Trisha Pender

Author, academic, activist

[Trisha Pender @pender_trisha]

I am doing this and would love you to sponsor me or better yet join me! Walk for ENCORE : Every step supports women after breast cancer https://t.co/FgqRIs4i6K #WalkForENCORE via @raisely

[Paul Salzman @paul_salzman]

Fantastic day long seminar, Learning from Early Modern books, at Birkbeck on 7 June: https://t.co/VpjSTpHdch

Do come if you are in London.

[University of Newcastle @Uni_Newcastle]

Since graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, Emma has gone from strength to strength as she carves out her career as a screenwriter.

Her successful @SBS comedy, Latecomers, is only the first of many big things on the horizon! 🎬

[Hannah Forsyth she/her 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.soci @hannahforsyth]

So Indy shakes his head and steps into the Room of Retirement, accepts the stupid clock that he will soon hand to a homeless person and asks himself. WTF?

[Hannah Forsyth she/her 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.soci @hannahforsyth]

Finally, just when Indy is thinking about heading home, he’s confronted with urgent questions from his head of discipline, about whether a formula privileging real world application or field defining thinking is most important in deciding who gets the best classroom next year.

[Hannah Forsyth she/her 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.soci @hannahforsyth]

Then Indy has to fight Nazis who want him to acknowledge that he’s a secret agent for leftist woke thinking and has Soros sponsorship.

[Hannah Forsyth she/her 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.soci @hannahforsyth]

After that, there is a consultation workshop, where Indy is given an opportunity to ’ask questions’ as part of the staff centred consultation on authentic assessment and real work simulation in archaeological teaching.

[Hannah Forsyth she/her 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.soci @hannahforsyth]

Then he goes to a meeting where it is specified that archaeological field work needs to be cut, because the latest educational research shows that archaeologists learn best by self directed quizzes and ten minute videos.

[Hannah Forsyth she/her 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.soci @hannahforsyth]

Then he receives several very long emails explaining how he has to manually copy and paste last year’s learning outcomes into a new template even though nothing has changed, just in case one year they want to change one of the regulations no one reads. It is a legal thing.

[Hannah Forsyth she/her 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.soci @hannahforsyth]

Then he went to a meeting where he learned that “research showed” that student consultation, individual feedback or indeed anything else that helps each student become the historian or archaeologist that only they can be, is useless and therefore not included in his workload.

[Hannah Forsyth she/her 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.soci @hannahforsyth]

Indiana Jones, whose front row students once wrote “I love you” on their eyelids, now faced a half empty lecture theatre who hadn’t done the reading.

[Michelle Arrow @MichelleArrow1]

As if accountability wasn’t bad enough at universities already, we have well-paid uni executives taking expensive, secret advice from consulting firms?I’ll bet PwC has zero experience in research or teaching. We need university governance reform now: https://t.co/ftqt8SMLrM

[NTEU New South Wales @NTEUNSW]

You can't make this up. University of Newcastle mgmt lifts the VC's pay close to $1mil while seemingly employing tactics to reduce pay and conditions of staff who keep the uni running. This is why @NTEUnion members are on strike TODAY 10.30am Civic Park.
#UONstrike #WeAreUON

[@retropastiche.bsky.social @RetroPastiche]

I recorded this a couple of days ago after reading @jgladwig’s “Why I will be striking”. This is why I’ll be at the #UONStrike tomorrow. Join us and show University management that #WeAreUON.

[Trisha Pender @pender_trisha]

This is us today! Share share share away my friends!

[NTEU New South Wales @NTEUNSW]

If only UON management would stop dancing around giving staff fair pay and secure jobs! @NTEUnion members performing the nutbush in Newcastle’s CBD for #UONstrike

[Emina Subasic @eminasub]

It was amazing to stand up for our rights and for our University - and to do so with @PaoliniStefi ! There is power and solidarity in Union, but there is also sheer joy… @NTEUnion @NTEUNSW @Psychology_UON @Uni_Newcastle

[Trisha Pender @pender_trisha]

Check out UON doing the Nutbush at today’s 24 hour strike

[@retropastiche.bsky.social @RetroPastiche]

Go you good things. @pender_trisha and I missed the fun due to knees but we love the energy and enthusiasm for the #UONStrike because #WeAreUON

[NTEU @NTEUnion]

Tomorrow, staff at the University of Newcastle will take action to request that senior management withdraw their Fair Work Commission dispute and return to negotiations in good faith.

Staff deserve better.

𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐅𝐅:
1. Send an email (use our template or write your own) to UON council here: https://t.co/8OpsGEPdnf

2. Attend the rally. 10:30am @ Newcastle Civic park, then marching to NuSpace at 12pm!

[@retropastiche.bsky.social @RetroPastiche]

Any @Uni_Newcastle staff who were undecided about attending tomorrow's #UONStrike should read this. Fair Pay for UON Staff obviously doesn't start at the top!

#WeAreUON

[LindaLindaLinda @LindaDrummond]

Newcastle, we'd love your support. I've never known such a bunch of hard-working, passionate people as the academics and professionals at the University of Newcastle. We're just asking for good faith negotiations to continue. #UONstrike