Pete Wood
@peterrhwood.bsky.social
Sustainability, mobility, devolution, government reform. OU Assoc Lecturer & Freelance Researcher. UCU Climate and Ecological Emergency Ctte & OU Branch President. https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterrhwood
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OUT NOW: More Jam Tomorrow MILTON KEYNES
It’s built for cars. The buses are baffling. But it’s got the most energy efficient housing in Britain. What did it take to build a city from almost nothing?
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It’s built for cars. The buses are baffling. But it’s got the most energy efficient housing in Britain. What did it take to build a city from almost nothing?
Listen now at
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Milton Keynes
It’s built for cars. The buses are baffling. But it’s got the most energy efficient housing in Britain. What did it take to build a city from almost nothing?...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:34 AM
OUT NOW: More Jam Tomorrow MILTON KEYNES
It’s built for cars. The buses are baffling. But it’s got the most energy efficient housing in Britain. What did it take to build a city from almost nothing?
Listen now at
morejamtomorrow.com/episode/milt...
It’s built for cars. The buses are baffling. But it’s got the most energy efficient housing in Britain. What did it take to build a city from almost nothing?
Listen now at
morejamtomorrow.com/episode/milt...
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imagine being arrested just for posting! out of curiosity though, what did they post? because i notice you haven’t seen fit to quote them. was there a lack of space?
September 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
imagine being arrested just for posting! out of curiosity though, what did they post? because i notice you haven’t seen fit to quote them. was there a lack of space?
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August 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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There are a lot of bad things happening all at once, and it’s overwhelming to think about how to meet moments like this.
Jean says to focus on 1 or 2 things that you care about, understand fairly well, and are either local or involve a topic where you’re likely to have influence and find community
Jean says to focus on 1 or 2 things that you care about, understand fairly well, and are either local or involve a topic where you’re likely to have influence and find community
April 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
There are a lot of bad things happening all at once, and it’s overwhelming to think about how to meet moments like this.
Jean says to focus on 1 or 2 things that you care about, understand fairly well, and are either local or involve a topic where you’re likely to have influence and find community
Jean says to focus on 1 or 2 things that you care about, understand fairly well, and are either local or involve a topic where you’re likely to have influence and find community
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Similes like this are so helpful; it seems really obvious when you say it out loud but there is a genuine perspective shift when you're emphatic that the point of your teaching is not to create 15 essays, but 15 students who can write an essay.
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Similes like this are so helpful; it seems really obvious when you say it out loud but there is a genuine perspective shift when you're emphatic that the point of your teaching is not to create 15 essays, but 15 students who can write an essay.
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RANKING LITERALLY EVERY PROPHET IN THE BIBLE BY HOW GOOD OF A POSTER THEY WOULD BE IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
NO I AM NOT KIDDING
(1/69)
NO I AM NOT KIDDING
(1/69)
March 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
RANKING LITERALLY EVERY PROPHET IN THE BIBLE BY HOW GOOD OF A POSTER THEY WOULD BE IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
NO I AM NOT KIDDING
(1/69)
NO I AM NOT KIDDING
(1/69)
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Dear God! Dundee University to cut 632 jobs, *one fifth* of its workforce. The tsunami has been coming in for years. Now it's hit and nothing - nothing - has been done. Britain really is the stupid country. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dundee University to cut 632 jobs
The university said it faced a £35m deficit in this financial year
www.bbc.co.uk
March 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Dear God! Dundee University to cut 632 jobs, *one fifth* of its workforce. The tsunami has been coming in for years. Now it's hit and nothing - nothing - has been done. Britain really is the stupid country. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Britain's tarrif war policy
March 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Britain's tarrif war policy
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Welcome to 🦋 @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social and @ucuequality.bsky.social !
We’ve now added you to the #UCU branches + committees starter pack 👇
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We’ve now added you to the #UCU branches + committees starter pack 👇
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March 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Welcome to 🦋 @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social and @ucuequality.bsky.social !
We’ve now added you to the #UCU branches + committees starter pack 👇
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We’ve now added you to the #UCU branches + committees starter pack 👇
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I’m glad Labour is supporting these workers, who are at risk of losing 400 jobs. Would be nice if they were also supporting university workers, where 10,000 jobs are at risk. In the first week of February alone 1,000 job cuts were announced. Nothing from Labour at all in response.
Of course - of course - Labour has the back of the Grangemouth workers, members of my union Unite.
Industrial change is coming: this government will not abandon working people as the jobs we need them to do change
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Industrial change is coming: this government will not abandon working people as the jobs we need them to do change
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer pledges £200m for Grangemouth oil refinery site
Unions have accused UK government of failing to act quickly enough to save jobs, but Labour says it took time to build credible proposal
www.theguardian.com
February 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I’m glad Labour is supporting these workers, who are at risk of losing 400 jobs. Would be nice if they were also supporting university workers, where 10,000 jobs are at risk. In the first week of February alone 1,000 job cuts were announced. Nothing from Labour at all in response.
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The refurbished gasholder at Granton, Edinburgh, looking like a portal to the 5th dimension. ( 7.5mm fisheye lens )
February 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The refurbished gasholder at Granton, Edinburgh, looking like a portal to the 5th dimension. ( 7.5mm fisheye lens )
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imagine you went to the trouble of getting a new car because of ULEZ and now the government wants to land 300,000 more planes in London. GTFO
January 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
imagine you went to the trouble of getting a new car because of ULEZ and now the government wants to land 300,000 more planes in London. GTFO
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if you want to know where we are in Western climate politics, the Bank of England, one of the few central banks with an environmental mandate, has just published its 2025-2028 research agenda and there isnt a single word on climate
www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/ban...
www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/ban...
Bank of England Agenda for Research, 2025-2028
Research is crucial to what any central bank does. It forms a critical part of the analytical apparatus that guides policymakers’ decisions. This document sets out the key new directions for research ...
www.bankofengland.co.uk
January 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
if you want to know where we are in Western climate politics, the Bank of England, one of the few central banks with an environmental mandate, has just published its 2025-2028 research agenda and there isnt a single word on climate
www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/ban...
www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/ban...
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Here is a supercut of my WTF TV Moments 2024.
Happy New Year.
Happy New Year.
December 31, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Here is a supercut of my WTF TV Moments 2024.
Happy New Year.
Happy New Year.
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The full-time minimum wage from April is about £24,000 a year. This is absolutely a good thing.
But I suspect that's going to start to cause some real ructions in badly-paid 'skilled' and 'professional' jobs – not least journalism, where early career jobs paying under £30k are *still* common.
But I suspect that's going to start to cause some real ructions in badly-paid 'skilled' and 'professional' jobs – not least journalism, where early career jobs paying under £30k are *still* common.
Holy hell the uk economy as told through Reddit posts.
“should my wife, who has spent years taking all the educational qualifications to be a teacher but quit due to childcare, accept a job in a school (the job pays a minimum wage salary and is a 39 week contract, they sack her for the holidays)”
“should my wife, who has spent years taking all the educational qualifications to be a teacher but quit due to childcare, accept a job in a school (the job pays a minimum wage salary and is a 39 week contract, they sack her for the holidays)”
December 30, 2024 at 12:20 PM
The full-time minimum wage from April is about £24,000 a year. This is absolutely a good thing.
But I suspect that's going to start to cause some real ructions in badly-paid 'skilled' and 'professional' jobs – not least journalism, where early career jobs paying under £30k are *still* common.
But I suspect that's going to start to cause some real ructions in badly-paid 'skilled' and 'professional' jobs – not least journalism, where early career jobs paying under £30k are *still* common.
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Read about our recent community wealth building conversation on what we can learn from Scotland, Wales and Ireland - great discussion and wonderfully chaired by @johnhuwthomas.bsky.social
"An invigorating reminder that what small country governments lack in scale, they more than make up for in their ambition."
Sarah Evans' reflections on our #CWBConversations event on Celtic wealth building, ahead of her joining the CLES team in a few weeks time. 🔗 cles.org.uk/blog/much-to...
Sarah Evans' reflections on our #CWBConversations event on Celtic wealth building, ahead of her joining the CLES team in a few weeks time. 🔗 cles.org.uk/blog/much-to...
November 27, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Read about our recent community wealth building conversation on what we can learn from Scotland, Wales and Ireland - great discussion and wonderfully chaired by @johnhuwthomas.bsky.social
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UCU Scotland starter pack go.bsky.app/KT6aGat
November 16, 2024 at 2:30 PM
UCU Scotland starter pack go.bsky.app/KT6aGat
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A niche UK higher education thought I had yesterday: there's a policy thought doing the rounds that UK unis need the push to "efficiency" that the rest of the public sector had. The trouble with that is UK unis are not "the public sector". In governance terms, they are charitable companies...
November 23, 2024 at 12:44 PM
A niche UK higher education thought I had yesterday: there's a policy thought doing the rounds that UK unis need the push to "efficiency" that the rest of the public sector had. The trouble with that is UK unis are not "the public sector". In governance terms, they are charitable companies...
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🚨STRIKE ACTION🚨
After our employer refused to pause their restructure plans in order to first resolve our ongoing dispute over a Safe and Professional Workplace, members today voted overwhelmingly to call strike action as soon as possible.
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After our employer refused to pause their restructure plans in order to first resolve our ongoing dispute over a Safe and Professional Workplace, members today voted overwhelmingly to call strike action as soon as possible.
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Emergency General Meeting on the Restructure: motion
This branch notes: The current ongoing negotiations to resolve our dispute have been protracted and so far, mostly fruitless. This branch has agreed to pause industrial action and has shown extreme…
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November 22, 2024 at 4:36 PM
🚨STRIKE ACTION🚨
After our employer refused to pause their restructure plans in order to first resolve our ongoing dispute over a Safe and Professional Workplace, members today voted overwhelmingly to call strike action as soon as possible.
uniteucu.wordpress.com/motions/emer...
After our employer refused to pause their restructure plans in order to first resolve our ongoing dispute over a Safe and Professional Workplace, members today voted overwhelmingly to call strike action as soon as possible.
uniteucu.wordpress.com/motions/emer...
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Creating a starter pack of people I think would be most likely to succumb to the madness and ruin their life with posts if they had more followers
November 20, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Creating a starter pack of people I think would be most likely to succumb to the madness and ruin their life with posts if they had more followers
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Important context here:
● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares)
● "a big farm" is 217 acres.
Now let's see who's angry:
● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres
● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres
● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres
● Dyson owns 36,000 acres
● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares)
● "a big farm" is 217 acres.
Now let's see who's angry:
● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres
● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres
● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres
● Dyson owns 36,000 acres
A message from a REAL farmer who hasn’t been brainwashed by the Tories, wealthy landowners and the right wing media👇🏽
#FarmersProtest
#FarmersProtest
November 20, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Important context here:
● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares)
● "a big farm" is 217 acres.
Now let's see who's angry:
● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres
● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres
● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres
● Dyson owns 36,000 acres
● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares)
● "a big farm" is 217 acres.
Now let's see who's angry:
● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres
● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres
● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres
● Dyson owns 36,000 acres
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