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If we continue on this trajectory, we risk becoming a country that cannot afford to teach its own language, support its own culture, or train enough professionals to run its public services ✍️ James Downs wp.me/p8Mk4U-VIp

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This is not circulating enough among mathematicians 🧮 Cardiff University is threatening 1/2 of its staff in maths with compulsory redundancy, despite returning a significant surplus to the university

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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

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Pressure mounts on VC Wendy Larner. Maths cuts ‘will cause lasting damage’ to Cardiff Uni, warn Nobelists. Proposal to merge maths and computer science at under-fire institution risks damaging one of its ‘crown jewels’. - Times Higher. 👇👀 www.timeshighereducation.com/news/maths-c...

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www.campaignmathsci.uk/post/mathema... #MathSky

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As someone who studied German at a Welsh University, who married a German, & has half-German kids, I find it unfathomable Cardiff Uni would cut modern languages entirely. Especially when it has the ££ to avoid doing so.👇

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A trade union whose members at Cardiff University are fighting 400 job cuts and the closure of five Schools have called on the Learned Society of Wales to suspend fellowships previously awarded to the university’s two most senior academics ✍️Martin Shipton

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S4C: "The minister responsible for HE in Wales has asked universities to "consider all options", including using its financial reserves, to prevent job losses." The Uni has confirmed to Cardiff UCU it has not allocated a use for up to £188m of accessible cash. 1/2 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Newly published accounts for Cardiff University - which has announced massive job cuts and School closures - reveal that its overall surplus increased by nearly sixfold in a year and that its unrestricted cash reserves are as high as £500m ✍️Martin Shipton

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That's accurate.

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Article in Business Live about the top down approach chosen by CU for the job cuts: www.business-live.co.uk/opinion-anal...

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“Cardiff University planned cuts 'risk collapse of maths infrastructure in Wales' warn world experts” - @walesonline.bsky.social www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...

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Understanding modern technologies (such as machine learning, data science, quantum technologies,...) relies on a firm understanding of Mathematics, which is why the cuts to the Maths department are so upsetting. #MathSky www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...

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Maths can take you anywhere! Notice the strong Cardiff participation on this poster. Four Cardiff mathematicians! #MathSky www.acadmathsci.org.uk/maths-can-ta...

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Understanding modern technologies (such as machine learning, data science, quantum technologies,...) relies on a firm understanding of Mathematics, which is why the cuts to the Maths department are so upsetting. #MathSky www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...

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In the early 1900s, Emmy Noether explored the mathematical consequences of symmetries. In doing so, she shook the very foundations of fundamental physics. https://buff.ly/414iuVL

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Ich rechne damit, dass heute, Vorwürfe gegen meine Doktorarbeit, die ich vor 25 Jahren geschrieben habe, veröffentlicht werden. Ich habe mich entschieden, das Ganze transparent zu machen. Denn ich kenne die Vorwürfe – und konnte sie vorab prüfen lassen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYyA...

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Some wonderful solidarity here re the Cardiff university cuts. Many excellent points made. via @theguardian.com letters. @ucu.org.uk @llantwit.bsky.social

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Wales’ higher education landscape could be “devastated” by the large-scale cuts announced by Cardiff University, academics have warned #AcademicSky #EduSky

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Why not acknowledge that the whole sector needs an overhaul? Running universities like businesses and funding them through extortionate overseas fees and a botched full economic costing system has failed. Time for a rethink. Education matters. Science matters. @jostevenslabour.bsky.social

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Staff at Cardiff University fear huge job cuts are about to be announced by a senior management team that has already spoken of an ‘immediate existential crisis’ ✍️Martin Shipton

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Leeds leading

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The next meeting of our research network "Operator Algebras in the South of the UK" will take place in Cardiff on 7th March 2025 and registration is now open. We have an amazing line-up of speakers. #MathSky sites.google.com/view/operato...

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The next meeting of our research network "Operator Algebras in the South of the UK" will take place in Cardiff on 7th March 2025 and registration is now open. We have an amazing line-up of speakers. If you are a researcher working with operator algebras, come along! sites.google.com/view/operato...

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Folks who are: LGBTQ Welsh (or strong connection to Wales) Big Doctor Who Fans Make yourselves know to me for a thing.

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Further German science X-odus: Following up on 60 universities, two major German science networks - the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Leibniz Gemeinschaft - have now also left X:

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Der Angriff auf die Gender Studies ist nur der erste Schritt. Faschisten ist das wissenschaftliche Prinzip des machtfreien Diskurses grundsätzlich ein Dorn im Auge. Dass selbst die "härtesten" Disziplinen in Gefahr sind, zeigt die Geschichte de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch...

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Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?

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How Keir Starmer has had his best day so far yesterday by finally standing up to the emergence of a common UK/US online right, headed by the radicalised Musk. My analysis for ARD German TV (german, but there always is deepl..)

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It was about time.

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Kervaire invariant DONE! arxiv.org/abs/2412.10879

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Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme

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The British public in general – and every key group of Labour target voters in particular – seem to support EU freedom of movement. Even Reform voters only seem to oppose it 44-45. Should politicians believe the voters? www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-public-i...

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Making Tea xkcd.com/3022

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