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Britain to offer EU youth mobility scheme in Brexit reset talks 👏 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

3 out of 4 older people - more than 9 million people in the UK - admit their homes are colder than they would like because they can no longer afford to heat them. Research comes from charity Age UK which will hand in a petition to No10 today calling on the gov’t to 'Save The Winter Fuel Payment’

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

Sadiq Khan says Brexit was a 'mistake' as he backs major UK-EU scheme The Mayor of London renewed his backing for proposals for a youth mobility scheme - allowing under 30s to work, live and study in both the UK and EU for a fixed period www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

The most important thread you'll read today. In brief: Europe has the power to save Ukraine and slip into the leadership position America has vacated. It must grasp it. And Europeans must pressure their governments to do so.

submitted 11 days ago • 45 comments

I couldn't actually believe this headline was real. I checked. It is.

submitted 12 days ago • 55 comments

OK folks, I have now created a google form that allows people to sign to show their support for my open letter to the President of the Royal Society. Please sign and share widely: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

submitted 14 days ago • 22 comments

Writing this with a heavy heart: the refugee citizenship ban is the single most unconscionable policy Labour has proposed since it entered power. It’s the moment that I felt my support for this administration begin to crumble inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...

submitted 13 days ago • 303 comments

the fact you don’t know is a Good Thing as it suggests you’re keeping away from the more dubious bits of Open Access publishing. But for various snippets see this blogpost, which links to others on the topic deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/01/toma...

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

An entirely new financial settlement is needed in Higher Education - as many of us have been saying all along. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Are you a physical therapist or rehab provider that I don't have in my #PTSky starter pack? Let me know! Also- over 100 great folks here to follow for PTs or just the #Rehab adjacent go.bsky.app/HGnsb3V

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Excellent article on impact of loneliness on recovery of older people leaving hospital. @nihr.bsky.social www.southamptonbrc.nihr.ac.uk/post/lonelin...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The recording of this excellent and timely webinar is now available. Enhancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity In Pain Research. note - IASP members sign in to view the content. @iasp.bsky.social www.pathlms.com/iasp/courses...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Nice preprint showing leg muscles have increased cortical excitability with destabilized walking. Corticospinal Excitability in Response to Mediolateral Gait Instability Raven O. Huiberts, Sjoerd M. Bruijn @smbruijn.bsky.social, Jennifer L. Davies @jendavies.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Are you based in London? Wanna take part in a study to know more what’s happening in your body and brain when you detach from your self ? Please take part in our study! Full info here 👇🏼

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Reeves and Keir Starmer are ignoring what is blindingly obvious to everyone else: Brexit is a significant drag on Britain’s growth prospects. They know it’s true but refuse to acknowledge it and, more importantly, to do anything about it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #wato

submitted 25 days ago • 9 comments

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

submitted 25 days ago • 57 comments

You think universities have it bad in the UK? Imagine this. The US has totally lost the plot.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

What he's announcing is a concentration camp. A deeply illegal, unconstitutional, anti-human rights atrocity. Anyone who supports this is complicit. Anyone in any federal service, military or otherwise, is morally obligated to refuse to carry out any orders related to this deeply criminal act.

submitted 26 days ago • 98 comments

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

submitted 28 days ago • 81 comments

My colleague Jon Warne and two of our excellent MSc Physiotherapy students are conducting a survey on inclusion health They’re specifically interested in awareness and knowledge of inclusion health groups among health and social workers Completing/sharing the survey would be highly appreciated!

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

submitted 28 days ago • 81 comments

Calling UK Academics: Are you currently overwhelmed with marking and looking to procrastinate? Please consider doing so by participating in my PhD research! @bpsofficial.bsky.social @bpseastmids.bsky.social #academicsky #academicchatter #Research Link: staffordshire.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

It's time for the Royal Society to revoke Elon's fellowship. Surely Nazi salutes are against the Code of Conduct? @deevybee.bsky.social's blogpost from Nov last year is evergreen ⬇️ deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

A little challenge for neuro/cog sci (/psych/comp-sci/bio/philosophy!) blueys: How would you define "cognition"?

submitted 41 days ago • 104 comments

We value things differently depending on the situation. A fascinating paper shows that the hippocampus feeds contextual information to the prefrontal cortex by altering theta wave phase alignment, enabling the PFC to adjust value judgments accordingly. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

submitted 47 days ago • 5 comments

The Doctors Association say there are 3,500 unemployed GPs Why isn't Wes Streeting hiring these GPs? And why are GP practices being filled with PAs instead of GPs? What's going on?

submitted 47 days ago • 54 comments

Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏

submitted 50 days ago • 224 comments

That is quite some headline @dailymail.co.uk….. Does the poll “predict” that Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year? I’m sure you know the answer already, but indulge me while a do a small 🧵looking at what the poll ACTUALLY shows! 1/17

submitted 51 days ago • 21 comments

"There is no solution to the crisis in the NHS that doesn’t include a solution for social care." Dismayed to see Wes Streeting acknowledge this - yet kick the issue into long grass with a commission that won't report until 2028. What hope for the NHS now? What hope for those needing care now?

submitted 53 days ago • 46 comments

"I break my fast with a stick of yak butter, straight from the cooler. The benefits are endless: increased focus, libido, productivity, arithmetic, echolocation, foosball skills."

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Just read this and think. You don't have to listen to me droning on. University chemistry and bioscience in real trouble. If undergraduate teaching and state-funded research both make a loss, then there'll be nothing there in just a few short years. Central govt doesn't appear to even know this.

submitted 54 days ago • 3 comments

Right-wing attacks singling out Sadiq Kahn - who is obviously & demonstrably an exceptionally popular mayor as far as Londoners are concerned - are so blatantly Islamophobic & racist that we don't even say it anymore. But we should say it. It isn't normal.

submitted 56 days ago • 66 comments

"As a Jewish student, I know the importance of calling out and combating antisemitism when I see it. But that also means I know the importance of allyship and standing in solidarity with other oppressed groups when they need support." Must-read opinion piece

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

What are we DOING here? We're just meant to sit and act like this insane plagiarism and climate threat that requires more money than anything has ever cost is worth it? Are we meant to pretend that ChatGPT is worth this aimless, meaningless destruction of capital and our environment? For what?

submitted 59 days ago • 278 comments

AI data centers are multiplying across the U.S. and sucking up huge amounts of power. New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans

submitted 59 days ago • 96 comments

This is outrageous - how was it allowed to happen? Heads need to roll across this sector! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 63 days ago • 10 comments

More monstrous news from Gaza. There appear to be no depths to which Netanyahu will not sink 😔 theguardian.com/world/live/202…

submitted 64 days ago • 12 comments

Can the motor system use sensory expectations to prepare for unexpected events? Excited to share my latest work with @andpru.bsky.social – where we establish that sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits! 🧵 and paper below 1/

submitted 64 days ago • 5 comments

@tobyellmers.bsky.social

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity

submitted 65 days ago • 756 comments

How many more reports like this will it take for our leaders to care even a little bit?

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

This will be henceforth justifying my rampant procrastination

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

UoM are recruiting a Research Associate (10.5 months maternity cover, full time) to work on the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) in Manchester. More details about the job and how to apply can be found here www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

I've started a Brunel University of London starter pack go.bsky.app/QWo9ohQ Please let me know anyone that's missing and I'll add 👍

submitted 69 days ago • 3 comments