Management consultants are ruining UK universities ft.trib.al/0LelZP9 | opinion

The Pitt ICE episode is 🔥🔥🔥

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

The countries in which we do research should be decided by researchers and not by UKRI www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

'Staff at the University of Edinburgh have demanded an end to the institution’s partnership with technology giant OpenAI, calling it “unsafe” and “insecure”. 1/2

Our university travel management service was not very good, so it has been replaced by the previous university travel management that also wasn’t very good and had to be replaced by the one it is now replacing.

The Nicaraguan dictatorship has released Indigenous political prisoner Nancy Henríquez after 30 months of incarceration confidencial.digital/politica/dic...

University notice boards were once a wonderful eclectic mix of student/staff notices and posters- events, groups, teams, rooms for rent, textbooks for sale etc. Now you need approval from an official entity to ensure your poster is appropriate. One of the many ways universities have lost their way.

If you live in Edinburgh, A. Rae Dunlap’s The Resurrectionist is an amazing read

Where is Brooklyn Rivera? 73-year old Nicaraguan Indigenous leader, Brooklyn Rivera, was disappeared by the dictatorship on 29 September 2023. Neither his family nor his lawyers have been told where he is. confidencial.digital/nacion/brook...

Hey Shabana Mahmood, why has Nicaragua been added to the list of citizens requiring visas to visit the UK? We are talking about a v. small number of people (lots leave but mostly go to US or Costa Rica) but most will be fleeing political repression. Someone explain the rationale to me please.

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI

Why can’t Starmer just say to Trump that we’d love to help out with his war, but we simply can’t afford it? In Britain, we can’t even afford to properly fund healthcare or education. There are even British people that don’t have a home or enough food and have to rely on charities to survive.

Frankenstein’ Lead Oscar Isaac, ‘La Llorona’ Director Jayro Bustamante Push for Guatemala Film Law variety.com/2026/film/gl...

From the journal Science in 1890, physics for the lads!

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded. 2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning. Go to quitgpt.org. Cancel your subscription, delete your account. And tell at least one person why. My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

By me: Today marks 10 years since the assassination of Indigenous environmentalist Berta Cáceres, a rare leader whose death marked a before and after for many including me. Despite some justice, the extractive economic model and its criminal modus operandi continues apace. drilled.media/news/berta

When will the UK government wake up to the wholesale destruction of HE that's happening? This affects towns and cites across the UK, our businesses, the NHS, schools, young people, our global standing, everything! Higher Education, Universities, contribute over £265 BILLION to the economy.

‘Year after year, members of Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo have circled the square in central Buenos Aires, arm in arm, to demand the return of their forcibly disappeared grandchildren. They’re still marching.’ Rachel Nolan on Argentina’s missing children: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"Universities are not peripheral to Scotland's economy, rather they are anchor institutions that can generate £28.30 billion in annual economic impact, support 34,000 jobs through research funding, and create employment multiplier effects..." digitalpublications.parliament.scot/ResearchBrie...

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | caso Marielle Franco: Condenados los hermanos Brazão, dos políticos, por ordenar el asesinato de la concejala de Río de Janeiro en 2018. Es el asesinato político más relevante de la última década en Brasil elpais.com/america/2026...

Why doesn't the government give a damn about the current situation in universities? I just don't get it.

Rubin: "There is at least one witness for whom 3 interviews with the FBI in in 2019 are missing [from the Epstein files]. What's the big deal? We can also confirm she is the same person who in a 2025 FBI presentation is identified as accusing Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15"

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

Hey "academic writing" includes scholarship in the humanities/social sciences where the craft of writing, including the development of a personal style, is highly valued and is not about the communication of facts. I thought scientists were catching up on questions of positionality,but I guess not.

Christianity is undoubtedly central to British heritage but so are many other religions and spiritualites as is empire and slavery, football, rugby, trade unions, feminism, rock and roll, tea drinking, Shakespeare, double-decker buses, fish and chips, curry, comedy, TV drama, cobbles, queueing etc

So utterly depressing especially as if you need a small amount of funding for field research to meet ethical obligations or to do impact work, UKRI says go away, you’re not a priority

I don't think I've seen a statement like this before: Why Warner University Stands Against Student Use of AI warner.edu/why-warner-u...

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When teaching, I emphasize that bias and stereotypes are not very useful concepts for understanding race/gender and that the simplistic idea that sex is biological and gender socially constructed has been discredited. Yet, to pass my mandatory online training, I have to say the opposite.

Virginia Giuffre’s family just put out a statement. It ends with this: “For survivors everywhere, Virginia did this for you.” I burst into tears.

Why is the UK government giving money to universities that are making academics redundant to hire new academics from overseas? Why not use that money to keep existing talent and reduce all the heartache, misery and hardship that academic redundancy entails www.cardiff.ac.uk/research/our...

Geography's 'combination of STEM, social science and arts and humanities can sit uneasily within university faculty systems, heightening the risk that we are dismantled into separate components.' 1/2

This is emblematic of the consumer culture that fees have engendered. What the hell did the students expect? It was a ONCE IN A CENTURY PANDEMIC. There were LAWS against congregating in public. Staff worked themselves to the bone to get online delivery working. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition. Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.

The "AI revolution" in science is going so smoothly that my instititutional library is having to deploy multiple technical protection measures against "poorly behaved Gen AI crawling" just to maintain its timely service library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...

Nicaragua closes the border to Cubans migrating to the US dozz.es/e49zg9

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court! A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest. A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

Rep. Lieu: “Were there any underage girls at any party that Trump attended with Epstein?” Bondi: “This is so ridiculous…There is no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime. Everyone knows that.” Lieu: “I believe you just lied under oath.” Bondi: “Don't you ever accuse me of a crime.”

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

My morning commute was ruined by having to listen to two people behind me exchanging ignorant transphobic comments. Horrific.

Ortega and Murillo are cornered. Let’s hope their days are numbered

Régimen excarcela al exmilitar Aníbal Martín Rivas Reed tras denuncia de EEUU 100noticias.tv/politica/145...

IF {applying to study a PhD with me}; AND {your application includes hallucinated papers credited to me as author}; THEN {don't be surprised when your application is yeeted}. I mean, really...!

We so badly need to get Palantir out of our NHS

Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."

Has the chancellor thought of looking at how other European countries do it? Austria is less wealthy than the UK, but everyone who wants to go to university can for free. You only pay for tuition fees if you exceed the degree duration by more than two semesters. The UK system is scandalous.

Si están en Madrid el 9 de febrero

BREAKING: The DOJ just DELETED a document in the Epstein Files that contained allegations made against Donald Trump. But we saved it. 👇

See Nicaragua 2018