‘any time a university is attacked, there should be 500 university presidents standing up together, or 1,000 boards of trustees standing up together and saying, ‘We’re in solidarity.’ And that would send such a different message.”’

‘Kennedy said: “We cannot accept language that pushes destructive gender ideology …[or] claims of a constitutional or international right to abortion …” There is no mention of reproductive rights or gender in the declaration except in reference to specific challenges facing women.’

“In the Celtic Sea fishermen were permitted to take almost the entire remaining population of cod — 644 tonnes out of an adult population thought to weigh 645 — so long as they were caught as “bycatch” in the search for other fish.”

How to Medical... youtube.com/shorts/RxDKW...

What could possibly go wrong? 🧪

Finally. Why did it take the Royal Society so long? It is not as if they were not lobbied, again and again and again, to take a principled stance on this issue.

RIP Desi the Praying Mantis, taken too soon. He died doing what he loved best.

Vuelta a España cancelled as pro-Palestinian protests engulf Madrid.

This Is What Malnutrition Does to Children’s Bodies www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Everyone on the right, left and centre of British politics should utterly condemn these dangerous words from Elon Musk

Composer Hans Eisler is not so well known now, but worth thinking about. Before composing the East German National Anthem he fled the Nazis to the USA. A decade later he was on a plane in the other direction, hounded out by the McCarthyites as the ‘Karl Marx of music.’

But… he literally did not say that? Did anyone actually watch the clip?

#HannahEinbinder #FreePalestine #StandingTogether

‘We ask people to share the mission [on social media] …because this brings us visibility, not because Israel does not want to kill us – because they want to do with us the same thing that they do to Palestinians – but …they cannot afford to pay the political cost of that,” he said.’

“Singling out a Black leader in this way is not only unprecedented but also deeply troubling,” the university chapter of the American Association of University Professors said in a statement last week.”

‘Sir Keir’s attempt to anchor Labour as a party of managerialism has created an ideological vacuum. He has offered no moral project, no radical agenda, no post-crisis settlement. In response to Nigel Farage’s rise, he has chosen not to confront Reform rhetoric but to adopt it as his own’

Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go

Two remarkable Ambassadors for our Planet, 99 year old Sir David Attenborough and 91 year old Dr. Jane Goodall. They’ve dedicated their lives to educate and protect.. 🌍 #janegoodall #davidattenborough #nature #chimpanzees #wildlife #environment #drjanegoodall #jane #sirdavidattenborough #bbc #bsky

Hummingbird Hawk Moth, such a thing of beauty

The ridiculous continues..

University presidents, what’s stopping you from being like this?

An Al Jazeera journalist is among 15 Palestinians killed in an Israeli attack on the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. At least three other journalists were killed in the attack.

And yet these will be the key subjects as creativity, empathy and critical thinking become the most important facets of living in an automated world. We have got almost everything about post-16 education wrong. We need to go back to the beginning. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

People like Michael Weston King allow us to hope that a better world can still be possible.

My last bit of professional self-promotion (a bit late for that now!). But I hope not too bad a note to end on. It was a long time in the making …

wtf @evertonfc.com

Extraordinary stuff. Lucky that Vance isn't having a holiday near me, I guess.

“In a report released this year, the Watson School of International and Public Affairs’ costs of war project said more journalists had been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the US war in Afghanistan combined.” War crime upon war crime.

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Statement on the recognition of the State of Palestine.

“a … clear case of a government … [crushing] dissenting voices when it is the government itself that is most reprehensible for what continues to be an absolute horror story in the world. [It is] completely abhorrent that we are living through a genocide on our TV screens.” Good for Jonathan Porritt.

‘why have those of us whose job it was to report the atrocities in Palestine been so spectacularly unable to stop them?’

‘“I’m holding a piece of paper for goodness sakes, that’s not a terrorist act. A terrorist act is intentionally starving 2 million,” she said. “I don’t know what to say to [Palestinians], I’m so sorry it’s come to this. I wish we could do more but we’re trying our best.”’

How difficult can it be to ask a prospective homelessness minister whether they have a second home, whether they rent it out, what rent increases they have levied on their tenants and when they levied them? Wouldn’t asking those questions be a minimum of due diligence before appointing somebody?

That is of course outrageous, given it's the big guns' own behaviour of taking every student in the entire country and beyond that's helping to destroy UK Higher Ed. But basically the say ten to fifteen Bad Actors can do as they like: c'est la vie. (2/2) www.timeshighereducation.com/news/insolve...

Car boot sale, #TrumpingtonParkAndRide today. Slightly frustrated that I didn’t take more time in the framing of this shot!

NEW: 90,000 people protesting against the genocide in Gaza have shut down Sydney Harbour Bridge. 🇦🇺👏

Of course they do.

98% That's the decrease in the annual number of single-use plastic bags in the UK since a 5p charge started 10 years ago (it's now 10p) Not all environmental problems are that easy to tackle, but change is possible Resharing the Mail's 2015 splash, which has aged well www.gov.uk/government/p...

not sure if it’s legal to celebrate this

One more time, just in case anyone hasn't yet seen it. Gutted at today's news of a double child drowning. Please read and share.

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.

It's true. The public has <no idea> how universities work, or why the federal budget cuts are an existential crisis, or anything else about how the assault on 🇺🇸 higher ed will affect society. Because our university leaders have been <totally absent> from the public square: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Why is it acceptable for the president to use taxpayer money to fly overseas and cut a ribbon at his own golf course? Don’t normalize this abuse of office. It’s blatant corruption.

“Netanyahu is not an all-powerful dictator like Vladimir Putin, and Israel is no North Korea. Its economy is highly globalised, and its society cherishes its ties to the world. It has deep material and emotional investments in those connections, including to the UK.” 👇🏼