We are graduate student-workers @unimelb campaigning for #RealCovidSupport and #UniversalExtensions to HDR candidatures. Our Open Letter to the uni execs has 600+ signatures (and counting), including 78 supervisors. Sign on if you haven't already! https://t.co/usNBOOJPyD

Just got reelected to MY union's executive committee today, so we decided to celebrate by donating to this. Hope you will too if you can. Solidarity with Columbia Academic Student Workers

UPDATE: the open letter has been sent off. 2721 signatures in less than a week! 170+ University of Melbourne academics (420+ academics internationally), hundreds of NTEU members, students, UMSU, Pride in Action, Janet Rice, and more! Pics c/o @finley_tobin at the UMSU rally

@binarythis Indigenous Studies Unit in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health: we unequivocally disassociate ourselves from the anti-Trans hate coming from a Faculty staff member at this university. We abhor this ignorant form of hate and prejudice. @uommedia @ArtsUnimelb Stop!

Students and staff/nteu members protesting against transphobia on campus today at the University of Melbourne #stoptransphobia

Favourite quote from today's protest, this on the chutzpah of having a TERF teach a course on Feminism: "It's not about difference of opinion. This is the equivalent of the University assigning a Geography course to a flat-Earther".

TW: transphobia on campus Shocked but not surprised

"surplus for me and not for thee" - australian vice chancellor proverb https://t.co/ax95zfQ63T

I'm so sorry for Melbourne Uni staff, students and the broader trans community. The promotion of hate speech in the form of university work that would not pass an ethics sniff test, should be something @unimelb takes very seriously.

So a senior academic at my university has launched this website where you can "anonymously" send in stories of trans women harming cis women (she refers to trans women as men throughout). How can we stop this nonsense 😫

this is possibly the best trade union advert i've ever seen @ucu @warwickanticas

I don't see how letting what actually is a generation of academic workers pretty much fall off the map if they're not funded by God or their parent's building society is not the remit of a trade union.

Is anyone else finding it impossible to work in the heat?

Solidarity to all PGRs, especially those who are anxious about the coming months and for whom their PhD is the least of their concerns. You are not alone ☺️

Media release from the Melbourne Uni Casuals Network on today's rally and victory at Cumnock House against management's attempt to water down backpay claims. We have pushed them to pay us our stolen wages in full. ✊

We have got word that a casual from Monash Uni will be on 7.30 tonight. Tune in!