Former academic and newly-minted Reform candidate Matt Goodwin trying desperately to move the Overton Window all on his own. Or “lying” as it’s known everywhere else.

Any seafarers or others from maritime world out here?

Good piece on tear gas, protests, feds and the best gas masks. Cameo appearance of a European "soccer riot".

On Saturday, @theverge.com's creative director @kristenradtke.bsky.social carefully watched a video of a shooting in Minneapolis, twice. Hours later, she found out that the man who was killed was her childhood best friend. www.theverge.com/policy/86856...

for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence hope that helps

Julie Rademacher, president of Uagut, the national organisation for Greenlanders in Denmark, tells us in today's FT that "dogsleds are to Arctic warfare what skis are to alpine troops or scuba gear to naval commandos: a technology perfectly adapted to its environment."

What a mess. This is the damage done by social media lies and disinformation - aided by a government that subsidises and cossets the platforms that spread it. news.sky.com/story/uk-los...

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

One of the most beautiful documents ever created: the leaflet that everyone received when Britain's NHS was launched (1948) "Everyone—rich or poor, man, woman or child—can use it... There are no charges, except for a few special items...it will relieve your money worries in time of illness”

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

Europeans after managing to prevent the collapse of NATO for another 1-2 weeks… #Europe #Rutte

#Glasgow or nearby followers only: I am clearing out my old maths, physics and engineering text books. FREE to anyone who can use them - a student perhaps. Collect in person from Cathcart or the city centre. Ideally all to go to the one recipient.

I need at least 3 more folk to sign up for my Edinburgh Adult Education Programme archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know. Thank you! adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

Two fragments of the Bayeux Tapestry return to Bayeux from Schleswig-Holstein. Taken by Nazi scientist in 1941.

🦋🌿Hiring 12 x Botanists or Entomologists for 2026 field surveys in England! 4-month, full-time roles from late April to early September. Field sites in Yorkshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Kent/Sussex, Lincolnshire/Cambridge, Essex/Suffolk. Apply now: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca... 🧪

Biology is so wild. It doesn't respect the rules we make up. We all know children inherit genes from their parents. But it turns out mothers also inherit genes from their children! And it can help them. (But it can also hurt them.) For more, read this: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dirk Schulte Winterstillleben mit Schirmträgerin 2024

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

Ricketts: "Nothing new in the US propensity to use force against small nations in their region, or keeping allies in the dark when they do so." (NB Noriega's detention & US invasion of Panama now corrected to 1989)

Hwæt!?

Good heavens:

30.000 werden gebraucht. 7.835 sind es bisher. Noch 15 Tage. OB IHR DA JETZT ENDLICH MAL UNTERSCHREIBEN WOLLT HAB' ICH GEFRAGT??!? 🤬 (Petitionsthema: "Keine Führung eigener Register zur Erfassung von trans* und nichtbinärer Personen" Bitte unbedingt unterschreiben. 🙏)

Maiden Castle in Dorset is one of the largest Iron Age hillforts in Europe. It dates back over 2,000 years and occupies a prominent position atop a natural chalk hill. Here in snow. Happy new year all 🥳 #HillfortsWednesday

Betty & Nancy Debenham twin sisters on #BSA motorcycle which they promoted with dog Poncho. 1928 wrote Motorcycling for Women describing motorcycle as the "magic carpet of the town dweller" Competed in trials events Nancy won gold medal @ Brooklands Recetrack en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_a...

University of Southern Denmark, 3-year postdoc in Medieval Studies memorients.com/news/univers...

Transcribing interview with a great Parkinson’s scientist - love his advice to young researchers: “Pick your area, stick with it, and accept that at some point in your life it will be flavour of the month, and at some point in your career, it will be ’I can't believe you're still working on that’”

ffs lads. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is hysterical.

Ich suche eine #Übersetzerin oder einen #Übersetzer. Sprachen: von Deutsch >>>>> Englisch. Thema: Sachbuch/Biografie.

🧵Teaching Students NOT to use AI So...I've tried to explain to my students why they aren't allowed to use genAI in MY class (even though the university seems to be encouraging them to) I've written this document to try to explain WHY it's a bad idea rather than just forbidden fruit. #AI #genAI

Schönen erholsamen Samstag 🐱🦌 #Schönesgegendoofes

"3 short whistles = ICE is in the neighborhood. 3 long whistles = ICE is kidnapping somebody' Poster spotted in NYC

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

You all know about this, right? Not one of nature's natural aviators, the beaver, and yet... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_...

Warm hats wanted for #seafarers in Lübeck! Warm woolly hats also collected by seafarers' charities in UK. Sailors' Society even has a knitting pattern! #Mützen #warmhats #woollyhats

Looking for a fully-funded three year PhD, starting in April 2026? The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...

My little girls (now big girls!), adopted from foster care, arrived with few possessions - but each had been given a box of books by @booktrust.org.uk. These books, read together, became our first shared memories. Spread the joy of reading with a donation: donate.booktrust.org.uk/Xmas3/~my-do...

Ordered a Durian cheesecake at a Japanese restaurant in Bristol. I had a vague sense of the Durian’s mixed reputation, and thought it worth a try. My advice is DON’T MAKE MY MISTAKE.

Pine martens may help red squirrels. www.welshwildlife.org/blog/alice-c...

Call for Scottish Government to review foreign language provision www.heraldscotland.com/news/2559839...

The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...

@rorycj.bsky.social Certain illnesses including neurological ones to be considered as ‘brakes’ to obtaining visas for US. Unclear if this includes tourist visas.

You think cheese is safe? Big mistake. It can kill you. A slingshot of hardened cheese felled Medb, *phenomenal* warrior queen and goddess in Celtic mythology. Norwegian cheese brunost is as flammable as petrol. It took 6 whole days to put out the fire in a lorry carrying 27 tonnes of the stuff.

this is brilliant satire: “Given what I took to be the anti-Trump nature of the Sketch, I of course assumed there would be a similar, balancing Sketch discussing the possibility that the Capitol building had attacked the rioters....."

Sternfunkelnde Nacht. ✨

... and Leicester... Languages, History... It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...