www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... it is not just Muslim voters who are horrified. If you don't listen to voters, or your supporters, who will you listen to? Could this be why people don't want to listen * to you* ?

The UK did not take part in strikes on Iran. A government statement doesn’t endorse the attack. “Iran must never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon and that is why we have continually supported efforts to reach a negotiated solution.”

Near total internet blackout in Iran so little internal news will be coming out.

Een ander schip waar ik letterlijk niet vanaf lijk te komen, is de ‘Titanic’. In 2012 organiseerde ik een expo over de 3 Nederlanders aan boord. Sindsdien verzorg ik regelmatig lezingen over het oneindige verhaal van dit schip. Over een paar weken geef ik zelfs een ‘huiskamerlezing’. 🚢 🌊 🧊

'The Electoral Commission said observers were expected to raise irregularities or incidents of potential fraud at the polls “on the spot”. This is my experience as a teller. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... People raise concerns with the police and they are immediately addressed.

A selection of #Roman ridged glass bowls, all made about 2000 years ago - but still looking fantastic! #AncientBlueSky

There is no fraud crisis.

@htenuk.bsky.social #TeacherEducation #historyteacher #HistoryEducation members, please check your inboxes for a communication seeking your views on curriculum reform. This has a tight response turnaround of 9am on Tuesday 3rd March. Thank you for your support with this.

Hillary Clinton never even met Jeffrey Epstein, but was forced to testify about him. #CoverUp

For me, Biesta reconciles the tension between what I see in schools (that successful teaching and learning can take any number of forms) and what I encounter in policy conversations (that there is one best way to teach and learn).

Astounding statement on *so* many levels

interesting that new Green MP Hannah Spencer talks almost entirely about public services, cost of living, NHS, the grind of making ends meet.... and hardly ever mentions ecological/environmental issues.... this is the pivot that scares Labour the most

Trending on Bluesky 1. Farage and Greens 2. UK Politics 3. Green Victory 4. Hannah Spencer 5. Gorton Denton Truly a seismic victory for @greenparty.org.uk

Mick Lynch: Farage didn't build a political career, he built a bonfire out of migrant families and called it leadership. #UKPolitics

I see Labour’s plan to appeal to Reform voters is going exactly as literally every single person said it would

they voted for a woman is a tradesperson, who is led by a leader who is Jewish and gay but Reform say they lost because of Islamists lol

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Once again Reform are spreading misinformation & smears, and the press & the media seem to repeat them.. its really important that the media.. take responsibility so when Reform or Farage says something they don't just keep repeating it"👏👏👏

Here's my big takeaway from all this. Since 2016 the Tories have pursued exactly the same things Reform is offering now — isolation, recrimination, division, and blind faith that finding the *right* charismatic bullshitter will fix the country. The Tories lost their deposit. It doesn't work.

“Who is going to look after the people that we support? The domestic workforce is not applying, and international recruits have been excellent in the roles they fill and helped us keep the sector going.” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

it's the same thing everywhere. "if i don't win, the election wasn't legitimate."

'A spokesperson for the acting returning officer said: “Polling station staff are trained to look out for any evidence of undue influence on voters. No such issues have been reported today.

JUST IN: Advisors to Hillary Clinton say the House Oversight Committee’s closed-door deposition has been paused after it was revealed that Lauren Boebert shared an unauthorized photo from the hearing with Benny Johnson, who then posted it on social media, as seen below.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Hillary Clinton’s fire and fury opening statement to the House Oversight Committee.

A fab final #ITT #historyteacher university based day of the week involving both #CakeyThursday & the brilliant @salwilson11.bsky.social who has come to provide the expert demonstration for #ITAP in creative pedagogical practices. @iandawson51.bsky.social is making lots of virtual appearances too!

Few in this country have worked to promote the understanding of race and class as historical phenomena in Britain as long, or as well, as Catherine Hall. None of it is a fad. It is all politics, in the hard, real sense.

The Spectator published this attack on me & colleagues just as the High Court is considering Sussex’s request for review of the Office for Students fine. It accuses us of ‘repressing’ our students. The magazine ignored my request for to reply. Please disseminate. alanlester.co.uk/blog/smearin...

Mandelson referred to EU fraud investigators over Epstein files OLAF, the European anti-fraud office, has been asked to look into the former trade commissioner, a Commission spokesperson says. www.politico.eu/article/pete...

Teaching can feel isolating. Teachers Talk Connect isn’t. Primary + Secondary. History | Maths | Science strands & more . . . 14 March – Manchester. Drinks after. 54 already booked. Bring a colleague. www.ttradio.org/connect2026

'I learnt so much' That’s what a teacher said last year. Teachers Talk Connect 14 March | Manchester Primary + Secondary Post-event drinks 🍻 Free ticket 👇 www.ttradio.org/connect2026

Interesting thread.

Moreover, even if the training data were fully disclosed, it's not straightforward to know exactly where LLMs outputs come from. A colleague can say "I got this idea from reading Sperber et al. 2010". We cannot get this kind of info from Claude, that's not how LLMs work. 11/

Got to love the examples here.

Specifically, the idea of source credibility just doesn't apply straightforwardly to LLM interactions. When I get info from another person I can ask: how does the content relate to their expertise? Their lived experience? Their interests and biases? 8/

Epistemic vigilance is a concept developed by Sperber et al. describing how we guard against the possibility that other people might misinform us. Two key points in this literature: 1. We need to scrutinize the content of messages 2. We need to scrutinize the source of messages 2/

Great thread on how we can better assess the reliability of information and arguments. How we work to defend against misinformation. And how all this fails when interacting with LLMs. You can’t track their sources. And you can’t understand their goals. No mind there, so no intentions to understand.

Reform councillor blasts 'cult' around Nigel Farage as he defects to Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain - LBC apple.news/AJfhKQNZlSo2...

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

Something is seriously rotten in the way DWP assesses PIP – a new docuseries shows the DWP turning its back on the victims of eco-destruction.

Brilliant to see that every feasible primary school in #Lambeth will have a School Street by 2027. Thank you @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social for your strong leadership, and for putting children's #Health and safety first. 💥 💚 😍

How are trans pple a driving risk? (They are not.) Ask them who’s next? Choose any group & call them “at risk” for accidents. People with diabetes? People with mental health diagnoses? People who drive a red car? What’s to stop them?

Academic friends: I'm hosting a campus discussion today with real talk about the the scholarly publishing process/pipeline, and would love to share some "in the trenches" wisdom: what is something you know now about the process that you wish you'd known as a first-year/early-career academic?

30 years. This video should be on every network.

I am but one of 1000+ scholars who have signed this letter in support of UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese, and in repudiation of the attempts by powerful governments to impede her work for accountability with the aid of fabricated evidence and unsubstantiated allegations.

The level of rage I have towards the New York Times that enabled this while blaming us for it is indescribable.