I just wrote to my MP to ask them to help get a better deal for university staff #ucuRISING ucu.org.uk/ucuRISING-Lobb…

Statement on the closure of our Medicine Man gallery wellcomecollection.org/pages/Y4TdMBAA…

🚨BREAKING: UCEA IMPROVE PAY OFFER BUT IT IS NOT ENOUGH PLEASE RT Play this important update from Jo Grady It’s not enough but our collective strength is moving them. Our strategy is working. Keep going. Keep recruiting. Keep backing action. UCU and Proud #ucuRISING

BREAKING: NOTICE SERVED ON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYERS 18 days of strike action in February and March 1 Feb 9, 10 Feb 14, 15, 16 Feb 21, 22, 23 Feb 27, 28 Feb. 1, 2 March 16, 17 March 20, 21, 22 March RT if you back our members UCU and PROUD #ucuRISING

500,000 workers on strike tomorrow. RT if you support every single one of them.

Our book is out! Selling fast at the Kolkata Book Fair, stall 277!

This is why the DEEPDEAD project supports #ucuRISING !

Who is on strike? #ucurising #picketline #exeter

🚨BREAKING: YOU DID IT!  We have agreed a two week period of calm after breakthroughs in talks covering:  - pensions - ending zero hour contracts - ending casualisation - tackling workload - pay  Watch and RT #ucuRISING

CAN I ASK ALL UCU MEMBERS TO RT THIS THREAD Yesterday was a major day for the union and I wanted to give some further updates but crucially outline how we keep the pressure on our employers. #ucuRISING

We want to see something 👀 Quote tweet this post with:   ‘I’m voting YES I’m keeping up the pressure   I’m backing the union’ #ucuRISING

Finishing, Jo Grady says: ‘Being right doesn’t reduce workloads, secure our pensions or end zero hour contracts. ‘We are on the brink of something special. 'But the power is in your hands. 'Let’s vote YES and secure a sector defining agreement.' #ucuRISING

Lest we need reminding, here’s a cutting from The Daily Mail in 1938.

Does this ring bells for anyone (hivemind)? A poem in which the writer recalls how his partner’s dead father used to ask for the bill in a restaurant by wiggling his fingers as if holding a pen… and how he still uses this gesture, even though we don’t pay that way anymore?

Excited to release the programme for our day conference on Friday 21st April, with 15 presenters covering a diverse range of regions, periods, religious identities and literary genres. Spaces still available to attend - all welcome! reconex.exeter.ac.uk/2023/04/03/wri…

News Post: The University of Exeter seeks to appoint a Lecturer (Education and Research) in pre-1800 Literature with a specialism in critical race studies, indigeneity or the decolonial. #ShakeRace memorients.com/news/lecturer-…