RIP Gerry Conway.
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We're refreshing our Latin America University Rankings methodology, to mirror the improvements that have been made to our global ranking.

Our principal data scientist Billy Wong outlines what is changing here: timeshighereducation.com/world-universi… #THEUniRankings #THELatAm

Good luck to everyone running in the Ashby 20 today!

#GNUTerryPratchett

The only PM to have sponsored me in the London Marathon…

Gordon Brown, 'It's a sign of the times that John Major and I find ourselves more on the same side, than on opposite sides'

'We're not trying to make Cameron-style comebacks'

'I'm too old for British politics and too young for American politcis'

'A few years ago, John, Tony…

Another Avanti West Coast cancellation.

This is a good example of where making decision makers experience everyday realities could rapidly improve public services.

See also private healthcare and public schools.

Come on library/prison people! Did Brooks Hatlen die in vain?

As a UK Biobank contributor I’m very proud of what it is and has done.

An interesting question though: why the UK? Just chance, or is there something repeatable?

It’s great to see #FairportConvention again. One minute the whimsy of The Festival Bell, the next the mammoth heaviness of Sloth (with Peggy going for a Pistorian bass solo!)

I would. I really would…

It always seems a bit odd to call them “Mickey Mouse degrees” when the Disney property is one of the most valuable on the planet…

#LoveHigherEd

Do you work in admissions, recruitment, or talent identification in an academic, research, or similar environment?

Come work with me at Schmidt Science Fellows!

Application are due this Friday (9 Feb).

Look what just arrived in the post! Our Times Higher Education publication examining the perils of #motherhood and #academia . It’s a joy to see this great collaborative piece finally out there in printed form! Dr. Elizabeth A. Faulkner Cathal Rogers Jessica Hope Annie Abelman PregnantThenScrewed

St Peter: And what's your name?

(Offstage): Don't tell him, Pike!

xkcd.com/2889/

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? For me it was #TaylorSwift years ago…

#TwitterAnniversary #NeverX

Thei saye universitye bureaucracye ys byzantine but it ys nowhere close to byzantine enough. Ther are almost zero mosaics. Not a trace of Tyrian purple. Hippodromes notablye absent.

One of my favourite Russian paintings, in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow