Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
@ctmccartney.bsky.social
Professor of Law & Criminal Justice interested in INjustice. Research #forensics #AI science/tech in criminal justice. Also crazy about anti-fascism, atheism, Prince, professional cycling, politics, the news, live comedy and music. #academicsky (1st-gen)
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This country seems to have a bottomless well of sympathy towards asset rich pensioners and only contempt for anyone under 50 who is putting half their income into paying their landlords fourth mortgage and a big chunk of the rest into skyrocketing bills.
Look it’s never nice to find yourself in a position of having to move when you don’t want to but given that due to the volatility of the London housing market I have had to move FIVE TIMES since 2020 I’m struggling to feel very sympathetic towards people whose ’problem’ is a paid off 2mil property.
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This country seems to have a bottomless well of sympathy towards asset rich pensioners and only contempt for anyone under 50 who is putting half their income into paying their landlords fourth mortgage and a big chunk of the rest into skyrocketing bills.
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‘More than ever before, we need British diplomats, spies and soldiers to speak the language of our adversaries.’
Stark piece from a former diplomat on how loss of language learning hits our defence & geopolitical capabilities
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/proc... @timeshighered.bsky.social
Stark piece from a former diplomat on how loss of language learning hits our defence & geopolitical capabilities
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/proc... @timeshighered.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
‘More than ever before, we need British diplomats, spies and soldiers to speak the language of our adversaries.’
Stark piece from a former diplomat on how loss of language learning hits our defence & geopolitical capabilities
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/proc... @timeshighered.bsky.social
Stark piece from a former diplomat on how loss of language learning hits our defence & geopolitical capabilities
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/proc... @timeshighered.bsky.social
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'The University of Dundee has been told it cannot make any compulsory redundancies until it has a three-year recovery strategy in place as part of conditions placed on its bailout from the Scottish government.' 1/3
Bailout conditions restrict compulsory redundancies at Dundee
University told to come up with a plan for financial recovery before it enforces more job losses
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
'The University of Dundee has been told it cannot make any compulsory redundancies until it has a three-year recovery strategy in place as part of conditions placed on its bailout from the Scottish government.' 1/3
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#AcademicSky
Budget 2025: Universities in England will pay a flat fee of £925 per student for each year of study under the new international student levy, the Treasury has announced in today’s budget.
Budget 2025: Universities in England will pay a flat fee of £925 per student for each year of study under the new international student levy, the Treasury has announced in today’s budget.
International levy to be flat fee of £925 per student - Research Professional News
Budget 2025: Government sets out details of international student fee levy, including 2028 start date
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
#AcademicSky
Budget 2025: Universities in England will pay a flat fee of £925 per student for each year of study under the new international student levy, the Treasury has announced in today’s budget.
Budget 2025: Universities in England will pay a flat fee of £925 per student for each year of study under the new international student levy, the Treasury has announced in today’s budget.
Life in academia - filling in my TAS form at nearly 11pm because I've just finished work... then wondering if anyone will honestly believe that I've just done 3 x 11 hour days (and will be working all weekend again). Do they think we make these hours up?
November 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Life in academia - filling in my TAS form at nearly 11pm because I've just finished work... then wondering if anyone will honestly believe that I've just done 3 x 11 hour days (and will be working all weekend again). Do they think we make these hours up?
I've been an optimist for many many years. I always thought it was a nicer outlook to have and on the whole, would make me happier. Beginning to doubt this choice honestly. It's getting tougher by the day. How are the pessimists doing? Should I switch?
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I've been an optimist for many many years. I always thought it was a nicer outlook to have and on the whole, would make me happier. Beginning to doubt this choice honestly. It's getting tougher by the day. How are the pessimists doing? Should I switch?
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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"having changed my mind about the OBR, my internship there has begun smoothly"
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"having changed my mind about the OBR, my internship there has begun smoothly"
It is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone starting a two hour meeting saying "we won't need the whole two hours" will proceed to not only take the entire two hours, but will over-run.
(yes - I'm 2.5 hours into a meeting)
(yes - I'm 2.5 hours into a meeting)
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone starting a two hour meeting saying "we won't need the whole two hours" will proceed to not only take the entire two hours, but will over-run.
(yes - I'm 2.5 hours into a meeting)
(yes - I'm 2.5 hours into a meeting)
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It’s not juries that are causing the decay in court buildings, the delay in court cases, the low pay of criminal lawyers, the shambles in court IT. Juries are the citizens’ protection against judicial and legislative over-reach.
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
It’s not juries that are causing the decay in court buildings, the delay in court cases, the low pay of criminal lawyers, the shambles in court IT. Juries are the citizens’ protection against judicial and legislative over-reach.
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All to remedy the totally disconnected cause - the closure/sale of 1 in 3 of our courts (sold at loss to Tories’ mates,m): 15% year on year cuts to criminal justice services; the trashing of Probation; evisceration of legal aid, etc. How do you fix that omnishambles - end a core legal principle?
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
All to remedy the totally disconnected cause - the closure/sale of 1 in 3 of our courts (sold at loss to Tories’ mates,m): 15% year on year cuts to criminal justice services; the trashing of Probation; evisceration of legal aid, etc. How do you fix that omnishambles - end a core legal principle?
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Also it's time to keep pushing.
Sign our open letter and adapt it for your university and country!
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
6/n
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Sign our open letter and adapt it for your university and country!
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
6/n
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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Also it's time to keep pushing.
Sign our open letter and adapt it for your university and country!
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
6/n
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Sign our open letter and adapt it for your university and country!
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
6/n
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Just what are we doing? I'm just continually astounded how Trump et al are getting a pass... on everything.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Just what are we doing? I'm just continually astounded how Trump et al are getting a pass... on everything.
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It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
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This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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And we know we're not alone as a branch in what we're facing. We need local action, but we also need national action. We've put together a list of reasons why a national mandate puts us all in a better bargaining position - please share widely.
durhamucu.org.uk/26-reasons-y...
durhamucu.org.uk/26-reasons-y...
28 reasons you need to vote – Durham UCU
durhamucu.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
And we know we're not alone as a branch in what we're facing. We need local action, but we also need national action. We've put together a list of reasons why a national mandate puts us all in a better bargaining position - please share widely.
durhamucu.org.uk/26-reasons-y...
durhamucu.org.uk/26-reasons-y...
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As we near the last safe day for ballot posting in the current national UCU ballot (get 'em in by Wed, preferably sooner), let's remember what we're fighting for. We'll start with the graphs we made last week. Decades of pay erosion has left many of us a full pay spine point below where we should be
And here we are! Literally every spine point is paying less in real terms than it was back in 2008. Spine point 5 (now replaced by the real living wage) is down by about 3.4%. By spine point 10, we're down over 10%. By spine point 23, over 20%, ultimately reaching a 22.1% reduction. 3/3
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
As we near the last safe day for ballot posting in the current national UCU ballot (get 'em in by Wed, preferably sooner), let's remember what we're fighting for. We'll start with the graphs we made last week. Decades of pay erosion has left many of us a full pay spine point below where we should be
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Pssst… #UCU members… last safe day to post your ballots (a cold walk to postbox & a quick email to reps to confirm vote). We need to regain leverage. Employers (& govt) need to know they can’t keep ‘solving’ financial issues by cutting jobs/pay/conditions. Workers are already at/past breaking point.
As we near the last safe day for ballot posting in the current national UCU ballot (get 'em in by Wed, preferably sooner), let's remember what we're fighting for. We'll start with the graphs we made last week. Decades of pay erosion has left many of us a full pay spine point below where we should be
And here we are! Literally every spine point is paying less in real terms than it was back in 2008. Spine point 5 (now replaced by the real living wage) is down by about 3.4%. By spine point 10, we're down over 10%. By spine point 23, over 20%, ultimately reaching a 22.1% reduction. 3/3
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Pssst… #UCU members… last safe day to post your ballots (a cold walk to postbox & a quick email to reps to confirm vote). We need to regain leverage. Employers (& govt) need to know they can’t keep ‘solving’ financial issues by cutting jobs/pay/conditions. Workers are already at/past breaking point.
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UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
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This cover oozes with contempt for the magazine’s history and its readership
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This cover oozes with contempt for the magazine’s history and its readership
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Doing some reading up on this - and you know who the Pentagon didn't go after? Jan. 6 offenders who were retired military. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
November 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Doing some reading up on this - and you know who the Pentagon didn't go after? Jan. 6 offenders who were retired military. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
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Popped over to X and searched for "English Patriot". Only took a few seconds to start finding the fake accounts from English Patriots who aren't in England.
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Popped over to X and searched for "English Patriot". Only took a few seconds to start finding the fake accounts from English Patriots who aren't in England.
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"The proposed 6% tax on international student fees is a dagger aimed at one of the UK’s most successful export industries"
- Martin Wolf in the FT today
Gift link below for anyone else reading:
on.ft.com/3KlPgMA
- Martin Wolf in the FT today
Gift link below for anyone else reading:
on.ft.com/3KlPgMA
How to get the UK out of its economic hole
Reeves’ challenge is to remedy the disaster that Brexit has been for the country
on.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"The proposed 6% tax on international student fees is a dagger aimed at one of the UK’s most successful export industries"
- Martin Wolf in the FT today
Gift link below for anyone else reading:
on.ft.com/3KlPgMA
- Martin Wolf in the FT today
Gift link below for anyone else reading:
on.ft.com/3KlPgMA