Interested in attending 1-2 sessions on embodiment and nervous system regulation with tips for you and your students? Join us Feb 9 & 16 at 6pm Cairo (5pm GMT, 11am ET). More details and to register us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I was looking at UCU ballot papers for industrial action, and the last element is about Universities coming together to agree not to close courses, but... isn't that a cartel under UK competition law?

Very much looking forward to speaking at this - do say hello or drop me a message on the discord channel if you want to meet up #ALTC25

Here's the relevant chart from the above report. It's rare to see such a clear, consistent slope in any social trend. That segregation is decreasing is perhaps the best evidence, least controversial social fact of modern Britain

Evidence in this report, by the leading academics on the topic bsky.app/profile/omar...

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Looking forward to speaking at #alt25 - This is absolutely more human than machine.

Counterintuitive but makes sense: wfh doesn’t encourage a “work from anywhere” world, rather it reinforces large cities bc long commute times become less of a disutility

Wake up babe, it's Black Shuck day.

"MISTER DO YOU DRIVE THE TRAIN?"

Man explaining on Times Radio that Asylum seekers should be rounded up and put into work camps and 'kept away from people' - no challenge from journalist on street, no comment from John Pienaar...

Em.. just realised that playing around with agentic features on some AI tools provides a route to automating stalking.

www.instructure.com/press-releas... - being baked into everything.

I really need to start checking here more often - got sucked into a LinkedIn hole post-twitter...

Opinion: One of the destabilising forces in the world today is the advanced age of those who run it. https://on.ft.com/3TXNnHc

Today has been watching the OFS NSS data site spin round and round...

Interdisciplinary teaching takes a critical centre stage at this latest episode from #TIRIgogy ConnectED podcasts 👇 Educating for Complexity: The Case for Interdisciplinary Learning - Featuring Prof. Carl Gombrich, Dean of the London Interdisciplinary School open.spotify.com/show/5OpYCOf...

Looks too much like known wrong 'un Tim Westwood for me to concentrate on song. #eurovision

Oh dear that was a terrible close-up. She should drink fluids and seek medical attention #france #eurovision

Some accident with the size of the Italian instruments?

I like his mate with the Judy Dench haircut. #eurovision

My nan had a jacket just like that to go to the Legion in. #Eurovision

Sign up here for "The Implications of Polycrisis for Higher Education," an online event co-organized by the CHES@UCL and CHET@Bristol. Panellists are Sharon Stein, Basma Hajir and me; the discussant is Richard Hall. #HigherEd, #UKHE, #AcademicSky www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-implic...

Brilliant!

I know women get this a lot on social media but slightly bemused as a 49 year old man to get unrequested DMs on LinkedIn advising me to shave off my beard... 😂 "ugly", "makes you less handsome".

Hopefully I can think of something sensible to say... #secretlifeofstudents

I take the point in the #secretlifeofstudents opening that most undergraduates are 18 and it focuses on that but.. Many are not.

If you are at WONKHE Secret Life of students tomorrow - come and say hello as I'm easy to spot.

One of my pet hates - guy in hotel bar being rude and dismissive to staff... 😐

When I was an academic, I had pro-bono hours that I models on other professions - when I used them up for the year, they were gone!

How @DCU offered students cross-curricular modules to increase student choice in elective subjects and foster creativity, by Drs Tiernan, Gallagher, and White. #EdSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/fostering-creativity-in-the-classroom/

OK, odd question as I don't have a baby, but can anyone recommend an audio only baby monitor with adjustable sensitivity? Having someone to stay overnight so I can dialyse safely, but need my helper to hear the machine alarms if I am unconscious.

I have been slimming down both literally and in terms of possessions - after many bags to the charity shop, I am still finding clothes I have no memory of buying.

And so the demise of research in higher education accelerates. Can't submit a great funding bid because half the Co-Is are under notice for redundancy. So all work grinds to a halt - even for those institutions/academics remaining. This is simply the devastation of higher education in the UK.

I've written a new post for the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social UK Universities are reluctant to break a toxic social media relationship. A thread. I've collated data that backs this up and expanded on my spreadsheet docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Article blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... 1/13

The point about "acting like small businesses" is a good one and common across the sector - with the performance and reward systems we have, nothing much else makes sense for many roles.

Not a laptop replacement but the s10+ tab feels like a good "out at a conference/event" day device. Pen is great as well. Good old Samsung economies make the price decent.

⬇️⬇️ great to joint this podcast to talk about flexible learning, we agreed on lots but there were healthy differences too. 🔊🎙️🎧 Diverse global perspectives 🌍 and a few top tips too. Thanks to @advancehe.bsky.social

'Since the adjustments to the Office for Students’ (OfS) Condition B3: Student outcomes, published continuation rates have dropped from 91.1% in 2022 to 89.5% in 2024 for full-time students on their first degree.' Interesting, worrying statistics on declining undergraduate continuation rates. 1/2

Not a dig at colleagues at Cardiff but good example of existing gaps in sector - what they seem as extreme is below the SSR I ever had to manage...

Random question - stats on teams vs Zoom in Australian Universities?

An excellent weekend at the great Con-junction promoting Dr Wright's new book on Jim Henson and Fairytale. Register now for a discount code when the book becomes available - www.thebestplacebythefire.com

I keep running into Patsy Palmer in various places and she is absolutely lovely.

A conference on scholarly publishing Wondering whether there would be any appetite for a conference to discuss all things Scholarly Publishing - recogni... [For some reasom Bluesky will not let me post the full thread. If you have LinkedIn, take a look there: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Hi, we're new here! Here's a bit about us... We're a UK-based campaign and research organisation, made up of members of the academic community, dedicated to ending sexual misconduct in higher education.

Anthropic, a company that is helping companies replace workers with AI, asks prospective workers to not use AI in their job applications because they want to know if they know how to do anything without AI: www.404media.co/anthropic-cl...

The academic in the family has a new book on #JimHenson, and his work on fairytales coming out—lots of interesting new analyses based on the Henson family archives and interviews with collaborators.

In my semi-regular bags I like - timbuk2 Deluxe is a light and decent bag for an work overnight or if you push it two nights. Good laptop storage and pockets.

Over the course of this week the @ukcla.bsky.social will publish the fantastic contributions to an event I organised in July last year. Below you can find my introduction to the series. I will use this thread to highlight the individual posts. It should be of interest not just to lawyers, but to /1

I believe it is different with Web search off? #deepseek