My School is supporting competitive applicants for the @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowships (details below). I'm happy to support candidates in my research areas, including (among others) animals in moral/political philosophy. If you want to apply, contact me ASAP. Internal deadline 1 Dec.

When asked to summarize a major news story, AI assistants routinely misrepresent or misdescribe one major detail of the story so significantly as to communicate the wrong idea 45% of the time, with Google being the worst offender: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

London folks: We are trying to find the location of an old fuel works people tried to burn down during the 1926 general strike. On North Street in Charlton/Greenwich: the Medway Oil and Storage Company. Could anyone help us find where this was? Thanks for any assistance!

Crazy that we hear about Train Drivers who get £60,000 a year for driving a train. But we never hear about the boss of Tesco who gets £30,000 a day and doesn't even pay tax in the UK. Or the £250m a day that the likes of Amazon, Vodafone, BP and Shell don't pay in tax.

How on earth did JD Vance have the gall to lecture Europe about ‘free speech’

holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign… guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant

Land artist Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels (1973), Great Basin Desert, Utah at sunrise #WomensArt #SummerSolstice

#AcademicSky #Science #Doge

@christhomsbauer.bsky.social & I have started a spreadsheet where we're tracking the NEH awards from this new announcement: www.neh.gov/sites/defaul... This came after over 1000 grants were canceled by DOGE on April 8: impact.ach.org If you'd like to help/join us, please reply #AcademicSky

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

Women citizens arrest oil executives - Solicitors Journal Women conduct citizen’s arrests on oil executives in London over alleged public nuisance offences www.solicitorsjournal.com/sjarticle/wo...

I’ve often said Musk’s X is like Cambridge Analytica gone global, and it has the same backers - Steve Bannon and now Dominic Cummings

There's some truth to that truth statement

BBC Verify has examined a 24 hour snapshot of Elon Musks timeline and found a wave of misinformation amplified in the posts. The BBC's Analysis editor examines one day on the platform for the owner of X www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

When free speech isn't protected by factchecking, it is no longer free speech. It's propaganda. "The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it." -- Joseph Goebbels

Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?

❣️Come spend a month with us! @lboroias.bsky.social is now accepting applications for Residential Fellowships! You'll get to work on your own research, chat with amazing @lborouniversity.bsky.social colleagues & drink coffee with me at the International House 🤓 www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...

The enshittification of uk general practice. (He’s talking about our paper!!) led by @oohgpwales.bsky.social bjgp.org/content/75/7...

SCOOP: A thread on how demands for national & local govt inquiries into child sex grooming gangs are more complicated than lots of people including Elon Musk want to beliefe. Via Telford. Labour took over Telford council in 2011 & worked to improve child safeguarding after abuse dating back to 80s.

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Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.

There's still time to submit an abstract for the Gender and Education Association (GEA) 2025 Conference in Manchester. GEA conferences are my favourite by a country mile 👇 www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/fac...

Just a heads up that we’ve extended the deadline by 1 week, to December 8th. Looking forward to reading your abstracts!

83% of plant life in Gaza has been destroyed. Israel's genocide is making Gaza uninhabitable - and our media outlets are complicit by suppressing the truth. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/83-all-pla...

234 Labour MPs voted FOR incl Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper, Ed Miliband, Lisa Nandy, Pat McFadden, Heidi Alexander, Hilary Benn, Alan Campbell, John Healey, Liz Kendall, Peter Kyle, Lucy Powell, Steve Reed, Jo Stevens

Does anybody have any recommendations for work (artistic/academic/activist) on solidarity between peri/menopausal and trans people around access to hormones?

"The whole system is broken" says Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs. Conveniently forgetting that this is thanks to 14 years of governance by her own party.

Gender and Education Association Conference 2025 - 27-30 May, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Call for abstracts is now open, deadline 20 December 2024. This is one not to miss 👇

Today is White Ribbon Day which starts 16 days of action to end violence against women & girls which accounts for 20% of UK’s recorded crime 'Eight ways for men to alleviate women’s gender-based fear' @gemmagould.bsky.social centralbylines.co.uk/news/world/h...

16 days of activism against Gender Based Violence. Day 1 I ask you to never look away or gaslight (not even as a joke). Listen, accept & provide support. GBV takes many forms across many scales. Not all violence is physical/visible. Will you promise to listen & support? #GBV #16daysofActivism

The 'farmers' protest is a good time to remind people of the Just Stop Oil protestors who got 21 years, just for planning a protest. Two tier justice indeed.

TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE www.whitecraneinstitute.org/this-day-in-...

Someone had posted this piece by Camus and I borrowed it. It gives me hope

memo to farmers protesting today, if you’re desperate to hand your farm to your offspring then give it to them while you’re still alive, panic over, so long as you live another 7 years there’s no inheritance tax

Stark findings from this @suttontrust.bsky.social report last week WGGB members are invited to a [email protected] meeting on 26 Nov to support the call for arts subjects to be reintroduced into the core curriculum - check your member ebulletin for your invite

@boyoung516.bsky.social and @danielfountain.bsky.social - if you are not following each other already, you should be 😘

My word of the day (and personal recommendation) is ‘snerdling’ (18th century): nestling cosily beneath the covers and holding off the day a little longer. Morning.

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Young British women struggle more than men to progress at work, study suggests

Boris Johnson has crawled out of the woodwork to join Nigel Farage in saying the UK needs a referendum on ECHR membership If UK media is going to give him a platform to spout this boll**** it’s up to all of us to call it out. Share this if you agree youtu.be/QOtcGqDccc4?...

BBC analysis has found more than 180 libraries have closed or been handed over to volunteer groups in the UK since 2016. bbc.co.uk/news/article... But the loss of our public services over the last 14 years is far worse than that. Check weownit.org.uk/blog/destruc... for the evidence.

If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery

First: John Renbourne Last: Can't remember. Feist? Worst: some punk band in Edinburgh. Loudest: Cream Best: Leonard Cohen, in Piazza San Marco, Venice. Seen most: Bob Dylan Surprising: Incredible String Band Happy I got to see: Ritchie Havens Wish: Joni Mitchell Next: who knows?