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University Academic, Dean of Internationalisation, avid walker and loves running in the rain. Opinions my own, don’t blame my employer!
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This is what will happen next: *Crisis will get worse and worse over 2025 *Only a handful of say 10-15 universities will be unaffected *Governments won't act properly to solve structural problems *Crisis will reach crescendo in February and March 2026. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The year is 1999. You've just finished the installation and hit that .exe. You never knew it at the time, but this was destined to be, one of the greatest pc gaming experiences in your life.

Getting real close to a billion posts

My favorite email ever is when an eminent Belgian academic wrote to me but spellcheck took over and he started the email "Dear Dr Pancake"

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

I read about deepseek over the weekend and thought I would give it a try. This is an amazing product and pushes ChatGPT, while charging nothing. The AI market just got a lot more crowded and depending on who you believe a lot more scarier! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As I keep saying, we need to make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform on the planet, we need to do it with urgency & we need to send Elon Musk packing The number of BlueSky users tonight stands at 29,477,992. WE CAN DO THIS!

@bsky.app approaching 30 million users! bsky-users.theo.io

Nearly two-thirds of Britons say very rich have too much influence on politics @fairness.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

This is pretty concerning news. The British council does so much representing the UK abroad and in developing our soft power when it comes to education. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The two year post study work visa is not a “back door”. Never thought I would see the telegraph resort to this type of sensationalism! www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...

The thing to understand about Trump is like in his first term, he doesn’t want to govern. He doesn’t want to learn. He wants to campaign and look good. Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.

Some interesting information here, I can see some Universities developing some unique business models: wonkhe.com/blogs/ukvi-i... #Higher-education #international #students

Wow. Just wow.

Honestly football is a bit bonkers. 90 minutes of pure frustration and then a beautiful goal #LFC

#LandAnimalsInMoviesOrSongs Have I got gnus for you

This is a fascinating turn of events

If you get hit for six and your dad catches the ball in the crowd, the batsmen should be out. It's only fair.

Bluesky is so much better than Twitter. That's the post.

An incredibly heartwarming moment in parliament today that you can bet won’t be reported on. Women from across parties rushed to comfort Katrina Murray with tissues and water. The MP for Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch spoke powerfully and emotionally of her experience of abusive relationships.

oh thank god. wait

Is literally anyone still on X? I left, deleted the app. I had almost 300,000 followers but it became a dreadful place and sometimes you just have to leave bad places, right? So many brilliant people here!

applying for jobs, here's my new cover letter: money 👇 🫴

I was interviewed at CES this morning. We mentioned that consumers will decide whether they want to be on a platform that is “unfiltered free speech “ or “ moderated”. I mentioned that I loved @bsky.app , and spontaneously people started clapping 🔥.

Interesting article by the LSE. Amazing what proper data and analysis can show. There is a problem with grooming gangs from SE Asia but they make up about 3%, you will be surprised which group makes up 83% …. blogs.lse.ac.uk/religionglob...

LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.

A lot of organisations view generative Ai as the next "search engine", similar to how Yahoo and Altavista viewed the internet as a glorified online directory. it is so much bigger that that: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

This will probably come as a surprise to him, but 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/elon-mu...

Hear this, Elon 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/child-g...

One bright spot in the bleak year of 2024 was the rise of BlueSky prospect.org/power/2025-0...

In other news, Nigel Farage didn't bother to turn up to the debate on grooming gangs in the House of Commons just now

Meanwhile in the other place…

The grooming and rape of children is a very real evil. Those using this sick depravity to further other agendas don't care about child abuse at all. New video 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ox...

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THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Look at all those Brexit benefits Starmer needs to be braver. Delivering on his ambition for growth means addressing the consequences of Brexit

One of the things that's always fun to stumble across in the newspaper archives are reminiscence articles. The 1878 three-part "Huddersfield Seventy Years Ago" by John Hanson (c.1796-1881) of Folly Hall (aka "Native") is fairly well known... huddersfield.exposed/p/11745

It’s clear that Brexit has been a bit of a disaster! Great reporting by the @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... #brexit #disaster

After an initial meeting at 9am, Liverpool City Council’s Safety Advisory Group have scheduled a second meeting at midday to reassess whether Liverpool vs. Manchester United at Anfield can go ahead, as weather conditions may change #LFC 🔴