"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed
Kevin M. Kruse
Running with scissors ❌
Raining with scissors ✅
The cuts are doing more than putting people out of work. The closure of the Botanic Gardens and the Cooper Gallery are cultural vandalism.
Elder Taylor
This piece dismantles the fallacy that the University of Dundee can cut its way to sustainability. Notably, the author is not a colleague at UoD - this is an outsider's perspective on the matter.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/staff-...
Scott Brown
Philip Bump
Scott Brown
Dundee and the myth of recovery through redundancy This morning, the staff of the University of Dundee were told that more of them must go. A further 190 posts, to meet a further £20 million in annual...
Politics & IR to be reduced from 6.5 FTE to 5.5. Teaching and Research staff will have research time reduced to 20%. They have also mentioned 'regrading' staff (but not clarified exactly what that means).
The UK government continues to use - and to fail to regulate - the site owned by the man calling for violence in the UK.
10/10, no notes
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
Dundee University rector @maggiechapman.bsky.social disputes need for £20m cuts as she takes aim at management
Scott Brown
🌧️ + ✂️
Steve Peers
Tuffy
It's just been confirmed that the entire Politics & IR team, plus some other colleagues in our Division (Centre For Energy Law and Policy, Human Geography, and some Environmental Science) are at risk of redundancy. Many, many colleagues across the uni in the same boat.
EXCLUSIVE: Dundee University set to close botanic gardens amid cost-saving effort
Bustin Jowie
Mixmoji 🤖
Staff at the gardens have been informed their jobs are at risk as Dundee University bosses try to find £20 million in savings.
this is an incitement to violence, there's no other way to read it
4Chan Christian guns-and-God conservatives plotted to bomb the MMA at the White House over the Epstein Files but were foiled when one of their moms overheard an encrypted voice chat when she delivered hot pockets to the basement where her son lives.
Not kidding.
Three minutes and then immediately cut off. No questions allowed. No discussion of support services for staff. No contrition, no apologies for letting staff and students down. Par for the course for how management treat staff, unfortunately.
Bryan Omar Roa, 24, of Calimesa, and Michael Alan Thomas, 32, of Pinon Hills were arrested on Saturday, the day before the fight.
Principal of University of Dundee currently delivering a 'townhall' speech to confirm that more redundancies are coming. "Voluntary" redundancies, that's a sick joke. Devastating.
