The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.

Funny that we banished the women's studies scholars and critical race theorists immediately before proving everything they said more correct than they ever could have imagined.

Excellent news. Nice to see some progress on the academic publishing crisis

NEW: I’ve found an opaque financial vehicle owns a large chunk of the Observer. And neither it or the Guardian will say who it is. Why? Well there is a clue. Which goes by way of Saudi Arabia… 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Shamsia Hassani (born 1988), recognized as the first Afghanistan born female muralist and street artist #WomensArt

Loving this

'The Stacks' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #womensart

You might have formed the impression that Paul Johnson, former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, knows what he's talking about. The media treats him like the voice of God. But here he is - and not for the first time - talking out of his hat. Let's break it down in a short thread. 🧵

“Asking a pro-growth lobby group what they think of environmental regulations is like asking Tony Blair about an illegal war in the Middle East – you’re going to get the wrong answer” I think my opening sentence hit it on the head 😉

Haha

Exactly

Funny. Can’t imagine why promising to try to make awful things better seems to resonate so much…

Greens: hope not hate Reform: hate not hope Labour: these are the same

Oh yes

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Interested in uncertainty in Environmental models? You’re still in time to submit to our session “D3. Synthesising advances in uncertainty exploration in land change modelling to inform planning and policy
Ben Black, Orlando Roman and myself, conference.iemss.org Dublin July 12-16th 2026

This election is an appeal for trust, a battle against fear and a straight fight between Greens and Reform | Hannah Spencer

Hope parliament is greyhound accessible! 💚😂💚

Wonderful news. Congratulations Aasiya and the Leicester team! 💚🎉 Next stop: Gorton and Denton! 🚀

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The oldest Mesolithic human remains yet found in Britain belonged to a 2.5-3.5-year-old girl. Found in a cave in Cumbria. Stretches the Mesolithic cave burial ‘tradition’ back a bit and pretty far north given looks to be just after the end of the Younger Dryas.

Incredible

Necessary but not sufficient. He knew. And still appointed him. Starmer needs to go.

Absolutely on the nail!

Sad news. Uno was a kind and generous person, always open for friendly discussion on any topic..

Do you want to be able to demystify AI and recognize hyped claims? Do you worry about the social and environmental harms of AI? Do you struggle with how to protect and foster your students’ skills in the age of AI? Do you want to develop your own skills in resisting AI and critical AI literacy? 2/🧵

#GetGreensElected - #VoteGreen

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Karl Polanyi this morning.. “A blind faith in spontaneous progress…with the fanaticism of sectarians the most enlightened pressed forward for boundless and unregulated change in society…” remind you of anything @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social ?

Some reading for the weekend. Just out in Science Advances. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Palaeolithic artifacts discarded at Peña Capón, Central Iberia, were sourced to Southwest France, 600-700 kms away. This shows social networks of unprecedented geographic scale at an astonishingly early date

Not only excellent but also useful. I was getting concerned about deadlines early in Feb but thanks to this I now know I have no need to worry

A very snowy #GeorgiaProtests Day 419. 📷 MOSE

Good piece. As Polanyi said, self-regulating capitalism doesn’t work. Unfortunately, if we replace all the libraries with datacentres no one will be able to read Polanyi…

Last year's arrest of Mahmoud Khalil was more than just a chilling act of political repression, it was an attack on all of our constitutional rights. Now, as the crackdown on pro-Palestinian free speech continues, Mahmoud is being threatened with rearrest. Mahmoud is free—and must remain free.

The third article in the special issue Are Social Sciences Special? which @martinkusch.bsky.social and I co-edit is by @federicobrandmayr.bsky.social. It presents results of a large survey of British academics on how they see their own disciplinary identity wrt social sciences #philsci #sts #histsci

Well done for taking a stand @seismatters.bsky.social

Beautiful graphic

Dear TikTok, a cat doing the washing up is only funny if it really happened

Really happy to have joined this study, published in November, that finally sorts out the hunting lesion question at Boxgrove 🐎 and adds much-needed experimental reference data for future studies. A big thank you to @annemiekemilks.bsky.social, @mattpope.bsky.social, and all the other co-authors! 🦣🏺

🔴 AVISO ROJO | LLuvias torrenciales en la Vega del Segura (Región de Murcia) ➡️ Se han registrado más de 60 mm en 1 hora en Fortuna y Albanilla. ➡️Ahora la intensidad de la lluvia es menor, pero puede haber impactos corriente abajo. ➡️ ¡Mucha Precaución! Aviso en vigor hasta las 11:59 del día 28.

Very interesting!

Incredible analysis

“Universities are already caught in this loop: students going through motions they know are empty, faculty grading work they suspect wasn’t written by students, administrators celebrating “innovations” everyone else understands are destroying education..” www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

"Let us join forces to build a future that is not only desirable but also truly worth striving for—one grounded in common sense rather than automated thoughtlessness" Open letter to Dutch government and forming parties Join me in signing 🖊️ 🙏 openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

This is one of the most important documents produced this year. At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance. I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.

Good, but paywalled. “And, still, the underlying flaw of technocratic policymaking remains unaddressed: conflicts of values and interests do not have a numerical or technical answer”