The shouty old right used to lay into the BBC for pro-European propaganda and the real reason millennials are pro-Europe was hidden from them all along because we had the volume turned down

*looks at swathes of colleagues with PhDs, looks at office work that needs to be done, studies interface between the two* Is this a trick question?

I can't be the only one who immediately thought of Belfast when I saw that photo.

Thanks to all the charlatans, quacks and fools who've allowed measles to reach my child's secondary school in London

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

Pleased to say I had never heard of Jim Ratcliffe before but he has wrong’un hair.

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

You can’t offload emotional labor. Believe me, I’ve tried

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

Truly incredible number of projects slated to reach some sort of crescendo in late May, no way can this go wrong.

Right, I missed this, what the what now?

This is the truth the January-haters cannot face.

#EarlyModern 🗃️ Rosamund Oates is researching the history of early modern deafnes - see her P&P article, book out soon I think. academic.oup.com/past/article...

Day 14 of The Cold starts with a sore throat so sore it woke me up, is the never-ending cold just a new thing we have to have now.

A year ago, we were on the cusp of turning many cancers into chronic rather than terminal diseases through immunotherapy and mRNA vaccines. Today, we're working through the curative qualities of a magical horse paste instead.

And Epstein also was heavily involved in the Zionist project of using archaeology in the overtly political claim of land / deny Palestinian hist connections to place. The interconnections of his political aspirations and misuses of academia to support it, require a lot more investigation (2/2).

This is an interesting thread because that little wrong-sounding note, *so* many people brush over those, in all kinds of decision-making, and there’s no obvious correlation with intelligence. Doesn’t immediately compute, ignore. And then you’re bought in to whatever grift/horror it is.

Two important lessons here: (i) @mike-rat.bsky.social knows a lot of things (ii) The LSE beaver is called Felix The motto comes from Virgil: Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas - happy is he who was able to know the causes of things

Just love the absolute hutzpah of sharing this as if it's new information R&D have figured out, that's changed the grand plan - rather than something someone's granddaughter could have mentioned at her space themed 9th birthday party 🎈

'Launching in April and running until October, they will each offer researchers the opportunity of between £50,000 and £100,000 funding.' 1/2

A #SuperbOwl

Not over this. They are still posting. All the other videos are of children dancing, watching puppet shows, having faces painted etc.

Ah a new instagram reel from the island where I go on holiday! I wonder what beautiful wholesome Dalmacijan things are happ-

In 2010 General Morillon, a devout Catholic, went back to Srebrenica to ask for forgiveness. He was chased away under a hail of insults from the town’s grieving widows. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/w...

All this talk of Al Carns who frankly may or may not exist is reminding me I never checked back to see how Albania’s AI minister is getting o- diginto.tech/albanias-ai-...

Ffs

Amazing to think that we have surnames because this is how medieval people managed their phones

A large group of Americans are on this train and they are perfectly nice but good lord you guys really do not have indoor voices do you

Yeah but he would say that wouldn't he

Ah crap. People whose books you’ve admired.

welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up

The long game of the Counter-Reformation enters its final century

5/5 PMs with approval ratings of measles isn't just a feature of failed leadership. It's Brexit Britain. There's no money for anything people want and were promised they would have, and no one can blame the people who got us into this mess because they got 52% of the vote (let alone reverse it).

You’re joking, I thought I just needed to get onto IT, is this really a thing?! Continuous restarting no matter what I do.

This comes up a lot so I do want to let you all know that the option of turning the existing building into a heritage/museum site has been costed out and it is substantially more expensive

Bezos burning the Washington post to the ground is as firm a reason for the continued bbc licence as ever there was. Eventually everything that can be owned by a billionaire will be owned by a billionaire and at that point its future will be determined by the whims of a man making 166k per minute.

This moment is bringing out the best in some of us (like this speaker) and bringing out the worst in others of us. This is a time for choosing to live a life that you're proud of, or not. ❤️

Is it possible she has misunderstood what a moral panic is and thinks the witches were guilty

Anyone who thinks what's happening is the worst political scandal this century, in this country should take a stroll down to the Covid Memorial Wall.

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

We happen to have two words for nationality because of the structure of the country. Most countries don't. So is French supposed to refer to ethnicity or nationality? It's a gibberish argument.

No wait it’s not a style vacuum, it’s like a student house in the early 90s, but I don’t mean a fun one with beanbags and Friends merch, one where no one cares and the furnishings came from the landlord’s mums house. Way, way below well-styled Ikea aesthetically.

How come every single picture I’ve seen from Epstein involves such a dull, crappy, non-interior designed backdrop. Every single one. Where did he get those curtains, Dunelm? If I had even a tiny % of that money I’d live in a photoshoot. These people can’t even enjoy aesthetic material things.

For Serbia's Muslim students, protest brings sense of belonging reut.rs/3ZScw94

Kyiv survived through a horrible night today as Russia launched a massive drone&missile attack Since sleep was already out of the question,several Kyiv residents chose to welcome the frosty dawn with a cup of coffee on Saint Volodymyr Hill. Kyiv is so beautiful.I love this city 📷elena_semenchenk0

Incredible work here by local Chicago journalists investigating two of the especially violent DHS agents terrorizing people in Chicago & MSP. Using body cam footage, after-action reports, social media videos & much more, @unraveledpress.com tells a jarring and must read story:

This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..

If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...

Didn't I say that getting rid of shortwave radio services was a very 1913 thing to be doing?

“Oh it’s pretty much the same!” - an ancient Briton working for Tesco’s apparently