In case anyone wondered if Newcastle has the money to NOT make 300+ staff redundant.....

Ah, so this is what the execs want to do with the reputation built on workers' backs before they fire them?

"Our members are angry that Newcastle University's vice-chancellor, the Chair of the Russell Group of 'research-intensive' universities, is increasing the university's carbon footprint during a staff travel ban with talk of a new campus halfway across the world. He should...1/2

15 days of strike action began this week at UoDUCU is pure raging #Savethe632 ✊ MSP Maggie Chapman MSP shares the devastating impact the threat jobs is causing staff, students and the city.

This is my face when hibs win xx

New MIRI image of NGC 1514 was released in a recent article. arxiv.org/abs/2502.21281…

At Newcastle University picket line where General Secretary and President of UCU are speaking to pickets Jo Grady

Huge turnout at the Newcastle University picket line - staff and students together Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social

14 days of strike action at Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social battling devastating job cuts. Picket lines will send a clear message 💪 Our members will not pay the price for managers financial mismanagement.

Peep me getting an ambulance to put their siren on in solidarity

Massive pickets again today! Our members and our students are the best!!

We ♥️ all your solidarity and are sending it right back at ya! The most amazing student staff solidarity also!! ✊✊✊

Such beauty - so many students on the picket while our management does nothing. Whose uni? OUR UNI!

Let’s hope the sun☀️ continues to shine on our UCU pickets🪧at Newcastle University today as they continue to take strike action this week Photo credits: Martin Richard Levy Ian McDonald @TUCNorthern Solidarity messages: Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social More details: ucu.org.uk/article/13915/…

🚨A MUST WATCH🚨 “Incompetence at the very top of Dundee University” University of Dundee principal Shane O’Neill gets grilled for trying make over 600 staff pay the price for his mismanagement👇

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 ...

Audio summaries are coming to arXiv! 👂📑 We've partnered with ScienceCast to pilot 60 second #AI generated audio summaries, starting with astro-ph.HE. More info on this partnership on the blog: blog.arxiv.org/2025/04/08/arx…

🚀🔭 What an opportunity! NCLMathsStatsPhysics PhD student Houda Haidar has been awarded observing time on James Webb Space Telescope to study how dust behaves near supermassive black holes. 🔭 Discover this groundbreaking research ➡️ tinyurl.com/mrrjyxec #JWST #SpaceResearch

Very honoured the our project Space Investigators: Astronomy in the North East won the Newcastle University Engagement and Place Award for Engaging for Cultural Benefit ✨ Thank you to all the team! 🔭 Find out more here: spaceinvestigators.com #EngageAwards2025