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Mike Rowe

@mikerrowe.bsky.social

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Academic. Ethnographer of street-level bureaucrats and discretion, most recently police in particular. Liverpool.

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 5d

At least five UK universities have told staff they will not be paying them the sector-wide uplift that was due in August for almost a year. Juliette Rowsell reports
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/five-uk-universities-tell-staff-they-cant-afford-pay-rises

Mike Rowe @mikerrowe.bsky.social · 8d

newbooksnetwork.com/researching-... Shameless plug! #street-levelbureaucracy

Michael Rowe, "Researching Street-Level Bureaucracy: Bringing Out the Interpretive Dimensions" (Routledge, 2024) - New Books Network

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 12d

Richard Tice with his Reform chum Nathan Gill, who has just admitted taking bribes for spreading Kremlin misinformation. What could be more patriotic than that?

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COPS campaign @copscampaign.bsky.social · 15d

The #spycops scandal contains half a dozen aspects that frankly warrant an inquiry of their own. One of these is blacklisting. For decades, every constabulary's Special Branch routinely & illegally passed details of political activists to illegal employment blacklisting organisations. 🧵

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 22d

Windsor Castle Tuesday night. Four of us arrested for 'malicious communications'. Now released.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8V4...

Hey Donald, welcome to Windsor Castle

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 3

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 3

Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".

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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · Aug 30

Yesterday Panteion University of Social and Political Science withdrew its patronage from the Eurocrim2025 conference in Athens
#eurocrim #criminology #crimsky

via @brunildapali.bsky.social

www.panteion.gr/wp-content/u...

https://www.panteion.gr/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/ΣΥΓΚΛΗΤΟΣ_ΕΓΚΛΗΜΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ_ΑΠΟΦΑΣΗ29.08.2025.pdf

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Aug 13

Reform just tell people whatever they think you want to hear.

And of course that includes former Tory Ministers turned Reform.

We must hold them to account.

Every. Single. Time.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 5

The Trump administration is fully aware that anti-vaccine disinformation campaigns can cause incredible harm.

After all, it is he who ordered the United States to do exactly this to
China. The difference is that this time The Regime is running the op on Americans.

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccines

The covert effort began under Trump and continued into Biden’s presidency, Reuters found. Health experts say it endangered lives for possible geopolitical gain.

www.reuters.com

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Jun 20

extremely insightful report from Liverpool Hope about the financial state of the university and the long-term risks posed by the course closures and redundancies.

drive.google.com/file/d/1qcu1...

#UKHE #SaveHe

Redundancies Are Not the Solution
The VS scheme. Course closures. Promotion deferral. Deletion of course combinations.
Redundancies. These have been some of the University's highlights for the past 1.5 years.
Taken together, these actions represent a sustained and escalating attack on the livelihoods
of dedicated staff at LHU and the integrity of the country's HE sector as a whole. None of these
‘solutions’ have made or will ever make LHU financially sustainable in the long-term. These are
short-sighted and unjust initiatives that have eroded and will continue to erode the trust and
morale of the very people who have committed their lives and careers to the mission of LHU:
to inspire and support students from all walks of life and, crucially, to educate students in the
round - i.e., to show them that learning is a quest for truth, honesty, and goodness.
Redundancies may save some money in the short-term but universities around the country
are consistently and repeatedly underestimating

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Jon Munitz @jonmunitz.bsky.social · Jul 24

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

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Dr Sharron FitzGerald @sharronfitz.bsky.social · Jul 18

We’re looking for a new book editor. Details below. Please circulate in your networks. @bordercrim.bsky.social @daniellecitron.bsky.social @florarenz.bsky.social @illanwall.bsky.social @jenhendry.bsky.social

Gender and Justice Journal @genderandjustice.bsky.social · Jul 18

We seek a committed & dynamic feminist to join the existing team as a new book review editor @genderandjustice.bsky.social
Details:
✳️Deadline 1 August 2025 17:00 CEST
✳️Informal enquiries: [email protected]
✳️Info: www.lexnetwork.org/gender-and-j...
@lexnetwork.bsky.social

Gender and Justice – Call for Book Editor – LEX Research Network

www.lexnetwork.org

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · Jun 21

Grim picture of bullying at Dundee University

Cultural change may take ~5 years, but it must start by removing those who upheld the leadership's moral failures & mirrored its bullying top-down style of management

This pattern of management occurs in many unis

www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/5...

COURIER OPINION: What must happen next to save Dundee University

'Anyone else who was complicit in this institutional vandalism should step down.'

www.thecourier.co.uk

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jun 19

The Department of Homeland Security has imposed new limits on congressional visits, saying its offices are not subject to an existing law that allows members of Congress to make unannounced oversight visits to ICE facilities that detain migrants.

ICE Imposes New Rules on Congressional Visits

The policy specifies that ICE field offices are not subject to an existing law that allows members of Congress to make unannounced oversight visits to immigration facilities that “detain or otherwise house aliens.”

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angeladaly @nidhalaigh.bsky.social · Jun 19

"The university needs to look at the election of a leadership that staff can get behind and which is committed to resolving the current situation without the use of compulsory redundancies.” @carloucu.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2525296...

University of Dundee staff resign following damning report into financial crisis

Three senior members of the University of Dundee, including its principal, have resigned in the wake of a damning report into its financial crisis

www.heraldscotland.com

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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · Jun 19

This is a devastating piece of writing.
Highly recommend.
🔥✊👇

www.iwa.wales/agenda/2025/...

Disruption and market futurology at Cardiff University - Institute of Welsh Affairs

Cardiff University academics explain how the pace of cuts, commercialisation and techno-speculation at the institution risk its collapse.

www.iwa.wales

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · Jun 14

Together with @forthe100.bsky.social, we are conducting survey to find the Hateful Eight

The 8 worst UK universities for discrimination, bullying, harassment & lack of care

Whether staff or student, if you've been mistreated, tell us in our survey

21percent.org?p=2124

Who'll top the Hateful 8 ?

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · Jun 13

Vice Chancellor Wendy Larner of @cardiffuni.bsky.social must go

Reckless & chaotic cuts have created a climate of fear, worsened staff mental health & triggered protests and no-confidence votes

Now her management team has been reported to Health and Safety Executive

nation.cymru/news/cardiff...

Cardiff University academics 'have considered suicide and abortion because of cruel cuts programme'

Martin Shipton Academic staff working at Cardiff University have been so traumatised by the management of a hugely controversial cuts programme that some have contemplated suicide or having an abortio...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Jun 13

""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..."

www.wnep.com/article/news...

Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant

Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

www.wnep.com

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Cardiff UCU @cardiffucu.bsky.social · Jun 12

❗Yesterday Cardiff University Senate, the body responsible for upholding academic standards, voted to NOT recommend management’s toxic 'Academic Futures' cuts plan to Cardiff University Council.❗

The ball is now in Council’s court at its meeting next Tuesday, 17th.

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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · Jun 3

'We were told by our Vice Chancellor that the 2021 “Shaping for Excellence” redundancy programme would “strengthen the university in the long term”. Surely the “long term” is more than four years.'

Solidarity with my former colleagues at Leicester.

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www.uculeicester.org.uk/the-fight-to...

The Fight to Protect our Jobs and our University | University of Leicester UCU

www.uculeicester.org.uk

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · May 19

A reminder that more people are employed in the yoga industry than there are registered fishers working in the UK.

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School of Law & Social Justice at University of Liverpool @livunislsj.bsky.social · May 19

Get a fully funded Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology PhD while teaching undergraduates! 📚

Apply now for our fully funded Graduate Teaching Fellowship (GTF), commencing October 2025.

🗓️ Deadline to apply: Mon 9 June 2025

🔗 Find out more and apply: bit.ly/sspc-graduat...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · May 18

War on the poor.

If the DWP makes error and overpays certain benefits, the Bill allows Ministers to recover money from the claimant’s bank account. No court order is needed.

What if benefit claimants can't afford to repay, or face hardship?

No equivalent law for fraudsters and scammers.

A new bill will lead to mass state surveillance for the most vulnerable. We must act.

This bill grants the government powers of surveillance on the bank accounts of the poor, old, sick and disabled people receiving specified benefits

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · May 15

Today's university making redundancies is Greenwich. Yeah, like we don't need any architects do we. This madness will run and run until someone - anyone - gets a grip. While it continues, loads of the cash down the drain used to be yours.
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/greenwi...

Greenwich architecture school faces mass job cuts as university plans 300 redundancies

EXCLUSIVE: Lecturers at Greenwich University’s architecture school have been left ‘angry and disillusioned’ by plans for a restructure that put over 300 university staff at risk, including dozens in t...

www.architectsjournal.co.uk

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TUC North East, Yorkshire & Humber @tucneyh.bsky.social · May 14

Unions including @uniteneyh.bsky.social will rally in support of @newcastleucu.bsky.social members tomorrow - join us at the picket line www.tuc.org.uk/events/stop-... #ProtectEducationNow #UCU

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UEA UCU says join a union @uea-ucu.bsky.social · May 8

📣Pushing through with compulsory redundancies is not in the moral, strategic or financial interest of UEA.

🚩Join us on the picketline, tomorrow from 8am, as we continue to make the case for a brighter future for our university. #SaveUEA

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · May 7

Brutal account of what it’s like to teach at the University of Florida right now in the NYT—extraordinary climate of fear. People afraid to say intersectional and talk about lynchings. Fake students trying to entrap Muslim faculty or just making things up altogether. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...

In the three years since Ron DeSantis set out to rid Florida’s universities of woke ideology, my campus changed significantly. Professors suddenly worried about what they could say and teach. Some started avoiding terms like “racism.” One student recently told me that when someone used “intersectional” in class, the instructor told her not to use that word.

One colleague told me that he stopped assigning an article about lynching and white evangelicalism for fear that those terms could raise red flags. Another said she was censoring her language not just in class and on campus but also on personal social media.

Several professors have been subjected to efforts at entrapment. Last year a man posing as a student tried to encourage Muslim faculty members to criticize Mr. DeSantis and Israel. A similar incident happened to me. In October 2024 my department chair called me into his office to tell me that someone claiming to be a student in my Religion and Science class had complained that I spent 20 minutes talking about specific candidates, including who I was voting for and why. I was stunned. That never happened in that class or any other; it is antithetical to the way I teach. Fortunately

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · May 4

OK, everyone! Achievement unlocked: one week of striking over the university’s refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies. What comes next?

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