Here are two minutes of lowlights from Trump’s rambling, hour-long address to the UN General Assembly that Twitter is calling one of the most embarrassing moments in recent US history. Subscribe to zeteo.com for more.

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

UCU - Edinburgh University facing more industrial action as union opens new strike ballot www.ucu.org.uk/article/1418...

*bump* We need more thorough analysis like this: connecting the dots across the complex financial & governance structure in #UKHE.

surely this says more about the author than academia?

When I am King and Emperor, one of my first acts will be to ban ice-breakers, introductory games, rôle play and pseudo psychology from all professional development courses. The introductory dross is particularly bad. Energy is highest at the start. People want to get on with it. Not play games.

FYI, the best place to check and see what that cool fireball you saw in the sky was, is this website: https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/browse_events You can even report your sightings! This helps scientists to find meteorites, though I think a lot of the sightings now are […]

It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"

This new public transport group has a meeting planned for the City Chambers, Edinburgh on Tuesday 7/10. You can get more details and register for a seat at Eventbrite:- citychambers0710.eventbrite.co.uk

Liberté, égalité, motornormativité

I know people like to bash the New York Times on this site but their report today on Trump's speech and their report on Gaddafi's famous 2009 speech have basically the same exact mocking tone: www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/w...

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

I wrote my first investigative piece raising concerns about Covid contracts in *April 2020*. Great to see this finally on screen

😂 news.stv.tv/west-central...

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Well quite blown away by this one - our archaeology department at the University of Aberdeen ranked NO 1 in the UK for Archaeology and Forensic Sciences.....! Many many thanks to our wonderful students for their wonderful engagement and feedback with what we do! Go Aberdeen!!!!

This coming to pass would be terminal for many UK families of mixed-nationality - a truly dark future.

Loved this.

Oxford has fallen. Repeat: Oxford has fallen… 🤖 #HigherEducation #academia

NOT a joke. Jokes are not allowed in the US currently.

Wow, this is amazing.

Looking ahead, I cannot see any specific points of crisis that could force Israel to halt, let alone end its campaign in Gaza. It can be stopped, but it is a question of accumulating pressure - not a specific action or date.

From history of bad takes, 2015. 😱

I grew up believing I was closely related to disgraced Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe But digging into the truth revealed a very different story, and a glimpse into a post-war Britain wrestling with class, identity and aspiration

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Flattering the Beast: my SKETCH of the all-out effort to save Britain by sucking up to Trump.

Will watching Tadej Pogačar race through your village make you less likely to vote for a far-right party at the next election? A group of researchers in Italy think so…

RSF - The shutdown of US-based international broadcaster Voice of America has left a hole in the news environment for people all over the world, especially those living in countries with limited or no press freedom. rsf.org/en/meet-journalists-f... #SaveVOA

It's the start of National Cask Ale Week and all our real ales will be £4/pint - and £3.50 Sun/Mon/Tues Try something tasty at our Causewayside Session; free, live folk music tonight from 8pm #realale #folkmusic #scottishfolkmusic

"I never imagined I would see fear spread so far and fast in the US." This from the writer who gave us definitive accounts of East Germany and other late state socialist societies in the 1980s.

"...these aren’t...debates at all. They’re performances designed to generate...emotional reactions for viral distribution. Participants aren’t trying to...genuinely engage with opposing viewpoints. They’re trying to create moments that will get clipped, shared, and monetized across social media."

We're looking to appoint a new administrator for our Social Sciences Impact Acceleration Account. This would be a great role for a graduate with good administrative skills who wants to learn a lot more about the non-academic impact of research www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

THIS Friday (19th September) we need lots of cyclists for the final scene of 'Amsterdam'. Everybody is welcome, whatever kind of bike you ride. Just wear bright clothes without logos or text. 5pm at Lidl car park in Dalry. Please be on time, or early - we won’t be able to wait if people are late!

possibly we need both approaches?

There's nothing I enjoy more in the morning than @edinburghminute.bsky.social subtle jabs at Edinburgh Live's clickbait headlines.

Solidarity with those making this display at Easter Road tonight. Shame on the club and stewards for treating them so heavy handedly. One steward told me football wasn't political. Embarrassing to hear from an employee of this club in particular.

Revisiting the RBS / NatWest collapse. I'll be talking with Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins of the podcast “A Long Time In Finance” in @libraryofmistakes.bsky.social at 6.30 pm on Thursday 25th September. More info www.libraryofmistakes.com/lectures/jon...

Scottish Government considers quitting X following owner Elon Musk’s use of platform to spread disinformation, sow discord and incite violence on British streets.

Historically, would-be autocrats have been normalized abuses because they implemented the playbook *slowly* and *stealthily* What is most shocking is that Trump is implementing the playbook fast and openly, but there is still no organised resistance to democratic backsliding. Normalization is rife

If you are a university firing faculty for anodyne social media posts or a newspaper capitulating to some junk lawsuit, this is what you're trembling and cowering before.

Why do women retire with half the pension wealth of men? 🎙️ In episode 8 I chat with Alexandra Miles about: 🔎 The pensions gap & structural inequalities 🌍 Migration, longevity & fiscal sustainability 📜 Lessons from the past and overseas 🧠 AI & the future of work www.lcp.com/en/podcasts/...

oooh. this sounds great. "The Festival brings together people who work .... in Hidden Roles with policymakers" Definitely issues I have had to grapple with!

Does anyone recognise this late Victorian periodical? Based on the page numbers this is obvs an article from a larger work but I can’t trace it anywhere. It’s got lots of full-page images & I’m confident for various reasons that it was produced in 1881.

Not a headline that can appear in an actual democracy. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

"Rather than react to clearly worsening conditions in the early decades of the 21st Century, the American state adopted a set of policies Chen Weisheng pithily summarized as 'Let's Go Drill America Again,' combining several slogans of the dominant political faction of the period."

They’re treating the murder of Charlie Kirk like the 9/11 terror attacks, as an excuse to go to war. But this time they’re going to war against the US.

Fantastic column by @stephenkb.bsky.social "Racism in the UK remains the preserve of an extreme minority — but one that is emboldened and growing louder. It is the result of a year in which neither the government nor the opposition have been willing to draw red lines." www.ft.com/content/fbbd...

At @goodauth.bsky.social we thought it would be helpful to ask peacekeeping experts about peacekeeping proposals for Ukraine. Thanks to @wnomikos.bsky.social and Joshua Zhang for their insightful essay! goodauthority.org/news/rethink...

Religiosity & gender attitudes go hand-in-hand. But which influences which? New study by McElroy et al. shows earlier gender views tend to predict religious trajectories more than the reverse (except for young women). Once again: Cultural/political conflicts --> Religion doi.org/10.1177/2378...

WaPo gets to decide who speaks on its opinion page. And I get to say they can't pretend they're for "personal liberties" when they join a coordinated state effort to repress the voices of people who don't speak the way Trump wants in response to a newsworthy event. Support @karenattiah.bsky.social