My all-time favourite electronic music act, Fluke, are back in business. If you've ever seen The Matrix films, you've heard their tracks, but these guys are definitely a cut above average youtu.be/wKtM0-hbXKE?si…

one thing about slavs is we have a compulsion to finally make bear play musical instrument

The physio regime is exhausting but hope inspiring. I can see the goals and have the exercises. It's really rebuilding very basic muscles from nothing, though. So, tough times ahead but eyes on the prize.

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This morning I begin phase 2 of physiotherapy. A challenging balance between enhancing mobility and not enraging the vicious tendonitis.

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In case you missed. My latest piece on the toxic demonising of disabled people and those on benefits by the current government. shamegamethebook.com

I read the whole HE and Research bill that became the Act. It was impossible to conclude otherwise than below.

Scholarship in languages other than English needs to urgently realise more widely that scholarly publishing infrastructure trumps content/research quality every time, or that quality content not enabled by the right infrastructure is doomed to near-invisibility.

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Today's surgery recovery is a mixed bag. I can walk once more, and I feel stronger, but I can also feel the tendonitis just lurking, waiting for me to overdo it again. Physiotherapy ramps up tomorrow.

In June, I hope to take a break to the West Country to see my in-laws. This involves organising remote dialysis, which involves a rectal swab, a swab from your central line's exit site, MRSA swabs, plus Hepatitis and HIV blood test. All for one remote session.

The 'crisis' in UK university finances has been a decade-long ambition of student fee policies. The sub-inflationary rates are designed to trigger 'market exit' among institutions without endowments or substantial assets. It's a feature, not a bug.

University crisis. I've read article after article on this, which rightly mention inflation & tuition fees, & international students, but few mention the dog-eat-dog removal of the student cap. Quite a few Hums depts would not be facing current cuts if the cap was still in place

This is a good way to do open access - without author fees and with community library support.

And now it's official: IBM is acquiring HashiCorp for $6.4B. prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

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You've probably been wondering: 'How many eels is a cottage worth in 14th C. England?'

This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for HistoryExtra, but here's an excerpt!

Urgh. I had the most dreadful night. Terrible pain in my thigh muscles and an ache down the whole leg starting deep in the hip. Slept for 1.5 hrs total. Pain was/is awful. Think it's an iliopsoas tendonitis, which happens in up to 30% of all hip replacements.