'The universities of East Anglia and Reading have both reported sizeable deficits in the latest sign that research-intensive non-Russell Group universities are being hit hard by the financial crunch facing the sector.' 1/3

The death rate among children under 5 is expected to grow this year for the first time in the 21st century, researchers say. A key factor, they say, is cuts to U.S. and other foreign aid www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

I want this woman thrown in prison for at least a decade.

This is basically the origin story of the Alien franchise.

“Positivism Creep” “The subtle, often unacknowledged infiltration of positivist or post-positivist assumptions into methodologies where they do not naturally, philosophically, practically, or epistemologically belong.” By @thomasgraves.bsky.social @maddipow.bsky.social @annayahprosser.bsky.social

The chief horror is the rewriting of the human rights gains we've made since WWII to frame only 'contributing' migrants (whether asylum seekers or not) as worthy of life & safety. But I'm also here to call BS on the 'Britain welcomes high-skilled migrants' thing. I do not feel welcome here.

“Eight Hundred Years of Giving” is of course the official slogan of Britain in Ireland.

La Cène #RIP Martin Parr

We might need a new name for ‘permanent’ residency and ‘Indefinite’ leave to remain Strip residency of migrants who are a net financial drain, urges Tory MP www.thetimes.com/article/334a...

Yes - ticks are active in winter. They shelter under leaf litter and snow, then start seeking hosts as soon as temps rise above freezing. Full article: linkedin.com/pulse/lyme-d... #ticks #tickbiteprevention #Lymedisease #LymeDiseaseUK #ClimateChange

Breaking down some of the anti Vax stuff going at the CDC *before* this week's ACIP meeting on childhood vaccines. Notably their "finding" on COVID vaccines and children and a recent appointment... youtube.com/shorts/AR97l...

A zoo on Java island released photos of Indonesia’s first locally-born giant panda cub, and said the male cub was showing signs of being in good health.

Me when I cite myself:

“Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020, leaving some farmers asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops. Farmers are already facing heavy financial pressure.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“In Ukraine, the state itself is investigating the government, the cabinet, even the president’s closest advisers. By contrast, it is impossible to imagine Kash Patel’s FBI investigating anyone in Trump’s White House.”

139 flag complaints received by the county council, but FOI shows only one was removed. Hundreds were left to residents who faced intimidation and a serious assault when trying to remove them.

The “Labour” Party finds itself arguing ordinary workers, carers and others are “takers”.

A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings. “It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale. This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading: www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

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First of many such incidents, I expect. Another ‘win’ for those ‘useful’ Gen AI tools. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Malaria deaths rose in 2024, funding cuts risk surge, WHO says reut.rs/4oOVqTS

"Sri Lanka has declared a state of emergency after the flooding and landslides, which displaced more than 1.1 million people." In Indonesia: "usually, there is an area where landslides are contained, but this time, landslides have affected all the villages that we saw as we made our way here"

her career is based on fantasizing an elite profession

This...should have been two separate emails.

The budget is so dire 900 people need to loose their livelihoods, but not so dire there isn’t money to give to OpenAI.

Your weekly reminder to get the flu jab if eligible.

Holy shit, it’s official. We’re getting the 1977 version of #StarWars, remastered, in theaters! www.starwars.com/news/star-wa...

The US military says it killed four people in an air strike on a suspected drug boat in in the Eastern Pacific. The attack was ordered by US War Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is under scrutiny over a previous attack in which survivors were killed in a follow-up strike.

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"The Christmas lights have gone up in Stirchley ..." “We don’t want a battle here. We want to go on with our lives, our work and bringing up our families." “Community is where change comes from ... It doesn’t look like coming in [to a neighbourhood] and putting up flags and not talking to anyone."

An American journalist helped facilitate RFK Jr's ingratiation into Trump's world and kept secret disqualifying information on him that could have kept him out of major policy, which impacts millions of people.

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Republicans increasingly oppose requiring healthy kids to get MMR vaccines to attend public schools 2016 19% 2019 20% 2023 42% 2025 47% www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪

This is where the shameless weaponisation of antisemitism in defence of Israel's war on Gaza has led us Allegations of extreme forms of antisemitism can be discarded by stressing support for genocidal policies www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A new NBER paper found Brexit: 1️⃣ Has imposed a large & persistent cost on the UK economy 2️⃣ These losses emerged gradually 3️⃣ Economists were roughly right on the size of the impact, but wrong on the timing Read a summary of the key findings 👇 https://ukandeu.ac.uk/brexits-impact-on-the-uk-economy/

📣 We've got a new working group! What can the Humanities offer Development Studies? This group will explore exchange between scholars and practitioners of Development Studies and those who work in the humanities (literature, music, film, history, languages) www.eadi.org/network/eadi...

As a migrant led organisation, Centrala supports this demonstration entirely. If you are able to go, we urge you to join. jcwi.org.uk/latest/migra...

It's revealing about taboos around racism that the visceral bullying racism of schoolboy Farage cuts through while the much more consequential thinly veiled racism of adult Farage doesn't. Many people need that veil and flinch when it's removed. You can advocate racist policies but not say the words

I suspect you have to be quite racist to stand out as "the racist guy" at a boys public school of the 1980s.

Major city may have to evacuate as water supplies run low Tehran is not alone. Cape Town in South Africa narrowly avoided taps running dry eight years ago. Even London, known for its rain, is at risk. news.sky.com/story/the-co...

I can attest to this, it's disgusting. Hull is a good example, a nurse - in uniform, walking to her job at the hospital was randomly punched in the face and knocked to the ground. That would not have happened 20 years ago, we have allowed a sick narrative to take over and it needs to stop.

"'Low estimate is 60,000 people have been killed there in the last three weeks.’” As many as 150,000 residents of El Fasher remain unaccounted for Why, might be appropriate for our leaders, intellectuals, and activists who profess to care about our shared humanity to actually do or say something

How am I still arguing with people about opening windows on stuffy busses? After a whole entire pandemic. Yeah idiot it’s cold but air circulation is a a good thing for the love of whatever you hold holy

To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M

Great work by @migrantvoice.bsky.social and researchers from Warwick University and Leicester University. Congratulations to former colleague @mariegodin.bsky.social who co-authored the report www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A young fur seal waddled into a New Zealand bar on a rainy Sunday, sparking excitement and disbelief. The pup was showing “normal exploratory behavior” by exploring the bar, which was about a mile from the coast, a ranger said. https://wapo.st/4rBDpL9

"Once someone is fixated on the 'biology' of gender as the cause of—and solution to!—all life’s problems, they are already on the road toward white supremacy, and from there, toward fascism." Another killer essay from @judedoyle.bsky.social

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...