In May this year, Lord Peter Hendy pressured my now-former employer SYSTRA UK & Ireland to sack me by threatening them. Why did he do this? Because I'd highlighted safety and accessibility issues at Euston station. He is unfit for office and should resign. politico.eu/article/uk-rai…

At least they wear red ties and look sad. It makes it much better when they do the same stuff as the Tories.

This is wonderful news. The SSI is an enormous force for good in the UK research landscape.

My phone just autocorrected irn bru to iron brunch, which sounds like something that the worst people in the world would be into

On my way to Loughborough for #BSG24 Looking forward to catching up with a bunch of folk!

A few of us are having food at the jam garden maps.app.goo.gl/GbBvK5RiR16dH2… If anyone wants to join! #BSG24

Our stay at the BSG Geomorphology Windsor Workshop feels like eons ago! Was great to catch up as we move to the last stretch ✍️ Would highly recommend the December workshop to early-stage #geomorphology PhD students, and Lucy Clarke tells us this might be a big anniversary year! 🥳

Congratulations to our 2024 award winners Sanjeev Gupta (Linton Award), Georgina King (Warwick Award), Anya Leenman (Chorley Award), Alexander Neely (Mike Kirkby Award) and Athena Eftychiou (Marjorie Sweeting Dissertation Prize). It has been a pleasure to hear your talks! #BSG24

Cardiff School of Earth & Environmental Sciences Will Norriss Stuart Grieve Great talk by Owen James, presenting a novel approach to measure coastline extent at a high resolution using webcams. Interesting method to overcome issues of low-frequency, small scale models. 🏖️

Some more QMUL School of Geography representation at #BSG24

The challenge for any aspiring VC is to use this data to explain why staff should accept yet another real terms pay cut.

Hi vivienne stern! Uploading the powerpoint of this analysis presented at the UUK conference shouldn't take too long. Please do so. The number crunching was firm enough to make staff redundant in 70 institutions, so they must be ready for publication, right?

Come and join if you are interested in how the high-speed trains (flocs) take passengers (#microplastics) to bottom of the ocean!

It's publication day! My new book, THE LIE OF THE LAND, is out today. Buy it here, or in any good bookshops! - lnkfi.re/dsHR7n And check out this 'trailer' to whet your appetite:

What the fuck is an "unproductive hospital"

Remember folks, 10 years ago we were told we were better together: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

That's those deductions which Aditya Chakrabortty wrote so insightfully about back in December: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…