Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

The president who hosted Nick Fuentes for dinner

I've been searching for additional publications I could subscribe to (replacing my Washington Post subscription, now cancelled). My search just got a bit narrower.

The first house I bought In Charlottesville was built (IIRC) in 1948 and the deed covenanted that it could not be sold to a person of the negro race or Hebrew religion. Probably true of every house in that neighborhood. Retvrn.

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

This article deserves to be much more widely known/cited than it is. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Burn. In. Hell.

No-one needs ANY of these corporations. You can boycott them all -- just as with Disney after the Kimmel thing. If anyone wants some help setting up a laptop with Ubuntu, I'll do what I can. Use Brave for browsing. Get off Facebook etc. entirely.

If you know the type of UK academic news that usually comes with an initial embargo, then you'll know what sort of good news I've received that I can't currently tell you (!).

The trend is real, but this NYT analysis at the Congressional district level has big ecological bias Poor *areas* vote Republican, but it's often the richer *individuals* within those poorer areas that are most Republican And many poor *individuals* rich blue urban *areas* vote Dem

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%

If someone receiving a fine of this sort happened not to be a UK citizen or have indefinite leave to remain, would getting a fine like this perhaps reduce their chances of success in an application for ILR/citizenship? Shocking...

Tailor-made for @mcmegan.bsky.social ...

The reason “viewpoint diversity” is indeed a “MAGA plot” is that the term is cover for an effort to control & destroy US universities. Has @mcmegan.bsky.social asked herself: who now counts as a “conservative”? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... 1/3

I don’t want a king either.

SO FIX IT YOU FOOLS!!!!!!!! www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

New qualitative (health services research) post with my old pal @gemhughes.bsky.social in Leicester. Good team, fun project jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/12...

1) cops never actually do this. 2) any who would are the ones you definitely want gone.

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

I've been a Wikipedia editor for ~20 years. I used to be very skeptical about its reliability re any issue where there is ideological "vulnerability" (temptation to impose a partisan viewpoint). But I agree that is mostly beyond right-wing control. Can't be bought. Now more important than ever.

All conspiracy theories eventually lead to antisemitism.

To be fair, we thought they said "the best and the brightest" but obviously they said "no breasts and the whitest."

When applying for a job at (full) professor level, what would a "job market paper" mean, as a component of the application? The term makes more sense for an entry-level position, when a newly-minted PhD (or ABD student) only has unpublished papers. For prof job, just give them published articles?

When applying for a job at (full) professor level, what would a "job market paper" mean, as a component of the application? The term makes more sense for an entry-level position, when a newly-minted PhD (or ABD student) only has unpublished papers. For prof job, just give them published articles?

The Israeli government's planned hosting of Tommy Robinson is a reprehensible betrayal of Jewish values and history. Robinson is a racist street thug. He is no friend of British Jews. We must never permit the far-right to exploit antisemitism to attack Muslims. Good to discuss on i24News.

I hope and believe that most of my fellow Jews will join me in saying that it is sickening that anyone should justify this outpouring of execrable racist bile by claiming that it's for our sake.

If only it were so easy...

hmmmm: "Enjoying international cuisines makes people more tolerant" "this study's cross-sectional design does not allow us to firmly determine whether ... ethnic food engagement ---> support for outgroup rights over time." And yet, there it is, in the Guardian journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I can still remember the shock of being a naive student in the 1980s and seeing some of Dublin's finest propertied middle class screw student tenants out of money. Kudos to the former tenant who coldly claimed revenge 16 years later. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Immigration is not just an overwhelming net positive for the UK, but desperately needed to keep the country running. Anyone claiming otherwise has nothing to offer but hatred and a race to the bottom.

25 people could stop this. Twenty GOP senators and five GOP representatives could summon the courage of their lives: vote to impeach, and then convict. And then do it again if Vance doesn't learn the intended lesson. It doesn't even have to mean a Democratic president. Just an end to lawlessness.

25 people could stop this. Twenty GOP senators and five GOP representatives could summon the courage of their lives: vote to impeach, and then convict. And then do it again if Vance doesn't learn the intended lesson. It doesn't even have to mean a Democratic president. Just an end to lawlessness.

“Most British Jewish voices have consistently been clear that they reject Robinson’s bogus claim to be an ally of their community. It is important that we hear that again now.”

Here’s a comprehensive list of appropriate responses upon hearing that a man murdered worshippers at a synagogue: 1- this is fucked up, fuck that guy, fuck antisemitism, solidarity with the victims 2- see above

The RS surely has a duty to 'police the personal political opinions' of a Fellow if those opinions and actions act against the scientific process and community.

Something really fucking scary happened to me today and it turns out it was a scam I didn't know about. I consider myself pretty savvy about the various scams out there, but this one got me. Someone called, identified themselves at Sgt. Frank Sullivan with Middlesex County Sherriff, and badge #.

A research idea (in case there’s no study already): What happens to a #UCU branch when its leadership is mainly UCU-Left? Does membership fall b/c some people are alienated by the ideological nonsense? Are there more strikes, and/or less effective strikes? I mean, maybe my suspicions are wrong...

What could go wrong?? He did such a great job with Iraq...

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone. And you're cutting... the sleeper? www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

1/ There’s quite a lot of misunderstanding by good journalists about how right to work checks operate. It’s not illegal to work without having provided proof of your right, as James goes on to say later in the thread. And employers are not under a legal duty to conduct checks: ID is not mandatory.

ICE ite domum.

Actually existing capitalism.

Whatever a Fabian is, I now want to be one.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

He might as well be shooting people on 5th Avenue. It would be better, a lower death toll.

I really hope the Starmer speech on patriotic renewal is better than this summary of it, which basically argues that New Labour and the Tories let in too many immigrsnts but this one is going to give you a youth club instead so please don’t vote Reform www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f9444c6...

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.