Banning big box consultancies would automatically put hundreds of millions back into the coffers. It would be the single-handed largest savings. Here are some eye-watering figures from down under. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Firstly, it's a travesty what has been happening to HE in the UK. Secondly, watching from a far with still a foot there, the decline of the university sector in the UK is a few steps ahead of what may be down the road for HE in similar systems, particularly, Australia and Canada.

This has really shaken me.

Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is a big development for the research funding ecosystem in Australia, which is pretty constrained (at least for social sciences), otherwise. Furthermore, the US withdrawal from research is estimated to have led to up to ~$600M of research shortfalls in AUS, being the largest external partner.

Constant state of my mind.

Illustration by artist Tove Jansson (1914-2001) from her 'Moomins' book series #womensart

Share the news: OVER 30 COUNTRIES COME TOGETHER TO REDESIGN FINANCE FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION Pioneers remaking financing for the 21st century 🗞️ gpigovernments.org/over-30-coun...

"concerns about reproducibility should not trump concerns about confidentiality or harm to participants, particularly when efforts to ensure reproducibility have the potential to place inequitable burdens on qualitative researchers and to further erode people’s willingness to participate in research

“By forcing AI tools into schools, early-career training, public services, and health care, the government makes one thing clear: refusal is not an option.….informed consent is irrelevant, and lack of consent is but a minor inconvenience to be overridden.”

Some news I've been bursting to share for a while! Excited to start our collective work as a Co-Coordinator of EpiNet - the UNESCO UNITWIN Network on Education, Epistemic Justice and the Knowledge Commons. adelaide.edu.au/about/news/2... #AcademicSky #EduSky #PoliSky

The launch of the Foundation for the Global Partnership for Education is a significant development and change in the global financing architecture for education. Interested in watching this space. www.globalpartnership.org/news/foundat...

This picture is so fantastical as to be real.

@numcog.bsky.social Daniel, I cannot say strongly enough how absolutely thrilled I am to hear about you being honoured by the 2026 Pickering Award for Outstanding Contribution to Developmental Psychology! Warms my heart. Humbled to be your colleague. 👏 pickeringcentre.org/2026/01/dr-d...

It’s so beautiful!

Because we are simply too much with fewer resources on average than ever before.

OMG. We just literally had an exchange a couple of days ago. A brilliantly, generous scholar with a wonderful sense of humour, Raúl guided so many with his public-facing work. Rest in peace, brother. 🤍

Deeply moved by this necessary work led by Indigenous site stewards and my former colleague, Cody Groat, to designate residential schools UNESCO World Heritage sites. This is a dark and inextricable part of world and Canadian history which must not be forgotten. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

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There should be a law that billionaire moguls cannot buy media outlets.

Here are the data.

Happy pride month/dinosaur day/Jurassic June y'all!!! Here's a prideful stegosaurus I drew a year or two back #Pridemonth #dinosaurday #jurassicjune

Expanding access to education is important. Improving learning is essential. Evidence shows that gains in cognitive skills are associated with significant increases in lifetime earnings, highlighting the importance of school quality and learning outcomes. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm as adjacent as the next guy

🤯 Explains why I live multiple timelines in my head. Simultaneously.

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MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

“We fell off the cliff,” said Mina Aganagic, a professor of math and physics at Berkeley. In order to avoid losing a large portion of her Calculus 1 classes, she says, “I had to teach basic algebra and fractions, which we never had to do before.” www.chronicle.com/article/test...

Hot off the heels of the @gemreport.bsky.social new paper, 'Education and Justice: learning to build just societies' is a global webinar to translate findings to ground action. When: 3 June 2026 at 4:00 pm CEST Register below: www.unesco.org/gem-report/e...

Love this interview with Fran Lebowtiz and her hatred of many things. I feel we could be friends. Intro please. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEgf...

3) Any grant can be terminated for any reason at any time—a devastating change that makes it impossible hire personnel, plan experiments, conduct field studies, or carry out most of the day-to-day activities that constitute effective science.

This literally is the march of death of science, research, and innovation. It will have trickle down effects to research globally, as the US is the largest external research partner for many countries. Sobering thread from @carlbergstrom.com summarising the changes to federal grants.

I'm pretty lukewarm abt RRs. Imo the primary problem they address is statistical sig-based selection. Instead they introduce a different selection. I have no reason to believe they improve design as we know peer review is not a quality filter, before or after data. They're oversold in that regard.

A page from Sir Isaac Newton's handwritten Trinity College notebook written between 1661-1665.

I'm torn about this. On the one hand Registered Reports are meant to vet research design before implementation, on the other I can see some serious issues with exploratory and innovative new methods particularly in some social sciences. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Yesterday was my last class for Semester 1. One of my fave compliments ever from a student: 'My first impression of you is that you are a human textbook.' In an age of AI generation being compared to a book is just beautiful. Thanks to my real-life students. #EduSky #AcademicSky

Chalk it up to The Economist to give reasoned, balanced debate. We are actually witnessing a pretty large backlash against corporate AI and digital invasion in employment and education. But why let nuance get in the way of a fun GIF. Seriously sad what has happened to this paper.

Very effective global public health strategy.

"Out of 177 faculty respondents, close to half reported significant concern about being disciplined by the university for their public engagement. One-fifth indicated that they had been asked by an administrator to change language related to their courses, research, or website."

Tech Bros Utopia existentialcomics.com/comic/655

Read our letter to the Home Secretary in full ➡️ www.russellgroup.ac.uk/news/researc...

The real identity politics wars.

Hidden Figures. People need to read some history or at the very least watch some decent films. airandspace.si.edu/stories/edit... Also: Ada Lovelace www.mpg.de/female-pione...

Not cool.

As marking season approaches, I can take solace in that even JRR Tolkien thought it was so hard and sometimes tedious that he wrote The Hobbit as distraction. I can confidently say my distractions will not contribute to humanity in any way. #EduSky #AcademicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=rre7...

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@prachisrivas.bsky.social you would love the number of people wearing Habs jerseys at this Toronto Blue Jays game

This fills me with determination as a math communicator. Everyone must learn the math of EMERGENT COMPLEXITY. "AI agents have been heralded as the next big leap in the technology as they can reason..." - no, no, NO, they really can't! And playgameoflife.com isn't really life. 😸 #iTeachMath #MathSky

I have thoughts.