Chris Lloyd

we’ve lost perhaps 30,000 jobs in British higher education in the last 3 years

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

down with SMART targets

hey! I need your help! for my podcast, Books Up Close, I need your bookish questions for a Christmas book-buying episode. send them via DM on here, or IG - send as a voice note if you can. Please share widely xx

Gonna delete BS soon I think, so come find me on IG at chrisllloyd9 got more vests and books and green circles

Issue 1 out now roughhouser.neocities.org/issue-1/

Gonna delete BS soon I think, so come find me on IG at chrisllloyd9 got more vests and books and green circles

Actual Cancel Culture of a significant cultural figure [unlike where far right extremists engage in hate speech & are held accountable]. It’s extremism like this, & the disinterest of the current UK Labour govt in stopping the shift to the far right, that’s deeply worrying.

41% staffing cuts in the Faculty of Arts at UoN. We're entering a wilderness of creativity and critical thinking.

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never not humbled by leg/glute day

Me: morning :D JK Rowling: *defending Blackface on twitter*

university rankings are meaningless. they are austerity (as @ncecire.bsky.social reminds us). even though my literature course has 100% (!) teaching satisfaction in the guardian guide and we are higher than famous competitors (29th!), we are being cut. no more literature at my uni (or other hums).

This is endless decimation

UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY

I'm really excited to share the cover for my book "The Serial South: The Little Magazine in the U.S. South," which is coming out with University of Georgia Press in June 2027. I absolutely adore the cover - so chic!!

A real test now of the media's appetite for Cambridge professors and their ethics.

Fuck the BBC every day of the week

In the new episode of the podcast, we talk to @ulises-mejias.bsky.social & @couldrynick.bsky.social about their book Data Grab! They talk the 'new colonialism of big tech' and much else. Listen wherever you get your shows, or here: zencastr.com/z/At7zGFhV Please subscribe, share, and get in touch!

New episode of the show out now! @siobhanbygate.bsky.social talks to Anneke Newman about disrupting colonial knowledges in Senegalese education and international development podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

In the latest episode of Diversifying and Decolonising the University, Sara Downton talks to Ambimbola Abodunrin about his research into women of colour academics in STEM, as well as decolonial methods more broadly. Listen and subscribe now! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

Dolly Parton, trade unionist.

1. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours.

Dolly.

Completely untenable to have someone who talks about a minority group like this in charge of anything, let alone being the final say in matters of equality and human rights

Here’s the new letter defending Cofnas against “punishment for whistleblowing” (which is not why Ghent suspended him). This time around signatures from a disappointing number of academics from my old institution, London School of Economics johnarmstrongmaths.com/openletters/...

From Will Self of all people, an absolutely clinical deconstruction of Kathleen Stock. Nice to know that some writers can see through some of the GC crowd.

NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...

We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1

This results day I'm thinking about how much of the university sector is on its knees, and how this situation was engineered by an obsessive need to turn HE into a market-based race to the bottom. Fees are one thing, but little discussed is the impact of eliminating the student caps in 2014.

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Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!

Body Horror is out today in the UK (and I believe already out in the US and other countries)! The code CUP20 gets you 20% off when purchasing the book directly from @ColumbiaUP. I’d be really grateful for any reposts or help with promotion! 🪰🧪🩸 #horror #bodyhorror cup.columbia.edu/book/body-ho...

This was an absolutely delightful conversation, thanks Chris for inviting me to join Books Up Close. A pleasure discussing “Re/Marks on Power” and my love of #annotation. Have a listen!

New episode of Books Up Close with @remikalir.bsky.social! Listen to us talk about his book Re/marks from @mitpress.bsky.social! We discuss annotation and close reading - of books, border walls, statues, and the world around us! Subscribe wherever you get podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

The Jason Arday story is by no means the biggest scandal at Cambridge University. I'm sure the media is going to pick this up and run with it in just the same way ... Or is the exaggerated CV of one Black professor somehow more important than this?