I thought I’d already signed a section 28 petition but I clicked the link to check and it turned out I hadn’t. This is so important, both to own and atone for the historical harms inflicted on LGBTQ+ people by successive governments, but also to draw parallels with current anti-trans legislation.

There is no upside to catching this awful virus I’m afraid. www.news-medical.net/news/2024071...

Get hitting this one, people, we need it to have a lot of sigs in a hurry.

An article last year claimed that tree-ring data shows a link between drought and late Roman conflicts such as the "Barbarian Conspiracy" of 367. We show problems with such claims and appeal for interdisciplinary palaeoclimatic research to respect historical method. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“Pandemics leave a lasting impact on the brain. More than one million survivors of the 1918 flu pandemic developed a virally-triggered form of Parkinson’s. COVID infections are also showing signs of impacting the brain in various ways.” beingpatient.com/could-long-c...

Do support Indy's important cause if you can. His fundraiser is here: www.justgiving.com/page/indyave...

This 👇 Some of us also have a commitment to the production of scholarship in minoritized languages and without a serious rethink of what OA means in those contexts, one would be looking at the closure of (to us) important presses which are part of greater language ecosystem in need of support.

This is largely by design. If we stop thinking about AI as simply technology and instead as part of a political and economic program, its chief function become easier to see: namely to erode interpersonal trust so that ultimately we give up on forms of agreement & negotiation arbitrated by people.

"we hear you saying you absolutely do not under any circumstances want this AI clownslop and we promise we are working on solutions to make this AI clownslop even better so it can do even more things that you never wanted done!"

‘A cruel penalty’: hundreds of thousands of disabled people will have their benefit cut if their conditions are deemed not to be lifelong. My report in today’s paper: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 1/5

We’re funding research into #palaeography teaching in Scotland! See the job spec here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA145/s...

We also shouldn’t be attempting to gain any immunity from a virus that is damaging our immune systems and leaving us at risk from other infections. bsky.app/profile/trya...

Advocating for long covid without advocating for prevention, is like trying to bail out water from a boat that's sitting on the ocean floor. The two things can't be separated and I don't trust or respect anyone who thinks they can. #LongCovidAwarenessDay

4. Even though the Covid inquiry admitted last week that the guidance has been incorrect and that Covid is airborne, the press have still not mentioned preventions for airborne risk. No messaging from the government. No attempt to protect us. Same old inadequate guidance which is not safeguarding

It’s the 258th anniversary of this diary entry from parson-naturalist Gilbert White

BREAKING 🚨: Cambo is back for round two. Last time this massive oil field was on the table, thousands of people across the world fought back and we won - forcing Shell to pull out from the project. We’ve buried Cambo once, we’ll do it again.

There is A Job in my department - details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA732/l...

Trans Day of Act Now to Stop Labour's Section 28! Tell all your cis friends and colleagues. They have until 20 April.

📢 Fully-funded PhD scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at the University of Sydney (supervised by me) and the University of Glasgow (supervised by Matthew Sangster), with time at both institutions. Applications due 21 April More details: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Silvia Federici is one hundred percent wrong about the witch trials (not even a weak argument: her work is based on utter fantasy) and Caliban and the Witch has done incalculable damage to the discourse around this topic, especially in left-wing circles.

“Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune…there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting…”

🧵40 days after her passing, #PalQuest highlights the life and legacy of Leila Shahid, Palestinian diplomat and intellectual known as the voice of Palestine in Europe: www.palquest.org/en/biography...

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

About half the people employed by a university in the UK are not academics, and *everybody* is busy all year round: there are no long dreamy summer vacations with nothing to do

frankly fed up with the insistence “we don’t know enough about COVID” to make any determinations about its risk, six years on and after a gajillion studies identifying its many harms—particularly when the theory of “immunity debt” immediately gained widespread acceptance despite not being a thing

this is why it's vital to loudly and publicly support trans women and push back against these narratives. it is imperative that we not let the loudest voice be this stupid cunt

"What COVID in Pregnancy May Mean for a Generation of Children." "A growing body of research shows that exposure to COVID-19 in the womb can have a subtle but lasting impact on brain development." Source: archive.md/7TuYF

Nice to see some articles mentioning masking as a way to avoid a Covid infection and showing it done properly.

📣 "Let's show that independence matters because of the difference it will make to peoples lives" 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Will you march with us? 📅 28th March • Assemble at 11:30am • Parliament Square, High Street, Edinburgh.

Afghan women have now been banned from applying to study in British universities by the Labour government www.gov.uk/government/s...

Thinking about Lancelot being menaced by a corgi in his dreams, a change in the Welsh adaptation of Perlesvaus from the French "petit mastin" (little mastiff). "And then Lancelot saw in his sleep that a corgi was barking at him, and five cur-dogs with him were falling on him from all sides, ..."

"How is it possible for hospitals, nursing homes and other health-care employers to allow respiratory PPE that doesn’t fit the legal standard previously set for protecting workers against an airborne hazard? Simple. They just fail to explicitly state the virus is airborne."

raise your hand if wikipedia has higher standards than your own university

As a cis woman it is hard to find the words to articulate how I feel about my safety being used as a pretence for this egregious bullying of children

If we're spending millions commemorating a woman in Scotland, I have some ideas. Here's a 🧵of high achievers worthy of statues. 1st Jennie Lee, MP & founder of @OpenUniversity . The work she did as Arts Minister was transformative. Also = Mrs Aneurin Bevan /1

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

I wish I could properly get across to Anglophones how funny this is. Imagine Reform putting a pamphlet through your door promising to stop "IMMINTGRASION"

Did you know “SARS-CoV-2 causes lasting immune dysregulation for over 20 months”, making you more susceptible to other illnesses, some serious? I’m sure the media (and your doctor) meant to tell you that sometime. #COVID

"No symptoms yet and doesn't know she's already sick" One of the few, possibly the only, time I have seen pre-symptomatic transmission risk being explained by public health.

Reform UK really do inspire community action in the most unexpected ways.

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰 Farage's plan to drag Scotland backwards

“If you are a cancer survivor, or if you are being treated for cancer currently, we recommend that you take strict precautions to avoid catching Covid. If you do not catch Covid, you cannot run the risk that it reactivates your cancer.”

“Infection control guidance was "flawed" at the start, [& failed] to recognise the virus could also be spread in the air in tiny particles known as aerosols that can stay suspended.” No past tense! “…CAN also be spread…” COVID remains airborne & doctors & HCWs don’t mask—in 2026. The disconnect…

covid is an immune-altering disease, and we stopped stopping the spread of it 4 years ago. so, sadly, yes, other diseases becoming more common makes perfect sense.

“The simplest summarization is that COVID-19 damaged my nervous and immune systems, which dysregulated my digestive, neurological, and vascular functions... I asked [my doctor] how he planned to help me. He said, “Maybe you’ll just grow out of it.”

📣 #JobAlert Research Associate/Fellow in Digital Curation and Analysis (Part-time, Fixed term) @uniofnottingham.bsky.social Join Prof Alex Mullen’s AHRC-funded project on Voices of Britain under and after Rome. 🏺#digitalhumanities 1/2 Deadline 14 April 2026 jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

*Announcement Time!* Delighted to share the shortlist for the James Tait Black Prizes in fiction and biography! I co-judged fiction this year and we had over 300 entries. The shortlisted five are exceptional. #JamesTaitBlackPrize www.ed.ac.uk/news/indie-t...

Op-ed out today in @thesicktimes.org from PLRC co-lead @leticiasaurus.bsky.social and @jencurtinmd.bsky.social on the #LongCovid Treatment Guide! “Too often, people with Long COVID hear… not much can be done for them at this point. We… believe it is a fallacy that hinders access to care”

ME, MCAS, & Dysautonomia can all look like this & rates are through the roof now bc of Covid. If therapists don’t catch up they can cause so much harm. And they can’t rely on clients’ doctors to diagnose either… they need to not only learn about the conditions but also how marginalized they are

Screen scandal: How Ofcom lets GB News get away with it An investigation by The New World shows how the right wing channel is being allowed to pump out Reform propaganda while ignoring broadcasting laws. Finally, will the regulator now act?