Kevin Sanders
@kjsanders.bsky.social
PhD candidate on the politics of open research and publishing environments at [redacted]. OBC Board of Stewards. Copim. Synths. Tapes. Perennial pain. Skullduggery. Ⓐ 🍉 ORCID: 0000-0003-1217-0149. https://hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/ (he/him).
I'd better stick the kettle on so I can have a hot lemon and ginger for the first of many meetings.
January 14, 2026 at 10:03 AM
I'd better stick the kettle on so I can have a hot lemon and ginger for the first of many meetings.
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It cannot be stressed enough that Farage really is just Britain's Trump. He has said as much often. They are in complete alignment. It's boggling that people would look at the chaos, misery and pain in the US and go 'yes more of that here, please'
A sobering thought: were Nigel Farage to become Prime Minister then the terrifying scenes from Minneapolis would become terrifying scenes here.
January 14, 2026 at 7:36 AM
It cannot be stressed enough that Farage really is just Britain's Trump. He has said as much often. They are in complete alignment. It's boggling that people would look at the chaos, misery and pain in the US and go 'yes more of that here, please'
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🤩 Thanks again to @literaturegeek.bsky.social for immortalizing this line from the NEH wake session at ACH. If I have a scholarly motto, this is it — infrastructure is mutual obligation and mutual benefit. #DigitalHumanities #DHMakes
January 14, 2026 at 2:13 AM
🤩 Thanks again to @literaturegeek.bsky.social for immortalizing this line from the NEH wake session at ACH. If I have a scholarly motto, this is it — infrastructure is mutual obligation and mutual benefit. #DigitalHumanities #DHMakes
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'Unfair dismissal: the bar just got lower and compensation higher. From 2027, staff will only need six months’ service (down from two years) to claim unfair dismissal and the maximum cap on compensation is going.' 1/2
What the Employment Rights Act 2025 means for higher education
The Employment Rights Bill is officially on the statute books, with significant changes to employee rights. Siân Jackson guides us through what institutions need to know
wonkhe.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:58 AM
'Unfair dismissal: the bar just got lower and compensation higher. From 2027, staff will only need six months’ service (down from two years) to claim unfair dismissal and the maximum cap on compensation is going.' 1/2
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Pals! Please, I would like your views!
We’re planning an event for later this month.
Which of these two free sessions would be most interesting to you?
5 things transcribers would tell social researchers if we didn’t care about hurting your feelings
OR
A troubleshooting transcription & research recording mastermind
Which of these two free sessions would be most interesting to you?
5 things transcribers would tell social researchers if we didn’t care about hurting your feelings
OR
A troubleshooting transcription & research recording mastermind
January 13, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Pals! Please, I would like your views!
Next month's 3" CDR all made and packaged.
January 13, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Next month's 3" CDR all made and packaged.
It is really cool that the Journal of Radical Librarianship continues to evolve.
January 13, 2026 at 9:36 PM
It is really cool that the Journal of Radical Librarianship continues to evolve.
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I want my articles to be written by a professional calligrapher on handcrafted paper with gold ink. If my university or funder refuse to pay for this, they are infringing my academic freedom.
January 13, 2026 at 1:45 PM
I want my articles to be written by a professional calligrapher on handcrafted paper with gold ink. If my university or funder refuse to pay for this, they are infringing my academic freedom.
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cat's oot the bag then!
Life Without Buildings will reunite to perform their 2001 album Any Other City in full this November to mark fifty years since Rough Trade opened its first record store; tickets on sale from 16 January!
Life Without Buildings to reform for one-off show to celebrate Rough Trade's 50th anniversary
Glasgow art-rock band Life Without Buildings reunite to perform their 2001 album Any Other City in full to mark fifty years since Rough Trade opened its first record store.
buff.ly
January 13, 2026 at 4:08 PM
cat's oot the bag then!
It is cheaper to get from Sheffield to Derby than from Roydon to Broxbourne 🙃
January 13, 2026 at 5:46 PM
It is cheaper to get from Sheffield to Derby than from Roydon to Broxbourne 🙃
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Dein Neue Nederlans' most unconventional electronic music producer, BRAM Van BARTEK, returns with a new album, TRANSIENT SOLIDS. Lo-Fi science-fiction music from a parallel-1980s: eccentric, slowly evolving minimal electronic poly-rhythms that stumble and trip...
kekw.bandcamp.com/album/transi...
kekw.bandcamp.com/album/transi...
TRANSIENT SOLIDS, by BRAM Van BARTEK
6 track album
kekw.bandcamp.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Dein Neue Nederlans' most unconventional electronic music producer, BRAM Van BARTEK, returns with a new album, TRANSIENT SOLIDS. Lo-Fi science-fiction music from a parallel-1980s: eccentric, slowly evolving minimal electronic poly-rhythms that stumble and trip...
kekw.bandcamp.com/album/transi...
kekw.bandcamp.com/album/transi...
Task for the evening: burn and package up next month's 3"cdrs. (Half the run will be in 3" clear pouches, half in 5" raw cardboard slip cases.)
January 13, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Task for the evening: burn and package up next month's 3"cdrs. (Half the run will be in 3" clear pouches, half in 5" raw cardboard slip cases.)
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Help wanted from @openbookcollective.bsky.social 🙏
Please complete their (very) short and feel a warm glow of satisfaction 🌟
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Please complete their (very) short and feel a warm glow of satisfaction 🌟
lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
January 13, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Help wanted from @openbookcollective.bsky.social 🙏
Please complete their (very) short and feel a warm glow of satisfaction 🌟
lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Please complete their (very) short and feel a warm glow of satisfaction 🌟
lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Much like JIF, "Ivy League" and "Russell Group" are absolutely *not* indicators of quality.
January 13, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Much like JIF, "Ivy League" and "Russell Group" are absolutely *not* indicators of quality.
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Retired or soon to be retired UK HE or IRO researcher, or 'retired' but still holding PT position up to 0.5FTE?
Awards of £k-£24 k available from @leverhulme.ac.uk to support your research. The deadline is 4pm 29 January 2026.
Awards of £k-£24 k available from @leverhulme.ac.uk to support your research. The deadline is 4pm 29 January 2026.
Emeritus Fellowships | The Leverhulme Trust
www.leverhulme.ac.uk
January 13, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Retired or soon to be retired UK HE or IRO researcher, or 'retired' but still holding PT position up to 0.5FTE?
Awards of £k-£24 k available from @leverhulme.ac.uk to support your research. The deadline is 4pm 29 January 2026.
Awards of £k-£24 k available from @leverhulme.ac.uk to support your research. The deadline is 4pm 29 January 2026.
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GIVE ME AN EDIT BUTTON MASTODON HAS AN EDIT BUTTON
January 13, 2026 at 2:07 PM
GIVE ME AN EDIT BUTTON MASTODON HAS AN EDIT BUTTON
Community-bled open access, quaquaquaqua.
January 13, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Community-bled open access, quaquaquaqua.
Care and hospitality are not supposed to be rhetorical features of your propaganda.
January 13, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Care and hospitality are not supposed to be rhetorical features of your propaganda.
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Hey Lauren how's your workshop prep for teaching collleagues going
January 13, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Hey Lauren how's your workshop prep for teaching collleagues going
LLMs and entropy.
January 13, 2026 at 11:34 AM
LLMs and entropy.
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Reform supporters are again most negative on the question of whether their area has got worse over the last decade. An interesting finding given that the party is now attracting former members of the government in power over most of that period.
January 13, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Reform supporters are again most negative on the question of whether their area has got worse over the last decade. An interesting finding given that the party is now attracting former members of the government in power over most of that period.
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Today’s activities: an all-day meeting to decide how specifically to make our surviving degree courses worse, the general outlines already having been imposed (fewer modules, fewer hours per module, fewer assessments, fewer subject modules, fewer academics).
January 13, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Today’s activities: an all-day meeting to decide how specifically to make our surviving degree courses worse, the general outlines already having been imposed (fewer modules, fewer hours per module, fewer assessments, fewer subject modules, fewer academics).
They. Are. Bullshitting. It. Is. Not. A. Pretence. Of. Truth. Or. Even. Lying.
January 13, 2026 at 9:04 AM
They. Are. Bullshitting. It. Is. Not. A. Pretence. Of. Truth. Or. Even. Lying.
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Average salary among Russell Group vice-chancellors increased above £350,000 last year, despite these universities losing almost 7,000 staff members due to cost-cutting www.timeshighereducation.com/news/russell... via @patrickjack.bsky.social
Russell Group v-c salaries rise as 7,000 job losses confirmed
Leaders of research-intensive universities see pay top £350,000 despite financial strife faced by institutions
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Average salary among Russell Group vice-chancellors increased above £350,000 last year, despite these universities losing almost 7,000 staff members due to cost-cutting www.timeshighereducation.com/news/russell... via @patrickjack.bsky.social
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1765
January 13, 2026 at 6:26 AM
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1765