The University of Nottingham said it was "disappointed" by the timing of industrial action.

Home Office’s fees are up to 10 times the processing cost – and rising every year

Using the parameter-free Angular Distribution of Pairwise Distances for measuring directional correlations, evidence is found for coherent anisotropic structures extending over gigaparsec scales,...

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...

‘Very sharp downturn’ in enrolments risks hitting economic innovation and academic pipeline, lobby group says

At time of writing, large language models (LLMs) are beginning to obtain the ability to design, execute, write up, and referee scientific projects on the data-science side of astrophysics. What implic...

ALT: Randy Bump on the Bus

We, the undersigned, call on the University of Nottingham to reverse its plans to impose compulsory redundancies on its staff in the School of Physics and Astronomy.

Research-intensive university told it risks “intellectual stagnation” as 2,700 staff put at risk of redundancy

Institution says it could run out of money by 2031 and wants to cut more than 600 academic and support posts Thousands of staff at the University of Nottingham have been told to prepare for redundancy as part of swingeing financial cuts that academics say will harm the institution’s future. The university’s administration sent letters to 2,700 staff on Tuesday, notifying them their role was at risk of redundancy after its leadership said it could run out of money by 2031. Continue reading...