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Peter Eibich @peibich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I get that we often think of survey data mainly as data and having more data at lower cost seems great, but at a very fundamental level we run surveys because we want to know what people think. If we don't care enough about people's views to ask actual people, why bother at all?

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🍁I’ve written about the wonders of maple syrup, and not just as something to pour over waffles and pancakes, for the @ft_weekend this month! It will be in Saturday’s paper, but it’s online now, and the first 300 readers can access it for free with this gift link as.ft.com/r/e2aeb1fc-4...

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The smoky, savoury side of maple syrup

From sticky pork ribs and chicken to a punchy nuoc cham and an autumnal Old Fashioned, Nigella Lawson reveals how the sweet stuff can transform far more than breakfast

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This might be a situation where a citizens‘ assembly (in the Ireland style) could work well.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In fact, as my/ @migobs.bsky.social research shows, those migrants who came in the peak (2021-23 period) seem to have relatively high earnings progression and employment rates.. migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...

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Upward mobility? Earnings trajectories for recent immigrants - Migration Observatory

This analysis uses new data from HMRC to show how the size and earnings of the migrant employee workforce has changed over time in recent years.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 28/09/2026

We have something very cute to share with you today 🦉 This summer, a pair of barn owls successfully reared four owlets at Kedleston Hall, marking Kedleston's first known breeding success in over two decades.

Four young barn owls jostle onto the small wooden ledge of their nest box, fixed to a huge oak tree behind them

A young barn owl in flight, its wings stretched up above it against a blurry green background, its white heart-shaped face facing the camera

A young barn own in flight, a blurry oak tree behind it, its huge white and brown wings beating downwards as it looks at the camera

A barn owl swooping down with its wings fanned wide across a field of long purplish grass

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Alex Clegg @alexclegg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our report from June explains how the replacement for the triple lock will work (we called it a 'smoothed' triple lock). It's a much better policy than the current triple lock - State Pension is protected from inflation spikes and tracks earnings long term, but the expensive ratchet is removed.

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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredible stuff.

Commentary|Essay

AI and the crisis of the author

By Anchit Sathi

September 4, 2026
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Editor’s note (September 21, 2026): We have removed this essay. AI was used in its preparation. The TLS editorial guidelines prohibit the use of AI in the writing and editing process. The author states that he was unaware of the policy.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Emmanuel Carrère, Kolkhoz.

In my baccalaureate exams, which I took in 1975, I got a 4 in philosophy. To put that into perspective, 10 is a passing mark, 14 to 16 is very good, and 4 is a straight fail. But you have to ask: philosophy isn't maths, so a 4 in it is absurd: why not a 5? Why not a 3? Why not a O, for that matter? Without telling me, my father approached the Paris School Board and after some time was able to view my exam paper. The marker had written: 'insufferable pedantry'.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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Ian Smith @iankmsmith.ft.com · 26/09/2026

Whoop

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Luxury 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:

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For centuries, Oxford made graduates swear that they would "never consent to the reconciliation of Henry Simeonis". The odd thing was, nobody could remember who the hell he was.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'Accounts described elephants selecting particular plants when they seemed unwell, and mothers reportedly giving medicinal plant material to their calves. ...the researchers concluded that the elephants use 35 different plant species, and that 25 of those are known locally to have medicinal uses.'

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Elephants treat themselves with medicinal plants, witnesses say

African elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick, research reveals.

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trains between London and Kings Lynn are a nightmare at the moment. Delays to almost every service, cancelling 1-2 trains an hour, and cancelling trains that don’t have a problem but are running late, and dumping all passengers in the middle of nowhere.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Will keep boringly saying this (no disrespect to OP): it's not a health surcharge. It's not hypothecated to the NHS; you can't choose not to pay it and thereby eschew healthcare. You could equally call it an education or roads surcharge. It's using the NHS's sanctified status to rip off immigrants.

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m at Brixton Academy with 4,000 other Venezuelans, it’s really loud!

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Sean Carroll @seanedmund.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not saying I've had a better morning than you but I've spent mine in a lido full of dogs.

Bobbie the bordoodle swimming in Saltdean Lido with various other dogs and people.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

'Medicine, dentistry and veterinary sciences is the subject group with the highest cost – a cool £19,986 for a year of tuition. It is followed by physical sciences (£16,466)'.

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Counting the cost of teaching higher education in England

Last seen around the time of the Augar review, KPMG has updated work on the costs of teaching. DK finds evidence of cost cutting everywhere

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 17/09/2026

"researchers having to read scientific literature" is not a problem that needs solving

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 17/09/2026

hmmm institute.deepmind.com/essays/econo...

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hackers targeted Revolut’s “crypto whales” — customers with sizeable cryptocurrency holdings — after compromising an Italian government email system and exchanging messages with the online bank while posing as law enforcement.

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Hackers say they breached Italian state email to target Revolut ‘crypto whales’

Group claims to have spent months posing as law enforcement to obtain confidential data on hundreds of customers

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A sharp reminder that most of the discourse about NEETs is just a distraction from the reality that as a whole the job market is moribund and we have a lot of underemployment: www.theguardian.com/money/2026/s...

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‘I feel invisible’: over-50s reveal harsh realities of trying to get a job

Readers describe feelings of rejection after submitting hundreds of applications but getting a handful of interviews

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Caroline de Gruyter @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In bookstores from 30 September 2026: my exploration of how the Long Peace has affected Europeans' ability to deal with today's world

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Sarah Miller @smiller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A public-use version of the Open Research Unconditional income Study (ORUS) dataset is now posted! This RCT paid $1000/month to a treatment group for 3 years. Test your favorite hypotheses about the effects of guaranteed income! data.openresearchlab.org

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OpenResearch Unconditional Cash Study Public-Use Data – OpenResearch

Public-use data and documentation from OpenResearch’s randomized study of unconditional cash transfers.

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Deputy speaker Nus Ghani says MPs are taking too long to ask questions to Ed Miliband. Says she will "will cut you off, I will ruin your social media clips"

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Some big thing has clearly gone to shit in AI. Hence the panic. Anyone know what it is?

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There is 100% a valid reason to tame the AI frontier. I have no doubt Almodei, Altman and co are sincere about the safety stuff. And it should be done jointly in some way. But such coordination has huge antitrust implications which may look secondary now yet evolve into something quite ugly.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

'In some respects, what we are seeing resembles a form of collective grief. Not only grief for colleagues who have left, but grief for ways of working, professional identities and communities that once gave meaning to academic life. This creates an important challenge for university leaders.'

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The loss of staff belonging in higher education

Nick Hulbert-Williams argues that what looks like low morale and change fatigue in HE may really be a crisis of belonging

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Alex Sauerbrunn @birdsbyalex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A Pygmy Nuthatch with a pine seed and the cutest little tongue. #Mouthful #BirdOfTheDay #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

A small buffy and gray bird perched on a weathered log with a seed held in its beak, photographed at Mount San Jacinto, California.

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James McConnachie @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every writer and musician: well who'd have thought it?

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I guess it’s time for an adventure - Interrail pass activated! It covered my train from Tring into London and it’ll cover my Eurostar to Brussels with a €35 passholder fare (€40 in 1st class). It’ll then cover my European Sleeper Brussels to Milan with a berth reservation fee.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Politico: "The latest Private Eye pulls various data together to suggest the Rachel Reeves agricultural inheritance tax changes might be having the intended impact: pushing tax-avoiders out of farmland and making it more affordable for real farmers." (Cont.)

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Great piece by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com referring to the work of Marleen Huysman. I’ve met Marleen in the course of some work I’ve been doing. Her team has been going into organisations looking at the impact of AI over time. She has found that AI is disorganising organisations.🧵

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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 08/09/2026

German Conservatives (and to a lesser extent Social Democrats and Greens) talk about migration and deportations all the time. Former Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) famously called for "deportations on a grand scale."

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the roving uniformed thuggish gangs in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 06/09/2026

MIT's working group report on AI and education was an interesting read. Noting a few of my takeaways that I may incorporate into my courses. 1. I should be more clear with students about my AI policies for their work *and for my work*, and my reasoning behind these policies #AcademicSky

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Report – AI and Education

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ulli @ulli.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#FotoVorschlag 'Objekte die mit "W" beginnen oder so aussehen ...'

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Turnout looking like it will be historic in today's elections 🇩🇪 The question is what higher turnout will do to the results, not self evident that older lessons about turnout will hold up.

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Will cycles slower than you 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

I am DEEPLY worried about the direction the UK is heading in. I grew up in a fascist police state. It's not fun. And once in place, it takes many decades, 1000s of lives, and untold suffering to get rid of. WTF is almost half of the UK this stupid?

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: A district heating system in France has run since 1332, still warming 100+ homes from hot springs. The tech is 700 years old. What's changed is what we can plug in: heat from rivers, flooded coal mines, breweries, data centres. janrosenow.substack.com/p/district-h...

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District heating: the 14th-century technology that keeps solving 21st-century problems

How heat networks can turn rivers, abandoned mines and data centres into sources of low-carbon heat

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