Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn
@lizgloyn.bsky.social
Reader at the Classics dept at Royal Holloway; mater; deacon in the C of E; comms for RHUL UCU; feminist. Sharing my thoughts, not those of my employer. She/her. #TinyJoys curator.
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YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. DO YOU NEED TO CLEAN YOUR GLASSES?
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. DO YOU NEED TO CLEAN YOUR GLASSES?
Let us say that finding the time has not been easy... but priorities.
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Let us say that finding the time has not been easy... but priorities.
(And, now I come to think of it, why it is particularly appropriate to be doing it still in the shadow of yesterday's Feast of Christ the King.) ⚓
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
(And, now I come to think of it, why it is particularly appropriate to be doing it still in the shadow of yesterday's Feast of Christ the King.) ⚓
In the middle of all of *waves hands* whatever on earth this nonsense is, giving blood says that when it comes down to it, our shared humanity and compassion for each other is much more important than any earthly kingdom or border. And that's why I do it.
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
In the middle of all of *waves hands* whatever on earth this nonsense is, giving blood says that when it comes down to it, our shared humanity and compassion for each other is much more important than any earthly kingdom or border. And that's why I do it.
I'm very happy to answer questions about blood donation if anyone's interested. It is a thing that I feel very strongly about, and it is also a way of showing that you care about the well-being of people you will never meet, simply because they deserve to get the medical care they need.
November 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I'm very happy to answer questions about blood donation if anyone's interested. It is a thing that I feel very strongly about, and it is also a way of showing that you care about the well-being of people you will never meet, simply because they deserve to get the medical care they need.
That was donation 28 *does a small dance* and it means my blood will be in stock as hospitals start to gear up for the Christmas period. I'm A+, which means I can donate to A+ and AB+ people - that means they don't need e.g. O- blood, which can be used for pretty much every patient.
November 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
That was donation 28 *does a small dance* and it means my blood will be in stock as hospitals start to gear up for the Christmas period. I'm A+, which means I can donate to A+ and AB+ people - that means they don't need e.g. O- blood, which can be used for pretty much every patient.
So in small achievements today, I gave blood! Hurrah! You can find out more about donating in the UK and sign up to be a donor here:
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November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
So in small achievements today, I gave blood! Hurrah! You can find out more about donating in the UK and sign up to be a donor here:
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After a really rough Monday morning (never fun to start with a doctor's appointment!), I was so glad to come back to leftover chocolate tart. ❤️
(PS: Everything's fine overall; nothing dangerous got diagnosed. But I still needed that chocolate comfort afterwards!)
#TinyJoys
(PS: Everything's fine overall; nothing dangerous got diagnosed. But I still needed that chocolate comfort afterwards!)
#TinyJoys
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
After a really rough Monday morning (never fun to start with a doctor's appointment!), I was so glad to come back to leftover chocolate tart. ❤️
(PS: Everything's fine overall; nothing dangerous got diagnosed. But I still needed that chocolate comfort afterwards!)
#TinyJoys
(PS: Everything's fine overall; nothing dangerous got diagnosed. But I still needed that chocolate comfort afterwards!)
#TinyJoys
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1: house sparrows coming regularly to my first-ever birdfeeder
2: (although I *do* know that it should be colder in Toronto now) I just brought fresh thyme & fresh parsley in from the garden to put in my soup stock on the 23rd of November
3: rosemary plants bright & healthy in my sunroom
1: house sparrows coming regularly to my first-ever birdfeeder
2: (although I *do* know that it should be colder in Toronto now) I just brought fresh thyme & fresh parsley in from the garden to put in my soup stock on the 23rd of November
3: rosemary plants bright & healthy in my sunroom
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
#TinyJoys
1: house sparrows coming regularly to my first-ever birdfeeder
2: (although I *do* know that it should be colder in Toronto now) I just brought fresh thyme & fresh parsley in from the garden to put in my soup stock on the 23rd of November
3: rosemary plants bright & healthy in my sunroom
1: house sparrows coming regularly to my first-ever birdfeeder
2: (although I *do* know that it should be colder in Toronto now) I just brought fresh thyme & fresh parsley in from the garden to put in my soup stock on the 23rd of November
3: rosemary plants bright & healthy in my sunroom
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Great to read this table, the week after my institution announces a voluntary severance programme, to see the government introducing a policy that will cost us an extra *£13 million*
These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Great to read this table, the week after my institution announces a voluntary severance programme, to see the government introducing a policy that will cost us an extra *£13 million*
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See my thread above as to why this is a bad idea
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November 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
See my thread above as to why this is a bad idea
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We pour billions into saving an economically tiny steel industry whilst actively destroying one of our largest export industries. (Yes, higher education to overseas students who already massively subsidise UK students, are counted as exports).
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
We pour billions into saving an economically tiny steel industry whilst actively destroying one of our largest export industries. (Yes, higher education to overseas students who already massively subsidise UK students, are counted as exports).
They're So Good. Highly recommended.
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
They're So Good. Highly recommended.
IT'S NOT EVEN ADVENT YET.
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
IT'S NOT EVEN ADVENT YET.
Also, I have found the *best* quick & simple crumble recipe and it is a boon for using up fruit and, yes, we also have crumble tonight.
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Also, I have found the *best* quick & simple crumble recipe and it is a boon for using up fruit and, yes, we also have crumble tonight.
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For the USHE crowd, fathom this: the systemic pattern in UKHE the past few years has been to CUT the best, most award-winning, most-grant-getting, most-publishing programs.
The cuts at Leicester University are also targeting some of our top REF (and NSS) performers: History; Film Studies; Chemistry; Modern Languages; Geography, Geology & Environment
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
For the USHE crowd, fathom this: the systemic pattern in UKHE the past few years has been to CUT the best, most award-winning, most-grant-getting, most-publishing programs.
Feeling *extremely* smug and satisfied with this evening's dinner, not to mention once again impressed with how good Riverford recipes are. #TinyJoys
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November 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Feeling *extremely* smug and satisfied with this evening's dinner, not to mention once again impressed with how good Riverford recipes are. #TinyJoys
Bless academia, where someone, somewhere, has *always* come up with a scale of measurement for what you want to measure.
November 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Bless academia, where someone, somewhere, has *always* come up with a scale of measurement for what you want to measure.
It really isn't their fault, a lot of the time, but it's a problem that we find particularly with the US practice of uploading BA honours theses to institutional repositories which then get scraped on the assumption that everything in the repository is at the same academic level.
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It really isn't their fault, a lot of the time, but it's a problem that we find particularly with the US practice of uploading BA honours theses to institutional repositories which then get scraped on the assumption that everything in the repository is at the same academic level.
I'm trying to encourage their use as a source of extra bibliography, but it's so hard to make the distinction clear when this stuff turns up on the library catalogue without any warnings.
November 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I'm trying to encourage their use as a source of extra bibliography, but it's so hard to make the distinction clear when this stuff turns up on the library catalogue without any warnings.
Reading about qualitative data analysis this afternoon, because there is that MA which still needs to be done...
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Reading about qualitative data analysis this afternoon, because there is that MA which still needs to be done...
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Look at @katharinehayhoe.com channel her apocalyptic optimist as she describes the fossil fuel swan song that we just witnessed at COP30. For the full conversation with @amywestervelt.bsky.social and me, tune into COPOut Episode 5, which airs TOMORROW!
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Look at @katharinehayhoe.com channel her apocalyptic optimist as she describes the fossil fuel swan song that we just witnessed at COP30. For the full conversation with @amywestervelt.bsky.social and me, tune into COPOut Episode 5, which airs TOMORROW!
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I’m a cis woman who not infrequently gets mistaken for her (cis) husband on the landline. None of this stuff is consistently obvious.
(I also have a butch cis friend who has been unpleasantly challenged in the loos, and the scenario did not play out in the way the LGBAlliance promises).
(I also have a butch cis friend who has been unpleasantly challenged in the loos, and the scenario did not play out in the way the LGBAlliance promises).
The LGBTQ community has been saying that targeting trans people will disproportionately affect cis women for FUCKING YEARS. And it does. LGBAliiance treat them like their abuse is acceptable collateral damage to their prejudicial grift crusade.
November 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I’m a cis woman who not infrequently gets mistaken for her (cis) husband on the landline. None of this stuff is consistently obvious.
(I also have a butch cis friend who has been unpleasantly challenged in the loos, and the scenario did not play out in the way the LGBAlliance promises).
(I also have a butch cis friend who has been unpleasantly challenged in the loos, and the scenario did not play out in the way the LGBAlliance promises).
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This is a pattern that pervades the post REF2021 era. See also for example Kent, or at UoA level History, where the top 4 performing UoAs have all faced significant redundancies after their high results.
What does the White Paper (and DSIT/UKRI) mean by advocating 'specialism' in this context? 2/2
What does the White Paper (and DSIT/UKRI) mean by advocating 'specialism' in this context? 2/2
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This is a pattern that pervades the post REF2021 era. See also for example Kent, or at UoA level History, where the top 4 performing UoAs have all faced significant redundancies after their high results.
What does the White Paper (and DSIT/UKRI) mean by advocating 'specialism' in this context? 2/2
What does the White Paper (and DSIT/UKRI) mean by advocating 'specialism' in this context? 2/2
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'It is notable that in the last Research Excellence Framework exercise the Department of American Studies at Nottingham was ranked third in the Area Studies unit of assessment and was one of the top-performing units across the whole of the University of Nottingham.' 1/2
RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
'It is notable that in the last Research Excellence Framework exercise the Department of American Studies at Nottingham was ranked third in the Area Studies unit of assessment and was one of the top-performing units across the whole of the University of Nottingham.' 1/2