9 Powerful images that teach us respect 1. Respect time and be humble

With universities unable to afford them, clinical academics across the country are being offered redundancy. These are the people who teach our doctors and conduct ground breaking research. More must be done to support them.

University crisis latest, and very bad indeed: Cardiff are proposing to cut 7% of their academics, and to drop a whole array of programmes including ancient history, modern languages and music. Predictable and yet still shocking. 1/4

I need people to understand how difficult it is to get an NIH grant. You spend months writing a proposal, following strict guidelines that include a detailed multiyear budget, bios of everyone on your team, plans for participant safety & ethical conduct. Then you send it off -1/n

4. Care workers surprise 94 year old veteran with a pillow of his wife's face after seeing he slept next to her photograph

Cardiff University to cut 400 staff and drop subjects including nursing and music theguardian.com/education/2025…

Severance spending at top UK universities surges ft.com/content/77f7f2… "Applications for UK study visas fell from 474,000 in 2023 to 408,000 in 2024...following a decision by the previous Conservative government to remove the right of postgraduates to bring family members."

It's a win for PGRs ✊ After sustained campaigning by UCU, UKRI-funded PGRs can look forward to the biggest real-term increase in funding two decades ucu.org.uk/article/13885/…

NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds scim.ag/40HjC0p

“I found myself sobbing... It felt unimaginable that an intellectual project into which so many people had invested so much of their lives would simply fade away.” The UK’s university redundancy crisis: views from the front line. linkedin.com/posts/philbaty…

Saddened by the casual cruelty on here towards the thousands of UK academics facing redundancy. Even for a such a niche job, but we’ve really failed in communicating what kind of personal tragedy this is. It’s a sort of Rust Belt for PhDs situation 1/2

People uproot themselves multiple times, ultra-specialise, work extreme hours for low pay, most PhDs never even manage to get an academic job in the first place. But the average tweeter thinks one can just move on and get another job at the other university at the end of road 2/2

University of Sussex fined £585k in free speech row bbc.com/news/articles/…

Power in Intimate Relationships: What You Need to Know | Psychology Today psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/fixing…

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The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. hrvd.me/ResearchFundin…

"Late Friday night, the administration issued an updated and expanded list of demands, warning that Harvard must comply if we intend to “maintain [our] financial relationship with the federal government.”" harvard.edu/research-fundi…

Is anyone from my 7.5k followers still here? It feels empty here!

An illuminating discussion on what is required to make AI more energy efficient, by drawing inspiration from the brain, today at ISCAS 2025. Thanks to all the experts who participated in our panel.

PhD position in Coatings for Aerospace Applications EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) PhD in Digital Metal with Rolls-Royce (Enhanced Stipend) Development of Advanced Barrier Coatings for extreme environments jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…