Ain’t nothing like a beautiful and energy-filled day in Edinburgh to rejuvenate!

One book in three weeks? At some universities that would be a triumph With undergraduates viewing education as a transaction and AI offering helpful summaries, reading is dying out on UK campuses, says Agnieszka Piotrowska

“One book in three weeks? At some universities that would be a triumph” www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/one-...

Losing a Sibling | Cruse Bereavement Care Our siblings hold an important place in our lives. Their death can be very painful. We're here to help you make sense of how you're feeling.

There was no such thing as ‘National Siblings Day’ when my brother died 14.5 years ago, no outlet in which the loss could be really expressed, this is a major acknowledgement…still a long way to go in recognising sibling grief but it’s nice to see a start appearing! www.cruse.org.uk/understandin...

Mourning on Schedule: How Grieving Became a ‘Mental Illness’ - Mad in the UK Or am I just a person who misses someone they loved very much, and has to deal with the sadness of moving on alone?

“Mourning on Schedule: How Grieving Became a ‘Mental Illness’” www.madintheuk.com/2026/03/mour...

April in the North West of the UK….🤦🏼‍♀️ #StormDave

Over the last 7 working days, I’ve marked 26 assessments amounting to approx. 82,000 words (alongside other admin task completions). Head is FRIED; heart disappointed to have not been able to meet pre-hol research/writing target too…. Roll on the coming moment for ‘out of office’ 🎉💤 #AcademicSky

Amazing provision, thank you!

Going to be talking to current PGRs about “attending conferences”. Having done many, I have thoughts…but am also curious as to what others (across disciplines) would have a) liked to know whilst doing your PhD? And b) what have you learned about attending conferences since?! #AcademicSky

In the depths marking and too much time on Moodle/in Turnitin, how lovely to have this motivation at the bottom of the screen. ❤️❤️ #AcademicSky

Supervisors claiming co-authorship of PhD papers ‘form of fraud’ Pushing doctoral students to credit more senior academics on early publications has contributed to ‘ethical scandal hiding in plain sight’, says education professor

Supervisors claiming co-authorship of PhD papers ‘form of fraud’ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/supervi...

Q6 What resources or institutional support would help with the productive uses of humour in education?

Reply with A6 #LTHEchat and your response

#LTHEchat The weekly Learning and Teaching in HE chat created by the community for the community - Wednesday 8-9pm

This week’s #LTHEchat will be starting in 10 minutes. We will be discussing 'Exploring Academics’ Use of Humour Styles in Higher Education Teaching’ with @hankumna.bsky.social

Still time to read through the blogpost

A whole morning at a YSJ retreat in a cosy room in an old York pub reading, developing and drafting a proposal on ‘Everything I Do (I Do It for You)’: siblings, musical memories and suicide loss. This I liked LOTS. 🎼✒️ #AcademicSky

Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme

'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.'

Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3

Unshareable: Non-Sharing Grief and Grievabilities on Social Media - Tamara Borovica, Katrin Gerber, Larissa Hjorth, 2026 For death-online scholars, online rituals of loss and death help to challenge and reinforce social and moral order. The digital mediates, remediates and ‘mediat...

Fascinating tbh. “What about the people who choose not to share online? …This article seeks to explore this under-researched phenomenon. Much like ‘non-use’, unshareability and non-sharing are crucial parts of contemporary digital culture.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #AcademicSky #Grief

Stop letting students avoid the microphone Andrew Routledge explores why universities still let students opt out of speaking, and what a better model looks like Andrew Routledge explores why universities still let students opt out of speaking,...

“Stop letting students avoid the microphone” wonkhe.com/blogs/stop-l...

UK university staff: please complete our survey about redundancies Whether you are an academic or professional services staff member, employed or unemployed, we are keen to hear your views

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Today my Dad is 70. He is most awesome.

How do you know semester 2 commuting and teaching is due to commence the following day in our house? This be how #FuelMade #AcademicSky

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5/5…has also proved the right time to have finally submitted an application for ethical approval for a project entitled: ‘’Survivor’ or ‘Wayfinder’? An Autoethnographic Interrogation of an Identity-term After and Across Adult-Sibling Suicide Loss”. Onward! #AcademicSky #SuicideLoss

4/5…within it and in all manner of ways. Academia is a complex way of life …. but, especially given how much I am valuing the experiences and interactions in my current role, I retain some hope it will afford me continuing time…. at least, it feels appropriate that this marker moment… #AcademicSky

3/5…depths, the jugglings, exchanges, emotions, efforts, performances, stories, good and bad, that together amount to the learning gained and impacts endured through those seen things. The Higher Education sector is some beast indeed to wrestle with, as an individual… #AcademicSky

2/5…worked in research, teaching, student support and more admin-focused capacities across 8 universities. I am still referred to as ‘early career’ whilst simultaneously not being so, because of the ‘wiggly route’ I have followed. The CV lists the visible but never reveals the hidden… #AcademicSky

1/5.I find myself in a reflective mood. This weekend sees the second anniversary of my joining York St John University in my first lectureship … it also marks the start of the final month of 22 years of ‘experiencing’ Higher Education contexts (since starting my first PhD). I have… #AcademicSky

Today’s been a really difficult (awful) day, and I wish my brother was here. That’s it.

Not even 7.30am and statements from near-teen of the house include:

“Why do you old people write such long paragraphs?” (Comment on my writing of a WhatsApp message…)

And:

“Shhhh I can’t spell while you’re speaking!”

Fun day ahead for teachers then!

Do you talk to your friends about mental health? Take part in our interview study! For more info contact matilda.lambert@bnc.ox.ac.uk or lucy.foulkes@psych.ox.ac.uk

🌟 CALLING UK UNDERGRAD STUDENTS 🌟

We are recruiting uni students for an interview study about self-diagnosis and peer-diagnosis

It will be an online interview lasting around 45 minutes and you will receive a voucher as a thank you

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First dance class of 2026 felt gooood!!

New Year’s Eve 2025 - Happy New Year 2026!

(Lines from) ‘The Peace of Wild Things’
By
Wendell Berry

“When despair for the world grows in me
…
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief.
… For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”