Dr Nicola Clark
@nikkiclark86.bsky.social
Writer, occasional talking head, Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Chichester. Autistic. Views own, etc. She/her.
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Good piece from Katie Normington at De Montfort University reminding us the post 92 universities have done excellent research for a long time and that this ought not be endangered by the White Paper call for specialisation
wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
Labour must not repeat history by sidelining research in post-92 universities
The abolition of the binary divide in HE made visible the wealth of research excellence in what became known as the post-92 part of the sector. Katie Normington worries that forcing specialisation ris...
wonkhe.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Good piece from Katie Normington at De Montfort University reminding us the post 92 universities have done excellent research for a long time and that this ought not be endangered by the White Paper call for specialisation
wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
I need a new knitting project. Nobody close to me seems to need anything knitted for them but I have so many jumpers already 😂
December 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I need a new knitting project. Nobody close to me seems to need anything knitted for them but I have so many jumpers already 😂
OMG. Was fishing for the button box and found another box I thought I'd lost. More things to frame for the new house 😁
December 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
OMG. Was fishing for the button box and found another box I thought I'd lost. More things to frame for the new house 😁
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The average waiting list time in West Wales for an ADHD dx is anecdotally estimated to be 55 years. But sure, Wes, any distraction from the fact doctors are about to go on strike again eh?
The deliberate framing of the review as "over-pathologisation" will continue - and worsen - the policy failure around mental health services.
In the UK it takes 10 years on average to receive a bipolar diagnosis. It took 19 years for me.
In the UK it takes 10 years on average to receive a bipolar diagnosis. It took 19 years for me.
Labour picking up where the Tories left off, looking to restrict diagnoses so they can deny people support and force them into work.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
December 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The average waiting list time in West Wales for an ADHD dx is anecdotally estimated to be 55 years. But sure, Wes, any distraction from the fact doctors are about to go on strike again eh?
Same same. Won't somebody think of the sensory issues 😂
I’d like to eradicate the societal requirement for formal wear. You can dress up if you feel like it, but otherwise nobody will think you’re being disrespectful if you pull up to the function in jeans and a t shirt.
December 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Same same. Won't somebody think of the sensory issues 😂
We gots floor 😍
December 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We gots floor 😍
Anyone replaced their front door lately? Where's a good place to go? Based in south-west London if that makes a difference.
December 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Anyone replaced their front door lately? Where's a good place to go? Based in south-west London if that makes a difference.
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we could do with a few more vice-chancellors making this case in the UK
Expanding applied higher education at the expense of academic higher education would be a strategic mistake, says TalTech Rector Tiit Land
news.err.ee/1609873563/t...
news.err.ee/1609873563/t...
Tiit Land: What kind of higher education will leapfrog the Estonian economy?
Expanding applied higher education at the expense of academic higher education would be a strategic mistake, says TalTech Rector Tiit Land. Applied higher education focuses on using existing…
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December 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
we could do with a few more vice-chancellors making this case in the UK
Today, still on voice rest, I think the second round of antibiotics is helping? I think? A good time for some peer review and a shoe clearout because things are getting ridiculous in the shoe cupboard.
December 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Today, still on voice rest, I think the second round of antibiotics is helping? I think? A good time for some peer review and a shoe clearout because things are getting ridiculous in the shoe cupboard.
Feeling festive! Happy advent 😊
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Feeling festive! Happy advent 😊
Still tonsillitis. Improved but not gone, as I thought. Another week's antibiotics, another week's cancelled classes because I was warned if I use my voice too much it'll flare and all take longer. So bored of this.
December 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Still tonsillitis. Improved but not gone, as I thought. Another week's antibiotics, another week's cancelled classes because I was warned if I use my voice too much it'll flare and all take longer. So bored of this.
Plague plague tonsillitis plague. You know it's not good when the doctor takes one look at your throat and says 'oo yeah'. I am the joyful recipient of a course of penicillin and under orders to rest yet more 🙄🙄🙄
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Plague plague tonsillitis plague. You know it's not good when the doctor takes one look at your throat and says 'oo yeah'. I am the joyful recipient of a course of penicillin and under orders to rest yet more 🙄🙄🙄
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What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.
Ears ringing. Golf ball, apparently, in throat on right hand side. Hedgehog in lungs. Today gets a no from me.
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Ears ringing. Golf ball, apparently, in throat on right hand side. Hedgehog in lungs. Today gets a no from me.
Horribly full of cold AGAIN. Researching house stuff instead of working. Who knew there were so many kinds of curtain pole.
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Horribly full of cold AGAIN. Researching house stuff instead of working. Who knew there were so many kinds of curtain pole.
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Managers cite concern for students in everything they do, but never actually prioritise student opinion or voices in any of their decision making. They do irreparable harm to student courses and turn around to staff and ask: ‘right: how can we improve student satisfaction and recruitment?’
We've had 2 massive mergers in 2 years. In both cases, QMUL refused to hear students (staff was told not to talk about it with students for fear of repercussions), and *after* both of them, management said 'our bad, we'll talk to students next time'.
#UKHE managers don't prioritise students.
#UKHE managers don't prioritise students.
Did @uniofnottingham.bsky.social consult any students before announcing the proposed course closures? @uonucu.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Managers cite concern for students in everything they do, but never actually prioritise student opinion or voices in any of their decision making. They do irreparable harm to student courses and turn around to staff and ask: ‘right: how can we improve student satisfaction and recruitment?’
Anyone happen to have a cool source on medieval prostitution to hand? I had meant to do some proper searching this week and then I had a flu-bug instead and now I'm playing catch-up with everything 🙃
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Anyone happen to have a cool source on medieval prostitution to hand? I had meant to do some proper searching this week and then I had a flu-bug instead and now I'm playing catch-up with everything 🙃
Woke up at 5am and the room was going in *circles* which was more exciting than I was down for. This is an evil plague.
November 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Woke up at 5am and the room was going in *circles* which was more exciting than I was down for. This is an evil plague.
Ugh. Horrible cold. Can't sing in concert. Life cancelled this weekend. I crash.
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Ugh. Horrible cold. Can't sing in concert. Life cancelled this weekend. I crash.
November 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I have got wildly professorial hair today
November 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I have got wildly professorial hair today
I want to listen to Lily Allen's new album but also I am very pre-menstrual and it might be unwise
November 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I want to listen to Lily Allen's new album but also I am very pre-menstrual and it might be unwise
It has been a WEEK, friends, in both good and bad but generally overwhelming ways!
But here is most of a cardigan, temporarily off the needles before sleeves 😊
But here is most of a cardigan, temporarily off the needles before sleeves 😊
November 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
It has been a WEEK, friends, in both good and bad but generally overwhelming ways!
But here is most of a cardigan, temporarily off the needles before sleeves 😊
But here is most of a cardigan, temporarily off the needles before sleeves 😊
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Autistic woman sending a work email: “Hi, so sorry to bother you! How are you? Yes I’d LOVE to do the highly inconvenient thing you’re asking me to do! Thanks SO much for thinking of me! No worries if you change your mind, have a GREAT weekend!”
Autistic man sending a work email: “👍”
Autistic man sending a work email: “👍”
October 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Autistic woman sending a work email: “Hi, so sorry to bother you! How are you? Yes I’d LOVE to do the highly inconvenient thing you’re asking me to do! Thanks SO much for thinking of me! No worries if you change your mind, have a GREAT weekend!”
Autistic man sending a work email: “👍”
Autistic man sending a work email: “👍”