Winning zero out of 22 awards is not exactly a positive sign, is it??😬 www.researchireland.ie/news/frontie...

Waiting for the release of MaoBot or TrotskyChat.

Farage is such a transparent liar, and every time he gets pulled up on his many lies he just says something like "I disagree", as if that had anything to do with anything. Baffled as to how he has gotten away with it for so long.

"Jam for me but not for thee", says UK Government adviser.

People who I expected to appear in the Hulk Hogan documentary: Donald Trump. People who I did not expect to appear in the Hulk Hogan documentary: Werner Herzog.

I am Intrigued to know what these “leaders” think their universities will look like after the savage cuts, and how that differs from a hollowed out demoralised husk locked into a death cycle. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/notting...

Or should VCs and the academic members of their senior teams instead be required to lead and teach 1 undergraduate module per term/semester, including all module admin and marking? Non-academic members of SMTs could all annually take a module, completing all assessments. Serious counterproposal. 3/3

Edinburgh University’s supreme academic body has warned of a “lack of transparency” over a £140m cuts drive Across UK higher education, decisions are taken by a small, unrepresentative circle, with scrutiny sidelined & rewards flowing upward 😉 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2611129...

For the time of year that’s in it.

Re-upping this as the best piece ever describing the malaise afflicting (and killing some) universities. inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Conference has passed Ammended Motion 5 opposing the growing culture of managerialism within higher education institutions and calling for stronger democratic participation, transparency and collegial governance. #IFUTADC2026 #AcademicFreedom #HigherEducation

“In 2022, the Board replaced the election of academic staff governors with selection by the Board itself, weakening staff voice at the governance level before the pension dispute began.”🤔 www.ucu-unn.org.uk/news/333-gov...

Tell me- if you need to let 2700 of your employees know that they are in danger of being fired, does that means you are good or bad at running your university? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Update: Still Wrong.

I am exactly one minute overdue with a review report.

Quick poll for academic colleagues. At this point of the year are you: 1) Exhausted and Cranky 2) Exhausted and Giddy 3) Exhausted and In a Dissociated State. 4) Yes. I shall be holding a Town Hall to feedback the results to the community.

Many parents of autistic children have identified Sighted Non-24 in their kids. It’s a pattern I’ve noticed in my advocacy work and in Facebook groups. Autistic children and adults struggle with #Non24, yet it’s still under-recognized. #CircadianRhythms #Sleep #Autism

Academic freedom, staff participation, and institutional autonomy in higher education are under increasing pressure across Europe. IFUT encourages members to complete this European survey on fundamental values &nto share it with colleagues. 🗓 Deadline: 10 June tinyurl.com/56zjnvxw

Streeting just went in to use the loo, didn't he? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

***DISTINGUISHED***Professor of Airport Book Sales. We could use executive recruitment consultants to source the candidates.

Well, thats a bold defence I guess to argue he was too pissed to waive his Miranda rights after being arrested for drink driving. The supreme self confidence of the son of a rich man.

On days like today you’d really miss the good old 1922 committee.

Well, fine, I didn't want to merge with you anyway...😎

Hoping Starmer goes into full on purge mode, at least show some guts so if he goes down he goes down fighting (See Kinnock taking on militant etc). Might also change public perception of him. Won’t happen though. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XSz3...

I’m not saying I’m getting odd(er) as I get older, but I stayed up last night watching this 1965 documentary about T Dan Smith and Newcastle. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn4O...

Ah, Universities, where asking people to work for you for free is just standard.

This is like the old WWF wrestling days when two heels turn on each other (Oh no, Elsevier with the steel chair!)

UHL seems for years to have been the hospital equivalent of Chernobyl Reactor #4 with the roof blown off and a melted down core, and yet this is acceptable to the politicians somehow? www.rte.ie/news/munster...

Three PhD scholarships available in our great department! Should be super projects. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/psychology/n...

Can someone explain to me the point of Wes Streeting, why he is deemed leadership material? I just see nothing there, the emptiest of empty vessels (maybe that is the point?)

Normal Island update. metro.co.uk/2026/05/09/r...

We have a paper going through at a BMJ journal; it has been returned to the corresponding author about 15 times for purely minor admin changes. What is this madness?

“It is her opinion that she performed better the assessment portrays,” - Academia for the win👍

The Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd constituency in which we lived now has no Labour assembly members in the Senedd. Would have been unthinkable not long ago, includes some of the most Labour heartland imaginable traditionally.

Another undergraduate teaching year reaches its conclusion, once again to absolutely no recognition and complete radio silence, so well done to all colleagues for making it through another year and supporting our students so well as I know you will have!

can the hackers do Manuscript Central next

Well I guess that is one way to handle dissent. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

We have thankfully avoided this mess by being poor.

With David Attenborough’s 100th birthday, we should salute him for commissioning Monty Python’s Flying Circus when he was BBC2 controller.

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More Maynooth news. www.rte.ie/news/leinste...

This Is Just To Say We have desk-rejected the manuscript that you submitted and which you were probably hoping would be sent for peer-review Forgive us it represents an insufficient advance so incremental and so much better suited for a specialist journal

Prompted ChatGPT to draw a cartoon of a comedy thieving Mandelson; Chat GPT thoughtfully added in a third hand presumably to emphasise the excessive/super human thieveiness.

Is there ever a "Portfolio Review" of University Management teams? No, didn't think so.

Cannot build: hospital for children. Can build: train station for rich people going to watch golf.

I am strictly digestive.

Good old AI, such exciting opportunities.