Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This is extremely reasonable and well-put. It clearly comes from a place of principle but is also strategic. The kind of argument that could have, had Polanski made it, meaningfully shifted the vote on the Zionism is Racism motion. But Zack doesn’t have the range. 610722
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultFreya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 08/10/2026thoughts on AI coding 2957861
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultRicardo Parreira @ricardoparreira.com · 07/10/2026À Montpellier, un CRS vise délibérément la tête d'un jeune avec une grenade lacrymo. 25432376
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultStephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026For my ENG speaking followers Unprecedented High School blockades began in the outskirts of Paris in Créteil on the 21st of Sept. National mobilisations followed on the 29th of September, the 1st and the 6th of October. The movement is ongoing and has spread both in scope and scale. #tippingpoint 15680323
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultJean-Marc Lafon @jmlafon.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026Notice de la grenade "flash-bang" GL-307, éditée par son fabricant brésilien. En bas à droite, écrite en rouge et illustrée par un dessin, la mention : "La grenade doit être lancée de sorte à exploser à au moins 10 mètres des contrevenants. Elle peut causer des lésions à courte distance." 11217157
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultJean-Marc Lafon @jmlafon.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026Aucun contexte ne justifie un tir quasi à bout touchant de grenade lacrymogène dans la figure. Aucun contexte ne justifie l'emploi de grenades de désencerclement pour disperser un attroupement qui ne menace personne. Le contexte, c'est l'attachement fétichiste de la Macronie à la violence d'État. 217576
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.' 29694
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 15/09/2026TUC President Steve Gillan calls on Congress to join UCU’s lunchtime rally against the University of Brighton’s outrageous plans to derecognise UCU. An attack on trade union rights is an attack on us all. University of Brighton: back down. 01011
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultDr Scott Arthur MP (Edinburgh South West) 🌍🌈🌹 @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is Aberdeen. We also have strikes over cost-cutting at Heriot-Watt University and Edinburgh, while Strathclyde University announced plans to cut 70 jobs in December. When will the Scottish Government act? See: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukAberdeen University job cuts talks break down after union official dismissalA £10m savings plan - which could see more than 100 jobs lost - was agreed earlier this year. 021
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight 721799537
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is very bad indeed 051
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultDaniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes: 13598708
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 14/09/2026UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY 011081
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 10/09/2026An article on the solving of the Navier Stokes equations by a mathematician who knows what's going on bms.ulb.ac.be/data/uploads... (Yes it's in LateX I am sorry)bms.ulb.ac.be 36912
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...rnli.orgDonate to the RNLI and help save lives at seaYour donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here. 4920921254
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultKate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A lot of news coverage on AI doom based off one tweet on a shitposting platform by a prodigal techbro. Do I fear superintelligence wiping us out? No, I fear incompetence and probably climate disaster, both of which could be somewhat mitigated by making tech companies more responsible & accountable. 18914
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Politico: "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.) 14977325
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultBlackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 09/09/2026Edinburgh LibDems, Tories, and often Labour, take note! 173
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultTrevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...techcrunch.comOpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunchThere is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem. 391332460
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultCharles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now 5145171509
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/09/2026This cost about $15 million in AI compute to do, a serious amount of money most mathematicians can never reasonably access. One of the troubling aspects is whether frontier labs will move on after using these major mathematical problems for PR without meaningfully improving the field. 918825
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration. 602405851
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultStephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026FYI, I'vre revised the English version to account for new information that has surfaced on Harris (and his huge lie), but also the strategy that Cofnas plainly laid out : promote washed out/retired DEI-critics (via FSU etc), and use them to eliminate Black scholars. Link in blog post.blogs.mediapart.frComment un réseau d’élite a chassé Jason ArdayLe racisme scientifique est une pseudoscience qui abreuve la propagande d'extrême-droite, dont masculiniste. Longtemps relégué aux marges, il s’installe dans les universités et cherche à imposer ses … 22820
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAndrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026“A systematic review of 31 studies found that open-plan designs were negatively associated with health, satisfaction and productivity, with not a single study measuring productivity finding a positive effect,“ - please tell this to every university estates department. 173
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 27/08/2026How many signatories of the open letter defending "academic freedom" for white supremacist "race realists" came to the public defense of Maura Finkelstein, a tenured associate professor at Muhlenberg College who was fired for reposting on Instagram a statement from a Palestinian American poet?insidehighered.comTenured Jewish prof. says she's fired for pro-Palestine postPennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still rece... 141257400
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultMarc Welsh @marcwelsh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Interesting piece by Justine Pedussel and Jim Dickinson on balance sheet issue just today. The balance sheet adjustments seem to make an already unequal system more unequal between the nations. It was ever thus. wonkhe.com/blogs/the-tr...wonkhe.comThe Treasury is bankrupting three nations' universitiesWith funding reviews underway in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Justine Pedussel and Jim Dickinson worry none will examine the hidden accounting rules driving the crisis 143
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultPolGM @polgm.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026⚠️ La nouvelle mairie d'Avignon veut remettre les bagnoles dans la ville, et elle a commencé - de manière brutale, au milieu de l'été et sans consulter les habitants. C'est clairement un test pour voir "si ça passe". Petit fil, et comment vous pouvez contribuer de chez vous ⤵️ 45442
Reposted by Nicolas Pugeaultlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Jason Stanley makes the case that the stuff that was most obviously in fact a lie in Arday's case was also not stuff which academic institutions care about when employing someone, whereas by the metrics academics care about Arday was doing well. jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/it-sure-lo...jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.comIt sure looks like Jason Arday was horrifically wrongedThe media’s profound ignorance of academia is a deadly problem 1234774
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026A professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work. Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’ 6126801064
Reposted by Nicolas Pugeaultorbette @orbette.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Well this seems interesting and unsurprising archive.ph/vB0BP 5281124
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultStephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Arday defending himself by filing a police complaint against Dave Harris - a man who had already been formally found to have engaged in bullying misconduct as far back as 1998 - is not something I find extraordinary. What is extraordinary is that Harris's misconduct vanished from news coverage. 28226
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultGeoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026We have just witnessed an incredible A/B test showing how plagiarism allegations at Cambridge University play out depending on how racialized the subject of the allegations are and it says nothing good about our society or the state of "race relations". O'Reilly is still in post.varsity.co.ukPlagiarising professor stays in post and threatens student journalistsMore than twelve pages of an article published under O’Reilly's name had been lifted almost word for word from two essays by one of his students 10605277
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 16/08/2026At this point @monicalennon.bsky.social has the support of the two biggest Labour-affiliated unions but only two MPs and two MSPs. She needs one more of each in order to get onto the ballot and stop this leadership election from becoming an all-male, all-anti-trans, all-fossil-fuel-fan stitch-up. 3114
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultProf Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/08/2026For the record, the proportion of professors at Cambridge who are Black is 0.4%. The number of Black people in the UK population is 4%. So the number of Black professors at Cambridge is ONE TENTH of what you would expect in a meritocracy. 221962616
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultPhilippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 14/08/2026It does not matter if the victim was "guilty". A lynching is a lynching. What cruel, awful times we live in. 1034456
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultTom Duffin Photographer @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Batman surveys Edinburgh city from Salisbury Crags last night as the solar eclipse dims the evening light. #solareclipse 1353
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultSimon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026New post: Unpicking the legacy of neoliberalism mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/08/unpi... Defending neoliberalism today beyond the familiar tropes has become so difficult because so many of the claims made for it 40 years ago are questionable at best and in some cases clearly untrue.mainlymacro.blogspot.comUnpicking the legacy of neoliberalismNeoliberalism as an overarching ideology for UK government died with the Brexit referendum in 2016, just as it did in the US with Trump’s ... 33523
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This thread is a damning indictment of how many of Scottish Labour's parliamentarians have lost whatever moral compass they once had. It is a damning indictment of the party's near-total capitulation to the sort of politics encouraged and inflamed by gender critical organisations and individuals. 613040
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The reaction to these Q Manivannan comments (clipped by someone calling for them to be deported btw) from MSPs is extremely troubling. 618842
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Like sorry can we be clear that what’s happened here is that a Green MSP did an interview a year ago where they made the point that lots of different acts constitute rape, and now a bunch of Scottish Labour MSPs are sharing a doctored clip of this claiming it’s rape apologism. 628875
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultHolger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I fear I disagree in three respects here: on the internal eu debate post Brexit, on the internal UK debate pre Brexit and on whether it would have been worth it /1 1015660
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultMarine Tondelier @marinetondelier.fr · 06/08/2026Parce que j’ai osé dire que si X continue à ne pas respecter la loi européenne, il faudra le sanctionner. Et pendant les élections, fermer ce réseau social pourrait être nécessaire, pour se protéger des ingérences. (1/5) 62558174
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultChristian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Rebuttals and discussions need to be reduced an extreme minimal length. CVPR style, 1 single PDF page. No discussion. Else, human ACs and reviewers will have a disadvantage compared to the world of agents out there now. 2233
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultPadre Pio @padrepio.bsky.social · 14/07/2026l'Espagne nous a fait ce que les Bleus ont fait au Maroc. Un piège parfait, qui a bridé toutes les initiatives et les points forts. Rien à dire, à part bravo et merci aux Bleus. Un titre, une finale et une demie en trois éditions, c'est juste monstrueux. Et y aura d'autres titres à aller disputer. 1134423
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026This is nonsense. The (tiny) tuition fee rise seen so far is massively offset by over a decade of real terms cuts. Adjusting for inflation tuition fees are lower now than a decade ago - when the teaching grant was much larger. 914649
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultKaren Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 27/06/2026UK government visa changes are “driving universities towards a cliff edge”. www.scotsman.com/education/so...scotsman.comGlasgow University cuts: Social sciences to see biggest drop in overseas studentsVoluntary redundancy scheme to open in August 45425
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultMark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 28/06/2026When Nottingham, Exeter, and Glasgow are making cuts, the entire sector is dying. Well done to successive governments for killing one of the few sectors that combines local economies and global influence. 420793
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultPeople's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 22/06/2026As a migrant, I affirmatively do not care how much you spend on schools if you put Shabana Mahmood's immigration policies into practice. This is a logical and calculated stance that I am tired of pretending is somehow irrational. 540357
Reposted by Nicolas Pugeaultlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Same. I am from an immigrant family, marrying an immigrant, teaching immigrant students. It is *incredibly* hard for me not to see Mahmood's policies as a central and vicious betrayal of core values. This combined with Starmer's own rhetoric on the matter thoroughly disillusioned me on them. 539269