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ah, Ye Olde "blame the victim for the pain I inflict upon them" tactic. If you don't want art that's critical and you don't want to fund it, you don't want art, you just want free party propaganda.

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To summarize, the hidden procedure is vast amounts of lying.

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Watched Enchanted April last night. When Mrs. Fisher denies herself the joys of painting, I was reminded of how l denied myself the study of Eng Lit. I thought I should stick to proj mgmt. Didn’t realise it then, but visiting Birkbeck in 2015 to ask about an MA in Eng Lit really did change my life

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Maybe you should talk to some artists, Lisa? They'll tell you about the impact of government funding. Honestly this government are plumbing new depths. To talk about "virtue signaling" in what's a pathetic attempt to signal you're "anti-woke" or some such nonsense is hypocritical and dense.

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If you’re in Brighton today visit #TransKidsDeserveBetter art show. They’re exhibiting a painting of my family, by my dear friend Jane, who features in #HerNameisAlice Jane is Alice’s godmother. Her journey from TERF to ally is a tale of hope, of the possibility of change. Maybe see you there.

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"In Minnesota alone, well over 100,000 children have 504 plans, designed to adapt their educations in small, usually cost-free, but highly meaningful ways. If your family doesn’t have someone with a 504, someone you know and love does." This is a fantastic example of localizing a national issue.

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SAVE SONOMA STATE: A pluckye public regional liberal arts and sciences campus yn the North Bay Area ys fightinge devastatinge cuts that wolde hurt studentes, educacioun, and the communitye. www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

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c.f. other discussions of free speech in universities this week. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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“many faculty members voiced concerns about …a ‘lack of proportionality between the relatively small percentage of the lost income versus the large 35% cut in [graduate] programs.’” Congratulations to admin. Give them lemons, by god they’ll make lemonade and then try to drown the humanities in it

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I appreciate that this feels like the crash starting. Many universities have already shaved down Ph.D admissions after graduate unions win contracts. Spectacular austerity on top of cruddy, union-busting austerity. I doubt universities will draw on their endowments to ensure grad places stay open.

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Cc: UKHE

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If you see something like this you have a moral human obligation to tear it off the fucking wall, and I am being absolutely serious

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👏👏👏

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It seems to me that if words still meant anything, this kind of crap would be what people mean when they say "gender ideology" because this feels a whole lot more ideological than anything else anyone is saying about sex or gender

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Unbelievable garbage

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NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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Government knows this is a clusterfuck. Government knows it's the damn funding system. Government knows this is destroying careers and entire disciplines (what research can still happen?) I just can't fathom how anyone with the power to change this sleeps at night knowing they do nothing.

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"the presentation’s slide on ‘mental health support’ prompted collective laughter (which was edited out of the official recording)" Seldom seen such a neat encapsulation of the Absolute State Of #UKHE.

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This is hideous. There's no clarity or transparency, or indeed any attempt to create them. There's no sense of what a university is for - or of any care for workers or students. It has my stomach in knots just reading it.

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Genuinely shocking stuff from a wealthy university with absolutely no need for this kind of destruction

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Zoom's AI Companion (which I never enabled), sent me wildly hallucinated summary of mtg, ironically w/colleagues discussing AI & ethics. This tool was turned on w/Zoom update & intruded on a private pre-mtg convo....FFS....fund our institutes/initiatives on ethical tch to deal w/shit like this!

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Last week, a number of prominent UK feminists declared Donald Trump a "feminist hero" for banning trans women from playing sports. How did we get here? A new book by @reproutopia.bsky.social explores how reactionary tendencies have created Enemy Feminisms throughout the history of feminism

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Like clockwork 2022: management gives a consultancy a load of money so the advice they give cannot be denied (because: money... (?)) Consultancy's boilerplate advice: reduce uni to something bland with shrunk programmes and no input from the experts 2025: crashed student recruitment & job losses

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Funding is crucial for research. Cuts like this wouldn’t just reduce research output in the short run—they’d have long-term consequences, too. Research productivity relies on learning by doing, meaning these cuts could slow innovation for years to come. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Does the English-speaking world know that if it just keeps getting shittier then eventually people will catch on

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A few years ago I did an occupational folklife project for the Library of Congress, interviewing 25 rural mail carriers in Appalachia. What I learned is that their work goes way beyond delivering mail—they are care workers for the communities they serve. This is going to hit rural places the hardest

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Recently had a long meeting with senior managers about accessibility issues on campus and how hard they are finding it to cover the costs for fixing broken doors etc and yet... www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/...

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This is also the logical conclusion of decades now of slow mainstreaming of far-right talking points Islamophobia, transphobia, anti-immigration discourses were never "legitimate grievances" that deserved to be aired. Their purpose was to prepare the way for this

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Adding non-Western authors to the canon? Erasing history Taking down memorials to the Confederacy? Erasing history Publishing works critical of empire? Erasing history Closing history programs, cutting research grants, firing archivists and dismantling libraries? It doesn't look like anything to me

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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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A must read on the Clarivate announcement to end perpetual access to print, e-books, & digital collections by end of year. Siobhan Haimé suggests this disaster for libraries could be “an opportunity to radically explore alternative models to protect equitable access.” www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...

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It’s pretty wild that we’re at the point where even capitalists’ interests are more aligned with the general public than current govt actions. Cuts to food stamps hurt Big Ag Cuts to Medicaid hurt pharma and major hospitals Cuts to the pentagon budget??? The whole military industrial complex

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A fun Black History Month footnote to this is that the motif of the anthropomorphic legislative bill—known to most of us from Schoolhouse Rock—has roots in the Black press of the 1930s, as in these two editorial cartoons by Bill Chase & Romare Bearden, both highlighting anti-lynching legislation

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“What is both surprising and alarming is how many research-supporting organizations and institutions outside of the federal government have immediately capitulated to these bans – despite the fact that it’s not even clear whether these orders are legal.“ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/19/d...

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