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Ross Gibson

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Social work and trade union stuff. Personal account which certainly does not reflect the views of my employer.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21h
Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.
theferret.scot
The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan
Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17h
Here's something the media is hardly talking about. This Government is set to oversee the steepest fall in living standards in modern times - unless they change course fast. In less than two weeks Labour faces a stark choice - will they tax wealth and back the majority?
Under current projections this is set to be the worst parliament on record for living standards growth - and a bar chart demonstrating it
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ah, Tickell. What an obnoxious wee prick.
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s not the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen on his head.
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Who owns the home had a massive bearing on this.
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Secret UCU @secretucu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Another example of UCU management hypocrisy: complaining about an employer using strike breakers when this is what they did when their own staff walked out. It's a fact that the amount spent on temps tripled over the course of the year significant strike action took place.
UCU’s annual returns showing the use of temps tripled from September 2024 to August 2025, the year during which Unite took major strike action
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So when’s the national ballot then?
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Tumbleweeds Rolling in the Desert with Crickets Chirping
Alt: The sound of UCU leadership allowing thousands of jobs to go up in flames.
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Good riddance!
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
OpenAI are parasitic scum. As Wikimedia says; “AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause.” These are DDOS attacks by a corporation's software doing exactly what it was designed to do. Why are we not seeing criminal charges?
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nothing says “democracy” like giving branches 3 days to submit amendments.
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Second week on strike with UCU Edinburgh. We will be on strike for five weeks - taking out the entire first half of term, up to the first assessments - but we could be back in the classroom tomorrow if management withdrew the threat of compulsory redundancies.
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Consult the democratic process…. And then ignore them”
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They aren’t the only ones either.
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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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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Best of luck to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social members going on strike for over a month. Nobody does this willingly - it’s a last resort, unlike that enormously rich university’s slash and burn tactics.
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Evan D. Morris is an idiot.
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes, you are missing quite a lot.
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Would rather be taking action with them. When’s the national ballot that we voted for at Congress?
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This’ll be all over the newspapers in the uk. That’s the way it works, no?
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Quite. So when’s the national ballot then?
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Have you met my family?!
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I agree… but also all of this should be possible on far less than 40 hours. And in fact, people working zero hours per week should have a good life too!
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ping @warrcrim.bsky.social
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🙄 When is the world going to wake up and kill off this malign technology? What will it take? A small nuclear war? We didn't ask for it. We don't need it. And most sensible people don't want it. #RejectAI #PitchforksAgainstDatacentres🧑‍🌾🧑‍🌾🧑‍🌾 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s Medicare and took months to disclose breach
Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cannot tell you how much I hate this & how ashamed & angry I am that @ukri.org have taken this step. We KNOW this sort of gAI is socially biased, we KNOW it favours slopAI output over human-written. Our research landscape is falling apart due to underfunding, & they do this? it's *appalling*
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Maybe the whole union could be balloted? Like we voted for at Congress?
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I keep forgetting she isn’t a Tory
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How about launching a national dispute to protect the thousands of members who are at risk of redundancy?
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Collective responsibility I’m afraid.
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Can’t we do both please?
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
So when’s the national ballot then?
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Timeline synchronicity.
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Every time I listen to it Timothy Stanley is on. Your strategy is wise.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Is this satire?
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Try @kristinwh0.bsky.social
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Link to The Courier article that exposed the University of Dundee being under a level 2 intervention for not complying with Freedom of Information law. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
thecourier.co.uk
EXCLUSIVE: Dundee University under watchdog supervision over information failures
The Scottish Information Commissioner has opened an intervention against the crisis-hit institution.
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We didn’t vote for this @ucu.org.uk
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The are clowns
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.
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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"the missing middle" - how ai algorithms are erasing scholarship in "literature reviews" (I call them that because I'm gonna say AI generated literature "reviews" are not IMO a literature review! www.chronicle.com/article/ai-i...
chronicle.com
AI Is Ruining Scholarship
When we outsource literature review to algorithms, we lose entire sectors of knowledge.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Fuck off Terry
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Basic Income Action ↗️ @basicincomeaction.org · 14/08/2026
No explanation needed. No thread required. Just say it. Let's flood the feed. BASIC INCOME NOW!!
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Depends how big your hands are.
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
OnlyFash?
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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Tagging in David Starkey is hilarious.
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