📢🏆 Jewellery Quarter Submits Bid for World Craft City Status! If successful, the Jewellery Quarter will become the 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 to be recognised for Jewellery Making, Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, and Allied Trades. Details: jqdt.org/bid-submitted-… 💎🛠️🎨

Benefits of #ventilation in sickness & health have been known for over a century. It’s wonderful to see the country’s second largest hospital promoting it here, together with science-based infection prevention & control. Can a university follow suit? #StayHome #SafeAir UCU

At Newcastle University, there is both an immediate loss of 300 permanent jobs on the table (staff who would be out of work by the end of July if management) and the proposal by management to cut a further 150 jobs next academic year and further job losses in the year after.

Another case of regulatory capture A cunning fox with a huge red tail & voracious appetite is placed in charge of a rickety henhouse full of nervous poultry Bleak outlook as Ministerial approval will have been needed for this appointment

Aww, another email about being "disappointed" that we aren't meekly accepting the end of our careers. For the record, I'm not disappointed. I'm just angry. If you scab, do me the courtesy of removing yourself from my timeline.

Food for thought in this brief thread ⬇️

In ‘library speak’ an automated CAB of precis and abstracts. Re-inventing the wheel with Gen-AI technologies.

In pictures: Glasgow University students have set up an encampment as part of ongoing calls for the institution to end ties with Israel and the arms industry thenational.scot/news/25033670.…

chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas… Our members voted for 21 further days of action. You can see how determined and angry we are. We are very much aware of the issues in HE, we are not suggesting to ignore those, in fact we've been highlighting the issues with the funding of HE for ...

1. So many problems with this, but let's start with academic freedom (& then we'll get into the operations of university HR departments). 🧵

As I can’t get into the story at the minute I can’t truly comment, but I did wonder why authors weren’t effectively warned somehow, even at that point.

Georges Seurat has drawn this laundress washing clothes on a river bank in three basic shapes of light and dark: head, blouse, and skirt against a shaded background. By eliminating gratuitous detail, he has given her a monumental stillness, as if fixed in time. The date is 1881.

Family Saturday with Natasha Taheem Sat 5 July, 11am-3pm Ikon Free entry. Artist Natasha Taheem invites families to create graphic posters using a range of techniques including paper cutting, embroidery & screen printing. ikon-gallery.org/event/family-s…

🏥 Band 2 Healthcare Assistants at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals have been doing Band 3 clinical duties without getting paid for doing them for years. ✅UNISON Members know it ✅Blackpool Trades Council know it ✅Blackpool Labour Councillors know it vist.ly/32kqn

Just getting warmed up in the car and listening to Grant Stott 🎙 after having purchased the world’s most expensive 99 in North Berwick #HappyHolidays

The event Facebook event page for October's session is now live! #Newark #Notts #vinyl #LightningSeeds facebook.com/events/s/vinyl…

Huge thank you to the 36 Accounting, Finance and Local Government experts who signed our open letter covered in the Financial Times & Birmingham Live today 👇 The letter calls for a public inquiry into the absolute scandal that was the Birmingham City Council bankruptcy 🧵 1/

Danny Kruger really needs to look at any election leaflet from his party. This is from a recent District Council election. The only tax I’m aware that they have power over is the Council Tax, ergo their candidate (who was elected) was on a platform to cut council tax! #BBCQT

The event page for December's Legendary Christmas Extravaganza is now live! facebook.com/events/s/vinyl…