No one can “earn” a billion, much less a trillion, dollars. Stop normalizing the exploitation, media.
This boy! You give him a lap to sit on, and he’s there. 3 months into joining the clan and he has found his place.
Here I am putting on my shoes….hence, the opportunity for him to claim my lap.
As a blanket policy across disciplines, this is cruel. Having been subject to such a policy at Uni, one of my engineering exam scores in the mid-90s garnered me a B because others had higher scores and A’s were capped.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/o...
Workload, and how workload is allocated, is a problem in HE. @ducu.bsky.social has a mandate for ASOS right now — you know, legal protection to do your job and be allowed to refuse working for free. PalTV did a piece on our current action.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuPD...
Really good summary of why I beg my students to handwrite their notes instead of typing them.
www.instagram.com/reel/DWZnKnI...
“But he doesn’t take a salary. So generous, right?”
www.instagram.com/reel/DZnLlwY...
Here is @ducu.bsky.social ‘s analysis of management’s most recent response to our request to negotiate. Management took extra time to deliver us a response that was a flat and unequivocal “no, we will negotiate NOTHING with you.”
durhamucu.org.uk/ducus-analys...