"There's Something Out There Waiting For Us, And It Ain't No Man. We're All Gonna Die."

#PSA Predator has just started on Film4, if anyone fancies some ‘I ain’t got time to bleed’ action before the game!

CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country

Turkish tennis player Zeynep Sonmez defies a Wimbledon ban to stand in solidarity with Palestine.

Hind Khoudary reports that yesterday Israel murdered at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza. Among those killed was a truck driver delivering aid and a family who were sheltering in their tent.

we are all just numbers on a spreadsheet full of errors now

heated dog kennels!

I strongly suspect these are very senior people. Hope this becomes a trend.

Hang it in the Musée Magritte.

That Napier/SRUC/St Margaret's collaboration (in The Times this morning) - here's what's going on: wonkhe.com/blogs/a-deep...

wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/... Yikes.

Oh great. We have a huge nursing cohort which works on 3 semesters rather than 2, and now the funding has been reduced; we’re trying to recruit for a new medical school and the salary/pension funding has disappeared too.

The new academic year starts in 2 months. The modules to run are set in stone even if the all-new first year ones haven’t yet been designed. All that remains is to decide which 3 of the 23 of us will still be here to teach them. The redundancy selection criteria has not yet been announced…

Hollywood has spent nearly $600 million trying to bring Matt Damon home

🚨🚨 A World Weather Attribution study found June's extreme heat across Western Europe would have been “virtually impossible” 50 years ago Germany, Hungary, and Austria all experienced record highs of 40+ celsius 1,300 deaths were reported in France, and hundreds in neighbouring countries

The Edinburgh Joint Unions Financial Working Group has done an excellent job of going through the university's reports, finding that there's a sizeable surplus, management is using misleading metrics, and spending on buildings is *still* growing www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/ju-finance-w...

This applies to the intl context too. For example, I do not care if Starmer or Macron, or Erdogan and MBS, or Xi and Subianto, say the right words or not about Gaza. What are they doing? Has the UK or France banned trade with settlements? No. Has Erdogan cut oil trade? No. Has Xi cut weapons? No.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino's private-jet travel during the World Cup group stage produced ~516 tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent. This is what 78 people would produce across a calendar year. And we're only halfway through the tournament (day-wise). www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Has the Guardian discovered the massive proportion of students who attend their local university because they’re working-class and have done for years? Of course not. It’s another way to bash non-Russell Group universities as a poor second-best chosen by the desperate. With friends like this…

Certainly describes my situation: facing redundancy from a humanities job in weeks, no chance of another academic role, and at a university that went from teaching 15-20 languages to none.

We usually don't think about on-demand delivery and heat in the UK, but these are unworkable temperatures, particularly without a place to rest, hydrate, wearing heavy gear. The @workersobservatory.org would like to build such a space, but in the meantime riders must use city space to take a break.

It’s wild that politicians don’t seem to grasp the degree to which universities contribute to the economy- local, regional, national. The failure to intervene is a stain on this govt - a shocking dereliction of duty to every worker, every local business, every student, every area that is suffering

My new book is out: The Dissolution of the Universities mayflybooks.org/the-dissolut... @mayflybooks.bsky.social

In the absence of eating some people and redistributing their stuff, here is also some actual practical things you can do

“one of the positive things about being a social democrat..we can work with leftwing parties, on other issues we have to work with conservatives, liberals and sometimes also the far right.” Hope any UK "social democrats" who praised "Denmark model" are reading this.. www.ft.com/content/b131...

It'd be really nice if, just for once, a company could introduce safeguards around Indigenous heritage *before* doing the damage...

honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned

It’s not even a case of “can liberal democracy defend itself from fascism and the far right”. It’s “why is governance of this purported liberal democracy ram-packed with senior officials who plainly don’t even want to defend it, and are in fact quite happy to assist the derangement where they can”.

Elephant hawkmoth on Heath spotted orchid. #wildflowerhour #pollinatorfriends

Ramiro Valdes, one of Cuba’s last living revolutionary figures, dies at 94 https://aje.news/4toxa5

It's kind of telling that racist violence isn't news to the BBC.

"She used to talk about the beach like it was a person. Her bond to the sunset, her bond to the water and the turtles….she was really into conservation, and into the soul, the spirit of conservation." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The drivers of this humanitarian catastrophe are political.. these conditions will not end while the unlawful occupation that produces & sustains them continues, & while impunity continues.." Bushra Khalidi addressing the UN security council yesterday

and right on schedule, the 15 Minnesota anti-ICE activists arrested are branded as “antifa”

I repeat, this is the kind of talk that could get a college student deported (and serve as a pretext for extorting their university).

Congratulations to Andy Burnham. But this isn’t a team of advisers which looks like challenging wealth and power. The race for Greater Manchester mayor starts today and it’s Greens v Reform.

Israel's attacks on Lebanon underscore the threat that Israel’s ongoing occupation and assault on Lebanon poses to the prospects of a final peace agreement between the US and Iran. The MOU that Trump signed explicitly includes Lebanon and indicates that Israeli attacks would violate the deal.

I'm looking for some extra work this summer so if anyone has anything - e.g. remote research (especially London archives or Cambridge area), transcription, editing, proofing, etc, or knows of anyone looking, then feel free to let me know!

Keir Starmer’s under-16 social media ban can only work if everyone proves who they are, so it’s a natural move for a government selling surveillance as safety By tech policy expert and digital rights advocate @heatherburnstech.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/under-16-s...

The Courier has minute-by-minute coverage of the situation at the University of Dundee that involves another round of 190 job cuts. This is the level of attention this kind of thing should be getting. In England it's as if the media and politicians don't notice www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/education...

Derbyshire police officer under criminal investigation for using AI to "create evidential material in a number of cases". www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/crime/d...

Join us at 5.30pm today as Laleh Khalili discusses her book Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy (@versobooks.bsky.social) Learn more below:

"Better train journey, just had a meal and a good cup of tea" @cam.ac.uk @caiuscollege.bsky.social #HigherEducationPostcard

Accurate.

The global unity on display in the quote posts of this.

do yourself a favor and scroll through the quote posts

Meanwhile in Israel 👇 Leftist protest against the government Palestinians protest against the government Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against the government And the police? Beating up everyone who dares to speak.

Give it back imo

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @uniofhull.bsky.social I'm not sure whether the mixed common room refers to mixed sex, or that its a common room for both undergraduates, postgraduates and staff If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm