Fair

It's outrageous I wasn't briefed on this.

Who knows? Not Keir Starmer!

Europe has only six weeks’ supply of jet fuel left owing to Iran war, says energy chief There will be flight cancellations ‘soon’ if oil supplies are not restored in coming weeks, says head of IEA

Before Covid I never would have imagined that a clear and looming disaster would be met with... zero preparation. Yet here we are again. Why are we not ALREADY rationing fuel to ensure we can maintain food supplies, emergency services etc?

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Managed to start writing two separate articles on extremely metafictional texts. Every paragraph entails painfully separating the multiple strands of idea and allusion, then reweaving them in order to explain how they work. Remind me to choose something simpler next time!

But don’t make them be the one thing you really want, the cost of freeing up your time

one final comment: project hail mary is widely described as "hard science fiction," which is internet for "a Boy wrote it, and that Boy was not george lucas"

Another reason to hate death vehicles www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... (in case killing pedestrians isn’t enough)

This sounds brilliant!

if only!!

But if it had been an organised event of adult men everyone would have said how marvellous they were

They did get in the way of cars moving freely which is obvs behind the pale! (To be fair there was some crowding / window slamming of stationary cars which would have been a bit scary for those concerned although ultimately not damaging or violent).

We actually happened to see one of these! The kids mustered in Exhibition Park (where the police showed up while they were just committing the offence of being young in large numbers). When they took to the roads it was slightly alarming but mostly harmless.

Lovely to have made it to Bristol despite the UK train system making its usual effort to ensure you never want to get the train ever again

Feel our second experience very much made up for this!

Meanwhile Newcastle's Play Streets scheme appears to be still totally closed....

This doesn't mean their diagnoses are incorrect! It just means autistic and ADHD children are the canary in the coalmine for a system which is inherently bad for children. Neurotypical children are more able to cope but that doesn't mean it's good for them.

If anything incentivises diagnosis it's the fact that our education system is so unfit for purpose. If we had smaller class sizes, a less test focused environment, more opportunities to play and move, then many children would be able to cope without the 'adjustments' allowed by a diagnosis.

That is always the strategy!

😡 Meanwhile Athena Swan accreditation continues apace no doubt

Every word of this rings true. Universities make sweeping changes and meet concerns raised by frontline staff with the bland assurance they have completed an EIA despite the fact said process didn’t engage with staff at all

I hope this results in a lot more Woodcraft groups appearing! They appeal much more to me generally but there's none near to us

There is an imagined working class, that largely no longer exists and a modern working class that the political class rarely interact with outside of service provision.

One in three women leave academia after having children ‘Motherhood penalty’ sees female academics who have children less likely to secure a tenured position than their male counterparts, finds LSE study

'A third of [Danish] women no longer work in academia eight years after having a child, according to new research that suggests extra childcare responsibilities are hindering women’s abilities to climb the career ladder.' 1/2

Could the conference date be wrong here? It seems an awfully short turnaround otherwise

Ignore ignore!

Good HE is really simple: quality time spent with subject experts who know and care about their students. My university and many others are deliberately abandoning this truth in favour of financial and organisational efficiency.

It’s meeee, Cathyyyyy

Right?! It truly feels they've just been bought out

This. Is. Insane. Oxbridge are uniquely placed to resist AI because of the tutorial model (which no other university can afford to copy). OpenAI have just paid them to wipe out this advantage.