EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT! ***Oxford UCU Strike Rally!*** Venue: Outside the Clarendon Building, Broad Street Date: Monday 25 November Time: 12 pm Organising group: Oxford UCU facebook.com/events/2154349… There will be cakes (cake sale in aid of the strike fund)

UCU says staff have reached "breaking point" over a number of issues, including workloads, real-terms cuts in pay, a 15% gender pay gap and changes to #USS pensions. bbc.co.uk/news/education… #UCUStrike #UCUStrikesBack

Our research group in FASoS Maastricht is hiring - we are a great bunch doing lots of interesting work (and very welcoming too) so please do consider applying: academictransfer.com/nl/288195/assi…

Still time to apply (until 27 Jan), to join #interdisciplinary FASoS Maastricht. My Maastricht University has not yet recovered from cyberattack. If you want more details, please contact me via DM here or via contact page on sallywyatt.nl academictransfer.com/en/288195/assi…

We're looking for a postdoc on nwo-SSH funded project “AI & clinical decision making” FASoS Maastricht Maastricht University. Together with great colleagues at UMC Utrecht - Annelien Bredenoord @JongsmaKr & Megan Milota academictransfer.com/en/290773/post…

SimRefinery: an unexpected connection between oil and computing history, Cyrus Mody: obscuritory.com/sim/when-simci…

Honoured and delighted to find out today that I've received the FASoS Maastricht Education Prize for best tutor in our new BA, Digital Society, which included this lovely collage from the student reps. Here's to many more years teaching this BA and its fantastic students!

Not receiving my Christmas parcel from work in time for our Christmas quiz makes me feel like I'm on the naughty list

🚨 Save The Tollington Arms 🚨 After a year of fighting an unprecedented global pandemic, we are now facing a new fight for survival. #SaveTheTolly #SaveYourLocal Please sign our petition: buff.ly/3mWHHvV

Just finished Alex Garland's DEVS (2020). Really liked it but is it a Silicon Valley retelling of Pullman's Dark Materials? #devs #hisdarkmaterials

I don't update on here nearly enough, but today I'm really delighted to say that I've received a Veni grant from NWO-domein SGW (Inactive) to fund my project 'The Prediction Machine' on the history of futurology and neoliberalism in British government. Thanks to all who gave support and advice!

In NL, only 2-3% of university staff are unionised. This week, the unions and Dutch universities re-negotiate our collective labour agreement. With more members, we have more decision power on salaries, pensions, casualisation, overwork. Join a union! Word lid van de vakbond!

TEACHERS, ACADEMICS, STUDENTS, JOIN US! Thursday 12/05 13h at Domplein, Utrecht. We will hold a demonstration outside the window of the last CAO negotiation. This is our change to have an impact. Have your free coffee with us!! See-> zeropointseven.nl/gallery/CAO-De…

Hmm, do you think the editor of the 'See also' section on the Smiling Sun Wikipedia page has an agenda? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiling_S…

Exciting news from BTarchives! This diary was key & rich source for my PhD. Now the world can read Gordon Radley's account of wartime Dollis Hill & the incredible work of Tommy Flowers, Jimmy Doust & hundreds of Post Office engineers & scientists 👨🏻‍🔧☎️👩🏻‍🏭

I'm hiring for a funded PhD position in the history of public and/or political cybernetics. Deadline is 5 April and advert is here: academictransfer.com/en/325445/phd-…. Please share with students, retweet, etc. Thanks!

We are #hiring a #PhD candidate in the History of Public #Cybernetics supervised by Jacob Ward and Cyrus Mody Apply now 👇academictransfer.com/en/325445/phd-…