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Becca Harrison
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Researching the environmental impacts of filmmaking via histories of Star Wars. Film critic (as seen in/on Sight&Sound, BBC, etc.). Let's get organised. Pass me the matches. She/her.
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Went for a spontaneous (much-needed) walk yesterday and gathered more footage for my wild lives film. Including a magical encounter with a hare, a red admiral fluttering in the wind, a (not pictured) slow worm, and a ladybird who changed their mind about the water
A photograph of a two-forked waterfall tumbling over mossy rocks into a shallow, pebbled pool A close-up photograph of a tan-coloured hare sitting in a hunched position in the grass beside a dry-stone wall A close-up photograph of a red admiral butterfly almost concealed among the exposed roots of a plant, with just the interior edges of its bright red wings visible. A jewel-red ladybird hovering on the edge of a pebble above the waterline of a shallow pool.
July 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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After months of work, @davidharvie.bsky.social and I have finished a major report that centres people’s experiences of job cuts in UK HE - and exposes employer tactics in those processes. ‘Universities Degraded’ will be available in full next week. We hope it helps everyone fighting for change
A screenshot showing the front cover of a report called ‘Universities Degraded: Staff Experiences & Employer Practices of Redundancies in UK Higher Education.’ The blue and white cover also features the authors names: Rebecca Harrison and David Harvie. The contents page of the Universities Degraded report shown as a screenshot.
June 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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10hrs of trains and rail-replacement-taxis to get to the Celtic Media Festival and I have been rewarded with sun puddles, wildflowers and sea monsters
An orange and white alien-like wildflower growing from the side of a rocky wall A view out to sea from within a sandy, shadowy cave A jellyfish that looks like a mass of translucent rose quartz lies covered in sand on the beach A puddle of brilliant gold sunlight falling between the evening clouds reflects off a grey/blue sea
June 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Shame on UCU managers for this brazen attempt to cover up bad employment practices. Whatever you call them - non-disparagement clauses, confidentiality agreements - these are NDAs. We all know conditions are stacked in the employer’s favour.

Enforced silence is *always* violence.
A screenshot from a Times Higher Education article in which a UCU management spokesperson claims that making staff sign confidentiality clauses is not the same as using non-disclosure agreements.
May 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Also really into this enormous upended tree with quartz deposits entangled in its roots and wild garlic growing across its trunk. There’s something satisfying about the unearthed and rooted coexisting together
The root system of a fallen tree is visible, with mosses growing across the roots and quartz in between them. Along the top edge of the tree, overhead, there is wild garlic growing.
April 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Flowers blooming on cliff faces and in the crevices between rock pools are very much my vibe this week
Small purple flowers among grasses that are growing up the side of a steep, chalk cliff against a brilliant blue sky Two tiny pink flowers sneaking up between slate outcrops on a beach
April 15, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Taking a day of holiday to go to Parliament for the UCU Stop the Cuts rally. I’ll be taking interim findings from my branch’s recent redundancy survey; ‘brutal’ is about right for higher ed right now. The stats speak for themselves. The fight is on to save the soul of UK universities
Photograph of a flier detailing interim findings from the OU UCU universities redundancy survey, including quotes from respondents such as ‘toxic’ and ‘barbaric’. The flip side of the flier, which offers interim findings from the same survey. There are lots of stats, mostly related to unethical/illegal practices and human costs
March 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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You have politicians and CEOs flying by private jet, surrounded by police, border control and army vehicles. AI is aggressively advertised everywhere. Endless streams of cars with blacked-out windows. And then there are the BlackRock and Palantir pavilions. It’s somehow even worse than you’d imagine
The Meta AI hub at Davos A building-front advertising Palantir
January 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Used the last day of our holiday in Switzerland to make a last-minute trip to Davos (if our presence made even one WEF attendee uncomfortable it was worth it). Can’t properly describe the sense of dread being in the midst of it all, or emphasise enough how hard AI was being pushed at every turn
Photo of a white woman (me) with long hair, wearing a black coat, standing outside a sign for the World Economic Forum. I’m holding up a large placard that I’ve made which reads ‘burn the dinos not fossils,’ which sits alongside a cartoon of Trump as a t-rex A pavilion at Davos advertising c3 Enterprise AI Another pavilion at Davos advertising Agentforce, which has the tag line across the shop front ‘What AI was meant to be’ Another Davos pavilion advertising Agentic AI
January 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM