Please read and consider signing this open letter to UKRI regarding their initial and future responses to Michelle Donelan: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

UK govt minister, in the last hour, ordering the national academic research funding body to censor the members of its expert panels, for unacceptable sympathy with Palestinians.

Holy shit. This is insane and the implications are terrifying

“Support the legal right to protest” but invite this amount of police to wait around on campus in preparation for escalation and arrests 🤔

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Extremely disconcerting to see such a police presence on campus - 4 vans, 3 cars, 10+ officers - because apparently they’ve received “some information that there might be a protest”. Seems excessive and I wonder if it’s at management’s request or under their own steam…

Of course everyone’s circumstances are different and people have their reasons, but seeing a number of non-union members/union non-strikers on a call about USS… you’re welcome! 🙃

Not quite sure what this account will be. I started one in the other place for work reasons, then never really felt like tweeting work stuff or quite right with much personal stuff… maybe it’ll just be cats!

I’m informed it’s tradition for a first post to be feline themed