Sorry to hear this. We're involved in something analogous at my institution, and it sucks for everyone touched by the process.

For some reason, our cosmos (in the Welsh uplands) flower mostly in the summer. There's a temple in Nara that's known for its cosmos, and when I was there in June I was a bit disappointed to discover I was ~5 months too early.

The revealed plot line of pages 36-39 is very neat.

I thought I was going to achieve the perfect 0, but unfortunately got number 9.

A colleague pointed out that the phrase "research led teaching" has been notably absent in recent years.

I'm an extra vote for a Henry. Just remember to change the bag regularly.

At some point in the future (in the best possible timeline) important people are going to say they didn't know, couldn't known, didn't imagine what was happening to anyone taken by ICE. Let's make it explicit: they know. Maybe not the precise details, but the broad tenor. They know.

I think the "there are no adults" phenomenon is fairly universal, but in my experience UK HE is astonishingly and increasingly bureaucratic. My theory is that the absence of a clear metric for success means the institution just whorls around in circles of increasingly pointless make work.

Exactly this.

Medieval, modern, medieval, medieval, modern, modern, medieval, medieval.

Final answer.

And how do you cope when the dialogue is structured "blah blah blah" said character-you-weren't-expecting.

Oh wow. Now we're talking. #cricket