My super-talented tutee there with her balloon skills that says it all. When I have a moment I’ll do a thread explaining what is going on but in brief LEICESTER IS ON STRIKE!

I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs. This tax will kill us. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Highly doubt that Russian secret service Oleg Voloshyn offered bribes to Gill, yet he declined to offer the same to a grifting former Russia Today presenter Farage. P.S. Here's Farage with Oleg Voloshyn's wife.

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Boy, is this ever Heartbreak City. I mean, #Haüyne is a blue beauty, but #Hematite has been my favorite since I was a kid here on Earth, while it was also turning Mars red. How can I say no to that? See ya in #MinCup26 haüyne, as I’m pushing hard for hematite in #MinCup25! (Alt text for more.)

Interesting article on public misconceptions about HE, including the value to the economy. And yet our govt seem happy to sit back and let it all go to shit. 🤷🏻‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Ed Davey has written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join him in condemning Elon Musk's remarks yesterday

Cour….marrow

Under his eye

This is nightmare fuel 😱

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

Fall is here. Students are excited, trees are beautiful, and I’m reminded that academia, too, looks prettiest right before it dies. #academicsky

Look I've said it before and I'll say it again: the way to stop all this wokery in the Universities is a massive cash injection, particularly a bit of a pay rise and our pensions back please. It's the only way to recruit lecturers who don't love Pol Pot and Ho Chi Minh.

Like asbestos all over again

I am fascinated by this guy who was a Higher Ed administrator and has now moved into teaching classes as a faculty member. He is documenting his whole journey on TikTok. Over the summer, he had so much excitement 🧵

We’re filling the atmosphere with CO2 like a bathtub with water. Most of it stays for millennia. That is why the cumulative emissions (the total amount, as pictured here) and not yearly emissions determine the amount of #globalwarming.

We’re jamming, jammin in the name of the Lord!

Hallelujah - it’s raining plums (literally). Maybe a quarter of the plum harvest off one tree this year - can’t keep up. They are smaller than usual due to the #drought - probably a good thing as it would have broken tree. #gardening #harvest

Back with my bestie after our respective holidays #dogsofsky #dogs

AKA 'you the taxpayer have paid a fortune to train these people, now we're gonna throw all your money away'. Are people really going to stand for that? Probably, but 🤷‍♂️

No dogs, no guns.

Interesting for all those people who say “what is the point in making CO2 savings because of China…”

NEW ANALYSIS: Record solar growth keeps China's CO2 falling in H1 2025, extending a decline since Mar 2024 ☀️212GW added in H1 alone (US only has 178GW, in total) ⚡Power CO2 down 3% 🏗️Steel/cement falling too 🏭Coal-chemicals only sector to rise www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/8

Slow handclap everyone… Please can East Leics apply to separate from the rest?!

Just because "other universities do it" doesn't mean you have to. If other universities threw themselves off a cliff would you- Okay no Don't answer that

Family review of our holiday to Germany 🇩🇪, Austria 🇦🇹, Slovenia 🇸🇮, and Italy 🇮🇹 BEST: Trains - 🇦🇹(we had first class). Public transport - 🇩🇪/ 🇦🇹 ( 🇮🇹 good but confusing) Best meal - 🇸🇮 Sausage - 🇩🇪 Gnocchi - 🇸🇮 Beer - 🇩🇪 Coffee - 🇮🇹 (but only the artisan shop in Treviso, otherwise not so good TBH) 1/4

Reposting for #Stunday image captured and colourised by my 8 y.o. Burano, Veneto, Italy 🇮🇹

Ok, so what did my 8 y.o. do with a setting that was already full of colour (see my preceding posts) - well he saturated them a whole lot more! 1/4 #photography

More from Burano, Veneto #photography

A few of my own favourite phone pics from today on Burano, Veneto (Will follow with some by my child) #photography

New career goal - be an emergency boat driver in Venice - no speed limit, everyone else gets out the way - one passed us today in a ferry and drenched us (Not my video) www.facebook.com/share/v/19fF...

Burano, Veneto - like the west of Ireland but with canals. #photography #summerholiday

🚨 I can't say it many more times, and I'm of course constrained in what I can say: act now, act now. Today. Next week. Do something. 🚨 inews.co.uk/news/educati...

More #photography from the smallest child. They are definitely developing a style of dramatic highly saturated images. I ❤️ them too. Reminds me very much of what I used to do in art (we are both red-green colour blind). At the secret garden, Jewish ghetto, Venice

A future of 30 colleagues shouting confidential student information at machines that can’t understand their accents. (I’ve used Macs since 1997, admittedly to escape a Minesweeper addiction).

Child took and colorised another photo (Venice). He was chuffed that a number of photo professionals liked his last one. #photography

Not sure how I’ve got to this point and never read any Margaret Atwood - loved this! As a #geologist I was beguiled by the cover, title, and a plot line involving revenge via a stromatolite!

Parenting on vacation is basically never choosing the dish you really want but instead the dish the kids will eat when they balk on the weird choice that they have insisted on.

As always in mainland Europe people find no contradiction between being part of a town, a region, a state and a transnational union all at once. Left to right: Veneto Region, Italy, EU, Treviso City

#photography even!

My child took this photo and then colourised it. I approve. #phorography

‘Much of what universities spend a great deal of time discussing - such as global strategy, impact & innovation, development & philanthropy - even research… [has] very little effect on the bottom line.’ Useful primer on HE finance by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/understand...

Took a minibus ride today to a new place. Anyone recognise? #summerholiday #whereami?

Today’s activities - rowing (needs practice) and summer tobogganing (good fun!) #summerholiday