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Senior Lecturer in Political Communication. Online pol com / elections / gender. Committee @PPMerseyside . @UCU rep. Views mine. Socialist | Feminist | She/her
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📢 With somewhat good timing, my paper in
@EJPGjournal
is out! I look at whether a fear of online harassment may reduce women's online political participation using
@BESResearch
data from the last three UK general elections 👇
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This website has broken my brain so much I thought this was a 'the Queen and Paddington' tattoo
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@Gabriel_Pogrund
*How* do people even know these songs? The circles you have to hang out in to hear these must be absolute cesspits
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Universities outright telling students they'll suspend them from courses they've paid tuition for if they try to get out of their halls rental contracts really is just saying the quiet part out loud. Truly grim.
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I joined
#USS
8 years ago. Was told I'd get 17k a year in retirement-not rich but comfortable. These cuts plus inflation mean by the time I'm 80 I'll get 9k a year. I've just been told my heating bill will be 3k this year. I'm not sure people realise just how catastrophic this is
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@UncleThargy
Nice of you to apologise in a way that makes everyone aware she was exactly right about you 👍👍👍
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Thank fuck for Jo Brand on
#hignfy
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@roselyddon
I remember being at a conference once and the presenter went 'my grandma's PhD was in...' and my soul left my body
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There's going to be an awful lot of extremely ill people in HE within a few months. No one's had a break this summer (not that we get much of one ever) and this level of stress, uncertainty, workload can only lead to burnout at an industrial scale.
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The Labour Party clearly feel very secure that Liverpool will always vote for them no matter what. But they used to say that about Scotland. 'No where else to go' - until there was
#JFT97
#DontBuyTheSun
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Wow
@QMUL
should once again be ashamed of themselves. Students very often have questions about industrial action and will pro actively ask. Are we supposed to just...not answer them? What would the punishment be for trying reassure our students?
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There can't be a single person returning to work today, refreshed, just back from a nice break doing stuff while they were actually rested, house all clean, who doesn't know that a four day week would be completely revolutionary for mental health?
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Once again for those who wonder why we're on MAB. In Ireland, you can earn more as a Lecturer than as a full Professor in the UK/NI. And they don't have to do REF 🫠. Looking at this I can't help feeling ucu are actually being far too reasonable.
#ucuRISING
#SettleTheDispute
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@ChilledBunny23
@PhilipProudfoot
Anyone who uses the word ephebophile needs their hard drive checking too
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@madisontayt_
Or the guy who got in the shower freezing cold and waited, shivering, for it to warm up
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@devlatfair
@TobyS_J
Sell it if it's such a terrible hardship. Or do you like having someone else pay your mortgage too much?
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@TPGRoberts
Lol met my dad's weird pub mate and he was moaning he had to repaint his rental and I was like 'how much did they give you for doing nothing in the past few years?' and he was fuming lol
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It's amazing that universities that plead poverty over decent wage increases always seem to find endless money for strike-breaking
💥Exc: Bristol University is offering students £18 an hour to mark first and second year exams.
Sources in the school say it potentially breaks university’s own rules and Office for Students guidelines
@Bristol_UCU
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Absolutely obsessed with Kerala's Marxist Health Minister. Saved 10's (if not 100s) of thousands of lives and is so blasé about it
Kerala's "rockstar" Health Minister
@shailajateacher
sharing the state's
#COVID19
story live on BBC World News 🔥
(Part 1/3)
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I don't have family money and never will. I only recently paid off debt I got into completing my PhD. I will rely on that pension. And it was just stolen from me for absolutely no reason. But I've never seen anger on the tl like this and that gives me hope 💪
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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@Barber123Ali
@ThaiMatic
@hollycockerill
No Ali that's exactly how the law was intended - for victims of any gender.
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No last min email calling off redundancies so on strike from Mon. PGs won't get the help they need in the early stages of their dissertations, UGs won't get their marks back in time for the board. Are management so determined to sack ppl this disruption to students is worth it?
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🧵It's honestly hard to describe how surreal the situation at Liverpool is rn. There are now 21 staff still being forced out, down from 47. The metrics used to select them have been widely trashed by experts in the field. The way they were applied is littered with obvious flaws
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@zetag006
@Gabriel_Pogrund
Why are you coming onto here and openly admitting you've got lots of fash friends?
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A little vignette. Two emails literally next to each other in my inbox this morning. One from management insinuating I'm a bad teacher for striking. One from reception telling me a student has left me a present for all the extra help I gave them over summer. 🙃
#UCUStrikesBack
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@KeirWillow
@alysdenby
This man may not have had work today otherwise. Thought Right wingers loved job creators?
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An overlooked part of the reason this sector is such a bin fire is because it is riddled with so-called 'leaders' who have shown time and time again they're happy to bow down to a government that despises HE. This is just the latest episode
Yesterday, UKRI responded to a letter from Secretary of State, Michelle Donelan. Now we are publishing that response and the Terms of Reference for the review we are setting up.
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Some great placards from the
#trumpprotest
today, but nothing can beat the original and best Trump protest sign from hero Janey Godley.
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News report about universities opening student food banks and them couch surfing to afford their studies. And after staff have taken industrial action for months over working conditions. This sector doesn't work for anyone except VCs and landlords. Change desperately needed.
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@PeterOnion
@DrLucyRogers
@recantha
@CompSciEmma
That thread is great but long and may be hard for some ppl to understand. This tik tok is short and gets the point across very well. Guess that's why Lucy is such a successful science communicator.
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Hey
@SamGyimah
. Are you aware of most extensive disruption in history in the sector you are tasked to oversee, with more on the way if
@UniversitiesUK
don't get serious? Just checking as you don't seem to be saying or doing much about it?
#USSstrike
#ucustrikes
#NoCapitulation
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'University of Someplace. World-leading providers of accommodation and catering (and education, whatever)'
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'We're a bit perplexed that poor people are doing well at university' :/
So the OfS is quoted as saying: 'The Office for Students (OfS) published analysis claiming that more than half of first-class degrees awarded in 2021 could not be explained by “observable factors” such as prior results or social background of students.' 2/
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Can someone who is an expert (perhaps who has a PhD in this or something) tell me if it's good or bad for a union to go into dispute with it's employees over casualisation when that same union is balloting it's members on whether to strike over (among other things) casualisation?
Unite UCU members have today overwhelmingly voted to take strike action in support of their two
#PGRsAsStaff
colleagues. 71.22% of members who voted backed strike action on a 76.37% turnout.
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@macyagilliam
The weirdest and most pointless was that he produced Spiderman the musical lol
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@Barber123Ali
@ThaiMatic
@hollycockerill
Hi Ali you're right of course. The 'ironically' made it sound a bit as though protecting men would be an unintended consequence of the law. But I see that's not how you meant it now
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Can't think of many things more revolving than a retired academic with nothing to gain from marking- who likely secured a permanent job with zero publications, had a pension we can only dream of & pay that was 30% higher, undermining efforts to try to get a fraction of that back
Essays for my honours module QUEER FEMINIST SOCIOLOGY IN ACTION were marked by "a retired academic from a UK university" who did not have access to the assessment criteria for the assignment. The brilliant students on this module don't know:
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The sheer level of boiling, violent, rage people who have been slightly inconvenienced have for people who are trying to ensure the planet is habitable for the next generation is actually terrifying tbh
🚨 Placards ripped up and banners snatched away, as peaceful supporters of Just Stop Oil face aggression this morning.
🛢️ We march in civil resistance against our genocidal government. If our government halted all new oil, gas and coal licences, we wouldn't have to do this.
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Oh wow. I could cry watching things like this. Our amazing students (and staff too) deserve so much better than the rotten cartel suppressing pay and conditions in this sector.
@ucea1
sort it out
“It would not be right to stand here and not acknowledge staff who have been fighting for not more than the bare minimum”. How can we thank you enough for this brave and moving oration at Edinburgh Graduation today.
@ucuedinburgh
@ucu
@sssn_edi
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UCEA are denying it strenuously, but there is going to be a deep level of disruption and damage from the MAB for a long time to come. Reduction in international fees, mass complaints, unis literally expelled from the employer body. Could have been negotiating 3 months ago 🤷♀️
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International Students are worth 10s of Billions to the UK economy. A lot of universities likely aren't financially viable without them. But sure, keep telling them they aren't welcome. Eventually they'll take the hint and HE will be poorer in every way
Immigration is too high.
Today we’re taking radical action to bring it down.
These steps will make sure that immigration always benefits the UK.
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@NadiaWhittomeMP
Fab thread thank you. Also harassers don't abuse *every* woman they have contact with. They often single out one's they know it might be easier to get away with. So him not doing it to her is irrelevant
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Again...the whole sector is on fire and the next couple of weeks are going to show up exactly how bad the damage has been...and universities are tweeting about 'rankings'. You can't even award degrees lads
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In light of the 'suffragettes never did violence' 💫discource💫...here's a picture of my great grandad dressed as Mary Leigh - the suffragette who threw an axe at Asquith
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Wasn't going to weigh in but...we have democratically-agreed decision-making structures for a reason. The *agreed* procedure would have been to bring these offers in the first instance to HEC with enough time to discuss in depth & decide if they were worth putting to members 1/6
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@MicronLegend
@mdjgutie
@THR
Nope. Attention only becomes unwanted when guys carry on after we say no thank you. Even if we aren't into you, the asking isn't the problem. Not listening to and respecting the answer is.
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@Geordieintarn
@devlatfair
@TobyS_J
Are you on crack? House prices have absolutely skyrocketed since then.
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Brilliant work by student journalists here. This is the Chair of
@UCEA1
. Not hard to figure out why they've chosen to allow so much damage across the sector, instead of reasonable good faith talks. This kind of callous, thuggish mindset is what we're up against.
BREAKING:
@thegaudie
can reveal that UoA Principal George Boyne told senior colleagues he wanted
@aberdeen_ucu
members to feel financial 'pain along the way.'
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Russell Group universities - 'we cannot *possibly* afford a little pension contribution increase for one year, or give you better contracts, or a pay rise, we are so poor"
Also Russell Group universities -
#UCUstrike
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Now...would I be getting an email from HR telling me I'm getting an extra £100 a month until May to see me through the cost of living crisis if my union *hadn't* just had an historic ballot result? 🤔
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I'm seeing people On Here claim this offer from UCEA is the 'furthest UCEA have ever been pushed - best they've ever offered'. Let's compare it to what was on the table in March 2020 (before we - again, in good faith, stood down due to covid). This *has* to be the benchmark.
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UG, PGT and PGR students harmed. Staff goodwill irreparably damaged. World-leading research stopped. Reputation plummeting. For what? There is no financial need and all these staff are great at their jobs.
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@FittyFourFR
@PillowPrincesse
If you read this post and this was your main take away, you're dangerous too
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@ScanlanWithAnA
Thank you for this. I remember watching the documentary and one of the survivors saying how they all tried to 'wake' her by pulling her hair...and just crying so much💔. I know there was a campaign to get her a statue - would be more than deserved.
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@Bethanaikos
@AdamTyndall
@HugoGye
An awful lot of ppl in these areas don't have cars either. The answer is better and cheaper public transport
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@LivUni
I love stats it's my thing. 21 / 7000 = 0.003! Not much of a saving? Probably not worth all this trouble idk 🤷♀️
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The leaflets the fash used to whip up hate in Knowsley are absolutely indistinguishable from the stories printed every day in most of our racist press
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What's happening to Arts and Humanities in UK HE at the moment is genuinely terrifying. It has implications for all subjects because most universities subsidise medical courses etc with Humanities courses. And SMTs prefer cuts to collective lobbying it seems. V poor leadership
At UEA, 31 out of the university's 36 academic staff redundancies will be coming from arts and humanities.
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Had several students tell me they're heading home early for Christmas work they can't afford to turn down, anxious they're missing revision week. Another whose shift finishes 4am the night before my 9am. It's heartbreaking. Change is desperately needed
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There's a huge staffing crisis on the horizon in UKHE. People are
#LeavingAcademia
in unprecedented numbers due to appalling management, atrocious conditions and falling pay and anytime I ask excellent MA students if they're thinking of academia they basically laugh in my face
Significant drop in future funding announced for UK Arts and Humanities PhDs - 'AHRC expects to fund one quarter fewer PhD students, reducing from 425 to around 300 new studentships per year by 2029 to 2030.'
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So we're going back on strike from Monday. I don't want to. Union members at Liverpool took 3 long periods of action over summer. I'm still paying that off. BUT. Things need to (and can!) change in this sector. And when it comes down to it, we're asking for so little. Thread...🧵
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@mattforde
I cover the difference between elites and citizens and you aren't 'the public' matey try again
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@GuidoFawkes
ToDAY iS
#pOsITiveTwItTeRdAy
aNd hERe IS gUidO FAwKEs tO tALK ABoUt rEdUCiNg aBUsE On TwITter
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@ErikaAwakening
@donmoyn
Everyone blocked him because of his Facebook boomer memes. It's not that deep.
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@Emmelle12345
@anyotherleader
@KirstieMAllsopp
@EmmaKennedy
The person who lives in it. Mind blowing concept I know
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Well it's a BEAUTIFUL morning to be up before sunrise to run our pickets, knowing our action so far has pushed our employers forward! See you all there! ✊️❤️
#ucuRISING
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@Mr_John_Oxley
@meshuganater
I live in a (nice admittedly) 1-bed flat in Liverpool and pay the same ctax as a 5-bed Georgian house about a 5 minute walk away. A complete ludicrous system
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Striking is always horrible but this time it's just sad. Our great students don't deserve this. But the redundancies are based on embarrassingly terrible, discredited measures that devalue academic work to a laughable degree. They should have been withdrawn long ago to avoid this
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The sheer vile cruelty of this. It looks like kitchen scraps. Humiliating and starving already struggling children to make a profit. The hatred this government has for people who are poor (largely due to their mis-rule I might add) makes me sick to my stomach
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@frankieboyle
@ta_mills
Quite a feat the say 'nobody thinks you're an antisemite' and then imply you think they are again, in the same tweet.
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#WhyImStriking
Because workloads in this sector frequently make us ill (& mean those with disabilities are penalised). Because of racist/sexist/abelist pay gaps. Because we're paid around 17% less than we should be. Because I joined a pension 7 years ago that's now worth 40% less
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@JazZ_HOTS
@piscesflowers
@msbrandidandy
@NicoleFroio
The recording of him saying 'the night *I* cut my finger off' was played in court just a few days ago
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@beijingbond
@EvieBreese
'Not all men' - the most deeply boring, exhausting, useless and pathetic contribution anyone could ever make to this conversation
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@EricRoyalLybeck
@BBCPolitics
@GoodwinMJ
I mean colleagues actually are being sacked here at Liverpool but Goodwin hasn't said a word about our dispute
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