The first national poll putting @greenparty.org.uk in first place (just) is an utterly extraordinary moment in British politics.

'What emerges may look like evidence, but it primarily measures uptake. It does not measure the need or fit of the tool. And it tells us very little about whether the tool should exist in classrooms at scale.' Will sound familiar to academics grappling with HE EdTech adoption.

The Iranian Embassy in South Africa weighs in:

When Elon Musk bought Twitter, he said he wouldn’t make it a “free-for-all hellscape” – but that’s exactly what has happened 👀 Take action and hold Musk and X to account https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/x-is-not-above-the-law/

CFP: Two-Spirit and Trans Indigenous Studies Reader, Proposed for Bloomsbury Academic’s Trans Studies series networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

CFP: Tuscany and the Iberian Empires Migration and Knowledge Transmission in the Early Modern Period: Firenze networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Call for Applications for the Howard Burns Seminar Series on Architectural Drawings: Architectural Drawings in the Renaissance: Anonymous Artists, Copyists, Architects, Firenze www.khi.fi.it/en/aktuelles...

CFP: Disaster and Vulnerability in Asia’s Highest Borderlands: Understanding Geological, Cosmological, Human and Multispecies Agency, Bhutan networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

CFP: Echoes of the Earth: Practicing Contemporary Ecocinema. Güt Schonwag, Germany foraging.work/symposia/ech...

Out now, the excellent Tiago Torres-Campos' beautifully illustrated 'New York Geologics'. oroeditions.com/product/new-...

If I ever do want lessons on what the public interest looks like I'm pretty sure I won't take them from a thin skinned, self interested, tax avoiding, Brexit supporting, billionaire.

A terrible decision, and one which will do huge damage to the Government's climate credentials. As Ed knows, this drilling won't lower bills, but instead it sends a clear message that Britain won't be a world leader on ending oil and gas exploitation

CFP: The Extractive Midwest (USA) (Book) networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Niche Germanic humour / satire #Farage #Reform #dictator #grammar

'At the heart of their concerns, explained John Wyver, professor of the arts on screen at the University of Westminster, is the removal of the process of on-request vetting.' A vital resource for historians arbitrarily withdrawn from effective use. 1/3

The Intercept is at JFK International Airport today reminding you to #TurnOffYourPhone before going through security to keep federal authorities from getting into your devices. More tips from our digital security expert: interc.pt/4v2qKTs

I talked to the brilliant Kathi Weeks about her new book, Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures, about Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway, and about abolishing work, the prison, and the family

Landscape Research Group Research Fund 2026 call for applications--funding between £1000-5000. Theme: Reimagining landscape change: Methods and Tools for a Transforming World landscaperesearch.org/lrg-research...

“Banning new prescriptions of gender-affirming hormones for 16 and 17-year-olds is a profound attack on young people’s bodily autonomy with trans people yet again cruelly singled out by this government.” The British government continues to trash gender affirming care by claiming “extreme caution.”

King Charles to visit convicted rapist on a state visit in a show of unity with other families linked to the Epstein files.

the way the american right slobbers over this absolute loser is something else

Former PM Liz Truss appointed NASA chief as Trump becomes increasingly obsessed with her online presence bylinetimes.com/2026/04/01/l...

Watch Errol Morris’s "Tune Out the Noise" Free Online: A Documentary About the Financial Revolution That Transformed Investing

If farmers abroad can’t grow food, countries like UK - which rely on imports - are the first to feel it. For a decade I’ve warned how Brexit would leave 🇬🇧 exposed to food crises. Trump’s illegal war in Iran is potentially cataclysmic for global food supplies. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Trump should team up with FIFA to finish the Epstein War.

KEIR STARMER it is YOUR turn to do the right thing for once in your cursed life.

‘What are museums for? I’d suggest that in an era of declining public facilities and atomising communities, free museums are one of the last truly public spaces’ - @edwinheathcote.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/7b2d...

One extra-big step towards making the monarchy yet more unwelcome in our country.

On this Trans Day of Visibility, I ask for a little visibility for our nonbinary regiment. 💜

Happy International Transgender Visibility Day! I am grateful for the richness, possibility, and beauty my trans friends have brought to all of my adult life, and I stand with you, visibly. We are not a whole species without you.

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BREAKING: GENERAL STRIKE The economy only works if we do. Friday, May 1 🚫No work 🚫No school 🚫No shopping You in? 🤚🏽

After he's locked up for insider trading there will be plenty of time to prosecute him for his war crimes

Is Spain the only country in Europe with a spine? Bravo to them for standing up www.bbc.com/news/article...

Delighted last night by Paul B Preciado's 'Orlando: My Political Biography'. Joyous and intelligent, experimental, and filled with love and understanding for all the many forms of trans experience. (And a new spin on Virginia Woolf) mubi.com/en/gb/films/...

"I reckon that cleaning is an inseparable, indissoluble condition of our material existence. Cleaning fills the space between life and death." averyreview.com/issues/75/an...

john waters at a No Kings rally in Provincetown (not my pic, Peter Toto, x)

"We are confident we could do it if we wanted to." (Senior government official, on using the contract's break clause in 2027). So, keep up the pressure. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This is the situation we find ourselves in

I think the clocks in UK go back tonight. Or forward. Not sure. Is it forward

If you can’t get through the Times paywall, here is the text of the piece. open.substack.com/pub/rupertsr... And> Please share 🌎🙏

Quentin Deluermoz, The Paris Commune: A Global History - @versobooks.bsky.social, May 2026 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

A politician with the guts to say it: "No American child from the blue collar or the middle class should have to die fighting in Iran. Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein War." - Premier Wab Kinew at the NDP national convention, Winnipeg.

NEW: I’ve found an opaque financial vehicle owns a large chunk of the Observer. And neither it or the Guardian will say who it is. Why? Well there is a clue. Which goes by way of Saudi Arabia… 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

The registration deadline for "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory," a symposium featuring Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, is coming up 3/31. Sign up now! buff.ly/KCrn1re

👀 2x roles with the Landscape Observatory (Peak District NP): "This is an excellent opportunity for GIS trained graduates with a background in Geography or Ecology who are eager to build a long-term career in GIS as applied to landscape scale conservation management." Details: tinyurl.com/yka4xjus

...a dysfunctional government refusing to fund basic human needs & infrastructure while pouring the vast wealth of what was once the world’s leading economy into endless wars abroad, a police state @ home, & a billionaire kleptocracy devouring the societal food chain www.inquirer.com/opinion/lagu...

One of many wonderful full-page watercolour illustrations in a 16th-century edition of Pedanius Dioscorides’s work on herbal medicine, De Materia Medica (ca. 80 AD). More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w...

No surprises here www.npr.org/2026/03/26/n...

Do you know of someone who might be interested in doing a #PhD on the urban, architectural and environmental history of the University of Liverpool? If so could you point them in my direction?