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Sylvie Lomer

@selomer42.bsky.social
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Higher Education, international students, policy, critical pedagogy, decolonisation and much leftist ranting She/her (mostly)

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Students and Politics @studentspolitics.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
We are guest-editing a special issue of @bjse.bsky.social on Students and Politics If you’d like to be part of it, do submit your abstract by 1st Feb - details below think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... @rilleraaper.bsky.social @education.ox.ac.uk
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Students and Politics
Explore the relationship between higher education and students' political beliefs and activities. Submit work on students and politics for this special issue.
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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Took a little break from Bluesky recently, but I'm back to share that our new journal has now published its first issue! Journal of Global Higher Education: journal.libraries.wm.edu/global_highe... Open for submissions in September!
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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Inaugural Issue | Journal of Global Higher Education
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
And this, in a nutshell, is what @globalhigheredj.bsky.social is trying NOT to do.
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Journal of Global Higher Education @globalhigheredj.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
We’re proud to introduce the editorial team of the Journal of Global Higher Education! Follow along, #MindsBehindTheMission ✨ 📖 Meet the team ➡️ Melissa Whatley (@melwhat.bsky.social) #MeetTheEditors #EditorialTeamSpotlight #JGHElaunch #GlobalHigherEd #NewJournalDrop #HigherEdMatters #NewWebsite
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Boy would I like to have a word with whoever thought this branding was cute
A sign saying 'colony co working' against a black glass building and a cloudy sky
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Conor O'Reilly EdD @conororeilly.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Are you speaking at next weeks Internationalisation Practitioners in Higher Education Conference (online)? Please share this with your colleagues. Not speaking? Make sure to register to attend. All the details are here: internationalpedagogies.home.blog/conference-2... @selomer42.bsky.social
Graphic reads 'I'm presenting at Internationalisation Practitioners in Higher Education Conference 2025 - save the date:  June 16-18 (online). There are links included.
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
A delightful first to start the ENIS network conference in Iasi. More live music at academic events please!
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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Journalist request: If you are a prospective or current graduate student or postdoc impacted by visa uncertainty—in US, UK or elsewhere—I want to talk to you. RTs appreciated!
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
@ucu.org.uk this is a genuine question btw. Would love an answer
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Why thank you
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I think a really amazing feature from Outlook would be to hold your emails until your out of office expires. Bonus points if people could opt to send it immediately or put it into quarantine. Then we could all stop coming back from holiday to 300 emails.
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Richard Budd @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This week: online @edreslancaster.bsky.social seminar on Wednesday (4th of June) at 12:30. M. Oluwatobiloba Odetoyinbo will be talking about academic motherhood and career trajectories in Nigeria. #academicsky #highered All are welcome. Details/registration at: www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
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Academic Motherhood in Nigeria: Navigating Reproduction and Care at the Margins, Wednesday 4 June, 12:30pm - Lancaster University
This study explores how Nigerian academic mothers navigate the intersection of motherhood and work.
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Spotted in Sheffield today
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
What does this actually mean though?
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Nah everyone gets the same. I'm just impressed by the level of organization!
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
In future I will require all speaking invitations to be accompanied by intro music 🎶
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
No, I'm not intimidated to speak here, why do you ask?
Auditorium with a slide display that reads 2025EduLog International Conference
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I cried reading your blog
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Imagine walking 12 miles there and back to put your child to sleep. What an act of love and hope. I think we can all sit with a little discomfort with that in mind.
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I have ZERO confidence that any of this level of detail is being engaged with at a policy level
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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Study abroad agents advised to steer students away from US 🖊️ Amber Wang via @uniworldnews.bsky.social
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Study abroad agents advised to steer students away from US
Rising US-China tensions over technology restrictions, US trade tariffs and US regulations affecting universities are set to further dampen enthusiasm...
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
And because it's bad and wrong to treat people like threats just because they're foreign. We could lead with that occasionally.
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Yeah sorry I was going to come up with another grant proposal with a 5% success rate but *gestures wildly at the world*
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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
yeah sorry I was going to write a book but there was just so much fascism
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
researchintlstudents.com/where-is-the... Latest from @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social
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Where is the field’s voice against the erosion of international students’ civil liberties?
Written by Jenna Mittelmeier (University of Manchester) The current situation (in brief) While the oppressive treatment of international students in various visa regimes is certainly not new, we ar…
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Great new post from Alex Baratta, Rui He, @hcockayne.bsky.social and Paul Smith - raises some vital critical points about a recent HEPI report www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/04/28/t...
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Thinking about the support of Chinese students: a response to HEPI's recent report - HEPI
Manchester academics challenge broad-brush approaches to Chinese student integration, prompting a reflective response from report author Pippa Ebel.
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Centre for HE Research and Evaluation @centreforhere.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Reminder: our unmissable online roundtable on the crisis in UK HE and how/whether it's fixable. We'll be hearing from @gunjans.bsky.social, @ronaldhartz.bsky.social, Kalpana Shankar, Susan Robertson, before opening up the discussion. #academicsky #highereducation www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
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Why is UK HE in crisis, and (how) can we fix it?, Monday 12 May, 12:30pm - Lancaster University
Four experts from different disciplines will provide their overview of why (or if) UK higher education is in a period crisis and what needs to change.
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Alongside the Leverhulme Trust, we invite postdoctoral – or equivalent – scholars in the humanities and social sciences to apply for the BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. Application deadline is 4 June. Apply now: buff.ly/FM5QWoL
White banner with an image of a researcher focused on her work. The words 'BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants' are written on the right-hand side
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Yep. And the time and energy we'd all save!
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I have been saying this for years www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/my-f...
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In my field, a little goes a long way. So why must we chase large grants?
More research council funding in the humanities and social sciences should be distributed in the form of micro-grants, says Peter Sutoris
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Why is it so good?
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
It's probably not very British of me but I often skip it and it doesn't seem to matter
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I prefer a 'hi, how are you?' when it's someone I actually know and care about.
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Very proud of @yingyang0216.bsky.social for finally getting this paper out!
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Conor O'Reilly EdD @conororeilly.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Last call for submissions - Internationalisation Practitioners & Researchers in Higher Education 2025 Conference #intled #highered #internationalisation internationalpedagogies.home.blog/conference-2...
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Conference 2025
INTERNATIONALISATION PRACTITIONERS AND RESEARCHER IN HIGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE CALL FOR PROPOSALS:We are delighted to invite practitioners of internationalisation, lecturers, international office…
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Linguists: Does anyone know someone who has worked on language ideology regarding Khoisan languages? Specifically, the way these "click languages" (and their speakers) have sometimes been cast as "ancient relics" of a common human evolutionary past?
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We Are Higher Ed @wearehighered.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Hello, Bluesky!! We are a collective of academics who are standing up for higher education. Join us: www.wearehighered.org
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We Are Higher Ed
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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an older woman is crying and says it 's been 84 years
ALT: an older woman is crying and says it 's been 84 years
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
You can help by using @trusselluk.bsky.social’s handy tool to email your MP and asking them to call on the Work and Pensions Secretary to rethink the government’s cruel & irresponsible planned cuts to social security action.trussell.org.uk/disability-c...
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Cruel cuts to disability support: the Work and Pensions Secretary needs to hear from your MP
Our social security system should be there for us all, especially when we need it most. But the UK government has proposed huge cuts to disabled people’s support when they’re already three times more ...
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I agree, this is unusual and gorgeous
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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
for a student who used AI to write a paper #poem
A photo of a poem titled, "To a student who used AI to write a paper." Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work.
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Every single time. Then you have to log into get the new license code and dual protect and by then I've lost the will.
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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
We are recruiting for a Lecturer in Sociology with research expertise in personal life, relationships and everyday lives. Please help us share! 👇🏾
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A pretty epic view this morning. Shame it's filled with rage at @teamlabouruk.bsky.social latest shameful cuts on disabled people and complete abandonment of the HE sector.
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Looking terrifying
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Absolutely. Super common.
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
But it was so hard to tell. You had to listen to their speeches and read the manifesto. How could anyone have predicted?
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
It seems possible
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