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In case you missed it last week: Surrey & @ucudmu.bsky.social are facing fire & rehire, with jobs moved to a newly-established subsidiary company with worse pay & conditions. #SaveHE #UKHE

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It's National Biscuit Day! I'm celebrating with a custard cream. What's your choice of twice-baked delight?

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Stop! ... what you're going; these fish are armed. It's the last Sunday of the month so it's time for #OffGridPod ep. 52 offgrid.tlmb.net/2025/05/25/r...

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I wrote about the widespread adoption of AI in education, and why there needs to be more resistance to it open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...

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For anyone who has the opportunity to vote in a local election today, this tactical voting site may be useful: stopthetories.vote Remember to take your photo ID!

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This month's Off-Grid podcast includes a brief education on Ibsen and some entertaining discussion about tactile paving... give it a listen!

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A useful and very relatable article for anyone enduring yet another restructure in HE at the moment... www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-funding-k...

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MPs being (rightly) recalled over the 2,700 jobs at risk in British steel, while 5,000 university jobs are actively being cut this year with a further 5,000 jobs under threat and very little intervention is... interesting. Academia is also an industry in collapse. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1393...

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Seeking advice from Braille users! I work for a university and a colleague in Student Support would like to purchase a Braille embosser for VI students and staff to use. She's looking at the Tiger Braille Embosser model: shop.rnib.org.uk/products/vie.... She's wanting feedback from Braille users...

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RNIB is celebrating 200 years of Braille this year, yet simultaneously cutting its free Braille transcription service. Please sign and share the petition.

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For anyone who still partakes in the apparently quaintly old-fashioned pursuit of letter-writing or sending hand-written cards, the cost of postage stamps is (again) increasing from 7 April. Beat the price hikes now! Then how about practising your handwriting and making someone's day?!

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I’ll say it again: generative AI should’ve been strangled at birth. It serves no good purpose, relies for its existence on theft, and is too expensive for the planet to sustain.

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Yesterday, staff at the University of Kent were given information about the third major restructure of professional services within the past 5 years. The information was unclear and incomplete, but many of us will yet again be facing risk of redundancy. Yesterday was 'University Mental Health Day'.😬

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Worth a listen just for the opening: Dave Gorman explaining the basics of a cryptic crossword clue to Grace Dent! 🤣 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Word of the day is ‘whiffling’ (17th century): fickle, inconstant, and making it up as you go along.

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The crisis in British higher education is acute + painful right now. If you are in it you already know this, but for those who are not I want to share what is going on. As strikes start at Newcastle Uni + others will doubtless follow, now is a time for solidarity + resistance

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www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Not just students, I would argue!

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Word of the day is ‘cumber-world’ (14th century): a person or thing that encumbers the planet.

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New cartoon exhibition at the pub called The Pub in Herne Bay, Kent. That's me on the left in the window 🙂 Mix of old favourites and some newer stuff.

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Aaah... Sheila Hancock! 🤣👏 www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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At the end of a terrible day for UK Higher Education, Research Professional News has a damning scorecard of failure, with 750 jobs under threat just at Cardiff, Kent, Durham and the University of East Anglia.

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Aaaand Kent is in the news again, for all the wrong reasons 😬 BBC News - University seeks more job cuts to save £19.5m www.bbc.com/news/article...

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