Some fascinating Collaborative Doctoral Awards on offer here at the BL, including a great history of sexuality/book history/library history project relating to the Rund Collection of 19th/20thC erotic books and ephemera www.bl.uk/services/res...

Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Awards

Fully-funded and jointly supervised studentships across four developing research areas.

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'There is perhaps no other building in the world where you can watch a skilled, confident architect moving so far, so fast.' Owen Hatherley on the Glasgow School of Art: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Owen Hatherley, Ruination — Sidecar

On the Glasgow School of Art.

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University of Cumbria staff are being told to give up their existing pension arrangements and move to a significantly less secure scheme. UCU general secretary Jo Grady: “A pension is deferred pay. Staff deserve security and dignity in retirement, not draconian threats from their employer.”

University of Cumbria staff face 'fire and rehire' over pensions

The University and College Union (UCU) has warned that University of Cumbria staff could face the threat of 'fire and rehire' as the university begins a process to remove workers from the Local Govern...

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just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 5d ago

Masked protesters block access at Port of Dover

Introduce yourself by listing 10 acts you made up. Idiot goats KOmpost Dang-a-dang Gang Giblets The Andrew Ridgelys Burnt toast Mudchute Farmers With these small feet Dead spider plant Bozo

Angus Main@angusmain.bsky.social · 5d ago

Introduce yourself by listing 10 acts you made up. The Bonk Silas & Jeremy Chunderhorse The Wonderful Erics Pig Whiz! The John Lewis Five Suspiciously Sticky The Ocados Please, No Shoes The Boulangerie Boys

The fact that the police haven’t immediately and forcefully arrested all of these guys tells you everything about whose interests they serve and what politics they protect. This is the real two tier policing.

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 5d ago

"masked fascist paramilitary seizes port" just isn't the sort of thing the uk media would ever say, is it

Our friends at Glasgow Women's Library have some spaces left on tomorrow's Garnethill Walking Tour. A great way to learn about the contributions of women while stretching your legs! womenslibrary.org.uk/event/garnet...

Garnethill Women’s Heritage Walk

Hear about the remarkable women who have made Garnethill one of the most exciting cultural and multicultural hotspots in Glasgow.

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If you think kids grow up quick wait until you get a tree!

The University of Dundee is failing to comply with information governance law. This is due to a reduction of staffing in the team responsible. Staff reached zero in 2026. Compliance issues will become more and more regular if the current redundancies are approved by Court. Say no to redundancies.

Twenty-four hours left!

the bit that keeps coming back to me from the wham doc is ridgeley standing in a room full of rather baffled chinese fans saying ‘where’s knobhead’

“…is this even research?”

Wonkhe@wonkhe.bsky.social · 2w ago

This week on Wonkhe: Research outputs come in all shapes and sizes, and the REF process acknowledges. But, as Ola Thomson and Gemma Derrick's research demonstrates, we're still not clear how non-traditional outputs can be fairly and consistently assessed

The moment anyone tells you you shouldn’t join a union, urgently look around for a union to join.

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 2w ago

Opinion | Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science. By Evan D. Morris: https://bit.ly/3Sus7fa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

The cruelty of laughter. I saw The Orestria last night and it was the laughter of the audience, amidst clear and ongoing of horror, that continues to unsettle me. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Cruelty Is the Point

Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.

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it has to be explained Eva Figes, from ‘Nelly’s Version’

Look at this cat! I love her so much!

Housing for all. Art for all. Sixteen storey mosaic murals by Poole Tiles on Seaward Tower and Harbour Tower, Gosport - Kenneth Barden & J E Tyrrell, 1963 📷 James O Davies, Historic England

Despite suffering from motion sickness, for me getting a ferry is one of life’s joys. On Colonsay then Islay a fortnight ago conversation turned to them, their decor, the politics, the crossing itself, as an opportunity for me to see things from an island perspective. As this article does too.

Ruth Dawkins@dorkymum.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is a lovely piece of writing about the importance of ferries to island communities ❤️ bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/08/25/t...

University of the Highlands and Islands has had years of redundancies. Now more. Just so stupid. www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/politics/...

UHI’s scale of jobs cuts at Inverness HQ revealed

The institution’s central office has made dozens of compulsory redundancies as insiders warned junior staff have been worst hit.

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Some colleagues received 5 minutes notice for their online at risk meeting and had not yet received their letter informing them they were at risk. Executive staff did not bother to turn up to the meeting. This is the true face of executive leadership at the University of Dundee.

The answer, it turns out, is not just "motivation". It's also having parents that sold a company for $800m and being in a relationship with the curator of the biennial he got his artists into...

Tom Weights and Measures (Packaged Goods) Regulations 2006.

Tim Waterman@tim-waterman.co.uk · 2w ago

Make a band bigger: Tom Waiting List

One of the most demoralising aspects of this is that a university, of all places, will willingly utilise flawed data to see through redundancies and programme closures. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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In the week our redundancies are due to be finalised, the Faculty writes…

Could you have a word with the editor-in-chief of the Guardian. bsky.app/profile/nisa...

Chris Stokes@nisaccom.bsky.social · last mo.

Flabbergastingly true. I searched Nexis for 'EDI' in news in the Guardian over last 365 days. That scored 9 articles. A searchj for 'DEI', 2,715 articles. On the jobs pages, by contrast, it's 'EDI' all the way. Meanwhile, there's not one word about it in the Guardian's style guide.

Below is a short, well written history of some uniquely clever Icelandic sheep. Here are photos of the “Leader Sheep” in question, and the black volcanic sands which can make traveling with a herd so dangerous. #Iceland #Sheep #Vikings

Dosco Jones@doscojones.bsky.social · 3w ago

Forystufé: The Sheep That Leads jointheruminati.com/icelandic-le...

Performance by HM is my joint favourite clip of a band playing on telly ever. The other one is Dr Feelgood doing She Does It Right. Both bands look like they were just kicked out of a wedding. Feelgood for fighting; Monday for selling drugs. Happy birthday Shaun! youtu.be/iHm7uIC84YM?...

Dr.Feelgood 【She Does It Right】

YouTube video by wa e

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Birmingham 81@birmingham81.bsky.social · 3w ago

Happy birthday to Shaun Ryder. Here are Happy Mondays conjuring up a stunning version of Performance on Tony Wilson’s The Other Side of Midnight in 1988 youtu.be/cZvdXEjtl4c

Anytime any semblance of a 'balanced' debate requires you to 'prove' your humanity... walk away. Just walk away. Anything that raises a human's humanity as part of a 'legitimate' argument will never be convinced. Its premises are already illegitimate. Engaging legitimises those premises.

I found this by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, alongside her piece from earlier this week, really helpful and insightful. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

The Jason Arday Reckoning

The attempts to cover up the complicity of the UK media’s role in his death may be its sickest move yet

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