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“How the internet and its bots are sabotaging scientific research” — our first article, led by @profmarkforshaw.bsky.social, is now live in @uk.theconversation.com.
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Manchester Airport emailed me to let me know that T2 West parking will now be signposted P3. Yep, P3 for T2. C3PO is not happy.
I remember his lectures. Always came across as a decent chap. Sorry to hear of his passing.
Unless I am misremembering, the NHS is only just giving up on faxes...
Can't help wonder how these were collated. Does something about teaching forensic psychology go in one category, the other, or both?
Cory Booker has been speaking in Senate as a protest against the government for over 17 hours now. That's quite a feat. A real pity that the Republican response is likely to be:
Let us have more of this, and less division and hate because someone once said that man over there will do a bad thing because he's different, so best to despise him.
‘A common humanity’: the British families who tended graves of German soldiers www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
The White House Correspondents’ Association said it fired host Amber Ruffin so it can instead focus the dinner on celebrating the First Amendment.
Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.
Colin eh? Surname Baphomet?
I became aware of this recently and the questions are quite pointed, bizarre in places, and in others impossible to answer. Arguably no-one with funding who gets the questionnaire could answer it in a way that completely avoids the potential to be cut off from that funding.
Replacing flowers with slabs seems a suitable metaphor for this administration in general.
Koula Asimakopoulou
Heather Buchanan
Sarah Baker
Sarah Grogan
Kate Hamilton-West
Rupy Kaur-Roberts
Lynn Dunwoody
Suzie Skevington
Sheila Payne
Rachel Shaw
(Not an exhaustive list, so no offence to the many others...)
In vast areas of the US, the sentiments expressed in this wonderful letter from a British man about why it's a privilege to pay tax to enable the National Health Service to run would see him probably certified as insane and labelled a "socialist".
I did a double take when I saw this earlier, for exactly the same reason.
It's been a while since I watched 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'. I currently feel like the title alone is a description of my life.
I'm half tempted to start sending messages out on BlueSky that are entirely of this ilk. Or maybe I already do and I am just not aware of my linguistic inadequacy, with no-one having the heart to tell me.
I think I'm in need of a decent sleep. This morning I tried to get out of my car with the seat belt fastened. It's an interesting two-second experience.
Feargal? See what I did there?
My diagnosis, as a qualified psychologist, is that you are averse to flavour. There's no cure.
I'd say step one was choosing a clear message, step two is the comms strategy, and step three saying it a lot, everywhere, to everyone.
I came across it a little while ago. The issue is getting policy makers to listen before you even write anything...
So terribly sad. I will miss Helen's intellect, kindness and talent. She was a special person I am proud to have known.
I despair. How did we ever get to a point where people have given up showing basic respect, kindness and compassion for others? It costs nothing, and hurts no-one. Teachers now risking their school's funding by calling Maria 'Maria', or Robert 'Robert'. Instead they will have to deadname children.
Trump’s anti-trans Executive Order is bad BUT it technically defines everyone as female. It states:
“'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell."
Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.
Rest in peace, Jen. X
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There's something perverse about a system where we spend so much time trying to get grant money rather than doing research. Remember that every failed grant application is time we never get back, and actual research is what makes a difference to people's lives, not attempts to secure funding for it.
Yup.
I don't have that many followers yet, but wanted to shout out for Sequoia Books. Great little independent publisher churning out some smashing books.
Doing the right thing is often tough, but @deevybee.bsky.social has shown real courage and leadership here.
