Bristol Rebel Alliance

A collection of very cynical academics in Bristol, rebelling against current practices in Higher Education.

[Bristol Transformed @BrizTransformed]

📢📢 We've just heard about a strike called by the staff of @OMABakery, the Assembly Rooms bakery in Old Market! 📢📢

They're being treated shockingly. Support the strike, and come help picket tomorrow if you can! @BristolIWW @BFAWUOfficial @unitesouthwest @StrikeMapUK #Bristol

[Bristol Rebel Alliance @HERebellion]

@json_dirs Agreed with your points, and think we need to go further than misplaced rage: we need to actually organise. As you say, the problems in academia come from outside - rebuilding the eviscerated labour movement would solve many problems. For us, that begins in our workplaces in HE.

[jonny saunders @json_dirs]

I think it is a tragic mindgame that for-profit industries have so destroyed public financing for education, in turn making academia a labor hellscape, that going to work for-profit has become a transgressive retreat to reality and humanity.

[IWGB Universities of London @IWGBUoL]

@LSHTM @IWGBunion @LSHTM's predominantly BAME and migrant cleaners and security officers are on far inferior pay, terms and conditions than their directly employed colleagues who work in the same buildings.👎🏻👎🏻

Our members will no longer accept this two tiered workforce!

[Bristol Rebel Alliance @HERebellion]

@MrAkashTrivedi @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter @OpenAcademics Luck certainly plays some role, but let’s not ignore the whole host of pernicious factors at work. Race, class, accent, lack of psychopathic tendencies can all work against you: they’re beyond your control, but tell us far more about how broken and biased this system is than luck

[Bristol Rebel Alliance @HERebellion]

@PhDVoice Once we thought academia was about solving problems that would improve the future of humanity and/or offer profound insight to enrich our lives. Having lived through the broken system that incentivises bad behaviour, we now want to burn it to the ground and worship the ashes.

[Bristol Rebel Alliance @HERebellion]

@SwetaVijaykumar @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter @thephdstory 1. Well now that entire section makes no sense.
2. We do not need ~10 irrelevant citations to the supervisor’s previous work.
3. Never before has the comma been abused in such novel and creative ways.

[Bristol Rebel Alliance @HERebellion]

“Adeyeye has not responded to requests to comment but stepped down from his role on the university’s bullying policy committee”

Oh lord.

https://t.co/9v0oFCgQUB

[Bristol Rebel Alliance @HERebellion]

@_screaming_mm_ @AcademicChatter @PhDForum Professor should back down, then reconsider all of their life choices up until that moment and take DMT.

[Bristol Rebel Alliance @HERebellion]

@16_mehwish In our circles it is, but probably not for the reasons you’re thinking of.

https://t.co/LyjOs5I18u

[Bristol Rebel Alliance @HERebellion]

@PhDinGermany @PhDVoice "I was startled to learn that academic achievements were not always what mattered most."

Maybe 20 years ago this was surprising, but today?

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Exclusive: The Science Museum has signed a gagging clause in its agreement with Shell International to sponsor its climate change exhibition, agreeing to take care not to say anything that could damage the company’s reputation, Channel 4 News has learnt.

[Bristol Rebel Alliance @HERebellion]

@shamsarz These are troubling times indeed. We wish you a speedy recovery✊

[Bristol Rebel Alliance @HERebellion]

@shamsarz So just to be clear, your supervisor still expects you to meet on a weekend? Outside of ordinary working hours? And you’re grateful?

[Bristol Rebel Alliance @HERebellion]

@shamsarz Okay. Are your meetings on weekends because you're working 7 days a week, or because you work on different days?

[Bristol Rebel Alliance @HERebellion]

@mitchmatheny @PhDVoice Thoughts: if the content of this documentary was surprising to you then you’ve been living under a rock and you’re part of the problem.

[Bristol Rebel Alliance @HERebellion]

@Prof_GD_Foster Solution: abolish conferences. Or men.