‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?

How UK government has just made student loans more expensive

Chancellor needs to ‘urgently reverse’ freeze on loans threshold says students union

This is both hilarious and scary. @retractionwatch.com

The upside of my mother's house getting flooded and me having to drive 2 hours early doors to clean it up is I get to watch a bit of Alcaraz over breakfast. #AO26

Great thread

Christ, this is fucking dystopian. How about free art classes, language courses, music lessons, sport sessions, further education modules or anything other than this. This is the antithesis of education it’s a campaign of national brain rot.

Djokovic is unbelievably lucky. So many easy opponents and walkovers in slams over the years #AO26

6th annual Marmalade Day. I can't take credit, husband is the maker, but I do help him eat it. #tinyjoys

Watching Willis in #AO26 doubles. Never seen anyone regrip a racquet during their own service game before.

Board of Peace - Season 1

Here ya go. Enjoy Cats vs Bears😂😂😂

31 January is also the deadline for applications to the Hugh Last and General funds. These support the undertaking, completion or publication of work that relates to any of the general scholarly purposes of the Roman Society. www.romansociety.org/Grants-Prize... (Please re-skeet!)

We are just 65 away from achieving 4,000 followers on Bluesky! Please like and share this post with your pro-Europe friends! 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎉

CALLING ALL UG STUDENTS. Awards (up to £1000) for students of classical studies at a UK University to visit classical sites and museums in Greece, Italy or the Eastern Mediterranean in the Easter or summer vacation. Society of Dilletanti travel awards now accepting applications: shorturl.at/fxXMI

Recipient today of act of kindness from stranger. Sweet. Now I need to pay it forward.

Glad to see momentum on #tennis Bluesky with #AO26 or maybe I just follow enough people now

Toasty

Help! Can anyone read these initials please?

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j... yay

Join the ICS in collaboration with the British School at Rome for an upcoming event: Myth, History and Archaeology: Peter Wiseman in conversation with Christopher Smith and Liv Yarrow Monday 19 January 6-8pm Full details here: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Cicchetti are a very important part of Venetian cuisine

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

'ok I'll read one article on something before starting on my grant proposal' the article:

Novak Djokovic stayed in the same Australian hotel room as me before being deported in 2022. About seven years after I was there.

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

Be careful out there.

Christmas day daffodil #tinyjoys

@skynewsrss.bsky.social journalist doesn't seem to know what RN stands for.

Imagine if cities demanded the same of car manufacturers.

Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move

What the heck is an image like that doing in the Times Higher

Oh wow, that's awkward. #Gullis

Happy weekend everybody! If you would like to make it that little bit more joyful, do yourselves a favour and watch this video at least once: youtu.be/-tfH1nty62U

Another #door, this time in Portugal

We pour billions into saving an economically tiny steel industry whilst actively destroying one of our largest export industries. (Yes, higher education to overseas students who already massively subsidise UK students, are counted as exports).

I ask again why any Government is still on X. Grok has clearly been shaped in its owner’s image and likeness I would very much like to know what Governments’ and journalists’ red lines are if this sort of thing is not. apple.news/At85Jo9xFRzC...

I like #doors. This is a lovely wintry example from Québec.

Great to see the new book on Carthage by @gevemac.bsky.social in my local bookshop

'The Student Working Lives report, published by HEPI with the University of Lancashire and three partner institutions, provides something that previous polling (including our own Belong survey work with Cibyl) couldn’t – linked institutional data on actual academic performance and attendance.' 1/3

Rachel Reeves to cut tax benefits for workers using salary sacrifice schemes to buy bikes www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

when the bouncers have reluctantly let me into the club but immediately realise they’ve made a horrible mistake

Citation is power. Citation is epistemology. Citation is the creation of legitimacy and the gifting of authority. Some things should not be given currency in our disciplines.

Again, don't try this at home.

No thank you www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is so important

Each one of those 98/99% of failed applications represents dozens or hundreds of hours of work for the actual applicant; a vast stack of emails about budgeting, cost-centres, reviews, approvals, HR, Finance Office, Research Support... Pissed. Up. A. Wall. For the sake of only picking "winners".

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%