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“Retired” academic scientist, breast cancer genomics, University of Cambridge

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Cambridge Whistleblowing Tribunal Handling of grievances at Cambridge University has left many people without the means to challenge what happened to them, particularly early-career scholars & those without access to financial backing This victory is for them 21percent.org?p=4153
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Statement about the position of the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University, Professor Deborah Prentice, following the Cambridge Whistleblowing Tribunal
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Breaking news Cambridge University loses the whistleblowing tribunal Vice Chancellor Deborah Prentice is among the respondents found to have retaliated against a whistleblower Never rains but it pours 21percent.org?p=4148
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Our choice for most pitiful person in Cambridge Fraud Scandal It's Deborah Prentice, Vice Chancellor She researches pluralistic ignorance - how institutional conformity forces people to accept status quo Her research tells her what to do, but she's trapped 21percent.org?p=4082
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Theranos became a movie Jason Arday saga is next Story has everything: OTT drama, academic scandals, manipulative dons, an American ingenue trying to run Cambridge Punting, dinky old colleges & an absurd plot Arday already looks like a film star, suits him The perfect ending
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Who in Cambridge University is helping Jason Arday? Ill-judged interview generates many more controversies Did somone say "Ride it out & keep the book launch on track” Perhaps OK for hardened public figures. For someone more vulnerable, it can backfire www.thetimes.com/article/fdd5...
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Jason Arday: I am not a liar, says star academic accused of plagiarism
The youngest ever black professor at Cambridge University claims allegations he is a fraud are cruel, racially motivated and do not account for his autism
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It's the curious incident of the dog in the night again The silence from the BBC and The Guardian on the Jason Arday story is telling A negative fact, but the most significant of all Their lack of response strongly suggests they accept that the allegations are largely true Sadly
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 01/08/2026
"Asked if the £5m figure was accurate, Arday clarified to the Guardian that the money was raised with the help of “many fundraising collectives over a two-decade period”. When asked to identify other people…Arday said he had signed NDAs preventing him from disclosing that information." 🤔🤔🤔
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Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor
Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Provost of King's College Gillian Tett shows rest of Cambridge how to work the media & make it count Handsy men! "Students tell other students how to cope with a handsy professor & create coping strategies. It shouldn’t be that way because not everyone copes" www.thetimes.com/article/4f47...
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Gillian Tett: Oxbridge has a problem with ‘handsy’ men
The provost of King’s College, Cambridge, says that she feels profound pain for students who were sexually harassed by professors
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The most pitiful person in the Cambridge Fraud Scandal, as nominated by Andrew Gelman (Prof of Statistics at Columbia, co-writer of Bayesian Data Analysis) Not Jason Arday, but the unnamed University "spokesperson for Cambridge" spouting obvious untruths statmodeling.substack.com/p/whos-the-m...
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Guardian’s article on Jason Arday highlights serious questions Cambridge University must now answer About his appointment. His use in publicity. How concerns were handled. Why allegations were dismissed. And the role of Carter-Ruck & the police. Quite a reckoning Enormous damage done
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
There are 3 sides in the Jason Arday debate Racists & social justice warriors, sure But, the dominant voice has not been about politics It's about something very basic: standards, integrity & whether institutions like Cambridge University apply their own rules fairly & consistently
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The reaction of almost all academics wrongly accused of plagiarism is: "I insist on an immediate external inquiry to look into these damaging allegations against me" It's not, "Can you get Carter Ruck on speed dial?"
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Control & communication has been inept given Cambridge was alerted to the Arday plagiarism allegations back in 2023 So, they've had 3 years to prepare for an entirely foreseeable moment -- and they’ve still managed to make it look like an absolute case study in how not to handle a disaster
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Carlos Caldas 🇵🇹🇮🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧 @carloscaldas1960.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Just out! Another piece of amazing work from @caldaslab.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Breast cancer genomic subtype-specific copy number alterations in metastases - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Breast cancer genomic subtype-specific copy number alterations in metastases
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Carlos Caldas 🇵🇹🇮🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧 @carloscaldas1960.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Humbled to be featured @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social where @caldaslab.bsky.social is now based @lautenbergc.bsky.social! Walking the walk! international.huji.ac.il/news/Prof-Ca...
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Prof Tracey, VC of Oxford University, asks for sex harassment policy improvements She's asking the institutional perpetrators of institutional collusion how best to overcome the institutional collusion that they've all been perpetrating An Oxford farce www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Oxford University Leader Instructs Experts to Propose Sex Harassment Policy Improvements
The University of Oxford’s leader has instructed legal experts to propose improvements to its harassment and bullying policies, according to a person familiar with the matter, after a string of allega...
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The FT ranks the best 400 UK employers ... including Dundee University It's facing near financial collapse & on its third round of redundancies Former Principal was famously asked whether he was corrupt or incompetent & replied he was incompetent @data.ft.com 😮 www.ft.com/content/666c...
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UK’s Best Employers 2026: ranking
Some 20,000 employees were surveyed by the FT and Statista for the second edition of this annual list
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Real culprits at Nottingham University have moved onward & upward Current VC has instigated cost-cutting drive dubbed 'Future Nottingham' This phrase is used to sanitise the brutality of sacking staff She should stand down as VC for crimes against language www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
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'Breakdown of trust' at University of Nottm as Vice Chancellor told to quit
The Vice Chancellor previously said the actions she was taking were having a 'positive impact'
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Carlos Caldas 🇵🇹🇮🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧 @carloscaldas1960.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Beautiful molecular clinical epidemiology paper led by @paulpharoah.bsky.social! @caldaslab.bsky.social very pleased to have contributed! @launtenbergc.bsky.social @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social TILs in #breast cancer alter prognosis! 15,000 cases!! Walking the walk! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Compartment-specific tumor-infiltrating immune cells and prognosis in breast cancer
Oncology; Immunology; Artificial intelligence
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Financial Times ranks Cambridge University as top UK employer Who fills in online survey from the FT? ⁠Highly paid individuals in senior management with huge pay/bonuses & no real duties Survey won't sample academic staff or low-paid professional services staff Seriously flawed @data.ft.com
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Financial Times lists the 400 best employers -- including many universities like Dundee It’s a bit like praising staff satisfaction at Lehman Brothers in 2007 The statistical evidence of @data.ft.com is examined here It's incoherent & flawed 21percent.org?p=3293
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
University student population of Gorton & Denton is ~ 5000, concentrated in Gorton Young graduates with student loans in G&D are ~ 8000 This is significant voting block of ~ 13000 Govt policies on student loans / universities contributed to this punishing by-election loss
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
UniversitiesUK is lobbying group for Vice-Chancellors, not staff or students It's consistently lobbied for higher tuition fees & marketisation It's supported bureaucratic corporatisation & excessive VC pay -- but never staff It's grown fat on University money universitiesuk.ac.uk/about-us/peo...
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"Dr" Ann Limb remains a Fellow Commoner of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge The University Reporter dated 19 January 2026 lists the Fellows of the Colleges The false claim about her academic qualifications has still not been corrected www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Starmer peer delays taking seat after new charity revelations
Dame Ann Limb has admitted lying about her PhD and faces fresh disclosures about her role selling the assets of City & Guilds
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
More poor journalism Overseas engineering PhD students pay £25–30k a year, while home students pay £5–6k in fees International students subsidise UK universities Without that income, research-intensive universities couldn't function unless Gov't paid more money www.thetimes.com/article/c522...
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Why is Britain educating China’s scientists?
Elite universities have more Chinese than British students taking Stem courses, which smacks of reckless self-neglect
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Voice of Victim "There was a University lectureship competition My friend was in pole position. My Head of Department asked me if she was likely to go on maternity leave I refused to answer My HoD has not spoken to me since she was appointed -- & then went on maternity leave"
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Article is right to say Oxbridge has become hooked on casualised labour, upheld by hierarchy of auxiliary teaching paid at low rates or unpaid The "gig economy" has moved HE away from secure, long-term employment toward precarious, short-term contracts timeshighereducation.com/opinion/hiri...
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Hiring established scholars to junior Oxbridge roles imperils disciplines
As lay-offs continue elsewhere, postdocs’ inability to land permanent roles will block the pipeline of future faculty, Cambridge academics argue
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Real issue isn’t hiring “too senior” or "established" candidates Academia produces far more PhDs than permanent jobs Restricting the competition won’t solve that It only replaces excellence with forms of protectionism www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/hiri...
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Hiring established scholars to junior Oxbridge roles imperils disciplines
As lay-offs continue elsewhere, postdocs’ inability to land permanent roles will block the pipeline of future faculty, Cambridge academics argue
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Fall of the Oxbridge Junior Research Fellow "Skeffington [a JRF] had taste ...There was a Sickert, a Kokoschka, a Nolan in his College room" [CP Snow, 1960] "Could you run the graduate programme this year? Role is unpaid but it's valuable experience for a future post" [2026]
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
A university is spooked They know they'll lose the case. They fear deluge of other complaints that will come forward as a result What happens? Gagging orders We have right to know what's happening in universities getting large pots of public money thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...?
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University wins gagging order in sex case to ‘protect reputation’
Open justice fears as media banned from naming institution where a professor faces sexual harassment claims at tribunal
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Proposal to concentrate research in “flagship” Welsh university is made with no evidence It criticises bureaucracy -- yet proposes technocratic control from the centre using indicators & funding levers to steer mission Duw helpo ni www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/03/02/w...
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Welsh Week: a little less conversation please… - HEPI
Croeso i wythnos Gymraeg blog HEPI. Ym mhob blog yr wythnos yma, byddwn yn ffocysu ar addysg uwch yng Nghymru, a thrafod gobeithion a gofidion unigolion allweddol ynglŷn ag etholiadau’r Senedd ym mis ...
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Voice of Victim "Four investigations by University HR One run by a KC — because nothing says “healthy workplace” like cross-examination We had no legal representation just threats Colleagues walked into interviews thinking it was a chat “You should’ve known better” said HR"
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Great scientist … shocking interview “I’m old, I’m white, I’m a man, so everything’s against me” is clumsy start Worse is refusal to see bullying & sexual harassment as corruption of science Paul Nurse presided over institutions notorious for poor culture www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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‘Lots of people don’t want to do it’: Paul Nurse on his controversial second term as Royal Society president
The Nobel prize winner discusses claims of a ‘boys’ club’, Elon Musk’s fellowship and rightwing attacks on science
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
MPs debate 'Duty of Care' today At Cambridge, the 21 Group has repeatedly raised #Whistleblowing concerns about the treatment of a student No action in response by University Statutory 'Duty of Care' is needed committees.parliament.uk/committee/20... @forthe100.bsky.social
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MPs to hold a debate on potential merits of a statutory duty of care for universities - Committees - UK Parliament
On Tuesday 13 January in Westminster Hall, MPs will hold a debate on potential merits of a statutory duty of care for universities.
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Retraction of Nature paper by the Crick Institute The first author — then a doctoral student — manipulated data Certain Crick labs seem prone to these kinds of mishaps This raises questions about supervisory oversight by the doctoral adviser as well as institutional research culture
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Built by Welsh workers’ donations on gifted land, Cardiff University should be vital national institution Instead, Chief Operating Officer wants further ventures into Indonesia & Philippines It ends with COO moving on & up - and staff left to clear up her mess nation.cymru/news/cardiff...
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Cardiff University boss looks at further overseas expansion
Martin Shipton The head of Cardiff University’s controversial overseas campus in Kazakhstan has revealed her ambition to open new offshoots in Indonesia and the Philippines. Dr Paula Sanderson, who is...
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Battle for Veterinary Science at Cambridge The Vet School needs £20m to survive, allegedly It's a disputed figure but dwarfed by recent yearly increases in central administration spending Cambridge has a priorities crisis not a funding crisis @jw132.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Organisations urge Cambridge University's vet school to keep open
A final decision is expected to be made by the university's general board next week.
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Voice of Victim "We raised grievances HR kindly sent us web-links — Occupational Health, counselling, chaplaincy, Samaritans, the full wellness parade We were told we could seek support but, as the matter was confidential, we could not talk about the cause of our distress"
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Voice of Victim "My grievance went from the HR Business Manager to the HR Director, to the Registrar, to the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, and finally to the Vice-Chancellor herself. Each time I thought: 'now the adults have entered the room — now this will be sorted' It never was"
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Bullying has a human cost, but UK universities aren't interested in this Conservative estimates suggest £millions are spent each year on mismanaged cases This wastes public money In times of scarcity, increased scrutiny of financial mismanagement will finally drive change
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Students mistreated by their University should contact their MPs There is backbench debate on statutory duty of care on 13 January 2026 Let's leave MPs in no doubt as to the failure of universities to safeguard staff & students @Dying4aDegree @ForThe100_
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Rigged promotions. Whistleblower retaliation. Research shutdowns. Plagiarism cover-ups. Soaring executive pay Consigliere University: A masterclass in how NOT to run a university 2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse Let the Fire Horses run free 21percent.org?p=3097
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Voice of Victim "I raised a Grievance about the HR Business Partner at my University with the HR Director Then the Pro-VC. The Registrar. The VC All of them asked the HR Business Partner to draft their responses Universities -- where 'procedural fairness' goes to die"
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Lecturers, technicians & support staff are expendable, while vice-chancellors & senior teams enjoy outsized salaries Strathclyde Uni say it's “reshaping finances". No It's protecting executive pay at expense of academic community & quality of education www.timeshighereducation.com/news/strike-...
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Strike ballots open at four Scottish universities over job losses
Aberdeen, Heriot-Watt, Stirling and Strathclyde threatened with industrial action as Scottish government’s review of higher education funding begins
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Voice of Victim "After an extended silence, the University's HR Director announced ‘very significant findings on very serious issues,’ which couldn't be disclosed as they were strictly confidential The email was marked STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL & sent to many incorrect recipients" 😉
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Voice of Victim "What I learnt (the hard way) after I raised bullying issues with my University: HR is not my friend Confidentiality is a shield to protect the institution & the powerful Transparency is optional Staff wellbeing is a slogan, not a practice"
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
What's gone wrong at Cambridge University? Flat departmental budgets (inflation-adjusted) from 2016–2025 Explosive growth in central administration spending The result is a university increasingly run around teaching and research rather than for them Dereliction of its core mission
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
2025 was a year of vandalism across UK universities In 2026, the wreckage will be set on fire: more strikes, more cuts, more closures Meanwhile, vice-chancellors & senior managers will fail upwards, stuffing their pockets while the sector burns Cheered on by @universitiesuk.bsky.social
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Paul Pharoah @paulpharoah.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Correlation is not always causation.
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