh Gender Service with immediate effect
Some trans patients received news their surgeries had been cancelled just days or even hours before they were due to take place
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Arts and humanities research at Nottingham ‘under threat’ - Research Professional News share.google/TxZeucKkQ2O4...
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Arts and humanities research at Nottingham ‘under threat’ - Research Professional News
UCU branch's strike action aims to fight “likely” redundancies across several research areas
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