A tax of 2% on wealth over £10 million would raise £24 billion every year 🤯 This could be used to fund our public services properly - from schools to hospitals. While Reeves says we must all “do our bit”, Plaid Cymru believes it’s time for those with the broadest shoulders to pay their fair share.

I am pleased to announce a new postdoctoral position in Theoretical Ecology. More info here: info.bc3research.org/2025/11/06/p...

So, a few good things happened in the US and A today. May you all enjoy this, which does not need to be ranked. (Another time I'll tell you all about my inability to remember the difference between the Michaels Marra and McDonald, which is rarely a trial.) youtu.be/jrkOQuRYCIQ?...

Hey Cat-I-farted, show me a classic example of "why not both?" that also includes just a dash of "and pay for it all yourself, you obscene fucknugget"

more PhD info here www.linkedin.com/posts/efuent...

Come for the exchange of knowledge, stay for the views!

Our Biophilic Living project needs a Research Assistant to help us map Stakeholders, the development of the Green Infrastructure movement & Green Infrastructure Training in Wales, to improve design, delivery and maintenance of biodiverse GI. More info & application: www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...

On my way to exchange some knowledge with some rewilders at an @icms-edinburgh.bsky.social knowledge exchange event in beautiful Edinburgh today!

I have just submitted a manuscript as corresponding author for the first time in... <checks notes>... Wait what? How long? <switches to physiological time> <beads of sweat on forehead slow their dripping rates> #Reviewer2 – we're on the same side, I promise.

Ah got in wan wee fecht and ma mami got feart and said "Yer movin wi yer aunty and uncle in Bellshill"

Oh em flipping gee! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/c...

Petition to rephrase all YaxleyLennon headlines as: "... Stephen Yaxley Lennon, who identifies as something not indicated on his birth certificate, ..."

“Copyright growing pains” is one hell of a euphemism for the biggest IP theft in history

📣We will be back soon for a new series! 🎉 Our first speaker will be Chris Klausmeier @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social on Tuesday 21 October: ⭐Microbial cross-feeding coexistence and collapse, spatial patterns and population cycles⭐ As ever, free for all to join! Link+details: iite.info/seminar/

70,000 HE academic staff. Almost half of teaching only staff. Two-thirds of research-only academic staff. ALL on fixed term contracts. This isn’t flexibility, it’s exploitation. Live tomorrow at 7 PM we expose the hypocrisy at the top of HE: youtube.com/live/rZRbCP0YJ…

I am, dear followers, quite confident the people responsible will continue to avoid responsibility. @ucu.org.uk #JoinAUnion www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Something, something, dying embers of a globally disasterous industry. ☀️💨🌊❤️

We have a PhD position in population genomics of sheep scab mites available from October 2026. The project will investigate Psoroptes populations in the context of eradication programs on Scottish island groups and spreading drug resistance. www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

The new Wiley journal review system is an absolute nightmare. Editorial assistants have been replaced by a clunky, AI-enabled website that makes it harder to find and invite reviewers. Associate editor workloads have increased. I'm not convinced the invitations to reviewers are even going through.

Feeling very badly let down by @yodacomplex.bsky.social today. After parasitising his very helpful "Intro to (base) #Rstats" videos for years to supplement my teaching, he's finally taken them down and replaced them with an RStudio version. End of an era 😢 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvhb...

Project acrocnyms that don't use the first letter of each word in the title but do pick random letters within the words. 💩

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Turns on "Pet Shop Boys" on Spotify. Enjoys first track. Presented with advert for private hospital specialising in hip replacements. Relief that at least the algorithm finally gets me.

Somewhere, in the distance, Don Henley softly rises from a radio. Dylan Thomas raises an eyebrow.

New #preprint online! What do we mean when talking about #ResponseDiversity in #ecology & related fields? Do we agree on relevant scales, stability dimensions, etc? (Spoiler alert: do we ever?) 🧪🌍 Expert-led priorities for a response diversity research agenda in ecology doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Turns out, I didn't. Luckily, a long, dedicated campaign of brainwashing my children has just resulted in one of them walking into my home office blasting this out of his mobile. #NeverForget #ParentingWins www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Because a single Fowler flap is never quite as much as you want. doi.org/10.3389/fmar...

Job Alert! Looking for a PhD student and a postdoc in quantitative ecology Deets here: resiliencelab.github.io/join/

The thing with complex systems and compounded and nested complex systems is that they will continue running in some capacity for a while after components are damaged but eventually the whole system destabilizes and stops catastrophically

Imagine if anonymous Reviewer 2 was one of your own close colleagues but you were unable to act on their comments because the piece had already been published. Well, thanks to internal REF processes in UK universities, you no longer have to imagine!

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Cymru am byth.

Again, UUK show a total failure of their role. Their lack of vision, and inability to show responsibility & leadership means they are yet again punching down on overworked, underfunded academics, rather than lobbying Govt for proper HE funding models. Let's shift away from low quality UUK members.

New Proopcast Comedian Tom Lehrer, Mick Ralphs Rock legend, Mark Volman of the Turtles, @kamlager-dove.house.gov speaks on how we fight back. gregproops.com

Transphobia and anti-trans laws, much like homophobia and anti-gay laws, are largely about enforcing gender in relationship to childbearing capacity. Trans rights are human rights, which means they are also women's rights. Trans rights are also the rights to express our gender in the way we choose.

3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost

The pressure on lecturers to create an hour of excellent, engaging material is bananas. Compare with stand-up comedy: it takes months/more to craft an hour-long set. Test, tweak, retest, in front of audiences. Then tour. My (now-extinct) workload model gave me 4 hrs to prepare a new 1 hr lecture.

Real-time example of the horrendogram that is academic life.

Your weekly reminder that voter "concern" with immigration doesn't correspond to actual immigration levels. It corresponds to the amount of coverage the media gives immigration. This an entirely self-fulfilling mess, and it is entirely pointless.

It is bizarre to have "zero tolerance" for racial abuse in football and cricket from government, media & governing bodies, yet infinite tolerance - simply silence in media, politics & inaction - for unlawful racial hatred online against elected representatives of every party & other civilians.

Really want to participate, but coming as a new teaching term starts means my otherwise impeccable style is just too cramped. So sign up! These are important questions. Let me know how it goes! Just don't include any of my papers... I've just unsuccessfully tried to replicate something from 2013 😬

Children are ***82%*** more likely to be killed when hit by an SUV than by a regular passenger car. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PSA: In Scots (a real language) , "How?" Is an abbreviation of "How come?", which is a considerably more elegant way of asking "why are you positing such an inarticulate axiom?". en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_l...

Autoreply from a colleague who I can only assume has been hitting that institutional admin brick wall once too often.

Final year PhD students, I know you’re desperately trying to finish experiments/revisions/submissions/write a thesis & just survive - but please spare a few minutes to apply to your dream postdoc labs. It easily takes A YEAR from first contact, even if everything goes to plan on both sides.

Perceptions have real effects www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-insti...

Genuinely disappointed to discover that my ideal Pantomime Dame name has already been taken. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmadu...