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In the @wsj.com today, I talked about how we’re barreling into climate impacts with cities designed for last century’s weather. But read the more important part in the next paragraph: www.wsj.com/science/envi...

The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Right now I'm in the epicentre of the heatwave, in southwest France, where the brutality of the heat has ground life to a halt. And I have to keep reminding myself: this is only the beginning.

Whilst Reform and their American twins push for more drilling 🤷‍♀️

So we are to be policed by private tech companies rather than police? I’m sure that will go just great. I wonder how much Mark Rowley is floating from the deal?

How is new new new new Labour going to tackle the cost of living crisis @Al Carns? Conscript everyone into the army? 🤷‍♀️

Stunning Brexit anniversary piece by the wife of Dominic Cummings, whose Vote Leave campaign was found to have unlawfully spent 100s of thousands of pounds on billions of online impressions in the last days of the EU ref (Laura Kuenssberg described this as ‘rule breaking)

Did Starmer suspend the whip from 7MPs who voted for removal of 2child benefit cap? Did he also claim yesterday that the subsequent removal of said cap was his greatest achievement?

Well, there goes Keir Starmer. It’s never been clear exactly what he stood for, except for a fixation on cracking down on the protest rights he used to defend when he was a lawyer. We’re not sure what’s coming next – but we’ll be there to hold the government to account.

Wake up; open email; discover my humane, caring boss has been forced out with no notice; meeting called to announce the next stage of own redundancy process this afternoon. Feels like everything's collapsing round our ears.

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

That Reform UK electoral campaign in Makerfield in pictures:

How much did Reform spend on Makerfield by-election? £5m? 😂

Typical Labour move really. Prosecute the people that try to stop bad things. 🤷‍♀️

Dear UK government. Please can you find a way for me to live in this house? 🙏 www.occitanieproperties.com/en/property/...

Tonight, in Oxford Tommy Robinson and Laurence Fox addressed an empty chamber at almost midnight. This happened because Oxford residents, ordinary residents, showed up in their thousands to make clear that Oxford rejects the racist and divisive bile that Robinson and his ilk spread.

Question: When did the value of education become the salary that you earn after graduation? Answer: When the government started measuring it that way. Question: Will we ever again measure the value of education by the contribution it makes to society?

“the value of offshore residential property in England and Wales had increased from £64bn to £80bn. London is the hub, with 47,000 overseas-owned residential properties – 45% of the total and 81% by value” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

One thing #TipToe didn’t address: 25% - 30% of gay men are now voting Reform 🤷‍♀️ www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/12/r...

3 weeks to go!! 😱

TFW when even one's fellow HE wonks cannot take one seriously. To be fair to Iain at least he's been kinda consistent in his revanchist advocacy for educational times gone by.

Say it and say it again - Twitter is a toilet, but the main problem lies elsewhere, is in plain sight, and nobody really wants to talk about it.

Sorry to be that guy, and correct me if I'm wrong, but unless you're comparing how many graduates earn less than the median wage 5 years after leaving university with how many non-graduates are doing so 5 years after leaving school and college at 18, then that's not really a fair comparison, is it?.

Fascinating the way they are so un-used to hearing people unashamedly making left wing arguments that they utterly crumple when confronted by them, they just don't know how to respond

Interesting way to avoid saying that an Israeli occupation soldier shot a 7 month old baby

Well, that was the last roll of the dice. My final rejection. I’ll be out of academia by the end of July! Time to take care of myself. 😘

A reminder that I do freelance work. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

Well, that was the last roll of the dice. My final rejection. I’ll be out of academia by the end of July! Time to take care of myself. 😘

Very good statement!

Things that now mean the opposite of what they used to mean: 1. Free speech 2. Self-Defence 3. Human rights lawyer Any others?

I really think the Labour government hates young people

University Workers! See how much your pay has been eroded using this great modeler from @bparsia.bsky.social!!

This, in case it needs to be said, is the teaching grant for *STEM* subjects, which we have been told are the only subjects worth supporting. Humanities haven't had a block grant in aeons. This decision makes Labour MORE damaging to HE than the Tories.

I have face-blindness AND I’m terrible at interviews!

Back when i was an adjunct, i used to say that academic publishing was a scam & a racket. Now that I'm tenure track (& in the age of "AI") my perspective has changed somewhat, in that it's a scam, a racket, *&* fundamentally undermining the very knowledge production it was meant to safeguard & enact

'Bath Spa, Buckinghamshire New, Leeds Trinity, London Metropolitan and Southampton Solent universities have moved ahead with legal action, asking the courts to review the government’s decision in February to remove access to maintenance loans and grants for about 30,000 students.'

Is it possible to stand up in here do you think? www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

It’s all kicking off in Richmond.

If I was a millionaire I would leave the UK now. Not because of tax. Because of bigotry.

The author of this column, Susanna Rustin,was described to me by Guardian staffers as a “militant and obsessive anti-trans activist" in 2021.

Let me complete that statement: ...which were already perfectly protected under the EA 2010 in on evidenced grounds and in a proportionate manner. The FWS judgment *broke* a system that actually struck a balance. If you don't understand that, you're not much of a feminist or a historian, tbh.

History professor Kevin Kruse says tech companies "must embrace small reading seminars to discuss recent literature" to transform into educational institutions.

Absolutely beaming. So much work and time went into this and it’s going to make things so much easier and nicer #UCU

Billionaires won’t share their money through taxation to make ordinary lives livable. But they are happy to burn it.

Blair is happy for the world to burn because he can go sit in his bunker with his super-rich oil industry buds.

Is the world just going to leave Gazans camping in the rubble without food, water and medicine whilst every so often getting blown up by Israel??? 🤷‍♀️

This book launch was a total delight despite being rather more ‘steamy’ than intended (the air con was broken)! And @k8lister.bsky.social is a total star. A beacon of hope for those who are post-academia! ✊