all these emails between academics and Epstein are more testimony of what women in academia have to contend with 😡

"We need politicians who will tell it straight..." @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

BREAKING: UKRI shelves physics infrastructure projects worth £280m Major international collaborations with Cern and US Department of Energy in jeopardy, as agency pulls back funds Scoop by @francesjones.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Let us all stand with Chairman Powell.

Thank you, @pauloffit.bsky.social , for this well-warranted righteous indignation. open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...

Sucks to be me

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

Let's choose kindness in 2026. youtu.be/lopMMkz0law

The pearl clutching over this is hilarious, like, ah yes, in the year 2025 there is absolutely no way that anyone could watch both of these say one after the other? If they really wanted to?

Kinda still feel this

Waiting for Quanta Claus 🧑‍🎄

I am Caveat Frog

Perhaps I shouldn't bother with writing papers. I'll just give ChatGPT my titles and journals wish-list

those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

here’s a free version: neat_research_panel <- data.frame( id = 1:100, treatment = sample(c(TRUE, FALSE), 100, replace = TRUE), outcome = rnorm(100, mean = 50, sd = 5) )

This is one tough read.

In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door. But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.

How amazing is that... it's taken two days to raise 200,000 Thank you to everyone that has donated and anyone who would like to please do so here www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere

Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

I hadn't had a good laugh like that in ages. Big thanks to the economists at the federal reserve.

Why hasn't Gavin Newsom posted a video of himself taking this test? Why hasn't every Democrat in Congress?

We need to reclaim what the wealthy have stolen from us!

The Green Party is now the third largest party in the UK with 124 thousand members, more members than the Liberal Democrats or the Conservatives. But we have a country to save from the far right, public services to rebuild and a planet to save. We need more help: join.greenparty.org.uk

'Unaffordability' is a lie causing needless suffering

We have frogs everywhere. #NoKings

British.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

This is amazing.

How do we fix this mess?

Stop Begging. Start Building As a reminder, I’m on the board at Bluesky, which means you should consider me extremely biased, even as this article isn’t really about Bluesky. The writer Jerusalem Demsas wants you to stay on Twitter. In "The case for staying on Twitter," she admits the site is…

thou hast a mind that suits With this thy fair and outward character.

Just in case people don't actually read the ALT text on proportional recounts, here's what it says... 🙂

I should be writing

Ghoulscrolling is the worst. I can't admit to myself how much I'm hoping

🎉🎉🎉 All. Demands. Met. ✊🏽 Unions work. 🙌🏼 Organising works. 👏🏼 Huge congratulations to @uvwunion.bsky.social and all the housekeepers!

It's official. "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter"

it's all true ;)

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

Oh good. We've reached the "I don't have to be faster than the bear, I only have to be less woke than you" stage of faculty solidarity. archive.is/wGNDr

Green Party members - vote at midday! Tackle inequality, defend nature and stand firm against the far right. Vote for me #1 for Bold Leadership. #BackZack

Yesterday, I published an article about yourparty.uk I want to issue a public correction and a sincere apology for an error. In that article, I said 500,000 people had signed up. That was incorrect. It is now 600,000 — and counting. Real change is coming.

I only regret that I had but one Columbia ID to shred for my country.

Quite

I don’t say this lightly: I think the latest from @xkcd.com might be the best YouTube video I’ve ever seen. (3m37s)

Amen!

Incredible chart work. 🙏🏼 #90dealsIn90days

Oh we're already there