80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

Sheffield UCU members have had enough. Repeated restructures, job cuts and relentless change facing staff at the University of Sheffield. 84% of voting staff and PhD students recently said they have no confidence in university management. Please watch and share.

Actually, I shouldn’t write this in the passive tense. This is an active choice by these people: sheffield.ac.uk/ueb/team-pro... We should take steps to revoke the professional recognition of colleagues who are destroying our fields. They are not worthy of membership of our communities.

Mark Pendleton@markpendleton.bsky.social · 4mo ago

East Asian Studies is being gutted at Sheffield - all staff at risk with 8.6 FTE proposed to go (a third of us). Biggest cuts in Chinese and Japanese Studies. We’ll be taking a few days to process. Solidarity to Materials and Chemistry colleagues who are also dealing with similarly bad news.

Appalling news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. Solidarity @uonucu.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/education/20... The person who was in charge of the Castle Meadow project is now VC @northumbriauni.bsky.social. Us next? newsroom.northumbria.ac.uk/pressrelease...

This morning, members at the University of Sheffield begin six days of strike action over job cuts, job security, and workload. The university continues to threaten compulsory redundancies in eight work areas, despite a clear lack of financial necessity: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/campaigns/st...

University of Sheffield: Finance Review Feb 2026

An independent financial review of University finances has revealed there is no imminent financial risk to the University.

ucu.group.shef.ac.uk

We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5

🚨 1 in 4 staff at Goldsmiths to be axed. All while senior management get eye-watering pay rises and £16m is spent on consultants and lawyers. This is the reality of Higher Education in the UK. Our members have voted for industrial action, support them. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1447...

Marking boycott looms at Goldsmiths over £20m of cuts to staff

Staff at Goldsmiths, University of London, have overwhelmingly voted for industrial action in a fight to protect jobs, UCU announced today.

ucu.org.uk

Cartoon by Gábor Pápai, a well-known Hungarian political cartoonist.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

Queen's in Canada has done some of the resource-gathering about Nous: qcaa.ca/resources/no... But yes, we need a list. Because Nous itself has become *very* evasive in whom they're selling their nonsense to, no longer naming even when using 'testimonies' in casestudies: nousgroup.com/case-studies

Nous Group and UniForum

Resource List ResourceDescriptionExcerptDeb Verhoeven and Ben Eltham. “Nousferatu”: Are corporate consultants extracting the lifeblood from universities?Analysis of the ‘vampiric’ tende…

qcaa.ca

Louise Seamster@louiseseamster.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It is past time to do a power mapping of which consultants are advising which universities, and which Super Efficiency Optimizing Plans they're laying out as their Burger King menu of options

‘Discriminatory’ Israeli death penalty law would be war crime, says UN rights chief. Volker Türk says bill, which applies to Palestinians convicted of terror charges but not Jewish extremists, must be repealed | www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

‘Discriminatory’ Israeli death penalty law would be war crime, says UN rights chief

Volker Türk says bill, which applies to Palestinians convicted of terror charges but not Jewish extremists, must be repealed

theguardian.com

Our sister branch, USIC UCU, is back out on strike this week. We're proud to see them standing strong! www.ucu.org.uk/article/1445...

The Certification Officer has issued his decision in Blake & McGaughey v UCU. My initial response is here: vickyblakeucu.uk/2026/03/31/t... I urge members to read the full ruling rather than relying on the summary emailed to all members by HQ today. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69cbcb...

The Certification Officer’s ruling: Blake & McGaughey v UCU

The Certification Officer has now issued his decision in Blake and McGaughey v UCU. One complaint was upheld in part as a technical breach. The rest were dismissed, and no rerun or further remedy w…

vickyblakeucu.uk

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Sarah Perez@sarahp.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds

I hate the idea of being on strike again but as long as the management continues its war on staff and students we have no other choice. We need to save the university from the greed of corporate power. @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk @ucuhallam.bsky.social www.ucu.org.uk/article/1445...

Staff vote to strike at University of Sheffield over threat of job cuts

Staff at the University of Sheffield have backed strike action after management refused to rule out further compulsory redundancies.

ucu.org.uk

What Sheffield Hallam colleagues are facing: - Axing of 200 jobs. - Gutting of pensions. - Outsourcing of staff to a private company. Third consecutive year of cuts. Enough. Ballot opens 31 March.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ www.ucu.org.uk/article/1445...

from 2019

Fair point.

Whatever you do, steer clear of returning your Reform election flyer via Freepost. Each one sets Farage back £2.50, and that just wouldn’t be right.

NEW: We often hear that Scotland’s more progressive income tax is “driving people out the country.” New HMRC data shows the opposite. Far more taxpayers are moving to Scotland than leaving it. Let’s look at the data 🧵

During our demonstration against the planned 400 job cuts on Monday, Essex UCU reps were invited to meet with three members of the University Council. This is the first time we'd been able to meet with key decision-makers - all thanks to the pressure we've been putting on management. ⬇️ Summary:

Our #SaveHE #StopTheCuts call on the front of today’s Herald

This is from 1975.

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

"Of those who voted Labour [in 2024], just 37% would vote Labour again". Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means. Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down. news.sky.com/story/greens...

Greens overtake Labour in sensational poll

The Greens have polled higher than Labour in the latest poll by YouGov, which puts them only two points off Reform UK and five ahead of the governing party.

news.sky.com

🚨 FIFTH consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨 🔥 Two week ballot window 🔥 75% turnout 🔥 73% YES to strike action 🔥 81% YES to ASOS Our members will not tolerate victimisation and won’t be intimidated. UCU staff are not the enemy. It’s beyond time for the GS to talk to us. #HandsOffMarie

Another great sad cartoon from @deadder.bsky.social

Please show your support to colleagues at Aberdeen facing job losses. We will fight this ✊

UCU Scotland@ucuscotland.bsky.social · 7mo ago

www.thenational.scot/news/2586030... #StopTheCuts @ucuaberdeen.bsky.social

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?