UCU ballot on industrial action over pay and pay-related: turnout 39%, meaning there will be no national industrial action on these issues by UCU. Still waiting for Unison and EIS-ULA results.

"after taking a course in computing ethics, students were more reflective ... believed that they could make a change if they saw an ethical problem ... but tended to believe that more technology is the answer to addressing ethical problems ..." computinged.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/c...

With the news of the past couple of days, I mentally changed "WRU" to "Your Party" throughout in the following and it worked perfectly.

Hope, that greatest of gifts, that brings such joy, to be crushed with the dawn. #cricket #TheAshes

19 wickets in a day? You'd get more than that in a boring ODI. Ahem. Poised, but unlikely to be a five day match. Great bowling. #cricket #TheAshes

Ashes prediction: Australia win 3-1, Root gets a big century in a match England lose, Zak is one of England's better scorers but doesn't average 40, Brook only gets one score, at least two bowlers break, Smith and Head score more than half of Australia's runs, bowlers dominate. #cricket

Had not been too unhappy with England's CWC performance until I got a work break at 1/3. Now I think I'll dive back in to work and forget this whole tournament is happening.

NEW on Wonkhe: We need to talk about Kalven buff.ly/Uf4hP5h

The ICC after staging the 2029 Women's Cricket World Cup inside the crater of an active volcano - "how did all this lava get here?" #CWC25

Waqar Younis in the cheapest tier? C'mon... Root, Jayawardene, Murali, Cook, Waqar Younis. Swap MJ for Stokes if you need a captain. Swap Root for Sangakkara if you need a keeper.

On the plus side, England haven't lost a game in this WC. On the minus side, England (as a collective) don't seem to be improving as they get more games. Have to hope that a tight win like that gives confidence and improvement for the remaining games, not complacency.

Seeing a lot of complaints about England's middle order right now, despite the team posting near 300. And I'm nodding along to all the complaints. These are all good players and yet none of them can get consistent international runs in what feels like a year or more.

Darren Stevens is set to return to Kent in a coaching capacity after the departure of Robbie Joseph as bowling coach.

God love Kew, this is incredible

Brilliantly ruthless performance by the Red Roses here. World champions!

Put on the Yorkshire Durham match to give us something to watch between the rugby matches, and it's one of the collapsiest collapses I've ever seen.

Congratulations @trentbridge.co.uk Rothesay County Champions 2025

We. Are. Champions 🏆 #Champions25

Things I Google after eating perhaps one too many biscuits: arxiv.org/abs/2509.18903

And breathe. I really hope the Red Roses can play as we know they can next week.

Very nervy half of rugby - not good so far.

Red Roses not clicking here.

This is a real Statement performance from Canada.

Oh my word. Try 4 was astonishing.

This rugby is crazily good.

Once upon a time at the Hawk Conservancy in Andover they had a sea eagle called Daneby. Daneby also like koi, which he sourced from a local garden. The lady called Conservancy and asked for advice and eventually netted the pond. Which is when Daneby was involuntarily trampolined into near orbit.

I think Scotland may be regretting the "scare" that the Australians gave the Red Roses last week.

Throwback to the very first official limited overs match - played at Old Trafford in 1963 - in which Lancashire scored 304/9 in their 65 overs against Leicestershire. #ENGvSA static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1...

Sounds like a quiet game of cricket between England and South Africa so far.

It will be interesting to see which of Kent and Lancashire managed to grab defeat from the jaws of a nailed on draw.

wonkhe.com/blogs/the-fi... Greenwich and Kent come together under one vice chancellor and governance structure. Massive news.

What if the Moon were made entirely of electrons? Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! youtu.be/DiWFXv9N0Vs

A rare clip of WG Grace and Ranji in the nets, and also Ranji heading out to field with Lord Hawke coming out to bat. All this dates from 1899 (Pathe News)

County cricket is back! Give it a couple of hours before Kent are catastrophically bad...

I think that Kent would quite like to dismiss Livingstone quickly. #TopCricketAnalysis

Fascinating clip of Larwood v Bradman from the Bodyline series. With Larwood's accuracy and speed - plus almost no protection for the batsman - you can see how hard this was to play and why Bradman swayed inside the line as much as he could (NFSA Australia)

Brioche remains the thing I swear at the most whilst trying to make. Clearly needs more attempts.

Definitely supporting the tie in the rugby here.

Business idea: a cheese takeaway. For when you are too many glasses of wine in and you want cheese.

First Milnes, now Northeast: just need the DI back from league cricket and Kent will have a large chunk of the 2020(ish) team back in play.

Glamorgan CCC can confirm that Club Captain Sam Northeast will be leaving Sophia Gardens at the end of the 2025 season. After four groundbreaking years in Wales, Sam is set to rejoin Kent on completion of our Rothesay County Championship campaign. 🔗 bit.ly/4n4620j

I'm so angry about #KingAndConqueror because the exec producer says: 'there's an obscuring mist that allows you to take artistic license in a way that doesn't feel inauthentic or unethical, because there's only so much we can know. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/... 1/

Well, somebody has to write a review. But this time, nobody is willing to wait until the evening. So: #KingAndConqueror episode 2. This time it's personal!

Improved croissants.

Allowing, of course, for the possibility that non-rogue medievalists exist. I have honest doubts.

Right, so: "Professional medievalist watches #KingAndConqueror: how much swearing can happen?" is on. Note that expectations are not high. A number of @lvhicks.bsky.social 's colleagues have watched online and given poor reviews (if they're generous). However, someone had to wait until gin o'clock.

Was thinking of live-posting the swearalong, but just reading the episode descriptions has led to "Quoi? Quoi? Why is he wearing a mitre like that? Quoi?". I don't think I'll be able to keep up.

Never did like Jack Leach #soreloserme

we asked a friend of the zine to watch cricket for the first time to see how the hundred really holds up for a total newbie. not sure what we expected but it wasn't this 👇🏻 daisycutterzine.wordpress.com/2025/08/24/t...

A bit out of practice.