This is disastrous, hideous news. NHS England are hacking back the mental health support for hospital staff. One doctor takes their life every three weeks. One nurse takes their life every single week. These numbers will now INCREASE. Victoria Atkins - please do the right thing.

Scholarships, fellowships, and other initiatives to support Palestinian students and academics

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Every Friday Ash Sarkar’s newsletter drops into my inbox filled with puns and literary flair, yet also a persistent micro-aggression against pedants everywhere, since she is not drinking a cortado, but a latte.

We have filed a complaint with Gary McQuiggin.

remember about three weeks ago when a few people followed rayner down the road saying it wasn't good enough about gaza and it was targeted harassment and beyond the pale

During the summer we (a) do the research that gets measured in REF (b) supervise masters and PhD students (c) catch up with teaching prep (d) attend conferences. We aren’t spending three months on a beach and THE knows what culture war it’s stoking by doing this.

A much more effective way to combat food insecurity is to pay your workers a living wage.

Palestine debate congress this coming weekend in Berlin policed by a total of 2500 police ready to go in when wrong words uttered. Suggests that all participants are considered criminals on the verge of committing antisemitic acts: palaestinakongress.de sueddeutsche.de/politik/extrem…

🚨Upon his return from Gaza, the president of the World Surgical Foundation says 'Genocide was the overwhelming impression that I got'

He adds 'The world's best marksmen are not gonna shoot a kid in the head twice & in the abdomen'

Very harrowing details

Kinda disheartening that my first attempt at a career in the publishing world was doomed from the start due to not being posh and books dying a slow death while my second, in academia, has been mostly fighting a battle against the devistation wrought by violent marketisation.

Colleagues in even the more surplus-producing 'business oriented' degrees have faced cuts so bad that there is no support staff left. Double teaching loads and DIY admin abounds.

The gov't has run Goldsmiths and many other universities like it into the ground.

Are we supposed to feel sorry for these assholes now? Come on.

The Cass Report would not pass peer review. I highly doubt they even read their references. She cites an article noting low persistence rates based on conversion therapists' data of 25 kids & another on 1980s figures conflating not returning to a specific clinic with desistance!

It's completely insane to me that US primary and secondary schools allow students to use youtube and social media on the very laptops that are supposed to be for learning.

This is ruining a generation of minds.

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The DfE has refused to fund the 5% rise in employers’ contributions to the TPS for higher education institutions UCU

Many university employers already face severe financial difficulties

Govts refusal to intervene puts thousands of jobs on the line

My letter to the Minister👇

LOL

This is today! Come along with you’re about. I promise, a) I won’t talk for long, b) I’ll have some copies of the book for sale at half price, and c) we can go to a pub and have a chat after

Can still get like five litres of Greek olive oil in Khans for £20.

Fuck Tesco.

New Issue 'Anyone seeking to champion workers’ rights & defend their dignity in an increasingly unequal world needs to read this book' Grimshaw reviews Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers & Subverts Democracy by Ian Greer & Umney doi.org/10.1177/001979…

Young Labour is now led by nepo-babies - the daughter of an MP and the son of Labour's biggest multi-millionaire donor.

Rest assured the future of the party will have no fucking idea how to solve the problems that the vast majority of people in this country struggle with daily.

NEW: Some of the wealthiest people in America have spent millions of dollars to get RFK Jr. on the ballot.

But they don’t want him to be president.

They have another goal — elect Trump.