“I think there’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19” SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies go.nature.com/3Lspwi0

Have you posted yours yet? 📮 We’re loving all the red post boxes and “I’ve voted” pics, keep them coming and make sure your vote is in by the deadline! #WeAreTheUniversity

This weekend be sure to get your vote in, chat to a colleague about getting their vote in! Together we can change the future of higher education! #wearetheuniversity

Går inte ta in. Vilket jävla mörker. omni.se/a/kwqw9B

NEW: ‘Nigel Farage is not my friend…he’s just a handsome & stylish English gentleman’ The wife of the Russian agent who Nathan Gill has admitted to accepting bribes from says Nigel Farage is not her ‘good friend’ after saying that he was her ‘good friend’ 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

A mass slaughter of civilians is taking place in Sudan after the city of El Fasher fell to the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces.

Vote yes in both ballots ✊

❗️📝 ❗️KCL UCU has written to management expressing our outrage at the disciplinary action being pursued against multiple students who have protested the presence of pro-Israeli lobbyists on our campus and the university’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza ⬇️

1. It's fascinating to see, as you can from the responses to the post below, how many daft things people believe, to justify their continued meat eating. So let's examine a few of the common myths in the following thread. 🧵

Prof Catherine Noakes On the route of transmission "So we know it is a respiratory transmission at the early days of the pandemic the specific mechanisms were unclear, but it was still early days" " respiratory transmission means the virus is emitted from people's exhalation" #CleanAir

Our barrister Sangeetha Iengar questions Mark Drakeford - Former 1st Minister of Wales Q - Would you agree, and I think it follows that from the end of 2020 onwards - the impact of Long COVID on children should have been factored into the Welsh Governments pandemic response? #Wales #COVIDInquiry

For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type. By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.

We are running a local Kings industrial action ballot at the same time as the national UCU one. Vote yes!!

We need our members to come together and make this successful. Join the conversation and help us #GetTheVoteOut. We have our general meeting today at 2pm and a GTVO volunteers meeting at 11 on Friday. Come along or email ucu[at]kcl.ac.uk to get involved! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼✊

A strong YES vote in this historic ballot would give our branch negotiators huge leverage with management to make progress on these demands. VOTE YES IN BOTH THE NATIONAL AND LOCAL BALLOTS!

4. We are demanding a pause in the implementation of ‘King’s Strategy 2030’ so full consultation can take place. We demand commitment to no compulsory redundancies as a result of this strategy, and a commitment in the strategy for improvements in staff terms and conditions

3. Failures to protect staff and institutional complicity in war crimes are result of the democratic deficit in KCL’s governance. We are returning to the demand of our unresolved 2023 local dispute that KCL Council must have at least 50% of its members as elected staff

2. We demand reopening of negotiations on KCL divestment from companies enabling oppression in Palestine and a clause in contracts to allow employees to conscientiously object to participation in activity connected with the military, arms trade, fossil fuels or genocide

1. We demand public statement reaffirming KCL commitment to academic freedom, anti-racism, and the protection of its community from intimidation, harassment+discrimination. We need independent investigation into mishandling of politically motivated complaints against our members

We are balloting on FOUR interlinked issues that all come down to management intransigence and increasing hostility to consultation. We're revisiting our previous disputes in light of two major developments: the genocide in Palestine and the national crisis in higher education

This dispute has been guided by our membership and brings together different trade disputes going back to 2023 - related to academic freedom, divestment, governance and working conditions - under ONE action.

KCL UCU’s ballot is running at the same time as the @ucu.org.uk national dispute on pay and jobs. It speaks to problems at KCL where working conditions are connected to a democratic deficit in governance and the institution’s untenable ‘values-based impartiality’ stance on genocide

With our local dispute, we are the first university (and the first workplace!?) in the UK to formally ballot members over possible industrial action that relates to our employer’s response to global injustice and the oppression of the Palestinian people

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT! We've notified KCL that we are balloting members over LOCAL DISPUTE on protection of staff and academic freedom; divestment from companies profiting from genocide; King’s Council reform; and meaningful workplace consultation! #WeAreTheUniversity #WeAreKCL

As Big Pharma’s attack on the UK continues this report by @taxwatch.bsky.social👇shows 1 Pharma company has received billions in tax relief. It’s part of the crazy subsidies we give big business to ‘drive innovation’. Instead it drives monopolies & high prices 🧵 www.taxwatchuk.org/the-great-ph...

Mest kommer från extremhögern. Värst drabbas de som skriver om eller tar ställning i klimat, migration/antirasism och feminism. Det går att slå fast utan cherrypickande bias. Städning över hela fältet är såklart rimligt, men diskussionen måste börja i helheten och i mekanismerna vi känner till.

Israel is using the failure to return the bodies of hostages as a pretext to violate the ceasefire themselves, but as Nour Odeh points out, the ceasefire agreement did not contain a timeline for the handing over of the bodies & Israel already knew it might take weeks or months.

Den enes gisslan är den andres "fängslade utan åtal".

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

The US funded genocide for two years. The US vetoed a ceasefire six times. The US hosted a wanted war criminal multiple times. The US suppressed protests against genocide. Sorry, but a US president *finally* forcing a pause in the slaughter is not a peacemaker.

María Corina Machado, a U.S.-backed Venezuelan opposition figure, has received the Nobel Peace Prize. “They didn't give it to Donald Trump, but they seem to have given it to the next best thing," says historian Greg Grandin.

The Trump-backed Gaza ceasefire deal "is not a peace agreement," says Palestinian human rights lawyer Diana Buttu. "This is not an end to the occupation." Full interview: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/gaza_ceasefire_deal

So what excuse does Israel now have for not letting foreign journalists into Gaza?

Ett fredspris som krattar manegen för ett krig. Kan vår tids krigsregim skildras tydligare än så? Fred är krig...

Hör diverse uttalanden på radion som ger Trump äran av att det ser ut att kunna bli ett slut på mördandet i Gaza. Ingen nämner att det är USA, och Trump, som möjliggjort folkmordet på palestinierna, landet står t ex för 70 % av Israels vapenimport, och hade kunnat stoppa Israel långt tidigare.

Tredje varmaste september som uppmätts https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/tredje-varmaste-september-som-uppmatts

Big pharma is at war with the UK. If we want to save the NHS, we can’t back down. By me 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents. I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights. sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

Det är fint när det man försöker påvisa bevisar sig själv. I en artikel i Flamman förde jag fram att de nazistiska uthängningssidorna kring Christian Peterson nu samarbetar tätt med SD:s fristående kanal Riks. Nu svarar de mig med ett drev och visar själva kopplingen. Tråd.

Absolutely wild. Israel targeted and massacred 31 journalists and media staff in Yemen. The second-deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded. The Israeli regime is built on war crimes.

I’ve just upgraded to an ffp3 because #COVID cases are rising here again slowly. Over the Summer cases in the UK were running at around 1 in 260 but now they are around 1 in 90 on some analysis of wastewater/PCR tests. I imagine a fairly sporadic picture around the country but I wouldn’t step foot

Another Tory has joined Reform you say? Why it would almost appear as of Reform were not an insurgent force of outsiders but … dare I say… the same old shit in a different package… by which I mean unutterable Tory wankers.

New research published in The Lancet finds that Western unilateral sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year. Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.

99 months since we lost 72 loved ones in the Grenfell fire. Still no justice. As the Government begins to demolish the Tower, please keep Grenfell in your hearts. We will never forget — and we will not stop until justice is done.

Where is Keir Starmer? Where is the leadership? Fascists marched on our streets yesterday and he hasn’t said a single word. Instead the Prime Minister spends his time defending the “best pals” of paedophiles. He is a coward. He should resign.

A rally organised by Tommy Robinson should be a slam dunk for a Labour government. Most people will recognise it as being led by the far right (and will not identify themselves as such). Violence is predictable too. The PMs and ministers should have been ready to respond immediately.