Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
Peter Campbell
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Reader @ Dept. of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Liverpool.
This utter muppet of a conservative Canadian politician in New Brunswick forgot to remove the LLM text from his floor speech and read it out loud.
David Latchman has been appointed Vice Chancellor of University of London He was found guilty of research misconduct by University College, London. He blamed his postdocs. Nice to see strategy, networking & playing the long game win out in the end 😉
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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Increasingly coming to the view that the Harvard referencing system is the death of stylish academic writing. Flow as a reader is impossible when the text is littered with regular occurrences of (Boggins and Zuglinsky 2022).
RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...
🚨NHS hospitals have admitted to a litany of errors in the data behind a headline claim about the success of the controversial £330mn Palantir contract after a @financialtimes.com investigation found dozens of irregularities. Scoop w/ @laurahughesft.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/7ab92d75-3...
Finally, a technology which can solve the mystery of whether I like my friends.
Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 4w ago
'Surely some revelation is at hand, Surely the second coming is at hand, Turn around, turn around...' youtu.be/wAnd9bAYX44?...
Total Eclipse of the Heart
YouTube video by Kiki and Herb - Topic
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there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w agowhat a fucking asshole
Performing and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of “difficult decisions” about spending priorities, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said.
DfE slashes creative and performing arts teaching grants for universities - Arts Professional
Performing and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of "difficult decisions" about
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Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.
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
‘We urge the Government to prioritise this issue. Should this situation continue unchecked, the damage to the health of higher education, research and innovation will be profound and have long-lasting consequences.’ www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...
British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage
As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...
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After the universities close, I look forward to entering the economy.
Stephen Shapiro@stephenshapiro.bsky.social · last mo.UK to Universities: drop dead archive.is/PN5y7
"What about marriage?" indeed www.aol.co.uk/news/mankeep...
Mankeeping: Finally, a word to describe the emotional labour of my 38-year marriage - AOL
“Are you OK?” is the single most infuriating question I ask my husband Ross, apparently. Perhaps that’s because I’ve asked him, on average, 10 times a day for many of the 38 years we’ve been married.
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Adrian Daub@adriandaub.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat TERFism does to a country’s media. You … you printed this! In 2026!
"Cardiff University has admitted that it doesn’t know how much it is spending overall on external consultants or hold a central record of what work they are doing." Staff expenditure: Count every last penny or you may lose your job. Their expenditure: Meh.
Cardiff University criticised over consultant secrecy
Martin Shipton Cardiff University has admitted that it doesn’t know how much it is spending overall on external consultants or hold a central record of what work they are doing. Academic sources have ...
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If anyone is wondering about the Lady Chief Justice of England & Wales claiming Palestine Action's "covert" activities make them different from the suffragettes that Yvette Cooper admires so much, here's a secret message code book in the National Archives www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/re...
Message codes - The National Archives
Codes used by Women’s Social and Political Union for secret messages. These were used as evidence in the conspiracy trials against the WSPU leaders. (Catalogue ref: DPP 1/23 f205) Transcript https://c...
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'The Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology invites those interested in pursuing a PhD in to apply for a fully funded Graduate Teaching Fellowship commencing October 2026.' www.liverpool.ac.uk/sociology-so...
Graduate Teaching Fellowships | Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology | University of Liverpool
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After his fight at the White House, Sean O'Malley threw up what the announcers described as a "salute" to "the troops" and Trump
Kilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. I see a lot of the same fights here."