East Anglia, land of extremes: from Cambridge’s global tech wealth to Jaywick’s enduring struggle. The ONS’s latest deprivation data shows our region is home to both England’s richest and poorest communities. eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/eco...

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Firmly in the 'ban the public sale of fireworks' camp over here

Let's not forget that JD Vance's brother also fell flat on his face in the Cincinnati mayoral race. Celebratory Cincinnati chilli might be in order

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

lots of Bilbao fans in town today. I hope nobody has been mistaking them for Sunderland supporters

It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected. More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.

One of the reasons I love Eurovision is that I find artists I'd never find elsewhere. This year's obsession has got to be Tautumeitas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv6x...

@mbellcoop.bsky.social on Mamdani: they're all losing their minds because he wants to open up to five grocery stores run by the council

🔋New in Geo🔋 'Between energy transition and industrial revival: Exploring hydrogen imaginaries in the United Kingdom and Teesside' by @naimakf.bsky.social et al. This paper uses the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries to explore hydrogen as a potential enabler of net-zero doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has congratulated Zohran Mamdani on his election victory and what he called a “historic campaign" "New Yorkers faced a clear choice - between hope and fear - and just like we've seen in London - hope won," he said www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

The latest issue of our fortnightly newsletter includes a report from the HEC held on 10 October. Also featuring @davehitchcock.bsky.social, @matildaf.bsky.social, @hagenilda.bsky.social and more! #UKHE #UCU ucucommons.substack.com/p/ucu-common...

My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall. bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...

Grant application SUBMITTED

£5.43 Northern delay repay from last week, thanks very much

Are you working on a paper on law, history and reproduction? My great colleague Dr Gauri Pillai and I are organising a workshop for you at the University of Bristol Law School on 1 May 2026! Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025. Travel grants available.

Well. Are we forgetting what David Starkey said on the BBC following the 2011 riots?

grateful for conference abstract submission portals that are open until midnight!

The Orwell Society Prize for Dystopian Fiction 2026 is now open for submissions from people studying at a UK university: orwellsociety.com/charitable-a... If you work in UK HE, please publicize widely! I’ve been a judge since the prize’s inception; it’s such a privilege to read the submissions.

"Paradise" the Birmingham developer of extortionate rental flats amongst other things, have ramped up their sick poppy marketing this year🤦‍♂️ Someone please make them remove the branding asap! @remembrancewatch.bsky.social @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social #PoppyWatch #LestWeForget #ParadiseBirmingham

complete travel chaos today. Days like this remind me just how unsustainable academic precarity is

earned a block for this one, great stuff lads

This is a lie. Matt Goodwin doesn’t have any friends.

Stay classy Matt Goodwin

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I don't know if this is right or not (I doubt it) but it does make me think that more people staying in is the last thing society needs. Between the internet, cost of living and the legacy of lockdown, we have a leaving-the-house crisis that manifests in everything from mental health to politics

Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted: manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Americans in the comments stop making this about you challenge

This is obviously egregious but the people in the comments going 'they should just go to the library!!' are missing the point.

All in favour of shared spaces that get people out and about and it you’re going to burn money on gambling then yeah, better to do so with a friendly person on hand. But still some incredible “men’s mental health” lobbying against a gambling tax in the Sunday Times. www.thetimes.com/article/f115...

News in that children are now being prescribed weight loss jabs on the NHS. @wesstreetingmp.bsky.social Where are the trials for the use of these experimental drugs in children? How do you know it’s safe? 📢 SHOW US THE EVIDENCE 📢 All so utterly predictable and fucked up. Here we go again ✍️

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Keeping to time is an accessibility issue! People need breaks between sessions in conferences for all sorts of accessibility reasons - whether for cognitive load, to take medication, needing bathroom breaks, check blood sugar or anything else! Making an effort to keep to time is inclusive.

New in Geo: 'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' by Farhana Sultana This paper critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in producing inequitable climate knowledge, global governance, policies and solutions. doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

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Couldn't have happened to a more deserving fellow

Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?

When in the woods, best beware of dead man's fingers lurking there. Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found. Happy Halloween everyone. Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman

My dad carved turnips for us. Pumpkins, I now realise, are a sign of the moral decline of our country, like seedless easy peelers.

A reminder that the original Hallowe'en jack o' lanterns date back to 18th century Ireland if not earlier, were based on a shady boozy blacksmith called Stingy Jack who cheated the devil & was trapped between 2 worlds, were carved from turnips and looked like this:

grant app deadline season is not the one

We have not paid ourselves at all this year, but we have managed to turn a small profit! Which is good for a first year online feminist publication that pays fair wages. We would really like to be able to pay ourselves. You can help make that happen: the-flytrap.ghost.io/chomp

Just signed this in support of our colleagues at Brunel who are fighting yet another round of compulsory redundancies. Please add your name if you haven't already!

Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.

This is really poor by BBC researchers and producers. Goodwin hasn't been an active academic for a number of years, yet is described as one (thus legitimating his relentless Reform activism and constant bad faith misrepresentation of evidence). 1/?