A friendly, doggy-themed reminder that that #virtualpicket runs until Wednesday to support colleagues at institutions still on strike. After that you can wipe the floor with all your work tweets about your excellent articles, etc.

freezing cold fingers and toes, but 🔥 resolve to see this through #wearetheuniversity… instagram.com/p/BggJopHD_SF/

Reply sent by Alistair Jarvis yesterday afternoon to my original letter now on Churchill College website chu.cam.ac.uk/news/2018/mar/…

Does your HEI make hiring/promotion decisions using student evaluations? This may be discriminatory: Gender bias in student evaluations #womeninstem cambridge.org/core/services/…

.@QMUL_UCU showcasing our musical talent again as we wrap up THIS phase of the #USSstrike! #QMULstrike

It is absolutely right that the Govt is raising pay for #NHS workers, though it's long overdue and not as much as they deserve. But what about teachers, police and the armed forces? It's time all public sector workers were given a serious pay boost. #PMQs

If universities "manage without" externals this year, then none of us should ever external ever again. Either it's essential or it's not. x.com/LancasterUCU/s…

The president of Universities UK doubles down: tries to cut pensions for entire sector; now tries to sack 220+ of her own academic staff! skwawkbox.org/2018/03/21/exc…

No snow!! Definitely a week to volunteer 😆 x.com/hackneyparkrun…

"Since you didn't like the excrement, here is a new offer." "What a beautiful box!... But it is empty inside. What will go inside?" "We don't know yet. Will you take it or leave It?" "Umm..." UCL-UCU Stop the Destruction of Higher Education #NoCapitulation #USSstrikes #USSstrike #NoDetriment

Result of consultative ballot of SOAS UNISON #USS members: 95.2% REJECTION of Universities UK proposed changes to the USS scheme. Turnout: 60%. Members will now be formally balloted for industrial action to #DefendUSS alongside SOAS UCU. #solidarity #USSstrike

Thread to my fellow UCU members on what #USSstrikes have won, why we should accept this offer, but also prepare ourselves to fight harder (or why, when people focus on the offer’s loopholes, they are missing a bigger picture):

Potentially a gratuitous self RT, but cautionary lesson from the junior doctors dispute in this thread still relevant. This recent #USS proposal a massive advance, but not good enough. Let UUK spend Easter coming up with something acceptable. If they don’t, we strike again. x.com/drjogrady/stat…

Let's show that the amazing solidarity of the #USSstrike extends to our outsourced colleagues. If you can, please donate to IWGB's strike fund for precarious, migrant workers' action in just a few weeks' time. £2047 away from the target! crowdpac.co.uk/campaigns/6487…

Last chance to apply for fully-funded PhD: Transmitting in/equality across borders: Shifting inheritance practices and outcomes among Indian migrants in London (ESRC LISS-DTP with Runnymede Trust). Working with Kavita Datta Omar Khan and me. Deadline: 29 March 2018)

'Brand engagement' and 'student acquisition '. Would anyone imagine an applicant might be looking for an education? This is what is wrong with UK HE. x.com/UCASMedia/stat…

London based folk 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 x.com/pmpoc/status/9…