Amazing victory for UCU members. We now need to see Universities and other funders follow UKRI's report findings and peg their stipend levels to the Real Living Wage so PGRs have the certainty that their finances will not fall behind inflation each year.

Universities have conflated ‘student experience’ with asking what students like. Without critical engagement, including honest conversations about cuts and reductions in face to face time, it just becomes another marketing tool.

This man is a liar and a Nazi sympathizer. But hey, feel free to turn over the government to him.

Please read this important article detailing the humanitarian, public-health and economic calamity that the Trump-Musk regime is triggering in Africa and that Secretary Rubio is quite passively overseeing.

Silence will not shield scientists from the consequences of an increasingly hostile political landscape. UK and other non-US scientists must act to support our US colleagues. Here's what I think we should be doing... 🧵 1/35

This case is utterly tragic. A patient experiencing abdominal pain and vomiting was seen by a physician associate and diagnosed with a nosebleed, and was discharged from hospital that same day. She died two days later after having a catastrophic bowel obstruction. The coroner

The first known victim of Elon's cuts died around February 2, after the refugee hospital that was providing her oxygen closed. DOGE started killing people a month ago. reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

Eerily familiar… NOUS uses as one of its criteria to assess our programmes its “alignment” with Strategy 2030. I.e.: another NOUS-produced document, of which staff has only been allowed to see the bland “values”, not the KPIs and (projected) budgets.

It’s tiresome to keep repeating a debunking of this. But Goodwin never tires of misleading people it seems, so: The vast majority of people in this statistic are people who have lived here many years (often decades). Most have ILR or citizenship. Vast majority of recent

In other words -- the really hard parts of software engineering (design, interpreting requirements, ensuring the code works in an ecosystem) can get focus, rather than on the mechanics that *can* be automated.

🌟 Today I gave the "Rising Star" lecture to The Neonatal Society! 🌟 Absolutely delighted to have been recognised for my contributions to perinatal and paediatric epidemiology today by The Neonatal Society. Huge thanks to my wonderful colleagues & friends for supporting me!

Elon signed the death warrants of hundred of thousands abroad with his illegal closure of USAID. Now he’s doing it for Americans. Just offset by ten or 15 years. Do you think you might ever get cancer?

this is so fucking dumb. Guess what, the word "continuous" literally changes the entire model. A model with finite number of states is a TOTALLY different thing from a model with CONTINUOUS number of states. This is so fucking dumb.

** UK University scholarships for Palestinian students** Spread the word.

It's hard to explain this stuff in an academic paper without getting some snark from the reviewers ("lack of novelty", etc.) but whatever, I feel this is the part of the story that needed to be told. Good to have it out there: arxiv.org/abs/2504.04584

We are deeply concerned by the UK government’s use of terrorism legislation to repress Palestine Action, a non-violent group not unlike those Keir Starmer once defended as a human rights lawyer. We urge the Home Secretary and Prime Minister to drop this heavy-handed move and to

Just a total RW takeover of our country. They control everything, they're flexing their power and there's nothing you can do about it.

🚨| BREAKING: BrewDog is closing 10 bars across the UK, with staff reportedly given "three days' notice". Unite Hospitality: "In what universe is 3 DAYS a morally (or legally) acceptable notice period for a proper redundancy consultation for the workers impacted?!"

Hidden deglobalization indicator: the days of visa-free travel are essentially over. Starting in Australia, now NZ, US, UK, Canada, S Korea and soon Japan and the EU require "visa-free" visitors to apply and pay for a "ETA" prior to boarding. That's an e-visa! A total shame. 1/2

Does this include paying resident doctors more? Funding unis to train more?