‘We urge the Government to prioritise this issue. Should this situation continue unchecked, the damage to the health of higher education, research and innovation will be profound and have long-lasting consequences.’ www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...

♫ 'She can't help it / The girl can't help it' ♫

"Love is not a victory march"

After the universities close, I look forward to entering the economy.

Science!

Hmm. Literally 'daddy or chips?'

Et tu, Acrobat Reader?

You have to laugh, really:

"What about marriage?" indeed www.aol.co.uk/news/mankeep...

"Cardiff University has admitted that it doesn’t know how much it is spending overall on external consultants or hold a central record of what work they are doing." Staff expenditure: Count every last penny or you may lose your job. Their expenditure: Meh.

If anyone is wondering about the Lady Chief Justice of England & Wales claiming Palestine Action's "covert" activities make them different from the suffragettes that Yvette Cooper admires so much, here's a secret message code book in the National Archives www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/re...

'The Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology invites those interested in pursuing a PhD in to apply for a fully funded Graduate Teaching Fellowship commencing October 2026.' www.liverpool.ac.uk/sociology-so...

After his fight at the White House, Sean O'Malley threw up what the announcers described as a "salute" to "the troops" and Trump

Kilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. I see a lot of the same fights here."

VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (focus on race, ethnicity, intersecting inequalities) @uomsociology.bsky.social 4 years from 1 Oct 2026, £42,254 p.a., full time Closing date: Weds 17 June 2026 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Sam Altman wants an actual license to kill you. This bill: the "Artificial Intelligence Safety Act"😒 would give companies like OpenAI immunity for mass murder including nuclear, biological, and radiological attacks assisted by their bots. youtu.be/34bMvXOQfEM

Except it isn't what he did in government! He raised spending massively, raised taxes, increased welfare spending, increased immigration and was pro-EU integration. Now he's against all those things.

"Our species will become extinct in the way that Enron did. A corporation that seemed sound turned out to have lost all its solidity long ago, becoming more and more like a confidence trick that deceived the tricksters themselves."

Not the bad kind of sin, then.

On the tube

Perhaps only second to what it did to journalists, social media has made plain just how many academics are straight up dumber than dog shit. And both supposed liberal groups are just rotten top to bottom with conservatives who don't know it/ admit it.

how it started: how it’s going:

"You bring the judgment"

Jesus Christ this is the most chilling thing I've read in ages. The "new understanding of truth" described here is not new in any way, it is basically a return to pre-literate dark ages & the inevitable result is going to be fascism.

Good news, everyone! I have a short piece coming out in The Conversation on Monday that explains the main issues with this study. It's impossible for me to have the same media reach as the original press release. So I'd be extremely grateful if people could help me share it as widely as possible 🙏

Fascinated to learn that the favoured cultural pursuits of the middle classes are, in fact, biologically good. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

There's always free cheddar in a mousetrap

I DO NOT WANT TO 'CHAT WITH MY FILES'

We are hiring at the Dept of Sociology @uniluzern.bsky.social ! Applications for Assistant Professor of Sociology with a focus on “Communication and Sociological Theory" (100%, tenure track) are due May 29, 2026 www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

Job announcement: Three Lecturers in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Manchester Details, including the full job description and person specification, are available here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

“Someone who cannot criticise the actions of the Israeli government without suggesting that British Jews should be punished for those actions is, at a basic level, incompetent.” Hear, hear @stephenkb.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/a0177a88-e...

"She was pleased"

Who do Americans spend time with? This changes a lot over the course of their lives. 🧵

Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in Quantitative Sociology of Work & Labor Markets. Come join @demosocupf.bsky.social www.upf.edu/web/politiqu...

They're looking for people with strong quant skills (psych/sociology/related fields) to work on subjective well-being across the lifecourse at Uni Lausanne! 1 PhD position + 1 Postdoc position career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree... career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

Newcastle Green Party election candidate Tina Ion’s racist anti-Jewish and anti-Afghan posts are shocking enough, but she is also behind a spoof Anne Frank account on Meta’s Threads platform that takes her antisemitic bile to another level altogether. 🧵

"The Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology seeks to appoint one permanent Lecturer post with expertise relevant to criminology and/or critical social policy to join our department in the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool." www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRJ047/l...

BREAKING: University of Sussex wins judicial review of OfS free speech fine. High Court overturns English regulator’s decision to impose £585,000 fine. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

The FT @financialtimes.com is hiring a new data journalist to join our US data and visuals team in New York. Great job, great team, great place to work. Apply here 👉 job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...