Definitely something the UK could implement! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Today’s verdict against British citizen Jimmy Lai is more than a legal failure; it is a cruel act of state repression that reverberates across every territory controlled by Beijing, from Lhasa to Urumqi. We stand in unbreakable solidarity with Jimmy Lai. #FreeJimmyLai #StandWithHongKong

IP versus parody and freedom of speech in populist times www.creativebloq.com/entertainmen...

"En el último año la #violencia desestabilizó por completo la dinámica de las #comunidades. Los maestros dejaron los pueblos por los #enfrentamientos y los médicos se marcharon luego de ser obligados a atender a los heridos de los grupos armados." #Sinaloa #Durango #Chihuahua

The absolute horror in a community already extremely deprived. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

OMG "The extreme weather system has destroyed nearly 15,000 homes across the country, sending almost 44,000 people to state-run temporary shelters"

#Postdoc Researcher on #Externalization and #Rightlessness Join our team in #Vienna to research externalization arrangements worldwide, the foundations of international refugee law, and theoretical perspectives inspired by Arendt's work. shorturl.at/W0swQ @rli-sas.bsky.social @lbg.ac.at

Iceland is right to consider this an existential threat. www.dagens.com/news/iceland...

Applications for the 2026 Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School close 10 December 2025. The event will be a meeting point of interdisciplinary dialogue, spanning 4 days of seminars, workshops, keynotes and fieldtrips. 22-25 June 2026, Seoul, Korea. Visit sthvschool.org for more info ⏰ ⏰ ⏰

📔: “The spirit and gist of a gathering of people who worked closely with Drucilla…” Thrilled to announce the publication of our new special issue, “Limit, Transformation, Imagination — Honouring the Legacy of Drucilla Cornell” edited by Karin van Marle. Read here: link.springer.com/journal/1069...

Great #budget news for Cymru/Wales: it’s going to be a playground for plagiarising hallucination machines powered by nuclear waste that will poison the earth for thousands of years!

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Calculable Bureaucratic Time: The Performativity of Data and Dashboards in a Digitizing Public Bureaucracy" by Nafis Aziz Hasan #publicbureaucracy #calculabletime #digital #data #performance #dashboards journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This government's relentless focus on growth has got out of hand.

Very much looking forward to this week’s Board of Governors meeting, at which the VC and his cronies will, as usual, blame others while maintaining that we’re about to hit a gold mine although sadly a lot of colleagues won’t be here to share the loot.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - my new article, if of interest please share.

FT investigation: Tuna-fishing has among the worst working conditions of any fishing. If you buy tuna from a UK supermarket, you may be buying the product of modern slavery. ig.ft.com/supermarket-...

So...um. Yeah. It's been a really interesting week. abovethelaw.com/2025/11/cour...

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

More extrajudicial executions...in the name of the war on drugs.

'“We’re in very dangerous times,” said the lawyer Jacqueline McKenzie, who has represented hundreds of victims at the heart of the Windrush scandal, in which Britons from the Commonwealth living in the UK legally were classed wrongly as illegal migrants.' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A fascinating interview with Rory Stewart on walking through Cumbria, and reflecting on its history and its political importance for the country. Very poignant critique on Cumbria being subject to internal colonial logics, and being seen as terra nullis. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Universities are dying...we are seeing the car crash on very slow motion. The infrastructure is being picked apart bit by bit. What is clear is that knowledge is becoming an incidental by-product.

Betting on a new REF2029 box: "In 200 words, demonstrate how this research project/unit/petting zoo Drives Growth".

A formidable example of citizen science from the margins. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Via @sundersays.bsky.social the Conservatives' draft legislation - absolutely clear that it applies to (and is intended to apply to) legal permanent residents claiming state pension (on the basis of their contributions) or child benefit for British kids. publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

I am still flabbergasted by the planned 6% levy on international students - which is the kind of policy you would only adopt if you had no idea about university finances or were intending to make almost all of them bankrupt (it could be both)

NEW: Upfront costs for top overseas scientists to come to work in the UK can be more than 20 times those charged by other countries, Royal Society says. Government insists this doesn’t contradicts its ambition to lure top researchers, at a time of turmoil in US science. www.ft.com/content/7144...

Kudos to the Guardian for reporting on research published in the European Journal of Political Research. Also: how many more studies on this do we need before centrist parties begin to rethink their strategies? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Who needs that? Learn to code, bro!

Yeah. Who needs English?

"More stories surely lurk within these labyrinthine hallways, and there could be no wittier, more charismatic guide than del Toro, who strolls and even dances through the movie with Zen grace." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

In deploying AI in the medical field, a worst case scenario would be if AI tools remain imperfect and humans lose the ability to function without them: “If you’re a betting person, you should train doctors who know how to use AI but also know how to think.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Buzzing with ideas after the launch of our Wellcome Discovery Award "Between deception and dissent: regulating unproven, disproven, or misleading health-related claims" and our first team meeting. It was great opportunity to meet and welcome our postdoctoral researchers to the team. Stay tuned!

This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.

📚New in [LAT-STS Library]! "Latin American Breakthroughs in STS Theory", edited by Noela Invernizzi & Leandro Rodriguez Medina showcases original contributions from the region, bridging Global North-South dialogues. A must-read for diversifying STS. 🔗 tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/ #STS

The Home Office doesn't lose as many asylum & deportation cases as it does because of some supposed marginal differences between the application of Art 8 in UK courts and the ECtHR view, it loses so many cases because it's caseload has long been woefully mismanaged... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In 2000, tobacco was the leading preventable cause of death among New Yorkers. In an excerpt from his new book "The Formula for Better Health," @drtomfrieden.bsky.social details how public health initiatives helped city residents quit smoking and saved countless lives. Read at @time.com:

‘What is Drug Policy For?’ by Julia Buxton looks at how our current #DrugControl regime came about, the evolution of today’s drug market and what should replace our current strategy.

I'm so tired of Starmer's Labour government pretending to take a moral stance about ILR and simultaneously undermining it, by agreeing with the most cruel positions held by Reform.