🇵🇸 Yesterday morning, an inspiring wave of student activism swept through McGill as courageous students reclaimed over 30 buildings on campus. Each renamed edifice now stands as a powerful testament to the Palestinian villages erased in the shadow of settler colonialism.

Delighted (and a bit teary) to report that UCU's Women Members' Standing Committee today unanimously passed an emergency motion to Congress condemning the shoddy, biased and dangerous Cass report.

Academics should really be speaking out about this. It’s bad research!

Nouvelle publication (en français!):

Conceptualiser la République réactionnaire : entre hype populiste, racisme libéral et normalisation du discours d’extrême droite

polirevue.files.wordpress.com/2024/04/mondon…

Still short of signatures.

Please don't put this off until later! We need to pass the 100k to trigger a debate in Parliament on creating a Palestinian Family Visa scheme.

Link below 👇🏽

ALLY-SHIP IN ACTION.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Ashley James

This is the fascist ideology of 'eradicating vermin.' Absolutely nothing to do with any form of justice.

Découvrez la note de Collectif Nos services publics sur la situation explosive et délirante des vacataires, exploités bien en-dessous du smic pour faire tourner les universités françaises.
La note : nosservicespublics.fr/vacataires
L'article du monde : lemonde.fr/societe/articl…
Et le podcast de...

This right here #TransRightsAreHumanRights

'The Nakba has also a lesser-known environmental dimension, the complete transformation of the environment, the weather, the soil, the loss of indigenous climate, the vegetation, the skies. The Nakba is a process of colonially imposed climate change.'

Fellow UCU members if you haven't signed this petition already please do so & share with your networks. Only 8 days left!

We still need 20k signatures to be able to trigger a debate in Parliament.

This is to create a Palestinian Family Visa Scheme to reunite families displaced

What would it look like if people in positions of power across universities responded to attacks to academic freedom related to Palestine like this? This should be the norm, not an exception.

End of year departmental lunch complete with the hopeful postdoc, lecherous Prof, and the two lecturers (who should have been promoted ages ago) lumbered with his the academic housework.

Interesting paper by Sazana Jayadeva on the use of social media and student mobility. #britsoc24

i just got paid a total £97.20 by an oxford college for supervising an undergraduate dissertation

Delighted that the introduction to our special issue of 'Higher Education' on challenges to international student mobility within Europe has been published

It's been great to work on this w/ Sazana Jayadeva Aline Courtois Daniel Faas & Dr Suzanne Beech

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We have today written to the university employer body UUK calling on them to review their UK-Israel research partnership scheme – in line with legal and ethical obligations to avoid any complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Jo Grady’s letter to Universities UK 👇

We need a bespoke visa scheme for academics from Gaza.

At present no one from Gaza can come to the U.K. unless they have a pre-existing visa, 6 months left on it and direct family here.

This was done immediately for Ukraine. Now we just watch as our colleagues are slaughtered