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Claire Duncanson from @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social on BBC's Lunchtime Live explaining why management's plan to cut £140m and an estimated 1800 jobs doesn't make sense 🤔 #StopTheCuts #NoCompulsoryRedundancies

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STV news coverage of today’s rally. #stopthecuts #ucuedinburgh #ucu #universityofedinburgh youtube.com/watch?v=08vO...

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Opinions on the death and maiming of thousands of children - very complex and in need of silence . Opinions on Irish rap groups - EASY www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

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Congratulations America, your president has dragged you in to yet another new war.

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Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.

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He’s already won the contempt of pensioners, disabled and LGBT+ people. Now he’s going for the contempt of young people.

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The change in lexicon from ‘working class’ to ‘working people’ has done huge damage to people in receipt of welfare. We know working class people often work precarious jobs periodically moving in and out of work. And WC people have poorer health often because of work they do. 1/

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Incredible support for our staff at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social on picket lines today in their fight against management's plans to slash budgets and jobs ✊

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Israel will continue to take, occupy and ethnically cleanse land until it is stopped.

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BBC Admits 'Regret' After Again Failing to Disclose British Colonel's Links to Israeli Defence Force – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/06/20/b...

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Greenham Common women presumably would be called a terrorist organization in these times …

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@greenparty.org.uk co-leader @carladenyer.bsky.social MP claimed that Reeves and the Labour government had been “caught out making promises in a secret exchange deal which goes against the interests of the British people”. Labour's dirty deals with #FossilFuels www.desmog.com/2025/06/19/r...

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I would much prefer it if we started taking money off the billionaires who definately don't need it rather than various poor people who definately do. Wouldn't you?

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Queen! So glad to have @sophisteria.bsky.social at her first ever NEC meeting today after leading and addressing this rally ❤️

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I didn’t think the US paid much attention to South American political traditions, but here they are rounding up people into sport stadia to be disappeared (cf. Vel d’Hiv, Paris, 1942).

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Our new Vice President at his desk! @dyfrigjones.bsky.social

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Such a shame that “academic freedom” doesn’t mean freedom as an academic to do the job in the way you know is best for your university and its students.

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Sir Keir's just an ordinary bloke making tough decisions like selling weapons to Israel and cutting welfare to the disabled and elderly.

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Went to a (very good) talk last week by someone in the US who told us that one person in her study who needed surgery for a dodgy mitral valve had to spend $300,000 to get it fixed and someone else WHO WAS INSURED still had to pay $100,000! 😱

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Such a shame that “academic freedom” doesn’t mean freedom as an academic to do the job in the way you know is best for your university and its students.

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Now this work by my brilliant colleagues really is something to be proud of!

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Andor Characters and Their Counterparts in ‘Allo ‘Allo 1. Dedra Meero and Private Helga Geerhart.

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If Labour is going to cut benefits, maybe they should start by cutting the £10-15bn benefit they give annually to the oil and gas industry.

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'ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”...ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.' time.com/7295195/ai-c...

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@climatenews.bsky.social “To achieve a 66% chance of keeping below the 1.5C target, emissions from 2025 onwards must be limited to 80bn tons of CO2. That is 80% lower than it was in 2020.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Personally I’m shocked and offended by the fact that OfS and DfE are busy trying to futilely appease the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Reform while the HE sector in the UK collapses. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I’d love to know what this word salad from the Guardian about the OFS free-speech nonsense actually means for universities in practice. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Is it because Starmer admires Blair so much that he too wants to become a war criminal?

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I wonder if there’s any relationship between global university ranking and flatlined funding since 2013? www.ft.com/content/d9ea...

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Brilliant Bright Eyes!! 😍

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Where has all the money gone? Long time passing Where has all the money gone? Long time ago Where has all the money gone? Gone to billionaires every one When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

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Do they have weapons of mass destruction Keir Starmer? This time? Do they?

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The EHRC's lawyers admitted its position re. toilets adopted in its interim update (specifically mandating employers to have single-sex toilets instead of individual gender neutral cubicles) was wrong. We think they're even more wrong still, though.

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“latest shooting of gazans seeking food”

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Universities are just so sad these days 😥

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There is no better way, IMO, of uniting a country behind its leadership, than giving it an aggressive and unpredictable external enemy known for indiscriminately murdering civilians, just at the point your leaders were finally negotiating the end of sanctions that had been making life a misery.

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There is no better way, IMO, of uniting a country behind its leadership, than giving it an aggressive and unpredictable external enemy known for indiscriminately murdering civilians, just at the point your leaders were finally negotiating the end of sanctions that had been making life a misery.

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