Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women

Priceless post from the official White House social media

Creative PEC's flagship State of the Nations research series has been shortlisted for the @artsprofessional.co.uk Awards, in the category Excellent Research or Policy Intervention.

View the full shortlist: shorturl.at/mbN7x

And find out more about the State of the Nations series: shorturl.at/lnOeq

New Carnegie Masters Grants to support fair access to postgraduate study in Scotland - The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland The Carnegie Education Fund is launching a new grant scheme to help more people in Scotland access postgraduate study. Carnegie Masters Grants will support students living in low‑income households in ...

Some good news!: New Carnegie Masters Grants to support fair access to postgraduate study in Scotland
carnegie-trust.org/new-carnegie...

Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

Banham Zoo residents undergo CT scanner health checks A big cat named Mishka and a particularly lethargic sloth are among the zoo residents to be scanned.

I hope whoever wrote this headline (click to see) took the rest of the week off www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well well well

University of Exeter and University of Cambridge Libraries & Archives - Collections Connections Communities

Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive.

#PhDsky

In my mid teens if someone had said to me “when you are middle aged, the leader of the opposition is a black woman and the leader of the party polling in third is Jewish”, I really would have had a much more optimistic idea of how the future was panning out.

SO much this!

What a great idea and useful not only for people interested in crime and justice but any social scientists

babe, wake up, new form of mansplaining just dropped

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just signed up for this, can't wait!

Shame and fear won't fix students' AI use When we published our research on AI in assessment last month, one of the findings that generated the most response was what we called Finding 7.

'Now a new paper from Australian researchers has done very similar work [to Wonkhe's recent AI and student report] – and what they’ve found raises real questions over where many current approaches are heading.' 1/2

Ben Collier on Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy Podcast Episode · Peoples & Things · March 30 · 1h 1m

Great interview with my brilliant colleague @susansegfault.bsky.social about his excellent book on Tor-Dark Web. highly recommend both the interview and the book, which is available free at MIT press direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

New data linkage and access initiative announced for Longitudinal Population Studies — UK Data Service We’re pleased to announce a new project to help maximise the visibility and long‑term value of data from Longitudinal Population...

🚀 We're delighted to be involved in a new project with @ukllc.bsky.social

The initiative will enable UK-based Longitudinal Population Studies to apply to join UK LLC and/or the UK Data Service at no cost.

Read more at our website: ukdataservice.ac.uk/2026/03/31/n...

I wonder if the ‘radical thinking’ will extend to considering whether the very existence of billionaires is a danger to our societies, and reliance on their donations a possible threat to the academic mission. I do wonder what counts as radical at a deeply conservative institution like Cambridge.

Michael Grade is EIGHTY THREE YEARS OLD. The idea of this angry old granddad "regulating" the modern media and telecoms environment is like hauling in Petula Clarke to run Radio 1

A comment by Tocqueville on the spirit of the 1840s: "Wealthy proprietors liked to recall that they had always been enemies of the bourgeois class and always been friends of the people. The bourgeoisie themselves recalled with a certain pride that their fathers had been lahorers, and if they could not trace their lineage... to a worker... they would at least contrive to descend from some uncouth person who had made his fortune on his own." Cited in Charles Benoist, "L'Homme de 1848," part 2, Revue des deux mondes (February 1, 1914), p. 669. [a13,2]

@dsquareddigest.bsky.social Read this quote saved by Walter Benjamin in one of his notebooks and thought of those MPs who like to emphasize their grandfather was a coal miner.

Holy shot, growing up in poverty is even worse for your earnings than being a woman!

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

Does being high-skilled protect you from ethnic bias when applying for a UK visa? In a new pre-registered experiment to be published in International Migration Review, I find that high occupational status doesn't shield immigrants from ethnic prejudice — it may activate it.

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

Ha, I doubt it! And it's not like I have fancy ad blockers...

I am as well as can be expected given the state of HE, the state of the world and that I am in an Avanti train. Hope you doing ok!

Creative and Cultural Work in Europe | Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mii This book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including the

Out today, from editors Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mikka Pyykkönen and me. The book combines cross-national writing teams and focussed case studies across Europe to examine the rhetoric and reality of creative work. A contents thread 👇 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Interesting, I don't get that advert (reading on my android phone)

After Mo Salah joined Liverpool, anti Muslim prejudice declined in the area

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A call to join the campaign to save Glasgow's last remaining city centre art production spaces, under threat of eviction despite having a 25 year lease, terms of which are being summarily rewritten by the council.

The fate of Glasgow's last city centre arts production building is crucial to the city and to the role of art in it. Eviction could happen from this Friday. Please sign the petition www.change.org/p/save-trong...
Join the protest on Friday. Write to your MSP, MP, councillors. Resist!

Twitter post from Harriet Williamson. Saying: NEW: LGBTQ+ publisher PinkNews is making its remaining reporters redundant, saying it wants to "move away from having a reporter-led newsroom" to a model where there "isn't a need for the reporter role" In redundancy meetings, reporters were told that "what we're consulting on is that we don't feel we need the reporter role anymore" Multiple sources said they were told regarding the redundancy wave that PinkNews was looking to shift to a reporter-free newsroom

How the fuck do you have a reporter free news room?