You’re sitting on the platform at Ashford International waiting for your train to Canterbury when this appears. Wow!

A whole thread of lil guys! 😍

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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

At 16 years and 73 days old, Max Dowman becomes the youngest goalscorer in Premier League history. ✨

There are other reasons for the UK government not to award or continue Palantir contracts but this statement of intent by its CEO must surely be decisive?

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Anthony's TV

This is the default configuration of Samsung TV. GB News has bought prime spot.

What this meant was that racist chat entered my front room yesterday ("foreign NHS workers can't speak English").at 6.30pm with my six year old listening.

How can Ofcom just sit back and let this happen?

Ah yes, Norway - the country that didn't sell off their oil and gas for a quick buck in the 80s and now continue to benefit from profits, dividends and taxes, generating a wealth fund worth over £200k for every citizen.

Something is coming… 🌊

Can you guess what it might be? 🤔 Check back here Wednesday 18 March to find out! 👀

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Up Against It by Joe Orton Joe Orton’s unfinished Beatles screenplay. Three men decide to overthrow the matriarchy.

Oh, Radio 4 Extra are repeating the 1997 adaptation of ‘’Up Against It’ next Saturday, the unused #JoeOrton script for the third #Beatles movie www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

"I understand that the compact you feel about working for a university has now been broken. The compact that you weren't going to earn very much money but you had a secure job for life in a comfortable environment without a heavy workload. That's gone."
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social VC to staff.

NEW on Wonkhe: Johnny Rich argues that low graduate salaries in the arts aren't a sign of poor courses – they're a sign of an industry that profits from exploiting its workforce buff.ly/FFKK9nM

The unbelievable life of Leo Sayer! The songs, the sex, being swindled – and a spooky phone call from Elvis He lit up the 1970s with a string of hits, before falling out of the public eye. But was any man ever more connected? He discusses extraordinary encounters with Muhammad Ali and Keith Moon – and why h...

This is astonishing. Leo Sayer appears to have had the least boring life imaginable. And might have invented a couple of typefaces along the way.

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

This had me in fits of laughter (still does actually).

‘MANY MANY DIG DIG’

Creative arts graduates aren't the problem – they're the subsidy Johnny Rich argues that low graduate salaries in the arts aren't a sign of poor courses – they're a sign of an industry that profits from exploiting its workforce

'some creative arts graduates don’t appear to earn a significant graduate premium, but the UK’s creative industries are worth £125bn a year or, to put it another way, more than £1 in every £20 in the UK economy – a larger proportion of the nation’s wealth than almost any other country on earth.' 1/3

See @cocofoto.bsky.social to enjoy a real artist at work.

‘The law changed around me’: top Sudanese students blocked from UK universities by visa ban High-achieving applicants’ educational plans derailed by ‘emergency visa brake’

39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.

An oil tanker approaches the strait of Hormuz, collects a gold star and passes through while safely invulnerable

I think I may have cracked it

Let's just say I knew *something* and good lord it has been exceptionally difficult keeping quiet about it, but I'm sure some of you will be aware how thrilled I am we've not just got more sixties Dalek episodes but two more with Katarina and The Delegates too...

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Okay, okay, going to keep adding these as I see them.

This one made me snort.

They would certainly *like* us to view/treat 'AI' like a utility. Something that we're all forced to pay an ongoing fee to access.

Help me out with something please, people. Would a 9-year-old kid be likely to know what a VHS tape was if they saw one? I mean, would they generally recognise that it's some sort of tape for watching stuff on? It's for a thing I'm writing.

Linocut print of Perkins in grey, a suited, bearded Victorian, at a wooden lab bench covered in glassware and chemical apparatus. He holds a flask at eye level with bright mauve fluid. Wide bright mauve lines radiate outward from it in the background.

Happy birthday to chemist William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This linocut ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist & entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine. ⁠🧪🐡 #histsci
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Perkins entered the Royal College of Chemistry

We're saying hello to Sand Martins, our next #SpringArrivalSpotlight!

Gracing our skies from early March, they nest in colonies in sandy banks & cliff-sides.

Did you know? Their burrows can be up to a metre long!

Spot their distinctive swirling flight & short, forked tail.

💷 Further education teachers now earn nearly £10,500 less than school teachers – the widest pay gap in at least 15 years, new research has found https://feweek.co.uk/fe-teacher-pay-gap-with-schools-hits-15-year-high/

They should put a monkey on the £50 note and a pony on the £10 note to confuse the hell out cockneys.

Pope Leo XIV greets a baby dressed as mini Pope during his general weekly audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican

Someone has dressed their baby as a pope to meet the Pope and I can't cope.

britain has the highest electricity prices in the world making manufacturing unaffordable, a housing crisis some 40yrs in the making and if it was an american state it's about at the level of missisippi and some twat is telling me you can't replace churchill on the fiver with a fish or something

Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme

'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.'

Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3