#LTSE2023 embedded or buried? Give employability as name

#LTSE2023 "righteous micro management" 😁 beware of mistaking metrics for the purpose

#ltse2023 whatever side the steering wheel is, you always need to know the right side of the road?

#ltse2023 do we trust our own capacity to construct metrics? Do universities have joined up data? 🤔

#ltse2023 do employers know what they want from graduates? Do employers really want to step up to produce graduates ? Dyson degrees? McDo burgerology

#ltse2023 have degree apprenticeships worked?

Once you wipe the dust from your screen, the remaining blue dot is ... us. Our Earth, seen from Saturn by NASA's Cassini. Wave!

Some exciting Aberystwyth University job news: We have five 150th Anniversary Research Fellow posts available. Anyone interested in researching: - transport & health and/or - ageing with a nod to psychology get in touch, I'd be happy to support an application or two! jobs.aber.ac.uk/en/vacancy/150…

Rising temperatures can fuel a more violent world, esp for women. Madrid found that in heatwaves, the risk of intimate partner femicide rose 40%, and in Kenya, women who experienced heatwaves – had 60% higher odds of reporting intimate partner violence. theguardian.com/environment/20…?

After 20 years, here’s why the Post Office scandal is special: the cover-up is happening in plain sight | Marina Hyde theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Yet the risks of ecological collapse are often trivialized in economics courses. We need the next generation of economists to complete their studies with a powerful tool-kit of modern ecological economics.

Our Winter conference abstract deadline approaches. It’s a new venue for us and will give us (and you) more space to mingle and chat.

Presentation Bingo

We wrote a letter in response to Alan Beattie's Financial Times piece calling for the retirement of the term 'Global South'. We think that it'd be a mistake: it would obscure persistent South-North divides. Based on our open access article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… ft.com/content/0fa86b…

I hear that the government intends to get a further grip on costs of building the Old Oak Common to Birmingham HS2 by building it at 00:HO scale. We will use it to revitalise Hornby Triang. We have trowels in the ground.

I'd not seen this amazing response from Neil Armstrong to a moon-landing truther. Brilliant. futilitycloset.com/2023/09/30/gro…

Often get asked why new homes are built without solar, insulation etc I have no idea. No brainer as new homes cheaper to run with net zero tech Is housebuilder lobby complaining behind closed doors? What other reason is there for delay? Fiona Harvey theguardian.com/society/2023/o…

The pauperisation of local authorities over decades, combined with the hollowing out of local planning makes council house building difficult. But through the 60s, local authorities were building 60,000 homes a year

If we are gearing up to get building we have to gear up on building standards. Insulation that mitigates but also won't accentuate over heating - solar, heat pumps, sustainable drainage.

The well being of researchers tackling emotionally challenging topics is under researched. Here is an insightful report from a team at the University of Bath who have interviewed researchers about the difficulties of doing such challenging work. researchgate.net/publication/37…