Reposted by Jon ReadesDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread: 6496225
Reposted by Jon ReadesAmy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Danish study finds after male managers had their first daughter, their hiring rate of women increased by 2.9% and promotions shifted in favor of women. The first-daughter effect also led to a relative earnings increase of 4.4% for their women employees. www.fastcompany.com/91613424/gir...fastcompany.comGirl dads make better bosses, study suggestsWhen male managers have daughters, women are hired more, promoted more, and earn more. 13219
Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Was written by the bus lobby? Sure, let’s talk about the ‘problem’ of widening pavement and creating space for bikes *before* we get to the contribution of uncoordinated roadworks, rising deliveries, Uber and such, and lack of bus-only lanes www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...theguardian.comLondon buses in decline? Why public transport in global cities is slowing to a crawl – visualisedAs experts fear for future of UK capital’s bus network, some commuters are giving up entirely. London is not alone – with worrying implications for poorest in society 032
Reposted by Jon ReadesAndrew Bell @andrewjdbell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Want to work with me and others on a MAIHDA-related project? www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ206/r... We are advertising for two 3-month RA secondment positions, to do something related to the MAIHDA method. That might be:jobs.ac.ukResearch Associate at University of SheffieldAn academic position as a Research Associate is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities. 101
Reposted by Jon ReadesHistory and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Following on from my last post this may be of interest from 2022. www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...uea.ac.ukResearch project tracks 420 years of English protest songsA research project from the University of East Anglia (UEA) has found that English protest songs have been a vital form of political communication for more than 400 years. 15419
Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 18/09/2026LLMs are clearly doing a lot of bad things to student learning, but I will say that one area where it has helped me as a teacher is in talking about pedagogy: no one is going to be willing to spend as much time talking with me about my module and assessment design as an LLM. 000
Reposted by Jon ReadesCentre for Economic Performance @cep-lse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Anna Valero (CEP, GSOS) discusses how innovation targeted at reaching net zero represents a real strategy to boost productivity and reduce regional inequality in the UK. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...blogs.lse.ac.uk 002
Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Wonder how Labour leadership feeling about a cap on donations now? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comChristopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben DeloParty leader, Nigel Farage, says he is humbled by the contributions from cryptocurrency billionaires 000
Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 11/09/202625 years ago today I was WFH in Brooklyn. I thought the bang I heard was a flatbed truck going over the potholes outside my building. I kept working. Then mum rang my mobile. From my roof I could see through the North Tower and watched them both collapse. 1/3 200
Reposted by Jon ReadesMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026'“Such awards tend to favour more established researchers and those at research institutes who are not required to take on the additional and vital task of teaching undergraduates,” said Stephen Curry, director of strategy at the Research on Research Institute.' 7349123
Reposted by Jon ReadesProfessor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026They make a product that must be doomed to obsolescence if we're serious about climate change. They aren't innovating in the EV market in the way Chinese companies are and deserve to suffer the consequences. Yet higher education is directly related to the government's desire to create a 1313
Reposted by Jon ReadesMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026'The number of students taking A-level music is at a record low: under 5,000, a drop of nearly half from 15 years ago....Music GCSE entries have also fallen. It has the widest attainment gap for disadvantaged students of any subject.'theguardian.comThe Guardian view on music and drama education: reversing elitism starts at school | EditorialEditorial: The number of students taking creative subjects at A-level and GCSE is at a record low. The arts must not become the preserve of the most privileged 68144
Reposted by Jon ReadesMet Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 01/09/2026Summer 2026 is provisionally the UK’s warmest summer on record with the season’s mean temperature made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change. Here, we delve into the numbers 🧵 5262168
Reposted by Jon ReadesBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.theprogressplaybook.comCopenhagen Cycling Revolution: Lessons for CitiesClose to two-thirds of the city’s residents commute by bike to school or work every day. 16801293
Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Probably not the book for a true beginner, but I found this #APA book by Thomas Sanchez on #AI for #UrbanPlanning a good, accessible intro for linking up types of deep learning with planning application areas. 010
Reposted by Jon ReadesStrangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Guess what? 1) You can 3D print a crow and squirrel feeder that looks like a Flock camera 2) Crows are extremely good at pattern recognition 3) People are fucking hilarious and creative and I hope every Flock camera gets its own personal murder (of crows) www.printables.com/model/180491...printables.comFlock Camera with chamber; squirrel and bird feeder V2 by David | Download free STL model | Printables.comDesigned to look like a Flock camera, hollow with chambers and a removeable hatch for putting treats for your friends | Download free 3D printable STL models 171073519
Reposted by Jon ReadesProf Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The love letter in house buying - fascinating paper which I suspect is also used in some parts of the UK housing market 011
Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Really enjoying a talk on software dev and decision making in an AI-age that has gone in a very different direction from what I’d expected (all about human communication and voice and being heard). #BITES20206 in Termoli 000
Reposted by Jon ReadesGuy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show. Excellent work by the National Trust at Holnicote. #MakeBritainWetAgain www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comRewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images showNational Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding 12522172
Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Summer is always a good time to #VisitScotland ❤️🏴 (for for scale) 000
Reposted by Jon ReadesJonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026Typically thought-provoking from Branko: what if excessive profits in the West are the reason China outcompetes us? 1135
Reposted by Jon ReadesMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026'We’ve built a system where publicly backed finance is available on demand while private recruitment companies and financially stretched universities decide between them where volume expands, according to the economics of student acquisition rather than anything resembling national need.' 1/2wonkhe.comThe low-income parents funding the franchised recruitment marketFraud headlines, franchise growth and a court defeat are dots that rarely get joined up. Jim Dickinson pulls together the data on the weekend delivery cohort - who was funded, by whom, and on whose te... 155
Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Scotland delivering on the little pleasures of variable weather after months of frankly terrifying sun in London. 100
Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This maps on to my experience so far — well, for intelligence substitute experience: open.substack.com/pub/arpitrag...open.substack.com7. AI: A Normal Technology?AI in the Workplace 000
Reposted by Jon ReadesCarsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Fair enough; I’m all for it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Guardian view on the two cultures: bridge the divide, starting with A-levels | EditorialEditorial: Seventy years after CP Snow warned of estrangement between the sciences and arts, breadth in education should be encouraged 2104
Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The regressive gift that keeps on giving (if you’re the government, not so much for students entering most lines of work) www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comStudents face ‘ticking timebomb’ of debt and higher taxesExclusive: Analysis finds cost of higher education ‘falls overwhelmingly on the individual’ 100
Reposted by Jon ReadesLSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 05/08/2026💡 We're hiring for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science Read more and apply before 11 October 👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... 0820
Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 03/08/2026It amuses me greatly when conference organisers ask for slides a week in advance. Makes me want to attempt an “Awww honey, let me tell you a thing or two about academics…” To be clear, I will not attempt this, but I can indeed promise mine will be ready about 10 minutes before delivery 150
Reposted by Jon ReadesMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Creative & performing arts subjects received £16.8 million SPG 2024-25; £12.9 million in 2025-26; £ O million in 2026-27. The University of Creative Arts will thus lose half of its government funding this year; Art University Bournmouth 40.7%, Norwich U of Arts 40.4% and Leeds Arts U 30.3%. 1/2timeshighereducation.comArts institutions hit hard as OfS details teaching grant cutsUniversity for the Creative Arts loses more than half of its funding after support for creative subjects reduced to zero 56458
Reposted by Jon ReadesMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 30/07/2026oh my god!!!! there's an actual answer!!!! Google Maps does hide Brighton!!!!!!! bsky.app/profile/robi... 22588122
Reposted by Jon ReadesMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026World-class UK anthropology, archaeology, area studies, chemistry, classics, English language and literature, geography, history, history of art, modern languages and philosophy, among other subjects, are also at risk, and have been for quite some time now. You don't need a telescope to see it. 59449
Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Important points here for councils (looking at you #WalthamForest!) signing off major projects where businesses are 'temporarily' displaced: www.theguardian.com/cities/2026/... (hello #BlackhorseLane).theguardian.comHow Elephant and Castle risks becoming London’s gentrification ‘patient zero’New £500m town centre welcomes its first tenant this month, but displaced traders say promises that they could return have been broken 020
Reposted by Jon ReadesHarvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 17/07/2026“What is unfolding is what climate and forest scientists have been predicting for 30 years. That as the world gets hotter and drier, we are exposing forests to more and more risk, and the old strategies of fire suppression are simply being overwhelmed.”theatlantic.comCanada’s Forests Will Burn and BurnOnce a wildfire starts, it can spread to an area too massive to control. 28959
Reposted by Jon ReadesCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface 11188452998
Reposted by Jon ReadesThe British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026"This is a crisis for social mobility, young people’s careers, the skills our economy depends on and the opportunities available in communities across the UK" Our newest data covered by The Guardian this evening and dropping tomorrow morning to our SHAPE Observatory. shorturl.at/Qpa9Qtheguardian.comHumanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universitiesExclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year 04439
Reposted by Jon ReadesMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026'"Dysfunctionaler and dysfunctionaler!", cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).' Well, not surprised, but rather horrified. 1/2timeshighereducation.comLevy to be charged even if student drops out, DfE confirmsMinisters decline to introduce more exemptions to new tax in its response to consultation 112
Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Fascinating read about why fee reform has been so hard: it’s an accountancy trick with the same rationale as PFIs but probably orders of magnitude larger. post18.co.uk/silence-of-t...post18.co.ukSilence of the Loans: How Loan Book Fictions Prevent Higher Education ReformNew thinking, ideas & policy solutions for post-18 education in the UK 000
Reposted by Jon ReadesMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026'More than half of the free school meal pupils in inner London had entered higher education by age 19, compared with just 18.4 per cent in the south-west of England.' (Research Professional News, 8 am Playbook) Great time to cut course provision in the south-west of England, then.gov.ukWidening participation in higher education: 2026Annual statistics on participation in higher education by pupil and study characteristics. 02515
Reposted by Jon ReadesMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026'Meanwhile, UU announced in April it needed to make savings of about £25m and would be making up to 450 staff redundant.' 2/2bbc.co.ukUlster University to cut up to 450 jobsIt is not clear which parts of the university, which has campuses in Belfast, Londonderry and Coleraine as well as in Qatar, will be affected. 023
Reposted by Jon ReadesDigital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 08/07/2026EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-record…bl.ukEThOS records restoredWe are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack. 29850
Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Exciting new definition of ‘financially secure footing’ in which only one of your main sources of income has a substantial real-terms cut while everything else is flat after a decade in which it was *all* being cut: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...researchprofessionalnews.comMinisters confirm cut to Strategic Priorities Grant for universities - Research Professional NewsTeaching funding reduction will be sharply felt by some institutions, says Office for Students 000
Reposted by Jon ReadesAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 03/07/20261000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative 522110993
Reposted by Jon ReadesMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Very useful to have advance notice of UKRI calls. 031
Reposted by Jon ReadesSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Revealed preferences suggest this 37% drop in small boat nunbers (first two quarters) is treated as ×10-x50 times less newsworthy than a 37% increase has been. Given high salience of the issue, should broadcasters try to check/balance that instinct? 18485186
Reposted by Jon ReadesJoe Lanman @joelanman.com · 27/06/2026a rightmove description.. with prompts included 5529
Reposted by Jon ReadesVincent Geloso @vincentgeloso.bsky.social · 26/06/2026The much vaunted study regarding welfare magnets from immigration misestimated the elasticity of welfare benefits to immigration by a factor of 4 at least. Migrants dont decide much on basis of welfare payments. vgeloso.substack.com/p/welfare-ma... Cc. @mclem.orgvgeloso.substack.comWelfare Magnet and Immigration in DenmarkAn AER:Insights paper shows a smaller elasticity once replicated 0197
Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Love getting car ads next to my news article on the fact that SOUTHERN BRITAIN IS 12° ABOVE THE SEASONAL AVERAGE. 🥵🤯 010
Reposted by Jon ReadesDr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat 451231642
Reposted by Jon ReadesHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Londoners, there is a webpage for you to see where your nearest "cool spaces" are when the extreme heat hits - places with water, air-conditioning & shade. Have a look and spread the word, especially to those who may need this but might not think to look for it: apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/ 11788664