I'm excited to publish entries on 'Space' and 'Nightlife' for the Encyclopaedia of Queer Studies @ElgarPublishing. In a political climate reducing trans people to legislative 'gotchas', it's even more important we support queer communities. Volume eds. @robcover & Christy Newman

not gonna lie, as a young adult, the sense of Imminent Doom is omnipresent and inescapable

Even the glaciers that have so far resisted global warming are now starting to collapse.The hitherto stable ones of the Pamir mountains in Central Asia lost massive amounts of ice last year. How many more warnings do we need? zmescience.com/science/the-l…

In 2022/3, the undergraduate subject area with the highest unemployment rate was Computing, followed by Maths, Law, and Business and Management. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a UK pundit say that people should think twice about a Computing degree.

Disturbing news. Loss of Arctic sea ice has caused an “irreversible” shift in the chemistry of the ocean that is disrupting the foundations of chain of life, a two-decade-long study has concluded. Tipping points are already here… oceanographicmagazine.com/ne…

This is what elite, world-class investigative journalism looks like: Carole Cadwalladr and her team at The Nerve have forensically stripped the mask off the British political establishment. The pattern they found in The Harborne Receipts is nothing short of terrifying. Millions of pounds flow from a crypto-billionaire into the pockets of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, and like clockwork, weeks later, those exact politicians start pushing laws to benefit the crypto industry. It is the exact same playbook Donald Trump used in America. It is cash-for-policy, clear as day. While the billionaire-owned press tries to distract us with culture wars and theatre, true journalists follow the money. This is the toxic soil that is destroying our democracy from within. Absolute honour to see her back in action!

This is the best thread I’ve read in a year of me obsessively reading each and every thread on the UK university crisis. It is such clear (and depressing) writing. 10/10 no notes.

6 consecutive days exceeding 30’c, in May! 🤯

HS2. A masterclass in how Britain destroys money. The cost: • 2011: £32.7bn • 2013: £45bn • 2015: £55.7bn • 2019: up to £88bn • 2020: up to £106bn • 2026: up to £102.7bn… for a fraction of the original route What’s been cut along the way: • 2021: Eastern leg to Leeds: SCRAPPED • 2022: Golborne link to Scotland: SCRAPPED • 2023: Birmingham → Manchester leg: SCRAPPED • 2023: Crewe hub: SCRAPPED • Euston terminus: paused, downsized from 10 platforms to 6, now needs private finance Original plan: 11 cities, 340 miles, £32bn, open 2026. What we’re getting: 4 stations, 140 miles, £100bn , open 2039. A national embarrassment, paid for by taxpayers.

The one on the right is my van. The one on the left sits higher than my van, weighs more than my van, has less storage space than a VW Golf, weighs around 1000kgs more than a Golf and almost 700kgs more than our own EV. With the high risk of these burning down an airport carpark in Luton, their horrific emissions, reliability, fuel economy and weight, it’s a wonder why people buy them.

Why did they do that? What moral or legal right did they have to do that?

Can't stop thinking about Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive worth $828 billion, spending $290 million to elect Trump, becoming $563 billion richer since Trump was elected and ending humanitarian aid that will lead to the deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest kids on the planet.

A cause for national shame. This is the Rainbow Map for LGBTI rights across Europe. Until 2015, the UK was top. We've now collapsed down the rankings - and are the worst in Western Europe. We're now near Albania.

There really is no need for the catastrophic redundancies hitting our university sector. The UK is an educational powerhouse and its resources are being squandered.

UK universities are miraculous. A case in point is the University of Sheffield, which has a total endowment of £59m (about 21x Princeton's per-student endowment) and 6 Nobel prizes. We're losing one of the most cost-effective research juggernauts on Earth.

This is exactly why cuts to arts and humanities subjects should be an alarming red flag. Once the bean counters on six figure salaries get the trimming scissors out, they're unlikely to ever actually stop.

reform voters haven’t even read the manifesto, they’ve blindly voted based on bigoted views thinking reform will remove immigrants to “protect women and girls” NO mention of protecting us in their manifesto: but, 1 in 5 reform MPS has been to prison for violence against women

You let the Tories gain one (1) London council and they immediately make everything worse For those too young to remember, this is just like how they were in Government

The UK public celebrates a genuine national treasure on his centenary, which coincides with a landslide of council votes for a political party that rejects net zero, wants to defund the institutions that Attenborough's life has enriched, and doesn't care about nature. Go figure.

RT @JohannaSaunders: The UK voted the Tories out of office with a vengeance after more than a decade of mismanagement, corruption and scand…

In time we’ll see the mass closure of humanities departments as among the most clueless & self-defeating things that’s ever been done. As Carl Sagan said, a school that doesn’t teach history, philosophy, music, literature is offering you a half-education at best.