Again, the people who seem to be most damaged by social media aren't the kids - who are quite good at navigating it - but the middle-aged, who get caught up in extremism, fooled by misinformation, trapped by scammers, and addicted to porn. Stop focussing on the kids. Start with the rest of us.

I haven't read the article, and I haven't looked at the poll - and I'd still be absolutely certain that the people who think it's rising the most are the ones living in areas with next to no immigration.

Lauffeuer #Iran #cartoon #karikatur

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Sarah Cooper is back. 👏

Rupert Lowe - as Southampton FC chairman - was responsible for significant acts - *primarily of omission* in his time - that saw child abuse in Hampshire football continue that the club could have stopped. By Lowe's [OTT] standards, Lowe should lose his citizenship over this bsky.app/profile/sund...

fascinating, i was under the impression that the only reason people would ever learn anything is to get a job and the only thing universities should do is ‘produce graduates’ (and maybe vaccines)… if only we could learn something from this story in the UK

Searched back through Blue Sky for this. Which is one of the best things I saw all year in any medium.

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

Yup.

Really helpful explanation of the ruling in the Peggie / NHS Fife case from the Equality Network - @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social. www.equality-network.org/a-short-summ...

True headline: “Peggie Found By Tribunal To Have Committed Transphobic Hate Incident”

Astonishingly biased reporting from the @heraldscotland.bsky.social - perhaps unsurprising considering how it has covered this whole case. Quotes from Peggie, the Tories, Alba and Sex Matters and not a peep from anyone with a differing view. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2568084...

I've been really struck during the recruitment process for such talented new additions to the @scotiet.bsky.social board by how much I gain by - and enjoy - being a charity trustee. Not least the opportunity to meet interesting & dynamic colleagues, but also a huge range of professional skills.

This btw is kinda serious because, whilst I don't cover Find Out Now because anyone finding Alba (a party that, not intending to be indelicate, clearly died with its founding leader) consistently above 5% is obviously wrong, other sources do, and lack of polling diversity is giving a false idea

Some of our funding schemes will close for submissions this Friday (5/12)! Whether you're thinking of doing fieldwork, organising a conference or workshop, or could use financial support in attending a relevant event, make sure to get your application in!

For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million

Evan Rush's story is typical of the extraordinary young people SIET is able to support. After studying law at the University of Glasgow, using what he describes as 'a widening access route' then, with some help from SIET, he's started an LLM at New York University. vimeo.com/1097335855

@scotiet.bsky.social, is a charity supporting young Scots to overcome financial obstacles in order to study overseas. I've just set up its Bluesky account and would really welcome some follows to get things moving. If you'd like to know more about us - www.scottishinternationaleducationtrust.org/o

SIET makes a new round of awards - congratulations and good luck to our newest fellows! "Thank you for granting me the sacred gift of being able to follow my dreams and apply myself to my education." Brendan Norris, SIET Fellow 2025 www.scottishinternationaleducationtrust.org/post/siet-aw...

Please read this and remember what this woman says here.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

True, but it's very hard to believe that either Badenoch or Starmer will see another conference as leader. The only risk the pretenders face is the emergence of other claims to the crown.

Stark language from this Labour MP speaking in opposition to the government’s asylum proposals “The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.”

Glad to see my analysis on Greater Manchester's productivity growth being the highest in the country cited in this OECD blog. The authors say devolution is likely part of the answer - and we need to go further so places have the revenue to get on with delivering. oecdcogito.blog/2025/11/06/i...

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Do we need humanities graduates to deliver the industrial strategy? Yes we do. www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/do-we-n...

Indeed, election perversion operations are being pushed right now. Though the palpable air of panic is at least something to behold

The poll only counts those who think they can escape the UK, not those who would go if they could, but are too poor, too old and so on. The proportion that wants to leave is much higher.

Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing go.nature.com/3WB8bFS

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?

The far-right in the Netherlands leveraged a housing crisis and scapegoating asylum-seekers to gain power, with accusations of a political class normalising populist agendas and a “hostage” media. But the Dutch “experiment with far-right rule was, objectively, a total flop”. Far-right = failure.

"Others still report the rationing of sanitary products and toilet paper – a single roll was supposed to last four people a week – or spending entire days in their underwear while they waited for their only outfit to be washed." My latest, in the I.

Farage: epic grifter

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Caerphilly, Senedd constituency by-election result: PC: 47.4% (+19.0) REF: 36.0% (+34.2) LAB: 11.0% (-34.9) CON: 2.0% (-15.3) GRN: 1.5% (+1.5) LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2) GWL: 0.3% (+0.3) UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2) Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.

Nigel Farage was everywhere in Caerphilly today. He now appears to have vanished.

The Caerphilly narrative is already skewed. If Reform win it's because they got "their" voters out. If Plaid win it's because of borrowed votes not really earned.

By-election results live blog from the Caerphilly Observer, who are at the count caerphilly.observer/news/1054392...

#Caerphilly #NathanGill #ReformUK #Farage

The UK state hands subsidies to corporations, doesn't invest directly in new industries, infrastructure'. Corporate profits, dividends boom. UK is left behind UK invested 18.2% of GDP in productive assets OECD countries' average 23% China 40.4% India 30.5%. Neoliberalism is destroying the UK

I've spent *weeks* working on this special report for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on GB News co-owner Paul Marshall – and the astonishing, unprecedented influence network he's built on the UK's right. There's never been anything like it before. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

I have a meeting with a curator coming up, who just sent me an invitation with the title "Schrauben und anderes" (screws and other things) and this just perfectly captures my life right now 🔩 #HistTech #HistSci #EarlyModern 🗃️

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:

Well, I guess deciding to declare war on your areas of comparative advantage, like universities, or holding a referendum on your membership of a free trade area right after a brutal post-election budget are ways to be “complacent” about globalisation.