This is your occasional reminder that education is the best vaccine against fascism.

Lovely gesture from Milly. Taking squad number 20, in honour of Diogo... #Forever20 🫶🏽 #LFC

Monday morning vibes

Paul Curtis, take a bow mate 👏🏻 #DiogoJota #20 #AndrèSilva

British politics in all its diversity on display this morning

#lfc #ynwa #diogojota #redsky 👏🏾

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Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

This is everywhere. Every academic institution I know is held together by some exhausted woman in her early 40's who waits until the old white male professors have finished their vague rants and says, "alright, so concretely can I propose the following next steps..." She makes half their salary.

Sold screenwash to Sean Connory’s brother. Halfords Kirkcaldy - early 90’s

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Sharing…. following the incident in Liverpool City Centre this evening, if anyone is stranded in town, Wallasey based J&K Travel is running a shuttle service to the Wirral. The collection point is on the cobbled street outside Liverpool Museum

What a day! No tickets for the match but an amazing atmosphere up at Anfield. 20 years on from welcoming the team back from Istanbul, we’ll be there tomorrow to celebrate the league. This time with added children #LFC #Champions #20

Trump administration ends Harvard's ability to enrol international students

My boys 💕. Proud to be their team manager. And mother of the handsome young man, front and centre 💚❤️💚

Arne Slot starting a 'Jurgen Klopp' chant in his victory speech. Absolute boss.

We want...

NEW: TIME publishes interview with Trump. This is a REAL section of the transcript. It is impossible to read this and not conclude that Trump is suffering profound, cognitive decay.

They would have had ICE deport Him.

🚨NEW: Four weeks ago, Trump terminated funding for legal services to support unaccompanied children. Now, children as young as 4 years old are having to represent themselves in court when facing deportation. How does America come back from this?

It is the first day of the tax year 2025/26. But why? Why does the UK tax year begin part way through a month on 6 April? And why April? The answer may surprise you bit.ly/2ys5AWL

Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE. Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:

Penelope Keith's career as a hitwoman has been outed by Russell Brand. But she is not the only one of our celebrated actresses to have had a secret past.

As a lawyer who does Equal Pay law it is interesting to note that the prospect of young men falling behind young women is causing a sense of societal crisis that the reverse position consistently failed to invoke.

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

The latest UCAS data (applications by the January 'equal consideration' deadline) suggest a 14% increase in applications to Engineering & Technology courses. It's the second double-digit surge in two years. Good news, right? Sadly, it's mostly not. Buckle in: 🧵1/27 www.ucas.com/undergraduat...

University leaders are guilty of penalising staff rather than fighting back against government too. UCEA and the OFS are not fit for purpose

Beautifully sunny but cold day in St Andrews. There was no persuading the almost-teen that this was not a good idea…

🧵SALT🧵 It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question: Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from? The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised. 1/14

What my dad’s death taught me about the assisted dying debate. Powerful personal piece from @sjblakemore.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/e767...

This from the cover of German Vogue

Snow day = happy children.

"What do you mean, the passport no longer entitles me to work in 27 other countries?"

Applications by the owl and the pussycat were rejected on the grounds that they had entered the country by private boat.

It’s the 50th anniversary of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act “As recently as 1974, banks were legally allowed to deny women credit or charge them higher interest if they failed to get a male cosigner” “women couldn’t open bank accounts on their own until the 1960s”

Universities are in crisis, but their contribution to the economy and society is often misunderstood. A new report sets the record straight | Stephen McNair

Me: I am a serious! journalist! Also me: www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-... 🧪

Inquest into the Covid deaths of 7 residents in March/April 2021 at the Holmesley Care Home, Sidmouth revealed a nurse refused to wear mask as he believed 'Covid was a conspiracy’ Another staff member ignored 100% positive tests saying they were *a bad batch* & managers tried to hide +ve tests

What on Earth is this crime against graphs? www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

If you are interested in the constraints to onshore wind it's not what you would expect. The power from a turbine is the square of the length. So the blades keep on getting longer... But....

I have questions.

shhhh, the lemon raspberry loaf is sleeping

I moved to NYC at the end of Sept 2001. I remember meeting many firefighters who had come from across the world to pay their respects at funerals of their colleagues. I recently found a patch one from Vancouver gave me. My kids were so interested in what they see as ‘history’. Feels like yesterday.