Went to a Mary Poppins themed restaurant last night. Super cauliflower cheese but the lobster was atrocious.

I can't believe so few people in the LinkedIn world see LLMs through the enshittification lens. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

Andrea Hacker@ahacker.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

I am still not done reading #Enshittification by @doctorow.pluralistic.net - it is a fine book but I can only read a few pages at the time because I get so furious. How can our entire world be held hostage by such few pathetic, greedy, needy, disingenuous, stupid and frankly perverted men?

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

current "sleep"stage: It will be dawn in 40 minutes and the moths will go to sleep, then I can open the windows and get cool air for a couple of hours sleep before it heats up again

Last week on Wonkhe: Engineering professor Beverley Gibbs argues that the time has come to rethink the engineering curriculum

Are we ready for a revolution in teaching engineering?

Engineering professor Beverley Gibbs argues that the time has come to rethink the engineering curriculum

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This week on Wonkhe: Engineering professor Beverley Gibbs argues that the time has come to rethink the engineering curriculum

Are we ready for a revolution in teaching engineering?

Engineering professor Beverley Gibbs argues that the time has come to rethink the engineering curriculum

buff.ly

With #EANCongress26 starting today, this compelling piece by @bevgibbs.bsky.social is brilliantly timely and a must-read for the whole HE sector, not just “canaries in the coal mine” in engineering. @epc.ac.uk wonkhe.com/blogs/are-we...

I was today years old when I realised that Bonfire Night celebrates the defeat of the Gunpowder Plot, rather than celebrating them having a go. (Still think this might be fake news from @theresthistory.bsky.social)

If you're applying for a job at Anthropic, they want to make sure you write the first draft of your resume and the answers to the job questions ON YOUR OWN (WITHOUT CLAUDE) FIRST.

Book manuscript submitted for peer review! Since 2016, there have been many assumptions about the relationship between right-wing populism and the economically “left-behind” in deindustrialized areas. What has been missing, however, is sustained historical analysis.

My book's out on Thurs. I have a request - pls ask your local library to get a copy so everybody can enjoy it? (also available as audiobook). ISBN: 9781529930276 / @hjm.bsky.social @astroroyalscot.bsky.social @rogerhighfield.bsky.social @romatheengineer.bsky.social @robinince.bsky.social

New post by me on the rural-industrial paradox. Across the UK rurality is important to engineering capacity, and engineering is economically significant in 3/4 of our rural regions beverleygibbs.substack.com/p/the-rural-...

Why is the sky blue, and how do things stay aloft? ☁️ Join engineer Lucy Rogers to discover the forces shaping everything overhead through hands-on demonstrations and stories. www.rigb.org/whats-on/liv...

The living lab above: Science of the sky

Join engineer and inventor Lucy Rogers for a vivid, curiosity-fuelled journey through the sky as a dynamic living laboratory.

rigb.org

📢 I've joined the Substack game, writing about work, capability and place. Post 1: England is making strategic decisions about AI and industrial policy on the basis of an incomplete map, and the Marches region shows us why that matters. Comments welcome beverleygibbs.substack.com/p/the-hidden...

The Hidden Engineering Economy of the Marches

England is making strategic decisions about AI and industrial policy on the basis of an incomplete map, and the Marches shows us why that matters.

beverleygibbs.substack.com

Babs Streisand has just Streisand Effected her own name. Incredible work. #oscars

Did Frankenstein's Kate Hawley just curtsey to Anna Wintour? 🤣😅 #oscars #oscars2026

Must read piece. 'The US has started a war without any legal, moral, strategic or political basis whatsoever. And yet instead of raising the alarm about it, the British press’ main question is why Britain is not more involved.' And 'Is Iraq really that long ago?'

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Which came first - banoffee pie or Banana Toffos? 🧐

Join me trying to make sense of this lot on the 1st Sounds Critical radio show on Swingdash, 5-7pm today. Meeting the moment by selecting bangers www.swingdash.live/schedule/not...

Academic freedom & freedom of speech are not ‘in the DNA’ of universities as some claim. They are hard-won privileges that need protection and we need to be alive to the possibility they are not equally distributed. Some myth busting here: www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/02/19/c...

‘Cancel culture’ is older than we think - HEPI

This blog was kindly authored by Helen Mountfield, KC, Principal of Mansfield College, University of Oxford (@helenmountfield.bsky.social). You could say that cancel culture has been an issue at the U...

hepi.ac.uk

I do wonder if "public expectations" here actually means "what universities think is right for themselves". I imagine the general public would support, eg, B3 conditions and REF/TEF ideology unless presented with a (presently absent) compelling alternative system vision

LSE Impact@lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🗣️"The sector has become a hybrid institution caught between public expectations and market imperatives, governed by leaders rewarded for financial agility, rather than intellectual integrity." #AcademicSky #HigherEducation

I know it’s crazy out there an all that, but you still should be working on an artistic pursuit and/or making music. You’ll be glad you did.

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.

A legend.

UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS)@stsucl.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Sir Roland Jackson 9th Bart (1954-2026) It is with great sadness that we report the sudden and unexpected death of Roland Jackson whilst climbing on Helvellyn on 10 January 2026. https://bit.ly/4jK8CbC

@johnthejack.bsky.social Seasonal greetings JtJ! Hope you're successfully evading current viruses (apparantly "Latin-based plurals are best avoided")

This is terryfing, tragic, and completely and utterly unfuriating

Neuroskeptic@neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"Socioeconomic status (SES) — not IQ or psychopathology — showed the strongest associations with both resting-state functional connectivity and cortical thickness in the ABCD Study." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Innovation, Investment and Inclusion. I've been proud to have been part of the Social Mobility Commission's Economic Growth & Investment Group this year, and today our report is released. Take a look! socialmobility.independent-commission.uk/reports/inve...

Innovation, investment and inclusion: a framework for regional renewal - Social Mobility Commission

Innovation, investment and inclusion, calls for bold changes to drive economic growth and opportunity in the UK's most disadvantaged areas.

socialmobility.independent-commission.uk

Outside London,not a single UK region is a net contributor to the economy. London's success helps mask a very dysfunctional economy.

John Peters@johnthejack.bsky.social · 11mo ago

12/17 Poland’s regions are richer than west Wales, poorest part of Britain. Dolnoslaskie (Lower Silesia) in Poland’s southwest is better off than Greater Manchester. Strip London out, Britain’s output/head just 3% ahead of Poland’s. (£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... By @tomcalver.bsky.social

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