Adam Tickle. VC.

Formerly an Economic Geographer of note. Newly a specialist in intellectual self-parody. Fails upwards. A parody of an academic. #NeoliberalBeast

[Adam Tickle. VC. @Adamtickles]

Call yourself a “critical geographer” yet fail to *act* critically when your colleagues need you? Think the #UCUstrike doesn’t apply to you?

My new journal is just for you! ‘Apolitical Geography’ offers an uncritical space for such #geographers to wallow in their hypocrisy:

[Adam Tickle. VC. @Adamtickles]

Fellow scabs! I am humbled and thrilled 🙏 to be the #KeyNote at the upcoming 'Negotiating Scab Subjectivities' workshop. Join me in #Davos to discuss how YOU can benefit from *not* showing solidarity with the #UCUstrike:

Please cascade to relevant colleagues
#NoneOfUSS

[Adam Tickle. VC. @Adamtickles]

Dear colleagues,

Student Experience should *always* be placed above the ability to stay alive during #COVID19. Sure, death is “bad”, but risking slightly reduced student satisfaction scores from implementing *basic* public health measures is far worse.

Yours,

Senior Management

[Adam Tickle. VC. @Adamtickles]

We need higher VC salaries to attract the very *best* managerial talent.

[Adam Tickle. VC. @Adamtickles]

5/5
I now throw open the challenge to the our hallowed institutions of the @RGS_IBGhe and the @theAAG - how can we ensure that M&S-style excellence, privilege, whiteness and pedigree be protected within our own sacred walls and within our discipline of #geography?

[Adam Tickle. VC. @Adamtickles]

THREAD:
1/5 I have been quiet for a while, focussed on the brave and necessary struggle to make academia the precarious and anxiety-ridden place that makes for the most productive work. But I reappear, because I have found myself a new comrade: Prof. Gill Valentine @sheffielduni

[Adam Tickle. VC. @Adamtickles]

4/5
Gill Valentine is more than a manager - she is also a 'diversity champion' who aims to make the university a 'welcoming environment' - again like M&S, with aisles wide enough to contain our egos, and prices high enough to maintain our exclusivity. https://t.co/nPeef48l1b

[Adam Tickle. VC. @Adamtickles]

Your VC is a Tory

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Happy new year 🥳

[Adam Tickle. VC. @Adamtickles]

Professor Dame Rothwell, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability.

[UoM Rent Strike 2023 @rentstrikeUoM]

New: Nancy Rothwell has just admitted she lied on National TV last night when she claimed she had been in contact Zac, a student who was the victim of a racial profiling and assault by @OfficialUoM security.

Shame on Nancy. Shame on UoM.
Solidarity to Zac.

[Adam Tickle. VC. @Adamtickles]

...I'm sure students @ManchesterSu will enjoy paying to be locked up and will confirm that to be the case in the NSS.

#highered #marketing #carceraluniversity
@nss_ipsos

[Adam Tickle. VC. @Adamtickles]

I haven't tweeted for a while - I find public scrutiny and accountability to be toxic concepts.

But I tweet forth today my praise for Nancy Rothwell @OfficialUoM . Nancy you have showed how VCs can be more than managers - but also rent-extractors, security guards, jailors!

[Adam Tickle. VC. @Adamtickles]

Staff upset with me for endangering their health. They shouldnt be! With students settled & rent paid, we'll then lock it down, incarcerating them in halls. Then we'll consider health and safety.

Relax. We got this. We've been planning it for months

@ussu @ucu #cashbeforecare

[Adam Tickle. VC. @Adamtickles]

I am so sorry. You might be aware that I formerly marketed as a radical geographer so I can help here. I am happy to theorise this situation - but do no more than that.

You have my sincerest sympathies, my kind words, my inaction, my secret contempt.

@sussexucu #geography

[Adam Tickle. VC. @Adamtickles]

We will defeat this virus through appropriately laminated signage! #COVID19

[Adam Tickle. VC. @Adamtickles]

Nailed it:

[Adam Tickle. VC. @Adamtickles]

On behalf of senior management, I sincerely hope no one decides to JOIN A UNION at this uncertain time. This will make our task of undermining working conditions or sacking you *much* more difficult.

Please cascade neoliberally,

Your VC

[Adam Tickle. VC. @Adamtickles]

I’m humbled and proud to support this initiative 😉

[Adam Tickle. VC. @Adamtickles]

As a #geographer of proven moral agility, I couldn’t have put this better myself:

“fixed-term appointments are no longer an apprenticeship but part of a business model that accepts staff insecurity as a necessary condition of HR “agility””

https://t.co/uZzBMzpQ7t