Symptoms Of The Universe

The most recent newsletter from the UoN UCU branch consists entirely of the wonderfully apt and timely poem below.

Here’s a tagline that certainly grabs attention… “The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do” is hardly the most understated of claims, but then the author is a physicist and we’re not always known for our professional modesty.

Back in March, I wrote this piece for the UCU newsletter on the Strategic Holistic Accountability Model (SHAM) for senior leadership.

A marking and assessment boycott is ongoing at the University of Nottingham.

The piece below was published by Times Higher Education last week.

The collapsed version, for those with limited bandwidth : Forget the sci-fi of parallel universes.

I’ve stolen the title for this post, and the cartoon below (© Private Eye), from Peter Coles’ most recent post on the bleak situation for Physics & Astronomy at Nottingham.

The powerful and inspiring piece below was posted by the UoN branch of the UCU yesterday.

After listening carefully to staff concerns about accountability, transparency and the apparent absence of consequences at senior level, the University of Nottingham is pleased to announce the Strategic Holistic Accountability Model, a new framework desig…

A colleague who attended a recent UoN Bullying & Harassment workshop — focussed on prevention, rather than practice, I should clarify — forwarded the slide below, presented (as a handout) at the event.

Back in January 2023, in the Dark Ages of LLM/AI evolution, we tasked ChatGPT with answering GCSE, A-level, and undergraduate questions on a variety of physics topics.