Eric Lybeck
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I missed the day in history class when we learned about World War II ending because no one did anything and Hitler just surrendered.
If your method of 'fighting fascism' involves beating people over the head and chucking stuff at them, you're not fighting fascism, you *are* fascism.
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Is Academic Freedom in the UK actually in crisis?
I've challenged
@GoodwinMJ
to a Zoom debate on 1 March 2pm, it's time this running slander against our academic profession is challenged.
Sign-up free here:
#DebateIn
#FreezePeachLive
#AcademicFreedom
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No evidence this dispute threatens to split university union.
A minority wants to the union to adopt intolerant positions, and these proposals have been consistently rejected.
That's not a split. That's democracy.
Folks are free to leave and by-and-large have done.
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Anyone who cares about the genuine silencing and harrassment of academics should be up in arms about the unsubstantiated hit piece against Alison Phipps published in
@Telegraph
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@sapinker
You're right, it's not just the algorithms. It's also the baseless critique of grievance studies you platform because you can't handle criticism.
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Jordan Peterson and his snowflake followers are thugs.
He's an utter disgrace.
So, Peterson's legions writing to my HoD, College officials etc complaining I'm a 'provacateur' and 'controversialist' who should be reined in. (Doughty defenders of free speech). My investigations confirm was no 'Fellowship' at all, just an informal visiting arrangement.
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Well done to the genius tankies who made the news coming out of
@ucu
Congress, not pensions success, but mass resignation of members because you want to throw Ukraine under the bus.
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@michelledonelan
Honest question, Mrs Donelan. Do the students protesting Stock not have the right to free speech as well?
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I wonder if
@ucu
leadership have underestimated the extent to which many early career academics could care less about pensions as such.
We're in this fight to establish a strong union willing to take on about 15+ other issues to establish a future university worth working in.
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So, you've got to crash somewhere at the Social Theory conference...
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Really proud of myself for being promoted to Senior Lecturer. Yay.
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It's known as the 'ecological fallacy' in stats.
You replace 'graduates who undertook travel' with 'graduates who could afford to travel' and you're getting somewhere.
“Graduates who undertook a period of mobility had... better degree classifications, were in graduate jobs with higher starting salaries & lower initial unemployment rates, than their non-mobile peers
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Really pleased to read
@OfficialUoM
's new social media policy which sets as its first principle that academics are free to criticise the university when values conflict.
An important element of
#academicfreedom
that every university should enshrine.
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I love the claim made by Quilletteers for months that Noah Carl didn't do 'race science'
And, yet he managed to pull an 'In Defence of Race Science' piece out of his a** within 30 seconds of being fired by Cambridge. 🤔
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@toadmeister
Or, in your case, a birth right regardless of how poor your A-level results were...
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Academics are not masses. They are a bunch of isolated, practically sole practitioners who rarely turn up at the factory and mostly work from home.
Until we address the actual conditions of our work - and stop pretending we're revolutionaries - this is going to keep happening.
“The leadership has failed. Even so, the leadership can and must be recreated from the masses and out of the masses. The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory ….. will be built.” - Rosa Luxemburg
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BREAKING: 20 per cent of university leaders are wrong.
One in five university leaders believe that physical lectures will have been eradicated by technology by 2030.
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@SamGyimah
Do you know what's not in the long-term interest of students?
The Office for Students. The
#TEF
. The
#REF
. The marketization of HE in general.
You did this. Universities act this way because of you.
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Judith Butler is crystal clear here...but cue any number of supposedly intelligent people pretending this is nonsense English rather than let go of the strawmen they've got clutched in their fists.
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I've been thinking about grade inflation and have come to the conclusion that the only logical solution is:
Abolish grades at university.
Folks either learn or don't learn. Up to them. 🤓
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@andrew_lilico
Imagine being offended by a true statement about the Home Secretary, whilst demonstrating no shame in having this Home Secretary.
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Thought experiment for folks in the UK:
Imagine a government thought: 'Hey, America's healthcare seems great, let's get rid of the NHS!'
Then, 8 years later, the whole field of medicine didn't work anymore.
What do you do?
Cause y'all did that to higher education in 2011.
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@GoodwinMJ
@openDemocracy
If my correspondence was an email threatening a journal with boycott for publishing robust criticism of my work - while, at the same time, I declared debate was impossible because of woke academia, I think that is fair evidence of objective hypocrisy.
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@TheEconomist
That you don't bother to read professional historians doesn't mean they're not out there publishing.
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Hire 👏 permanent 👏 staff 👏
A single department in a single RG university is currently recruiting 8 (EIGHT) fixed-term teaching fellows. Sign of the times.
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@toadmeister
@Quillette
@EPoe187
@NoahCarl90
Check out the especially relevant sections where he deduces that Teutonic races are particularly well endowed to have nation-states and subjugate others.
This is just about eugenics, folks. This is literally proto-Nazism.
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A plea to climate scientists:
Remember when skeptics started denying climate change was real, you said: 'the science is settled'?
I believed you.
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Remember when they said being anti-trans was about defending 'women's rights'?
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Did you know giant publisher Elsevier made 40% profits last year selling articles academics write without pay back to university libraries for outrageous fees?
UCLA libraries are taking a stand - Consider taking some of these steps in solidarity.
#DontWorkForElsevier
Wow, this is wild but welcome: UCLA urging faculty not to support Elsevier journals during negotiations over its severe library fees
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TFW you have a column in the Spectator/Quillette/Telegraph etc. to spout your anti-Semitic, eugenicist BS constantly, but still claim to be 'silenced'. 😂
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The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) is neither about teaching, nor excellence, nor is it a framework.
#TEF
#TEFResults
#AbolishTEF
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Essential that we academics defend our right to free speech in an age of social media.
Some reflections on recent experiences below.
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I gratefully accept your challenge to debate, Professor Goodwin.
Shall we say, 2pm GMT on 1 March.
I will set up the Zoom Event now. Do let me know if another time suits.
@EricRoyalLybeck
@openDemocracy
I'm always happy to debate Eric, I'm not happy with underhand tactics. Would you like me to release your personal correspondence? I imagine not.
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@epkaufm
@KemiBadenoch
@ConceptualJames
@HPluckrose
@peterboghossian
This is a wholly inaccurate depiction of critical theory. Does that matter to you?
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@sapinker
@AreoMagazine
Submitted a dozen papers - 3 accepted in minor journals. 6 rejected, demonstrating peer review works (even amongst PoMo 'Theory' crowd) and another 3 must have just been ignored.
Hardly an indictment of academia, rather a few editors in niche sub-fields likely in decline anyway
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I know there's a lot of blame being chucked around today. But personally I'm most angry at the members who voted for a MAB, then didn't seem to do it in full, then voted to cancel it, leaving those who did it on the lurch.
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And, for the avoidance of doubt:
I don't like
#essaymills
. Ban 'em
My problem is wonks & VCs can get a campaign to
#banessaymills
to register nationally within a month, but we're told we 'have to be patient' while
#casualisation
literally tears apart young academic families.
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@lottelydia
Also, that is one of the least 'heterodox' panels I've ever seen.
Most of those folks already think the same thing: unis are left-wing madrassas*
*That inexplicably employ so many of these profs with their 'controversial opinions'
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Academic work is a neverending To-Do list based the hope that 'next month' you'll finally have time to do that thing.
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Looking forward to the apology from academics who signed letters against students for protesting Stock when they find out she worked with university management to put gag orders on other students for reporting facts about her views.
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Imagine - the
#REF2021
has been postponed and the consequence is that...
The research still exists with the same words, same journals, same quality.
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But, for us social scientists many of these challenges are the equivalent to denying the laws of thermodynamics. These are basic knowledge, and to have to explain them again and again to folks criticising in bad faith is wasting much time and effort.
Thanks for your time.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but, us prioritising student, staff and community health does not mean we don't also care deeply about our students' learning.
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@BBCPolitics
There is no scenario wherein 'young colleagues are being sacked' - this is not a reality.
I've asked
@GoodwinMJ
to prove his incendiary, unevidenced claims, but he refuses to debate
#FreezePeachLive
🍑
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Today we are going to see a lot of statements emerging along the lines of 'pay is over 50% of our costs' etc. so we must cut.
Here's the thing:
#WeAreTheUniversity
- and salaries should be something on the order of 80% of costs.
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I have created an Eventbrite for this
@GoodwinMJ
- just let me know if the date and time don't work for you and we can reschedule:
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Anyone delegitimising critical discourse analysis, sociology of knowledge and related approaches as 'non-evidence based' needs to reflect on why this view is gaining traction at the same time new forms of fascism are ascendant.
You are complicit in legitimising this context.
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EVIDENCE ALERT:
'Lecture capture introduction showed that attendance substantially dropped in three matched lectures after capture became available.'
No relationship between watching lecture capture and attainment found.
New study shows the negative impact of lecture capture availability and usage on student attendance & attainment with data collected from a matched cohort before & after lecture capture introduction.
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However, I also learned that the university is using software that trawls all academics' social media accounts and that anything deemed 'negative' is forwarded in some way through to the Vice Chancellor's office, who then personally determines which tweets violate policy.
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@SamGyimah
@guardian
@SamGyimah
what you are missing is that the government doesn't create or even assure the quality of HE.
It's universities, academics and related staff:
#WeAreTheUniversity
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Another lesson for students following
#ussstrike
:
Before March, many of us didn't know anything about pensions
But, we academics knew how to think critically, rigorously, demand evidence & justifications
That's why you should get a higher education: because knowledge is power
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@toadmeister
@Quillette
@EPoe187
@NoahCarl90
Thought I could save everyone some time and point to this book from John W Burgess in 1902 that made the same set of arguments relating race, geography and mind. 👇👇
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So, here's the thing. Academic freedom is not the same as free speech.
No one is stopping these people from speaking.
We do have not only a right, but an onus and responsibility, however, to remove from authoritative platforms ideas that are not authoritative.
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This is something I've seen professors in the UK do in response to normal criticism they don't wish to answer/address as well. It's really gross.
The
#Quillette
editor maneuver: "she's obvious unwell." I wrote threads on it, both Kay and Lehmann love to suggest that the person they are criticizing must be mentally ill.
I don't know how anyone takes this hack seriously.
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Imagine overseeing the past five years of British higher education and thinking teaching anywhere had become more 'excellent'
#TEF
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Five in Five graduates would be better off if the Conservatives were'nt in government
One in five graduates would be better off if they hadn’t gone to university.
That’s unacceptable.
So
@RishiSunak
is cracking down on rip-off university degrees and boosting skills-based learning.
Here’s how👇
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Instead, abolishing casualisation tout court and converting the existing pool of fixed-term talent into permanent staff would give ECRs what their male professors had 30+ years ago: a functional professional career. 9/11
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I'll believe the organisation representing university Vice Chancellors (
#UUK
) when these VCs stop giving themselves £830k pay packages at the same time saying everything from permanent contracts to social mobility to pensions are unaffordable.
#WeAreTheUniversity
Cutting university fees could mean social mobility being thrown into reverse, and damage the UK’s universities at a time when, as a country, we’ve never needed them more
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It's time for academics across the sector to truly stand up for our colleagues. Post-92 unis are essential and amazing institutions doing untold good for their students and communities.
Any solution that does not solve their crisis is not a real solution.
#WeAreTheUniversity
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When this is all over, we're going to need to do a comprehensive study of university boards to see how many governors are property developers.
This was about milking students (and by extension, the government) for money.
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I am so tempted to go back and read those patronising letters from VCs telling us we didn't understand our pensions.
#DepthofFeeling
1/2 So how did the
#USS
CEO and executives manage to get things so wrong with this 2017 valuation and why did none of the highly paid VC’s, finance directors or UUK execs question it before trying to enforce a change to a DC pension that led to unprecedented industrial action
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Tracking recent employment trends, you'd see that the point at which women no longer progress through the academic profession has changed from the boundary between Lecturer/Senior Lecturer to now the boundary between Fixed-term/Permanent job. 6/11
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I want to make something clear: those of us who were predicting pandemic outbreaks at UK universities did so with particular confidence following evidence of outbreaks in US campuses since August
#UniCovidUK
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@Des_Fitzgerald
Also, 99.9% of academic 'debate' is in print/text form.
Any issue where its claimed there is 'no debate' can be easily disproved using a jstor search.
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And the top 10% of students will pay nothing thanks to bank of Mum and Dad, who will also cover housing deposit to help the little one 'get on the ladder'.
This is how inequalities are inherited.
The rise in National Insurance means graduates earning over £27,295 will now pay a marginal tax rate of 42.25% once student loan repayments are included.
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@manunderbridge
@bchadhill
@jtlevy
Why was their argument instead:
Academia is a cult! I cannot speak! The thought police are after us! We are not allowed to make our arguments!
Straight up: that's some nonsense right there.
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The moment when VCs realise the two non-strike days this week will be snowed out.
#GIFusourpensions
#USSstrike
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This is really excellent actually.
#FreeTheNorth
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Can't shake the feeling our university 'leaders' are driving us into a ditch due to a cocktail of stubbornness, ignorance and impotence.
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For
#IWD2022
thinking about the ZERO gender pay gap on the
@USSpensions
exec team 🤣
@USSbriefs
#PowerWonking
My favourite pic and caption from today's
#PowerWonking
list.🤣
Even if they're not fussed at
#USS
, remember to vote to fix the
#GenderPayGap
in our universities!
@ucu
@USSbriefs
#WeAreTheUniversity
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So...this academic seems to have expressed concern that debate around a major war was being stifled in this country.
And the government's response is... to use the full power of the state to eliminate them and their views from the debate.
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@michelledonelan
Sure - students should be proud.
But, universities should not cut the retirement benefits promised when we signed contracts.
And remove precarious contracts for highly-trained professionals.
And, government should provide the funding to run this sector properly.
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Here's a list:
1.) Genes do not directly cause IQ, personality traits, etc. as all these are socially conditioned
2.) Race, Class, Gender, Culture are socially constructed - this does not mean these are not real, just that society determines their structure and meaning (see 1)
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@NoahCarl90
@toadmeister
@Quillette
@EPoe187
I've read that before. There are many more problems with the logical moves which begin with uncontroversial points to establish reasonableness, then building to unreasonable conjectures that might be plausible, but also plausibly deniable.
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Call me crazy, but I feel like we should enrol international students for their own sakes - because they're awesome.
And, not to plug an ever widening funding gap due to government underinvestment in higher education.
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'Preoccupation with squeezing a few more poorer students through the narrow gates of elite colleges...has eclipsed real problem bedevilling our university system: a fair deal for the institutions that are educating everybody else'
Excellent by
@SolGamsu
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Here I explain why many of today's problems are due to academics' and uni graduates' socialisation into a particular ideology: an anti-elitist elitism.
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Wtf?
Why you should work in HE administration: despite the bullying by academics and cuts always hitting professional services first, when we get it right university admin is a great place to work, says
@BUiDRegistrar
of
@buid_team
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If we're going the hotdesk route - I propose the following:
Universities lease a portion of our homes, which we fit out; also pay utilities, furnishing, internet, etc.
We can then use our laptops when on campus, but otherwise work from home.
University of Chester academic staff being evicted from their dedicated offices this summer across campuses - 'bin it or take it home'. No work space for storage!
The new heartless University 'hot-desking' climate kicks in leaving staff and students demoralised & lost
@ucu
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Interesting to see academics come to realise how unfair it is to pay for core public services by bleeding migrants dry.
Y'all realise that's been the funding model of UK higher education for a decade, no?
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7.) Empires, fascism, eugenics, racism, sexism and more were bad things that should not come back into fashion.
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I agree talent is everywhere. So why are we focused on 18 year olds and not everyone at every age?
We can find and support students with potential at job centres, so why are we obsessing over A-levels at schools?
The model here is Open University and Birkbeck, not Oxbridge.
Talent is not limited to a few schools, towns or one part of the country. Talent is everywhere. It's the job of elite universities to show leadership and bend towards communities to find it.
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Here's an even better idea:
4 year degrees at less than half the costs.
Say, free?
#publicHE
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