It's the little titbit at the end, that the impact assessment found reducing migration would have a negligible impact on community cohesion, that I especially like. That seems to be the government's current sole justification for their policies: www.ft.com/content/2b60...

and here we are in an institution with no deficit having finished our second round of voluntary redundancies, something a majority of institutions with actual deficits haven't resorted to; they're not even trying to make it make sense

Ethnographic methods in philosophy? Submit an abstract for this exciting looking conference organized by Deborah Mühlebach’s CRITICAL AGENCY project! The deadline for this CFP has been extended to this Friday, Dec. 5 philevents.org/event/show/1...

I ended up drafting an email that didn't really lean on research specific to grade school education, but expressed my concerns in the most basic terms. I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful: bit.ly/TeacherEmail...

I searched for Australian caramel slice recipes and this 'advanced chat model' gave me australian tuna and rice, and australian roast beef recipes. Turned it off, and there we go - the recipes I actually need. Good to hear you're contributing to killing the planet Duck Duck Go for utter BS results.

We read one of her papers for my #envhum seminar a couple of years ago. So good.

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7. the kinda appealing, but substantively indefensible, idea that somehow AI is different to other technology, like calculators, in a pedagogical context — but we totally ban a great deal of technology in the classroom. (Section 3.7 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 9/n

We can't really say this enough... > Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate. www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...

This aspect of temporal injustice is where time policy awareness for local governments can be very helpful. Planning is not only about spatial issues, but could include time issues as well.

🔴 NEW: The University of Edinburgh has quietly paid more than £750,000 to a controversial consulting firm amid job cuts - staff say bosses ignored "repeated" questions about its role. Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...

I remember someone telling me that they heard from their doctor relative that we should not be going out and voluntarily stayed home 3-4 days before the actual lockdown. Ie we were operating on rumours and having to make our own decisions.

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Woohoo. A great book. Cant wait to see the film

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The Northern Exposure episode where the town marks Thanksgiving with Indigenous residents pummeling white people with rotten produce feels pretty apropos right now. 🍅 (Redmond is an affluent-ish suburb of Seattle & home to Microsoft & Nintendo, for those not in the know.)

Biodiversity, water, food, health and climate are linked more tightly than many realize. Our new interactive, inspired by the @IPBES.net #NexusAssessment, shows how decisions ripple across the sectors and why integrated thinking matters now. Check it out: www.besnet.world/a-nexus-appr...

I really valued the basic bits of formal logic I did, and more general things like how to reconstruct an argumemt + informal logic. These parts I definitely think everyone should take.

Just had the third bike accident of my life where I would have had a really bad head injury if not for my helmet. I went through a deacde or so of being made fun of, particularly in Oz, for this. But after a plea from kids at my school who lost their friend at age 12, I committed to it.

Proud to see London is fast becoming a cycling city ⤵️ 📈 Daily journeys are 12% up from last year to 1,500,000 trips 📈 Up by more than 40% since 2019 This is just the start, we’ll continue working with partners to improve safety and invest in more routes.

Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion. This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more! www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Cameron Toll would be the ideal transport interchange - a covered, cross platform interchange with high capacity, rapid trams. Would reduce the number of buses using the key Bridges corridor allowing more space for pedestrians along the line Good for business too - if integrated with the centre?

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

A great project, but gives people insight in a system where it will then be almost impossible for them to get officially diagnosed and given the right treatment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #adhd

🤷🏾‍♀️ www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

*All-time record* set at the Omni Centre cycle lane on the 7th November - 2,265 cycle journeys. I can only speculate that the rollout of Voi e-bikes has significantly boosted cycling in Edinburgh this autumn, bucking the seasonal trend.

Two exciting postdoc positions available! Historical windstorms - working with two insurance companies to explore UK wind risks: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Extreme event storylines - working as part of a EU collaboration on event attribution: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

Edinburgh Council is not proposing the 'destruction of a park', it's proposing the restoration of a former railway line to meet climate targets, reduce congestion, improve air quality, provide economic opportunities, enhance mobility and reduce social inequality. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Every time the shocking, perplexing tactic of “giving money to people who need it” is tried, it turns out to work. And yet people who have more money than they could ever need remain baffled.

I was on a CAHMS children's facing website and in the corner is an AI chatbot. It states initialy that you are not talking to a real person, but then uses a cute robot icon to say "Hi I am Balm".

So good, by @cammy-06.bsky.social @sapiens.org: "Selkie stories often centered female autonomy. Female selkies choose their partners, return to the sea leaving families behind..Giving voice to women’s agency, these narratives shape reality, empowering human women" #Orkney #anthropology #multispecies

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

@argonautbooks.bsky.social has put together a letter to Waterstones, which you can read and sign here: c.org/BW7b88mRSw

It's about deep-sea mining and how it could impact the animals that migrate through potential mining sites, but it's also about the month I got way too into eels. What we know we don’t know: impacts of deep-sea mining on whales, dolphins, sharks, turtles, and other migratory species.

Great turn out at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social rally at the Scottish Parliament!

"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn." #HigherEd www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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very funny to read these emails and then remember summers wondering whether the leaky pipeline in stem was because women are inherently bad at math

NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh

"many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation" hachyderm.io/@mariyadelan...

I am bewildered that this labour of Sisyphus is being carried out by volunteers, while Southern Water, which has admitted responsibility for the catastrophe, is doing nothing to remediate it.

Congratulations to our newest Green councillor, Cllr Mike Dunn, on winning the Long Ashton ward by-election in North Somerset with a huge Green vote!

Up to £2,500 for 2-4 weeks in 2026. Open to postdoctoral researchers, or those with comparable records of research.

I cannot really see how their 'data centre watch' project can be separate from the company, given how one of their advertised services is essentially creating reports on local oppo against data centres for the companies that are building them archive.ph/RBPxF

At the same time you have Joe Rogan invoking peer reviewed research, as the kind of proof needed if claiming election fraud.

We need more of this: www.theguardian.com/education/20...