This is a really exciting and important piece of work from some of my colleagues at @uob-ieu.bsky.social.

MP’s must step up to oppose this

So much about this has me screaming into my motonormativity cushion. Why further subsidise all the wealthy people who drive? Why NOT subsidise the poorer people who don't drive?

Love how a month ago the Sensibles were yelling at Hannah Spencer for saying MPs were out of touch, and now they’re all insisting that actually MPs should be able to drink as much as they want at work, which is an offence that would get ordinary people sacked on the spot.

This is a really exciting development from @countermetrics.bsky.social. AI has rapidly changed the online landscape, with inevitable effects on e-resource usage. Brilliant work by our AI working group, the many people who responded to our consultation and, of course, @tashamc.bsky.social.

This is great. Baby steps back towards our neighbours and undoing one of the mainly needless extras that accompanied the extreme Brexit zeal.

Last month the US got more of its electricity from renewable than from natural gas for the first time. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

The Catholic Spirit, the official newspaper of the Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul & Minneapolis, has called the Lamp “a Catholic version of the New Yorker.” Today the Lamp published an article titled, “Is Donald Trump Antichrist?” 1/ thelampmagazine.com/blog/is-dona...

If you wondered why it was that last week felt particularly tough to get through, even with the hope of Integrity and the Artemis mission, @queen-christina.bsky.social has a list to remind you why. And it doesn't even include the attacks on the Pope and Trump's post that he is Jesus Christ.

Pezeshkian: Your Excellency Pope Leo XIV, on behalf of the great nation of Iran, I condemn the insult to Your Excellency and declare that the desecration of Jesus (peace be upon him), the Prophet of peace and brotherhood, is unacceptable to any free person. I wish glory for you from Allah.

Interesting video. Plus, do read the subtitles for a novel alternative to bleeping out the bad words.

🕐 Who decides what gets researched about body clocks and mental health? Until now, mostly researchers. A new study asked patients, carers and clinicians instead. First ever top 10 research priorities. 👇 buff.ly/H4iYkj8 #CircadianRhythms #MentalHealth #BodyClock

This is absolutely nuts

CNN reporting a "regional source" saying there may be some kind of ceasefire deal tonight. edition.cnn.com/2026/04/07/w...

We're on the verge of a genocidal, nuclear war that our supposed "ally" has said he's ready to unleash. Would it be too much to ask for the Prime Minister to have something to say about it? Or do? Suspend US bases on UK soil now.

[Hypothetically, if three Republicans crossed the aisle and voted with Democrats, they could change control of the entire U.S. House overnight.] Read & Circulate. If you live in a district w/ an exiting GOP Rep, put the pressure on! open.substack.com/pub/defiance...

This is heartbreaking. And totally avoidable. Sadly, one of many heartbreaking and totally avoidable policy moves by the Trump administration. History will not judge them kindly.

'An attempt to re-colonise'. This is what the president of Nigeria's Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Chris Piwuna, has called the plan to open a campus of Coventry University in Nigeria. guardian.ng/education/as...

Interesting shift in #OA policy from CRUK. news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/w...

This is an encouraging picture compared with a decade ago. ##uksg2026

Look, mum, we're on a massive powerpoint slide!! It's grim though. It's so grim. here's that webpage: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo... #UKHE #uksg2026

Sobering slides about state of higher education in UK, and particularly implications for arts and social sciences, and by extension for scholarly books. ##uksg2026

Good morning from a sunny Glasgow at #uksg2026. Come and see @countermetrics.bsky.social on our shiny new booth.

A few days ago we announced 200,000 members. The Green Party has 215,000! 🚀 Join us making hope normal again: Join.greenparty.org.uk

Following on from discussions about community engagement last week at #r2rconf, I've gathered together some of the approaches we take in @countermetrics.bsky.social.

Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.

Zack Polanski, Hannah Spencer, the Greens writ large: 'Wouldn't it be nice if things were nice?' Starmer, Labour broadly, most of the UK press: 'We must fight this insane destructive extremism with every bone in our bodies'

Gorton and Denton was 127th on the list of Green Party target seats. To win by such a margin there suggests there is much bigger potential for Green gains in May's local elections than most people expect bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

Delighted with the new Green MP in Parliament. Huge congratulations Hannah! If you want to be part of inclusive, positive politics focused on tackling injustice and protecting the environment, please visit join.greenparty.org.uk

Net migration in all of 2025 (Jan-Dec) will be revealed in May 2026: it is clearly well below net 205k of year to June 2025; and could well be lowest outside pandemic since 2010 (150k in 2012-13) + since 1998 (140k) Ministers still saying net migration is still comparatively high - but it isn't

@frontiersmedia.bsky.social presenting #R2RConf on #AI in #ResearchIntegrity. It is NOT an emerging technology. We tell ourselves that so we're ok with "with still have time" approach. We need scenario planning now. It's here now, are we prepared?

ChatGPT training data is 93% English language says Nikesh Gosalia. Is AI democratising access to scholarly publishing or encoding colonialism at scale? The evidence suggests we are heading down a dangerous path #R2RConf

This is not a metaphor for #colonialism. It is colonialism. #NikeshGosalia #R2RConf And every minute it gets worse. Compounding with each new training instance. AI is being optimized for specific user base. Non-english speakers not "seen" in these tools. #academicsky #AI #sciencesky

The positive message is that it’s solvable. It’s not a technical problem, it’s a choice. #R2RConf

Very important presentation on how AI can exacerbate the inequities that are already huge in the global scholarly communication system. #r2rconf

#NikeshGosalia kicking off #R2RConf session on #AI impact on global south - fascinating story of "Shirley cards" used by Kodak to calibrate for color of their printers. They KNEW the whole time that it didn't work on brown/black ppl. Techonly changed when chocolate makers didn't like how it looked.

#r2rconf Related to @loupeck.bsky.social's question about whether a little alcohol is good for you, see this insight from some epidemiologists I work with at @uob-ieu.bsky.social - ieureka.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2023/08/08/i.... The short answer is it’s unlikely to be beneficial to our health.

Really interesting discussion about AI in scholarly communications at #r2rconf - but many of the points made are not about the benefits of AI tools for scholarly communications. Benefits of AI in research is a different question.

Looks interesting. Downloaded to read on my train to Researcher to Reader

Labour lost three by-elections yesterday - all to different parties mobilising disaffected voters on their liberal left flank: Greens (see below), Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru. Starmer/McSweeney strategy of marginalizing the left flank to go after socially con Reform curious continues to backfire

Who decided that every modern book that is romantic fiction needs to have 'hilarious' or 'laugh-out-loud' on the book's cover and all over their descriptions? Do the people who write these descriptions actually read the books? And do they have a very odd sense of humour?

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New from me: People are pirating software, activating Windows, and downloading random manuals from the Epstein files. It’s absurd—and shows how badly the DOJ mishandled the release, with real, dangerous consequences for victims. slate.com/technology/2...

Many people have wondered why the Chien-Shiung Wu never won the Nobel Prize for Physics. New findings from the Nobel archives, exclusively revealed in Physics World, show she was nominated 23 times by 18 different physicists - and yet was still left empty-handed. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/twenty-thr...

The lack of data on secondary breast cancer cases is a huge barrier to research in this area.

And we're back to this. #pubmed #NIHFundingLapse

Our previous @cancerresearchuk.org-funded programme ended at the end of January. In this new blog post we reflect on the difference that programme has made to prevention and early detection of cancer. ieureka.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2026/02/02/i...

We are excited today for the start of the new Obesity-related Cancer Epidemiology Programme, funded by @cancerresearchuk.org. Read more in our news story: www.bristol.ac.uk/integrative-...