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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 52m

At a talk on poetry which fits with my part time life as a literature student but is also framed on theories from my full time job as a sociologist of work & care. What a nice way to spend an afternoon.

Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 1h

TBF, Heriot-Watt has always been pretty firm friends with any number of amoral organisations.

Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 1h

Well, well, well... Glasgow and, my own alma mater, Heriot-Watt

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 2h

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 4h

(Very, very broad brush 300 character post that simplifies a number of trends!)

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 4h

Note to Badenoch, you can't actually shut down sociology. UK sociology self immolated itself in the early 20th C through it's eugenic turn. Yet, English departments created their own sociology - cultural studies - to fill the gap. Every discipline ends up creating its own sociology.

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 4h

Not to be outdone, Sir Keir Starmer announces that he will go harder and faster in delivering patriotic renewal by detonating tactical nukes underneath every university library library’s 800 shelfmark section.

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 7h

UK Tory Party Conference: Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch declares war on English degrees.
#literature #language #English #HigherEd #University

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 4h

Watching Badenoch's policy announcements and seeing them as having much the same effects as me, a 40 year old, writing what I'd like to Santa.

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 4h

(I need to work on my replies, your comments got me thinking and my thoughts appear a bit know it all when I really am wondering myself. I do have a strong West Wing idealist self that I keep under lock and key that sometimes escapes)

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah. I don't know whether it's the Cold War that nuked the political imagination or curiosity... Or something else.

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 5h

I do think this is a thing and probably reflects the professionalisation of politics and the idea - or 'lore' - that guides their way of working and lessened the intellectual arguments they make. I do think it's a good thing for a healthy politics to have a certain respect of actual conservatives..

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 6h

Still a Tory though

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 6h

There's something that gets me in the West Wing feels when a conservative has some principles.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 22h

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 9h

Whatever level works for you

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 10h

Just got recommended Richard Osman and Marina Hyde talking about Taylor Swift and Charlie XCX and I have never wanted to listen to anything less in my life.

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 10h

Probably to do with how all life depends on each other. Dunno think it was covered in high school.

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Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · 18h

A party exclusively for those who hate their grandchildren (and other people’s grandchildren even more).

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 18h

Breaking: Tories would slash university places by 100k.

Student numbers cap plan billed as saving £3 billion to invest in apprenticeship funding.

Tomorrow, Badenoch will unveil plans to limit student numbers across all subjects.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Tories would slash university places by 100,000 - Research Professional News

Student numbers cap plan billed as saving £3 billion to invest in “doubled” apprenticeship funding

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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