Senior Management are not “the university”: Exhibit #257. No time to consult academic staff but strangely enough time to brief journalists…🤷♂️
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Another upstanding Brexit champion.
Heard you on Drivetime, very good!
Fluent aphasia.
Fluent aphasia.
Back on Twitter in the heady days of Brexit I had an exchange with Andrew Lillico (very much in the Hannan camp) who refused to accept that Ireland is not, and never has been, part of Britain. These are not serious people, and should be roundly ignored.
“Everyone I speak to about Ivison says he’s an unusually, almost freakily, great listener…”
University leaders really do need to listen A LOT more to their colleagues who actually do the core work of the university.
manchestermill.co.uk/why-the-hell...
Proud to live in a county with such strong links to Dick Nixon.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
I wonder if they used executive search consultants.
Ooh, English Rugby, an endless cycle of hubris and nemesis.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...
Ahh, the old state versus trait question...
You Germans, with your words/operas for everything....
Someone is after printing out about 30 pages of A3 from a Reddit Antivax thread on a shared printer 👍
Somehow we are now managing to cross the streams of gaming bullshit rankings with using recruitment consultants.
I just fucking give up.
Well you won’t go far then Peter😎
What really motivated me every day is HR TRANSFORMATION (and pointing out the bleeding obvious to our betters).
You mean the guy responsible for this?
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/birming...
I am not sure the VC responsible for this is the best spokesperson for the sector, but what do I know…
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/birming...
I worked as a butler.
Complimentary Breakfast!
Somehow, it’s all about AI.
Jaysus, we're going to have to build these fuckers a prison of their own at this rate.
www.thejournal.ie/enoch-burke-...
I was at a talk by an Oxbridge colleague who pronounced "genesis" (as in biogenesis) as "gen-eesys" and I have to say my initial response was to query whether I and basically everyone else I know have been wrong all along.
New paper: we looked at the associations between perceived stress, chronotype, social jetlag and sleep quality in adults. We report no robust relationships between chronotype or SJL with perceived stress, but sleep quality has the expected relationship with stress.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Could escape at any moment.
“Our beautiful Campus”
