Dear parents - Yes you can give your sick child paracetamol if they’re >3 months old. It’s an excellent painkiller. It brings down a high temperature. It’s one of the safest drugs available. You are right to want to soothe your child’s distress. Evidence supports your good parenting. Be confident.

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

Everyone should read this book. Assigned for class. Week 1. That is all.

Starmer: If you don't recognise ID cards are good for you, we will dissolve the public and electi another

Choosing the hill!🤔 UKLabour Fixing the #NHS ❌ Keeping the poor out of poverty ❌ Taxing the millionaires ❌ Increasing Taxes for the benefit of society ❌ Investing in infrastructure ❌ ID cards ✅

Do we think the government Brit-ID would be more secure? Even if it weren't a stupid idea.

1/ Whatever you think of digital ID, the process matters. And in 2025, this is still how we make big public policy. 👇

Every law prof rn

And so everyone needs IDs? Are they actually saying this? What?

#LivesInterrupted: The Voices of Young People with Long Covid” launching in just 5 days. Young people with Long Covid urgently need support, policy changes and better research. Join our movement for change with our new film collaboration. #CombinationDance & #LongCovidKids #LongCovid #CharityFilm

“Immunity debt” doesn’t exist, but immune damage does. Children are sicker now than pre-pandemic – many with disabling chronic illnesses. This cycle of harm can only stop when we accept reality – there’s no off ramp without cleaning classroom air. www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

We are pleased to confirm that @sammiemc.bsky.social Founder & CEO, LCK, will give evidence to the UK COVID Inquiry on the morning of Wednesday 1st October. covid19.public-inquiry.uk/hearings/chi...

Aside from anything else, I do not understand why Labour feel the need to issue mea culpas on their immigration stance when they weren’t in power from 2010-2024.

People: We need a strong vision to renew our faith in the government UK government: Everyone gets ID cards to verify the people are legitimate

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

I’ve written about how my own childhood denomination, the churches of Christ, and the tradition from which it sprang (the Restoration Movement) have changed in the last 50 or so years www.arcdigital.media/p/for-christ...

I try and approach research without judgement, but I have no lived experience here. I could never replicate the story that Eloise King, Professor, Patricia Kingori and the team have brought to the screen.

The Shadow Scholars, by first-time feature director Eloïse King, builds on the work of sociologist and Oxford University scholar Patricia Kingori 👇 Kenya’s “Fake Essay” Writers and the Light they Shine on Assumptions of Shadows in Knowledge Production pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

In the The Shadow Scholars documentary, Oxford professor Patricia Kingori uncovers Kenya's hidden essay mills where highly educated yet underemployed writers produce academic papers for wealthy Western students. Directed by Eloïse King.

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! The #Symbolic #Politics of #Status in the #MAGA #Movement By Biko Koenig & Tali Mendelberg doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Covid: The seasonal virus that is all year round

"Ensuring these spaces [classrooms] are safe, clean, and supportive of learning is one of the most meaningful investments society can make." H.E. Mr Ervin Ibrahimović, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro 👏👏👏

"Clean air for every child in every classroom is a right, not a privilege." "This is why for Montenegro, improving air quality in schools is not a secondary concern. It is a fundamental responsibility. A matter of safeguarding the next generation." 👏👏👏

I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.

Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money". Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions. Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I was talking about it again on Thursday, reflecting "We have just had a very long debate focusing on those digital safety issues, but, somehow, even despite the Covid pandemic, we have rather less focus on biological virus risks" hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-0...

The shame of America is realizing that the ICE Gestapo is torturing the people they place into custody. South Korea has opened a human RIghts investigation into the United States. We will have to apologize to a lot of people when this nightmare is over. www.scmp.com/week-asia/pe...

An important piece by @cnewf.bsky.social. isrf.org/blog/a-new-r...

Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them.

The Conservatives started this experiment. But Labour are fully on board too. No 10 refuse to comment or take action - but we're all paying the price for corporate greed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

ah! maybe that is a big part of it. writing is a technology we invented to store something we evolved to create: spoken language. obvious LLM writing *has no speaker*. 'steady progress, gentle pacing' are words without a speaker. they are just words in themselves.

I am (self-evidently) very interested in language. And also in technology. From that perspective, the rise of LLMs has created many new things for me to think about. One is: why is it that certain very small clusters of words are *clearly written by an LLM*? What is the quality of that writing?

In spite of all the hype, AI-written papers are often not great. Especially with certain assignment prompts. Bad papers don't do well and can fail. We don't have to get into tons of speculation about why they are bad. No 100% guarantee, but FAFO I guess. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/quarter...

The end of Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships and National Resource Centers means the loss of critical language and area studies expertise across the United States. These are the actions of an administration that cannot imagine the future, presiding over a declining world power

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert F Kennedy Junior is a murderer. I can’t believe I’m having to post this. A lot of children are going to die and be disabled before parents understand why we vaccinate children. You can’t get herd immunity any other way.

Elon Musk, Tommy Robinson, and the State of Fascism in Britain open.substack.com/pub/plagueis...