Still time to apply for this exciting Research Associate position! bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/deta… Role involves co-developing an art intervention to help prevent anxiety and depression in UK secondary schools 🎨🏫 Closing date: 14 March 2023

Apps open for a great PhD opportunity looking at pregnancy outcomes with M Carolina Borges and Deborah Lawlor at the MRC IEU - Carolina is one of the smartest and friendliest colleagues I've ever worked with! Citation - see this DAG from a recent presentation I gave in Bristol.

In HE only VCs, their direct underlings and a few other high paid staff will benefit from this. Meanwhile the same managerial class in HE have been joyfully ripping up your pensions for the last decade with no real justification. Stay angry!

Really great to be out with health science colleagues, and see the solidarity today with comrades from the @BMA_JuniorDocs, PCS Union (pcs.org.uk), Bristol UCU and many others on College Green. Great to be reminded of our united struggle! Solidarity forever. #ucuRISING

Today is the last day of UCU strikes (for now) Here is a reminder for migrant members on taking industrial action (strikes & ASOS) We try to keep it updated as much as possible. If you have Qs, concerns not in the FAQ let me know & we will sorted out. ucu.org.uk/heaction-migra…

Reminder why you should vote in the UCU reballot (not to be confused with the other vote going around 😑) We need to get over the 50% membership threshold & of those voting we need majority to say YES. Whatever your thoughts are of the shenanigans going on over past weeks VOTE.

Need to apply multilevel modelling in your research? In our two-week online course, Andrew Bell introduces you to a range of basic and advanced multilevel techniques using MLwiN or R. essexsummerschool.com/summer-school-…

2 minutes on Newsnight last night to say: The government has deliberately created a crisis as a campaign tool They have stopped processing asylum claims, letting numbers build up, in barges or hotels, just so at the next election they can say they’re the ones to fix it #r4today

📢🚨new #job @GeogBristol & GamblingHarms: Research Associate in Geographic Data Science, for the new research project on ‘The spatial signatures of gambling behaviours: access to online vs. brick-and-mortar facilities'. jobs.ac.uk/job/CYP609/res…

Beautiful speech by Jean-Luc Mélenchon on free time, explaining what the fight in France is really about

Are you into the role of climate and health - how can we better measure and track short-term events? Get in touch! #ALSPAC Children of the 90s #dailyphenos bristol.ac.uk/alspac/

📢📢📢 "Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health. There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all. The choices and actions implemented in this decade will have impacts now and for thousands of years."

"the editors quit why would they do that? they don't like that we're charging researchers over $3000 for open access publication how else are we supposed to keep the lights on around here maybe the 3.2b in profit we made last year"

Wow! Monitoring figures for 31 March 2023 drop from USS, and show a *£7.6bn SURPLUS* and pre-cut benefits costing *just 21.8% of salary*! Expect these figures to change in the full valuation, but we're bang on track for a historic win. #ucuRISING ddlnk.net/2PRX-1DZUI-BF5…

USS Hilary Salt FirstActuarial Shout this from the roof-tops! Your non-striking colleagues, who walked past your picket lines and undercut the action, need to know that your efforts saved one of the major benefits of working in UK HE. #ucuRISING

The audacity of Bristol Uni, celebrating its history of student activism in the alumni magazine while deducting 50-100% of pay for staff involved in, erm, ‘direct action’. The hypocrisy. Bristol UCU

#WorldMentalHealthDay personally serves as an anxiety-inducing reminder that I once did a talk about trying to kill myself that's been seen by like 1m people. youtube.com/watch?v=tLWEr_… It isn't worth suffering solely because you can imagine things being worse. Please reach out.

We're thrilled to announce that CASCADE is collaborating on one of these amazing projects funded by UK Research and Innovation This project will measure the impact of the Sure Start on health and social care in Northern Ireland. ➡️ cascadewales.org/research/the-i… Gareth Griffith MatCHNet