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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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Paul Greatrix @registrarism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Many areas of higher ed are being affected and disrupted by Artificial Intelligence. But some areas seem immune to AI’s impact. Here is the new top 10 of HE things which are not going to be impacted. Top 10 Higher Ed Features Which Will Not Be Affected By AI wonderfulhighered.com/2026/09/28/t...

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Top 10 Higher Ed Features Which Will Not Be Affected By Artificial Intelligence

Many areas of HE are being disrupted by Artificial Intelligence. But here is the all new top 10 of HE things which are not going to be impacted by AI

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Carl Poree @cpchem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Demolish Birmingham (the city), expand Birmingham (the airport) and build HS2 in full. Job done.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

All day Piddington's womminfolk have been telling news how they will be terrified of "hundreds of young men nearby, free to come and go as they please." NOT ONE JOURNALIST has asked: "How did you cope when it was an army base? Who came and went then? Nuns?" Soon as you ask that, all becomes clear.

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Amanda @pandamoanimum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Happy 5th anniversary to the time this happened over on that other place.

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Carl Poree @cpchem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NIMBY Brain is a real disease, and serious research is needed to find a cure.

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The dark irony of people pearl clutching about the ethnic cleaning statements is if you actually spoke to the average hill top settler they would tell you: yes, we are ethnically cleansing - that is exactly what we are doing

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Carl Poree @cpchem.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Forgetting to put your laptop in your bag when you go home is surely a sign that you're too tired to work that evening anyway, right?

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oh wow, nobody saw that coming. If you let yourself be entranced by the same three snake oil salesmen who have captured the entire sector and who only understand "staff cost" as an entry in a spreadsheet, not all the contributions we make that don't fit that silly excel box, this is what you get.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Anyone working in the sector already knows, but still good to see it in black & white. Professional services *people*--not just interchangeable hubs of administration--are essential to a good university. Their institutional knowledge has been consistently undervalued & their loss is catastrophic.

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Carl Poree @cpchem.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Quite how a single building near Temple Meads makes it "easier for staff and students to commute" is not obvious. The rest of the University is still a ~30 minute walk up the hill.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"It was at this point that an oyster went down the wrong way and blocked my ear canals, meaning I missed the whole conversation where I agreed to a foreign donor illegally giving us £500,000..."

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Carl Poree @cpchem.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Didn't realise Trump and Andrew Neil had a timeshare on that Brillo pad.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Through the golden road, Shiga, Japan. Photography by Takk B on 500px

Bathed in the warm, low-slanting light of late autumn, this mesmerizing photograph captures the famous Metasequoia Avenue (Metasequoia Namiki) in Makino Town, Takashima City, Shiga Prefecture. Over five hundred dawn redwoods line a two-kilometer stretch of road, their soaring crowns arching inward to create a luminous, incandescent canopy of rust-gold needles. Photographer Takk B frames the avenue along a dramatic central axis, following the undulating asphalt as it dips and rises toward a distant vanishing point. Cast across the road surface, the low sun projects a rhythmic pattern of long, dark shadows—creating a bold, striped alternation of light (hikari) and shade (kage) that recalls the delicate geometry of traditional bamboo blinds (sudare).

Botanically and culturally, the avenue represents a celebrated chapter in modern Japanese landscape design. First planted in 1981 as part of a regional agricultural development project, the dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) holds profound ecological significance as a "living fossil" (ikita kaseki), believed extinct for millions of years until living stands were rediscovered in central China in the 1940s and re-established throughout Japan. Although a 20th-century creation, the golden avenue honors a ancient design tradition: the creation of monumental tree-lined approaches (namiki) that historically defined sacred shrine approaches (sandō) and major feudal highways like the Nikkō Kaidō. Here, modern municipal planning and arboriculture converge, turning a simple transport corridor into a living architectural sanctuary.

Aesthetically, the composition is a masterclass in seasonal attunement (shun) and the contemplation of kōyō (autumn foliage). The fiery amber hue represents a brief, transitional climax—a fleeting fortnight in late November before the delicate, needle-like leaves fall, blanketing the ground and leaving behind stark winter silhouettes.

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oh no how will the worst person you know make content

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Carl Poree @cpchem.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I thought "Trump Strait" was the medical term for the lower parts of the digestive tract. Full of shit and foul-smelling hot air.

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Carl Poree @cpchem.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yes, that's because they are mostly appallingly badly run. Management copy the bad ideas that have been disastrous elsewhere, then we all have to deal with the consequences when we become case study n+1.

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

crashingly obvious thing to say, but surely if you had written the Father Ted “liars” speech you would then be quite careful not to actually write it again as yourself

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Carl Poree @cpchem.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Actually, I don't think his health *is* deteriorating any more.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

84 years ago today, two naked canadian sailors successfully boarded and captured a U-boat while the rest of their crew threw coke bottles at it. turns out it's hard to defend a conning tower ladder when there's a sweaty canadian butt suddenly sliding down it at speed. an "out of context" problem.

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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

✍️ Want to understand the bonkers nature of the modern economy? Take a ride with me on the 30,000 mile journey the cod in a fish finger takes between being caught off the coast of Scotland and consumed in a British home 🤯 Promise I'm not making this up👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-30000-...

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The 30,000-mile fish finger

There’s a good chance the cod on your child’s plate has been around the world and back. Not that you’d learn any of that from the label...

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026

Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Colleague didn't join a call but I had Gemini Notes switched on and it the transcript caught me talking to the cat.

Summary

Meeting logistics review addressed attendance verification and confirmed denial of additional catering requests.

Addressing Catering Request
Denial of secondary meal requests was finalized for shouting individuals. It was confirmed that participants had already consumed dinner.

Meeting Attendance Verification
Clarification regarding confirmed attendees occurred. Questions were raised about pending arrivals for the session.

Connection Status Check
Technical connection status was assessed. The presence of additional participants on the call remained under review.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

No one had to think super hard about how to make a washing machine useful. A telephone. A vacuum cleaner. So why do our bosses have to constantly challenge us to find something, anything, for which AI might be helpful If your customers don’t find your product useful, that’s a you-problem

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

'Examinations of London schoolchildren before and after the introduction of the city’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) found a restoration of lung capacity that had been stunted by exposure to pollution.' Brave politics, wise policy, good news.

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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

Yesterday I was rearranging books and came across a dictionary of names. Specifically, the Daily Express Guide to Names, by one Merle Jones, published in 1981 and given to my parents before I was born. It is, and I'm not exaggerating, accidentally hilarious

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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We’re proud to announce the launch of the smallest NMR ever invented: the 1 MHz spectrometer. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/pocketnmr

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Martin Heneghan @martinheneghan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

He’s been prime minister for five minutes and he’s already playing with the emergency alert.

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Carl Poree @cpchem.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Even trains don't want to go to Southend (though it would've been more poetic if it had been Clacton). www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Train derails near Essex town of Wickford

Greater Anglia crash happens day after two passengers seriously injured in East Sussex derailment

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Marc Reid @reid-indeed.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We are hiring for an open #PhD position! 🧪 PROJECT Your PhD offers the chance to pioneer a genuine step change in how chemistry is monitored: not just watching reactions as they happen but forecasting decision-critical events before they occur. Find ot more: www.dr-marc-reid.com/reid-group

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Carl Poree @cpchem.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'd love to live in an alternate reality where I actually got to do my real academic job, rather than playing an endless game of email whack-a-mole.

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Carl Poree @cpchem.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I'm off to hire a bulldozer.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 08/08/2026

amazing how this is still relevant a year after i posted it

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Carl Poree @cpchem.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Giving me a Windows laptop to work on while IT "evaluate" my MacBook (which they just need to replace...) is a particularly cruel form of torture.

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Carl Poree @cpchem.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Hint - if you can't work out who these people are, you're one of them.

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Carl Poree @cpchem.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

As sad as it was to leave Dublin five years ago, the reality is that I don't think staying was affordable. This is a great piece on how that problem is hollowing out the city's heart.

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Eoghan Sweeney @eoghan.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

Superb piece on the death of Dublin, killed by greed. It's not immigrants who wielded the blade; it's our own, developers and property owners obsessed with squeezing every penny of profit out of the city, on the backs of stressed, overworked people they've priced out of living in it #spéirġorm

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Dublin is now a shell of its once former self - opinion - Western People

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/08/2026

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

The Times full page - ‘Brilliant, provocative, inimitable’
Rod Liddle, who has died aged 66, combined a serious intellect with razor-sharp wit, writes Alex Farber

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I always thought Goldfinger was such a ridiculous character. Like, all that power and money and he still cheats at golf? and he has a weird fetish for tacky gold things? And he wanted to rob the Federal governments coffers? Like - what an unrealistic thing. Who would ever be like that.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I know it's not news Kemi Badenoch is not across the detail, but this is an absolute shocker. She says the UK's net zero plans are 'perversely increasing carbon emissions'. In 2019 when net zero targets were adopted emissions were 45% below 1990 levels. Last year they were 54% below 1990 levels.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It is two years today since this dimwit gave us the most hilarious demonstration of karma in history.

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