In my department, the university is proposing to close down the entire Children's Health and Exercise Research Centre (CHERC). Pool of 4, with 4 positions redundant. Nightmare scenario for those involved docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter in Support of the Children's Health and Exercise Research Centre (CHERC) at the University of Exeter

To the Vice-Chancellor, University Executive Board, and Council of the University of Exeter, We write to express our extreme concern regarding the proposal to close the Children's Health and Exercise...

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New Yorker cartoon feels about right

Always happy to capture a magical milestone on the Little Leaf that Could

Bastard!

852dude@852dude.bsky.social · 2w ago

The flashback to teenage life when Toby McGuire walks through the portal in Spiderman No Way Home is an incredible bit of film making

Great visual illusion, accompanied by a lovely variation on Shepard Tones if you have the sound on Posted on Reddit by bigjobbyx, who is a bit of an artist genius

Nearly at 300 signatures!

Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hi all, putting feelers out: folks looking for a job ASAP in the 🇬🇧 in Cornwall, or willing to move? Collaborating group hiring a couple roles with skills in any of: - insect injections (incl. gene edits) - machine learning for image analysis - experience with 🦋 a plus! Can email me at link below.

When your cool-sounding company name becomes gibberish to psychologists

Do please consider signing this... how can a university threaten to fire an entire research group because they focus on basic (rather than applied) research?

Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Note also a lot of the new ESRC schemes are about new innovative ideas, which definitely embraces discovery science www.ukri.org/councils/esr...

Types of funding we offer – ESRC

We provide a range of funding, covering smaller awards to support early career researchers and larger research awards enabling both individuals and larger teams to access funding through our applicant...

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The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

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Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

Shakira really made some kind of deal with the devil to stay looking like a 20yr old forever

They should let England and France play ten minutes during halftime.

This makes the opening look quite normal

Football does Eurovision with Tom Cruise hosting

Neuroscientist Brenda Milner turns an incredible 108 years old today! In the 1950s she uncovered the role the hippocampus plays in consolidating memories, and in the 1970s she published her seminal studies of speech lateralization. Wishing her all the best today! tinyurl.com/3am8syhf #WomenInSTEM

Building a Kingdom in the Brain’s Unfashionable District: Brenda Milner’s Century of Neuropsychology

There are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in order to speak with any degree of justice about people like Brenda...

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Surely an email sent to troll the AI skeptics/haters

Electric cars are great for many reasons, but top among them is being able to have the aircon running when sitting parked on hot sunny day without being an awful human being like the petrolheads who idle their engine outside of schools at pickup time

Erling Haaland and the rest of the Norwegian men's team are paid the same as the women's team. In 2017, they took a voluntary pay cut to allow the women's pay to be increased. The move came from the players' union, not management.

Just 17 more people to make history/a nice round number

Iain Soutar@isoutar.bsky.social · 3w ago

Is 29,900 signatures a lot? It does sound like a lot.

This is why you don't pick up those cute little bags you find in the street

Angry People in Local Newspapers@apiln.bsky.social · 3w ago

Meanwhile, in the depths of Cornwall, the Fates were tempted, and they duly obliged.

If you like petitions and dislike academic redundancies at the University of Exeter, our petition is only a few hundred signatures away from 30k www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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It's a billion degrees Birmingham new st station. So I'm going to have some ramen and see what happens to m

Wut

John C. Baez@johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 4w ago

Mark Ham wowed the world with this picture. But then someone wowed me even more by pointing out that the moon always has the same phase when it's in a rainbow! (1/2)

Let's have a bit less of this 'dimutive stature' nonsense for a 5'9 chap please www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

Arthur Fery sails past Flavio Cobolli and storms into fairytale Wimbledon semi

The British wildcard stunned the No 9 seed with a 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-0 victory on Centre Court and will face Alexander Zverev for a place in the men’s final

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Oh look I found a metaphor!

Missed the VC’s speech? Lucky you. Here’s the financial highlights! 1/ Confirmed Exeter uni is STILL IN SURPLUS for 25/26 2/ The top 16 execs at Exeter have a combined pay packet of nearly £4m 3/ The VC has a pay packet of nearly £400k a year 4/ Our cash reserves are going up, year on year [1/2]

The UK govt is spending £1.2m a day (about £1.5bn total by 2028) supporting remnants of an inefficient, doomed, steel industry that employs under 40k people Meanwhile it throttles what was a vibrant, growing, internationally competitive HE sector that employs >440k Explain industrial policy to me

Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Department for Education has confirmed that universities will receive £50.9 million less in teaching grants next academic year. Bridget Phillipson, the education minister has defended the reduction in light of tuition fee rises. https://ow.ly/6UWJ50ZkLlf