In every @abcnews article I see on Gaza, all include something along the lines of "... triggered by Hamas's deadly attacks on Israel on Oct 7 ..." WHERE IS THE BIT POINTING OUT "... after suffering 75 years of massacres, apartheid, torture, oppression, kidnapping, illegal occupation ..."??!

Like - from a functional perspective my personal life would be identical - and professionally it would be infinitely improved as I wouldn't have to waste my time wading through other people's useless AI cr*p anymore. Ahhhh dreams of a better (former) life...

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Israel said the war was about the hostages. All 251 were returned by January 26, 2026. Hamas hasn’t fired a rocket into Israeli territory since April 2025. Sixteen months. Israeli strikes on Gaza haven’t stopped for a single day. So what is their excuse now?

"The problem with writing with A.I. is that it’s mentally enfeebling [...] As it becomes ubiquitous, it undermines not only our individual ability to write but also a society’s collective ability to reason, a culture’s inner capacity to create and everyone’s reason to care." 100% 👏👏👏

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · yesterday

Bed bugs are right twice a day! Bret Stephens: “I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I.” (gift link)

“When it comes to AI, business leaders will confidently demand that the skilled professionals who perform the business's core functions use AI, even if those professionals don't think it will help.” www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

thenerve.news

This framing that blames divorce for domestic violence is utterly revolting

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

NN: The abuse allegations against Rep. Max Miller -- Moreno says he should resign, but President Trump disagrees. Do you think Miller should step down? REP. JIMMY PATRONIS: No. I agree with the president. This is a family fight. Unfortunately, divorces are messy. There are two sides to every story.

Just sitting enjoying the last glass of wine as the pipstrelle bats zoom around the garden... (It's possible I bought bat boxes so I can hopefully watch **more** bats by next year 😍)

“Mapping by the Environment Agency shows that even under normal flow conditions, there isn’t any additional river water available to serve new homes or industry across roughly a third of the country.” (Ali Morse, Wildlife Trusts)

‘We cannot magic up more water’: the supply problems putting housing targets in England at risk

Council leaders say crumbling infrastructure and lack of water are jeopardising government’s plans for new homes

theguardian.com

The truth is that the UK govt missed its last chances to underpin universities and support regional societies and economies in the post-Covid recovery period and then the 2025 White Paper. Those opportunities won't come again. www.ft.com/content/e14d...

Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says

LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic students’ fees, limits on international students and rise in employers’ national insurance

ft.com

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

If you're arriving at uni this autumn, or maybe dropping your kids, remember that there could be a ghostly phalanx of absent redundant staff, lost modules and degraded degrees making it a very unhappy place. It may *look* the same, but it won't *be* the same. www.ft.com/content/e5b0...

Several UK universities nearly ran out of cash last year, says report

Almost a quarter of higher education institutions were left with less than 70 days of cash to cover costs

ft.com

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

📢 Our application time from submission to decision is now six months Please be assured that every application is important to DOAJ, and the team continue to work diligently to respond as quickly and efficiently as possible 🙏 Thank you for your patience Guide to Applying: doaj.org/apply/guide/...

Anti-war protesters demand end to US use of UK airbase to strike Iran https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/7/26/anti-war-protesters-demand-end-to-us-use-of-uk-airbase-to-strike-iran

Anti-war protesters demand end to US use of UK airbase to strike Iran

Anti-war activists have protested outside a UK airbase over US forces using it to bomb Iran

aljazeera.com

I am tired of reading something that is very fluent, then halfway through realising that I just read a paragraph that makes no damn sense because it wasn't written by a person. Extruded prose is a consent violation. I don't know why more people aren't viscerally disgusted by its publication.

"Across both datasets, languages and humanities subjects such as English and Classics are among the worst affected, with stark regional inequalities emerging." #Highered #univesity #edusky #PhD #research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/loss-of...

Loss of academic staff and "cold spots" for humanities and social science degrees threaten strategically important skills for UK, says British Academy

A new data map released today shows a sharp and widespread decline in opportunities for university staff in the humanities, social sciences and arts subjects in 2024-25. The data shows a precarious la...

thebritishacademy.ac.uk

Seems to me that, if you’re a G7 nation, and your capacity to do science, research and higher-education policymaking depends on the individual interests of a prospective minister, you’ve already fucked it.

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 3w ago

Feels like the answer to improving DSIT is some decent policymaking, rather than retiring it (wch would be a huge drag - shuffling departments takes up a lot of time and energy). The problem ofc is that Labour doesn't have a v strong SciTech talent pool to draw on giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

11/21/24💡ICC confirms 2 arrest warrants (netanyahu & gallant) for war crimes in Gaza-covering 10/8/23 to 5/20/24. 124 member states must enforce. UN expert: Torture is now a “state doctrine” in Israel (1/20/29—As the leading DNC candidate for ’28, I pledge to end all genocide funding)🇵🇸😢 Hart28.com

A strong and competent UK state would sweep in here and grab every PhD student we can find. Alas, no such state exists and we won't bother doing anything, as usual.

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Reports of US strikes on civilian infrastructure in Iran overnight are deeply alarming. Every escalation pushes peace further out of reach. Andy Burnham must unequivocally oppose this reckless & illegal war and use every available diplomatic lever to secure a peaceful resolution.

What do English graduates do with their degrees? Christopher Nolan is an English graduate.

‘A masterpiece in every way’: The Odyssey earns near universal acclaim as full reviews published

Christopher Nolan’s epic was given five stars by the Guardian, Independent and Telegraph, while the New York Times called it a ‘monumental adaptation’

theguardian.com

LLMs support authoritarianism, who’d have thought it?

Eddie Yang@eddieyang.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

Israel is raining bombs on civilian areas in Gaza right now. Families have nowhere to run. Nowhere is safe. The genocide has not stopped.

'In the past year, the University of Sussex shed 528 members of staff, with plans to increase that figure by 200.' 'In May, the University of Hertfordshire said it would suspend multiple undergraduate humanities courses.' 1/4

How to kill a university's reputation

After Exeter’s announcement that it will cut 150 academic jobs, is there any hope for higher education?

newstatesman.com

This is the person who is defence secretary Dan Jarvis's Israeli partner in maintaining the UK/Israel military agreement signed in 2020 and not modified since. www.declassifieduk.org/secret-uk-is...

On the exact same day that Israeli Jewish settlers in the illegally occupied West Bank held a US Congressman at gunpoint with US made rifles, they also attacked a CNN news crew

Within a news cycle, Israeli settlers in the West Bank held Rep. Ro Khanna at gunpoint and attacked a CNN crew with clubs and knives. They are not settlers; they are state-backed terrorists. It's time the media and Congress called them what they are. If not when they terrorize their own, then when?

This should horrify all of us! Women in ICE detention underwent invasive medical procedures without informed consent. Senator Jon Ossoff’s bipartisan investigation called the findings “nightmarish & disgraceful” Everyone deserves dignity, bodily autonomy & human rights! #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance

Applications for the Mid-Career Fellowships are still open. The scheme allows UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a major project and share their insights with the wider public. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4f09Crd

BREAKING: At least 73,118 Palestinians have been killed and 173,615 wounded since Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. And yet in 2 years in office Labour have offered nothing but appeasement to Israel & allowed them to carry out these attrocities.