Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

The bonfire of the humanities

150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences

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VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry

Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets

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Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

End the sewage pollution scandal

We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

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I'd like to share our findings & #researchpriorities from our @NIHRresearch #evidencesynthesis & #consultation for education in early-stage Chronic Kidney Disease #CKD in the final report found here (open access & citable): doi.org/10.5281/zeno... - Full published results soon!

There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds

Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

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Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.

Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.

The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report

A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself

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🏠 New NIHR funding for PenARC’s HOPE Project: Optimising health outcomes for people experiencing homelessness. The 18-month study brings together researchers, clinicians & people with lived experience to improve access to emergency care. 🔗 bit.ly/3WSbyIz #NIHR

New Funding Awarded for Homelessness and Health Research Project  - PenARC

PenARC researchers have just signed contracts for new NIHR funding to support a major research project tackling health inequalities for people experiencing homelessness.  The project, Optimising healt...

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Professors *never* supply information. Students aren’t paying premium prices for ‘information’ at all. How can people who presumably have attended universities misunderstand their role so badly?

Immigrant Punk@porcupunk.eurosky.social · 10mo ago

Wow. Just wow. "Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

@skynews at Labour Party conference "If you ask them how much trouble they are in, they just reel of a list of talking points on policy successes/plans" Well what would you expect them or any party to do? Sit there saying "yes we are completely fucked"? A scoop you can clip up?

We don’t yet know who killed Kirk or why. Not that you’d know it from the endless numbers of accounts on X with huge follower numbers, including British politicians, making as yet unknowable claims about the motivations behind the murder. Exhibit A. Extraordinary stuff.

More than a century of data reveals how the UK has gone from supplying domestic seafood needs from productive home waters to importing seafood from almost 90 countries Read more here 👇 @exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social @ruththurstan.bsky.social

Study tracks UK’s journey from seafood self-sufficiency to dependence on imports

More than a century of data reveals how the UK has gone from supplying domestic seafood needs from productive home waters to importing seafood from almost 90 countries. University of Exeter researcher...

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Nigel Farage wants to unban Handguns, which were banned after the Dunblane School Shooting. How do you feel about that, do you think we need School Shootings? Do they need bringing back?

Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit

Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · 12mo ago

🚨An important reminder of the trauma faced by asylum seekers. Not just in fleeing persecution abroad. Not just in the perilous and desperate journey to these shores. But by the hatred and vitriol put on them by the right wing in this country for callous political gain.

PenARC Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow Harriet Aughey presents an analysis of the NOAH project. By giving babies with probable bacterial infection oral antibiotics, families can be at home earlier with an estimated NHS cost savings of 66.5k annually. #ChildHealthImpact2025 @nihr.bsky.social

Fantastic to welcome @SteveRaceMP to St Luke’s earlier this month! He met Prof Chris Morris & Fleur Boyle to hear about our work on childhood disability – esp. the peer-led Healthy Parent Carers programme promoting parent carer wellbeing, shaped by 10 years of research 💙 🔗 healthyparentcarers.org

New research from the Evidence Synthesis Team - read more on their #evidencegapmap on #topicalsteroidwithdrawal

Jo TC@jog13.bsky.social · last yr.

News on our blog: Find out more about a recent project on #topicalsteroidwithdrawal and the mismatch between academic literature and #patientexperience evidsynthteam.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/t... @penarc.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @esmi-exeter.bsky.social #tsw #tsws

Learning about topical steroid withdrawal was a real eye-opener! Our evidence gap map brings together academic research and social media posts. Check out our blog for details #tsws #TopicalSteroidWithdrawal @penarc.bsky.social evidsynthteam.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/t...

Topical Steroid Withdrawal: Evidence, Anecdotes, and Everything In Between

Is there a mismatch between academic literature and social media? Topical Steroid Withdrawal Syndrome (TSWS) is considered a rare side effect of using steroid creams. It is estimated that over 100 …

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Good visual showing the churn of UK voters since last year’s General Election.

ISCA Evidence at Exeter Uni are seeking a new information specialist to join the team. Details here: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Job alert. Researcher specialising in information science wanted by ISCA Evidence at the University of Exeter jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Areas receiving levelling-up funds show smaller Reform UK vote share, study finds

Areas receiving levelling-up funds show smaller Reform UK vote share, study finds

Analysis suggests prioritising projects that give quick local results may hold back support for populism Areas that received money from the last government’s much-criticised levelling up fund tended to have lower votes for Reform UK in the general election, a study has found, indicating that projects delivering quick results may hold back support for populism. The study by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) thinktank, billed as the first to examine a mass of data factors linked to support for Reform at the level of individual seats, identified a series of factors likely to make voters more likely to back Nigel Farage’s party. Continue reading...

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Anecdote, meet data.

PrefersDogs 💙🍀🌹🇺🇦🐸@prefersdogs.bsky.social · last yr.

No details yet, but the system especially UC is abused and needs reform. There needs support to those who are struggling and NEETs to access employment From experience I know 16 years old going on PIP for zero reason because there is no support for them.

Last month I did a little experiment. I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky. The results were...interesting... [Thread]

🔥 Hot tip! Before starting a systematic review, make sure an information scientist/research assistant is part of the review team. They have specialised skills to develop and implement a comprehensive search strategy 🔎 synthesismanual.jbi.global #MedLibs #JBImethodology #EvidenceSynthesis

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

It's me. The biomedical librarian is me. I wasn't sure whether to stay anonymous or not but I don't think it matters anymore, maybe. Thank you @usha.bsky.social and others at @statnews.com for talking about what is happening in the U.S. right now. www.statnews.com/2025/02/17/t...

Drug inspectors, AI experts, maternal health workers: Trump’s health agency cuts are far-reaching

In interview after interview with STAT, those who were fired from federal health and science agencies, along with officials who remain, argued the cuts would be deeply felt.

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