Office for Students: Lords Industry and Regulators Committee report In 2023, the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee published a report which criticised the Office for Students’ (OfS) approach to regulation. It said the regulator had a poor relationship w...

The punitive regulation of free speech in universitied is to be done by the OfS, which has been found to be insufficiently independent from government by a House of Lords committee. #Fakefreespeech lordslibrary.parliament.uk/office-for-s...

And - unlike Elsevier et al. - they actually do editing.

And that profit margin is far lower than at the big academic publishers.

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Can we not just focus on the climate crisis.

These orders were always primarily politically performative.

#Interventionitis strikes again.

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Serious Violence Reduction Orders (introduced in 2022) didn’t actually reduce serious violence – the people given an order in court were just as likely to commit further violent crimes as those who weren’t.

Reform manage to lose a county council seat on the coast. The Green Party victor is a recent winner of the Mr Margate Beard and Moustache competition.

Drug checking in Camden. 12pm - 7pm, Saturday 4th April at CGL King's Studio, 43-45 King's Terrace, Camden, London. Drug Checking, Harm Reduction, Accurate Information.

Tomorrow we are drug checking in #Camden

How does it work?
1. Surrender a substance
2. Tell us what you think it is & about your drug use
3. We do lab tests inc. a test for synthetic opioids
4. After ~1 hour, we have results & can give honest advice

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How universities have been reorganised into incompetence The people who administer the work of universities are known as professional services staff, or PS for short. As if their work was some sort of additional postscript to what universities do.

Thanks for this powerful piece. Worth adding that the consultancies' cut-and-paste prescriptions always fall hardest on professional serviced colleagues:
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My second biggest pet peeve (after people who use their phone's speaker on trains)

#richmansgraffitti

Why we won’t be funding open access publishing any more - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News The open access movement was bold and promising, but ultimately disappointing. Now is the time to stop and call for a new way to make publishing work…

CRUK stop supporting open access fees

Good step but there's definitely a more nuanced dialogue to be had. (I'd love to chat more about this with them too)

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New rule: you can donate to universities, but you can't get your name on the building. When poor people do it, it's called tagging #richmansgraffitti

Spring has come to @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Great demonstration from Goodwin of how not to win an argument.

to walk the road of peace sometimes we need to be ready to climb the mountain of conflict

Will Starmer have the spine to explain this to Trump?

Government ministers should condemn this, as they did when P&O did it to their staff.

Are you taking legal action?

Does TUPE not protect your terms and conditions? I thought that was the point of it.

I sometimes see people claiming that drug prohibition is the 'greatest policy failure'. Greater than climate change, continual war, global povert, endemic violence against women and girls?

Rugby meets criminological theory: higher scores in the six nations were caused by shifting to more certain punishment (multiple yellow cards) rather than harsh punishment (rare reds), more effectively deterring infractions that kill attacks.

Rugby meets criminological theory: higher scores in the six nations were caused by shifting to more certain punishment (multiple yellow cards) rather than harsh punishment (rare reds), more effectively deterring infractions that kill attacks.

I strongly doubt that controlling for children's party political preference at age 10 to 15 does away with the massive risk of selection bias in this study.

The latest developments @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social are a horrifying example. bsky.app/profile/eica...

How universities have been reorganised into incompetence | Alex Stevens | 68 comments My latest blog explains how universities have been reorganised into administrative incompetence, not because professional services colleagues are bad at their jobs, but because academics are (and yes,...

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How lessons from Iraq are shaping Starmer’s Iran response Operation Epic Fury is a US military operation. It will not be possible for the UK to exert any significant influence in planning.

This is superlative.
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How can a rugby team go from beating the All Blacks in the autumn to losing three games in a row in the spring? #ITAvENG