If Goldsmiths - with a very strong & active union - can get away with sacking nearly 100 people for spurious financial reasons, then I shudder to think about what's next for other universities. Please send messages of support to Goldsmiths UCU & donate to gofundme.com/f/help-goldsmi…

People have the power. Use your vote. #Elections2024 #UKElections2024

More #CatsatPollingStations keeping an eye on us. #GE2024  #GTTONow

Farewell Jacob Rees-Mogg 👋 [sound on]

Really ugly scenes during Jess Phillips‘ acceptance speech. Absolutely appalling; men shouting down a woman when she’s legitimately won an election is disgraceful and a bad look for our democracy.

The patriarchy is alive and kicking. All the power to Jess Phillips. Solidarity!

Afternoon session convened by Andreas Bieler 🇵🇸 University of Nottingham UCU branch on ‘Trade union community coalitions, challenges and opportunities’ with Nikyla Manners and Bilal Hussain #NOC24NOTTS

🏹🇵🇸 POSSESSION ORDER GRANTED 🇵🇸🏹 The University of Nottingham is taking against their own students. What does this mean: 👉 Bailiffs can be called on UoN students What it doesn’t mean: 👉 Stopping our fight to to disclose, divest, support, invest.

❤️ Scott University of Nottingham UCU branch

🚨 New strike dates announced at Goldsmiths 🚨 97 staff still remain at risk as part of brutal programme of cuts 👊 Our Goldsmiths UCU members refuse to standby while management threaten to turn the university into an academic wasteland 👇 ucu.org.uk/article/13660/…

That moment when your highly talented, conscientious, scholarly colleague tells you that they've been 'provisionally selected for redundancy'. Angry, sad, infuriated. Goldsmiths UCU UCU

🚨BREAKING: Over 200 British university academics and workers declare their solidarity with the Bangladeshi student movement, call for end to state repression and British complicity with Bangladeshi police forces in an open letter published today.

Up to 20 Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowships in social science and humanities at the EUI, Florence: eui.eu/apply?id=jean-…

italian sportscaster claiming press-room coffee is so undrinkable it seems to be made with water from the seine #OlympicGames #Paris2024 #ItaliaTeam

Our press release is here:

We're delighted to welcome our new President, Prof. Lopa Leach (she/her) who is the first woman of colour to lead our branch and (we think) the first Bangladeshi woman to hold this position in UCU. Congratulations and thank you to out-going president Andreas Bieler 🇵🇸 for your work.

Happy people, unhappy people.... Tomorrow, Saturday, some of the latter are planning to be in Nottingham at 2.00pm. At 1.00 there will be a emergency unity rally at the Brian Clough statue to protest against the far right. Note - the plan is to avoid direct confrontation.

I really need the average white Briton to understand how scared people are. Had so many conversations about not going out alone, about staying home, about messaging single friends who are living on their ones. It doesn't matter if it didn't kick off locally. It only takes one.