If you earn £45k and pay into the USS pension, then in 10 years of retirement you will earn back about four whole years of your UCU membership subs as a consequence of the union's success in the USS dispute.

The BBC's framing of Israel's justification of the further slaughter to come in Rafah - that it is "Hamas' last stronghold" - really ought to engage with whether Israel's "war against Hamas" can be won with territory. Other things can be accomplished, for sure. But that?

A few days late, but a big high five to Framwellgate School, Durham Modern Languages and Cultures and the volunteers from Team Stevo who showed my 13yo around Durham Uni on Wednesday. She loved the college tour and the languages seminars, and the whole experience of being 'at uni' for the day.

"Lower is better" apparently, but for whom?

What does it take to make your journal an inclusive home for research from the Global South? Editor Joanna Setchell has taken active steps frm diversifying editorial board members & reviewers to including translations & introducing double anonymous review springernature.com/gp/researchers…

¿QUÉ CRÍTICAS RECIBIÓ LA SOCIOBIOLOGÍA? Estimados, es posible que todos sepamos algo de la sociobiología de E.O. Wilson y su idea de que las conductas sociales humanas fueron moldeadas por selección natural. No obstante, ¿conocemos sus críticas?

As the daughter of a political Refugee who was given safe passage to this country from Uganda fleeing Idi Amins murderous regime against Asians, this absolutely chills me to the bone, unthinkable inhumane and cruel treatment towards those seeking sanctuary. #RwandaNotInMyName

So just to be clear, Sunak says over and over here that he ALWAYS planned to snub the presidents of France, the US, and Chancellor of Germany, and always intended to be absent from the formal international leaders photo on the 80th anniversary. And he can't see THATS the problem.

I am at #AM10 this week. I'll be mainly posting on BlueSky - great opening plenary from Professor Phillippa Diedrichs on working with industry. bsky.app/profile/drboot…

New systematic review on media and body image in Latin America from Fabienne_Andres, @dr_liz_evans, Tracey Thornborrow, and co. I summarise it here: bsky.app/profile/drboot… Paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…