Filtering the air may help prevent your own infection from becoming more severe If everyone in a household becomes infected with the same virus, does it help to isolate from each other and can you be a danger to yourself? Read on to find out... 🧪🧵1/ #AirQuality #IAQ #Ventilation #Infection #COVID

The British university is dying. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

If you're interested in both the practical degradation of the university sector, and how to respond to it, come to @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social's discussion Friday 5 June @ucl.ac.uk with Wendy Brown, Margot Finn, Paul Gilroy, Eva von Redecker & Sasha Roseneil. Details below.

Shedding 608 academic posts but creating 75 new managerial posts. No clear answers as to what those posts are, who they will go to, and why we need them.

"short of the arrival of some kind of Noah’s Ark, the British university as we know it is destined for extinction sooner rather than later." Lorna Finlayson in Sidecar, @newleftreview.bsky.social. 4/4

Any attempt to fight this storm must start from the "recognition that the task facing a mature society is to adapt its methods of financing universities to sustaining the purposes for which such institutions exist – rather than, as at present, the other way round." Stefan Collini in @lrb.co.uk. 3/

2,700 letters sent last month warning staff that they are at risk of redundancy, with Nottingham senior management's goal to shed 608 academic posts, following the 350 professional services staff lost last year. 1/3

Pelley with fantastic parting shots. This is what happens in authoritarian regimes, folks. Is it worth it?

Well done @iandunt.bsky.social for not letting Reform cllr Alex Wilson take the high ground for what Farage did.

Judith Butler gender as performance is probably the most important thing to understand the current moment lol

gender studies absolutely most vindicated field of study in history no debate

Grumpy frogs in Japanese art

Russian drone strike ‘most serious security incident’ in Romania since start of Ukraine war – Europe live

The Sovereign Individual = loot and pillage a host country through all kinds of nefarious and often illegal ways and then say we no longer need the state and everyone has to fight for themselves. Total scam. These people need to be tossed in prison and stolen assets seized.

Just seen a photo that explains why my house in Wiltshire got absolutely battered by rain for twenty minutes yesterday, but my friend three miles away got nothing. UK weather is weathering hard right now.

We Tried Fuzzy Borders in the 19th Century. It Didn’t Go Well Then, Either. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...

3/ Public health accreditation bodies should immediately reevaluate training standards for airborne disease prevention, ventilation, filtration, respirators, and aerosol science. Droplet dogma has already cost enough lives.

2/ If your infectious disease training still treats airborne transmission like a rare exception instead of a central mechanism, your curriculum is obsolete.

1/ Please put aerosol scientists and engineers back in charge of public health. We built infectious disease policy around outdated droplet assumptions while ignoring aerosol physics, ventilation, and indoor air quality.

stop writing articles about extreme heat using fun summer imagery challenge: impossible (apparently) apnews.com/article/euro...

MIA from work but still trading stocks is extremely on brand for a Congressman in 2026.

Unreliable narrator stories are fun until you live through a global-economy tanking war between two sets of relentless liars both trying to influence a stock market full of investors who don't actually care what's true.

Virginia Woolf’s An Archive of One’s Own.

This is an unforgivably stupid situation. It is an astonishing own goal to try and drive student numbers down to move an immigration number that in turn is totally ignored by the anti-immigrant head bangers.

This is now the second time I have seen a paper that was likely completely AIed submitted to a journal. Interestingly its format is almost identical to the first one. Why is this happening

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

People object to immigration because they don’t want to share resources, forgetting that people are the main resource (horrible term though). It’s rather like playing solitaire rather than playing with someone else because you don’t want to share the cards. (I know I can safely say this here …)

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

Vaccines aren’t controversial. You’re just a fucking idiot.

I have maintained for a long time that the Democrats could easily landslide the map if they did not suck. But alas.

My new way of explaining AI to students, thanks to philosopher-king Josh Hart “…a lamp post to a drunk person, you can lean on them but they won’t get you home.”

Behold the labour party. They want to exclude trans people from society but to do so with "dignity and respect." It's pissing on trans people and calling it rain.

Note to Democrats: theft of the public's money is what you would call a "kitchen table" issue. If someone broke into my house, took my money, and then gave it to people convicted of crimes, I would not only talk about that at the kitchen table, it would alter the very fabric of my existence.

I know many will be harmed by today's exclusionary EHRC guidance. Until we get the law changed (shame on this Labour government for not doing so), I can only share practical advice. I've been using disabled toilets for years, a community that stands in solidarity with trans people's right to access.

When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”.

I am thinking that this data is saying something completely different from this poll framing. To know, there probably needs to be work that listens to people. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The tide is turning – if not against Palantir entirely, then against the presumption that there’s no alternative to them. The British people are saying no, and it’s working. Say no to Palantir in the NHS here: https://goodlaw.social/48yr

East Asian Studies is being gutted at Sheffield - all staff at risk with 8.6 FTE proposed to go (a third of us). Biggest cuts in Chinese and Japanese Studies. We’ll be taking a few days to process. Solidarity to Materials and Chemistry colleagues who are also dealing with similarly bad news.

Lmao the light rail added a special message from Megan Rapinoe reminding you that Seattle is super gay so don’t be a homophobic twat while you’re here for the World Cup

There are many reasons that scientific misinformation is incredibly dangerous, some of which are exemplified by the woman who was on the cruise ship and exposed to hantavirus who wants to leave quarantine. One is that misinformation undermines trust in medicine and public health.

Call to Activism -Joe Gallina 🚨WOW! Mayor Zohran Mamdani just MOCKED Ronald Reagan’s famous quote. “I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’” “I worked all day and can’t feed my family.” BOOM.

“January 6 was a false flag operation made up of undercover FBI deep-state operatives to whom we will now be awarding large reparations.”

Now that Brexit has entered from stage left into the discourse to general delight / loathing / scepticism [tick as appropriate] I wonder if there is a more pathological subject of political discussion in the UK (and with the EU).* * Yes, the pandemic, probably.

That these racist thugs have morphed into "far right influencers" is central. Being a bigot used to be a hobby. It is now a profession. We don't have to treat the monetisation of hate as an inevitable phenomenon. We can regulate platforms - not to supress speech, but to remove financial incentives.