When you say "the link between Tylenol & autism is unproven," you're saying "this link isn't proven, but it could be, because autism is a disease and can & should be cured if we just understand what causes it." Stop pathologizing neurodivergence so you can avoid embracing neurodivergent folks.

I don’t want anyone to shelve the important conversations about eugenics and this American administration but I really can’t explain to you how much the point of this is women suffering more in pregnancy.

I genuinely do not get the argument that if we tax wealth (extreme or otherwise) or very high incomes, people will just leave the country. If they aren't contributing, why do we care if they leave? Taxes are a contribution to the community.

In fact, Arran is a very good girl, but it’s true she has the utmost respect for @uonucu.bsky.social picket lines!

No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy. Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.

Roast potatoes are the only proof of the existence of a higher power that I am prepared to countenance.

Lib Dems: We have 12x Reform's MPs, can we have the same coverage? BBC: But Reform has 2x your poll rating. If there were an election tomorrow, they'd be running the country. Lib Dems: So you're putting their people and policies under scrutiny, right? BBC: Lib Dems: Right?

Wes Streeting's recent pre-leadership contest attempt to rebrand himself as Not Actually Wes Streeting continues. It's not fooling anyone. Especially as he'll lurch further right than Keir if he gets the gig.

Always check the signage ...

this exists it is called thinking

Born in 1873 Maori scholar Mākereti Papakura is believed to be the first indigenous woman to matriculate at University of Oxford. She enrolled in 1922 to read Anthropology at Pitt Rivers Museum but tragically died just before graduating. She will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford next week.

I wonder if the attack on universities is embedded in AI being designed as a competitor product?

OK, not a lawyer, but I'm hearing a lot of folks calling what happened at Dal a strike so here's my two cents on why we need to say LOCKOUT. To start a strike or lockout you have to give 48h notice. No notice to end them. On Aug 18, the Dal Pres. announced a *lockout* would begin on the 20th. 1/4

I just discovered my employer has launched some sort of "AI and Us" training site for academics (read: luddites) and it starts on AI literacy and why it matters, and I could not do a better of job explaining why the training on how to use AI is actually, y'know, AN EDUCATION than this ⬇️

#MMIP #MissingIndigenousPerson PLEASE REPOST ❤️

Time to put AI on hold

Should the BBC be giving Reform UK so much coverage? (Cardiff Uni School of Journalism found it featured in a quarter of all News at Tens in the 6 months to June). Latest BBC Newswatch from midnight Fri on iplayer or Sat 745am BBC1/Breakfast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride. They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.

Hot off the press! Out Oct 16, featuring two new chapters, Against the Romance of Police Reform and Futures Beyond Policing. Hoping this study of anti-Black criminalization is helpful as we face the rise in fascistic authoritarian rule, and the policing used to enforce and enable it.

The imaginary sunlight did not disinfect anything.

WRITE TO YOUR MP. Even if this merger of Kent & Greenwich results in lots of positive outcomes for us all (which I truly hope it does!), the very fact it was needed points to failures in leadership from many parties. Why has the UK government stood by watching redundancies in HE?

“Farage has given two contradictory versions – one that he bought it and the other that his girlfriend owns it. If the second one is correct then he has ­engineered a massive saving on stamp duty, larger than the one that forced Angela Rayner to resign.” – @goodlawproject.org https://bit.ly/4m81Zzt

Such a brilliant player, a massive loss to the game that she & the whole NZ team hasn't played a Test in 20+ years. They should schedule one with Scotland, just to shake things up.

Let's be clear: The flood of hatred sloshing across Britain right now is 100% a product of the political and media elite scapegoating minorities for the harms that those elites have visited upon the country.

I'm supremely mad and I'm going to rant about it. I have a podcast. It's hosted by ACast. They do dynamic insertion ads prior to the show, which I've enabled. These are basically the commercials you might hear before the show starts.

I think a key UK political science question is how the current government can shoot itself in more feet than it actually has. And for theorists the issue is how to characterise a form of rule in which the government shoots itself in the foot, then puts the foot in its mouth and shoots it again.

This embarrassing display will never (ever) win over Reform supporters because it fundamentally misunderstands that, despite appearances, national flags are floating signifiers. The English flag perhaps especially so 1/n

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⏰ It's not too late to submit a proposal to @haguediplomacyjrnl.bsky.social's special forum: Theorizing Culture in Global Relations. Abstracts (200 words) are due September 15. Patricia Goff and I are looking forward to reviewing your submissions! CFP: www.universiteitleiden.nl/hjd/news/202...

New piece with Tia Dafnos in @breachmedia.ca: The emergency RCMP unit called "CIRG" that invaded Wet'suwet'en territory is now a permanent force called CRU. Through access to information records, we learned they have a special role to play in policing resistance to Bills 14 and 15.

Keir Starmer’s new director of communications isn’t just the founder of Portland Communications – which represented Qatar, Russia and Kazakhstan – he’s also come straight from the board of the anti-trans charity Sex Matters. The government is heading in a dark direction.

Yvette Cooper looked at current British asylum policies and thought, what we need is for *more* children to die in the English Channel

Apparently the UK government are doing an emergency alert test on the 7th of September so just in case anyone knows any current domestic abuse victims who would need to have their safety phones switched off so as not to be outed, please pass it in.

Once more: fuck OpenAI and fuck Sam Altman. The fact that this company has slithered its way into schools and universities across the world and might well be repeating this pattern with vulnerable students all over the world never fails to shock.

A safety manual for academics visiting America. @petraboynton.bsky.social's dystopian-sounding opinion article is, somewhat sadly, the most-read article on our site just now. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Competitive academia's recognised as being unethical, toxic, and massively unfair. And yet many institutions perpetuate this nonsense. There's so many ways to be a 'top' scholar - not that it matters. And multiple ways people will never achieve this and why should they? Good enough is good enough.

Brew day! Brewing up a batch of green hopped pale, using hops from our allotment.

Very excited that our first ever episode with a live audience has been published! Massive thanks to @rgf26.bsky.social for organising such a brilliant conference and giving us time and space to record it! And to all those who shared their border stories with us. www.buzzsprout.com/2355740/epis...

"People do not want the messy, uncomfortable truth that disabled people know—that disability is part of the natural world, not an anomaly to be corrected" lithub.com/nature-is-no... < Really good challenge to conventional narratives from the publishing industry by @pollyrowena.bsky.social

Such a good way of putting it. Uber: your employees aren't actually employees Airbnb: hotel zoning is for chumps, everything is hotel now Amazon: there is no such thing as a monopoly

The Labour party is politically brain dead. It would have been so easy for Labour front benchers to make this into a "Farage is a terrorist sympathiser" moment. Instead they refused to condemn it and said that it was "impractical". Farage is playing politics in easy mode with this Labour party.

Jenrick can't control who stands in the background of his photos, but he can decide whether to attend protests with a far-right message and a documented history of being organised by the far-right. He knows this. He goes anyway. Once upon a time it would have been a sackable offence.

No one could have foreseen this. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Hey hey! HoHo! Unpaid work has got to go! #aircanada needs to bargain in good faith. •AC is one of the wealthiest corporations in Canada earning BILLIONS in profits annually •ranking just under major banks and large energy corporations in Canada. •Majority of the workers striking are female

Would be interesting if feds just announced now they will enact legislation requiring flight attendants be paid their hourly wage for all hours worked. Both Tories and NDP have already said such a law should be passed. Only Liberals resisting. How would that affect the dispute? #AirCanada

If you’re mad that Air Canada flight attendants won’t do unpaid work for you, feel free to stop by my place & clean my toilet for free. @cupescfp.bsky.social #AirCanada #solidarity