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ISC census shows a drop of 2.4% in pupil numbers. The Times tries to hype this up but the ISC previous claimed numbers would drop by 25%. My estimate was 3-5% by next year. www.thetimes.com/article/893e...

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175 - I'll publish a revised list Monday with everyone who signed over the weekend The link is doing the rounds, but if you haven't seen it & want to be added, DM (or email) me or @alasianuti.bsky.social

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For over a hundred years one side of my family lived in Liverpool. For the early part of that time moving from slum to slum as they're homes were condemned. I've tracked it on a map. All these pieces are within one square mile.

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Peer review is genuinely not a fraud detection mechanism and shouldn't be taken to be. It's not really a knock against a peer review system for failing to pick up when data is faked. The system is already over worked if we did data forensics at scale as a standard part of review it grinds to a halt.

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Just published! Jan Kandiyali (@jankandiyali.bsky.social) and I writing, open access in Political Philosophy: "We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism " Hopefully of interest to both liberals and socialists! politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...

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"It cannot accommodate fragmentation, it cannot represent parties fairly or consistently, it exacerbates chaos & it undermines mandates", says @robfordmancs.bsky.social "There is no longer any excuse for burying your head in the sand about what's going to happen under this electoral system."

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I can retire happy now. I’ve been quoted on Have I Got News For You

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There's some good advice here on publishing in philosophy. I particularly like the Make The Contribution Immediately Obvious and No Side Quests points. substack.com/@bigifftrue/...

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It's cricket training so I'm going to do some reading

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I have signed this open letter www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

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NEW: Open letter by me & @alasianuti.bsky.social signed by 112 UK-based political academics & writers Starmer's anti-immigrant policies are wrong & won't work www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

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When I turned 40 last week my family put up a lot of old pictures of me and this one really stood out. I'm on holiday in Majorca wearing the 94/95 Nigeria shirt. Great times!

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We despise immigrants for not putting down roots, even as we make sure that it is impossible for them to do so. We do this because we have no idea what we want. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

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prospective PhD students who aspire to profess should weight schools' graduation regalia more heavily when choosing where to PhD www.discoverphds.com/blog/finland...

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Maybe "their voters" are not aging homeowning social conservatives who happened to work in manufacturing 30 years ago?

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The north steps up its infrastructure investment lobbying ahead of the CSR on.ft.com/3S8yP6H

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New research showing that expansion of education has made the world more meritocratic through greater intergenerational occupational mobility. Attempts by the elite to remain at the top have not been fully successful. @hermwerf.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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The difference just 4 years can make when land is released from overgrazing. Nothing was planted here: all these native trees, wildflowers, etc, came naturally, along with loads of butterflies, birds, + other animal life. THIS is how we reverse nature loss. #Rewilding 🌍

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There's something wonderful about summer evenings at a cricket match

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Expert from @uomsalc.bsky.social revisits the infamous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment in a gripping new docuseries from National Geographic. In partnership with @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social, join us for an event on 4 June to mark the UK premiere. Read more ⤵️ www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/e...

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Today on @nprfreshair.bsky.social: Our @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social discusses “The Price of Remission,” where he investigates why a single pill of the cancer treatment he takes costs roughly the same as a new iPhone. 🎧 Listen below.

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Busy week. Today I present our new 3D Value Framework for sustainable access to effective antibiotics at the 14th Nordic Public Health Conference. Then immediately to Stockholm to present my analysis of neonatal screening for Socialstyrelsen + workshop w PLATINEA project on access to antibiotics.

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Coming up at @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social: the 2025 Munich Lectures in Ethics with Prof. David Enoch (of @ox.ac.uk, @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social & @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social), on “Autonomy, Consent, Liberalism”, with comments by Profs Dorothea Gädeke, Rae Langton and Robert Simpson. Spread the word!

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my daughter has her autism assessment today, a mere 4 yrs after first raising it with the GP & 7 since I asked her teachers about it and was dismissed as over-anxious & manipulated by my child. It is neither easy or quick to get a diagnosis, the laughable idea that it is over diagnosed is insulting

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Hard to say how disappointing this morning‘s speech really was. Morally AND intellectually. Agree with every line here by @iandunt.bsky.social 👇

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Think this is (yet another) illustration of the government's overarching problem. There is no big picture project so it is essentially led by a combination of the polls and 'don't do anything that comes with too high a cost' (in of itself about being governed by the polls).

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To propose taxing the income stream that is essentially keeping UK higher education from widescale collapse is the sign of a government that has given up trying to understand the country it is meant to lead.

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This is what convinces me I am stuck in the timeline where Nigel Farage eventually becomes PM of the UK. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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On universities the white paper only reduces the graduate visa from two years to 18 months (which is a win for the DfE). The bigger thing universities will be worrying about is this little timebomb.

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Toughening migration rules doesn’t challenge Reform. It validates them.

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If you are saying care workers are underpaid, then I agree. Not so much “immigrants undercutting” as “doing the jobs you wouldn’t dream of doing unless the wage was a whole lot higher” and you aren’t going to get that wage higher under the current funding model are you, come on.

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On behalf of myself and Mr.T, I wish all of you moms, a Happy Mothers Day.

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BREAKING: Polish Prime Minister Tusk announced full certainty that the massive fire at Marywilska 44, a major wholesale center in Warsaw, was arson ordered by Russian intelligence.

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Care sector depends on foreign workers because pay is low for challenging work. Biggest paymaster is the public sector. So raising wages doesn’t depend on immigration rules. It depends on raising taxes. Changing immigration rules without doing that is, at best, cosmetic.

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As part of the programming of the WPSA Virtual Community "History and Politics," we are hosting informal conversations with scholars conducting research in these fields. On May 28 (between noon and 1 pm ET), we will welcome @duncanbell.bsky.social. Bring your questions! forms.gle/et7jDuEyDdcF...

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Under discussed aspect of our immigration system at present is how it has become ripe for middle-men to just rip off naive people who want to come here.

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If this ends up being as bad as people think then it marks an ends to to the government’s advocacy of economic growth as its core mission - that in of itself represents a highly pessimistic view of the future.

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BOOK! Congratulations to Michael Hannon and @elisewoodard.bsky.social @kcllaw.bsky.social Buy: tinyurl.com/ywy7t735 -political disagreement -voter ignorance -political irrationality -distrust of experts -the epistemic value of democracy - epistocracy

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I've just had my first go on Zwift and now I'm enjoying some Pu'er tea in this tea set my in-laws got me for my birthday I hope you are having a great morning (or whatever the time of day is where you are).

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I’ve just presented on animals and the meaning of life (in Robert Nozick’s thought) at UBC’s Interspecies Sociality conference — although over Zoom, rather than in-person! Big thanks to @mattwperry.bsky.social and Kimberley Brownlee for the invite.

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I was delighted to present this signed photo of Michael Laudrup to Lasse Nielsen at the end of the book workshop I organised on his A New Theory of Sufficientarian Justice. I suppose that makes mine the old theory.

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