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It is *incredibly* shabby that the Green Party cited "family and personal reasons" for their Makerfield candidate dropping out, given it was actually in relation to sharing antisemitic posts. Had a right-wing party done the same, they'd be getting called out loudly here for it. And rightly so.

If this was any other politician, the media would be insisting that if Farage’s £5m was completely unconditional, even the appearance of corruption that comes from adopting the donor’s favoured policies is unacceptable. Farage would be hounded until he resigns.

"Reform MPs, their humour is slightly snarky, aggressive and unpleasant – it works on social media, but is shown up in moments like this." Robert Jenrick turned a shade of puce after he was humiliated in the Commons, with nothing to offer in response... www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/robe...

"One thing is for sure – a heritage crime is being committed here and it stinks."

Nearly half of our universities are forecasting deficits. Institutions across the country are closing departments and issuing redundancy notices. The government don’t yet consider this a crisis. How many more jobs must be lost before ministers act?

HISTORY IS COMING: 40c IN EUROPE This will arguably be the harshest spring heat wave in European history We can see up to 40C in Spain,35C in Central Europe for days. Thousands of records will be pulverized in Spain,Portugal,France,Benelux,UK;SCandinavia,Germany,Alps,Czechia,..

And I would add: archives, museums

Thrilled I've got 150 responses to my survey on personal tutoring! I'm aiming for 200 responses, so if you're an academic in UK HE who's had pastoral responsibility for students in the last five years, whatever that's called, with ten minutes spare, I'd love to hear from you. Do share if you can.

Very amused by this. Both by the American dunking on the cooking and others, incl me, v impressed by cooking with veggies etc in the cab of a van! Don't miss watching part 2 where basil etc gets added too. And I love their name #thescransitvan

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Amazing idea. Not least to stop senior management insisting we engage with University strategy at the busiest marking period of the year

A story in 3 parts, which won the 1994 Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine. PART 1: A former Marine was bitten by his still-venomous pet rattlesnake - & as any of us would do, he tried to 'flush the poison out' by attaching sparkplug wires to his lip & revving his car up to 3000 r.p.m. for 5 minutes. 1/

🔴 The next Cambridge Analytica scandal

Yep. This. Archaeology is about people!! It's not just about the past. Indeed, I have been known to say that archaeologists are nosy about people in the past!

FInally, one regulator will look at Nigel Farage and his (changing) explanation of the secret £5m he pocketed. Even Ofcom has shown a twitch of life But the media regulator still doesn’t get it app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73586/...

Watching the news from Ukraine in horror and worry. Obviously not just the people I care about there, but especially them.

Palaeoproteomics of Homo erectus! Really intriguing but I am also unsure what we know/understand and what it all really means. So many questions! 🏺🧪

England university crisis. 24 institutions at risk of insolvency within the next 12 months. A further 26 at risk of exit in 2-3 years. Dire consequences for students. Need govt plans. Sector destroyed by successive govts. £267bn student debt.

This, from Nick Kristof, is required reading www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Did not expect Mahmood to deny Starmer ILR but I guess those are the new Home Office rules.

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Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

I cannot believe I had not seen this wonderful thread until today. It is the medicine needed today. Enjoy!

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A weird morning. Constantly refreshing a webpage to see how much some neighbours hate immigrants (our area seems sane so far)... but truly miserable news from other parts of the country.

Wow, I can't believe Labour's tactic of yelling "DON'T VOTE FOR THESE GREEN CUNTS, THEY'RE DANGEROUS, VOTE FOR US, WE HATE IMMIGRANTS IN A BETTER WAY THAN REFORM!" hasn't led to them keeping all their council seats.

Kiedy po kilku latach wracasz do kraju, masz takie powitanie przyjaciół... 😍

5/6/1929 — b. Rosemary Cramp, English archaeologist, author, professor. Anglo Saxon historical expert; president of the Council for BritishArchaeology. Fellow(1959), pres(2001-04), Society ofAntiquaries of London; fellow, BritishAcademy (‘06) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #archaeology #SciSky #HistSci

The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

The reason I’m in favour of immigration and against the current policies isn’t because demographics mean that we need it for our economy - though that helps. No, the reason I’m in favour of it is basic human decency. These are human beings, not statistics.

NEW from me: many of our universities are now in a dying fall. A new global-national-regional-local split is opening up, which could choke off progress on almost all the Government's plans. Do they have a plan? Nope, nothing, not a clue. 👇 isrf.org/blog/whats-t...

At a No 10 briefing today we heard about the government's commitment to "a whole-of-society response to antisemitism”. Asked if this might involve the government leaving X, where antisemitism is not only rife but monetlised, were were told it is "something we always keep under review." So: no.

This is the kind of Britain that, as far as I can tell, is desired by Reform, the Conservatives and Labour.

Pleased that @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social were on the ball again! Nigel Farage deservedly on the receiving end! www.facebook.com/share/v/1brg...

On #openaccess co-edited with Anna Collar Paul Johnson and Katherine Crawford in honour of Prof. Simon Keay. Thank you to all of the colleagues and friends of Simon who contributed. www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

Utterly surreal. But, to me, the weirdest were the last 2 profiles - children of immigrants. 1 of them is even a member of Reform Ltd. Depressing reading and shows the impact of right wing media & social media bubbles...

It’s the time of year to be sharing this.

Maybe there is hope that the UK will not go down quite the same road as the US because we haven’t quite fully embrace the racists

23 month Lectureship in Archaeology with UHI in Orkney. Lots of exciting things happening in Kirkwall at the moment with the AEONS facilities, MA in Contemporary Art and Archaeology, and loads of fun research projects. Come and join us! myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...

High Court rules the Office for Students acted beyond its powers in its first major case; misdirecting itself on law of free speech & showing bias + a "closed mind" to "unlawfully prejudge" this case to send a signal to universities via a "wholly disproportionate" sanction (£565k fine) on Sussex Uni

That this headline needed to be written says it all really www.ft.com/content/6de0...

Yup. This was definitely the case this morning on #R4Today. There was no calling him out or questioning him properly. Or indeed not even asking when he might ever actually do his job (cf either as an MEP or as an MP).

Hungarian oligarchs begin fleeing the country, transferring assets, in anticipation of corruption investigations giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

1/ So angry. First, this is what "elections have consequences" really looks like. In addition to big stuff like wars and Liberation Day tariffs, the whole vast US machinery of state is now working everywhere, on everything, to make the world worse in every way. Thanks guys.

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I survived today's in person funeral. Now thinking of the one I cannot be at this afternoon. RIP Richard & Cathie