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Anthony Phillips (@[email protected])

@ae_phillips

Crystallographer ❄ and materials chemist ⚗️ pretending to be a condensed matter physicist ⚛️, or possibly vice versa. Aussie, Jewish, gay.

 London, UK
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Joined August 2011
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The Green party knew what was coming. They knew, because Jewish communal organisations told them. And I know that because I was there. A thread.
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I love that we've taken computers - a machine designed exclusively to do math - and taken away the ability to solve gradeschool math problems and all it cost us was the amazon rainforest
Find me on bsky @colin-fraser.net (@colin_fraser) profile pictureFind me on bsky @colin-fraser.net@colin_fraser12 Aug 2024
I love it
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The future for all of us in Israel-Palestine must be based in Arab-Jewish partnership. There are 7 million Palestinians and 7 million Jews between the river and the sea, and none of us are going anywhere. Our fate is tied and our future is shared.
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Attention all Physical Crystallographers!!! The 2024 Malvern Panalytical Thesis Prize for Physical Crystallography is now open for entries! Deadline - Friday 14th June. The application is incredibly simple, so don't miss out! For full details please see pcg-scmp.org/Prizes
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📢Passionate about molecular modelling, software engineering and improving force fields? We are recruiting for a 2-year (senior) research associate position in computational chemistry funded by a UKRI Fellowship. Deadline 23rd June. More details below 🧵 jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle…
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Students of management accounting should direct their attention to the UK university sector right now as it appears that the extremely well paid cadre of vice-chancellors wish to imitate British Leyland's 1970s coat allocation death spiral stunt, but with a woke flavouring.
UK HE News (@HigherEd_UK) profile pictureUK HE News@HigherEd_UK14 Dec 2023
Noooooo! Without this tweet, the world would think Brighton was doing great!
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Utrecht University @UniUtrecht in the Netherlands has withdrawn itself from the World University ranking @THEworldunirank provided by @timeshighered. As this has generated quite some reactions - praise, questions, some doubts, I want to provide some context. Hence a thread 🧵1/16
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Just under 2 weeks to apply. Join us as a postdoc working with crystal structure prediction and chemical space exploration. jobs.ac.uk/job/DCS137/adam-r…
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Oh dear Tim. I don't think the students are too happy that you've chosen to force a strike in the first week of teaching when you could have very easily chosen not to
Image from University of Liverpool UCU #CeasefireNow (@ULivUCU2)
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This is the 3rd time this colleague gets this on their payslip, for withholding 13 scripts. Management threatens 2 more payslips like this. MAB is over, taking this money can't shorten it. This is not proportionate but punitive; not for the sake of students but to punish staff.
pay slip with deductions. Our Senior Management took 3,047.87 from this colleague for the crime of standing up.

ALT pay slip with deductions. Our Senior Management took 3,047.87 from this colleague for the crime of standing up.

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At @QMUL term is starting with staff taking strike action. Why? Because well-paid managers are punishing staff for sticking up for themselves. Read the leaflet below
Queen Mary UCU (@qm_ucu) profile pictureQueen Mary UCU@qm_ucu18 Sep 2023
Welcome to QMUL! 🥳🥳🥳 Sorry about the disruption. But the university you're joining and the staff & students who make it are truly brilliant, and worth fighting for. Leaflet: qmucu.files.wordpress.com/20… blogpost: qmucu.org/2023/09/12/local-a… #ucuRISING #RightToProtest #WelcomeQMUL
Welcome to QMUL! We are on strike. what is happening? There is local strike action going on at QMUL. Staff withdraws labour on these days, so not all sessions will run. Staff will communicate with you if your session is affected. There will be picket lines in the morning. These are hopeful spaces; everyone is welcome to come and talk about working conditions and about university! Why industrial action? Staff have been trying to get managers to recognise the system of overwork, precarity, and underpay is unsustainable. Staff has tried to shield students from this, but the spiralling student-staff ratio, diminishing time to prepare for classes and mark assignments, uncertainty about if and where one will teach the next year affects students. Why at QMUL? QMUL management isolated QMUL as punitive. In response to the national Marking & Assessment Boycott, QMUL punished those speaking out with financial hardship. Staff faces 113 days of pay deductions (one third of annual salary) f

ALT Welcome to QMUL! We are on strike. what is happening? There is local strike action going on at QMUL. Staff withdraws labour on these days, so not all sessions will run. Staff will communicate with you if your session is affected. There will be picket lines in the morning. These are hopeful spaces; everyone is welcome to come and talk about working conditions and about university! Why industrial action? Staff have been trying to get managers to recognise the system of overwork, precarity, and underpay is unsustainable. Staff has tried to shield students from this, but the spiralling student-staff ratio, diminishing time to prepare for classes and mark assignments, uncertainty about if and where one will teach the next year affects students. Why at QMUL? QMUL management isolated QMUL as punitive. In response to the national Marking & Assessment Boycott, QMUL punished those speaking out with financial hardship. Staff faces 113 days of pay deductions (one third of annual salary) f

Image description Industrial action: what is a picket? What is the point of industrial action? what is industrial action at university? What is a union? What can students do?

ALT Image description Industrial action: what is a picket? What is the point of industrial action? what is industrial action at university? What is a union? What can students do?

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Left: PR spin Right: act in reality
Queen Mary in the Media: A twice-weekly summary of media coverage featuring academic colleagues, research and other Queen Mary news News Queen Mary University of London recognised in social inclusion league table The Times Queen Mary University of London Queen Mary University of London’s commitment to social inclusivity has been reaffirmed in the The Times & The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024. Queen Mary University of London has been named University of the Year for Social Inclusion runner-up.

ALT Queen Mary in the Media: A twice-weekly summary of media coverage featuring academic colleagues, research and other Queen Mary news News Queen Mary University of London recognised in social inclusion league table The Times Queen Mary University of London Queen Mary University of London’s commitment to social inclusivity has been reaffirmed in the The Times & The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024. Queen Mary University of London has been named University of the Year for Social Inclusion runner-up.

graph of deductions from annual salary for participation in the marking and assessment boycott. Most left and with the biggest graph: QMUL.

ALT graph of deductions from annual salary for participation in the marking and assessment boycott. Most left and with the biggest graph: QMUL.

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The non-newsworthiness of “manager on £450,000pa takes away ONE THIRD of his staff’s annual salary for the crime of speaking out” is quite exhausting. Them doing that is one thing, nobody batting an eye quite another.
James Sumner (@JamesBSumner) profile pictureJames Sumner@JamesBSumner15 Sep 2023
Replying to @qm_ucu
Yes! So, just to double-check, that's – blimey – your deductions are 100%, no concessions, and the longest anyone's liable for is 113 days? That would mean someone on my salary at QMUL losing very nearly £18K. I'm staggered this kind of thing isn't getting more attention.
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I've just updated my @ucu MAB maximum deductions sheet with a ranked bar graph. I've only got confirmed info for 19 institutions so far, though. Branch reps: if you want me to add yours, you can reply to this or email MABhassles {at} jbsumner {dot} com. docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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So, what you're saying is: the people educating future graduates are doing work that is VITAL to this country? Then maybe it's in the public's interest to not leave those vital workers in the hands of a handful of hawkish bosses, & instead ensure they can actually do their job?
Universities UK (@UniversitiesUK) profile pictureUniversities UK@UniversitiesUK8 Aug 2023
📈 NEW: The UK will need more than 11 million graduates to fill jobs by 2035 – @viviennestern. 88% of new jobs by 2035 will be graduate jobs. Find out more in our new #JobsoftheFuture report, out today: loom.ly/qnG8x_Q
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Replying to @DrJoGrady
UCEA have sanctioned the complete demolition of academic standards in UK universities - students graduating with incomplete marks, marks awarded by people not qualified to give them, all sanctioned by scab external examiners giving their stamp of approval to ersatz degrees
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One of the things that the QUB expulsion from UCEA underscores is that what we call national ‘bargaining’ on pay in UKHE is, in effect, an employers’ cartel systematically suppressing wage growth.
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But the response to the MAB is above all a sign that the managerial governance model in U.K. universities is totally broken and actively harmful to the sector as a whole.
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Will this be the week that UK VCs stop taking orders from a group of extremists at the heart of UCEA? Who have weaponised it in pursuit of a personal vendetta against the UCU? Nothing about this is looking like rational bargaining. And universities are being ruined as a result.
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UCEA on Friday: Marking boycott has “limited impact” Observer today: Over 160,000 final year students are impacted by the boycott. Our members want to get back to doing their jobs. End the spin. End the embarrassing press releases. Get around the table.
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