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Julie Cupples
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Geography, media and cultural studies, Latin American studies. Co-author of Transmedia Geographies: Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence (Rutgers University Press). Witness to the destruction of the UK university 🏳️‍⚧️ .. more

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 22h
Más interferencias y acoso con mano dura www.nytimes.com/es/2025/12/0...
Trump se convierte en el comodín de unas reñidas elecciones en Honduras
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Julie Cupples, Mauro Gatti

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d
They were 8 and 11 years old
Asked for comment by Sky News, the IDF responded: "Earlier today, IDF troops identified two suspects who crossed the yellow line, conducted suspicious activities on the ground, and approached IDF troops operating in the southern Gaza Strip, posing an immediate threat to them. "Following the identification, the IAF eliminated the suspects in order to remove the threat."

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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 1d
😔💔😢Please read and share these harrowing testimonials from people terrified about plans from @northumbriauni.bsky.social senior management to freeze pay to force through pension changes: ucu-unn.org.uk/news/315-tes... @ucu.org.uk
Testimonials: Pay and Pensions at Northumbria University
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 3d
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

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The Ferret @theferret.scot · 3d
🔴 NEW: The University of Edinburgh has quietly paid more than £750,000 to a controversial consulting firm amid job cuts - staff say bosses ignored "repeated" questions about its role.

Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...

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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 4d
Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 4d
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 5d
We should also note that no other country in Europe does to young people attending university what we do here in the UK.
writesbright.bsky.social Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 5d
I'm constantly shocked (but not surprised) by how little we discuss the additional financial burden placed on young people by the Clegg-Cameron student loan regime.

@rmcunliffe.bsky.social is one of the few journalists who brings it up continuously - once again in the wake of the budget 👇
Rachel Reeves hits young graduates with a double stealth tax
The Chancellor plans to raise as much money from freezing loan repayment thresholds as from the mansion tax
www.newstatesman.com

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 5d
This is one of the many reasons why it’s such a bad idea to co-locate geography with geosciences
thingus.bsky.social Thingus @thingus.bsky.social · 14d
Not only is it at risk of closure, the current plan is to gut human geography at Leicester by merging Geosciences and Chemistry - please sign this!
jordanbestwick1.bsky.social Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 14d
The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure

Please show your support by signing the below!

c.org/KtYyZB8dHk

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 5d
I'm constantly shocked (but not surprised) by how little we discuss the additional financial burden placed on young people by the Clegg-Cameron student loan regime.

@rmcunliffe.bsky.social is one of the few journalists who brings it up continuously - once again in the wake of the budget 👇
Rachel Reeves hits young graduates with a double stealth tax
The Chancellor plans to raise as much money from freezing loan repayment thresholds as from the mansion tax
www.newstatesman.com

Reposted by Gary D. Rawnsley, Julie Cupples

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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 7d
‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’

@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 8d
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

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 8d
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

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 9d
It would have been hard to believe, when I moved to the UK over 15 yrs ago to start my PhD at Edinburgh, that successive Conservative and Labour governments would actively undermine one of the UK's most successful and strategic sectors and run it to the ground. Unbelievable, really. And here we are

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 10d
So Proquest is now providing an AI summary of the dissertation based on the author's abstract rather than just providing the author's abstract. What is the fucking point except to accelerate the fascist takeover of HE?

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Thingus @thingus.bsky.social · 14d
Not only is it at risk of closure, the current plan is to gut human geography at Leicester by merging Geosciences and Chemistry - please sign this!
jordanbestwick1.bsky.social Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 14d
The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure

Please show your support by signing the below!

c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org

Reposted by Brigitte Nerlich, Julie Cupples, Ewan McGaughey

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18d
'After vigorous and partially successful attempts to save modern languages degrees at Cardiff...and the University of Aberdeen in the past two years, linguists are now called upon to point out the equally obvious folly of cutting modern languages at the universities of Nottingham and Leicester.' 1/3
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
www.timeshighereducation.com

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 18d
MY GOD, STOP FETISHIZING PAPERS PUBLISHED IN NATURE ARRRRGGGHHH

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 24d
So sad to learn of the death yesterday of Nicaraguan singer Norma Helena Gadea
www.articulo66.com/2025/11/07/f...
Fallece la cantante nicaragüense Norma Helena Gadea
Los familiares de la artista revelaron que Gadea padecía una isquemia cerebral severa. Tras su ingreso a la UCI solicitaron apoyo para cubrir la hospitalización
www.articulo66.com

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · 25d
Today’s the day! Cordillera de fuego (Mountains of Fire) – co-produced by the Ixchel research project – has its world premiere 🌎at the 40th Mar del Plata International Film Festival📽️

Read on for the back story of this fascinating new feature >

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 25d
Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?
A satirical poem about universities. All Staff Assembly Unlike other universities We do not have an emergency However, we must continue To take action with urgency Don't let there be rupture In trust over the new role families This is not a restructure There are always some redundancies We do not work with arms companies We work with engineering firm subsidiaries Who produce dual use technologies That kill people Some of us are paid very differently But this is very good for the university You see, the disparities in our salaries Are contributions to Diversity

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 25d
SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share

www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
A link to a petition to save Geography, its staff, department and degree programmes at Leicester University, UK

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 27d
This is so wrong, utterly heartbreaking.
mutablematter.bsky.social Angela Last @mutablematter.bsky.social · 27d
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

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Angela Last @mutablematter.bsky.social · 27d
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 29d
Taylor and Francis really are reaping what they sow. Selling our work to train AI without our consent, no longer providing funds for human translators because AI. They are promoting AI slop in the world so it's hardly suprising that this has happened.

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Dr. Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social · 29d
"Following publication, concerns were raised by a third party regarding the accuracy and validity of many of the references in this article ... the Editor and the Publisher no longer have confidence in the content presented".

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Retracted Article: Strengthening Caribbean Intelligence: Education and Training for Enhanced Intra- and Inter-Agency Collaboration
We, the Editor and Publisher of International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, have retracted the following article:Smith, T., & Short, A. (2025). Strengthening Caribbean Intelligen...
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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · Nov 3
Amid many a silly “free speech” panic, here is a genuinely chilling case …

Sheffield Hallam professor accuses the institution of negotiating “directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · Nov 2
From the University of Woeville: Alternative FAQs for British academics facing redundancy
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Nov 1
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
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