British universities paid security firm to monitor pro-Palestine students - Liberty Investigates Horus provided reports about student protesters' social media use and undertook background checks on a Palestinian guest speaker

British Higher Education continues to be binfires of so many different kinds.

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The regret rate for knee and hip replacements is between 8% and 14%, and 7% and 10%, respectively. www.arthroplastyjournal.org/article/S088...

Why would the civil service want Peter Mandelson to be Ambassador? Whatever else this was, it was most obviously a political appointment - which surely implies it was only ever in politicians' interests to ignore the failed vetting.

I did this on Twitter years ago and got some amazing answers. Let's see if we can get #LibrariesChangeLives trending and show what amazing things can grow from properly funded public services and the value of providing free access to books, reading and educational resources for all.

When I was a teenager I took public transport to and from school and waited in the local library afterwards for my dad to finish work and collect me. I read, I did homework, I borrowed books and tapes, I was safe and warm. I work in libraries now and getting that job felt like coming home.

A friend took her toddler to our local church messy play and they made Easter biscuits that included small Jesus figurines. The prominent JESUS IS NOT EDIBLE sign over the craft table unintentionally kicking off the next Christian schism.

Pssst! Pass it on… Myself, @drrobertchapman.bsky.social and @emilywebz.bsky.social are looking to set up a radical bookshop in Newcastle! Follow us over at Instagram www.instagram.com/p/DVve2wlDXh...

When the world spins  - Medical Independent vertigo. It is understandable that the busy clinical schedule of medics might disincline some from setting aside time for...

Excellent review in @medindonews.bsky.social of A Cultural History of Vertigo: Unbalanced by @dranindyar.bsky.social

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Aww - thanks for sharing this, had no idea.

One day these lines will no longer be relevant.

Not that it says anything about my state of mind at the moment or anything, but that's the second time today I've typed "food" instead of "good". Luckily spotted it both times before pressing send...

Ban on asylum seekers using taxis for medical appointments comes into force It comes after a BBC investigation which showed people travelling long distances at high cost.

An abhorrent policy which inevitably leads to people seeking asylum being denied necessary medical support.
People seeking asylum don't receive enough financial support to pay for taxis, or often public transport, themselves, but still need to travel to appointments 1/
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it's not great when the consultation landing page continues the labour habit of just making things up where immigration rules are concerned. SETTLEMENT IS NOT GRANTED AUTOMATICALLY. absolute joke of a government

A screenshot from an email from the British Library, with the subject: "How is your research going?"

Why must you ask such difficult questions, British Library?

“Until recently, I thought it was a term best avoided. But now white people are getting shot.”

Maharashtra govt with IIT-Bombay building AI tool to ‘identify’ illegal Bangladeshis During the launch of the Mahayuti manifesto on January 11, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said, “We’ll free Mumbai from Bangladeshis.| India News

Say what you will about the uselessness of my work - at last no one will ever use it to terrorise poor and vulnerable people.

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Here’s a thing that too many people seem to forget. One doesn’t need to be innocent to have the right to live. There are very few crimes that justify execution without trial.

We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

Not to make it all about me, but if more people took my postcolonial theory class…

STRIKES SUSPENDED: Scottish Resident Doctors Committee Recommends Improved Pay Offer for Resident Doctors and Dentists After Scottish resident doctors delivered an overwhelming strike mandate to the BMA Scottish Resident Doctors’ Committee (SRDC), our negotiating team has been hard at work using that leverage in ex…

Once again, for those in the back:

Industrial action works. It is the only thing that has ever worked.

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We have to be better than this - if we want to learn from our foremothers, we cannot forget them.

We do no one any favours if we allow understandable anger to result in uncritical anti-Americanism. The Right does a fabulous job of erasing very strong American traditions of radical organising and activism.

An extract from a Linkedin news item stating: "Lecturer is one of the fastest-growing jobs in the UK. See the ranking"

Oh you sweet summer Linkedin child

Thank you! Hope all is well with you.

The first interdisciplinary history of vertigo, 'A Cultural History of Vertigo' covers medical accounts from antiquity to the present, testimonies of lived experience, and literary and cultural representations of vertigo.

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Thank you so much for your kind words and your support for the project - quite literally could not have happened without you.

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

Being Director of Teaching, and sleeping with Test Match Special commentary on means you end up having dreams about the England cricket team asking you for extensions.