Diffwys Criafol

English government department will decide on aid projects for Wales - just like under the Tories Martin Shipton A major new funding row has erupted after the Welsh Government accepted a decision of its UK counterpart to allow an English ministry to administer the latest post-Brexit aid round for ...

A major new funding row has erupted after the Welsh Government accepted a decision of its UK counterpart to allow an English ministry to administer the latest post-Brexit aid round for Wales ✍️Martin Shipton

A pretty novel form of psychic damage is losing your news media job, having your entire portfolio of work wiped from the Internet, only for it to then be resurrected without your consent to promote an AI slop factory scam! Find out more about this headache here 👇

With the Senedd elections happening in a year, you need to focus more on Wales

Labour is disgustiing @prifweinidog.gov.wales you should all defect to Greens or Plaid. They mwy not be that inspiring, but they're not genocidal murderers

Gaza will be concentration camp, declares Netanyahu His colleague, meanwhile, says Gaza will be destroyed. Genocide in plain sight

Is this disgusting irony lost on anyone in the west???

Netanyahu admits to turning Gaza into “Concentration Camp”!!!

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Eisiau ysgrifennu am natur a'r argyfwng hinsawdd? Dyma'r dosbarth meistr i chi.

Book Inclusive Journalism Cymru's free Zoom masterclass on environmental writing! 🌱

Gwesteion/Guests: @durreshahwar.bsky.social, Owen Sheers, Taylor Edmonds

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This is good but strange how this wasnt the case in the first place...

Restored 2001 movie DO NOT GO GENTLE and the Welsh class politics of care Nearly 25 years after its release, Do Not Go Gentle returns to cinemas, with its themes of class fissures and social care still relevant.

I have a piece in Buzz Magazine - thanks to Film Hub Wales www.buzzmag.co.uk/do-not-go-ge...

Shame on the BBC - what idiot signed off on this?

Concerning New Study Finds Nation’s Poverty Growing Faster Than Officials Can Build Prisons

Concerning New Study Finds Nation’s Poverty Growing Faster Than Officials Can Build Prisons
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UK aid cuts to vaccines could lead to half a million child deaths, MPs warned Over half a million children could die as a result of UK aid cuts to vaccination programmes, MPs have heard. Conservative former minister Sir David Davis asked Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty ...

Over half a million children could die as a result of UK aid cuts to vaccination programmes, MPs have heard

Diolch i bawb ddaeth i rali Nid yw Cymru ar Werth heddiw i fynnu dyfodol i'n cymunedau

Congrats!

I hope @ucu.org.uk doesent send money to labour

Wendy Larner = Kiwi Musk with a woke mask

Yes, there is a way out of the crisis currently enveloping Welsh universities! Richard Wyn Jones Remarkably enough, the recent announcements by various Welsh universities that they intend to cut jobs – and even close entire departments – seem to have come as a shock to many poli...

As hundreds of my university colleagues across Wales lose their jobs, I wrote this for @nation.cymru - do please share

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Ed Sheeran and Harry Styles call to save Cardiff University music school The department with a global reputation is earmarked for closure under proposed cuts

OK so this just happened!
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“Stars including Sir Elton John, Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles & Stormzy call on the PM to help save Cardiff University's school of music. The department with a global reputation is earmarked for closure under proposed cuts.”

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After writing this I sent this to my estranged extended family. It lead to a couple of them visiting my Mum for the first time in 15 years.

A cliche but - never underestimate the power of writing...

Writing this was excrutiaing, I was working through some big emotional stuff, and as it was a rare paid oppprtunity I forced myself to finish it whereas usually maybe I would have stopped. I felt lighter after I write it though.

The Welsh language and Class: Paradoxes and Contradictions - Common/Wealth This blog is hard to write. Not just because it’s a rare paid opportunity, and I’m worried it just won’t be good enough, but because […]

I missed the year anniversary of publishing this blog. I was shocked when I was told it's had over 10k hits...

What can we learn from ‘neuroqueer’ theory? Increasing rates of neurodiversity are no more a trend than the higher proportion of people coming out - but there are some parallels between neurodiversity and queerness

🧠 “Everyone’s experience of neurodivergence is valid wherever they fall on the spectrum, in the same way as everyone’s right to identify as queer should be respected, regardless of what kind of relationship they are in or how they present” - Diffwys Criafol

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Yes, the interview was originally published as an edited transcript in 2018, long before Wendy Larner had applied her views to Cardiff University. The document linked to in the VC’s all-staff email on Thursday was the final proofs doc, ie after peer review and the VC’s own subsequent edits.

Technological capitalism An article on Substack by an author using the pseudonym Diffwys Criafol (Differing Grief) states: "The current vice chancellor of Cardiff University, Wendy Larner, was also once hopeful of an alternative to the brutality of Neoliberalism from what I see of her early academic work. However it now seems that she is currently embracing her role as its handmaiden, purporting that our line of escape from the contradictions of capitalism is deepening technological capitalism. "She earns £290k a year. Surrounding her are 10 executive board members who were collectively paid £2.3m in 2023. A revolting…

“Differing Grief” on geographer and vice-chancellor Wendy Larner nation.cymru/news/cardiff...

Diffwys Criafol actually doesent mean that, its a name of a place, literally means "Rowan Tree on a cliff"

This is horrifying. Wendy Larner used to write about poverty, race, gender & globalisation. She co-edited a book in 2010 called *The Point Is To Change It*. Then she became Management...

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Its the most nuked place on earth after being a soviet test site. Their gov also has a history of torture @cardiffuni.bsky.social is it safe for staff? How is it for queer people? Have you even thought of this??

Cardiff University 'may have broken the law' by threatening union Martin Shipton Cardiff University’s threat to take action against the University and College Union for comments it made to Nation.Cymru could be in breach of a law protecting academic freedom, we have...

'This is a clear attack on freedom of speech and freedom to organise. It is unprecedented for a University to try to close down legitimate trade union activity in this way. It also appears to be evidence of a climate of fear' @hefindavid.bsky.social

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More than 650 students at crisis-hit Cardiff University were affected by course changes during the last academic year, a Freedom of Information disclosure has revealed ✍️ Martin Shipton

Cardiff University releases breakdown of academics 'in scope' for redundancy Martin Shipton Cardiff University has released to Nation.Cymru the breakdown by School of the 1,807 academics who have been told their jobs are “in scope” to be cut. The university announced in Januar...

Cardiff University confirms that in College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 699 jobs are “in scope” of redundancy with 86 in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion.

At the leading Welsh university in the capital of (checks notes) Wales 13 are in the (checks notes) School of Welsh.