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Hotter take: yeah, it is.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

This will not bring the temple down but these are the worst kind of resignations for a PM. When a friend and much liked minister quits on a pure principle shared by most colleagues - over time that's the most corrosive.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

In my whole life I will never experience a drug as powerful as centrism

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

the trick is we do not have a real shortfall of £140M or anything remotely like that. it is a big number to scare us derived in from a mix of projections and an arbitrarily high target annual surplus, as far as one can tell from what we've been told

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Don't be intimidated by the number of questions - you do NOT have to answer them all. You can answer as many or as few as you like, and the ALCS has nice, simple guidance and advice for answering the important ones. www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I worked with middle school students recently who literally didn't know Google searches produced links to other websites. They just typed an entire question into the search bar & used the AI summary as their source. The Internet is absolutely cooked

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

The government's consultation on AI and copyright closes today.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks to @jordankistler.bsky.social and @tattersdill.bsky.social I've been introduced to Bothrodon pridii (1927), 'an Extinct Serpent of Gigantic Dimensions' (namely 60ft), whose gigantic fang turned out to be the prong broken off a spider conch.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes you just have to lay down the law

submitted 14 days ago • 64 comments

This is the silliest media phenomenon since the pivot to video www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The Government is considering allowing AI companies to freely use your works, unless you opt-out. This is unfair and unworkable. Now is your chance to tell them what you think! Submit a response to their AI consultation using the guidance below. www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

submitted 27 days ago • 12 comments

I know it's a Guardian editorial and I know everyone following me already knows this, but this is very well put indeed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

“A new settlement is desperately needed – one that properly restores a sector that delivers a public good to the public realm. And which enables a sense of professional vocation, for those who work within it, to be renewed.” #EduSky www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I cannot stress this enough: no

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Higher education feels like it's on fire right now. & we have a government happy to sit back and watch it burn. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

NASA did a feature on me last year. It was up this weekend but now when you click on the link you get a 404 message.

submitted 26 days ago • 125 comments

Want to be more involved with the society? Join our exec! We are seeking three new members of the executive committee. Details here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/02/new-...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

See now I’m starting to think that these people want a machine to summarize things for them because when a human does it, the human uses words like “no” and “that would hurt people” and “that’s illegal.”

submitted 27 days ago • 28 comments

Stop worrying about bats and newts? No Rachel Reeves MP – start worrying about the future of our economy if we tear down the nature it depends on. Nature isn’t a blocker; it’s the foundation of growth.

submitted 33 days ago • 73 comments

Wild that every piece of software has decided we need Clippy now.

submitted 29 days ago • 24 comments

"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks" www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...

submitted 31 days ago • 2347 comments

'"Is the government genuinely comfortable sitting on their hands and allowing this act of educational vandalism to be taking place," she said.' The answer to this question is YES. They have said so! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

'Daybreaker' is out today! A joy to create this second Winter-themed song with #SimonArmitage — lt's warm, hopeful and a reminder that darkness is temporary and Spring is near. As Simon said, it's a song for that first day 'when it feels like sunlight is in the blood.' 🌞 kpriddy.lnk.to/daybreaker

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

The market continues to cradle us safely in its invisible hand

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Paywall, but I think this could be emphasised more: the current government has effectively taken the decision that there should be fewer nursing graduates www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

So infringing copyright is suddenly bad now?

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Again: they know. This is a design feature of their HE strategy

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

“The Constitution is unconstitutional” sums up the first few days nicely.

submitted 33 days ago • 51 comments

We'll be having the online launch for Palaeontology in Public on Tue 18 Feb 18:00-19:30 UK-time It will feature comments from Mike Benton, Riley Black, Natalia Jagielska and Alison Laurence, & discussion with some of the chapter authors More info & signup link here: forms.office.com/e/gpWburvZPk

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

Would love to understand why every Democrat is not out there every second of the day explaining in plain English that Donald Trump has declared war on cancer patients.

submitted 34 days ago • 182 comments

It’s chiselled in stone in the main college “nerth gwlad ei gwybodaeth [a nation’s strength is in its learning]” Wales grows weaker every day.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

When it comes, remember that governments of various colours have been carefully working towards this for my entire career. Large unis going under, with devastating local consequences, is a necessary part of the free market dream in higher education

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments