I just want to remind people that when we talk about creating a "British ICE" and a concentration camp as somehow copying America, we already had the previous Tory government set up a concentration camp run by British military personnel for asylum seekers rapidly shut down after legal battles.

HSE needs to be investigating every university.

My brother is running the Round the Bays half marathon this year to raise money to support Team Assal's work providing drinking water and packages of flour and food to families in urgent need at Al-Mawasi camp in Gaza. justice-for-palestine.raiselysite.com/patrick-west...

1/3 This week is Health Information Week. We are launching a new series of collections on the PIF TICK website to help people find trusted resources in collaboration with the NHS. The topics include pregnancy and childbirth, severe mental illness, lung health, signs of cancer and heart health.

Yes he is.

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

This is basically the view of the world that Plato sets out to refute in the Republic. One of the core questions asked therein is: why do powerful people think the mere fact of them exercising dominion makes it good for them to do so? Sure, you *can* get away with stuff if you're powerful - so what?

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

1/2 - We're delighted to see @theguardian.com highlighting concerns over AI summaries for people searching for health information online. It says some of Google's summaries which appear at the top of search results "served up inaccurate health information and put people at risk of harm".

PIF has been working to highlight the impact of AI overviews on #HealthInformation for the past year. It is brilliant to see our concerns highlighted alongside several of our members in this @theguardian.com article 👇

I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.

The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.

I encourage you to sign this. Thank you. actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

If you have any money at all to spare, please make a donation to this fundraiser, so my wonderful friend @stargocks64.bsky.social can have her vocal surgery.

Maybe they should consider changing the name of the party.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"tough decision" = a decision made by someone in authority to hurt someone vulnerable or abandon a basic moral principle in order to appease bullies, bigots or donors. Often someone taking a "tough decision" will be commended for their "moral courage" by a newspaper columnist

On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025 learn about project EPIC: a 40-second video with our aims and focus showing the range of cases we will address in our ongoing empirical work: youtu.be/ii7btQ52p-o#WorldPhilosophyDay2025#philsky #EpistemicInjustice

On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025 learn about project EPIC: here is our website with details of our seminar series, our open access articles and books, our six case studies and many online resources for everyone epistemicinjusticein...#WorldPhilosophyDay2025#philsky #epistemicinjustice

Alf Dubs is a 92 year old man who spent his life fighting for refugees, and in particular for refugee children. He fought the Tories tooth and nail during their last three terms, only to see Labour adopt far-right policies on immigration. “But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”

I mean quite apart from anything else, given the revolt of your backbenchers that seems to be happening right now… perhaps you should care, actually

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Joyce Carol Oates: Demonstrating the Value of the Humanities through Public Ownership of the Richest Man on Earth

A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The current REF system really encourages temporary staff to burn down their own careers - either you complete research because you need it for your CV, but an institution can claim any resulting outputs before making you redundant so you've nothing to take elsewhere, or...

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is probably the first time in American history a sitting governor has used that particular -- and particularly apt -- phrase in a public speech

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

One of the mostly socially corrosive ideas currently percolating is that it isn't the content of a person's beliefs that matter, only that they (claim to) have those beliefs. We should not respect all beliefs, some are not only wrong but cruel, evil and wrong. Substance matters.

I suppose it was only a matter of time, once judges decided that transphobia was protected under the Equality Act, before they decided that full blown fascism was (www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...).

AI search summaries are something we have been talking about a lot at @pifonline.bsky.social recently. It was great to chat to @zoeamar.bsky.social for this @charitycomms.bsky.social article about the issues charities are facing – and how they can respond.

I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

9/16, through the sophisticated methodology of aiming for the most asinine, incoherent combination of beliefs and votes. www.americansurveycenter.org/results/p7QT...

This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.

'The Rev Clive Foster said Windrush scandal survivors were questioning whether “history is repeating itself” as UK politicians target legal migrants.' Essential, timely reading.

I'll be running in the annual Santa Dash 5k this December to help raise money for Rockinghorse Children's Charity, a Brighton based charity which supports sick and disabled children across Sussex. If you're able to sponsor me, you can do so here: www.justgiving.com/page/santa-d...

One of my colleagues discovered a journal had published an article co-authored by her that she never wrote. Appears to have been AI generated and put behind a paywall. Identity fraud, plagiarism, exploitation. Just more awesome benefits of AI... #NihilismAndTechnology

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

Ostensibly the party of law and order with a plan to deport migrants even if they’ve done nothing more than live here legally and claim support to which they’ve contributed and are entitled. Years of targeting migrants disguised as concern about legality paving the way to this and open violence.

British.

This #HealthLiteracyMonth I want to highlight why we need to make #HealthInformation more accessible. Each of the data points in the infographic are included in indvidual posts in the thread below, along with their references. I've also highlighted some useful #HealthLiteracy resources.

You can at least rely on southern rail being hugely unreliable. And uncomfortable. And overcrowded. And Late.

@leedsprhs.bsky.social Our vacancy for a Lecturer or Associate Professor in Social Philosophy has now been advertised: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Please spread the word! The closing date for applications is 5 Nov 2025.

Using ChatGPT

Kemi made me do it.

This was not a sample of academics.