I don’t need to see the research. I feel this in my bones.
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'The university has adopted the position that boycotting staff are in "breach of contract", will receive no pay, and are therefore not expected to work at all, leading to what some have described as a "lockout".' 1/3
Update: Supposedly the ADA not the NIH called the police.
This makes sense: of course the ADA spontaneously and without coercion opted to forcibly remove from their annual meeting the editor-in-chief of their own flagship journal for sharing a paper they themselves published in that same journal.
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The issues raised in this piece apply equally well, and perhaps even more urgently, to UK universities. Having been an elected Faculty Council member & Chair in the years before coming to the UK my impression is that managerial overreach and democratic deficits are even starker in the UK.
‘A hoot’. I still remember the hoot of talking to a suicidal EU citizen; the hoot of when Brexiters on Twitter spent days discussing my breasts; the hoot of police chasing one of my stalkers down the street; the hoot of not going to events on my own for years. …Honestly: how could you publish that?
Staff at Edinburgh University have been told that they must cover for their boycotting colleagues or go without pay themselves.
