The university in the Black Country directly employs 4500 people, virtually all in the area. Thousands more jobs are supported by it, such as the nurses who trained there, and spin-offs. Jobs are being cut, pay is being reduced, campuses are closing. Everyone benefits from its graduates. Help it.

I'm in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today looking at why so many unis are in financial trouble and what the government needs to do to save HE. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Oh man, this conversation

Intussen is vandaag een zwarte dag voor de mensenrechten in Nederland want de Wet Tweestatusstelsel is aangenomen. Dus vanaf nu zullen duizenden statushouders die al jaren wachten op gezinshereniging een afwijzing in de bus krijgen. Onmenselijk.

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ... yes, but ... if we were market stall holders.. you said we could only sell apples for 50p. and it didn't matter how much inflation was, 50p was the price. but you also said we could sell peaches for as much as we like, because the price of apples was.. 1.

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Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

When I say that what used to be Britain's university 'system' is in complete chaos and enduring revolutionary upheaval, I really mean it. If anything I'm underplaying the whole thing. www.thetimes.com/article/1644...

Of course speaking out is necessary but not sufficient. But its the very least we should expect our government to be doing. It's time to suspend all US military from UK soil. And the clock is ticking.

It's now been 3 hours since our supposed "ally" Donald Trump threatened genocide on a country of 93 million people. We've had absolutely nothing from the UK government. This doesn't come in a vacuum either - every day the US & Israel have been murdering innocent people.

The leaders of the free world - leading liberal democracies - have a moral responsibility to organize a world wide boycott of #FIFA #WorldCup games in the U.S. and demand all matches be moved to Mexico and Canada. Same consideration should be in play for #Olympics in LA.

'We've still got 19% pay erosion compared to 2008' Dr Emma Runswick from the British Medical Association spoke to #BBCBreakfast about the latest six day strike by resident doctors in England – their 15th in a long-running dispute over pay and jobs

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

The greatest irony is that the country the US was determined to be different from has a King with no power whereas the US has elected a King with total power.

I feel much more anger towards the British pundits & politicians who failed to understand the depravity & derangement of Donald Trump than I do the ones who failed to understand the idiocy of Brexit. But it doesn’t really matter because they’re exactly the same bloody people.

Petitie | Stop het bezoek van Koning Willem Alexander en Maxima aan Trump bezoektrumpniet.petities.nl

This is so, so well-articulated.

Steeds torpedeerde de VVD onze energie transitie met het argument dat alles wel 'haalbaar en betaalbaar' moest. We gaan nu VEEL MEER kwijt zijn aan de olie en gas die we met een energie transitie uberhaupt niet meer nodig hadden gehad. Zo is hardwerkend Nederland in de steek gelaten door de VVD.

Om te huilen. Echt. CDA en D66; have you no honor?

Dit is zo waar. Bizar hoe een land dat zozeer afhankelijk is van internationale handel zo TOTAAL niet door heeft of wil weten hoe schadelijk dit soort opmerkingen zijn. Allemaal om te scoren bij de rechtse media elite (die ook zo echt weinig snappen van de wereld buiten hun eigen echoput)

🚨🚨special episode: I spoke to the UK’s former head of international energy strategy about what the war means for global energy supplies. It’s bad news, I’m afraid. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

“Enige democratie in het Midden-Oosten.” nos.nl/artikel/2608...

Of course no one from *checks notes* Sudan or Afghanistan could be in genuine danger.

Opsluiten van kinderen is schadelijk en zorgt voor trauma. Onbegrijpelijk dat deze optie in de wet komt en wordt goedgepraat. www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

Just two days later we have 100s of signatures from across the University. That's all it takes. So reach out to like-minded individuals at your institutions. Seeing if there is a similar document outlining your institutions AI Principles - contracting OpenAI, Anthropic or XAi is bound to conflict.

Dit is echt onverantwoord, een houding die doet denken aan de coronacrisis. We moeten ons voorbereiden op een grote disruptie van de wereldeconomie. nos.nl/l/2607053

In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own. Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think. We must not give away that gift. doi.org/10.1002/fee....

52% of U.K gas consumption is for heating and cooking (mainly heating). The Government committing to the simple task of delivering a heat pump, electric oven, and induction hob at every home in the land, to reduce emissions and increase energy security, should be a strategic national priority.

Israeli police murder a family.

Het is net als bij Rutte met zijn appeltje op de fiets, alleen nu uitgebreider. Hij lijkt een vlotte, fatsoenlijke en aardige politicus. Het leidt de aandacht af van het werkelijke beleid van de MP. www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

I build a feed for european grant funding that's updated daily and (IMO) far more transparent then the official EU fundign website: michelnivard.github.io/eu-grants-fe... (inspired by the NIH equivalent @sashagusevposts.bsky.social build yesterday)

'A dual-function framework of interoception: the information and coordination modes of interoceptive signaling' by Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Marie Loescher (@marieloescher.bsky.social) & Anthony Clément www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

As body-augmenting technologies become more common, it is important to understand how the brain decides what counts as "the body", and how that changes over time. My first postdoc paper 🦾 now out in @elife.bsky.social 👇

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

There's possible reverse causality, there's potential reverse causality, and then there's the fear that young people living with their parents will hurt their job prospects.

Obscene.

GA. ER. AF.

Strong dislike for this view that bland, formulaic scientific writing is desirable. I mean, we have to read this stuff, give us some flow

Cancelled my subscription after 10 years. A liberal newspaper should support equality of opportunities and meritocracy

UK governments of the 2000s and 2010s managed to buy short term "world-beating" status for British universities through a tuition fees and student loans bubble whose subsequent deflation has destabilised the sustainability of UK higher education. A practical and moral policy failure

I asked Jacqui Smith last year what other models she was looking at to avoid getting stuck in thinking the US and Australia are the only ways of running a higher education sector. Her response? That she didn't have time for that... The deliberate ignorance is going to kill us all.

Je kunt niet juichen voor de antikoloniale boodschap van Bad Bunny én Jutta Leerdam een rolmodel noemen, schrijft @rubysanders.bsky.social. Tenminste, niet zolang Leerdam zich niet distantieert van haar verloofde die een fascistisch regime aanhangt. ‘Sport ís politiek. En politiek is kiezen.’

This piece really nails how I have been feeling in the last couple of weeks. fortune.com/2026/02/11/s...

Families of nurses and carers have said they fear being torn apart under an immigration crackdown by the government condemned as “an act of economic vandalism” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is really encouraging. It's not too late to stop this.

If Starmer wants a reset - and not yet another U-turn when the parliamentary party balks at a policy - here is his chance.

Why did consciousness evolve at all? A superb special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org brings together experts across disciplines to explore the functions of consciousness and why it emerged in some species but not others. @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...