I was today years old when I realised that Bonfire Night celebrates the defeat of the Gunpowder Plot, rather than celebrating them having a go. (Still think this might be fake news from @theresthistory.bsky.social)

If you're applying for a job at Anthropic, they want to make sure you write the first draft of your resume and the answers to the job questions ON YOUR OWN (WITHOUT CLAUDE) FIRST.

Policy is hard, and so our governing party prefers doing politics instead.

Book manuscript submitted for peer review! Since 2016, there have been many assumptions about the relationship between right-wing populism and the economically “left-behind” in deindustrialized areas. What has been missing, however, is sustained historical analysis.

My book's out on Thurs. I have a request - pls ask your local library to get a copy so everybody can enjoy it? (also available as audiobook). ISBN: 9781529930276 / @hjm.bsky.social @astroroyalscot.bsky.social @rogerhighfield.bsky.social @romatheengineer.bsky.social @robinince.bsky.social

New post by me on the rural-industrial paradox. Across the UK rurality is important to engineering capacity, and engineering is economically significant in 3/4 of our rural regions beverleygibbs.substack.com/p/the-rural-...

Why is the sky blue, and how do things stay aloft? ☁️ Join engineer Lucy Rogers to discover the forces shaping everything overhead through hands-on demonstrations and stories. www.rigb.org/whats-on/liv...

📢 I've joined the Substack game, writing about work, capability and place. Post 1: England is making strategic decisions about AI and industrial policy on the basis of an incomplete map, and the Marches region shows us why that matters. Comments welcome beverleygibbs.substack.com/p/the-hidden...

Babs Streisand has just Streisand Effected her own name. Incredible work. #oscars

Did Frankenstein's Kate Hawley just curtsey to Anna Wintour? 🤣😅 #oscars #oscars2026

Must read piece. 'The US has started a war without any legal, moral, strategic or political basis whatsoever. And yet instead of raising the alarm about it, the British press’ main question is why Britain is not more involved.' And 'Is Iraq really that long ago?'

Which came first - banoffee pie or Banana Toffos? 🧐

Join me trying to make sense of this lot on the 1st Sounds Critical radio show on Swingdash, 5-7pm today. Meeting the moment by selecting bangers www.swingdash.live/schedule/not...

Academic freedom & freedom of speech are not ‘in the DNA’ of universities as some claim. They are hard-won privileges that need protection and we need to be alive to the possibility they are not equally distributed. Some myth busting here: www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/02/19/c...

I do wonder if "public expectations" here actually means "what universities think is right for themselves". I imagine the general public would support, eg, B3 conditions and REF/TEF ideology unless presented with a (presently absent) compelling alternative system vision

I know it’s crazy out there an all that, but you still should be working on an artistic pursuit and/or making music. You’ll be glad you did.

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.

A legend.

@johnthejack.bsky.social Seasonal greetings JtJ! Hope you're successfully evading current viruses (apparantly "Latin-based plurals are best avoided")

This is terryfing, tragic, and completely and utterly unfuriating

Innovation, Investment and Inclusion. I've been proud to have been part of the Social Mobility Commission's Economic Growth & Investment Group this year, and today our report is released. Take a look! socialmobility.independent-commission.uk/reports/inve...

Outside London,not a single UK region is a net contributor to the economy. London's success helps mask a very dysfunctional economy.

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It’s ironic that the makers of Snickers bars didn’t think the old name was suitable for the long run. #weakendpun

What do you get if you cross a baker with a gardener? Self-raising flowers. #weakendpun

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Please note: when it was originally posted last week Bev's article was restricted content for EPC members only, but given the wider relevance, we've decided to make it open access for a limited period. You can find and share it here: epc.ac.uk/article/how-... 4/4

The brilliant @bevgibbs.bsky.social has written a piece for @epc.ac.uk on inclusive assessment – it's a must-read, not only for engineering academics, but for anyone interested in how HE can deliver fair assessment for *all* students. epc.ac.uk/article/how-... 1/4

I used to think that orthopaedic footwear was unnecessary, but I stand corrected. #weakendpun

Amongst all the public information campaigns us Brits need, none is more pressing that getting people to understand what Merge In Turn actually means at roadworks.

In contrast the Engineering Council's CEO today talked explicitly about technology ethics and ethical practice being priorities for the engineering community (and he knew the difference between those things)

Neuroinclusion in engineering education: webinar with @epc.ac.uk Wednesday 9th July 3.30-4.30pm epc.ac.uk/event/all-in...

At the EPC Congress this year, Chi Obwura's keynote went seamlessly from 'technology can cause harm as well as good, social media is very worrying' to 'here are the 10 things were doing to accelerate AI adoption'. Not one of those 10 was governance or ethics.

I think these are all Final Year Projects Ive supervised

The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ Slava Ukraini.

Why would anyone expect someone who has been through what Zelensky has been though in the past 3 years possibly think he'd be intimidated by a couple of grifters? #c4news

@bevgibbs.bsky.social, Director of Dyson Inst, and EPC CEO @johnnyrich.com on innovations in Engineering pedagogy that might be helpful to @beckyfrancis.bsky.social's current review of the curriculum and assessment. Via @hepi-news.bsky.social www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/02/18/a...

Is it true that the British appreciate (nationally celebrate) the underdog more than many other nations? Doesn't every country celebrate figures who have triumphed against the odds?

Everything about this case is grotesque, but fact that no tracking tag small enough is available is transparently discriminatory design and in breach of Equality Act's coverage of age and gender. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

@gcwood.bsky.social Im foĺlowing you, but does this mean I've signed up for a livestream of train-related complaints?

We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨

My last film of the year was Conclave. And what a film.

My best book of the year - and I know you're all holding your breaths - was The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard. Time travel, fate, despair, hope...what more could you want? Really stuck with me.

Fantastic, and brilliant to see participatory methods included 👍

Wikipedia needs photos of many buildings and places around the world. Here are the requests, sorted by location. Can you help?

More often than Im prepared to admit these days.

Today I've taught risk management, decided timing of a capital project, and am prepping portfolio management material but the entire time my inner monolgue has wondered how on earth I can transfer handwriting pattern to navy jersey so I can finish embroidering a gift. Tonight 🫨

Every day I spend a little time checking (from my sofa-based Wiltshire panoptican) that everything is in order on the Venice Beach boardwalk. The people with the sea moss stall have given up - I'm not suprised, they didn't have a customer in 8 months. I also have a favoutite water hole in Namibia.

My time here may be short and sweet - hour 3 and I'm already blocking people. My tolerance for misinformation, snark and negativity is zero. It's a good job I myself am a reliable fountain of truth and positivity.