I wrote book reviews for a while for the WSJ well over a decade ago, and Bari Weis was my editor. One of her special tricks was to try to insert a sharp rightward slant into my essays *after* it had been copy edited, as a way of slipping her viewpoint in at the last minute.

Guys, I am working on a new #sciart essay and I cannot help myself from sharing this amazing illustration

So happy share this article, co-authored with Emilie Rasmussen and titled The personal, academic and political dimensions of researching domestic violence: an autoethnographic exploration, exploring how we as researchers are affected by studying this demanding topic. doi.org/10.1332/2398...

🧵 What's even more depressing about the state of the world right now is that humans don't seem to change. Reading about life in the 1500s, I see similar culture-war issues, the same old hackneyed grievances, the same disinformation designed to rouse the mob. Two recent examples I stumbled across...

'All the Fun of...' Wanstead Flats (2023) by Doreen Fletcher doreenfletcherartist.com

We're in the world, not against it.

The Colly Brook stream runs through Peter Tavy Coombe today after rainfall, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

Porcupine puffer with side-eye so strong it deserves to be a reaction gif 👀🐡 #porcupinepuffer #pufferfish #pufferfishofcoralcity #sideeye #reactiongif #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

#Snapdragons (Antirrhinum majus) shot on July 3rd of 2021. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Pavementplants

it is ever thus

Cichorium intybus, the nonnative Chicory, blooming in Boulder county #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to July 12 🌿

Grad school.

Some alpine magic for you...from the Vale of Belvoir, Tasmania.

The duck who lives here must be absolutely fucking massive.

did we win

look upon my works, ye mighty, and let me know what you think

Thanks to @picornell.bsky.social for originally sharing this research! A new study from shows that, in the UK, the way someone speaks can shape how criminal they are perceived to be. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mr3kf4dd 🧵👇 #langsky #linguistics #forensiclinguistics

'Khan said addressing the causes of serious violent crime, such as the effects of poverty and lack of opportunities, had been key, as had the work of the Violence Reduction Unit covering London that was set up in 2019, which took a longer term approach.'

The average salary among Russell Group leaders increased above £350,000 last year, despite these universities losing almost 7,000 staff members due to cost-cutting. Patrick Jack crunches the numbers #highered #academicsky https://ow.ly/gJK850XU77K

Nobody admits it but the real reason most people get cats is because they make a really good noise if you prod them while they're asleep.

Lowest murder rate in London since records began.

Gender affirming breakfast

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

Feeling alienated by the discourse, because my cat does not like boxes (or any small confined space).

raurenga (kidney fern)

Last night I dreamed that my best friend set me up on a blind date with an 8 foot tall woman, and while I was a bit surprised I decided to go with it, but then she turned out not to have a very nice personality.

btw this print is part of a @justseeds.bsky.social free graphics package against ICE! justseeds.org/graphic/abol... #abolishice

This guy was so ungrateful. Lots of people want bears and can't have them.

It really shouldn’t need saying that brilliant students are found across the demographic spectrum. The capacity of parents to pay for a child’s education has very little bearing on whether or not their child will be hard-working, full of curiosity, passionate and quirky, all of which would be

Which is not to say it's okay when they stick to their intended targets, just that there's something inherently chaotic and sloppy about gun use that should be factored in. Except in the movies that a lot of these gunslingers feed their fantasies on.

Violence is too often sloppy; it spills over. Misogynists kill a lot of men, racists kill white people, ICE in its attacks on immigrants and anyone who looks like them just killed a white US citizen. When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you're a gun everyone is a target.

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

ㅤ see below ㅤ

your softness will be what saves you

Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.

Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social has been taking strike action in defence of jobs this term. But in an alarming escalation, Sheffield management has threatened to "lock out", ie. deduct pay at 100% for each day, if members refuse to reschedule marking, beginning with the start of 2026. 🧵1/7

The evidence is also clear that “elite” universities do not offer objectively better education. There is no Secret Extra Learning obtained there. Just a route into other kinds of elite that is closed, by definition, to everyone else.

Sympathy https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19452

This day. 2022. 2025. 2024. 2023. #sussexgrey #photography #sky

Barnabe Rich explaining that "bookes are like cheese"

Since Jan 1 2025, which feels like four trillion years ago, research has been shared on here 5 million whole-ass times. Bluesky recently passed 2 billion posts IN TOTAL. So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research. That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.

all of my posts are made from this device

I've heard through the grapevine about a few UK universities using research metrics to make redundancy or performance management decisions, and it's really troubling, but I think there is scope to push back and hold institutions to account. #AcademicSky

you can't park there mate

I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.

"In this sense, academic publishing rivals the music and film industries. Some publishers report profit margins comparable to tech giants such as Microsoft and Google"

this one is called goose horse

At long last, we are purging chauvinist Sparta propaganda from our beautiful agoras.

I was running late to work and ironed my shirt while just wearing a bra and pants and accidentally ironed my stomach.

lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"