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Got reviews back this am on a paper where I am a co-author. It still amazes me when academics are so rude. #Reviewer2 is live & well (although they were reviewer 1 this time). We will look at the constructive reviewers comments but as for the other, it’s hard to respect your academic judgement.

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🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for meaningful opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24

submitted 7 days ago • 89 comments

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 60 comments

This is so good.

submitted 20 days ago • 626 comments

Kind of a long title but this movie sounds wild

submitted 27 days ago • 94 comments

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

submitted 33 days ago • 942 comments

It’s with a heavy heart that I’ve been forced to write to Claire Coutinho again.

submitted 40 days ago • 45 comments

Charles Spencer detailed his abuse at his prep school Maidwell Hall in his recent book and that led to a police inquiry which has now caused the school - which was long operating at a loss - to close. The Conservative press, naturally, blame it all on Starmer. And VAT.

submitted 43 days ago • 55 comments

NEW: Andrew Norfolk broke the grooming gang story, 15 years ago. His exclusive interview on today’s News Agents is deeply powerful, not least for his anger about those political figures now exploiting it and the victims for their own purposes. Listen 👇 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

submitted 48 days ago • 47 comments

There are 3.4 million girls 14 and under in England. Elon Musk just wrote that 1 out of every 13 such girls is right now being “systematically raped by migrant gangs.” The man has gone utterly insane. He’s a sociopath. His latest post is—unambiguously—neo-Nazi rhetoric intended to incite violence.

submitted 52 days ago • 412 comments

Nigel Farage says Elon Musk is "an absolute hero figure" to young Britons. Simply untrue for most young people YouGov had Musk approval 18-24 approve 10% disapprove 74% 25-49 Approve 20% Disapprove 64%

submitted 58 days ago • 74 comments

Back to work tomorrow, have taken the 10days to relax and decompress. Hoping 2025 will not be as challenging at work as 2024, but please can it at least provide some research space?! At least these 2 days should be quieter than normal! #academicchatter #optimistic

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Norwegian painter Edvard Munch spent many summers at the coastal village of Åsgårdstrand, where he bought a house (now a museum). He said that "to walk in Åsgårdstrand is like walking among my paintings”. Here’s his ‘Moonlight’ (1895), and the scenery there (photo: Kavlie-Borge)

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

"A request made through ChatGPT, an AI-based virtual assistant, consumes 10 times the electricity of a Google Search" This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!! www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

submitted 58 days ago • 86 comments

Breaking news: A 2020 paper that sparked widespread enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine as a #COVID19 treatment has been retracted, following campaigning by scientists who alleged the research contained major scientific flaws and may have breached ethics regulations. scim.ag/4iR9bQ6

submitted 69 days ago • 50 comments

3 more days to go, mentally I am spent, this semester has taken its toll! Hoping having a few weeks respite will help but there’s not a lot of optimism currently in academia I fear. Without research time I am not sure what the benefits of the job are for me. #academicchatter

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Thoughts on m how we solve the housing problem: We need more houses. So we need more builders. So we need more training. But there aren't enough colleges, teachers or students. So we need immigration. So we need to undo Brexit. 1/*

submitted 72 days ago • 15 comments

Switching from internet to zoom phone so campus can save money. With new training, websites etc. How often do campuses think through: "we save $100,000, but use 1.5hrs of prof time with 5,000 profs getting paid $75/hr and.. oh shit we just spent $550K on salary to save $100K" .. I'm guessing never

submitted 75 days ago • 23 comments

Free seminar January 7th on the latest population health findings from the Health Survey for England: www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Brexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU | Jonathan Freedland www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 85 days ago • 5 comments

Ok who doesn’t love Spotify day! At least this year as I got my teen his own acc it does reflect my music tastes!

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

This is the outcome I support but understand others disappointment and concern. I wish it could be part of a much broader review and changes to ensure all are able to have a “good death”, something that is not currently the case for so many. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

New blogpost: deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

submitted 91 days ago • 168 comments

Vaccines against COVID-19 saved over 20 million lives in the first year alone, according to a study in Lancet Infectious Diseases. Anti vaxxers conveniently ignore such stats.

submitted 93 days ago • 45 comments

Great service from @markrubin.bsky.social to help this place grow for #Psychology At www.bps.org.uk/psychologist we have 37 years of open access articles, interviews and much more. Please help us share far and wide!

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

And speak to people who are using it now. It has collapsed and systems do not work. Staff doing their best in an untenable environment

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submitted 96 days ago • 800 comments

Vaccinating pregnant women against COVID-19 is a good idea. Why is UK stopping it? 🧪 #healthpolicy #medsky Good article from @chrischirp.bsky.social @sheencr.bsky.social theconversation.com/the-uk-is-no...

submitted 96 days ago • 29 comments

With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size. At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.

submitted 96 days ago • 463 comments

"Regular exercise can delay dementia onset by 18 months." Regular exercise is so useful for maintaining cognitive function that it can even help people who are genetically more predisposed to dementia to reduce their risk by up to 35%. 🧪🧠🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ #neuroskyence www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

submitted 96 days ago • 24 comments

UK colleagues, what is the going rate for PhD examination? I know we don’t do it for the money but just been told a uni is paying me £200 (pre tax deductions) to examine their student & tbh it has just made me wonder why we do it. Is this a typical fee, am I being unreasonable? #AcademicChatter

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

To be clear: It's £1m untaxed, plus £325k of standard tax free inheritance. You can double that if the farmer is married. So farmers can hand down £2.65m tax free, and their kids pay 20% on everything else. Tax on your job is 40% over £50k "Land owner" is not a job 🧵

submitted 99 days ago • 53 comments

"The spectre of Brexit is simply becoming too big to ignore. An unprecedented statement from the Bank of England this week finally broke the Brexit omerta when Governor Andrew Bailey directly blamed slow growth on the UK’s decision to leave the EU." 🇬🇧🇪🇺 www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/kei...

submitted 100 days ago • 8 comments

For every €1 a man earns, a woman makes only €0.87. Today, on #EqualPayDay, we symbolically mark the date when women stop earning compared to their male colleagues. Learn how we are working to close the gap 👉 europa.eu/!TBqJj8

submitted 101 days ago • 6 comments

During the week a dog named Bunsen texts his family. Those texts are saved. Today they are shared. It’s Texts From Bunsen!!

submitted 101 days ago • 23 comments

Spent the night in A&E - 5hrs 45min for X-ray & sutures in teens hand. The #NHS is broken, understaffed but also inefficient processes. Not sure I have faith things will improve. Staff are doing their best no doubt, but not sure extent they aware where things should/could change. #health

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