@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social Have you seen Daniel Lavelle's article in today's Guardian? His book, Chasing Aliens, is published on 30/4.

'Other institutions that have enacted programmes that could lead to job losses this year include the University of Bristol, the University of the Creative Arts, Goldsmith’s University of London, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh and Sheffield Hallam University.' 4/4

'Other institutions where job loss numbers have been reported include London Metropolitan University (120), Glasgow Caledonian University (100), Swansea University (55), Heriot Watt University (51), and Edinburgh Napier University (up to 10).' 3/4

'Since the start of January, eight UK institutions have stated approximately how many job cuts they are making as part of restructuring plans.' Feb: Dundee (180); March: USW (200); April: UU (450). 2/4

Are the women back there somewhere? Yes, I think I see them.

'Universities across the UK have reported more than 1,000 job losses in the first four months of this year, with the actual number likely to be far higher as institutions continue to roll out cost-saving initiatives.' 1/4

Good morning, it's #WysteriaWednesday! (With apologies and thanks to @richardmortimer.bsky.social )

Deep in the tea-colored Okefenokee, the Hooded Pitcher Plant is a lighthouse of lost souls. It uses translucent "windows" to trick insects with a false sky, luring them into a stained glass trap of digestive fire. A wonderful, macabre marvel of the swamp. #WyrdWednesday #EarthDay #Okefenokee

One for you, @craftygreenpoet.bsky.social.

OK, as a lifelong Labour voter until a year ago, and now a Green voter and Party member, I say 'Vote Plaid with everything you have people' - every decent human in the country - Green, Labour, Plaid, SNP or Lib-Dem - needs to do everything they can to keep Reform out of power, everywhere. Do it.

#WheelieBinWednesday Sawston

Magnolia fun fact: they are one of the most ancient flowering plants, having been around since the Cretaceous, when dinosaurs roamed the earth. They are so old they were around before bees evolved - they were (and still are) pollinated by beetles! That's why their blooms are so huge.

@duncanweldon.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/energy...

Agami Herons.

Entrance Hall to Cardiff Free Library. Floor & wall tiles, with designs for the four seasons by the Victorian illustrator & artist Walter Crane. Produced by Maw & Co. 1882 The building is now Museum of Cardiff. #TilesOnTuesday

In his new book, 'The poetry of suicide', poet and author @jtwelsch.bsky.social weaves stories of poets who took their own lives with the history of suicide in his family, searching for a new way of understanding these difficult deaths. Pre-order from your local bookshop or online today. #booksky

Join us as we mark the launch of 'The Poetry of Suicide: Lessons in grief from the lives and deaths of poets' by @jtwelsch.bsky.social. Reflecting on poetry’s long engagement with suicide, interwoven with the personal history of suicide within his own family. Tickets are on sale now. #booksky

Lot of feelings today, after working on this book for so long. Mostly I hope people find it useful for thinking and talking about this often still unthinkable and unspeakable topic.

Publishing today! A profound exploration of the connection between poetry and suicide, drawing from the lives of poets, and his own experience, by @jtwelsch.bsky.social. Available now from all good bookshops & online. Head to our Events page (link in bio) to find a book launch near you. #booksky

“Inside one of the mummies, the team discovered a rare papyrus containing a passage from Book II of the Iliad by Homer. The text includes part of the “Catalogue of Ships,” which lists Greek forces involved in the campaign against Troy.” greekreporter.com/2026/04/19/h...

Palantir in the NHS is linked to Mandelson Mandelson is linked to Wes Streeting Wes Streeting is defending Palantir’s involvement in the #NHS Nothing to see or everything to see Palantir must be removed from the NHS

The remarkable early-Norman crypt (1078) at St Mary's, Lastingham (North Yorks). Burial place of St Cedd incorporating Saxon stone from the earlier church, and complete with nave, apse and side aisles. Time peels away as you descend into this special ancient place! 📸2025

ICYMI — new HUNGARY 🇭🇺 PM Magyar says Netanyahu will be arrested if he goes to Hungary

#BLinguistik #linguistics

Conference on the Languages of the Nordic Countries as a Second Language: Bergen/Norway, 10-12 June 2026 www.uib.no/en/lle/17741... via uib.no #nordand17 #conference #langsky

€54k for 15 bedrooms. Writer’s retreat?

“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves” It’s so obvious, it hurts. www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...

French is omnipresent' Residents highlight tensions around French in #multilingual #Luxembourg today.rtl.lu/news/luxembo... #langsky

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap... I know this landscape well. It is eerie, challenging and to me, utterly bewitching. In places it's dangerous, but it's always fascinating. Huge skies, trecherous silver sea and marshlands where fish, eels and snakes hide.

The paperback edition of The Devil in Dorsoduro is now up for preorder. Out May 7 The Devil in Dorsoduro: An atmospheric Venetian murder mystery amzn.eu/d/03Xf9jki

Still so proud of my university’s ongoing franchise deal with a Myanmar/Burma college. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

15 minutes; no questions; government got the blame; my department to have 60% of us sacked. Apparently sacking us will lead to a ‘new, improved’ curriculum. No voluntary scheme, straight to selection and legal minimum redundancy payment.

If anyone wants to see the previous time colleagues were sacked by scripted P&O style video message, it's here in all its glory, featuring the VC who fired more people than he met in his brief reign of terror: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrsW...

Yay, @wikipedia.org!

mRNA vaccines continue to show major promise. In a small Phase 1 trial led by Dr. Balachandran, some patients with pancreatic cancer (one of the deadliest cancers) reached 6-year survival. This is why sustained investment in science & research matters. tinyurl.com/f4n4anhk

The 2nd quartet of our #ArtSonnetChain opens with this fine poem by #TishaniDoshi (who also contributed to our #EcoSonnetChain). As you might expect at this point, it shifts parameters to focus on one of #BhartiKher’s ‘Intermediary’ figures: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2026/04/18/a...

If you've never seen Danger : Diabolik, you owe it to yourself to put that right! This looks like a good place to start....

My Favorite sign of all time at a No Kings Protest. So F--king True!

"We're really interested in anything that's rude, that's a bit naughty, that might be counted as a swear word or a phrase" Can you help build the UK Swear Map? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Whimbrels today 2/2 #birds

‘With its full control of checkpoints and terminals and every truck of cement and building material crossing into Gaza, Israel can ensure that reconstruction remains a perpetual “project”.’ Eyal Weizman on the destruction of Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This smart dog knows about politics, he literally gives a shit.😆😆

Albert King #bluesmusic 🎶'I'll Play The Blues For You'

"Adan" shared this photo from the Coachella CA where hes picking green beans. "I get paid 40 cents per pound. The work is exhausting - especially due to the excessive heat in the area. But this is how I support my family." #WeFeedYou

The real heroes of the Epstein story

The DOJ is now 5 month in breach of releasing the Epstein files. Holding these criminals accountable should be the Nuremberg of our time.

Hours of my one precious life spent watching university bosses at a parliamentary inquiry. Please read to make my time worthwhile 😏 open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...

Languages and culture go together so well!: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Perhaps someone with knowledge of Chinese can weigh in here: there's a proverb that goes (more or less): If you want to be happy for a day, get drunk; for a year, get married; for the rest of your life, start a garden. It's being attributed as Dutch, but I think it is Chinese. Am I right?