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RIP Esther Rantzen. A remarkable woman who achieved remarkable things, including finding a dog that said sausages youtu.be/ajsCY8SjJ1Y?...

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Talking Dog from That's Life (1970s)... SAUSAGES!!

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 8h

For five decades, Yousra has remained one of the defining stars of Egyptian cinema, moving between genres and generations of audiences without ever being confined to a single kind of role.

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50 Years of Yousra

A look back at the actor’s unique contribution to Egyptian cinema, and the adaptability that has ensured her continuing relevance

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 14h

Said this before, but you could write an interesting book on the books/films/music that were huge in their time but rapidly disappeared from any collective knowledge. Only hardly anyone would read it, because they wouldn't recognise them.

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Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 14h

Turning knowledge generation into an economic endeavour is the root cause of problems in UK Higher Education. From student loans & tuition fees, through to UKRI 'growth agenda'. Knowledge stopped being valued as intrinsic good for society leading to less* being generated overall.

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Mere Smith @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FATALITY

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bargains to be had in the high-end Cheshire property market 2027 Q2

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t know anything about football, but seems bad?

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Again though: National care service, ‘tough choices’ on triple lock, electoral reform, devolution, more public control of utilities, reopening red lines on Europe and (hopefully?) avoiding silly tax commitments is a good & coherent manifesto. But it should have been the 2024 manifesto.

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I will happily charge Claude users over the odds for a dusty copy of Revolver.

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A writeup abt the special issue of Studies in HPS which @martinkusch.bsky.social and I edited based on a 2022 conference held @crasshlive.bsky.social & @kingscollege.bsky.social The standard of articles is high, my own submission got rejected! So I poured my heart into the introduction. Have a read

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is true: I look at Labour's neglect of higher ed in the UK - a complete own goal that made the country worse off and undermined a major export industry.

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

maybe obligations are good actually

Undergraduates learn the language and rituals too: to wear gowns for more than just graduation, to keep out of the wrong gardens, to join dining societies and to compete for historic prizes – including the plum of seven years with no obligations at All Souls, the Oxford college that has no undergraduates but can, wonderfully, pour out Puligny-Montrachet at a dinner for fifty.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'In his [Ivison's] view, the government is avoiding the bigger issues of what universities are for and who should pay for them.' It would help if universities would ask (and answer) that 1st big question in public rather than just parroting government. That's what institutional autonomy is for.

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To save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge - Research Professional News

Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Videos I keep being fed suggest we’re on another round of ‘Europeans charge Americans for water’?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The tweet that immediately came to mind:

We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
9.8K Retweets
32.7K Likes

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Margot 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.'

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hard to capture how much the sky is glowing in London right now

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The next time the nostalgia or falafel craving hits you, and you long for the warm spice palate of the Middle East, and you fire up Fairuz on Spotify, consider experimenting with an Egyptian recipe.”

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In Defense of Egyptian Food

Egyptian food has long had a bad reputation, but it’s time to reassess what you think you know about mahshy, molokhia in duck stock, koshary — and tamiyya versus falafel.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reminder that federal loans are now capped at $65k total for undergrads, $20.5k/year for grad students & $50k/year ($200k lifetime limit) for professional programs (med, law). These limits change which programs remain financially viable without family wealth or private loans.

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Essential from Alan Lockey on how young people have been failed for nearly two decades and why Burnham must stop the rot. www.arguably.uk/p/the-speech...

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The ways in which entangled speaks to affordances of being attentive to overuse

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is such a sorry & infuriating tale. Via @davidpetts1.bsky.social from another place. www.sarsen.org/2026/09/hist...

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 28/09/2026

Has it occured to anyone at City Hall or in No 10 that at some point someone is going to have to step up and do something about the bridges? Because at this rate there aren't going to be any functioning river crossings in central London in a few years' time.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can't help admiring Brits' persistent attachment to the idea that supply and demand doesn't operate in the housing market and their concomitant refusal to admit that a place is only ever worth as much as anyone is prepared to pay for it.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Local cafe seemingly has Cocteau Twins on repeat. Is this a thing now?

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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Literally insane that somewhere like Middlebury now offers tuition-free admission for students whose families make less than $175k ('families of more limited means' in this article). $175k!!! www.addisonindependent.com/2026/09/24/m...

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Middlebury College to be tuition-free for students with family income up to $175,000 – Addison Independent

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

I really feel like someone is over-reaching with the slogan "Discover Euston".

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tbh I would assume this, too. I was once given tea and coffee at an interview (I then didn’t get). But it seems to me there’s an onus on the interviewer to provide at least water.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They get to be stolen in a new way, I guess

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026

Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation

Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Every piece I read from the ex-Starmer crew has the same flavour- a bleeding over of their distaste for other more socially liberal colleagues in the Labour Party, which has been retro-fitted into an entire explanation for how politics should work, even as it failed when actually tested.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What I love about living in Lambeth is the visibly worsening fly-tipping

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m sorry, but he definitely knows his own address

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 25/09/2026

In case you're looking for a good time, it's Verona with the Catullus airport

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t believe that NYT list doesn’t have ‘Bob Mortimer on WILTY?’

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

still sort of struggling to believe that amidst everything else going on, Andy Burnham popped up this week to say we should bring back drinking in stands at football.

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

'“It could lead to an over-concentration of research funding in a few places, and with a few individuals, which would stifle the ecosystem and is definitely at odds with the government’s ‘growth in every postcode’ message, which I think is the higher priority here,” Rich said.'

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

'Whether it is referencing evidence in footnotes or acknowledging the contributions of GAI, students need to understand that attribution is not an afterthought, but a key aspect of the process that allows others to understand what is original about their work.' Open access food for thought.

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Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Evolving Arms Race in History Assessment and Higher Education Policies | Historical Transactions

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This AI discourse is amazing. "We've created this very dangerous thing, based largely on the mass theft of labour, that we should stop developing" - okay, so that means that you should be treated like social and economic vandals, not revered as sages on podcasts.

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 24/09/2026

"If medical schools and universities don't want the literature to be overwhelmed with garbage," Oransky said, "then they should probably stop giving every applicant ... an incentive to publish a lot of crap."

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Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research?

'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says

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