If we’re talking about celebrity Olympic enthusiasts, I am far far far more fond of Flavor Flav than Snoop.

Rare to get an actual vox pop with a pothole

This is particularly insulting and cowardly from the IOC since Russia is banned from competing as a nation at these Olympics specifically because of the invasion of Ukraine.

Huge solidarity with @ucuessex.bsky.social and @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social, both out on strike today over threats to jobs and pensions. Let’s do this #UCU #UKHE

"Birmingham medical students join national campaign to address funding gaps in degrees"

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

My husband volunteers at St Joseph’s Hospice Bereavement Service in Hackney and he’s running the local Half Marathon to raise a little bit of cash for them. If you can spare something, it’s a very worthy cause: www.justgiving.com/page/mike-wi...

Not Lego lost at sea this time but a leg lost at sea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#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...

Yeah sure we can put people into space, but when is someone going to invent medication blister packs that do not slice your fingers open?

Who knew that the vaulted ceiling of Canterbury cathedral is the ideal backdrop for a silent disco

For every degree or warming the atmosphere can hold up to 7% more moisture. Warmer wetter winters in the UK are a clear and present impact of continual global warming. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Somehow, I was reminded of this…

Watch and be full of thanks that we got to live at the same time as this incredible man and could witness genius.

Still lots of time left to submit an abstract for mine and Leah's session #RGSIBG session! If you've got some ideas for a contribution but would like an informal chat, please feel free to get in touch with me. #GeographySky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I am literally taking taxis to/from two separate medical appointments this week because people would be amazed by how many hospitals have poor or no public transport links!

I can’t describe the extent of my obsession with Culinary Class War. A giant elevator of tofu descending from the ceiling, professional chefs driven to absolute madness by spending endless hours preparing tofu dish after tofu dish. Truly peak television

I would not use the concept of "calm" to describe this massive pilled-up cat staring at you.

In the South East coastal regions we need to have education and employment. We're currently being failed by our government who hold the purse strings of our employers.

I am genuinely really pleased that Sussex under Sasha Roseneil has decided to fight this decision when many other VCs would have simply given in. The OfS decision is such a dangerous precedent for the sector

“Closing Southend means losing homegrown social workers people who understand this community.” Join us this Thursday as we rally to stop the cuts and save Southend’s campus. 🕛 12:00–13:00 | 📍 The Forum, Elmer Square, Southend

Ok, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25

Incandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

I really need to do an update of this post soon, considering the current #GoogleBooks outage.

Always exciting to meet new medical professionals: 'Let's see how bad your EDS actually is' *bends toe all the way downward* '...oh dear'.

The accusation that the Lords are “obstructing democracy” by supporters of the assisted dying bill is a ridiculous one that shows up the flaws in this process that have been there from the very beginning – which have repeatedly been covered up by heated rhetoric (1/?)

Just to offer the counterpoint here, as I think it is very very important we do so: this is absolutely anticipatory obedience 101. Much as university leaders might see it as their responsibility to “plan” for this possibility, in effect REF are getting to set the agenda without winning any election

The former Professor of Education, Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health in Helmut Kohl's government, and 10th President of the German Federal Parliament died on Sunday.

Looking for recommendations for animated film/series (anime or western animation) suitable for a 13 year old. No gore or weirdly sexualised stuff and needs to be available on UK Netflix or prime. My suggestions so far were anything Ghibli and Frieren.

Delighted to be one of many colleagues endorsing @markpendleton.bsky.social for #ucu Vice-President (Higher Education). Find out more about him and his campaign here ucucommons.org/about-mark/ and please do vote when your ballot arrives! 😀

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill and capacity In light of the fact that it appears likely that questions of capacity will be considered imminently by the House of Lords at Committee stage, I hope that it may be of some assistance if I pulled together some of the materials on this issue…

abortionsupport.org.uk/product/lcxa... Get your abortion-supporting t-shirt here as we at ASN welcome Imbolc / Spring with goddess / st Brigid on February 1! Ireland’s first known abortionist working with the magic of reproductive bodies, and making loving fertile worlds possible :)

We're looking ahead to #NationalHIVTestingWeek - we're encouraging people who've never tested before to come for a fast, free, confidential HIV test So what do you want to know about HIV testing? Let us know, and we'll answer all your questions throughout the next couple of weeks 💜 #TestingItOut

Liebe alles an dieser Werbung 🥰

Really cool that while we have a national panic about teenagers on phone too much, phone is also causing pensioners to build car bombs www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Hannah is a legend.

Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance. They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along. They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.

Why should mobility aid users be allowed to use bus lanes? We’re asking for Disabled people to have the same rights to use spaces that non-disabled pedestrians and cyclists already do. That includes using bus lanes and cycle lanes.

“Despite their supposed victory in the Supreme Court last April, anti-trans campaigners like Sex Matters have encountered failure after failure in their attempts to use the law to bully trans people out of public life." And If Sex Matters tries to bring another challenge, we’re ready to fight back.

On Wednesday 11th of February, I will be giving a talk about my book 'Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration' at City St George's, University of London (where I did my own PhD). If you're in or around London, come along! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Also worth saying other countries have been phasing this in for a while. For the last year at least German border control has always asked to scan my German passport rather than my UK one.

Oh dear lord

Cutting staff at a neighbouring Uni is bad for the whole coastal South East. Aside from London, what industries or large employers are there? Visit a seaside town in the winter? How is this 'levelling up'? 14,000 jobs in HE lost last year. Where is the government support? #AcademicSky

My vet described having a beagle as equivalent to having a particularly uncooperative cat and it’s hard to disagree with him when this is what changing the duvet looks like in my house

NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

Can’t wait to see the university of Kent press release

Just for context when I complained to hotel chocolate that one of their shops wasn’t wheelchair accessible because they didn’t have a ramp, which fails to comply with the Equality Act I got a £100 voucher and no write up in the times for my suffering

Imagine being so corrupt and authoritarian even Sepp Blatter thinks you've gone too far. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This is a key consultation and there is only a week left. If you haven't read the excellent work by @kevinguyan.bsky.social on how abuse of data standards is used to exclude us from public life, it's at doi.org/10.1080/0958... Please respond if you're able and get others to do so if you can.