‘Stones propose another sense of time, whereby the past, the deep past of the planet, proffers a meagre yet massive support to acts of human resistance…’ John Berger

Alright 2026 this year there will be a black dog and a book about big sheds and the global Apollos

UN’s Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese: “I truly hope that people will stay calm, will not panic, and will remember that the international community is made of 193 states, and this is the time to give the US what it has been looking for – isolation!”

“The system is now set up as a competitive quasi-market, with OfS in the role of regulator not planner: that shifts knowledge, power &, above all, regional responsibility onto senior mgt teams .. a position they should never have been put in and a burden they should never have been asked to carry

why can’t you retro edit your failure to alt text, ay why no

Nowhere in the political landscape contains even the merest signpost pointing to where we might go next’ -this also means any # of diagnoses & infights seem justified because everything is terrible & gi few are interested in learning anything about how we got here. 🎩 off @gsoh31.bsky.social

My article on the future of Britain's universities is now out in Political Quarterly! Regular readers will know that IMHO many simply don't have one, beyond regular radical downsizing and mergers. A vast and foreseeable waste of your money. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1467923x...

Just some rose ringed parakeets in great linford in December, they’ve got a lot to say for themselves

Taking hope in a sentimentally pragmatist kind of way I fucking love Merlin, thanks to it my 22 month old grandson can identify magpies, crows, robins and blue tits on sight and do a passable imitation of a crow

AI models are trained on books, journal articles, teaching materials without agreement of academic authors who then have to redesign their courses to try to minimise inappropriate use of AI models embedded in software provided by universities for students to use. Go figure

I am bored on this train but I have this… “She’s a psychoanalyst .. what … a psychoanalyst, I don’t know what they do exactly but I think it’s something mad and brainy

I was lucky to join @addiemcgowan.bsky.social and @philiproscoe.bsky.social's (not so virtual) kitchen to chat about Musk and founder ideology with @dominikzelinsky.bsky.social. My podcast's baptism of fire 🙈 - thanks for having me!

🥳 and it’s live youtu.be/xVG8J71YYRw?... - feat. @cibled.bsky.social & Dominik Želinský 🎧 the scent of musk tempered with a liberal appreciation of haggis

we know this is a stretch but any of you jce fluent people out there active on tiktok? or know any good acad-related accounts? think of it as an exercise in intergenerational care

Little known fact, this is one of Edinburgh’s brutalist beauties that our cover is based on, from a drawing by the talented Simon Phipps @new_brutalism on IG

Changing asset manager mandates is one of the few downstream options available to pension funds looking to drive sustainability under conditions of asymmetric autonomy. Its decarbonization impact is limited but it may trigger market dynamics. More in our paper w/ @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social

And instead of decent affordable housing for the homeless the council buys up a PBSA block before completion to house them in a student hostel made up of bedsits. www.edinburgh.gov.uk/homeless-ris... #housing #Edinburgh #PBSA flic.kr/p/2rsikue

🙄 right across the road from Pollock Halls, the most leafy, schmancy & 💷💷💷 of UoE student halls, Vita Students gonna build more student housing & no doubt demolish the ziggurat - genuinely no sure which is worse open.substack.com/pub/edinburg...

Hope is the thing with feathers (at least until you read below the line) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... BlackRock loses second Dutch pension mandate over sustainable investing concerns

idk that Donald's a developer by profession... 🙄🤨. im curious though, wikipedia is the given source of the box and it would never, so what's talking

ever day I be like

Also Twitter is not 'the arena.' Elon Musk claims he has 550m users, which is both 1) obviously bullshit and 2) half of those are bots but most importantly 3) that's not a big number compared to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, etc.

“.. Over the course of the gala, a club member struck an attendee in the face .., Trump was endorsed for a third term and a protester wearing a Nazi armband and waving a swastika-laden banner popped up .. to shout, ‘I guess we’re all Nazis!’” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

WTF are we doing here, BBC?

Our AE there trying to find out about birds and hope (and William James) @allartmarkets.bsky.social doing the science

Serious Q- have any of yous heard of the bird app Merlin and do you use it? www.birds.cornell.edu/home/the-mag...

apart from the sheer inconceivable horror of the El Fasher massacre and its attendant horrors itself, the thing I'm feeling depressed about is that it probably won't matter. these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about

“An oil driller that uses biblical verses to guide exploration has become the first company to block class-action shareholder lawsuits under new management-friendly policies approved by US securities regulators.” Do you miss Gary Gensler yet?

I know about the dark web and all of that but I’m still pretty sure that LinkedIn is the most unhinged place online.

'teflon' Summers - key architect of Washington Consensus neoliberalism - pushed out Stiglitz from World Bank chief economist for criticising financial liberalisation - promoted liberalisation till 2008 crisis - muse for small state Democrats - made sexist remarks as President of Harvard

Well well, Larry Summers is finally getting a well deserved, long overdue public humiliation for his friendship with Epstein the rapist power broker of American empire

Bloody hell, the SEC’s Caroline Crenshaw is not leaving the organisation quietly. She says there is a “rapacious” appetite to deregulate, and warns that “the darkest depths of winter still lie ahead for America’s capital markets”. www.ft.com/content/7027...

As a current union steward, I think a lot of leftists without labor experience think workers rights means “no one can get fired ever,” which is just bonkers

this is the only word I needed to learn rn today and for the last 10 years

"Atsmeawayranoopal". Stanley Baxter, beloved actor, comedian, author, and the man who introduced the Glaswegian turn of phrase to the world through his Parliamo Glasgow sketches, has died at the age of 99.

Michael Howard always had lashings of the night about him but even with everything we know about water privatisation this is an infuriating watch with howard topping most evil charts still www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Oh great giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... FT Person of the Year: Jensen Huang

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

unfortunately this arrived just before i turned my out-of-office auto-reply on happy end of term from University of Essex

It's cheap, tawdry, derivative, clearly artificial and steals from an existing picture by an actual photographer in order to sell magazines for an entertainment company. That picture really embodies the spirit of AI.

Fucking incredible dystopian shit, comparing super rich people risking millions if not billions of lives just to make more money to people that risked their life actually building incredible things that would then make millions of dollars for super rich people.

UoE central campus yesterday surrounded by police cordon as several Georgian buildings react strongly to ongoing storms. Make of that metaphor what you will

Some of it's under the radar cos (a) it's so rapid you can't even track it; (b) unis are getting better at hiding the rout; (c) press doesn't understand many of the issues. I'm really sorry, but time to act was 2022/23 and autumn 2025 was likely the last chase to save the single mass system. (2/2)

My impression is that the most rapid and really brutal university cuts are now revving up. Each of the threefold tumblers of White Paper, Budget and strike ballot failure have turned and made the situation much worse. In some places the cynicism and speed is frightening. (1/2)

jings reviewer 1 has gi high hopes for me, man I just dinnae have that much brain energy left

“Regional car dealership rococo” 💯 👑

Because of course Henry had got the full roll call from Dulwich College and of course Trevor Phillips couldn’t even be bothered to read the stories he’s writing about

It's #sketchpadvent – celebrating amazing modernist concept drawings and models. December 1: Milton Keynes from 1981

🎺 Oh the deadline for submissions to what might be the first ever insurance mini conference at SASE sase.org/events/2026-... has crept up on me. 10 days to go