Jennie Morgan
@drmorgan.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Heritage & MSc Heritage Programme Director, University of Stirling. Own views. UK / NZ. Museums, ethnography, emotional labour, collecting, methods. https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/265599
If you think your subject is safe because we need graduates wth those skills, think again.
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6d agoRecruitment suspended on UG environment & sustainability, mathematics and physics. At postgraduate level, suspended courses include international corporate finance, water & environmental engineering and environmental strategy. If you think your subject is safe because not Humanities, rethink. 1/2
I’ve now had two people in two days tell me to write a coeliac blog. Not sure anyone would really want to read about me buying a new toaster 😂
An exciting day. Toast is back on this coeliacs menus! Took the chance-a-tunity to upgrade appliances given I had to get rid of the old gluten filled one.
Well this is a nice start to Morning. Netball time! Nz vs Scotland. Torn!
“To accountants, some courses or departments may be viewed as cost centres. But to lecturers and students, and the places in which they are based, they are cultural resources – repositories of knowledge built up over decades, some of which will have a specific, local character and relevance”
The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial
Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed
theguardian.com
“nearly 4,000 academic posts in social sciences, humanities and the arts have been axed in one year alone”
Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities
Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year
theguardian.com
I cannot beg my fruit canes to fruit. But at least this year I’ve got a teeny tiny handful! 😂
10 days into shift to coeliac friendly dietary changes. I’m not gonna lie, it’s been a 🎢, & yesterday was not a good day WRT energy, pain & outlook 😭 onwards! Screaming into the ether, as while I know there has been no better time to be a ceoliac, it’s still a HUGE adjustment.
Day 6 doing coeliac diet. What learnt?! Most places so far seem accommodating. If I can’t find anything out & about, there are always crisps 😂 “free from” range is super expensive. Gluten free scones OK but not convinced of texture. Welcome words are “avoid contamination” “dedicated fryer” 😂
Steff working hard at the #Coalburn Gala, South #Lanarkshire weather wasn’t great but a good day. Now it’s 4 weeks of family Coalscapes events (www.mining-landscapes.org/news) before returning to the gala circuit #miningheritage #mininghistory
I took my visiting NZ parents to Oban for the night. The weather was unbelievable, even for Scotland 😭 😂 they thought they’d left winter 😂 torrential rain, feels like 10 degrees, white out cloud so no views 😂 sigh .
First day of going gluten free for the rest of my life. It begins! And I have to say, while these were crazy expensive I was pleased to find them. Treating myself / being kind for the next little while, esp as I’m feeling v unwell at the moment 😭
A new ceoliacs diagnoses to get the head around. Hit me with your best gluten free tips!
First harvest. 3 sugar snaps 😂 you’d never know I planted beans or lettuce. Snails & slugs took them all! Slow start to the summer colour with all this rain & lack of light but slowly slowly
Aye. Heard today that my university is closing UG History, Philosophy, English Lit, Linguistics, and Creative Writing in one go.
This is absolutely shocking. What’s happening to the UK’s arts and humanities sector is just criminal. Thinking of all our colleagues there. It feels unimaginable, but it really could be any of us.
Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 3mo agoAye. Heard today that my university is closing UG History, Philosophy, English Lit, Linguistics, and Creative Writing in one go.
Newly opening tulip joy. V vibrant! These red pinks are in their last gasp before dying
