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REF 2029 publishes updates and resumes criteria setting following pause All updates are now live on our website: 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/ref-202...

Am I the only one that’s appreciated the segue from shakey to Chaka? #totp

Tune! #chakakhan #totp

Time to top up my glass. Popping to kitchen #shakin #totp

Definition of a one hit wonder #kanegang #totp

Will there be a key change? #totp #chicago

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Pleased to announce our latest paper is out #openaccess #delay #qualitative #endometriosis #healthcareprofessional Karavadra Thorpe Morris and Semlyen Exploring delay to diagnosis of endometriosis, a healthcare professional perspective link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...

Nothing changes

I have since worked with some people I consider to be real geniuses. What marks them out is an ability to grasp, immediately, the many facets of a problem and a gift for explaining it simply. /3

#A_NewHope ✊

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Yes, I did say “oh I hope they play that” when it went past in the chart #TOTP

Olivia newton johns trousers! #dollar #totp

That hair! #totp

What’s with all the guns, legs and co? #Totp

New episode: @annabull.bsky.social joins The Sexual Violence Research podcast to explore rates of #GBV in higher ed settings. "One of the reasons for this being seemingly so prevalent..is the lack of professional boundaries between staff & students." Listen bit.ly/4p0WhC8 @thesvri.bsky.social

Here's my take on new data on sexual violence and harassment released today from England's Office for Students. wonkhe.com/blogs/what-o...

It was to see some many friends in Philadelphia for the @comm4rigor.bsky.social meeting a couple of weeks ago. Together we are developing free online materials for researchers interested in doing rigorous science. The first units are coming soon at c4r.io. Photos: Eric Sucar

Oh my God this is so wonderful. Bra-fucking-vo UCL www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

When you text using voice +microphone and say how much you’d like to cocreate with a fellow academic but your phone writes procreate.

There we are. Kent and Greenwich to merge into the UK’s first super university (as predicted in quoted tweet below). Who will follow next? bbc.com/news/article...

Trumps’s gilt.

America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs MRNA saved 20M lives, a million+ in US, reduced hospitalization & deaths, lowered long covid risk mRNA can be adapted for new viruses & is being tested for cancer vaccines, autoimmune therapies - www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.

When I was a medical resident in South India in the 1990s, I rarely saw kids with measles. And I did not see much of polio or diphtheria or whooping cough either. None of this was a matter of luck. It was because vaccination coverage in that region of India was high www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

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.

I am so extremely tired. Those poor, poor girls.

lilys. oh dear #totp

The continued oppression of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban beggars belief and yet the world stays silent. Please consider helping get food to women who if no man in their lives cannot leave their houses (I can’t believe I had to type that sentence) www.gofundme.com/f/support-af...

British politics in all its diversity on display this morning

Our latest paper now out #openaccess #qualitative #Endometriosis Karavadra, B., Semlyen, J., Morris, E. et al. ‘I don’t know what normal has been’: a grounded theory exploration of the journey to endometriosis diagnosis. BMC Women's Health 25, 319 (2025). doi.org/10.1186/s129...

What fresh hell Is this? #totp #instrumental

Brian Ferry cool as f #totp

I used to dance to Dr Beat by Miami Sound Machine at the wharehouse in Camden #totp It used to come on at about 2 am every Saturday

Ooh bluesky and live #totp commentary This is the content I need.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

The #StandUpForScience wave is rising - and Trump & his anti-science cronies are losing ground. The people want research, not repression. Truth - not tyranny. We're flooding the streets, inboxes, and timelines. Are you with us? Join our #SummerFightForScience here ⬇️ zurl.co/be4zC

🧵 NIH - research ethics

UK’s share of global research outputs falls. China and India growth challenges traditional research-intensive nations, UK government analysis finds. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...

I see women shrinking themselves all the time. It’s not modesty, my friends. If we’re gonna do it, let’s call it what it is: fear of disturbing familial, institutional or societal expectations. But faking smallness makes one more invisible to self than to others. This is a risk worth fearing more.

Via Prof Steve Keen Free four week course from the University of Leeds ‘Climate Action: Tackling the #Climate...' - an online course from @uoldigital on @FutureLearn. Join now: futurelearn.com/courses/climat…

This.

It was only a matter of time. #EDI #DEI

Academic (gender) inequality…innit.

Health inequalities…innit.