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Distressing news on job losses at University of Exeter Universities need friends with political influence Impact of Arday scandal - and its mishandling by Cambridge University leadership - has wider consequences It becomes harder for universities to maintain public confidence & political support

Theranos became a movie Jason Arday saga is next Story has everything: OTT drama, academic scandals, manipulative dons, an American ingenue trying to run Cambridge Punting, dinky old colleges & an absurd plot Arday already looks like a film star, suits him The perfect ending

Liverpool John Moores University have questions to answer too After wholly inadequate supervision, LJMU granted Jason Arday a PhD for a thesis that was of low quality LJMU then dismissed plagiarism charges, as they were “well within accepted range of compliance with academic standards" 😲

The Guardian’s article on Jason Arday highlights serious questions Cambridge University must now answer About his appointment. His use in publicity. How concerns were handled. Why allegations were dismissed. And the role of Carter-Ruck & the police. Quite a reckoning Enormous damage done

It's the curious incident of the dog in the night again The silence from the BBC and The Guardian on the Jason Arday story is telling A negative fact, but the most significant of all Their lack of response strongly suggests they accept that the allegations are largely true Sadly

Who in Cambridge University is helping Jason Arday? Ill-judged interview generates many more controversies Did somone say "Ride it out & keep the book launch on track” Perhaps OK for hardened public figures. For someone more vulnerable, it can backfire www.thetimes.com/article/fdd5...

Jason Arday: I am not a liar, says star academic accused of plagiarismThe youngest ever black professor at Cambridge University claims allegations he is a fraud are cruel, racially motivated and do not account for his autismwww.thetimes.com

Provost of King's College Gillian Tett shows rest of Cambridge how to work the media & make it count Handsy men! "Students tell other students how to cope with a handsy professor & create coping strategies. It shouldn’t be that way because not everyone copes" www.thetimes.com/article/4f47...

Gillian Tett: Oxbridge has a problem with ‘handsy’ menThe provost of King’s College, Cambridge, says that she feels profound pain for students who were sexually harassed by professorswww.thetimes.com

Scientific research cash is shifting to AI, while 'blue skies' science is getting squeezed Astronomy grants have halved since 2023, and Jodrell Bank has been stripped of support Fundamental science is now in real trouble in the UK www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Jodrell Bank telescope loses funding as STFC confirms cuts - Research Professional NewsScience and Technology Facilities Council announces nine projects “not prioritised for further funding”www.researchprofessionalnews.com

This is Board of Electors for Professorship of Education (2002), (Louis Archer -> Louise Archer) Baroness Morgan was Blair's adviser She's since been involved in Southern Cross Healthcare, Carillion & Cambridge University Hospital Trust She lands a new role, a calamity happens

Our choice for most pitiful person in Cambridge Fraud Scandal It's Deborah Prentice, Vice Chancellor She researches pluralistic ignorance - how institutional conformity forces people to accept status quo Her research tells her what to do, but she's trapped 21percent.org?p=4082

The most pitiful person in the Cambridge Fraud Scandal, as nominated by Andrew Gelman (Prof of Statistics at Columbia, co-writer of Bayesian Data Analysis) Not Jason Arday, but the unnamed University "spokesperson for Cambridge" spouting obvious untruths statmodeling.substack.com/p/whos-the-m...

"It hurts to lose a job you love" Says the person who presided over the loss of 20000+ jobs in Higher Education & did nothing www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotionExclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalitieswww.theguardian.com

Complicity in subfusc 'When I alerted Cambridge, I asked for what universities should stand for: protecting the vulnerable & defending free expression' Cambridge’s response? Eviction -- locks changed by Wolfson College www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/07/comp...

Complicity in a subfusc: How Cambridge facilitates transnational repression - Index on CensorshipPakistani documentary filmmaker Roshaan Khattak, living in exile in the UK, was until recently a postgraduate student at Wolfson College Cambridge. Khattak’s research, into human rights abuses in Balo...www.indexoncensorship.org

In the Arday scandal, we've heard little from the woman whose PhD was plagiarised This exposes how brutally power operates in UK academia A female lecturer at a mid-ranking university has so little agency that her case only gains traction when white male professors take it up

Untrue of Good Law Project to say Cambridge University "found no evidence whatsoever of wrongdoing" by Jason Arday Cambridge ruled the plagiarism allegations were out of scope To settle this, Cambridge should make public the report

Anne Willis is Director of the MRC Toxicology Unit A recent survey on bullying & harassment in Cambridge University found the MRC Toxicology Unit -- appropriately enough -- one of the most toxic departments of all :)

Control & communication has been inept given Cambridge was alerted to the Arday plagiarism allegations back in 2023 So, they've had 3 years to prepare for an entirely foreseeable moment -- and they’ve still managed to make it look like an absolute case study in how not to handle a disaster

There are 3 sides in the Jason Arday debate Racists & social justice warriors, sure But, the dominant voice has not been about politics It's about something very basic: standards, integrity & whether institutions like Cambridge University apply their own rules fairly & consistently

The reaction of almost all academics wrongly accused of plagiarism is: "I insist on an immediate external inquiry to look into these damaging allegations against me" It's not, "Can you get Carter Ruck on speed dial?"

Retraction Watch is the most damaging article yet It's now clear that they many knew what was happening … Arday knew. And senior figures at Cambridge University knew Those involved in threatening journalists & covering-up must go Huge institutional crisis retractionwatch.com/2026/07/27/c...

Exclusive: News outlet killed story on plagiarism allegations after Cambridge prof hired law firmJason Arday In September 2025, Times Higher Education had a bombshell story in the works: A star sociology professor at the University of Cambridge had allegedly plagiarized parts of his Ph.D. thes…retractionwatch.com