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Manchester Airport's 'barrierless' drop-off charges are a total rip-off. We dropped off our son at T2 on Monday, forgot to pay immediately, and when I remembered today it was too late: I will be charged a penalty. Bring back that barrier!

And another one...

Sehr gutes Video über wissenschaftliche Karrieren und warum man immer über Alternativen nachdenken sollte.

PhD Opportunity! Interested in the history of the #microbiome & #symbiosis concepts since 1900? Work with Maureen O'Malley, Nic Rasmussen & myself on our new Australian Research Council Discovery Award at Univ of Sydney. Applications: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships... #histsci #histmed #STS

The first of two Roy Porter Essay Prize winners: John Matchim on goats, milk, nutrition reform and missionaries in 1920s Labrador. #sshm2026

Excited crowd ready for the organisers’ welcome and the opening keynote at #SSHM2026 I like the wood-panelled lecture theatre. 1950s (I think)

On my way. #SSHM2026

📅Our PhDs are presenting at #SSHM2026 : Krittapak Ngamvaseenont, “The Creation of a Mental Health Model for Developing Countries: Thailand and International Mental Health in the Cold War” Megan Bridgeland, “Teaching, Tinkering and Toys: Crafting a New Culture of Neurosurgical Education, c.1930–60”

This looks wonderful. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

"UNESCO sees adjunctification as a systemic, global problem that undermines job security, academic freedom and career attractiveness." And yet UK uni leadership see it as 'an agile workforce dedicated to cutting edge teaching and research'. Funny.

My spouse tells me that after spending more time on DB trains than planned, she has now arrived in Delmenhorst. open.spotify.com/track/4l6y3d...

Fair enough.

Back to revising that chapter on human remains in museums and the Human Tissues Act.

Nice. 👍🏻👍🏻

The husband of one of the demonstrators did not participate in the protest but was sentenced to 30 years in prison anyway, convicted of moving boxes with leftwing zines and other materials after a prison phone call from his wife.

Meanwhile, in the US. It just takes your breath away. *50 years* in prison for protesting. Don't imagine for one moment that we are immune to this. Already, the legislative framework is in place in the UK to enable such convictions - before we get a Trumplike PM. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

When you think you've heard it all. German courts have ruled that a family who entered Germany on German passports in 2020 had never been German citizens, because a 1908 marriage between a German colonial official and a Togolese woman was not legally valid under colonial law.

Great advice.

The BBC has also asked that he provides proof that he has suffered financially: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Trump suing the BBC for $10B for "ruining his reputation" is hilarious. The BBC pulling an ultimate Uno-reverse by demanding his Jan 6 phone records is even better. His lawyers are definitely sweating trying to explain how legal discovery works.

Happy 517th birthday to ice cream van music composer, Henry VIII x

I’m sure the AfD would also support language tests at the beaches and poolsides of Mallorca or other holiday destinations attracting Germans with potentially insufficient knowledge of the local language. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I wish UCU would actually push some cases of fake redundancy to court. Our own plan is to leave 3 people to do all the teaching. Next year that would be 37.5 hours in class alone each - the full week, without doing any preparation, research, marking etc. That’s not a real redundancy situation.

On this day 40 years ago, I was at the huge Artists Against Apartheid concert on Clapham Common. Here are some of my pics of Gil Scott-Heron, Sade, Billy Bragg and Sir Coxsone Outernational Sound System (THREAD 1 of 6)

Was hier seit ein paar Tagen passiert ist anders. Ich habe noch nie so viele mit „Hyperthermie“ und Folgeschäden auf ITS aufgenommen. Mir fehlt der überörtliche Abgleich, daher an alle die in Pflege/Rettung im Einsatz sind schreibt gerne mal eure Erlebnisse der letzten Tage.

Went to the Great American State Fair out of morbid curiosity. It’s not a total disaster, just ramshackle and kind of boring. The Temu arch is an embarrassment, as are all the weird MAGA cult displays (including a mock-up Trump passport). People working the event were nice and I felt bad for them.

Another Waymo hits a biker. On the Old Kent Road. Waymo turning right. Bike going straight with right of way…

"This was the largest audience to ever witness a fair—period—both in person and around the globe."

Truly bizarre story of how two papers from the 1940s by physics pioneer Max Planck have been "retracted" from Naturwissenschaften, potentially by an algorithm, for anachronistic "plagiarism" issues, leaving the current editor baffled (but it is Springer Nature so.... www.science.org/content/arti...

End of a broadcasting era. Radio 4 #bbcradio4 no longer available on Long Wave at 198kHz. Transmitter is still up but looks like RTS is now off, and transmitter shutdown on the 30th June according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droitwi...

The Vespa is 80 years old. www.dw.com/en/rome-cele...

Unser Foyer als Hitzeschutzraum. Eintritt frei. Kein Konsumzwang. Wem zu heiß ist, der komme vorbei!

More Orwell’s 1984 than the American Dream

Rainbow flag on the Grossglockner, the highest mountain in Austria. 👍🏻

Today has been another record breaking day, with a new provisional June temperature record of 37.3°C recorded at Santon Downham this afternoon

Expecting lots of coverage on their race too.

Das ist der höchste jemals in Deutschland gemessene Wert. Je-mals www.tagesschau.de/eilmeldung/e...

Cartoonist: Daniel Goris

Had to! "So we sailed on to the sun 'Til we found a sea of green" 🎵🎼🎶

Son No 2 in the £20 charity shop suit he bought earlier today for his post-GCSE high school prom, which is happening tonight, literally with hours to spare. That’s my man!

This is satire, right? Someone in the US, please confirm that this is satire. She literally looks like a sock puppet!

I've stayed in London hotel rooms that looked similar, but never with a coin meter for hot water.

A brilliant supplement issue @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social! Congrats to the editor and authors on this path-breaking publication

Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov

Your regular reminder that honest Bob is a despicable, miserable little man. I’m glad that I’ve got a blue passport and happy to confirm that that I am staying, and if it’s just so that I can vote against his arsehole party at every election.

Your regular reminder that Nigel Farage's first wife was Irish, his second wife was German, and his current partner is French.

The guiding principle seems to be: fuck democracy; let arseholes be arseholes; today, tomorrow, and yesterday.

I know what it does to my productivity. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I'm a bit shocked, but should probably not be surprised that Gen Z students don't know what newspapers are. Just had to explain the difference between a broadsheet and a tabloid.