Have you noticed synchronized SST anomalies between the Pacific and Atlantic in global maps? It’s not a coincidence. According to a new study in Science Advances by Joh et al. (2026), this "oceanic handshake" is directly linked to the retreat of Arctic sea ice. 🌊🧪 ocean2climate.org/2026/03/01/t...

Beep 4 Fair Pensions too!

WELCOME TO @northumbriauni.bsky.social! WELCOME TO @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social!

Total solidarity to @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social as they go on strike ALL WEEK this week. If you are in the North East - Visit their Picket Lines! Send solidarity messages and donations via ucu-unn.org.uk

✊✊✊@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social has announced more strike dates: 16, 17, 25, 26, 27 March and 20-24 April. Resolve is strong, the cause is just, and members are raging at @northumbriauni.bsky.social attacks on pay and pensions. No-one wants to be on strike, but no-one wants pay and pension injustice.

This takes a special kind of stupid.

The median annual salary for full-time employees in the UK is approximately £35,000–£39,000 as of early 2026.

Our Certification Officer hearing (Blake & McGaughey v UCU) resumes tomorrow (Tue 3 March 2026) online As before, it is open to the public if you have requested a link from the CO’s office (info [at] certoffice [dot] org) @ewanmg.bsky.social and I continue to represent our own case in this process

UK politicians are in a race to the bottom – but there is a simple, unexpected way to help refugees | Zoe Williams

I wish liberals defended teachers the way they defend the troops after they commit war crimes.

Executives at "a large global hedge fund" wish not to be "exposed to geopolitics".

‘The digital colonization of flyover states’: how datacenters are tearing small-town America apart

Dubai, the UAE, the glittery, modern, luxurious, ‘safe’ world you have is built on the blood and backs of labor from south, Southeast Asia and Africa in execrable, documented enduring conditions. How easily people ignore the ugly behind the designer stores and flashy tourist traps

“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

There's plenty wrong with UCU right now. This hearing should shed some light...

these people should all hang

There is something seriously fucking wrong with you people like your souls are completely broken.

▶️Save the date: 'GOVERNING AI IN THE ANTHROPOCENE' 18 March 2026 (Oxford, UK) How to investigate the materiality of the digital industry, and more concretely of AI, in the Anthropocene? Keynotes by Prof Velkova and Dr Sy Taffel. More details on registration soon. @oii.ox.ac.uk

some resources for cognitive scientists — especially for junior scholars who ask me wonderful questions and want to learn more — on theorising and metatheorising olivia.science/theory/ (not 100% finished & more to come, but all my work is freely available here: olivia.science#publications as usual)

Time for the Tech Bros to unplug the Military.

And this, folks, is the argument in a nutshell: You need Higher Education (and scientific research in particular) for humanity to control 'AI'.

Well, it's been a busy day prepping for my upcoming appearance in Westminster👇. The chocolate is all gone. This thread contains evidenced statistics to support the continued (not cut) funding for UK particle, astro and nuclear physics (PPAN). Thanks to everyone who contributed today! 🧵

Prediction markets: a bunch of new users bet big on war with Iran. This is not suspicious at all; we follow the law. Also prediction markets: we are not paying out on regime change in Iran, you can't have a prediction market based on death. This is not suspicious at all; we follow the law.

“You can’t bomb a country into democracy,” says Zack Polanski. The very same words I used myself on BBC’s The Politics Show during the Iraq war. I think we are correct.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

He is saying what Mike Johnson believes but won’t say. The Republican majority is more important to them than disavowing a sexual predator boss causing the suicide of staffer.

So now that Hillary Clinton has testified to the Epstein Files, the other 900 hundred MEN named in the same files are being called up to testify, right?

God, calling it Epic Fury is setting itself up to be called Epic Failure. Let’s just hope it will be Epic Fizzle Out Quickly.

You could wind-power a small country off the intake of breath made by men gearing up to say 'well, actually!' when someone of a minoritised gender has an expert opinion.

Israel's systematic attempts to kill the entire Iranian opposition leadership in Iran is indicative of what (some) of us have been saying— Israel doesn't not want to turn the IRI into a democratic republican state, it wants there to be no state. It wants a rubble-state, Gaza or Yemen or worse.

Home of reformist opposition leaders from 2009 Green Movement, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard was also hit by Israeli/US strikes. They have been under house arrest by the regime for over a decade.

Media Studies’ Dr. Josh Shepperd is completing the final project of the now-defunct CPB: the official history of US public media. Stay tuned.

Utterly horrifying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wildlife World Zoo in Arizona recently welcomed Jellybean, a baby pygmy hippo named in a public candy-themed contest to match her mother, Lollipop, and father, Tootsie Roll. The zoo’s breeding program aims to help protect pygmy hippos, an endangered species much smaller than the common river hippo.

As a colonial legal historian, co-signed. We don't like your leaders so we're going to kill/kidnap/depose them for your sake; you can have a new leader, as a treat, but only if we like them (sotto voce: and they'll do what they're told).

London Met UCU Solidarity Rally in Defense of Jobs, workload and our students education across HE *Mar 2, 2026 05:30 PM* Jo Grady and Kate Bell are to address the Branch. Our Fight is your Fight us06web.zoom.us/j/8379504192... Meeting ID: 837 9504 1929 Passcode: 983908

London Met UCU Solidarity Rally in Defense of Jobs, workload and our students education. All welcome *Mar 2, 2026 05:30 PM* Jo Grady is to address the Branch. Our Fight is your Fight us06web.zoom.us/j/8379504192... Meeting ID: 837 9504 1929 Passcode: 983908

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'IFS’ education spending report, published in January, estimates that under current policy the taxpayer will bear just 3 per cent of the total cost of financing higher education for this cohort [Plan 2 loans] – down from 9 per cent before the budget freezes.' 1/5

UCU is part of the Together Alliance mobilising a national demonstration against the far right on 28 March in central London. There’ll be a UCU bloc with flags and banners. Trade unionists, students, communities – let’s march together and stop the far right. ​

I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children. From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.

listen, I know we’re all stressed. but I think we can all come together and agree: those student reading circles at the palestine encampments are to blame for all of this

Americans aren't great at pattern recognition.

so many of the very first photos my parents took of me are taken in Iran. I was born in India, but lived in Iran, before during and after the Revolution. My father worked in a remote rural hospital for 8 years. These are real people, not the bogeymen of silly Hollywood films. Its always real people.

"Operation Epic Fury" www.france24.com/en/asia-paci...

Thought for the day. War brings destruction of ordinary people and conscript armies. Bombing forces people to shelter and encourages internal support for that regime. That's why bombing Serbia strengthened Milosevic, for example. Trump does not care about human rights. Obviously.

Remember when Congress authorized the use of force against Iran? Me neither. Any U.S. attack on Iran would violate U.S. and international law.