Good news: US CO2 emissions continue to decline!

More problematic: All those declines are more or less concentrated in the power sector, and we need to make more rapid progress with transportation, industry, and buildings (as well as non-energy emissions from agriculture).

Hordern (2024) is an informative discussion of issues arising from UK & Australian governments increasingly narrow prescription of the curriculum & pedagogy of initial teacher education, and of the related ‘what works’ so-called evidence based education.

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Market Street, by the Covered Market, has now reopened as a “pedestrian and cycle zone” following resurfacing works. Access is permitted for taxis/private hire and loading in marked bays.
(Pictures taken yesterday after the shops had closed.)

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At this point pretty much everyone except a few Twitter shouters realizes that Israel is being extremely brutal in this war.

The U.S. shouldn't be supporting this; we should withdraw military aid, support Arab states' attempt to end the conflict, and pivot to Asia.

Oxfordshire Big Picture: Monday's image of the county bbc.in/3UjKZuf

Bite victims urged to stop bringing snakes to hospital thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/qld…

Korean universities converting to retirement communities. Live in dorms, take classes. Good idea.

Might be future for dying US colleges, too?

The pandemic instigated a big shift in working arrangements, with surprisingly benign effects on productivity, with benefits for workers and firms, from Steven J. Davis nber.org/papers/w32363

Oxfordshire's Big Picture: 22 April - 28 April 2024 bbc.in/4biv9H7

‘THE’ rankings: What happens to universities that leave?
universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

My newest paper is 'Virtual Town and Gown: The Athabasca University Crisis and the Conflict of Institutional Logics'. It is my attempt to analyze a unique conflict in Canadian higher education (and the paper is open access).

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/he…

There's no 'right' way to write.

Some people write as they think and think as they write

Some people think first and then find the best words later

Some people just need to get words on the page and then think it through

It's about finding the approach that's *right* for you.

Peter Bentley Apologies, I cut and paste inaccurately: education.gov.au/education-mini…

VC salaries to be set in the context of other large & complex public sector entities. education.gov.au/education-mini…

The good, the bad, and the ugly of Biden's new tax plan:

noahpinion.blog/p/biden-is-rig…

#OtD 26 Apr 1937 the ancient Basque city of Guernica was bombed and largely obliterated by the German and Italian air forces at the behest of the Spanish nationalists during the civil war. The event was famously depicted by Picasso. More in this podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39…