Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn
@lizgloyn.bsky.social
Reader at the Classics dept at Royal Holloway; mater; deacon in the C of E; comms for RHUL UCU; feminist. Sharing my thoughts, not those of my employer. She/her. #TinyJoys curator.
(Yes this is also a Budget sub-skeet, what on UK Bluesky isn't right now.)
November 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
(Yes this is also a Budget sub-skeet, what on UK Bluesky isn't right now.)
(All is well, but it's one of those weeks where there's a lot of fluctuation and uncertainty and on the one hand, God is good and things have worked out so far, and on the other, it would be nice to have just a *little* bit of certainty, as a treat.)
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
(All is well, but it's one of those weeks where there's a lot of fluctuation and uncertainty and on the one hand, God is good and things have worked out so far, and on the other, it would be nice to have just a *little* bit of certainty, as a treat.)
If the latest Twix scandal has taught us anything, it's that the geographical location of an account is no help here...
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If the latest Twix scandal has taught us anything, it's that the geographical location of an account is no help here...
Missed this at the time but I do not think you could have done a more on-brand medically-induced post.
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Missed this at the time but I do not think you could have done a more on-brand medically-induced post.
Reposted by Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn
"this government has now given certainty to the universities about their funding"
NO YOU HAVEN'T, you are LITERALLY raiding the international fees income TOMORROW
NO YOU HAVEN'T, you are LITERALLY raiding the international fees income TOMORROW
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
"this government has now given certainty to the universities about their funding"
NO YOU HAVEN'T, you are LITERALLY raiding the international fees income TOMORROW
NO YOU HAVEN'T, you are LITERALLY raiding the international fees income TOMORROW
It is just BORING. After you have been in seventeen meetings which all talk about the same thing I do not know why you think that the eighteenth will a) resolve this issue or b) add any value.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It is just BORING. After you have been in seventeen meetings which all talk about the same thing I do not know why you think that the eighteenth will a) resolve this issue or b) add any value.
Oh *dear*. All the sympathies on the GenAI taking over everything front. It is really quite tiresome when there are so many other things to do.
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Oh *dear*. All the sympathies on the GenAI taking over everything front. It is really quite tiresome when there are so many other things to do.
I cannot remember specifics but I can remember some of the staff occasionally suggesting that perhaps I shouldn't be allowed to choose from *all* the available cassette tapes. I do not think this was ever actioned. (My memory may be very faulty here.)
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I cannot remember specifics but I can remember some of the staff occasionally suggesting that perhaps I shouldn't be allowed to choose from *all* the available cassette tapes. I do not think this was ever actioned. (My memory may be very faulty here.)
Let me simply say that it was not me doing the application and leave it at that. Sometimes less is more. As has been the moral of today's little adventure.
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Let me simply say that it was not me doing the application and leave it at that. Sometimes less is more. As has been the moral of today's little adventure.