Tom Schofield

Researcher, artist, designer, academic.

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

Cambridge: Half our students won't graduate
Media: meh
Cambridge: We've admitted a record number of state school students
Media: OMG OMG OMG APOCALYPSE

[Birmingham UCU @BirminghamUCU]

📢📢** Breaking News! ** BUCU have seen evidence of the following at Uni of Birmingham

😱a 4000-word essay being marked, including feedback, in 12 (twelve) mins by management!

😱management trying to use PhD students to mark 2nd & final year work, against uni regulations! 1/2

[Ars Electronica @ArsElectronica]

(4/7) “Unerasable Characters Series” by Winnie Soon (HK/UK) addresses the chilling scale and effect of state-enacted #censorship, enforced through #digital infrastructures. https://t.co/ne1zFcAXho

[Sarah @SarahMcQueen27]

@martinmbauer Is there a list of the universities involved? We’ve got a busy schedule of Uni Open Days over the next few weeks 🤷‍♀️

[Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social @NewcastleUniUCU]

"Universities are trying everything to get around the boycott except the obvious: resuming negotiations with my lecturers"

#SettleTheDispute #ucuRISING @ucu

https://t.co/oIG4uVUjed

[Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social @NewcastleUniUCU]

📢Strike Dates Announced

In response to the punitive deductions our members are facing, our employer has been notified & we are announcing 5 days of strike on Fri 23rd, Mon 26th-Thu 29th June. This will coincide with open day & many exam boards.
#SettleTheDispute #ucuRISING @ucu

[Durham UCU (@ducu.bsky.social) @ucuatdurham]

BREAKING: Students not progressing at Durham whilst management refuse to sign joint statement calling for negotiations.

At four preliminary boards examiners that happened today, hundreds of students did not progress to their next year of study.

[Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social @NewcastleUniUCU]

In a pre-bank-holiday #ucuRISING MAB update...@UniofNewcastle have not only refused to negotiate meaningfully over 100% deductions, they have now specified that deductions will continue until 30th Sept

[Richard Jefferies Society @RJefferiesSoc]

On this International Day of Biodiversity, the popular book 'WILD FELL: Fighting for nature on a Lake District hill farm' by @leeinthelakes (@DoubledayUK) has been announced as the winner of the prestigious Richard Jefferies Award. Congratulations.
https://t.co/GpHYYatkN0

[Jon Moses @jm0ses]

As parliament debate #AccessToNature today, a personal essay.

Deep in my valley is a tree so old it makes my bones ache. There are only a handful like it in the country, and its boughs harbour some of our oldest stories.

Yet almost no-one has ever seen it. 🧵

[Tom Schofield @tomschofield]

@Hesketh1981 @ucu Wow. That’s horrendous. Solidarity

[Chris Hesketh @Hesketh1981]

If you want to understand how punitive university managers are being during the marking and assessment boycott period called by @UCU, here is a good example

[David Petts @DavidPetts1]

Due to @durham_uni aggressive attitude to staff engaged in the @ucu Marking and Assessment Boycott I have just had to email @pintofscience explaining that as I'm only getting 50% of my salary I am not in a position to take part in their wonderful outreach programme 1/3

[Hope Estella @HopeWhitmore]

1/ When my wonderful baby was born in July, weighing three and a half lbs, I started having terrible thoughts

[Bijan Parsia @bparsia]

Hi @ucu,

I’m not a lawyer but this partial performance stuff is just obviously broken. I’d hope human rights law would fix it, but…I’m not filled with confidence.

Some details.

We do action short of a strike. Most of that involves breaking our contract.

[The Glad Cafe @thegladcafe]

💥 NEW SHOW 💥
New York-based composer and filmmaker Phill Niblock + sound artist @Tim4Shaw return to The Glad Cafe on 2nd May!
TICKETS 🎟: https://t.co/z3phnh8PCp

[James Sumner @JamesBSumner]

@ucu How do I signal that I support balloting on settling the USS dispute, but not the pay and conditions dispute?

A lot of people will surely share this viewpoint, given that it's obvious to everyone that we've made much more progress on USS than on pay.

[Mark Taylor-Batty @cupofassam]

USS negotiation update klaxon 📢

thread... 🧵

[Tom Schofield @tomschofield]

@mirandaioss Oh god, huge flashbacks. See also “Goodnight Maisie”

[Rebecca 🌻 @_becklaar9194]

Great turnout for the NEU rally in Leeds this afternoon! #teachersstrike #payup