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📢 Call for Papers: ‘Whose Voices?’ - Oral History Society Annual Conference 2025 in partnership with Scottish Oral History Centre University of Strathclyde #Glasgow 6-7 June 2025📢 Whose voices should we record in #oralhistory? 📅 CfPs closes 10/01/25: ohs.org.uk/ohs-annual-con…

"The transfer of land from Indigenous peoples to European powers and then to the Canadian government and settlers had, and continues to have, profound consequences for both people and land." - Jocelyn Thorpe niche-canada.org/2016/04/27/ind… #envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory

New report from new land workers trade union SALT released at ORFC. It's essential reading for anyone in the world of agroecology and organic farming. Some of its findings are truly shocking. E.g. Report found ave wage of a trainee on an agroecological farm is £1.41 per hour.🧵

We have a couple of great seminars coming up on Wednesday Free the Map – Beyond state-centrism: reimagining maps of borders and migration / 1pm-2.30pm CRITIQUE-EEHN work-in-progress: Samantha Vice on environmental aesthetics / 3.30pm-5pm More info here: critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/category/event…

and August 2024 Edinburgh University announces cuts to the budget for tutors - those so expensive members of staff; December announces 'selective' redunancies and impending compulsory redundancies and oh yes meantime there was also that 20k bonus for the person making the cuts

We can hit 10,000 signatures. I believe we can! Let's go! 🏳️‍⚧️✊️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7025…

300 jobs at risk at Newcastle University 🚨 Our members should not pay the price for vice-chancellors' inability to manage finances. Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social say enough is enough. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

10-5 28 March at National Trust for Scotland Willow Tea Rooms, the 2025 Scottish Food Heritage Symposium. Food is culture ! SAHA IASSL Scottish History Network The Centre for Robert Burns Studies Centre for Scottish & Celtic Studies UofG Arts & Humanities eventbrite.ca/e/the-2025-sco…

This is tomorrow!

Industrial action warning over £140m jobs threat at Edinburgh University. Quote from Edinburgh UCU branch president: “... Members have been clear that they strongly oppose compulsory redundancies and we expect the principal to heed that message.” scotsman.com/education/edin…

Yay! Congratulations! Looking forward to the book launch tomorrow.

#moralmaze #bbcradio4 BBC Radio 4 sooo much vacuous essentialism on this programme, from men claiming to defend men, while also saying they are biologically "angry & randy", honestly, one of the panel just said this. So much infantilisation drfinnmackay.co.uk/blog/adolescen…

We CAN reduce infections. 📌Clean the indoor air in all public spaces. 📌Reintroduce testing and support ppl to stay home when ill. 📌FFP2/3 masks in healthcare. 📌Improved vaccines made available to anyone who wants one. 📌Office for National Statistics (ONS) data collection. Why did the UK Health Security Agency give up?

Butler is spot on. Her argument concerning the use of state power (through lawfare) in order to enforce censorship is as applicable to the strategies of the GC movement and the far right in the UK as it is in the US.

A statue worth having even as one wished there was no need for it

Two more scholarships for MA studies for students of Gaza at the Uni of Sussex, UK. Due date for applications 1st June 2025. Please share. Scholarships for Palestine : University of Sussex sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-fun…

The Biologists Say No Biology is not binary: a letter from biologists, doctors, and other experts to Bridget Phillipson, Minister for Women and Equalities docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

Not In Our Name - Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against the Supreme Court Ruling If you are a feminist academic or work in education please consider adding your name - link to sign in the letter below. docs.google.com/document/u/0/d…

Meanwhile, over 2,000 feminist academics have signed this. If you work in education and wish to add your signature there is a link in the doc 👇