Worth watching again. New Tory Party Deputy Chair 30p Lee Anderson, exposed as a deceitful charlatan in this video from Michael Crick.

The Tories have deliberately fanned the flames of far right extremism to the point where it’s now running out of control. The result: burning police cars and mobs targeting refugees. Britain has been changed forever by Tory rule. It is unrecognisable today heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…

So today the BBC won't broadcast Attenborough on biodiversity loss for fear of a right wing backlash and Gary Lineker is not allowed to criticise the government on social media. Can we now talk about the chilling effect of a BBC chairman who is a Tory donor?

Just passed the university’s information security course. I do like the certificate.

Here's a little look at German cost of living vs British cost of living, which goes a long way to explain why British people are suffering- despite the UK being ome of the richest countries in the world /1

Interdisciplinary, FUNDED PHDS are available on animal behaviour/cognition and human-animal interactions! If you would like to do a PhD within these research areas, please apply! Expression of interest deadline: 14 April. Please RT! findaphd.com/phds/project/n…

The Wrong Trousers is 30 years old! The most pitch perfect chase sequence ever committed to film. I’m forever in awe of this scene. Long before you could fall back on CGI. Proper craft at work… AND it’s bloody hilarious.

How do we compare the scale of language learning input for large language models vs. humans? I've been trying to come to grips with recent progress in AI. Let me explain these two illustrations I made to help. 🧵

As Bodo Winter's term is coming to an end soon, Language & Cognition Language & Cognition Journal is looking for a new editor-in-chief #CognitiveLinguistics cambridge.org/core/journals/…

BoJo: Not PM, to not MP, to no job. #palindrome

Lecturership in Linguistics at Stirling. Come and join us! stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-…

We’re hiring at Linguistics and English Language School of PPLS Extra time for research in the first three years. Dream job! Especially interested in corpus/computational linguists or expertise in endangered languages, but honestly open to any area. Pls RT! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

🚨 The Liz Truss-backed ‘Growth Commission’ is led by senior figures from US and UK think tanks who have been funded by fossil fuels, climate change deniers, Big Tobacco and more. New 'dark money' exclusive on my Substack: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/liz-trusss-g… (Please do subscribe!)

No spoilers, but this is the cleverest football advert I've ever seen.

You got poorer. They got peerages.

New preprint with David Peeters in which we showcase #VR as a tool to study language evolution that offers an unprecedented combination of experimental control and ecological validity (which used to be considered mutually exclusive). 📄🔓osf.io/preprints/psya…

🚨 Announcing: The Nutmeg Ultimate Scottish Football Bucket List. The must-sees and dos of our national game, voted for by you the fans to celebrate us reaching magazine Issue 30. 🪣 🏐 A thread. A thread with pictures. Pictures of pies and other lovely things.

Re-sharing this since the ownership of Thames Water is in the news...

THREAD🧵: With so many leadership changes and policy u-turns, it is hard to keep track of the promises on which the Conservatives were elected to gov't in 2019. I have had a detailed look back at their 2019 manifesto. ~AA 1/

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