StopBullyingHE
@stopbullyinghe.bsky.social
Scientist, physics PhD. Survivor of academia. Ex Assoc Professor, UK. Stop bullying and toxic culture in Higher Education, stop impunity and cover-ups.
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-Nothing you've done justifies bullying. You deserve respect.
-Don't change who you are or how you act. It will not end the bullying.
-Stay calm. Bullies feed on your reaction to feel power and discredit you. Stick to facts, no adjectives.
-Document every incident even if minor.
-Don't change who you are or how you act. It will not end the bullying.
-Stay calm. Bullies feed on your reaction to feel power and discredit you. Stick to facts, no adjectives.
-Document every incident even if minor.
UK bosses to be banned from using NDAs to cover up misconduct at work www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jul...
UK bosses to be banned from using NDAs to cover up misconduct at work
Exclusive: Changes to workers’ rights bill will prohibit the silencing of staff who suffer harassment or discrimination
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
UK bosses to be banned from using NDAs to cover up misconduct at work www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jul...
"The G7 has once again put multinationals’ profits over the interests of people.
The US Treasury just made a deal with the other G7 countries that global minimum taxes that were already agreed upon will not apply to American companies."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The US Treasury just made a deal with the other G7 countries that global minimum taxes that were already agreed upon will not apply to American companies."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The G7 has once again put multinationals’ profits over the interests of people
Acceding to US demands to exempt its companies from an agreed global tax deal is morally and financially indefensible
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
"The G7 has once again put multinationals’ profits over the interests of people.
The US Treasury just made a deal with the other G7 countries that global minimum taxes that were already agreed upon will not apply to American companies."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The US Treasury just made a deal with the other G7 countries that global minimum taxes that were already agreed upon will not apply to American companies."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Misogyny in Metaverse: is Zuckerberg’s dream world a no-go area for women?
A worse world.
Sexual harassment, assault & unwanted sexual comments to women are common in the Metaverse.
"NSPCC says 47% of online grooming offences take place on Meta-owned products."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
A worse world.
Sexual harassment, assault & unwanted sexual comments to women are common in the Metaverse.
"NSPCC says 47% of online grooming offences take place on Meta-owned products."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Misogyny in the metaverse: is Mark Zuckerberg’s dream world a no-go area for women?
Graphic sexual content, bullying, abuse and threats of violence are rife in the metaverse – and the NSPCC says a huge proportion of online grooming offences take place on Meta-owned products. Is it to...
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Misogyny in Metaverse: is Zuckerberg’s dream world a no-go area for women?
A worse world.
Sexual harassment, assault & unwanted sexual comments to women are common in the Metaverse.
"NSPCC says 47% of online grooming offences take place on Meta-owned products."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
A worse world.
Sexual harassment, assault & unwanted sexual comments to women are common in the Metaverse.
"NSPCC says 47% of online grooming offences take place on Meta-owned products."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Who needs EU politicians for this?
EU agrees to increase flight delay times before passengers get compensation.
As most delays are between 2 and 4 hours, the plan deprives “the majority of passengers from their compensation rights", says EU Consumer Organisation.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
EU agrees to increase flight delay times before passengers get compensation.
As most delays are between 2 and 4 hours, the plan deprives “the majority of passengers from their compensation rights", says EU Consumer Organisation.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
EU agrees to increase flight delay times before passengers get compensation
Travellers on short-haul flights would have to be delayed by four hours or more to get payout under new plan
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Who needs EU politicians for this?
EU agrees to increase flight delay times before passengers get compensation.
As most delays are between 2 and 4 hours, the plan deprives “the majority of passengers from their compensation rights", says EU Consumer Organisation.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
EU agrees to increase flight delay times before passengers get compensation.
As most delays are between 2 and 4 hours, the plan deprives “the majority of passengers from their compensation rights", says EU Consumer Organisation.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Not getting appropriate or adequate support to understand or cope w/ ADHD, autism, head injures, or complicated medical conditions-- either growing up or in adulthood-- very commonly results in complex PTSD.
Which, itself, is almost never appropriately or adequately addressed.
Which, itself, is almost never appropriately or adequately addressed.
June 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Not getting appropriate or adequate support to understand or cope w/ ADHD, autism, head injures, or complicated medical conditions-- either growing up or in adulthood-- very commonly results in complex PTSD.
Which, itself, is almost never appropriately or adequately addressed.
Which, itself, is almost never appropriately or adequately addressed.
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Your trauma conditioning is going to try to tell you, over & over again, that everything is your fault & everything is your responsibility-- but it'll also try to tell you you don't matter & are utterly powerless.
Notice how Trauma Brain can't even pick a lane w/ its bullsh*t.
Notice how Trauma Brain can't even pick a lane w/ its bullsh*t.
June 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Your trauma conditioning is going to try to tell you, over & over again, that everything is your fault & everything is your responsibility-- but it'll also try to tell you you don't matter & are utterly powerless.
Notice how Trauma Brain can't even pick a lane w/ its bullsh*t.
Notice how Trauma Brain can't even pick a lane w/ its bullsh*t.
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June 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Elites least integrated into society
‘immigration is by definition an act of integration: you are in effect blending your original national identity with one of another country’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
‘immigration is by definition an act of integration: you are in effect blending your original national identity with one of another country’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The least ‘integrated’ part of British society isn’t the immigrants – it’s the elite | Andy Beckett
Politicians and the rightwing press talk about integration in a selective and politically loaded way. The reality is quite different, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Elites least integrated into society
‘immigration is by definition an act of integration: you are in effect blending your original national identity with one of another country’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
‘immigration is by definition an act of integration: you are in effect blending your original national identity with one of another country’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Remember: how we're doing in the immediate aftermath of a trigger is not the same as how we're doing in our overall recovery arc.
Bad triggers & moments happen in the most successful recovery. Don't confuse how you're feeling now w/ how you're doing.
Breathe; blink; focus.
Bad triggers & moments happen in the most successful recovery. Don't confuse how you're feeling now w/ how you're doing.
Breathe; blink; focus.
May 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Remember: how we're doing in the immediate aftermath of a trigger is not the same as how we're doing in our overall recovery arc.
Bad triggers & moments happen in the most successful recovery. Don't confuse how you're feeling now w/ how you're doing.
Breathe; blink; focus.
Bad triggers & moments happen in the most successful recovery. Don't confuse how you're feeling now w/ how you're doing.
Breathe; blink; focus.
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This is a terrible terrible destructive decision.
These sorts of long running research programmes take decades to build and their insights accumulate over decades too - the longer they run, the more valuable they become.
This is knowledge vandalism. Nothing new and shiny can replace it.
These sorts of long running research programmes take decades to build and their insights accumulate over decades too - the longer they run, the more valuable they become.
This is knowledge vandalism. Nothing new and shiny can replace it.
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This is a terrible terrible destructive decision.
These sorts of long running research programmes take decades to build and their insights accumulate over decades too - the longer they run, the more valuable they become.
This is knowledge vandalism. Nothing new and shiny can replace it.
These sorts of long running research programmes take decades to build and their insights accumulate over decades too - the longer they run, the more valuable they become.
This is knowledge vandalism. Nothing new and shiny can replace it.
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Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.
April 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.
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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
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Water companies’ pollution incidents in England increased by 30% in 2024.
Customer bills hiked. Shareholders extracted £1.2bn in 2023-24.
Industry controlled by organisations with criminal records. No director prosecuted.
Nothing will change until profit motive is removed.
Nationalise.
Customer bills hiked. Shareholders extracted £1.2bn in 2023-24.
Industry controlled by organisations with criminal records. No director prosecuted.
Nothing will change until profit motive is removed.
Nationalise.
Water companies’ pollution incidents in England increased by 30% in 2024
The sector, which had been set a target to reduce spillages by 40%, needs ‘radical reform’, campaigners say
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Water companies’ pollution incidents in England increased by 30% in 2024.
Customer bills hiked. Shareholders extracted £1.2bn in 2023-24.
Industry controlled by organisations with criminal records. No director prosecuted.
Nothing will change until profit motive is removed.
Nationalise.
Customer bills hiked. Shareholders extracted £1.2bn in 2023-24.
Industry controlled by organisations with criminal records. No director prosecuted.
Nothing will change until profit motive is removed.
Nationalise.
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"We are living through a revolutionary change," @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes of the Trump era. "For the past decade, American government and business alike have slowly begun to adopt the kleptocratic model pioneered by countries such as Russia and China."
Kleptocracy, Inc.
Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.
bit.ly
April 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM
"We are living through a revolutionary change," @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes of the Trump era. "For the past decade, American government and business alike have slowly begun to adopt the kleptocratic model pioneered by countries such as Russia and China."
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President Trump and his top aides are exerting control of huge sums of federal research money to shift the ideological tilt of elite universities, which they see as hostile to conservatives. The process has upended higher education. nyti.ms/4jqnCKe
April 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
President Trump and his top aides are exerting control of huge sums of federal research money to shift the ideological tilt of elite universities, which they see as hostile to conservatives. The process has upended higher education. nyti.ms/4jqnCKe
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Some major public institutions in Canada, including a pension management firm and a leading hospital, are advising staff against traveling to the US.
Avoid US or Take Burner Devices, Canadian Executives Tell Staff
Some major public institutions in Canada, including a pension management firm and a leading hospital, are advising staff against traveling to the US, marking a greater erosion in the country’s longsta...
www.bloomberg.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Some major public institutions in Canada, including a pension management firm and a leading hospital, are advising staff against traveling to the US.
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MIT following Harvard's lead here
April 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
MIT following Harvard's lead here
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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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The publishing model has to change
Big journals make BILLIONS on margins unheard of in any other business
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#escmidglobal2025
Big journals make BILLIONS on margins unheard of in any other business
@oana-sandulescu.bsky.social @hoferu.bsky.social @angelahuttner.bsky.social @anniejoseph.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social
#escmidglobal2025
April 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
The publishing model has to change
Big journals make BILLIONS on margins unheard of in any other business
@oana-sandulescu.bsky.social @hoferu.bsky.social @angelahuttner.bsky.social @anniejoseph.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social
#escmidglobal2025
Big journals make BILLIONS on margins unheard of in any other business
@oana-sandulescu.bsky.social @hoferu.bsky.social @angelahuttner.bsky.social @anniejoseph.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social
#escmidglobal2025
Harvard’s pushback against Trump may embolden more US resistance.
“No government – regardless of which party is in power – should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit & hire, and which areas of study & inquiry they can pursue.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“No government – regardless of which party is in power – should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit & hire, and which areas of study & inquiry they can pursue.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How Harvard’s pushback against Trump may embolden more US resistance
It may be a turning point in the White House’s attempt to gut allegedly liberal universities and punish law firms
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Harvard’s pushback against Trump may embolden more US resistance.
“No government – regardless of which party is in power – should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit & hire, and which areas of study & inquiry they can pursue.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“No government – regardless of which party is in power – should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit & hire, and which areas of study & inquiry they can pursue.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘We can’t pit boys against girls’: Recent headlines about boys in crisis overshadow struggles of a generation of girls www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘We can’t pit boys against girls’: headlines overshadow struggles of a generation of girls
Growing crisis among boys dominates the narrative but girls in England also face unprecedented mental health challenges and systemic pressures
www.theguardian.com
April 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
‘We can’t pit boys against girls’: Recent headlines about boys in crisis overshadow struggles of a generation of girls www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
www.npr.org
April 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.