Jamie Callahan
@profjamiec.bsky.social
Storytelling feminist - learning, gender, emotion & activism. Equity Challenge Project creator. USAF Veteran. Former Co-EIC of @IJMR_BAM. She|Her
My department has all but required our assessments to either incorporate or allow the use of #AI.
Odd for an institution that’s all about #sustainability.
There are unintended consequences, though.
www.instagram.com/reel/DS3KRjM...
Odd for an institution that’s all about #sustainability.
There are unintended consequences, though.
www.instagram.com/reel/DS3KRjM...
Catharina Doria | AI Ethics Expert on Instagram: "🚨Pls watch this video. NO ONE is talking about THIS but you need to understand that GENERATIVE IS TARGETED to “POOR PEOPLE” / the MASSES, while HUMAN ...
66K likes, 1,045 comments - cahdoria on December 29, 2025: "🚨Pls watch this video. NO ONE is talking about THIS but you need to understand that GENERATIVE IS TARGETED to “POOR PEOPLE” / the MASSES, wh...
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December 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My department has all but required our assessments to either incorporate or allow the use of #AI.
Odd for an institution that’s all about #sustainability.
There are unintended consequences, though.
www.instagram.com/reel/DS3KRjM...
Odd for an institution that’s all about #sustainability.
There are unintended consequences, though.
www.instagram.com/reel/DS3KRjM...
No good deed goes unpunished. Here I am sat in A&E after I rescued a tiny black cat I saw knocked down by a van; she tried to run but couldn’t use her back legs. Terrified, she bit the $@&! out of my hand. Here’s hoping it will only be the 2 hour wait they anticipate.
December 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
No good deed goes unpunished. Here I am sat in A&E after I rescued a tiny black cat I saw knocked down by a van; she tried to run but couldn’t use her back legs. Terrified, she bit the $@&! out of my hand. Here’s hoping it will only be the 2 hour wait they anticipate.
So glad I brought an extra layering shirt and a small blanket with me to the office today!
December 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
So glad I brought an extra layering shirt and a small blanket with me to the office today!
Join your trade union.
@ducu.bsky.social
@ducu.bsky.social
Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
December 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Join your trade union.
@ducu.bsky.social
@ducu.bsky.social
Can you say Charlie Foxtrot day? Bus didn’t show; next one made me late for my appointment; had to wait 90 minutes to get seen; ran to catch bus after—got on the wrong one. Now walking 1.5mi home from the closest stop I could get—no busses stop between so walk it is. FML
December 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Can you say Charlie Foxtrot day? Bus didn’t show; next one made me late for my appointment; had to wait 90 minutes to get seen; ran to catch bus after—got on the wrong one. Now walking 1.5mi home from the closest stop I could get—no busses stop between so walk it is. FML
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This is what my employer is trying to do to us at Northumbria University.
😔💔😢Please read and share these harrowing testimonials from people terrified about plans from @northumbriauni.bsky.social senior management to freeze pay to force through pension changes: ucu-unn.org.uk/news/315-tes... @ucu.org.uk
Testimonials: Pay and Pensions at Northumbria University
ucu-unn.org.uk
December 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is what my employer is trying to do to us at Northumbria University.
Reposted by Jamie Callahan
If you could sign a petition supporting Northumbria University staff being forced out of their pensions by management, I'd really appreciate it.
Please share and sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.
These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
www.megaphone.org.uk
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
If you could sign a petition supporting Northumbria University staff being forced out of their pensions by management, I'd really appreciate it.
Meanwhile, my department has set a policy that makes in-person assignments all but impossible.
This is necessary
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
November 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Meanwhile, my department has set a policy that makes in-person assignments all but impossible.
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Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Reposted by Jamie Callahan
Reposted by Jamie Callahan
👉👉👉Hey! Please sign and share! Let's get to 500+ today! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.
These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
www.megaphone.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
👉👉👉Hey! Please sign and share! Let's get to 500+ today! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
With a killer #GTVO campaign and a flurry of SO many last minute voters, BOOM! Our records show that we sailed past that 50% anti-union threshold locally at @ducu.bsky.social.
#WeAreTheUniversity @ucu.org.uk
#WeAreTheUniversity @ucu.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
With a killer #GTVO campaign and a flurry of SO many last minute voters, BOOM! Our records show that we sailed past that 50% anti-union threshold locally at @ducu.bsky.social.
#WeAreTheUniversity @ucu.org.uk
#WeAreTheUniversity @ucu.org.uk
Friendly reminder to those calling students “consumers”:
A consumer is a revenue stream to be exploited. (Professor Tony Watson, Nottingham University Business School)
A consumer is a revenue stream to be exploited. (Professor Tony Watson, Nottingham University Business School)
November 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Friendly reminder to those calling students “consumers”:
A consumer is a revenue stream to be exploited. (Professor Tony Watson, Nottingham University Business School)
A consumer is a revenue stream to be exploited. (Professor Tony Watson, Nottingham University Business School)
Once again, EE2025 highlights how executives bring home excessive pay relative to those at the coal face in all sectors.
(Oh, and don’t buy Starbucks. Find a local independent)
ips-dc.org/report-execu...
(Oh, and don’t buy Starbucks. Find a local independent)
ips-dc.org/report-execu...
Executive Excess 2025
CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the 100 largest low-wage corporations.
ips-dc.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Once again, EE2025 highlights how executives bring home excessive pay relative to those at the coal face in all sectors.
(Oh, and don’t buy Starbucks. Find a local independent)
ips-dc.org/report-execu...
(Oh, and don’t buy Starbucks. Find a local independent)
ips-dc.org/report-execu...
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Feels like a good time to remind people: pensions are deferred wages. Moving someone forcibly to a worse pension is wage theft. Always unjustifiable, but particularly appalling in the context of years and years of real-terms pay cuts. Why do they NEVER have any solution other than paying us less?
Please sign and share: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Feels like a good time to remind people: pensions are deferred wages. Moving someone forcibly to a worse pension is wage theft. Always unjustifiable, but particularly appalling in the context of years and years of real-terms pay cuts. Why do they NEVER have any solution other than paying us less?
Poll for UK colleagues on a Research & Education track: what is your workload split?
Durham University Business School just put out a new 30-60-10 split for Research-Teaching-Citizenship as baseline, changed from 50-43-7.
Super curious, what’s normal for you? Institution? Department?
Durham University Business School just put out a new 30-60-10 split for Research-Teaching-Citizenship as baseline, changed from 50-43-7.
Super curious, what’s normal for you? Institution? Department?
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Poll for UK colleagues on a Research & Education track: what is your workload split?
Durham University Business School just put out a new 30-60-10 split for Research-Teaching-Citizenship as baseline, changed from 50-43-7.
Super curious, what’s normal for you? Institution? Department?
Durham University Business School just put out a new 30-60-10 split for Research-Teaching-Citizenship as baseline, changed from 50-43-7.
Super curious, what’s normal for you? Institution? Department?
The University launched a new Academic Workload Framework to be fairer. My Faculty saw an opportunity to slash R&E track Research by 20%, cut Citizenship by 10% & raise Teaching time by 17%. But if we jump through enough of the right hoops, we might earn back 10% for R & C. VOTE!
@ducu.bsky.social
@ducu.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The University launched a new Academic Workload Framework to be fairer. My Faculty saw an opportunity to slash R&E track Research by 20%, cut Citizenship by 10% & raise Teaching time by 17%. But if we jump through enough of the right hoops, we might earn back 10% for R & C. VOTE!
@ducu.bsky.social
@ducu.bsky.social
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And we know we're not alone as a branch in what we're facing. We need local action, but we also need national action. We've put together a list of reasons why a national mandate puts us all in a better bargaining position - please share widely.
durhamucu.org.uk/26-reasons-y...
durhamucu.org.uk/26-reasons-y...
28 reasons you need to vote – Durham UCU
durhamucu.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
And we know we're not alone as a branch in what we're facing. We need local action, but we also need national action. We've put together a list of reasons why a national mandate puts us all in a better bargaining position - please share widely.
durhamucu.org.uk/26-reasons-y...
durhamucu.org.uk/26-reasons-y...
Reposted by Jamie Callahan
As we near the last safe day for ballot posting in the current national UCU ballot (get 'em in by Wed, preferably sooner), let's remember what we're fighting for. We'll start with the graphs we made last week. Decades of pay erosion has left many of us a full pay spine point below where we should be
And here we are! Literally every spine point is paying less in real terms than it was back in 2008. Spine point 5 (now replaced by the real living wage) is down by about 3.4%. By spine point 10, we're down over 10%. By spine point 23, over 20%, ultimately reaching a 22.1% reduction. 3/3
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
As we near the last safe day for ballot posting in the current national UCU ballot (get 'em in by Wed, preferably sooner), let's remember what we're fighting for. We'll start with the graphs we made last week. Decades of pay erosion has left many of us a full pay spine point below where we should be
Numbers for TU members to remember: 30-45-90
30: the number of days it takes an employer to get rid of 20-99 of us.
45: the number of days it takes an employer to boot 100+ of us.
90: roughly how long TU’s need to get a mandate.
Do the math. VOTE!
@ucu.org.uk @ducu.bsky.social
30: the number of days it takes an employer to get rid of 20-99 of us.
45: the number of days it takes an employer to boot 100+ of us.
90: roughly how long TU’s need to get a mandate.
Do the math. VOTE!
@ucu.org.uk @ducu.bsky.social
Home
UCU is the largest trade union and professional association for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and academic-related staff working in further and higher education throughout the UK.
ucu.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Numbers for TU members to remember: 30-45-90
30: the number of days it takes an employer to get rid of 20-99 of us.
45: the number of days it takes an employer to boot 100+ of us.
90: roughly how long TU’s need to get a mandate.
Do the math. VOTE!
@ucu.org.uk @ducu.bsky.social
30: the number of days it takes an employer to get rid of 20-99 of us.
45: the number of days it takes an employer to boot 100+ of us.
90: roughly how long TU’s need to get a mandate.
Do the math. VOTE!
@ucu.org.uk @ducu.bsky.social
As someone who saw my pension erode significantly when I switched from TPS to USS, this cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.
These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
www.megaphone.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
As someone who saw my pension erode significantly when I switched from TPS to USS, this cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Just a friendly reminder: History shows us that, more often than not, employers place profit before people.
Workers need to fight for fair treatment. Industrial action is our most effective tool, but anti-union laws mean we have to win a mandate to use that tool. VOTE!
#WeAreTheUniversity
Workers need to fight for fair treatment. Industrial action is our most effective tool, but anti-union laws mean we have to win a mandate to use that tool. VOTE!
#WeAreTheUniversity
November 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Just a friendly reminder: History shows us that, more often than not, employers place profit before people.
Workers need to fight for fair treatment. Industrial action is our most effective tool, but anti-union laws mean we have to win a mandate to use that tool. VOTE!
#WeAreTheUniversity
Workers need to fight for fair treatment. Industrial action is our most effective tool, but anti-union laws mean we have to win a mandate to use that tool. VOTE!
#WeAreTheUniversity
It would help if I didn’t have a typo in the hashtag! #WeAreTheUniversity
I got in trouble again for my trade union work. This time for paper flyers on my door.
Checked H&S guidelines: it’s okay to post flyers as long as they’re laminated. Okay, I’ll fix that. Laminator & sleeves were on sale!
#WeAreTheUniversit
Checked H&S guidelines: it’s okay to post flyers as long as they’re laminated. Okay, I’ll fix that. Laminator & sleeves were on sale!
#WeAreTheUniversit
November 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It would help if I didn’t have a typo in the hashtag! #WeAreTheUniversity
I got in trouble again for my trade union work. This time for paper flyers on my door.
Checked H&S guidelines: it’s okay to post flyers as long as they’re laminated. Okay, I’ll fix that. Laminator & sleeves were on sale!
#WeAreTheUniversit
Checked H&S guidelines: it’s okay to post flyers as long as they’re laminated. Okay, I’ll fix that. Laminator & sleeves were on sale!
#WeAreTheUniversit
November 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I got in trouble again for my trade union work. This time for paper flyers on my door.
Checked H&S guidelines: it’s okay to post flyers as long as they’re laminated. Okay, I’ll fix that. Laminator & sleeves were on sale!
#WeAreTheUniversit
Checked H&S guidelines: it’s okay to post flyers as long as they’re laminated. Okay, I’ll fix that. Laminator & sleeves were on sale!
#WeAreTheUniversit