Absolutely.

Question: Once they've destroyed web traffic and made maintaining websites unviable, where do these tech companies think they're going to steal their information to train their little bots from next?

Exactly. Nothing good is going to happen while the focus is on the scapegoat rather than on the things that actually matter to people's daily lives.

I'm thinking a lot about hope today, and the role hope is supposed to have in education, not just in doing it or having it, but in designing, planning, improving, supporting, encouraging, changing, and surviving it. What happens if hope is removed from the higher education sector?

I have attended scores of talks about AI and education and NOT ONE has mentioned the environmental cost of data centers.

Farage on his £5 million “gift” from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne: 14 May 2026: “Frankly, it was given as a reward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years.” 9 May 2026: “There was nothing political in its nature at all.”

'The key findings were said to be “surprisingly simple”: “a good student academic experience ultimately comes down to quality teaching, access to in person interaction with teachers and a strong sense of belonging”.' 2/3

What a waste. Got the Tories out, and then?

2700 academic staff at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social received formal notice today that their job is at risk. Approximately 1-in-5 (22%) will lose their job. In an interview in today’s @timeshighered.bsky.social the university’s VC responded “it’s an exciting time for higher education”.

Even this report, which is damning, is a kind of whitewash, because it mostly focuses on 'protections' for when the very worst happens and students cannot complete their degrees because their university sank into the ocean. PROPOSE A FIX. Tuition up with inflation IS NOT A FIX.

I don't feel strongly either way about Starmer. But we need clarity and direction soon. A parliament that follows a disastrous Tory era and seeks to prevent racist chaos under Reform must absolutely not waste this time on infighting.

In open education spaces there is a lot of discussion around the dangers of "platformization" and how decision-making around education is often offloaded to edtech companies and publishers at the detriment to both educators and learners.

If someone who inherited a crown shows more care and humanity than some elected leaders, democracy has some questions to answer.

Work, the way it's meant to be. Treat yourself to some thinking and creative time away from the screen (he says, while typing on a touchscreen).

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

“Small boats didn’t crash the economy. Liz Truss did. Wars create refugees. Trump’s “war on Iran” will create more. The question isn’t how to stop people fleeing. It’s how to stop creating the conditions that force them to.” @drjogrady.bsky.social

I'm not a Roman Catholic, but the Pope does know a lot about Christianity. Obviously. Twisting religions of peace to justify war is disgusting. Yes, it's been done before. No, it's not what the faith teaches. youtu.be/GC0Hh8LiFng?...

A study of 38,000 people across 75 countries found that feeling connected to nature consistently predicts higher well-being, hope and resilience – regardless of wealth or culture.

Don’t buy a cow, or a car, and expect your city to give you someplace to park it. #UrbanTruth

Regulatory failure, yes. But my biggest worry is about the people who watch. When viewers seek validation of anger and hatred, more bad times are coming.

"One of the biggest challenges with meningococcal disease is that its early symptoms can look like flu or a bad cold, making it easy to overlook until it becomes severe."

#AcademicSky Bookish introverts everywhere: "Yeah. That's what we've been telling everyone, but no-one listens!" www.psypost.org/reading-may-...

Did you see this headline? Did you feel the requisite anger and rage at asylum seekers that The Sun was asking of you? Did you maybe blame Starmer because.... um... it was probably his fault🤷‍♀️ Would you like to know the reality behind the headline? Course you would!😜 Let's take a look 🧵 1/25

This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future

An interesting difference between county identity in Ireland and England, is that in England county identity is arguably strongest where it acts a point of distinctiveness from a generic English identity. Whereas in Ireland (and particularly in the diaspora), county identity *accentuates* Irishness

The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood sure has put on a show… But how much is really serious & how much is just a theatre of cruelty? Here’s the TRUTH about this week’s asylum changes youtu.be/w6Nr4ccjMlM?...

My grandfather-in-law fled Nazi Germany with his parents in 1938 and settled in the US. He refused to set foot back in Germany for over 60 years, despite all the changes made in the interim. It didn’t matter that Germany became “safe.” He wanted nothing to do with the place.

youtube.com/watch?v=yRcR... Interessante Einordnungen von Lanz und seinen Gästen. Danke!

Just because it's liberating to say obvious shit out loud sometimes: this is not what "defensive" means.

So now the strategy has shifted from ending wars and creating a new board of peace to creating Armageddon? All major religions preach peace. To mobilise them as a justification for war is just not okay.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

I don't care how warmongers pray. No religion favours war over peace. I care about the loss of life, regardless of nationality or religion. Nobody should care about prices at the petrol station. People are being killed. Whether it's cheap to fill up a gas guzzler is not the point right now.

So I guess we’re back to the same old story of the WMD’s that didn’t exist…

Trump is boasting about Iran agreeing to talks, which is what they were literally IN THE MIDDLE OF when Trump ordered the USA to attack Iran. "Hurrah, we're back to square one, only this time the whole of the Middle East is at war. Am I the greatest President ever, or what?"

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

"The most relevant question is not 'is this government bad?' or 'do they deserve it?' The most relevant question is 'will this use of military force make things better, enough to be worth the death and suffering it’ll impose?' It’s hard to see how this will." www.liberalcurrents.com/internationa...

Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail. Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

I've also been struck by this. The Trump regime is normalising the decapitation of governments it dislikes by assassinating or abducting their leaders. There are good reasons why states have tended not to make this a norm.

New, from me: Why is American attacking Iran? It helps to have a coherent reason, to justify to the US public the costs in money and blood, to allies about the potential long-term risks, and to Iranians about the future of their country. Lets take a look 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-reason...

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

The most heartening thing about Gorton & Denton is that aping the language and agenda of the far right is shown NOT to be the new centre. People want hope, peace, community and nature more than the immigrant-blaming, billionaire-enabling politics of hate, greed and division. Centrists should listen.

BREAKING: A wonderful speech from Green Party's Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election. Congratulations!

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Can we just reflect on the fact that the Tories got only 1.8% of the vote in Gorton and Denton … and bear that in mind the next time Kemi Badenough opens her mouth?

If Labour MPs refuse to see last night’s result for what it was … a clear message from the public that they want to see a more left-wing, more progressive, more youthful … (dare I say it) a more socialist offering … then they might as well give up now. Pandering to reform voters is a disaster.

The UK Green Party has nabbed a landmark win in the Gorton and Denton by-election, raising fresh questions about PM Keir Starmer’s strategy to stay in power. London Playbook has more on how the fragmentation of British politics appears to be speeding up: www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...

🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about... 🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples? We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...