The VC has planned to cut 400 jobs, close the Southend campus, demolish the Essex Pathways (foundation year) department, and decimate other departments like language & linguistics, maths & stats and business.
She met us for an all-staff meeting on Thursday. It was... fascinating! Let's fact-check.
Essex is cutting campuses and jobs.
Staff and students pay the price.
Senior management pay stays protected.
That’s not leadership, it’s a moral/ethical failure.
Resharing the UCU flyer below. Please read + repost.
#UCU #Essex
@ucuessex.bsky.social
This is a straight up plug, but...
If you're curious about what this felt like & exactly what led up to it, I have a chapter in 'Scientists on Survival' where I recount the details.
Available in paperback - www.mombooks.com/book/scienti...
Or as audiobook- www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FCMVC437
If you can do two: sign + share. If you can do three: sign + share + write to the VC.
Please support University of Essex workers. If you only do one thing: sign the petition below.
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
1,279 and growing. Please help us to make pressure on decision-makers to look into the alternative savings, we have already shown, are possible! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
For many of us is now or never.
Help us protect these jobs.
🐝 Zero Hour is proud to work with many inspiring champions helping to advance the Climate and Nature Bill.
👩🔬 On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we want to highlight some of the incredible voices advocating for climate and nature action!
👇 See below! 🧵
I just signed the campaign: Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education
Every name that is added builds momentum around the campaign and makes it more likely for us to get the change we want to see.
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
We have a different idea of the future for our University
Conservative party pledges £1.6bn ice style removals force. Woman in Minnesota fatally shot by ICE agent during raid, video shows.
Trump started it.
Reform and Tories are at it too.
And Labour already heading in that direction.
All cruel, potentially deadly and does nothing to fix the cost of living crisis.
🔥🌍 The biggest barrier to climate solutions isn’t just denial, it’s propaganda that shapes what we believe is possible.
Fossil fuel narratives define what counts as ‘practical’ and subtly limit our imagination. 🎧 Listen, share, and help reshape the conversation. 🔄
BREAKING: Allianz stop insuring Israel's biggest weapons company, Elbit Systems.
This 🎉WIN after intense pressure from the movement. #BoycottBloodyInsurance continues to call for orgs to boycott Allianz as they continue to insure F-35 suppliers and other deadly companies.
We have written a further letter to the Vice Chancellor at the University of Essex further to meetings held over the last week and additional questions and concerns that have been raised!
A warning that we could see "-20°C in London for 3 frozen months of the year", and -30°C in Edinburgh for 5 months.
Everyone needs to hear this whilst there's still time to avoid it. #NEB2025
Trade unionists call on the Labour government to do the right thing by our planet, UK communities and workers, and refuse approval for the climate-wrecking Rosebank oil field.
If you're a union member sign the open letter 👇 and share!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
Respect and gratitude to @carolinevoadenmp.bsky.social for asking this vitally important question in Parliament👇
I just signed a petition: QBE: STOP INSURING REFORM UK. #BoycottBloodyInsurance
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/qb...
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
"As scientists, we are duty-bound to speak plainly about the dangers that lie ahead.
We urge all our elected representatives to take responsibility for being fully informed and to join this critical @nebriefing.bsky.social on 27 November"
Please contact your MP via:
www.nebriefing.org
Open letter from over 1,000 UK scientists urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing. A huge list full of highly respected names.
"Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond."
Please share with your MP. #NEB2025
The large increase from 2018-2021 was driven by #Climate activism.
Lesson: The widespread mobilisation of the climate emergency movement ( @fridaysforfuture.bsky.social @xrglobal.bsky.social, @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @endegelaende.bsky.social ) was crucial for creating political salience
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
We're delighted that tireless advocate for the natural world, @chrisgpackham.bsky.social CBE, will be opening the National Emergency Briefing in Westminster Central Hall on 27th November.
Chris speaking with @bbclaurak.bsky.social earlier👇
Please make sure your MP is attending: nebriefing.org
#NEB
Check out our recent publication
#climate
#nature
#emergency
link.growkudos.com/1emxe8i914w
I’ve just announced I’ll be leading a National Emergency Briefing on 27 November . At a time when climate is in free fall on the political agenda , it’s vital our leaders realise what is at stake if we do not accelerate a just , green transition for all .
@nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧
"Science in Resistance" on book tour! 📖
🚂 Fernando will be on a train tour over the next few weeks across various countries in Europe presenting his book.
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