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@vaniev.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I had my "generous" 2 weeks of paid paternity leave in my 1st year as an intl PhD student without extended family around to help. SO LONG OVERDUE to increase this period to anything above 2 months!😡 This time is critically important for any young dad & mum, so what the UK has now is simply SHAMEFUL!

Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Campaigners are pushing for universities to increase paternity leave to a minimum of six weeks on full pay, describing current policies at many institutions as “shocking” and lagging behind other industries. Juliette Rowsell reports #highered #paternityleave #academicsky https://ow.ly/sGW550ZfcSM

Get Glasgow Moving@getglasgowmoving.org · 8mo ago

Have you responded to Transport Scotland's consultation yet? 🛣️ We have a 𝗼𝗻𝗲-𝗶𝗻-𝗮-𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 to Remove the M8 Woodside Viaducts & invest £500m in sustainable transport connections instead 🚶🚴🚌🚎🚃 Find out more at: RemovetheM8.org.uk Deadline: 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝟮𝟱 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

M8 Woodside Viaducts consultation
Stefanie Haustein@stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 12mo ago

We summarized the Drain paper in an LSE Impact blog post this week. Please share in your networks, ideally with those we are calling to action: research funders and university leadership blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholComm

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LSE Impact@lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 12mo ago

💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science ✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca #AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing

UofGARC@uofgarc.bsky.social · last yr.

We asked ARC residents and users if they'd like to take part in a photography project to help us capture life in the ARC. We gave participants a single use film camera for a day, with the task to take photos of whatever they liked in the building. Here are the results...

@vaniev.bsky.social · last yr.

Well, that's just shooting at all limbs at once. Curious if such attack will redirect international students to the UK, as it was already seen in the recent enrolling undergrad student numbers 🤔

Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · last yr.

Donald Trump’s move to block Harvard University from enrolling international students is a “full-frontal attack” on the institution which will have wider ramifications for US economic strength and soft power, scholars have said. @patrickjack.bsky.social reports #AcademicSky

@vaniev.bsky.social · last yr.

Exactly. Such meaningless new immigration rules aimed at reducing legal migration from the recent white paper can only do harm to the drowning HE sector and stagnating UK economy, not even speaking about losing thousands of skilled potential researchers aspiring to continue their careers in the UK.

Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · last yr.

Extending the pathway to UK citizenship to more than 10 years could deter many international researchers from settling in the country, given the additional cost of visa and NHS fees, ministers have been warned #AcademicSky #EduSky

@vaniev.bsky.social · 2y ago

Speaking about power outages in Spain 🇪🇸 and Portugal 🇵🇹 and the role of the “material” in our lives… Sociomaterialism reminds us about a tangible material world we face every day, and how it not simply mediates but literally shapes our existence and the social reality we live in. 🔋

Kay Guccione@kayguccione.bsky.social · 2y ago

Your 5min lunchtime read - on the Hidden Curriculum blog, from the always excellent @vaniev.bsky.social: How the sociomateriality of the hidden curriculum enables research culture. drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/h...

@vaniev.bsky.social · 2y ago

No way, UKRI-funded PhD students are now eligible for a stipend that matches the national minimum-wage level - an unseen generosity! 🤑 I mean, having more money than less money is always good news (not for me already though), but I can't think how this can be celebrated at all.

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Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thousands of UK-based PhD students will benefit from the largest real-terms stipend rise in two decades after Britain’s main research funder unveiled an 8 per cent increase to annual payments #AcademicSky #EduSky

@vaniev.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's funny how @uofglasgow.bsky.social School of Education PGR community is always more than you think! 😅 @laviniahirsu.bsky.social Thank you @conicarde.bsky.social and Diana for the opportunity to gather and talk through the issues of SoE PGRs as well as source suggestions together 🕊️ #PhDLife

Constanza Cárdenas Alarcón@conicarde.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wonderful first PGR meeting today organised by the PGR reps! So happy to see so many faces discussing and proposing ideas to enhance our experience as PhD researchers. Special thanks to my partner in crime Diana Cruz 💜

@vaniev.bsky.social · 2y ago

⚠️ 2 out of 3 doctoral researchers do NOT find opportunities to teach at their HEIs. Honestly, it is very worrisome to find such a trend among HEIs, which would rather overload salaried staff with extra teaching rather than employ GTAs and put efforts into developing a new generation of faculty. 😡

Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2024 Opportunity to teach or demonstrate fell from 45% in 2020 to 37% in 2024 spiking shortly in 2023 (46%). The largest decline is in terms of teaching opportunities, which are now at their lowest level since before the pandemic. It is well documented that students are facing a squeeze on affordability of higher education, but HEIs are also under significant pressure financially. While it may be relatively cost effective to deploy PGRs to teach on modules rather than bring in temporary staff, we can also speculate that HEIs may be taking decisions to distribute teaching load more widely among salaried staff as an even more cost-effective solution. Whatever is driving this, it appears that there are fewer PGRs being afforded this key developmental (and financial) opportunity than in recent years.
Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 2y ago

Teaching opportunities for PhDs dry up in university cash crisis Barely one in three postgraduate researchers now have opportunity to teach, finds Advance HE survey, with financial pressure on institutions likely to blame #EduSky #AcademicSky #Highered