A s everyone in some way aware of UK higher education knows, the results from the REF 2014 were announced in the first minute of the 18th of december 2014. Two main hashtags have been used to refer to it on Twitter; #REF and the more popular (“official”?) #REF2014. There’s been of course other variations of these hashtags, including discussion about it not ‘hashing’ the term REF at all.