More than a decade teaching at the College of Europe, ended by email I have been teaching at the College of Europe in Bruges for more than 10 years, but this academic year will be my last. Today I was sacked by email. The College of Europe has a kind of "flying faculty...

After teaching at @collegeofeurope.bsky.social more than a decade, my course was summarily cancelled by email, ending my work, and without a word of thanks

Unlike other underlings in a passive-aggressive environment, I have a voice - my blog, and this blog post euroblog.jonworth.eu/more-than-a-...

Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik Commentators have said that the US president’s clownishness and lack of ideology somehow make him less dangerous. They’re wrong, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Agree.

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Martin Parr: Global Warning review – the great photographer in all his gluttonous, giddy glory The peerless chronicler of everyday absurdity did not live to see this show, but it is a dazzling final chapter, showing his irresistible good humour growing darker

Great photos.

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To answer my own question – yes, of course there's a #histSTM event!

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Ah yes - that diagram.

That would be a good metaphor for identical sequences in different locations.

The 'pathway' is a metaphor, too, of course.

That means you are committing to the 'information' metaphor (which is fair), rather than thinking about it like any other biochemical pathway.

The Victorian sex abuse scandal that shocked Britain and changed the law – long before Epstein MPs were forced to respond, passing legislation which raised the age at which girls could consent to sexual intercourse from 13 to 16.

@carolinederry.bsky.social and I have written about our research for @theconversation.com
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Also, if it was a dogma, it would have been broken by reverse transcriptase in 1970, right?

Or protein synthesis pathway?

New university free speech complaints system to come into force this year Universities could face fines of £500,000 or 2% of their income if they are found to have failed to protect free speech.

'Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said "freedom of speech is the foundation of every university's success" but there had been too many cases contributing to "an unacceptable culture of fear and stifling the pursuit of knowledge".

Presumably referring to impact of current mass HE redundancies.

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I don’t think the AI is the main problem here.

This: “Too often the NHS is in broadcast mode when it communicates with patients, giving us messages about our treatment but making it hard for us to respond or to interrogate the information we are given.”

That’s why we don’t need nuclear.

I’m so sorry, Claire.

Dunno. It’s in the neighbours’ garden.

Cologne, Hohenzollern railway bridge and cathedral.

It’s in the neighbours’ garden, but I’ll ask if I get a chance. I’ve also heard that they’re a menace to hedgehogs.

The soundscape is rural rather than suburban. There are very excited chickens living in the neighbourhood. 🐓

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Watching that thing is much preferable to marking the next essay.

😬

Robot lawn mower in action.

I’m sitting in my brother’s back garden in German suburbia. This is the world of robot lawn mowers.

Or is that too 1990s?

Have you read Michel Foucault?

Yes, it is. These wouldn’t be my 5 words.

I can see that. The quoted post says ‘think 10 times’.