Sally Hines - criticised for tweets

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About time someone took her to task over her awful behaviour.

"Hines denies the allegations. Since The Tab Sheffield approached her for comment she has deleted at least 18 tweets and changed her account from public to private."

'I really struggle to credit that an academic could be so dim to take the line, "This is my personal account, and I am using it make personal jokes"'

Yeah, it's not going to wash for anyone else, is it?
We've had years and years now of people being disciplined or sacked for what they have said on personal social media accounts but Sally thinks she can say what she likes as long as it's 'personal'? This is, frankly, peculiar.

NotDavid you’re giving her too much credit. I’ve met her. She honestly is that thick.

Alison Phipps is disingenuous but not stupid. Sally Hines though is lacking in intelligence through and through, which comes through in spades in her tweets and in everything else she does.

I wonder what criteria were used by Sheffield when deciding on the Professorship appointment.

If the ability to bring in funding carries sufficient weight to out weight strengths that other applicants brought ot the table this surely raises further questions about why Prof Sally is so adept at bringing in money. Is it that her specific and seemingly rigid views accord with those making funding decisions, and this means that she effectively gets preference over, say, a GC academic wanting to study ROGD. (Which really needs some study!)

So universities need funds, funders have a bias towards certain views and thus certain academics, so Universities hire them, over academics with stronger teaching backgrounds, more rigorous research methods and/or more open minds. Academic freedom?!

Over time I assume things rebalance. Good academics with strong analytical and research skills will eventually enhance the reputation of a department and attract more fee paying students. Whereas academics relying on "innovative" research in fashionable fields may find their field goes out of fashion, grant funding dries up and there is little to attract potential students.

Over time I assume things rebalance. Good academics with strong analytical and research skills will eventually enhance the reputation of a department and attract more fee paying students. Whereas academics relying on "innovative" research in fashionable fields may find their field goes out of fashion, grant funding dries up and there is little to attract potential students.

That's how it should work in theory, but I'm not sure if that is always whats happens in practice.

Bear in mind that the people assessing the grant proposals will be other academics from the same or related disciplines, so in smaller disciplines I imagine it's quite possible for grant funding to be 'captured' by groups of like-minded academics who all reward each other for toeing a particular line.

She can probably do really well on impact as well as research grant income.
I am not in academia any more but a few years ago impact was really important.

Sally has locked her tweets. That seems sensible, I assume that someone had a word and that abuse about Mr Somerville has been removed.

Hopefully (for Sally) no-one got chance to screenshot her ill-judged remarks before she deleted/locked them :-)

I note that Somerville has taken the high road and not responded to Hine's abuse. I wonder whether he will consider it worth his time to make a formal complaint?

Isn't this verging on abuse of power? Professor using their position to belittle a student ....

He...is clearly ideologically motivated

Oh what???? Motes and beams, Sally dear, see if you can pick the reference. Jesus wept.