Excellent thread, with important point for me being ‘Britain has failed to base its economic strategy on what it’s good at - tradeable services, science and tech, universities, niches in advanced manufacturing’.

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Why! Sorry, but why? Labour's anti-asylum, anti-immigration, policies are the antithesis of anything anyone who genuinely supports human rights should be defending. They're absolutely inhumane and condemnable. Anyone supporting them can't claim to be "progressive" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

doing this by taxing international fees is as stupid as Trump’s tariff policies. It will actually reduce access to subjects that support industrial strategy, as many of those subjects will no longer be offered. Hope the Scottish Government has more sense and decides not to destroy its HE sector.

netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/09/26/t... great overview of the history and evidence on ID cards by Wendy

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]

If you have 'views' on the 32% consultative ballot and what UCU should be doing over the next few months then you could do worse than spend a few minutes providing some thoughts via this UCU Commons survey.

The deadline to make your submission to Ofgem is this Friday. Don't let the man who switched off Starlink in Ukraine, helping Putin, have the keys to switch off your electricity here in the UK.

This is a really important point with government data - you can't just publish statistics that don't actually answer the question people are likely to want to ask ("Are immigrants more likely to commit crime?" in this instance) - you need to work that out *correctly* and publish it alongside.

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Writing is a technology that restructures thought — and in an AI age, universities need to teach it more theconversation.com/writing-is-a...

Labour ministers donning hard hats and visiting car plants promising to 'back them to the hilt' to protect jobs. But for the HE sector on the brink of collapse, no engagement and they even propose tightening rules on graduate visas to push them further into the abyss. These are not serious people.

Nice to see this special issue of Science, Technology and Human Values @sthv.bsky.social on 'The Hidden Labor of Translation' now out, which includes an afterward by me. Some really nice papers in this issue journals.sagepub.com/toc/STH/curr...

This story is major. Here's why it matters: 1) It creates an interesting precedent. Interactions with chatbots are FOIable. 2) It shows how our public officials are relying on these technologies, and that's a public debate that is healthy to engage in. But even more importantly 1/

Superb post from @alisongopnik.bsky.social. Although I grew up (in the UK) with the story being about Nail Soup. simons.berkeley.edu/news/stone-s...

Really informative analysis from UCU Edinburgh on the University’s finances. www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/3fzpaa5...

too early to know for sure, but potential reversal of international student decline just at the time universities are going all in on cutbacks because they assume a gloomy future.

Taylor and Francis/Routledge is stealing our works to train GenAI so we are distributing knowledge the old school way (seriously, not even the proverbial 50 pdf copies anymore or free printed copy of the volume one has contributed to!) Oh yes, new publication out.

Last week, federal employees were sent an email titled “Fork in the Road”, inviting their resignations. Their deadline to respond is today. I wrote an op-ed for Scientific American explaining Musk’s preoccupation with the “fork in the road”, its connections to SETI, & why it’s a misguided idea.

If I told you that the Bank of England upgraded its growth forecasts yesterday, would you believe me? It did.... i HAvE nOt gOne CRazY - honest This is a hill I am prepared to die on - the BoE and others (all central banks, IMF, OECD etc etc) report their "forecasts" in a terrible way 🧵

Just completed the University of Edinburgh staff survey and it felt very cathartic!

Please read this excellent thread and then in two weeks time tune in to Rethink on Radio 4 where we look at the fight between AI firms and copyright holders with Ben Zhao, @jackstilgoe.bsky.social, Justine Roberts and more.

Most people outside of research are still unaware of how much the cyberattack on @britishlibrary.bsky.social is still affecting the research community one year on. Good piece covering that + need to invest in libraries www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/how-br... @timeshighered.bsky.social

Good to see innovation featuring at COP29. The Breakthrough Agenda - established at COP26 to accelerate global adoption of clean technologies - focuses on coordinating international action across high-emitting sectors—transport, energy, steel, buildings, and hydrogen. www.edie.net/breakthrough...

Because there isn't enough stuff going on in the world to induce stress and anger. Happy Monday everyone!

The full issue of the November CJRES issue "Critical geographies of the circular economy" has been assembled online. academic.oup.com/cjres/issue/... Edited by Anna Davies, Emili Evenhuis, Emma Avoyan, Joanna Williams and Pete Tyler