Ali Riley
@aliriley.bsky.social
Sheffield-based HE Education Developer and Adviser. Interests #ESD and #EntEd. Ex-archaeologist. Bit deaf. Living with Endometriosis. Chapter maggot.
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Ali Riley
@aliriley.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Hoping to build networks over here in the hopes that Bsky can be as useful as Twitter used to be in days of yore. Drop me a follow if you're interested in ed/curric development in HE, supporting professional recognition, pedagogies of justice including ESD... and more!
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We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now.
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We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world
The most disturbing revelation so far
open.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:26 AM
We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now.
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Another day, another report setting out the grim experiences of disabled students in #UKHE. As usual there are no real surprises in this for university disability practitioners like me, but the fact these issues persist should make unis hang their heads in shame www.gov.uk/government/p...
Disabled people's lived experience of education in the UK: an evidence review
www.gov.uk
February 6, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Another day, another report setting out the grim experiences of disabled students in #UKHE. As usual there are no real surprises in this for university disability practitioners like me, but the fact these issues persist should make unis hang their heads in shame www.gov.uk/government/p...
State of the Sector report is out now from @theeauc.bsky.social - highlights that delivery lags behind ambition, and institutions need ring-fenced funding, accountable leadership, and aligned policy to enable change. www.eauc.org.uk/resources/re...
Resource
www.eauc.org.uk
February 3, 2026 at 2:19 PM
State of the Sector report is out now from @theeauc.bsky.social - highlights that delivery lags behind ambition, and institutions need ring-fenced funding, accountable leadership, and aligned policy to enable change. www.eauc.org.uk/resources/re...
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Yet JKR and friends are claiming trans people are the risks...
While sucking up to Jeffrey Epstein *AFTER* Epstein was convicted of one round of child abuse offences...
This needs sharing like all heck, to show transphobia was not and has NEVER been about protecting (cis) women (or children).
While sucking up to Jeffrey Epstein *AFTER* Epstein was convicted of one round of child abuse offences...
This needs sharing like all heck, to show transphobia was not and has NEVER been about protecting (cis) women (or children).
JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov
February 2, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Yet JKR and friends are claiming trans people are the risks...
While sucking up to Jeffrey Epstein *AFTER* Epstein was convicted of one round of child abuse offences...
This needs sharing like all heck, to show transphobia was not and has NEVER been about protecting (cis) women (or children).
While sucking up to Jeffrey Epstein *AFTER* Epstein was convicted of one round of child abuse offences...
This needs sharing like all heck, to show transphobia was not and has NEVER been about protecting (cis) women (or children).
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What does sustainability education look like when economic survival, inequality, and decolonisation shape the classroom? New paper on ESD in South African business & economics education.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sustainability in business and economics education in South African universities: Whose agenda is it?
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has become increasingly significant in business and economics disciplines due to their focus on production…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:21 AM
What does sustainability education look like when economic survival, inequality, and decolonisation shape the classroom? New paper on ESD in South African business & economics education.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Staff ,supporters and students gathered outside Firth Court today in solidarity with colleagues locked out and facing withheld pay after lawful strike action at
@sheffielducu
Punishment is not negotiation. ✊
@sheffielducu
Punishment is not negotiation. ✊
January 29, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Staff ,supporters and students gathered outside Firth Court today in solidarity with colleagues locked out and facing withheld pay after lawful strike action at
@sheffielducu
Punishment is not negotiation. ✊
@sheffielducu
Punishment is not negotiation. ✊
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Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
January 29, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
If you work in HE - please read this!
It’s here! 📣
The Annual Disabled Student Survey Report 2025 is now LIVE, delivered in
partnership with the Snowdon Trust!
Thank you to everyone who took part!
and supportive education system.
Read & download the report on our website!
#DisabledStudentsUK #DisabledStudents #AccessInsights
The Annual Disabled Student Survey Report 2025 is now LIVE, delivered in
partnership with the Snowdon Trust!
Thank you to everyone who took part!
and supportive education system.
Read & download the report on our website!
#DisabledStudentsUK #DisabledStudents #AccessInsights
January 29, 2026 at 10:49 AM
If you work in HE - please read this!
Important thread - well worth the time to read for anyone who works in HE.
It's @disabledstudentsuk.bsky.social Access Insights Report Publication Day! This is always a big one, as it gives us so much insight into the experiences of disabled students on the ground in #UKHE. And, for the same reasons, it's pretty depressing for a career disability practitioner like me 🧵
January 29, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Important thread - well worth the time to read for anyone who works in HE.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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NEW on Wonkhe: A new 10-year workforce plan for the National Health Service ought to be an opportunity to think carefully about higher education’s role. Susanna Kalitowski explains buff.ly/Ej6aOYE
January 27, 2026 at 7:00 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: A new 10-year workforce plan for the National Health Service ought to be an opportunity to think carefully about higher education’s role. Susanna Kalitowski explains buff.ly/Ej6aOYE
Succinct, wise and hopeful as always
To reiterate: (The fact that he had a gun he never drew is immaterial; the videos show that they attacked him before they knew it; they murdered him after they confiscated it.)
This Cold Winter, Love Is a Superpower
There are great days and terrible days in history, days a nation or world changed, that you remember forever. For me that's the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the Zapatistas, 9/11, Hurricane Kat...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Succinct, wise and hopeful as always
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To reiterate: (The fact that he had a gun he never drew is immaterial; the videos show that they attacked him before they knew it; they murdered him after they confiscated it.)
This Cold Winter, Love Is a Superpower
There are great days and terrible days in history, days a nation or world changed, that you remember forever. For me that's the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the Zapatistas, 9/11, Hurricane Kat...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:42 PM
To reiterate: (The fact that he had a gun he never drew is immaterial; the videos show that they attacked him before they knew it; they murdered him after they confiscated it.)
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Our analysis at @bellingcat.com on the killing of Alex Pretti breaks down the video evidence.
He never reached for his gun.
Agents sprayed/tackled him while his hands were up.
He was disarmed before he was shot.
The first shot came from an agent firing at him.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
He never reached for his gun.
Agents sprayed/tackled him while his hands were up.
He was disarmed before he was shot.
The first shot came from an agent firing at him.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
Alex Pretti: Analysing Footage of Minneapolis CBP Shooting - bellingcat
Bellingcat has analysed video of the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The footage appears to contradict statements made by the Department of Homeland Security.
www.bellingcat.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Our analysis at @bellingcat.com on the killing of Alex Pretti breaks down the video evidence.
He never reached for his gun.
Agents sprayed/tackled him while his hands were up.
He was disarmed before he was shot.
The first shot came from an agent firing at him.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
He never reached for his gun.
Agents sprayed/tackled him while his hands were up.
He was disarmed before he was shot.
The first shot came from an agent firing at him.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Monday and the start of a second week of being prevented from working by my employer, the University of Sheffield. Management has decided that massive damage to staff morale, student experience and the university’s reputation is worth it in a futile attempt to break the union. Shame on them.
Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
January 26, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Monday and the start of a second week of being prevented from working by my employer, the University of Sheffield. Management has decided that massive damage to staff morale, student experience and the university’s reputation is worth it in a futile attempt to break the union. Shame on them.
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The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff.
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
Union condemns continued docking of staff pay following strike action at University of Sheffield
The University and College Union (UCU) has today condemned the lockout and withholding of staff pay at the University of Sheffield following lawful industrial action
www.ucu.org.uk
January 22, 2026 at 2:34 PM
The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff.
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
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This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 6:52 PM
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
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To snatch a five year old carrying a school bag from the street and tell the parents nothing as you send that child to a prison thousands of kilometres away is unalloyed evil.
Every person in this chain of command should be prosecuted. Every single one. They have to be.
Every person in this chain of command should be prosecuted. Every single one. They have to be.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 22, 2026 at 4:36 AM
To snatch a five year old carrying a school bag from the street and tell the parents nothing as you send that child to a prison thousands of kilometres away is unalloyed evil.
Every person in this chain of command should be prosecuted. Every single one. They have to be.
Every person in this chain of command should be prosecuted. Every single one. They have to be.
Many of my colleagues @sheffielducu.bsky.social are 'locked out' for refusing to replace teaching missed during strike. Deductions have already been taken for that action. If you have any cash spare, donations gratefully received so that branch can support members. gofund.me/9b971e2a8
Donate to Support University of Sheffield striking staff!, organized by Mark Pendleton
I'm the branch treasurer for the University of Sheffield University and… Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!
gofund.me
January 20, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Many of my colleagues @sheffielducu.bsky.social are 'locked out' for refusing to replace teaching missed during strike. Deductions have already been taken for that action. If you have any cash spare, donations gratefully received so that branch can support members. gofund.me/9b971e2a8
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If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:07 AM
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The shorteste daye
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
December 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The shorteste daye
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
Seeing a lot of retweets of this. I don't disagree with the conclusion but is everyone missing the 'I set a trap for my students' bit? Feels like there are kinder ways of making your point. www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Seeing a lot of retweets of this. I don't disagree with the conclusion but is everyone missing the 'I set a trap for my students' bit? Feels like there are kinder ways of making your point. www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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NEW on Wonkhe: Despite sector-wide consensus on how to tackle belonging gaps, Jim Dickinson explores how the latest APPs risk entrenching disadvantage by misreading the social psychology behind inclusion buff.ly/PDsei4E
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: Despite sector-wide consensus on how to tackle belonging gaps, Jim Dickinson explores how the latest APPs risk entrenching disadvantage by misreading the social psychology behind inclusion buff.ly/PDsei4E