Many govt ministers, advisers and half the parliamentary party have just not yet clocked that Mahmood's could see 750k people (about three-quarters of those on the 15 year route) lose their legal status by 2029. Mostly black/Asian Commonwealth migrants (eligible to vote!) bsky.app/profile/jame...

Again, I beg MPs and the government to actually look at the policy they may or may not be implementing and think through both the human consequences and their willingness to have 1/6 of all care staff be deported.

JICYMI - hugely enjoyable interview with the Count himself on the Today Programme this morning: starts at 2hrs54min into the show.

On my way, Clacton.

Nigel Farage has just claimed that men in London are too afraid to wear watches in public, which is just transparently nonsense

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

The weekend! Why not write a quick email to your MP to encourage them to stop #UKHE spiraling? With the change in leadership and Burnham's focus on regional strengths, there's a window to change government's strategy. Template with suggested low-cost interventions: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

The new academic year starts in 2 months. The modules to run are set in stone even if the all-new first year ones haven’t yet been designed. All that remains is to decide which 3 of the 23 of us will still be here to teach them. The redundancy selection criteria has not yet been announced…

*shudders in ancient medicine* “Researchers exploring the Roman-era ruins of Heraclea Sintica [Bulgaria] have unearthed an 1,800-year-old bronze lithulkos, an ancient surgical tool used to remove bladder stones with a hook.” I once taught ancient medicine & bladder stone surgery is terrifying🪨 🍴

This is nonsense. The (tiny) tuition fee rise seen so far is massively offset by over a decade of real terms cuts. Adjusting for inflation tuition fees are lower now than a decade ago - when the teaching grant was much larger.

This is further vandalism of UK higher education. This grant funds teaching in key expensive areas, incl chemistry, physics, nursing, etc. It used to help fund archaeology too.

Jimmy Anderson holds the joint record for playing Tests under most different Prime Ministers - 8, alongside Sachin Tendulkar and Sarfaraz Ahmed. Now the UK will shortly have a new PM, we call on the selectors to bring Jimmy out of retirement for one match to enable him to take the record outright.

"Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said "DCMS [the Department for Culture, Media and Sport] is supposed to counter and deal with misinformation, not run away because it's all too much." Yeah, but it a rigged game. Misinfo is a feature of the site now, not a bug. You can't beat the owners algo.

History matters.

Revealed preferences suggest this 37% drop in small boat nunbers (first two quarters) is treated as ×10-x50 times less newsworthy than a 37% increase has been. Given high salience of the issue, should broadcasters try to check/balance that instinct?

This is a big problem. If the last information people receive is always “numbers went up” because “numbers went down” is never reported we shouldn’t be surprised that perceptions about immigration end up so skewed. Media should take some responsibility here - this is a salient and polarising issue.

Reminder that there is actual scientific research debunking the claim that trans women have any advantages in sports. But it’s not like SCOTUS cares; they just want to be hateful. 🧪

Went to prize-giving at my daughter's school today. Was EXTREMELY impressed by the talk given to the pupils by Lady Edwina Grosvenor. And by the thanks from the 6th form girl who is current Head of School. Hope the kids there paid attention as really great advice was given by both.

yeah. Just posting this again in case anyone cares about actual research and evidence-based descision making www.livescience.com/health/there...

Feel like I have hit a wall of exhaustion. #EndOfTerm-itis #academicsky

Taxing vulnerable people for the crime of fleeing from war, torture and persecution. A new low from Shabana Mahmood

Migrants can't possibly assimilate into our culture of... <checks notes> ... working all week, loving our families, having a few hobbies, having a drink and a laugh with our friends, and occasionally going on holiday. Just a uniquely <insert country here> experience, that.

The value of the humanities is more than just what people are willing to pay for it — it can’t just be a business decision. The arts and humanities are fundamental to the flourishing of our society; knowledge gathering, critical thinking, and creativity should be defended as sacred things

The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???

I am going to log off because I am so disappointed that a number of Americans who I thought would know better are so instent that we lack air conditioning in Europe because of a sense of moral superiority. We cannot consume our way out of this *currently*. There are legal and structural reasons.

Some good news here that deserves wider recognition. And to be used to remind any climate sceptic who thinks Net Zero costs too much. Clearly, given this heat wave, we need to work on every country getting there! And on the UK pushing thru on it.

I've found a room at the university with cooling. 😁 Woo hoo! I might actually be able to get my brain to work again. But the lights turn themselves off every few minutes! 😢 Boo! Maybe it's telling me to use it as a place to catch up on sleep after so many nights without sleeping? 😴😜

IFS now estimates that male graduates will earn £109,000 more than non-graduates and women graduates £90,000 more than non-graduates over a lifetime. So if average lifetime earnings are your main concern, go to university: on average, you'll still be quids in. And you'll grow your mind.

How the jobs figures pan out. Net zero: massive new employment. Return to fossil fuels: mass unemployment. Don't ever let these grifters persuade you they have your interests at heart. They dance to the tune of their funders. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'The University of Exeter is proposing to cut about 150 staff roles. A spokesperson for the university said it was "consulting with colleagues over limited and specific potential changes across some areas of our academic faculties".' 1/4

How are things in Belfast? Are the people with Legitimate Concerns about paedophilia attacking unionist politicians’ homes in response to the Donaldson verdict? They aren’t? How strange. Their Concerns seemed so Legitimate when they were burning foreigners out of their homes a few weeks back.

Where are the save our girls crowd?

I am very sad that the person who won the first Labour majority since 2010 has so blithely wasted their time in office. I may not be a member or supporter of the Labour, but for the chance for transformative change to be so proudly wasted on performative nationalism and managed decline is tragic.

As a matter of URGENCY, PLEASE could 100,000 of you sign this petition in the next week: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

This is so wrong. Right now, we really need expert correspondents to fight disinformation and misinformation all over the web

We are advertising a 3-year Evolution Education Trust funded #PhD studentship at @ugiatucl.bsky.social UCL to investigate the genomic history of infectious diseases preserved within historical pathology collections. Details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... #findaphd #EET

One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth

How good is Palantir's NHS platform? Important story from Laura Hughes and Amy Borrett - www.ft.com/content/a3e9...

Ten years after my wife, Jo Cox, was murdered, I believe our country is in peril, writes Brendan Cox If we really believe we have more in common than that which divides us, we must tackle the social cohesion emergency that is menacing democracy https://bit.ly/3RYSTvB

PERSON OF THE DAY. 16 June 2016. Labour MP Helen Joanne (“Jo”) Cox (aged 41), was murdered by a far right extremist in Birstall, West Yorkshire. She was 1st sitting UK MP to be assassinated since the Conservative Party’s Ian Gow, who was killed by an IRA car bomb on 30 July 1990.

Excellent post on some surprising post-Brexit trends - well worth your time

I'm quoted today in @theleaduk.bsky.social: 'I don’t think in my career there has been a time when... rank and file academics are so far from the government'. national.thelead.uk/p/brexit-eu-...

As long as the government remains on the fascist enabling X nobody can take anything they say seriously with regards to social media and safety

Cannot imagine a more telling sign of Russian desperation. A wonderful, historic landmark of tremendous cultural value being attacked out of fear and what must be a growing understanding of Russian failure.

Gutted I can't make this but hopefully sone of my #Winchester peeps can! #Hampshire

The Kharkiv Art Museum after today's Russian attack. Destroying Ukrainian history, art, language, and cultural identity is a page from an old Russian playbook. Cultural genocide is what they do.

10 years after the Brexit vote. UK economy is significantly smaller than it would otherwise have been. Trade has suffered. Business investment and productivity growth have stalled. Families are on average thousands of pounds a year worse off.

Had a wonderful and fun evening at the 🏏 World Cup! NZ threw it away with their dropped catches (despite the AMAZING one by Maddy Green to gather Deandra Dottin out) so that WIndies won. Women's cricket for the win! Lots of girls watching. And also lots of men & boys.

You’re all paying attention to the wrong World Cup www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...