Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚
@vrling.bsky.social
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Recovering academic (archaeology/evolution).
Author of King Street Run, a satire on the flogging of academia for profit: https://books2read.com/King-Street-Run
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In February 2020, as part of bid to lead the party, Starmer affirmed that Labour would “abolish tuition fees”
This was in order to “end the national scandal of spiralling student debt”
Fast forward a few years — it turns out the national scandal was believing him
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
This was in order to “end the national scandal of spiralling student debt”
Fast forward a few years — it turns out the national scandal was believing him
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
University tuition fees in England to rise with inflation every year from 2026
Bridget Phillipson confirmed the plans for the next two years, with fees to increase automatically after that.
www.bbc.co.uk
What happens to failed Vice Chancellors/Presidents?
They don't disappear, they glide sideways
They know where the bodies are buried & that buys a generous severance, or a fellowship in perpetuity, or a vague but well-reimbursed consultancy 😉
www.independent.ie/irish-news/f...
They don't disappear, they glide sideways
They know where the bodies are buried & that buys a generous severance, or a fellowship in perpetuity, or a vague but well-reimbursed consultancy 😉
www.independent.ie/irish-news/f...
Former University of Limerick president Kerstin Mey is lecturing once a week on €175,000 salary
Former University of Limerick (UL) president Professor Kerstin Mey is back working on campus and lecturing for three hours a week while commanding a €175,000 salary.
www.independent.ie
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the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate
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We are back with a brand new series on Wednesday. Starting with a BritCom institution, Rising Damp.
@robertcheath.bsky.social and Guy Walker are joined by @jakeyapp.bsky.social to discuss all things Rigsby. Small and big screen.
What a way to kick off series 5!
@robertcheath.bsky.social and Guy Walker are joined by @jakeyapp.bsky.social to discuss all things Rigsby. Small and big screen.
What a way to kick off series 5!
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How might aliens perceive the Universe?
Like we do? Or can they taste photons? Or see dark matter? Or is it impossible to know?
Check out our podcast episode, adapted from my new book, "Do Aliens Speak Physics?"
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Like we do? Or can they taste photons? Or see dark matter? Or is it impossible to know?
Check out our podcast episode, adapted from my new book, "Do Aliens Speak Physics?"
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
How might aliens perceive the Universe? - Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe | iHeart
<p>Daniel and Kelly talk about how aliens might experience the Universe and how it might shape their science, a topic from Daniel's new book 'Do Aliens Speak Physics?'</p><p>See <a href='https://omnys...
www.iheart.com
quick reminder that any glasses with a hidden camera in them are not 'wearable tech', they're just pervert glasses. night night!
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Destroying UK HE through completely backwards policies that perpetuate a death spiral for the sector is not novel, though.
It's the endgame for two decades of erosion and implosion.
It's the endgame for two decades of erosion and implosion.
Sending some universities to the wall based on spurious assumptions about teaching quality, which are based on spurious data about graduate employment rates and salaries, would certainly be a novel approach to managing the HE system.
(from The Sunday Times: www.thetimes.com/uk/education...)
(from The Sunday Times: www.thetimes.com/uk/education...)
BREAKING: Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize
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As our students have been told by security trying to intimidate them that “we know who you are & your socials”, and management volunteered to spy to the Met in 2024, relieved (suspicious?) there isn’t more of QMUL in this latest shocking reveal.
2024: libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/rev...
2024: libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/rev...
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