Successful pre-epop event (congrats and thanks to @robfordmancs.bsky.social@anandmenon.bsky.social (who doesn't like bluesky)
I'm sure all unis do this, but timetabling here is laughable. 3 back to back seminars to teach, which is fine, seminar 1 and 3 are on the same corridor, but seminar 2 is in a different building on a different road. What is the point?
Someone round ours appears to have a flipping massive cat. No wonder I haven't seen the usual set of moggies lately, now the Beast of Bodmin has relocated to Widnes
EPOP week, in a year when there has been an unusual amount of elections. Election nerd Christmas/big Eid/Chanukkah happening in Manchester this week. Here's Rishi with the weather.
ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands at a podium in front of a window that is covered in water
Halton Transport got shut down in 2020. We have 1 train station over 1hr walk away from some parts of town. No one is going to build a train line from West Bank to attach to the Lpool/Manc line, or build a new one that connects Widnes to Runcorn. The buses were essential. Classist take re. heating
To repeat a point I made often at the Other Place: trains get all the headlines (not least because lobby journalists are the kind of middle class professionals who use them a lot) but buses are used by far more people, particularly poorer people. Making buses work better is v worth doing.
The RA job I have applied for runs for 5 months and in time I would earn 25% more than being a TA on 4 courses for a full academic year. I like teaching but the academic sector puts so little value into TAs - which is stupid considering Unis run on getting students in
