Funding! An amazing UKRI Policy Fellowship at Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Freelance careers in the creative industries fellowship. Info here www.ukri.org/wp-content/u... and the general scheme to apply is here www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Reform UK civil service plan ‘would sack more planning officers than exist’

Despite the headline, this is the third paragraph in this article: “There is no consensus among the broader scientific community that screen time overall is harmful to children.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not sure which is worse: "He later sought to contextualise the remarks via LinkedIn..."

Struggling today. Everything seems so broken. Everyone is over capacity, miserable. It was confirmed today that our contracted research time at @edinburghuni.bsky.social is being cut because we can get a sabbatical. But we are not guaranteed sabbaticals. So they squeeze staff even more. Well done. 😿

I think it's worth people knowing that Enfield has a Labour MP and a Conservative councillor who are *both* called Bambos Charalambous.

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Huge thanks to Bespoken Media - Podcasts Scotland for recording these. This is the final instalment. All podcasts were made possible by funding from the Scottish Council on Global Affairs. Thanks for listening. workersobservatory.org/news/new-pod...

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

"The Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology seeks to appoint one permanent Lecturer post with expertise relevant to criminology and/or critical social policy to join our department in the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool." www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRJ047/l...

It's so irritating that for all the money we're spending cosplaying as Germany we could be having a Higher Education boom as we scoop up all the researchers and students that the Americans don't want any more. But fewer chances for politicians to pose in hard hats I guess

It turns out that prospective students don’t want to attend an institution that has removed loads of talented educators, closed lots of significant departments and generally treated its staff terribly.

Priceless post from the official White House social media

Creative PEC's flagship State of the Nations research series has been shortlisted for the @artsprofessional.co.uk Awards, in the category Excellent Research or Policy Intervention. View the full shortlist: shorturl.at/mbN7x And find out more about the State of the Nations series: shorturl.at/lnOeq

Some good news!: New Carnegie Masters Grants to support fair access to postgraduate study in Scotland carnegie-trust.org/new-carnegie...

Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

I hope whoever wrote this headline (click to see) took the rest of the week off www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well well well

Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries. Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive. #PhDsky

In my mid teens if someone had said to me “when you are middle aged, the leader of the opposition is a black woman and the leader of the party polling in third is Jewish”, I really would have had a much more optimistic idea of how the future was panning out.

SO much this!

What a great idea and useful not only for people interested in crime and justice but any social scientists

babe, wake up, new form of mansplaining just dropped

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just signed up for this, can't wait!

'Now a new paper from Australian researchers has done very similar work [to Wonkhe's recent AI and student report] – and what they’ve found raises real questions over where many current approaches are heading.' 1/2

Great interview with my brilliant colleague @susansegfault.bsky.social about his excellent book on Tor-Dark Web. highly recommend both the interview and the book, which is available free at MIT press direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

🚀 We're delighted to be involved in a new project with @ukllc.bsky.social The initiative will enable UK-based Longitudinal Population Studies to apply to join UK LLC and/or the UK Data Service at no cost. Read more at our website: ukdataservice.ac.uk/2026/03/31/n...

I wonder if the ‘radical thinking’ will extend to considering whether the very existence of billionaires is a danger to our societies, and reliance on their donations a possible threat to the academic mission. I do wonder what counts as radical at a deeply conservative institution like Cambridge.

Michael Grade is EIGHTY THREE YEARS OLD. The idea of this angry old granddad "regulating" the modern media and telecoms environment is like hauling in Petula Clarke to run Radio 1

Holy shot, growing up in poverty is even worse for your earnings than being a woman!

'A third of [Danish] women no longer work in academia eight years after having a child, according to new research that suggests extra childcare responsibilities are hindering women’s abilities to climb the career ladder.' 1/2

Does being high-skilled protect you from ethnic bias when applying for a UK visa? In a new pre-registered experiment to be published in International Migration Review, I find that high occupational status doesn't shield immigrants from ethnic prejudice — it may activate it.

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

Out today, from editors Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mikka Pyykkönen and me. The book combines cross-national writing teams and focussed case studies across Europe to examine the rhetoric and reality of creative work. A contents thread 👇 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

After Mo Salah joined Liverpool, anti Muslim prejudice declined in the area www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The fate of Glasgow's last city centre arts production building is crucial to the city and to the role of art in it. Eviction could happen from this Friday. Please sign the petition www.change.org/p/save-trong... Join the protest on Friday. Write to your MSP, MP, councillors. Resist!

How the fuck do you have a reporter free news room?

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Job Klaxon! Three great opportunities for up-and-coming postdocs at Newcastle www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

AI is poor people.

There are other reasons for the UK government not to award or continue Palantir contracts but this statement of intent by its CEO must surely be decisive?

Fuck you Pixar

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social