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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 21h

Permanent tho eh - no precarity for management grades.

Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 21h

Got a big deficit caused by dodgy business decisions that you keep using as an excuse to restructure bits of your university that you personally don't understand so must just be worthless? Time to hire a management consultant at the cost of several academic & PS staff! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY189/d...

Director of Operational Improvement at Sheffield Hallam University

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 2d

More for the "PhDs I wish I'd done" collection. Alas, I'm away, but it looks like a fab event - go because I can't!

Manchester Histories @mcrhistories.bsky.social · 3d

The People’s Papers: Revisiting 1970s Manchester

Explore the activist & community print culture that helped shape Greater Manchester, with PhD researcher Arielle Lawson (@peoplespapers)

📅 Mon 4 Nov
🕕 6–8 PM
📍 Manchester Histories Hub, Central Library
Free & open to all! Book: bit.ly/PeoplesPapers

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The People's Papers @peoplespapers.bsky.social · 3d

Save the date!

We'll have materials to share from @wcmlibrary.bsky.social and @aiucentre.bsky.social and a roundtable discussion with folks sharing their reflections and experiences from the time. Should be a lively and participatory discussion!

@cperguom.bsky.social @thejohnrylands.bsky.social

Manchester Histories @mcrhistories.bsky.social · 3d

The People’s Papers: Revisiting 1970s Manchester

Explore the activist & community print culture that helped shape Greater Manchester, with PhD researcher Arielle Lawson (@peoplespapers)

📅 Mon 4 Nov
🕕 6–8 PM
📍 Manchester Histories Hub, Central Library
Free & open to all! Book: bit.ly/PeoplesPapers

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IHR Black British History Seminar @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 15d

The IHR Black British History seminar series is now on BlueSky!

Follow us for updates and keep your eyes peeled for information about our upcoming seminars 👀

@ihr.bsky.social #BlackBritishHistory #historians #academia

Photograph of the Black People’s Day of Action, March 1981

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 15d

Credit to @ucuhallam.bsky.social mischief for signposting it nice and clearly.

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Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham @theironroom.bsky.social · 15d

#BirminghamHistory today brings you these hand-made playing cards drawn and painted on the back of cards advertising an anti-slavery meeting held at Birmingham Town Hall on 22 January 1873. Ref - MS 1509/5/69 #LibraryofBham #bmusic_ltd

Three playing cards. The two in the background have colour illustrations - the one on the left had a heart in the top left corner and a drawing of a young female figure blowing a musical instrument. The card on the right has a spade in the top left corner along with an illustration of the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. In the foreground is another card with text detailing an anti – slavery meeting taking place at Birmingham Town Hall on 22 January 1873.

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 15d

Nice of the landscapers round the new SHU buildings to give us a literal rallying point

A black cube, maybe intended as a bench, or just an arty installation, inscribed with the words "solidarity with workers; solidarity with strikes; solidarity forever; for the many not the few". With additions of UCU stickers.

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 15d

Went to see From Ground Zero this evening, made in Palestine in 2024 by Palestinian film makers. More here: www.watermelonpictures.com/films/from-g...

Watermelon Pictures

www.watermelonpictures.com

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 15d

At our Emergency General Meeting, our branch unanimously voted in support of this solidarity motion with @uniteucu.bsky.social. This behaviour by @ucu.org.uk senior management is unacceptable and threatens the entire @tuc.org.uk movement.

Read in full:
qmucu.org/2025/09/24/b...

The branch resolves:

To write to the General Secretary seeking the immediate withdrawal of any threat of deductions for ASOS made to Unite UCU members.
To submit a complaint to NEC and make a representation to NEC seeking an agreement that punitive deductions for ASOS should not be used by UCU because it is damaging to all UCU members, as well as to the particular ongoing campaign by QMUCU members to seek restitution and damages against our employer.
If no agreement can be reached, to make a second representation to NEC asking NEC to exercise rule 2.11 and, if needed, instruct the GS under rule 28.2 to withdraw the threat of punitive deductions for ASOS made to Unite UCU members.
To write to UCU legal services seeking urgent clarification on how the union will handle the disparity between supporting QMUCU members to challenge punitive deductions and enacting them against UCU staff.
To write to the TUC General Council calling for an investigation of the conduct of UCU SMT in accordance with TUC Rules 12, 13, and 14, in coordination with Unite-UCU.

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Community Development Journal @cdjplus.bsky.social · 15d

Audrey Jamal and Jordan Scholten write in our July issue on community wealth-building in mid-size Canadian cities, and the lack of embeddedness of CWB practice in economic development policy buff.ly/5lHHEPe #CDJ #CWB

Deployment and development of community wealth building in Canadian mid-sized cities

Abstract. In the early 2000s, community wealth building (CWB) emerged as a renewed approach to local economic development. By design, CWB aims to democrati

buff.ly

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 15d

I see this has a chapter in it on the Community Architecture Movement by Holly Smith @holsmith.bsky.social who did a wonderful @vahs.bsky.social seminar on the subject a while ago. Looking forward to reading more!

Otto Saumarez Smith @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social · 16d

A short post about the Modern British City, out in November: www.lundhumphries.com/blogs/featur...

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Otto Saumarez Smith @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social · 16d

A short post about the Modern British City, out in November: www.lundhumphries.com/blogs/featur...

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 16d

Reminder to my fellow bisexuals: do not do crimes today. You are briefly visible. Wait til tomorrow when you can no longer be perceived.

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 15d

Also means I'm just sending in random thoughts to the consultation inbox as they occur. You give me chaos, I give you double chaos back.

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 16d

Mid-consultation here at SHU on restructuring

They've given us some info re staff change that could be interpreted in multiple ways

I've asked for clarification

They have told me no, I should respond to the consultation, after that there will be clarity

What fucking wizard cult scheme is this

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 16d

Donations - big or small - make a tremendous difference and every bit helps our friends in Gaza find shelter and food.

Donate and share: chuffed.org/project/hope...

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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 17d

Do you want to know how UCU senior management has responded to UCU branches calling on them to remove their threat of deductions? This is how.

How would you react?

uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...

Screenshot of email from UCU management which reads: ASOS Attendance Form - New Weekly Survey
Starting Monday 22 September, all staff will receive an email with a link to the new ASOS attendance form. This short weekly survey is mandatory for all staff, whether you were on ASOS or not. Please make sure to complete it each week, failure to do so may result in pay deductions. The cut off each week will be Friday at 5pm.

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 17d

Given just how many people have had to go on long term sick at UCU, and how little attention managers pay to that, I can fully imagine that happening. Sigh.

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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 20d

With another 9 @ucu.org.uk branches now calling on UCU to do the right thing we wonder if @drjogrady.bsky.social is listening to her members.

We call on Jo Grady and UCU SMT to:
• Enter negotiations with Unite UCU without preconditions.
• Stop the threat of punitive deductions for ASOS - this breaches UCU and TUC policy and only serves to undermine all of us, not least those UCU members currently involved in legal test cases against punitive deductions after taking lawful industrial action.

Signed, 25, no, 37, no, now 46 UCU branch committees (and still counting)

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 24d

There's a train enthusiast horror movie in there somewhere.

Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham @theironroom.bsky.social · 24d

#Railway200 This mummified cat was discovered during renovation work at Curzon Street Station, Digbeth. It was once superstitious practice to bury cats alive in buildings to ward off evil spirits. Poor moggy! Ref – WK/B11/8225 #LibraryofBham @railway200.bsky.social

A photograph of a mummified cat on a table. The back and front legs of the cat are bound. Behind the cat is a brick wall with a large seam of filler running across it.

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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 25d

📢 Reminder: the deadline for the Social History Society Small Grants is coming up soon!

💷 Up to £1000 available to support research, events & activities in social & cultural history

🗓️ Apply by 1 October for events Dec–Apr
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal...
✨Apply today!

Small Grants

The Social History Society maintains a Small Grants Fund to support research, events and activities by members of the Society. We give priority to activities and research that would otherwise remai…

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 24d

A friend just pointed out that it's quite the way to start the teaching year with a bang with meetings about college restructuring (I hypothesise, we'll know on Wednesday). Literally Welcome Week. But I guess that's just The Culture.

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 24d

Bad luck Danny Kruger fans.