Dr David Yates

Officially, my account is satirical.

The open letter to @UniofNottingham now has *six* Nobel Laureate signatures asking them to think again regarding their huge cuts to one of the country’s most successful physics departments. But I am sure their slash-and-burn senior managers know better. nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/

Paper review process

By displaying their 'at risk' notices for all to see, Physics staff at Nottingham Uni are a damn sight more transparent than university bosses desperately slashing staff numbers without ever owning up to the impact of their bad decisions. Solidarity with @UoNUCU 1/

We are pleased to announce our new fast pass degree plan. For a premium, students can skip all those annoying classes, get a sheet of paper that says “degree,” and fast forward to graduation without any of the inconvenience of coming to campus or going to classes.

Of course I said that during the interview. But I didn’t mean it, I just trying to get the job. Let he who hasn’t claimed “that teaching is my first love” or “I love teaching intro” cast the first stone!

Yet again, no value placed on the experience of being a student. Just transactional 'get it done as fast as possible' logic.

Have to suspect that some of my erstwhile senior managers, who are usually so keen to turn every list into a league table, might be less keen to see how far up this one they have driven their institution.

Suella Braverman is like an arsonist complaining about the smoke The university funding model was built on her party’s watch & thrived while she held power 😲 Funny how things become “broken” the moment she’s no longer responsible for fixing them telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/3…

If you criticize the new college policy, you are clearly part of the problem we are trying to solve.

Higher Education as well.

🚨 12 British universities have paid a security firm £440,000 to monitor students & academics’ social media inc those who have expressed solidarity for Palestine The unis: • UCL • Imperial • KCL • Oxford • Sheffield • Leicester • Nottingham • LSE • Manchester • Cardiff

We’ve approved an internal grant for Economics to do an ethnographic study of the dismantling of Sociology & Anthropology in the state system.

Congratulations on winning the Performative Bureaucracy Award! The competition was fierce this year!

Academics, if you write something that the public can't understand you've failed. The point is to write something that even other academics can't understand

academia trying to regulate the use of ai

Plus actor.

HR Day will feature a Human Pyramid Climb for all of the faculty fellows! The only way you become a dean is to climb over your boss’s back!

Don’t think of it as the college taking over your department, think of it as an applied lesson in colonialism with no post-colonial future.

Like going back in time #bafa2026