Sign the thank-you letter to RNLI for rescuing people at sea. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...

An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI

This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...

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'The need to outsource services following redundancy programmes may be increasing universities’ costs rather than lowering them, as well as impacting staff productivity, a report warns.'

Restructuring ‘too often adding cost rather than removing it’

Universities are ‘underestimating’ the challenges caused by outsourcing services amid major professional services staff redundancies, report warns

timeshighereducation.com

Yesterday @artefactual.eurosky.social asked 'Who were the Normans?' particularly with regard to the norsemen myths taught in primary school. So here's a thread to address this question. First off 'Norman' = North man, i.e. man from the North 1/

Leonie V. Hicks@lvhicks.bsky.social · 6d ago

Later today I'll hopefully do a thread on 'who were the Normans?' But for now, here is a piece I wrote a few years ago on Norman identy to keep you going normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/n... #normans #medievalsky #skystorians.

The order to stop teaching about human-caused climate change came at a Sept 2025 meeting of the geography program. Faculty were told to “remove all mention of human causes of climate change from their courses.” & warned if they went to press or politicians, the entire dept would likely be dissolved.

Lawsuit: West Point Professor Was Forced Out For Objecting To Order To Stop Teaching Climate Change - Joe.My.God.

Gothamist reports: A former tenured professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point says the school ordered faculty to stop teaching about anthropogenic, or human-caused, climate change, then pus...

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'Allegations that Cofnas was not qualified for his research role and would cause a “negative impact” by promoting racial pseudoscience were made to university leaders months before Arday died, the Guardian understands.' 1/2

Ghent professors challenged expertise of Jason Arday’s plagiarism accuser

Allegations Nathan Cofnas was unqualified for Ghent role and would cause ‘negative impact’ made to senior leaders months ago

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Cuts to NERC isotope funding to disproportionately affect archaeological science. Rather than spread the load across all subject, archaeological science will no longer be supported. This is terrible for our research community and is short-sighted. www.isotopesuk.org/announcement...

Yet ANOTHER great opportunity at our cluster HUMAN ORIGINS: ❗️ We‘re looking for a Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of hominin postcranial evolution ❗️ Apply here till October 15th: uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit... #Paleosky

New opportunity: fully funded PhD position within the Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS Investigate experimentally the evolutionary significance of transformative Stone Age techniques in this project on cognitive demands, and explore the probability of their success. Deadline: 15 September 2026.

‼️ Fantastic new opportunity within our Cluster HUMAN ORIGINS ‼️ Full Professorship Early Prehistory at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Tübingen! Deadline for applications: 2nd October 2026. More info: uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

"We cannot expect future workers to critically assess AI-generated content without first acquiring knowledge and skills of their own" "the teaching of context-specific and very likely short-lived AI-related skills would shift the cost of corporate training on to students and public institutions."

Reshaping universities to suit the untested AI economy is wrong

Rush to integrate artificial intelligence indiscriminately across the curriculum ignores the true purpose of higher education, say Jelena Belic and Kritika Maheshwari

timeshighereducation.com

Surely the bigger question is how an academic with such race questioning views had a position of trust/airtime. How did it feel for colleagues, students from minority backgrounds, or was it fear of OFS Freedom of Speech protocols that gave him licence? And this bsky.app/profile/byli...

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 4w ago

🔎 From the archive: What’s Going On a Cambridge? The tragic premature death of Jason Arday puts the university and its safeguarding policies back in the spotlight

These days I like to think of my models as “cartoons”. Realistic enough to capture the core patterns we’re interested in, but simple enough to be meaningfully understood.

Philip Ball@philipcball.bsky.social · last mo.

"The central challenge is no longer building models that reproduce biological behavior, but building models from which causal structure can be inferred." Very sensible paper about not just throwing everything into your simulation or model. arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998

Humanists UK@humanists.uk · last mo.

Want to go for a walk? We just launched ten #HumanistHeritage walking tours for: Birmingham, London, Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, and Sheffield. They're self-guided, free to download, and can be done at your own pace. humanists.uk/2026/08/04/t...

I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · last mo.

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

@paleonicole.bsky.social and I have written a short piece on why a tight fit at birth is not unique to humans. Some other primates have it much worse, but seem to have adapted to their obstetrical dilemma in different ways.

Why some primates have even tougher births than humans

Tamarins and squirrel monkeys have babies with unspeakably large heads compared to their mother’s birth canal.

theconversation.com

Just two weeks left to apply for this exciting position in the @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social

@drphilcox.bsky.social · 3mo ago

JOB ALERT! We are recruiting at @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social - a lecturer (Grade 8) or associate professor (Grade 9) in primate or human evolutionary anatomy (research and teaching). Contact Susan Evans or myself for further details. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRZ412/l...

🚨🐵 Paid primate work: We are seeking a new camp and research coordinator for the Born To Be Wild Project; Tazekka National Park, Morocco: Details here (sadly due to funding constraints only available for EU, and potentially UK applicants at a push): groups.google.com/a/g-groups.w...

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 Join @palevoprim.bsky.social as part of the #ReVol project (@cnrs.fr & Wits Joint PhD Programme)! Spend 3 years investigating the southern African fossil cercopithecoids to reconstruct past ecology and behavior through skeletal morphology and dental microwear.

1/12 🚨🚨 I am so excited to share chapter 1 of my dissertation, now preprinted here: biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We ask if are their fundamental, shared mechanisms that stop us from inferring the relationship of species and their timescale of divergence #biology #science

In the queue for #BayeuxTapestry tix? How about some light reading? theconversation.com/the-bayeux-t...

The Bayeux Tapestry tells only the winner’s story – but the other side can be found in old English texts

The story of the losers is full of meaningful silences and William of Normandy’s terror.

theconversation.com

For today's plenary at #EFP2026, we're really pleased to welcome Christine Webb from New York University! She'll present her work on how the myth of human exceptionalism shapes animal science.

Very, very happy that our paper is finally out! We look at how tight a fit primates experience at birth, and found really cool results. It has been a long journey from collecting the first data seven years ago! A brief thread (1/8) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Comparative primate analysis shows that humans are not unique in having a tight cephalopelvic fit at birth - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Analysing cephalopelvic proportions among 29 extant primate species, the authors show that a tight cephalopelvic fit is not unique to humans, with comparable or tighter fits occurring in several non-h...

nature.com

We're hiring. We’re excited to be recruiting for a Lecturer / Associate Professor in Primate or Human Evolutionary Anatomy to join the Centre for Integrative Anatomy at UCL. 📅Closing date: 20 July 2026 Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRZ412/l...

Lecturer / Associate Professor in Primate or Human Evolutionary Anatomy at UCL

Apply for the Lecturer / Associate Professor in Primate or Human Evolutionary Anatomy role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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Follow the podcast and join our Chief Executive @andrewcopson.bsky.social and humanist historian @madeleineog.bsky.social – along with expert guests – as they uncover the hidden stories behind the people, movements, and ideas that influenced humanism, secularism, and British society.

In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.

I am recruiting a PhD student (fully funded, 4yrs) to analyze modern 🧬 and ancient 🦴 genomic data from humans and domestic animals 🐑 Please share, I am happy to chat at #ICP2026 or #SMBE2026 this summer www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

I love Our World in Data! I've been playing around with immigration data in UK, France and Italy. Three different pictures. In Italy immigration has more than quadrupled since 1990 (when it was very small) and now looks more similar to France and UK, while emigration has slightly decreased.

Prof Nisreen Alwan@nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ooh I love a bit of interactive data.

An excellent postdoc opportunity at @cenieh.bsky.social🏺🧪

HigherJobz@higherjobz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

MSCA Fellowship at CENIEH, Spain 🇪🇸 in African Acheulean archaeology. Research early human evolution, stone tools & Pleistocene studies. Excellent postdoc opportunity. Apply 👉 higherjobz.com/african-ache... #Archaeology #MSCA #Postdoc #HumanEvolution #ResearchJobs #AcademicJobs @cenieh.bsky.social

Great postdoc opportunity for folk into morphology, biomechanics and human/primate evolution: pliodis.github.io/opportunitie...

PDRA Opportunity: Modelling the functional adaptations of the primate masticatory apparatus at VUB

2-year renewable Post-doctoral Fellowship at Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry Research Group, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium to study the functional adaptations of the prima...

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