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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Clear words

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

AI researchers warn technology 'months away' from being able to connect to wifi using eduroam

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

FTR shattering letter about how the Conservative Government ignored the entirely credible threat from Putin in favour of feeding The City (& Tory Party) roubles👇 March 23 2022 Carl Scott, Air Commodore (Retired), UK defence attaché in Moscow for five years, 2011-2016 www.ft.com/content/857d...

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Letter: A defence attaché despairs at inevitability of conflict

From Carl Scott, Air Commodore (Retired), Oakham, Rutland, UK

[Photo of Sherlock Holmes and Watson monument at the British Embassy in Moscow]

MARCH 23 2022

The recent article by Maria Stepanova "The war of Putin's imagination" (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, March 19) was exemplary. However, one jarring note was the unfounded notion that no one expected this aggression from the Kremlin.

I served as the UK's defence attaché in Moscow for five years, 2011-2016, during which time this long, dark march to war was obvious, the path to conflict lit by the many pronouncements emanating from the dark red walls of Vladimir Putin's palace.

We reported the inevitability of conflict in detail, regularly and with the despair of Cassandra. One of the earliest reports opened with a line from Sherlock Holmes, whose statue stands outside the British Embassy wall: "There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast."

The evidence of Putin's chosen path was never concealed. His many declarations were meant to be heard and understood: the colossal rearmament programme, the demand for more complex, more lethal weaponry; the militarisation of society; the distortion and seizure of the popular narrative; domination of education, the media and the courts to exclude contrasting views and, ultimately, the alienation and destruction of those among the Russian people who understood the folly of his declared ambition.

The list is remorseless, the consequences could not be ignored. But they were.

It was not until I returned to the UK on the eve of our withdrawal from the EU, a manoeuvre which greatly emboldened those in Moscow, that I understood how our society had changed in the years I was serving overseas.

All was subjugated to the City, all served the interests of our lucrative status as a safe haven for corrupt, and corrupting, wealth. The values we were demanding of other nations had long since faded from our own actions.

I despair at the decisions Putin has taken, but even more at the prospect of finding credible leadership at home in the UK among those who have compromised so long with his regime and the wealth it offered.

Carl Scott

Air Commodore (Retired)

Oakham, Rutland, UK

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WooooOoOooOendy 👻 @wednesdaygj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ok, BBC, let’s have a big documentary all about all of the people whose lives have been destroyed by that woman. Let’s talk to kids who don’t feel like they want to live in this world. Let’s talk to adults whose whole existence is being threatened. Educate and Inform the world about transphobia.

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Dr Corinne Painter @corinnepainter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Learn a language and learn a whole new perspective on social interactions

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In 2012-13, there were 51 UK universities offering Russian and East European Studies. In 2024-25, there were 32, and provision is shrinking further. Perhaps that's a serious security risk? www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is a very important graph! Save it and show it to anyone who claims that Ukraine is responsible for higher diesel prices. Ukrainian attacks on russian oil refineries started in November 2025 and they had no impact on the price. The price skyrocketed right after Trump started the war in Iran.

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Dr Sarah Hudspith @sarahhudspith.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I've just become aware of this fantastic resource created at my institution to support inclusive fieldwork. Please share.

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Dr Sarah J Young @sarahjyoung.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Heartbroken about this utter vandalism. I did my PhD at Nottingham and it was a powerhouse. Management has spent more than a decade attacking languages - this is active destruction, nothing else. Solidarity with colleagues and old friends.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 03/10/2026

Something does'nt add up. Tech bros want a world of AI and machines to evolve and augment human beings. Yet, they are repulsed by the idea of a trans person, who's minds defy the constraints of their human bodies. And they realy think they can handle what they wish to create.

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 28/09/2026

I was on strike or actions-short-of-strike every single year of my PhD at Edinburgh. In the snow, in the rain, in a pandemic, fighting for a better future for my colleagues and students. The cuts Edinburgh is facing right now are devastating and I urge you to care.

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Dr Sarah Hudspith @sarahhudspith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The tooth fairy was once caught short and only just managed to leave a handful of change totalling £1 under my son's pillow minutes before he woke up in the morning.

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's European Day of Languages, so here are some of our favourite untranslatable and wonderfully-specific words from across Europe that we wish we had in English ✨

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mrsdumbledore.bsky.social @mrsdumbledore.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Millions of graduates are being ripped off by sky-high student loan interest rates. It's time for Andy Burnham to fix this unfair system in the upcoming Budget so balances stop growing faster than they're paid off. Add your name if you agree: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/an...

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Tell Andy Burnham: Fix the broken student loans system in this Budget

Millions of graduates are being ripped off by sky-high interest rates, with balances growing faster than they can be paid off! Add your name to demand fairer student loan terms in the upcoming Budget.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'University students have raised concerns over the software used to submit assignments and check them for plagiarism, amid fears their work could be used to train tools which use artificial intelligence.'

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York Uni students' fears over Turnitin essay-checker AI plan

Students are "scared" about proposals which could see their work used to train AI, their union says.

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Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland @ags-gbi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As many of you will be aware, the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations & Assessment (CCEA) awarding body in Northern Ireland is to discontinue GCSE and A-level German. This is a real blow to language education in Northern Ireland, depriving future generations of the opportunity to learn German.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Motion passes by miles in the hall, and online. The motion is carried - the Lib Dems are the first major party* to explicitly reject the EWRC guidance. *The Greens oppose it but I more meant the big three in parliament

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Proscribe the extreme far right groups before it's too late" via The UK Against Hate

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The RNLI rescued Luftwaffe pilots in WW2 because the organisation is there to 'save life at sea' - it's something to be immensely proud of. But as I've said many times before Farage and Co don't seem to have pride in Britain and its institutions beyond flags and crap Enoch Powell said 60 years ago.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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Seher Asaf @seher-education.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

“I’ve been shocked over many years with the assumption that if one has studied Russia, they can easily understand Ukraine, when Ukraine is culturally and historically very different,” said Rory Finnin, who teaches Ukrainian Studies at Cambridge www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ukraini...

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Ukrainian studies in ‘crisis’ despite rising demand in Europe

Most universities still treat Ukraine as a marginal topic even as need for specialists with deep knowledge of the country rises

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

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Dr Sarah Hudspith @sarahhudspith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Discovering it doesn't get any easier - or the pile any smaller - as they go back for their third year 😭

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026

if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Edinburgh, have you received the data used to determine which courses were 'not viable'? Because Nous has a track record of (a) failing to capture the full sign-up because of varying course codes for the same course in different Schools (b) only measuring fee-capture, not cost-of-delivery.

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Dr Sarah Hudspith @sarahhudspith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ah, found the list without paywall. JH German and Russian to close! archive.is/tACqv

archive.is

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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

5 week strike at Edinburgh University at start of new academic term. Incl UCU branch co-president quote: “...UCU members are prepared to take action for our colleagues and our students – want to safeguard students’ education not just for five weeks in autumn but for the future." #StopTheCuts #SaveHE

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Dr Sarah Hudspith @sarahhudspith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is dreadful! Which language and literature programmes?

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Katharine Hodgson @katharineh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Any chance the changes in size might relate to senior management pay? Or to the fees paid to external consultants? Or to the number of managers foisting their bright ideas on staff and students? No?

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Dr Sarah Hudspith @sarahhudspith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Quite a few parts of that article I agree with, but that paragraph is really weird!

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You know what gets a library perpetual access to a book??? Purchasing the physical book. I guarantee the publisher won’t come steal it back!!!

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The most fundamental question in politics is: whose support do you need to win and hold power? Is it warlords, aristocrats, empires or "the demos"? If the answer is "billionaires", you are not a democracy but a plutocracy. That's why democracies *must* erect barricades against capture by the rich

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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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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?

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Dr Sarah Hudspith @sarahhudspith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Legitimate concerns don’t require politicians to agree with them. They require politicians to investigate them honestly, explain what the evidence says, fix the problems that are real, and stop feeding the fears that aren’t." Great piece 👇

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

British universities are both thinner and greedier now. They’re thinner in that they’re doing less and offering less (fewer courses, fewer modules, fewer assessments, fewer staff, far less student and staff support). They’re greedier in that they demand more of both students and staff: more money…

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don't know if it's just that this UK government missed the context of growing up in Ireland in the 90s, but they should probably be aware that gangs of lads in balaclavas don't have the best intentions for the public.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 06/09/2026

Contrast the police statements about the Dover blockade yesterday with the Just Stop Oil protests in 2022

No arrests made during Dover protest, Kent Police says
published at 13:34 5 September
13:34 5 September
Kent Police has issued a statement following the disruption in Dover earlier today.
It says officers "responded to a spontaneous protest" during Saturday morning, adding "no arrests were made".
"Traffic is flowing normally, and all involved had dispersed by midday," it adds

The Met Police said 35 people had been arrested in response to the disruption.
Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the action was "criminality", not protest, and pledged to bring those involved to justice as quickly as possible.
"This was a very significant and co-ordinated effort to cause massive disruption to the entirety of the M25," he added.

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Because I was working a shift on the newsdesk last night and the last thing I edited before bed was a big story on Portsmouth I have woken in a foul fucking mood. What is the point of a police force if not to tackle the kind of mob violence the black-clad fash are dealing in? What is the point of a

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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

While there is some relief in the threat of compulsory redundancies being removed, we are also thinking of the amazing colleagues we are losing through so-called voluntary redundancy. These colleagues are experts in their fields, they are our academic community, and they are fantastic educators

SO MANY EXPERTS, INSPIRING EDUCATORS, SUPERVISORS, TOP RESEARCHERS, COLLEAGUES LOST THROUGH TERS (THE EXETER RELEASE SCHEME). WE'LL CONTINUE TO FIGHT TO #DEFENDEXETERUNI

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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The University of Exeter has confirmed that it won’t proceed with compulsory redundancies “at this time”. This means colleagues do not need to complete the pro forma, and there will be no selection process.

photo of Nicole Kidman looking incredibly joyful and free after her divorce from Tom Cruise was finalised

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National Trust Research @ntresearch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

For the next two weeks, visitors to Nostell will have the rare opportunity to watch research in action as experts from the Hamilton Kerr Institute use macro X-ray fluorescence scanning to look beneath the surface of this treasured @nationaltrust.org.uk painting. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Public given rare access as Thomas More painting goes under microscope

Visitors to Nostell in West Yorkshire will get to see cutting-edge research into work considered the only faithful copy of Holbein masterpiece

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 03/09/2026

The unedifying sight of a BBC journalist literally standing in the English Channel yelling at minority ethnic people on a boat: "Why are you doing it like this? Why aren't you doing it legally?"

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Reading work email today and all I can say is that it's amazing how flexible course provision can suddenly be when you've fired most of the staff and teaching starts in 2 weeks. Almost as if academic regulations, credit-counts and the Office for Students (ho ho) don't exist.

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