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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17h
Labour just don't get it. They don't get how scared people are with extreme weather becoming our new normal. We need voices in parliament that will force them to take wildfires seriously, not quietly shirk responsibility.
Revealed: government quietly dropped plan to orepare England for wildfires
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 16h
I do not like the new REF rule that attributes your work to the institution you were employed by when you wrote it. Especially since most writing is now done in non-work time. Even more than that I hate that journals are making us affiliate to unis that we have long since left …
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pathetic Weak Sauce 🙄
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Lisa Rullsenberg @rullsenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Very long day supporting @uonucu.bsky.social strike action but great collective energy from colleagues and students and lovely UCU Vice-president @markpendleton.bsky.social (huge props too @dyfrigjones.bsky.social for fitting in busy schedule to come and speak in support).
Lisa and Mark in front of one of our Nottingham UCU bannersLisa at home modelling UCU Education tee and #MeMadeCrochet skirt
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Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
TL;DR: Sociology has made huge contributions to research on childless/childfree lives, but I argue that geography is best equipped to take forward a broader focus on 'life without children'.
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our jobs will become more and more surveilled and standardized and all human variation eradicated so that AI bots can seamlessly take them. This is the vision of the Blair dynasty. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When is the West going to rebuild Gaza? I thought profiting from rebuilding was a key motivation for joining in wars in the middle-east?
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh the faculty lounge? Where the aloof, lazy profs are planning how to spend their millions on indoctrinating your kid? Is that the same lounge where we've been collecting water in a trash can for months because they haven't fixed the pipe
The drop ceiling has a black
Garbage bag hanging down from it, with a hose leading to a yellow trash can
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Italy what the fuck are you doing
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Including the University of Southampton, of course
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Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Members can also feed into this! Anyone interested in authoring a Brief for this series should contact: policy [at] ucu [dot] org [dot] uk
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So Burnham will cut our pensions to pay for our parents’ care? 🤷‍♀️
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We are selling my partner’s mum’s house to pay her £1500 a week care home fee. If she lives another two years everything she worked for will be gone. Abolishing the triple lock would have cut the £184.90 a week she has lived on for the last 10 years. Don’t cut pensions. Raise inheritance tax!
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Very proud of UCU and 11 sister unions for boycotting #LabourWomensConference. It’s not a women’s conference if some women are excluded.
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We are selling my partner’s mum’s house to pay her £1500 a week care home fee. If she lives another two years everything she worked for will be gone. Abolishing the triple lock would have cut the £184.90 a week she has lived on for the last 10 years. Don’t cut pensions. Raise inheritance tax!
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 26/09/2026
“Our future security shouldn’t be based on the insecurity of Palestinians.” UCU has repeatedly called on USS to divest from companies complicit in Israel’s actions in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories. Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 28/09/2026
Our members at the University of Nottingham will strike this Wednesday and Thursday in their fight against compulsory redundancies and course cuts. Show your solidarity as they head onto picket lines, ahead of sustained strike action from 5 October to 11 December. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1466...
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University of Nottingham staff to strike for three months from October in redundancy fight
Staff at the University of Nottingham will strike on Wednesday 30 September and Thursday 1 October, and then solid strike action from 5th October until 11 December in a row over jobs and course cuts, ...
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 28/09/2026
£140m in cuts. Up to 1,800 jobs at risk. 93 programmes set to go. UCU members at the University of Edinburgh begin five weeks of strike action today. We back our branch. We need you to do the same. Education belongs to all of us.
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s almost like conducting a thorough investigation and taking the ethical course of action would actually limit reputational damage. But then again I’m not an elite university manager 🤷‍♀️
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We can make more jobs and drop the price of electricity while solving the climate crisis, too.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”
Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There is IMO something absolutely spot on about the British ruling class not at all recognising that smashing up the state to sell it for scrap and cocaine might be a problem, until it started to somewhat impede their ability to wage a really serious war.
I've spent a few weeks asking people if Britain is prepared for war, among other doom scenarios. The short answer is no and the condensed reason for why that happened is that we spent the last forty years stripping off and selling the most resilient systems in the country for parts.
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“The tribunal found a clear pattern of the university trying to shut down complaints made by Wyn in a bid to protect itself from reputational damage” If preventing reputational damage is Cambridge’s aim, it’s not doing very well atm. thetab.com/2026/09/07/c...
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Cambridge professor wins tribunal after exposing alleged staff bullying
Wyn Evans, a professor of astrophysics, told the tribunal in June that he had witnessed a 'bad history of misogyny' within the Institute of Astronomy
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
OMG!! The trains don’t work and now none of the roads do either!! 😭
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Climate breakdown (not mentioned in report), AI threatening mass unemployment, youth services developing social skills and cohesion cut, algorithms promoting bullying, misogyny and unrealistic beauty norms, intense exam competition, insufficient housing, underfunded healthcare, burned-out teachers …
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Basically tells you everything that’s wrong with the world
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
'The Labour peer and former deputy leader will operate alongside Palantir’s UK and Europe chief executive, Louis Mosley, as the company attempts to fend off pressure on Burnham’s government to axe its £330m NHS contract.'
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Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m very worried for the future of John Lewis now 16,000 UK academics have been made redundant.
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Only 12 signatures away from 40k!! While we may have fought off compulsory redundancies, we need to keep up the pressure on senior management for governance change, and maintain the public visibility of our campaign to use this effectively for the wider sector.
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Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran has forfeited his geopolitical moral leadership
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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
more steel! but less than 6% jobs saved than have already been lost in the last year in HE
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Government moves to nationalise Speciality Steel UK to protect 1,300 jobs
Firm, once part of Sanjeev Gupta’s empire, fell into administration last year but has failed to find buyer
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'In some respects, what we are seeing resembles a form of collective grief. Not only grief for colleagues who have left, but grief for ways of working, professional identities and communities that once gave meaning to academic life. This creates an important challenge for university leaders.'
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The loss of staff belonging in higher education
Nick Hulbert-Williams argues that what looks like low morale and change fatigue in HE may really be a crisis of belonging
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Yeah, we had to make AI really stupid, coz otherwise it would have taken over the world”
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Will Trump’s legacy be that he ruined the global economy more than any other president? Or maybe, by making oil unaffordable, will he do more to slow climate change than any other president?
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Are all the warnings about AI taking over the world and the calls from techbros to slow down development really a face-saving exercise because AI is actually shit? 🤷‍♀️
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How many hours a day are wasted talking to AI chat bots in the false hope that they are capable of solving your problem? 🤷‍♀️
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’m not shocked by much these days. But I was quite shocked by a concerted campaign by far-right billionaires and their allies to take over academia … www.ft.com/content/c2d0...
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James Orr and the gospel of the new British right
Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
But he never inhaled …
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Nigel Farage says he 'wasn't listening' during foreign donor talks that were filmed undercover
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Utterly revolting propaganda from Ben Gvir.
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Ben-Gvir posts Palestinians on conveyor belts to detention camps. The world is silent | Arwa Mahdawi
Ben-Gvir did not come into power in a vacuum: he was helped into his position by an international community that has afforded Israel complete impunity
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is what happens when government doesn’t fund HE properly. Institutions start bending the knee to whoever will pay, regardless of how this sits with UK foreign policy or what the public want.
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A victory of sorts. We may have lost around 100 colleagues, who left ‘voluntarily’, but no one was sacked, our ballot closes on Wednesday and not all our conditions have been met (eg workloads), and we are in a very different place as staff and Union. Time to #ReclaimExeterUni @ucu.org.uk
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As ever, Chapeltown Carnival Was fab!!
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I thought the LBC lot were supposed to be down with the people 🤷‍♀️
Picture of Waitrose essential tinned vegetables in a cupboard.
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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
men have figured out a new dating technique and it's "less personal grooming" it's a bold strategy cotton let's see if it works out for them
"some men are skipping showers before dates to embrace a new trend called "pheromone-maxxing" hoping their natural scent will make them more attractive
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 30/08/2026
Just realized I haven't sent everyone a baby goat fix yet this week.
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