A great post by M. J. Grant for Open Book Publishers’s blog! You can find in the thread Grant’s book ‘Auld Lang Syne: A Song and its Culture’, now in #OpenAccess 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Happy #BurnsNight2023, everyone! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

"I got UCU babe" Reid School of Music, Edinburgh University staff supporting UCU UCU Edinburgh action #ucuRISING Nikki Moran Tom Mudd Tom McKenzie Owen Green Chris Letcher

Jules Rawlinson Reid School of Music, Edinburgh University UCU UCU Edinburgh Tom Mudd Tom McKenzie Owen Green Chris Letcher

Discuss-out on decolonising the Reid School of Music tomorrow (Friday 17th) on the Alison House picket line, from 11am - all staff/students welcome Gareth Patrick Williams Tom Mudd Jules Rawlinson Elaine Kelly Marian Jago Dr Una MacGlone

Hi @Scotrail, apparently the 21:52 from Waverley to Helensburgh Central already left from Platform 16, without those of us sitting on the train that was supposed to leave at that from Platform 13. Eh? Nae announcements, nothing. PS yes we ARE in front 3 carriages as advertised.

Dear UK students, especially finalists: you should be Bringing the House Down on bad situation university managers' failure to engage with the Marking & Assessment Boycott has put you in. It is an outrage. This could have been very different if they had made constructive choices.

Tomorrow @Edinburghuni hosts #EdinburghOpenDay, and management is desperate to maintain the fiction that it’s business as usual. But we’re in the middle of a crisis. Thousands of students won’t get their degrees in July. #ExtraordinaryEdinburgh indeed. 🧵

How many applicants know that #ExtraordinaryEdinburgh’s gender pay gap is 16%? And that the pay gap between white and BAME staff is 7%? 3/6

90,000 lecturers across the UK don’t have a permanent job. Precarity is distracting and exhausting for staff, and students suffer as a result. Edinburgh is overdependent on such workers, with about half of teaching staff being precarious. 5/6

Heading to picket line this morning as my employer is deducting 50% of wages from people taking legal industrial action. But feels odd not having thermals, multilayers, hat, gloves and waterproofs! The solidarity will still be there though ✊. UCU UCU Edinburgh

Brilliant to hear Dr Claire Duncanson on #BBCGMS setting out why UCU Edinburgh members are striking today - university bosses can do more to get back round the table to resolve the dispute #ucuRISING

📢 PAY YOUR WORKERS 📢 This amazing video from the ECA graduations today show that students know what needs to be done to solve this dispute 💪

All dressed up and no degree... yesterday I received a letter of apology instead of a degree because The University of Edinburgh is run by greedy management who refuse to pay their staff properly. PAY. YOUR. STAFF. #EdinburghGrad #SettleTheDispute

Edinburgh students' message to staff: "until the moment you receive fair pay and working conditions, we will be standing by your side" 👏👏

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CORRECTION: Edinburgh SPS students were actually handing over P45s to vice-principal of students, Colm Harmon. Even more incredible 🙌

Prof Colm Harmon (V-P Students, Edinburgh) to students: "The worst period of my professional career has been seeing the impact of MAB on you" Students to Prof Colm Harmon: "Resign!" #SettleTheDispute

Two weeks to go until the UNESCO Week of Sound kicks off in Edinburgh, Scotland. UNESCO Week of Sound events are free. See our full programme of events and book tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/cc/unesco-week…

UNESCO @weekofsound is coming to Edinburgh 🎵 A programme of talks, workshops, performances and more. 📅 16 – 20 October 2023 Tickets are free – see the full programme and book 🔗 digital.eca.ed.ac.uk/weekofsound/

Dr Morag Grant on the relationship between sound and imprisonment: ‘There is a surprising lack of awareness’ list.co.uk/news/44227/dr-…