Katy Highet

11 January 2023, Grady tells UCU senior managers in secret WhatsApp group chat "every single decision we make/thing we do has to be seen through the below lense... Re-elect GS".

11 January 2023, in response to Grady's instruction that everything UCU does has to be "Re-elect GS", a senior manager replies "And has been, hopefully"

🚨🧵The 2024 UCU General Secretary was so corrupt that @vickyblake.bsky.social + I are fighting a Certification Officer case to re-run it, 10 Feb. Grady won by 182 votes from 114,310 members, turnout 15%.

In secret, Grady ordered UCU managers to "Re-elect GS" +said she'd "destroy" her opponents...

Jo Grady’s UCU election win challenged over ‘unfair advantage’ Candidates who stood in 2024 poll seek rerun of campaign after claiming incumbent broke rules by using union resources

The @timeshighered.bsky.social has reported that @ewanmg.bsky.social and I have applied to the Certification Officer regarding concerns over the 2024 UCU general secretary election. UCU has characterised this as “smearing”, via a spokesperson.

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Solidarity with Minneapolis: stop ICE murders, no deportations. Monday 26 Jan 5.30pm Buchanan steps glasgow

🚨EMERGENCY PROTEST

Mon 26 Jan 5:30pm
📍Buchanan Steps, Glasgow

Yesterday ICE shot & killed Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse. People are rising up across the US in response. Stand in solidarity with them, against deportations everywhere & to fight Farage’s Trumpism in Britain

Glad to be joining the team 🤓✨

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it

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SUTR EXCLUSIVE: Meet John Watt, the organiser of the upcoming far right "Unity Rally" in Glasgow on 20th Sept

He's been involved in nearly every far right protest outside hotels housing refugees under the guise of wanting to protect women but SUTR Scotland can now expose who he really is...

There is no trade-off between pay and jobs. Don't let the employers fool you otherwise. This dispute is on three things:

1.Pay uplift = at least RPI+3.5% or £2,500, on all pay points
2.Protection of national agreements on T&C's
3.A national agreement to protect jobs & subjects

#WeAreTheUniversity

No time for far right losers #RefugeesWelcomeHere

Proud to have been amongst many @ucuscotland.bsky.social comrades standing against the far right today ✊✊✊

250 anti-racists standing up to a miserable 80 racists

Edinburgh is #ANTIFASCIST!!!! 250 anti-racists standing up to a miserable 80 racists ✊✊✊

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Very proud supervisor today! Raghav Venkatesh presenting his incredible research at #BAAL2025

The poster competition at #BAAL2025 includes an entry from LASS member @danielcalvert.bsky.social on Glasgow-based refugee community groups, looking at the role of translanguaging and decolonial struggle in the lives of people seeking refuge in Scotland.

Thanks Lucy! Your plenary was great - will find you tomorrow so we can talk more!

One symposium participant gave the example of this recent letter, co-signed by 7,500 citizens and 400 academics stopreturnfascism.org/english/

LASS member @katyhighet.bsky.social co-hosted a symposium on scholar-activism in Applied Linguistics today at #BAAL2025. How are researchers received when they position themselves as activitists? And how can we work in strategic collaboration with others beyond academia? @baal2025.bsky.social

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Good first day at #BAAL2025 talking politics, struggle and research on our panel!

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It’s re-ballot time! After an 88% YES vote that narrowly missed threshold by 4 (!!!) votes, our re-ballot is open!

Post your ballot before 25th September!

Let’s do this! ✊✊

@ucu.org.uk @ucuscotland.bsky.social

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One of our members had a very cute assistant to help post the ballot this morning!

Get yours in before 25th September ✊✊✊

#babiesandballots

@ucuscotland.bsky.social @ucuscotpresident.bsky.social

Join us tomorrow: NAE PASARAN ✊✊✊

Read the full special issue here: www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

Thanks Alberto! I’ll DM you :)

After 4 years in the making, our special issue on the translated works of Josiane Boutet is finally out! Larissa Schedel & I are deeply indebted to all involved. Our editorial introduces our ethnographic, dialogical translation approach & the politics of academic #Translation

Message me for copies!

📣 calling student activists!

☀️ @nusscotland.bsky.social proudly joins the list of supporters mobilising for the national demonstration in Glasgow marking #WorldRefugeeDay -10 days to go!

#AyeWelcomeRegufees #StopTheFarRight

#StopDeportations #SafePassage

🗓️Sat 21 June
📍Barrowland Park, 12noon

“We stand together and fight or fall apart alone”

Right now in Newcastle, members from far and wide in solidarity ✊

UCU and PROUD

We send full solidarity to Newcastle & all other branches being hit by these devastating cuts. UWS is at the beginning of a redundancy battle and while this is full of anger and anxiety, it is heartening to see branches organise to come together in solidarity and to coordinate a national response.

#Solidarity from UWS UCU to @NewcastleUniUCU & all branches being hit by these devastating cuts. Despite our anger & anxiety, it’s heartening to see branches organise together in solidarity & to coordinate a national response ✊ #NOredundancies #defendHE #SpreadTheResistance

Utterly shameful behaviour. All solidarity with Unite ✊✊

🛑Say no to Reform UK OPEN LETTER: since launching at the end of last year, +160 trade union reps & individuals from across Scottish civil society have signed our letter pledging united anti-racist opposition to the far-right party

✍️Initial list of signatories: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Vote Melissa!!