Very happy to announce that 'The Maternal in Creative Work' is now available in paperback and also, there is a discount, so get your copy and order some for your uni library as well!

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"The gap between the cost of doing research & how much funding universities get to do it is £5.3bn" Not true #University finance offices dump unrelated costs (admin, professional services & estates) onto research Did @UniversitiesUK dictate the article to @Wonkhe? #academia

UK university Vice Chancellor 'to do' list: 1. Make professional services staff redundant 2. Shift admin workload to academic staff 3. Make academic staff redundant 4. Run uni with AI chatbots 5. Close/merge University 6. Retire as millionaire.

The UUK strategy of focusing exclusively on adjusting fees for inflation is to distract from the sector's desperate need for reform of not only funding but of leadership accountability. UUK wants to avoid collapse without drawing any further attention to itself and its failures.

Voice of Victim "My #university requires us to use Key Travel It has near monopoly on travel in UK #academia It's usually dearer than buying it ourselves It's either impossible or costly to change anything We incur additional costs through this forced monopoly Cui bono?"

I wasn't born in the U.K. But then neither was Boris Johnson, Joanna Lumley, or tea.

Women don’t owe the world children. They don’t owe men babies. And they don’t owe you an explanation.

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Replying to work emails makes you respect Yoda's decision to die instead of answering more questions

Down and out. The contempt he showed us finally repaid. Wonderful result.

The only perspective on AI that matters

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. I’m just staggered that this came into force last week and hardly anyone (especially none of the political parties) are talking about it! Food is going to become even more expensive than it is already and supplies of certain products may become more difficult to get hold of.

Good fr Blunkett: 'They [non-London/SE uni grads] are discounted...by the absurd longitudinal studies that judge the success of higher education by how much graduates earn in their early working life. A more ridiculous measure could not have been invented'

Hey folks, please come edit wikipedia with me & bunch of brilliant people! @thisisliveart study room is fab to work in with loads of rare publications across a breadth and depth of live art practices. @artandfeminism @AmySharrocks @blobelwarming @ppateyferg @DianaADamian

Who does the academic housework? A new study from Denmark reveals the strategies that mid career men embrace to avoid internal service work - ignoring emails (evasion) and cultivating a reputation for being disorganized.

Sir Gregory Doran, Artistic Director Emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare Company, will tonight deliver the inaugural Annual Rose Playhouse Lecture. The @roseplayhouse and @lsbu have partnered for this event, to be introduced by Sir @simonhughes

Academia is being stifled by managerial self-promotion. I cannot be creative anymore as I don't have the time. I am continually servicing administrative management. They are destroying our creative thoughts and their progression to useful outcomes. Academia is no longer working.