From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/10510 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Yetter Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: PhD positions at Leicester, UK Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 02:20:16 +0000 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: David Yetter Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28929"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: "categories@mta.ca" Original-X-From: majordomo@rr.mta.ca Thu Jun 10 20:30:31 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from smtp2.mta.ca ([198.164.44.75]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lrPRn-0007Km-0B for gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 20:30:31 +0200 Original-Received: from rr.mta.ca ([198.164.44.159]:33410) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1lrPRA-0003Y3-EB; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:29:52 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by rr.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.92.1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrPQn-0006MY-Lt for categories-list@rr.mta.ca; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:29:29 -0300 In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.science.mathematics.categories:10510 Archived-At: Though the part of the elephant we as category theorists see is the part of= the U. Leicester administration's ill-conceived plans that affect mathemat= ics, those plans are larger: the eight pure mathematicians are among 100 f= aculty (academic staff in British terms) being threatened with not lay-offs= , but firing (compulsory redundancy in British terms), so that a call for a= ll academicians to boycott U. Leicester until the plan is scrapped has been= issued by the University and College Union (UCU): https://www.ucu.org.uk/= supportTheLeicesterBoycott [https://ucu.org.uk//media/11504/Boycott-Leicester/image/leicesterboycott_s= hare_rev.png] UCU - Support the Leicester boycott The University of Leicester threatened over 100 staff with compulsory redun= dancy. Managers refuse to share data on finances with campus trade unions. = The long-running dispute has led to UCU implementing the ultimate sanction = of being greylisted; UCU members have also begun a marking and assessment b= oycott.The sanction means UCU is asking its members, other trade unions, la= bour movement ... www.ucu.org.uk Best Thoughts, D.Y. ________________________________ From: David Roberts Sent: Tuesday, June 8, 2021 7:34 PM To: categories@mta.ca Subject: categories: Re: PhD positions at Leicester, UK This email originated from outside of K-State. For what it's worth, we should point out the elephant in the room: "The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, Nishan Canagarajah, wants to lay off all 8 of their pure mathematicians, including the only 2 women with permanent positions, and then rehire just 3 of these mathematicians =97 to do teaching, but not research. He and his flunkies claim: [=85] to ensure a future research identity in AI, computational modelling, digitalisation and data science requires ceasing research in Pure Mathematics [=85]" (source: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2021/01/problems_at_the_unive= rsity_of.html) "The London Mathematical Society has been informed that the University of Leicester is consulting over a proposal to reduce the size of its Pure Mathematics Group to be teaching only, in order to =93meet the rising market demand of artificial intelligence, computational modelling, digitalisation and data science=94. The Society strongly opposes this proposal and believes it to be seriously flawed for the following reasons. ..." (source: https://www.lms.ac.uk/news-entry/09022021-1444/mathematics-univers= ity-leicester) And as a result: https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/11533/Global-boycott-of-University-of-Leices= ter-begins-today If someone can update us on the status of the various category theorists and allies it would be very useful. Thanks, David [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]