"If the safeguarding principles of professional curiosity and challenge are lost to the white noise of such a zealot-like approach, we have truly lost our way." Hackney safeguarding chair Jim Gamble lambasts DfE's school behaviour ambassador Tom Bennett. chscp.org.uk/wp-content/u...

This story has made me reflect again on the Gove/Gibb/traditionalist/conservative reform programme in England, its ideology and networking around it. Perhaps it becomes even clearer as you see it spreading elsewhere. So am making this article open access. educationuncovered.co.uk/news/sound-f...

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

"Confronting the politics of race, ethnicity and nation in schooling: evidence from school practices around the world" Call for papers! #EduSky @edusky.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/cer...

New episode 🚨 In a special episode of The Crisis Room, Amber, @markurban.bsky.social & @mpolymer1.bsky.social look back at the Salisbury Poisonings - Russia's extraordinary attempt to assassinate a former spy on British soil. Listen on @globalplayer.com 🎧

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”. He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics

Explore these, and plenty more, on Cambridge Digital Library! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DAR-...

#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published. Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin! #CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)

The Daily Telegraph is being bought by the Daily Mail. With columnists who write this kind of incel style bilge about someone they disagree with on immigration think it’s unnecessary tbh …

Lives cut short by whatever means always leave us wondering about lost potential (apart from any other kind of grief). Czechoslovak geologist & mineralogist Ludmila Slávíkova (1890–1943) died aged 53 at the hands of the most brutal regime imaginable ⚒️🧪🌊 www.geological-digressions.com/ludmila-slav...

To all university managers thinking that AI is a good thing, take note. The reputational damage of fuck ups like this is not worth it.

🚨 Bonus episode alert! An exclusive with Armed Forces Minister @alcarns.bsky.social - he reveals why he quit the Royal Marines to become an MP, discusses the idea of national service, and explains why UK defence must step up in the next few years The Crisis Room on @globalplayer.com 🎧

I recently testified in EU Parliament that “Fines on billionaires and fines on big tech companies and multinational corporations will do almost nothing for behavioural change.” @reuters.com @tomhals.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/zucker...

Most Americans want science to govern our public health policy. Not crackpot ideas. This move marks a dire turning point for the CDC that the next Congress and administration must correct ASAP. www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-up...

Can we repair the ageing brain? 🧠 The UK DRI's Prof Bart De Strooper and Prof Julie Williams join Prof Sonia Gandhi, @rorycj.bsky.social and host Brian Cox to discuss dementia and the ageing brain on the latest episode of @crick.ac.uk's new podcast 'A Question of Science' 🎙️👉 buff.ly/WymdYJ6

At #PMQs Kemi Badenoch claimed unemployment has gone up “every single month” under Labour. We wrote about this last month and found it isn’t quite true 👇

If you have a doubt the MAGA attack on the BBC is not co-ordinated, read what GB News owner told the US “We need you to come and save us. To rescue us … You are making America great again… We need to make Britain great again” subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/79/a...

New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...

Looks like the science community has found a home. academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

3 weeks since he was shot 5 times. Today he was out running with me. Only 21 days to go until I take on the Marathon challenge to help more dogs like him. Look at him go ❤️

#CenTCS #SeminarSeries We're delighted to invite you to our next seminar with Dr Thomas Cowhitt.   ** Innovation Infrastructure: how practitioners are scaling their own school improvement programmes and products by repurposing professional learning networks ** www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

I spotted him out of the corner of my eye last night. While the team operated on 5 dogs today and saved several lives this was the one that felt super gratifying to me! Instant change in his quality of life!

We are going to try and launch something that operates on 5000 dogs and stops 100,000 dogs being born into suffering. We've shared budgets, planning, targets and data here. Hopefully will be able to pull off the impossible!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rqZ...

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social: We need to treat epistemic security as a public good to preserve our shared capacity to know, reason, decide. 🧵👇

In short: if you care about democracy, don’t just talk about “saving journalism” or “algorithmic bias”. Ask: how are we supporting verification? How are we designing for deliberation? How are we enabling accountability?

You might think controlling GB News gives you huge influence over UK politics – especially on the right. But that's just the tip of the iceberg, as we reveal in this week's issue of @thenewworldmag.bsky.social Full story: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

And here's another incredible woman showing us all how it is done. Education for the sake of education and the enjoyment of learning. Wonderful to see this goal achieved. 👏👏👏 BBC News - Great-grandmother graduates from university at 90 years old www.bbc.com/news/article...

Steve Witkoff: “I would like to acknowledge the vital role of the United Kingdom in assisting and coordinating efforts that have led us to this historic day in Israel. In particular, I want to recognize the incredible input and tireless efforts of National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell.” 1/

I’ve skimmed this and it looks v interesting about the homogenising effect of AI - a business monoculture?

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

It’s about the harms. "When people falsely claim that we are doing censorship work, I think…what they are trying to do is stop us from trying to understand the harms they are trying to push...using bad information. I think…we want research in trying to understand harms.” youtu.be/kFoO3H_upAI

A very big day for the street dogs

@bbcstever.bsky.social Congratulations on your Charles Wheeler award. Very well deserved

“Voters aren’t hearing” in part because many are tuned into their parasocial relationships and tuned out of other comms channels that are typically used by old school politicians. I’ve discussed this with several MPs and MEPs and this will be a topic at the 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit.

The emotional exhaustion is intentional. How opportunist influencers leverage “visceral” emotional narratives to profit from chaos and undermine democratic and accountability infrastructure. m.youtube.com/watch?v=yEjt...

Call for Papers now open for the Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 8-10 April 2026. Research on systemic risks from technology that affects information streams or the amplification or monetization of disinformation. Hosted with @mctd.bsky.social. Information: www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

Yesterday was @unesco.org World Teachers' Day, a chance to recognise the 'transformative potential of collaboration'. Happy (belated) World Teachers' Day to teachers across the globe, from all of us at #CenTCS🎉 www.unesco.org/en/days/teac...

What a profound message from Jane Goodall We don’t give up. We find hope in taking action on a daily basis. We do our best in the time we have left on this lovely planet

In memory of one of humanity’s greatest conservationists! Dr. Jane Goodall (April 3, 1934 - October 1, 2025) #janegoodall #janegoodallinstitute #RootsandShoots #NonhumanRightsProject

Rescued chimpanzee thanks Jane Goodall by giving her a hug, what a truly beautiful moment.

We are deeply saddened by the passing of UN Messenger of Peace Dr. Jane Goodall. Her life’s work championing conservation, humanity and the natural world leaves an enduring legacy. Our condolences to her family, the Jane Goodall Institute and all who draw hope from her example.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

German media seems to be taking more seriously than ours the fact a leading light in the party UK press keeps saying will be next government took bribes from Russia to spout their lies. Maybe it’s because they put NEWS ahead of propaganda

statistic of the day

The figure has just come up on Radio 4 The World Tonight, too, presented as a disagreement between Reform and Rachel Reeves. The usual “he said, she said”, rather than “we looked out the window and found that the source of this figure has disowned it”.

Ofsted has been accused of 'mission creep' after it emerged new inspections will mark down teacher training providers that allow the use of 'discredited' research – with the watchdog refusing to say what studies would fall into this category schoolsweek.co.uk/row-over-new...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.