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Harvard just opened an investigation into Larry Summers's ties to Epstein.

That's just PR cover for Harvard.

They've known this entire time.

Epstein literally had an office at Harvard for years.

Last Sunday. #WeAreTheUniversity #UCU #UK #HigherEducation #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky

👏 "There are over four million kids in child poverty in the UK and there are four and a half million people who can't get a dentist appointment."

"We spend 90% of the political capital and discourse and media focus discussing 37,000 people."

Happy Republic Day of Turkey ! Without the foundation of the Republic, there would not be academics from Turkey who made significant contributions to the world literature. #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #HigherEducation

Just in case anyone is listening, please note that UK universities cannot operate successfully on the basis of continuous reduction of academic staff and academic staff pay. No amount of staff wellness sessions will change this.

Diversity doesn’t lower quality. Gatekeeping does.

When the same voices dominate academia, we don’t get excellence—we get elitism.

🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾‍🔬 👩🏼‍🔬 👩🏾‍🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd

Imagine doing it in a foreign language, in a different country away from where you were born and grew up with limited funding, difficult bureaucracy e.g. visa and in isolation. #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #UK #HigherEducation.

The impact of PhD studies on mental health—a longitudinal population study Recent self-reported and cross-sectional survey evidence documents high levels of mental health problems among PhD students. We study the relationship…

The impact of PhD studies on mental health - A longitudinal population study

PhDs can be and some would likely argue, should be hard.

But surely not *this* hard?

#AcademicSky

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Wow...

ALT TEXT: A headline on The Courier website, reading "Tayport bus users threaten protest over Stagecoach plan to cut routes Tayport travellers were "incredibly angry" at a packed public meeting to discuss bus service changes to and from the town." Beneath is a photograph of around 40 people, seated in a public meeting.

ALT TEXT: A headline on The Courier website. The headline reads "Xplore Dundee posts record profit as ticket prices rise and wages increase The bus firm posted increased revenue and profit in the wake of ticket price increases." Beneath is a photograph of the male CEO of Xplore Dundee, smiling, standing in front of a large green bus.

How can some bus companies thrive while other are making cuts?

Bringing bus companies into public ownership would mean your ticket fare would go back into the service, instead of lining private pockets. People, over profit.

It works in Edinburgh, and it could work in Dundee.

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

Text on background: No one does their best work when they are bitterly aware of being structurally devalued.

#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #UK #HigherEducation

Speak up and you risk retaliation

University culture has decayed so far that retaliation is default

HR opens “investigations” with no evidence

Whistleblowers are sidelined, "troublemakers" victimised or dismissed

It's a system that punishes truth

Change is overdue -- & coming

We know academia runs on insular, tightly knit circles. That makes speaking out harder & retaliation more common. Survivors are silenced, pushed out, or followed from one institution to the next.

#Turkey 94 #Greece 68 at EuroBasket semifinal. Seriously? What? Wow... Never been more proud of the national basketball team. What an amazing achievement! #Eurobasket2025

The famous tagline from the film, Alien: "In space, no one can hear you scream." In UK academia, it is the same. #UK #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

How to tell lies about 'illegal migrants', a 12 year-old girl and Dundee: all amplified by the British right-wing media and Elon Musk. #PrivateEye

Never change, Scotland

academia is a v. strange mix of “we expect you to behave like an employee” (forms, webinars, insanely bad admin software, etc) but also “go fund your entire research operation yourself including paper towels for the sink in the lunchroom we don’t have the budget for that”. #academicsky

Fees for Scotland? Best not to This piece appeared in the Summer 2025 edition of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society’s “The Geographer”, and is replicated here with their kind permission. The spectre of fees for domestic stu…

I was asked by the editor of The Geographer, the @royalscotgeosoc.bsky.social magazine, to comment on the discussion around imposing domestic student fees in Scotland.

This is an online accessible version of my piece.
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#academicsky #studentfees #highered

But Americans still believe that they have lived in a "democratic" country when in reality their country is run by the corporate oligarchic plutocracy in a corrupt political and justice systems that mainly exist to punish the poor and allow the rich to do whatever they want... That's despotism...!

Besiktas sack Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after Conference League exit Besiktas confirmed the decision had been taken after a board meeting on Thursday.

Besiktas have confirmed they have terminated the contract of head coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

Solskjaer’s exit comes after the Turskish side were eliminated from the Conference League following Thursday’s defeat to Lausanne.

The University of Dundee has announced it will defer the 1.4% national pay rise for staff in higher education.

With inflation above 3% this means hard working staff at the University will be getting at least a 3% real terms pay cut this year.

UCU HE pay and conditions e-ballot replacement request form (2025) UCU HE pay and conditions e-ballot replacement request form (2025).

HE members we are calling on you to vote! 🗳️

UCEA's offer of 1.4% not only fails to stop the decline in salaries, it’s yet another real-terms pay cut.

Haven't received your e-ballot? You have until 12 noon TOMORROW to request a replacement: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/ucu-he-re...

Tuition fees are rising again and nobody is happy – it’s time to actually fix our broken university sector | Zoe Williams The figures simply don’t add up for higher education in England and Wales. Yet delusional politicians from all parties seem intent on avoiding the issue, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Colour me shocked: a Guardian UKHE piece which isn't awful.

The current system only "works" because staff are underpaid and overworked, and students exploited. How mass redundancies and £300 more per UK student are going to solve this conundrum is anyone's guess.
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Staff ‘demoralised’ by lack of career progression amid cost cuts Promotion freezes at UK universities exacerbate frustrations caused by mass redundancies and low pay rises, with academics warning it could force more people out of the sector

A lack of career progression within UK universities is “demoralising” staff and threatening to push people out of the sector, it has been warned, as institutions respond to the financial crisis by freezing promotions and concentrating hiring on lower-level positions
#academicsky #edusky

It should have never been in place but we live in an economic system that doesn't care about human life. Universities reflect this.

Games for research, engagement, and impact We’re launching our games for research, engagement, and impact service. It’s a result of conversations with academics, hearing that academics want to do fun activities to communicate their research, a...

This week at fractals.coop we’re launching our new service: Games for research, engagement, and impact.

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Apparently, everyone in my department is on Grade 8 but me. I'm still on Grade 7. What? WHAT?? #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #UK #HigherEducation