that feeling when you host an external speaker and an audience turns up

10 years of this centrist/Remain lore too. 🥱

Nick Robinson spent the whole interview with the BMA rep moaning about junior doctors having above inflation pay rises for the last three years. Nick Robinson's pay in 2021 was £270,000 and it is now £410,000. #R4Today

This is tomorrow! If you're in NY, come through 👇🏽

Nobel Peace Prize sure has worked out well guys

It's good to re-up this for World AIDS day. If you don't know the whole story I'd recommend reading the thread. It really sucks that Grohl and the band have been allowed to sweep this under the rug, because their support had real, significant consequences.

Omeprazole is for life, not just for Christmas!

Now that I've turned 40, I've replaced all the chocolate in my advent calendar with omeprazole in preparation for the big day.

Happy 9th birthday to Peggy!

Why is this video doing numbers? Do yourself a favour and switch off any video that uses "human nature" as an explanatory frame.

plus now, of course, with additional "we need to invest in AI" chat - with the promise of AI being it will potentially remove millions of professional/knowledge jobs from the economy these guys: what do you mean you don't want to pick fruit for your bare subsistence and unaffordable rent?

Cambridge dictionary's word of the year is parasocial which gives me an excuse to promote this episode where I explain why I think it's a silly word that obscures more than it reveals and significantly fails to capture the messiness of modern audience/celebrity interactions.

I do prefer my investment big and tangible, in the sense I want a planet for our children.

The Open University already exists and it has an excellent distance learning model that does not rely on parasitic profit driven ed-tech companies pushing their products

I wrote an article reflecting on how i bring plants to the classroom for @sociologyjnl.bsky.social. “Teaching with Plants as Liberatory Practice: Posthuman Pedagogies and The Sociological Imagination” is now available free access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🌱

Last year his estate donated the royalties for Last Christmas to his charity that offers funding for LGBTQIA+ orgs and they said they'd do it again this year. Listen to it loads!

Oh man, I only lasted 9 hours of December on Whamageddon! I was doing so well until I went on to YouTube and typed in Wham - Last Christmas and hit play as everyone should.

GOOD

All I want for Christmas is Martin O'Neill until the end of the season

Making 6 of these (1.5lbs each) was probably excessive

The Frankfurt School be like . . .

No matter how tough you say times are, there’s always enough money in the banana stand to pay an external consultant to scope ‘academic efficiency opportunities’ www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...

Any universities building Green bridges? Having a viable environment to live in might after all enhance an HEI’s graduate LEO results….

Ok, so people have seen Star Trek Discovery

My favourite soap opera is doing a fantastic bottle episode.

It's Your Party and you can cry if you want to etc etc

An example of populism is the elevated media coverage of every (affected) actor and journalist berating the decision about prostate cancer screening despite medical opinions disputing it's worth.

The ED209 of cars

People will do anything except overthrow capitalism

Another reason to hate Wrexham AFC

Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free. Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.

Sometimes my news feed offers up some *wild* arguments www.ft.com/content/3a3b...

ok this time i double checked and the source for this claim is an AI company. Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability Results: we find AI everywhere

With 6.5 poets per acre, Ireland is especially vulnerable www.wired.com/story/poems-...

how come people in the comments here are coming out for Amazon and data centres.

Sure, Pontius Pilate was just an ordinary guy organising an extrajudicial execution

For sure, we all remember when Jesus cleansed the temple, he was in fact upgrading the money lenders to VIP accommodations.

"Get your own fucking fish and bread you lazy, benefit, scrounging plebs" (Matthew 14 v 21)

really, Verso adding to my unbelievable email deluge on so-called 'Black Friday' is the final straw.

The quickest ballot I've ever sent away. Voting to defend jobs at Edinburgh Napier!

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

We're not exchanging our labour power for a wage anymore and I missed it?!!!

It’s easier to imagine the end cows than the end of cowpitalism

My last lecture of the term is also the easiest lecture to avoid accusations of political bias today: unemployment. Doesn't matter what party, you can just fill the lecture up with quotes from any party that all say the same thing for over 40 years.

What did I tell you?

No, it doesn't. We already have celebrity children's literature.

Liverpool are some team at the minute.

So much for Ed Miliband "getting it" on climate

I dunno man, since we've had decades of STEM worship at the expense of social science, arts and humanities in public policy we've seen a dramatic upsurge in far right misinformation, climate denial and anti-vax sentiment all while universities go bust and loads of feedback mechanisms.