Thanks once again to the Times Higher for reminding us all - hundreds of job losses and the evisceration of entire disciplines later - who the real victim is in all of this.

Is there a difference between how Reform & the 'new' Green Party do politics? 🤔

Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello…. “The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.” www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”

The fall of Saigon.

Cost of the Covid furlough scheme was around £70 billion plus £3.5 billion attributed to maladministration & fraud. Not a bad budget, all things considered

Some people do all their ageing before 30 & then don't age at all, ever - like Barry Bannon #swfc

@keefstuart.bsky.social Hi Keith (if I may). Would you happen to know how I might reach Matthew (Matt) Bielby? I've a 1980s handwritten script of his he might like back. 😅. Bradford Independent Film Group. Any help gratefully received.

“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.” Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners? www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

Brilliant #Turner2025 exhibition at our Cartwright Hall here in Bradford. Proud that we can do this sort of thing here. Exhibits from shortlisted contenders Nnena Kalu, Mohammed Sami, and Zadie Xa, Rene Matic

Fossils in the fabric of the University of Nottingham: Carboniferous corals in the slabs outside the Trent Building, where Important People make decisions. A bad week: the University has announced it is suspending the Plant Biology BSc course I lead, along with many other courses. #FossilFriday

Really terrible news from the University of Nottingham. The idea you can have a comprehensive university without language and music is absurd. Higher education serves society and you can't have a society with imagination and purpose if the people in charge decide creativity is worth nothing.

Unbelievable

‘The recommendation to abandon the English Baccalaureate at GCSE would eliminate one of the few remaining safeguards for language provision in England’s schools and risk narrowing education for the next generation.’ Our response to the curriculum review www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-uks...

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

Welcome Week & a fun hellooo 👋 meeting with a great bunch of French & Francophone Studies UGs (& plenty of them 😀). Looking forward to teaching them when I return from research leave in February. #FrenchatSheffield

Excited about the launch of our new School of Languages, Arts & Societies & delighted to be a part of the leadership team. Sabbatical first to finish the book & then back in the fray in February 😄. Onwards & upwards French at Sheffield! ❤️

Reform wanting to turn the clock back to the 1920s where working class kids left school at 14 for poverty graft & the upper middle classes reproduced their privilege through education, keeping the professions for themselves.

Anyone want a quick graphic illustration of what poverty does?

😂 #TheSaltPath

@yooge.bsky.social Hello Eugene, I've read your article about my great grandfather. There is a Bradford side of the Michallat family. My father, François-Joseph's grandson wouldn't want that to be forgotten & nor would Henry's Bristolian great-Aunt, Madeleine 🙂.

Went to see the two Pats today 😄. They were friends with Madeleine Blaess & starred in the film we made about the diary I translated. Pat Marshall & Pat Roddis are true stars 🌟🌟 ❤️ @wrunipress.bsky.social

Those who support “regime change” because it will “help women” should remember how much Afghanistan women were “helped” by our war there. They don’t do regime changes for women. They do regime changes for oil, money, and power.

Such a great project! There's also a super short film about Madeleine at www.madeleineblaessproject.com/resources/ma... that @wmichallat.bsky.social made with filmmaker James Parsons, featuring some of Madeleine's friends.

Keep an eye out for news on a forthcoming companion volume exploring the letters MB wrote home. #WomenInLiterature #MadeleineBlaess #WWIIvoices #HistLit #FrenchHistory

Wendy’s research has also inspired the Madeleine Blaess Research Portal—a rich educational resource for schools and the wider public 🌍👉 www.madeleineblaessproject.com/about/madele....

🎉 Today would have been Madeleine Blaess’s 106th birthday. We’re marking the occasion by celebrating her legacy and the extraordinary work of @wmichallat.bsky.social, author of 320 Rue St Jacques: The Diary of Madeleine Blaess 📖 👉 universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/books/m/10.2...

Me, Mum, sun, fun, ice-creams, Amble, Alnmouth & Holy Island. Our holiday to beautiful Northumberland.

Grandad with Dad at the allotment in Manningham, Bradford in the early 1940s, digging rhubarb for Britain with greenhouses & possibly forcing huts behind them. Bradford was, at that time, in the Rhubarb Triangle. West Yorkshire was producing 90% of the world's forced winter rhubarb by the 1930s.

Squirrel hears thunder and clutches his heart.. 🥺

😬 too awful.

The planned MFL cuts placed the university in “direct contradiction” with Welsh govt policy and international strategy. The cuts undermine Cardiff’s role in supporting the linguistic diversity that is critical for the regional economy, the teacher pipeline, and for international partnerships.

Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school. Can be very silly. 9% in maths is disappointing

Me & little Archie No! say happy Sunday. Hoping for a nice & chilled Sunday most days on this platform.