Allison Owens
@allisonowens.bsky.social
Operations Assistant | Sometime Linguist | she/they
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On strike again today, though it is ##DigitalPicket for me being so far away from Sheffield. Solidarity with all the amazing colleagues that have been on the picket lines for @sheffielducu.bsky.social you can read here about why we are on strike ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a...
Industrial action- information for students
Information for students about why University staff are taking industrial action, and how you can show your support.
ucu.group.shef.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
On strike again today, though it is ##DigitalPicket for me being so far away from Sheffield. Solidarity with all the amazing colleagues that have been on the picket lines for @sheffielducu.bsky.social you can read here about why we are on strike ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a...
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Tuesday my union offered to call off 2 weeks of strikes, in return for postponing the redudnacy of, maybe, 5 people for three months. Yesterday the uni wrote to all staff saying "not interested", unless we completely caved. Today we toured picket lines across campus:
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Tuesday my union offered to call off 2 weeks of strikes, in return for postponing the redudnacy of, maybe, 5 people for three months. Yesterday the uni wrote to all staff saying "not interested", unless we completely caved. Today we toured picket lines across campus:
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
Comrades out in force on the pickets today @sheffielducu.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Comrades out in force on the pickets today @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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Day six going strong at the Jessop West picke, joined by today’s running picket! Sun’s out too so at least we’re not tooooo cold @sheffielducu.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Day six going strong at the Jessop West picke, joined by today’s running picket! Sun’s out too so at least we’re not tooooo cold @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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Some of our furrier members have been enjoying our strong turnout over the past couple of weeks. Lots of comrades to cuddle
#picketpups
#picketpups
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Some of our furrier members have been enjoying our strong turnout over the past couple of weeks. Lots of comrades to cuddle
#picketpups
#picketpups
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Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
Solidarity with comrades on the picket lines today @sheffielducu.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Solidarity with comrades on the picket lines today @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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We’re on our 3rd day of (v cold) strike today @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
HE is being dismantled by mgmt on eye watering salaries, whilst staff delivering teaching, research & admin are casualised, burnt out & forced out
Pls donate to our fighting fund if you can shorturl.at/EpeTe
HE is being dismantled by mgmt on eye watering salaries, whilst staff delivering teaching, research & admin are casualised, burnt out & forced out
Pls donate to our fighting fund if you can shorturl.at/EpeTe
Donate to the Sheffield UCU Industrial Action Solidarity Fund
What is the Sheffield UCU Industrial Action Solidarity Fund, and how to contribute.
shorturl.at
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
We’re on our 3rd day of (v cold) strike today @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
HE is being dismantled by mgmt on eye watering salaries, whilst staff delivering teaching, research & admin are casualised, burnt out & forced out
Pls donate to our fighting fund if you can shorturl.at/EpeTe
HE is being dismantled by mgmt on eye watering salaries, whilst staff delivering teaching, research & admin are casualised, burnt out & forced out
Pls donate to our fighting fund if you can shorturl.at/EpeTe
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#PalestineSolidarity roving picket visiting the excellent picket at Firth Court. #UCUstrike @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucuhallam.bsky.social #sheffield
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
#PalestineSolidarity roving picket visiting the excellent picket at Firth Court. #UCUstrike @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucuhallam.bsky.social #sheffield
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Day 2! People out in force on the picket lines 🙌 Nice to see a relatively active #DigitalPicket too @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Staff at University of Sheffield begin strike action
Staff at the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University are taking part in strikes.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Day 2! People out in force on the picket lines 🙌 Nice to see a relatively active #DigitalPicket too @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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📢 Day Four: Resilience in Full Display!
Another strong showing on our picket lines!
Our fight continues for no compulsory redundancies, fair working conditions, our dignity and our future.
Solidarity is our strength. We will not be silenced.
#SaveSheffieldHallam
Another strong showing on our picket lines!
Our fight continues for no compulsory redundancies, fair working conditions, our dignity and our future.
Solidarity is our strength. We will not be silenced.
#SaveSheffieldHallam
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
📢 Day Four: Resilience in Full Display!
Another strong showing on our picket lines!
Our fight continues for no compulsory redundancies, fair working conditions, our dignity and our future.
Solidarity is our strength. We will not be silenced.
#SaveSheffieldHallam
Another strong showing on our picket lines!
Our fight continues for no compulsory redundancies, fair working conditions, our dignity and our future.
Solidarity is our strength. We will not be silenced.
#SaveSheffieldHallam
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I am on strike this week, in support of colleagues placed at risk of compulsory redundancy.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
If you a student and want to know more/how to support the strike, see here: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a...
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
If you a student and want to know more/how to support the strike, see here: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a...
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I am on strike this week, in support of colleagues placed at risk of compulsory redundancy.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
If you a student and want to know more/how to support the strike, see here: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a...
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
If you a student and want to know more/how to support the strike, see here: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a...
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
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Tomorrow I’m back on strike with @sheffielducu.bsky.social over the university’s refusal to rule out redundancies and stop the neverending cycle of unjustified restructures. East Asian studies remains under explicit threat of job cuts, but I’d be there even if we weren’t. We stand together.
November 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Tomorrow I’m back on strike with @sheffielducu.bsky.social over the university’s refusal to rule out redundancies and stop the neverending cycle of unjustified restructures. East Asian studies remains under explicit threat of job cuts, but I’d be there even if we weren’t. We stand together.
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JOINT RALLY ANNOUNCEMENT:
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
November 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
JOINT RALLY ANNOUNCEMENT:
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
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News | Tate workers vote in favour of week-long strike, as Science Museum formally recognises union that won pay rise for security guards.
More than 150 members of PCS union are due to walk out later this month.
Read: https://ow.ly/LSY750XrTBX
More than 150 members of PCS union are due to walk out later this month.
Read: https://ow.ly/LSY750XrTBX
Tate workers vote in favour of week-long strike - Museums Association
More than 150 members of PCS union will take industrial action later this month
ow.ly
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
News | Tate workers vote in favour of week-long strike, as Science Museum formally recognises union that won pay rise for security guards.
More than 150 members of PCS union are due to walk out later this month.
Read: https://ow.ly/LSY750XrTBX
More than 150 members of PCS union are due to walk out later this month.
Read: https://ow.ly/LSY750XrTBX
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Yes! My favourite moments are always when meme of the day hits icebox plums 😁
This is just to say
I have beheld
the works
that you left
in the desert
At which
you were probably
hoping
I would despair
Forgive me
your legs were mighty
so vast
and trunkless
I have beheld
the works
that you left
in the desert
At which
you were probably
hoping
I would despair
Forgive me
your legs were mighty
so vast
and trunkless
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
October 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Yes! My favourite moments are always when meme of the day hits icebox plums 😁
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So good to see #LavLang32 being shared so widely! Join us for the annual Queer Linguistics conference, which in 2026 travels to Scotland for the first time thanks to @christianilbury.bsky.social and University of Edinburgh lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
LavLang32 - Lavender Languages & Linguistics 32
2-4 September 2026: Queer (dis)belonging
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
So good to see #LavLang32 being shared so widely! Join us for the annual Queer Linguistics conference, which in 2026 travels to Scotland for the first time thanks to @christianilbury.bsky.social and University of Edinburgh lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
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SynTeach is a project looking at how syntax is taught in higher ed. Our next stage is FOCUS GROUPS—whether you loved or hated syntax, we'd love to talk to you! Sign up to be contacted as we're recruiting now: forms.gle/PiBYpVPr1yg2... #linguistics
SynTeach Focus Group Interest Form
SynTeach is a project researching peoples' experiences teaching and learning syntax in higher education. We have conducted surveys of the field including syntax instructors and students, and we are pl...
forms.gle
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
SynTeach is a project looking at how syntax is taught in higher ed. Our next stage is FOCUS GROUPS—whether you loved or hated syntax, we'd love to talk to you! Sign up to be contacted as we're recruiting now: forms.gle/PiBYpVPr1yg2... #linguistics
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📣 UWS HAS RULED OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES
After 8 days of strike action from EIS, and a further 12 days planned from Monday which UCU were due to join, management has today announced that CR has been taken off the table 🎉
After 8 days of strike action from EIS, and a further 12 days planned from Monday which UCU were due to join, management has today announced that CR has been taken off the table 🎉
October 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
📣 UWS HAS RULED OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES
After 8 days of strike action from EIS, and a further 12 days planned from Monday which UCU were due to join, management has today announced that CR has been taken off the table 🎉
After 8 days of strike action from EIS, and a further 12 days planned from Monday which UCU were due to join, management has today announced that CR has been taken off the table 🎉
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It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
October 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
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if you see people parroting the "trans ideology on the bullet" theory, send them this
September 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
if you see people parroting the "trans ideology on the bullet" theory, send them this
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Been threatening to do this for ten years and I finally made a Halloween costume for my car.
September 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Been threatening to do this for ten years and I finally made a Halloween costume for my car.
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Don’t like to have to keep doing this, but management has left us again with no choice. We will vote again to take action and massive numbers will again be out on picket lines. And like last year, management will again back down. All of that can be prevented if management chooses to negotiate.
Ballot papers drop today for local industrial action to defend jobs at the University of Sheffield against redundancy and further workload pressures.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1415...
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1415...
Strike ballot opens at University of Sheffield staff over job cuts
Staff at the University of Sheffield are being asked to vote for strike action, announced the University and College Union (UCU) today. The ballot opened yesterday and will close on Tuesday 30 September.
www.ucu.org.uk
August 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Don’t like to have to keep doing this, but management has left us again with no choice. We will vote again to take action and massive numbers will again be out on picket lines. And like last year, management will again back down. All of that can be prevented if management chooses to negotiate.
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STAR's first issue is out! (STAR is an open-access journal publishing syntactic research from the same editorial team that brought us Syntax) #Linguistics
star-linguistics.org
star-linguistics.org
Syntactic Theory and Research
star-linguistics.org
August 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
STAR's first issue is out! (STAR is an open-access journal publishing syntactic research from the same editorial team that brought us Syntax) #Linguistics
star-linguistics.org
star-linguistics.org
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But Gen AI is fine?
In a new digital twist to environmental individualisation of responsibility, the UK government is now advising people to “[d]elete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought. www.gov.uk/government/n...
August 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
But Gen AI is fine?