I've led three academic job searches this year. This thread is absolutely not one of unrequited, patronising advice. Just a few thoughts. /1

I'll only give one piece of unrequited advice: if you need reasonable adjustments for an interview - ask for them. The response you get might tell you everything you need to know about your future employer. /6

TOMORROW NIGHT! We're delighted to be welcoming Heather McCalden to the shop to discuss THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE - her incedible genre-defying memoir which explores grief, loss and the entwined histories of AIDS and the Internet. Heather will be chatting with Valerie O’Riordan 🎫👇🏻

TONIGHT! Heather McCalden will be here talking to Valerie O’Riordan about THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE - her incredible genre-defying memoir which explores grief, loss and the entwined histories of AIDS and the Internet. Doors: 6.30, starts: 6.45 Tickets online below and on the door.

“2 UK unis are proposing to close their chemistry courses and senior academics are warning that department closures could become commonplace if the financial challenges facing the country’s HE sector are not addressed” chemistryworld.com/news/chemistry…

Delighted that a story of mine has been shortlisted for the The Masters Review Emerging Writers Anthology - thanks to the readers and good luck to all on the list! mastersreview.com/2024-best-emer…

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So Huw Edwards gets a suspended sentence for buying and making pornographic images of children, while peaceful environmental defenders seeking to prevent social catastrophe get 3, 4 and 5 years. Some justice, this.

‘We VCs are here to show solidarity with Keir Starmer. Like him, we understand that a massive salary needs to come with free accommodation and the little extras that compensate for having to make “difficult decisions”.’

This is an absolutely devastating resignation letter. It is absolutely correct - it’s a searing, damning indictment of the soulless, toxic Starmer project. It is, however, unfortunate that these points aren’t being made by someone else.

It can’t be said often enough that referring to nation states as “her” is the custom of fools, creeps, and shitheads

In honor of Nobel Prize Week, please enjoy my favorite tweet of all time

I had to lie on the floor to do my English A level. I was eventually diagnosed with endometriosis - a condition where my internal organs bleed every month. The only ‘proof’ is them cutting you open and I had to wait 20 years for the NHS to do this.

The Irish for peacekeeping is síochánaíocht, or coimeád na síochána. 🇺🇳🇮🇪

This is all too real and all too common - students, it will absolutely be affecting your lecturing team, no matter what university you attend - and senior management teams have very little interest in addressing it.

European Capital of Cycling

The key lesson of the Trump victory for us is that Labour has to deliver the significant improvement in quality of life that people can feel or we face the rise of right wing populism that has swept America. Half measures won’t be enough.

Anyone want 2 x tickets to see Sprints at New Century Hall (Mcr) on Fri (29th)? Selling at face value, £35.20 for the pair.

Nick Ahad Sandra Sawicka Hive Young Writers Network Pan Macmillan Andrew McMillan Okechukwu Nzelu @BenMyers1 Preti Taneja Paul Smith The Finchale Award for Short Fiction award goes to Manchester writer Valerie O'Riordan. "I'm beyond thrilled to have won! It's such an honour. This is going to make a really massive difference to my writing practice over the next twelve months, and I can't wait to get started!"