Dr Heidi Colthup

Nice! I love a good label maker

‘The real issue is change’: Edinburgh University’s first Black philosophy professor on racism and reform Prof Tommy J Curry reflects on leading the institute’s slavery review – and why it must lead to meaningful action

The lack of representation of Black faculty staff and students in British HE is endemic. An important reading on a new report.
#AcademicSky #racism #UK #antiblackracism

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Ironically the AI pushers keep telling us resistance is futile in academia, and that this is how mathematics teachers reacted to the introduction of the calculator, to which I would say, AT LEAST THE CALCULATOR DOESNT MAKE SHIT UP

"Why did I agree to write this proposal? I hate writing and making my brain work.
Why won't someone just give me a nice income for being me.
Dammit!"
Me for the past 20 years that I've been a writer and academic.
#AcademicSky

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine Alt: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine

Meeting done.
Back to the writing and thinking, OMG, IT'S AUGUST!!
#AcademicSky

Exactly that.

Sign that says "Most of us are three bad months away from being homeless. None of us are three good months away from being billionaires."

100%. I keep this handy. It's so true.

People are appallingly ignorant about immigration.

They don't understand basic things about "net immigration statistics" and have a completely warped sense of what is going on.

It is up to the government and the media to educate, but both are too busy batting their eyes at Nigel Farage's voters.

The 2029 REF in a simple to understand collectible wall chart

I don't think that's naive - I remember reading somewhere that if you worked constantly for hundreds of years at minimum wage you still wouldn't be a billionaire.
Too many people think they're a lottery win away from being Jeff Bezos.

No, they began to talk about people who'd built businesses from scratch, risking their home. I pointed out they were probably millionaires, not billionaires.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

'The importance given to research culture and environment in the next Research Excellence Framework is set to be scaled back, Research Professional News understands.' PCE mooted to shrink to 20% from 25%. 1/2

I had a conversation the other day about billionaires. I said I believe they shouldn't exist - no one should possess that much wealth. I was told there are some 'good' billionaires.
No. No there aren't.

ACADEMIC READING ALREADY COMES WITH A SUMMARY IT IS CALLED THE ABSTRACT

"THE BIG GREEN BOOKS 500 CLUB"

It's a thing where i'm trying to start regularly sending £500 of books to a school who needs them.

It costs just £1 a week.

I know it'll take time, but we're getting there!

Here's the plan.

biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

Please share (and join!)

Thanks.

Sausages and cheese, German supermarket

the scenario we all feared

We’re not saying today is the day to book your eye test, but we also are.

Book it, your future self will be very grateful.

We have the asylum system under the 1951 UN Convention because we didn’t have it in 1938 and then my country murdered 6 million people.

This didn’t come out of nowhere. Replace ‘asylum-seekers’ with ‘Jews’ and ‘Afghanistan’ with ‘3rd Reich’ to get a feel for what we are dealing with here.

Our submission window is now open! We are looking for short stories, poems, flash fiction, visual art, photography and everything in between! The loose theme of our first issue is 'paradise' Visit our website: funlovinliminals.org/submissions-...
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In a previous life I used to do a bit of independent publicity work.
Done properly it's expensive. If a writer can do a lot themselves it's more effective - use social media and interact with your readers.

NEW WRITERS PRIZE 2025 - Nero Book Awards The Nero New Writers Prize in association with Brunel University of London seeks to uncover the best and brightest untapped writing talent and support them as they develop into the [...]

New Writers Prize for 5,000 word short story. Prize is £3K and scholarship for MA at Brunel University, runner up prizes too.

Details in link.

Please share :)

Switch off your notifications outside of work hours, folks.
If you prefer working outside normal hours then schedule your emails for standard hours.
Your work is not entitled to your time off and you are entitled to rest.

One study found anticipating an email in the evening and at the weekends created anxiety, regardless of how long workers spent reading or replying to them. https://on.ft.com/4orepov

Wonderful

Choir that drowned out Germany’s AfD leader happy to ‘bend the ear’ of country Group ‘surprised’ when their song was used to disrupt an interview with Alice Weidel – but now they face a backlash

Choir that drowned out Germany’s AfD leader happy to ‘bend the ear’ of country www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine . Alt: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

Everything right now.

For the overwhelming majority of people who practice it, sports is not about competition. It's about social belonging. Once you understand that, the reason why transphobes want to ban trans women from it even outside of competition and even in disciplines like darts is pretty obvious.

Jesus wept

Exactly that - repeating what they're told.