🥳 Today is #SocialEnterpriseDay, a day to celebrate the impact and achievements of the global social enterprise movement. But what exactly is a social enterprise anyway? 📣 If you’re a social enterprise, comment below and spread the word about the impact you create. Let’s make some noise!

As Wales marks Social Enterprise Day 2025, communities across the nation are celebrating the organisations using business as a force for good to tackle social challenges, strengthen communities, and protect our planet. 🤝 🌍

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

The OfS report, which is open access, is here. 2/2

This is called ‘Why do you never come to the north of England?’

A quick reminder on how to contribute to uksnowmap.com ahead of any possible #uksnow tomorrow 👀 Post with the hashtag #uksnow, the first-half of your postcode, and a snow rating x/10 and help draw a real-time map of where it is snowing in the UK.

uksnowmap.com looking good this morning! Send your #uksnow reports if it’s snowing where you are!

We might have FINALLY met our match… #WorldBollardAssociation

I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

M’studio, on a sale day. Very few visitors, as usual. #SundayPixPicture

Today's #Museum30 prompt is the last 12 months 📅 For the past year we have been working on bringing more ceramics to Art UK 🙌 Read more 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/putting-pottery-in-focus-art-uks-ceramics-digitisation-scoping-project#Museum30 'Greyhounds', Belleek Pottery 📷 National Museums NI

"Live updates on exactly which UK universities are on strike right now over huge job cuts"

This is so sad to read. Working on some ideas but very early stage planning, will take a while to kick in and may not touch the surface. Is this just students? Or young people in general including those in work?

Couldn’t resist taking a photo of a colleague’s desk yesterday. Looked like a surrealist art installation!

This article is very timely for me as our School’s APP lead. Articulates what I’ve been struggling to say. Gives me more confidence in what we are doing and ideas for how we can do more.

A pretty bleak thing that GenAI is revealing is that a significant percentage of the population seems to have no interest in actually learning or doing anything. They want to ChatGPT their way out of hobbies, art making, everything... www.thecut.com/article/woul...

This year marks a major milestone for City-REDI as we celebrate a decade of research, impact, and collaboration. We’re launching a special blog series that looks back on our journey—highlighting key projects. The next part of our series is from George Bramley. https://ow.ly/unfF50XnKIp

More on the Oregon Whale!

One of my favourite ‘they did what?!?!’ stories. Love seeing it come around each year.

Relaxing having a coffee before the morning’s work starts and Melanie’s ‘Brand New Key’ comes on. (Had to Shazam.) Was singing along in my head but only knew The Wurzle’s ‘I’ve got a brand new combine harvester’ words. Showing my age! youtu.be/66AGQBZQHsE?...

Last week on Wonkhe: HESA researcher Tej Nathwani unpacks what would happen to our understanding of graduate outcomes if survey response rates continue to fall

Play at being Chancellor! Well worth a go. Puts difficult decisions into perspective. I would have like an option to increase/decrease income tax at different levels though.

Let's play Bucks Name or Name Name

The fact that people make, but never seem to use, silent fireworks just enrages me. We know what loud bangs do to animals and humans with PTSD and still can't seem to do the right thing.

I love Ozzy the Bull.

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

'The Royal Society...is among those urging the government to go much further with a new baccalaureate-style qualification that allows children to study a broader range of subjects, combining humanities and sciences or vocational and academic subjects as they progress through school.' 1/2

Poet Liz Berry returns to a now empty building that she has a close personal link with - Selly Oak Library in Birmingham. Liz is back outside the building, to write a poem about the library's recent demise www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Any thoughts on the impact of the curriculum review on access to higher education for disadvantaged groups? Given that prior attainment, particularly at GCSE, is the biggest barrier for free school meal children to attend HE, it's good to see the review focused on inequalities

This isn’t a story about university losing its value. It’s a story about Britain becoming a lower wage economy.

Found some wonderful greyhound-loving friends on here. Reminded me how lucky we are to have found Daz. He arrived ‘with issues’ but turned into such a loving boy. This is my favourite view of him, grinning with joy at going on an adventure!

Conversation last night reminded me of the main thesis of my most cited paper. If governments obsess about eliminating all free riding they are going to make things miserable for many, including people who have no intention of cheating. (Discussion prompted by assessment in age of AI.)

Based on this @russellgroup.bsky.social analysis which shows industry needs a wide range of skills - eg 40% of high-tariff graduates working in defence studied humanities and social sciences www.russellgroup.ac.uk/policy/polic...

‘If the industrial strategy is to succeed, we’ll need English graduates as well as engineers, historians alongside computer scientists, and social scientists together with health professionals.’ www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/do-we-n... @timeshighered.bsky.social

A film you’ve seen more than seven times with a gif

NEW on Wonkhe: Yes, there is a graduate earnings premium (even if you account for prior qualifications) bit.ly/3JraIzq

Logged in to ScholarOne for the journal I co-edit and jfc we had as many submissions in 2 weeks as we used to receive in 6 months 😱 Just so you understand why journal desk rejects these days give no feedback - we just can't at this wild volume. Is it the same for other journals and editors?

YES. Look, not everyone needs to be a HE policy obsessive (there are dozens of us I swear!), but you are missing out if you aren’t reading @jimdickinson.bsky.social & crew. In so many ways, the inequities and imperfections of our systems hurt our students, & yet they are often just left to “deal”.

Thank you for sharing @unabridgedopinions.com

Wonderful, joyful read that has me in tears. Love and hugs to you all.

HEIF funding ‘refreshed’ to drive government’s growth mission. Funding formula to be changed as part of shake-up, while institutions will demonstrate EDI commitments. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

'It’s almost as if research doesn’t bring in money that can cross-subsidise teaching, which will come as no surprise to anyone who has ever worked in higher education.' wonkhe.com/blogs/the-wh...

Jo Johnson, former uni/sci minister at #GoingGlobal2025: Politicians in so-called 'big 4' countries for international students (UK, US, Can, Aus) "in the process of throwing away what is perhaps one of their greatest strategic assets, that's the ability to attract talent from all around the world."

Want to start your first pedagogic research project but not sure how? Here’s how to shape your idea, get funding, handle ethics and find the right journal for your work: https://ow.ly/jgGa50Xja2l #ECRchat #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicSky University of Bristol

My Dad took me to see The Mousetrap when I was 12 I think. I’ve kept ‘the secret’ for over 40 years. Found this fascinating but also really pleased there’s no spoilers other than to say what happens at the very beginning.

Barbara Walker (b. 1964, Birmingham, UK), Self Portrait IV (Venice), 2025 Charcoal on paper

Can you help our struggling animal sanctuary reach our justgiving goal? We need to hit our target for supplies, hay deliveries, farrier & vets fees If you can spare anything to nudge us closer, we’d be so thankful. All details: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... #animalsanctuary #rescueanimals

Fun with #AutumnLeaves on a sunny and cool #Saturday! 😀 #Spike #saturdayfun #Fall #leafy #Dogsofbluesky