STARTING SOON! The first day of the Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond is kicking off today at 1:00 PM EDT!

Join us via Zoom for interpretation and chat moderation or be welcome to watch live on Facebook and Youtube! tinyurl.com/CJ-2025

Of course she has won. Of course they were wrong. And at a time when other Scottish Universities were calling for an immediate ceasefire. They could have just picked up the phone to their colleagues. This is not hard. And then there is international law too.

They put a brave woman through hell.

We're gathering a collective of UK data professionals (researchers, practitioners etc.) to fight efforts to make digital and data systems trans-exclusionary.

This weekend we will write to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology 📝

Message me and I'll add you to the collective.

UK university redundancies: latest updates As higher education institutions shed thousands of jobs, we track developments and bring together latest analysis with resources for affected staff and students

We are now approaching 4,000 formally announced university redundancies in the UK since January alone. The real situation is far worse than that, and will also accelerate going forwards. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...

Trans Advocacy & Complaint Collective Toilet Hysteria Isn't Law: Why Trans People in the UK Can Still Pee in Peace MADDIE / 23 APRIL 2025 / LGBTQ+ RIGHTS, RIGHTS ADVOCACY (Yes, Even After the Supreme Court Ruling)

In the UK, there is still no law that stops trans people from using the toilets that match their gender. That includes after the UK Supreme Court ruling on 16 April 2025, which the usual suspects are already trying to twist into a bathroom ban.

👉🏻 tacc.org.uk/2025/04/23/t...

Over 400 university staff earn more than the first minister A Ferret analysis found at least 400 university staff are paid more than John Swinney, who takes a combined MSP and first ministerial salary of £135,605.

On Sunday we revealed more than 400 University staff have higher pay than Scotland's First Minister. They include Edinburgh principal Peter Mathieson who earns £380k. Today he announced 350 staff had taken voluntary redundancy with further cuts feared. bit.ly/3GAClEc

First page of our letter - full text can be found on the linked google docs (sorry I can't include here because of the character limit)

Second page of our letter - full text can be found on the linked google docs (sorry I can't include here because of the character limit)

as some of you may be aware, we have been dealing with considerable transphobia (among other issues) in our department at the uni of aberdeen.

we are sharing this letter publicly to raise awareness and ask for your support. please sign and share 💕🏳️‍⚧️

tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia

#LGBTQinSTEM

What are the problems facing Scottish universities? Plans to axe a fifth of the workforce at Dundee University have drawn attention to problems in the sector.

"Ten years ago, Edinburgh University had 35,000 students and an income of £819m, with expenditure of £793m. In 2023/24, student numbers were nearing 50,000 and income was at £1.43bn, with expenditure of £1.3bn."

So we make more than we spend by a lot.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fraser MacDonald · On Compost I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’...

Things I learned recently:

* Edinburgh’s seaweed is collected and dumped in landfill because it is too contaminated with wet wipes to be composted.

* Most packaging labelled ‘compostable’ is not usually compostable.

A big fuck you to @theguardian.com for laundering anti-trans hate for years. A moral stain that can't be forgiven.

A pink background with a speech bubble that reads: The Politics of Categories

Categories used by the state to sort people into boxes are never neutral.

Some thoughts on the UK Supreme Court case ruling and the wider anti-trans campaign to narrow sex and gender categories in policy, data and law.

📝 kevinguyan.com/2025/04/16/t...

UK supreme court rules definition of woman in Equality Act refers to ‘a biological woman’ – live Judges were asked to rule on whether the definition of woman in the Equality Act 2010 included transgender women with gender recognition certificates

If this is the definition of a woman, then a lot of us are no longer women today. So maybe the court ruling has just created a lot more trans people #wearealltrans
www.theguardian.com/law/live/202...

My small disabled-led social justice transcription biz branding is still very much geared towards supporting researchers as we do that spectacularly

HOWEVER!

I am so keen to support more authors who dictate manuscripts (especially disabled ones)

Email us for a quote?

#Romancelandia #BookSky

Open knowledge is being ransacked by AI bots 🤖 Like all similar activities, companies generate revenue through AI will happily take but never give back! Ideologically the whole AI system is f**ked

The claim in this article from the @edinburghuni.bsky.social VC is untrue. To date, besides what has been shared with all staff, Joint Unions have been given 8 powerpoint slides, 2 were title slides.

www.scotsman.com/education/un...

Reckless downsizing: the “logics” of management’s cuts — UCU Edinburgh Unpacking the “business model” behind the plans to restructure the University of Edinburgh

Definitely the 'logic' here at @edinburghuni.bsky.social, where despite *no deficit* management prefers to listen to consultants than to staff and is developing destructive plans for 'cost cutting'

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/tlwewp3...

Cuts Could Kill Our University — UCU Edinburgh University management is courting a death spiral, where cuts in the name of sustainability actually undermine that which they are meant to save.

"we have documented a troubling lack of transparency, and failure to answer questions from unions, governance bodies and staff. These continue apace: the modelling and justifications for the £140m figure remain shrouded in secrecy."

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/8gaanhy...

Rayna Carruthers: While We Wait | Glasgow Women's Library An exhibition of a portrait series focusing on the stories of women who are refugees in Jordan awaiting resettlement to North America or Europe.

An exhibition of a portrait series focusing on the lives of women who have been forcibly displaced in Jordan and are awaiting resettlement to North America or Europe.

Rayna Carruthers: While We Wait
07 January - 29 March 2025
womenslibrary.org.uk/event/rayna-...

*Fully Funded PhD opportunity* with me and Dr Deborah Lee on ‘Classification, representation and marginalisation in “English” folk music and dance’ #phd #arts #humanities #archives #folk #folkmusic #folkdance #englishness www.lahp.ac.uk/prospective-...

Welcome to our new Women's History Network page!

We're excited to launch this space dedicated to celebrating and exploring the rich and diverse histories of women.

To get us started who should we be following?

#WomensHistory #HerStory #GenderHist

Meet the artist: we're delighted to share that artist and maker Ella Clancy will be at the Vagina Museum on 6th December to chat with you about her installation "Know Your Body Like Nobody Else": Cervical Screening Redesigned. Book a free timed ticket www.outsavvy.com/event/23896/...

Hey folks- it’s my first time posting. Just dropping my new article on the intersections of trauma and archival studies discourse on here. Hope it’s useful to some rdcu.be/d1TZr

Gig Work in Edinburgh: An Inquiry and Agenda for the Future A launch event of the Workers´ Observatory, sharing worker insights into Edinburgh’s gig economy and discussing steps towards fairer work.

Huge applause here as the Workers Observatory launches in December! 🎉

Come along if you're in Edinburgh and interested in helping to set an agenda for future research or simply learning more about gig work in the city:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gig-work-i...

Are you one of the many profs assigning my article "Beyond Territorial Acknowledgments" in your class? Well I've got an updated version for you!

apihtawikosisan.com/2024/11/revi...

Don't despair at the soon coming to an end of our AHRC #WomensGrassrootsActivism project. Our 5 part new podcast series (also #WomensGrassrootsActivism) is coming soon. Watch this space!

AHRC Women's Grassroots Activism: Chinese Women's Grassroots Activism in UK This online panel reveals the often overlooked grassroots activism of Chinese migrant women in Britain post 1945 .

Reminder that our next & final 😢 #womensgrassrootsactivism online panel takes place on Tuesday 3 December at 12.30pm (UK time). Join us to hear about the lessor known grassroots activism of Chinese women in post-war Britain. Link to register below:

Public Humanities Fellowship Our Public Humanities Fellowship stimulates new ideas and conversations around public humanities.

🚨 2 weeks to go 🚨

The School of Advanced Study has launched a new Public Humanities Fellowship!

The Fellowship seeks to foster new ideas around public #humanities and connect creative approaches to the public value of #research.

Apply by 6 December: www.sas.ac.uk/research-eng...

Something increasingly clear in the light of yesterday, across all HE, not just UEA, is that REF outputs, grant capture, internationally-recognised expertise, service & admin experience do not protect you from being surplus to requirements if there aren’t the student numbers your institution wants

This. The sector is being guided by its own mismanagement and long-term structural dependencies. It will simply "restructure" as it wants.

Cardboard placard from the Glasgow Women’s Library collection covered in adhesive cellophane, bearing the colours of the trans flag (blue, pink and white). It features the slogan 'PROTECT TRANS LIVES' in cut-out black text.

This Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember and honour those who have lost their lives to transphobic violence. All trans people deserve to live their lives safely with dignity and with joy.

🏳️‍⚧️ #TransRightsAreHumanRights
#TransDayOfRememberance