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Handy Guide:

✅ Free Speech: When GCs who had no relation to my University complained to try and get me kicked off my course

❌ Not Free Speech: Exercising one's right to peaceful protest against those advocating your exclusion from society – on the campus you have to live and work in

I note that it's always the same few academics who are willing to speak out about things like this one-sided 'free speech' nonsense on here, and we're all marginalised in some way - Disabled, trans, casualised/precarious, etc.

Makes You Think.

#UKHE, everybody sign this! The decimation is destructive for the entire sector.

Her office said the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, had received reports of speakers and lecturers being harassed and blocked for holding gender-critical or religious views, of foreign interference suppressing academic freedoms, and of ideological belief requirements featuring in job advertisements.

The OfS will be able to use the new complaints scheme from September. From April, it will be able to fine universities the greater of £500,000 or 2 per cent of their income, which would amount to millions of pounds for large institutions, for breaches under the Freedom of Speech Act. Ultimately, universities could be deregistered for egregious cases.

Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.

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The goal

Haha thank you

Forgot to post pics of our rural island adventure in Jura 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

New episode of my podcast with the amazing Torrey Peters!! @serpents-tail.bsky.social Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts rhttps://zencastr.com/z/u8LLFwJw

New episode of my podcast with the amazing Torrey Peters!! @serpents-tail.bsky.social Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts rhttps://zencastr.com/z/u8LLFwJw

Welcome to #BAAS2026 at @glasgow.ac.uk over the next four days. Registration and coffee this morning, while our exec committee meet ahead of conference starting with the first panels after lunch.

If you're attending conference this year please use the #BAAS2026 to share your posts with us! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸

Also lovely to see the @edinburghup.bsky.social stand at #baas2026 conference. Thanks to @emilysharp.bsky.social for promoting mine/Loïc Bourdeau’s book on millennial novels, as well as @keeblearin.bsky.social’s (and many others’) great research

Enjoying day 1 of the @officialbaas.bsky.social conference at Uni of Glasgow. There are beautiful buildings, many great talks, and numerous Tunnocks (obvs) #baas2026

UK job cuts hit English and modern languages staff hardest ‘Vicious cycle’ of course closures means system ‘gradually losing breadth and depth of expertise’

'The number of English language and literature academics fell by 8 per cent to 4,680 – among the largest decrease of all disciplines.

And the number employed in modern languages dropped 7 per cent to 4,890. This is 17 per cent below peak levels in 2015-16.' 1/3

‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK The long read: Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt

if you work in a UK uni, drop everything and read this (not news to many of us, but sobering to have the dots joined up; the stories are outrageous and heartbreaking)

New episode of Books Up Close with Sasha Debevec-McKenney, talking about her poem “WHAT AM I AFRAID OF?” from her @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social collection Joy is My Middle Name. Listen wherever you get podcasts, and find out more here or IG: booksupclose.substack.com/p/sasha-debe...

Come work with me and @rvytniorgu.bsky.social on this Mapping Queer Hertfordshire Project! ce0997li.webitrent.com/ce0997li_web...

The book is brilliant and has wonderful chapters by @ncecire.bsky.social, @noreenmasud.bsky.social, and many more!

New episode of Books Up Close is out now, with @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social about their @princetonupress.bsky.social book Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. Subscribe and listen now, wherever you get your podcasts! zencastr.com/dashboard/Bo...

No, no it can’t.

Please share widely! Another day, another amazing message of support from a @northumbriauni.bsky.social student - an international student nurse💉, no less! - for @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social's fight for pay and pensions justice ✊💙💚🧡💜💛. ucu-unn.org.uk/blogucu/329-...

AI BOOSTER BINGO The squares read: I might get attacked for saying this Imagine what it'll do in 5 years Al critics are just afraid Al is better than you Everyone is doing it "Levels the playing Field" Your time will be spent on work that MATTERS Your time will be spent correcting the Al's errors MORE VOLUME!! Shit outputs? Switch to [alternate LLM] Yes jobs will be cut... Humans aren't perfect either It's FUN!!! No practical advice "Sorry bluesky" Solution to chronic underfunding What if it could cure cancer??? I made something that appears passable No need for pesky underlings Is it accurate? No. But... Framing human work as "bespoke, hand-crafted" Get with it or get left behind!!! Al critics are luddites This was actually written by AI For more free printables please visit www.timvandevall.com, created by Tim van de Vall, copyright 2013 Dutch Renaissance Press LLC

I made a bingo card

Call for Editors: Critical Insights in American Studies Series at Edinburgh University Press - British Association for American Studies Co-Editor of the Critical Insights in American Studies Series at Edinburgh University Press                                                                                          […]

Call for Editors!

The 'Critical Insights in American Studies' series from Edinburgh University Press is seeking a new co-editor.

Apply before 18:00, 13th March.

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I’m ready to name names 🤓

No matter where you are, they’re using the same playbook