Sean Wallis

mind the gender pay gap? join us: lessons from the Equal Pay Claim at QMUL. Guest speaker Michael Sprack from Garden Court Chambers

We won an Employment Tribunal about @qmul.bsky.social's promotion procedures being 'tainted by sex'. Let's discuss how. With guest speaker Michael Sprack from Garden Court Cambers.

TODAY, 10 March, 4pm, Bancroft 4.04 and zoom

register for zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #EqualPay #IWD

‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds Rising temperatures making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions Climate breakdown is shrinking the amount of time that people can safely go about their lives, according to a study that shows a third of the world’s population now resides in areas where heat severely limits activity. Rising temperatures, driven by the continued burning of fossil fuels, are making it difficult even for many young, healthy adults to do basic physical activities, such as housework or walking up stairs during daylight hours at the height of the summer, the report warns. Continue reading...

‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds

Said's necessary correction to Orientalism suggests we should reflect on the fact that the feeling is likely to be mutual.

The psychopath explanation seems to rely on the assumption that 'evil' is reducible to an individual's act. But the worst crimes of our epoch are social. Mr Trump's crimes as a private citizen are relatively trivial compared to his offences as President.

At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It is THE fundamental problem. To survive and prosper we must make billionaires history. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Who will stand up for the Iranian people as death rains on them from the skies? | Nasrin Parvaz Calls for a popular uprising and empty promises of help are reckless in the extreme – and no answer to my country’s plight, says torture survivor Nasrin Parvaz

Who will stand up for the Iranian people as death rains on them from the skies? | Nasrin Parvaz

A must-read.

Everyone who cares for human rights and democracy must stand up against the war.

Tourist photography subverted: Luigi Ghirri was a master of composition An exhibition of rare photographs by the Italian photographer highlights the abstraction and poetry of his lesser-known works

Tourist photography subverted: Luigi Ghirri was a master of composition

Protest poster with a black background and white, yellow, and multicolored text. It announces a "Sheffield Day of Action" on Saturday, 14th March, from 12 to 2 p.m. at Sheffield Town Hall, featuring stalls, speakers, and music. The words "LOVE," "HOPE," and "UNITY" are highlighted in green, pink, and orange boxes. The bottom half calls for people to "Join us to build the protest AGAINST THE FAR RIGHT" on Saturday, 28th March, in Central London. A QR code and the URL "togetheralliance.org.uk" are included for booking transport from South Yorkshire. ( Also available at https://linktr.ee/sheffieldsutr )

📢 Together Day of Action
Join us to help build for the 28th March TOGETHER demo!
🗓 Saturday 14th March | 🕛 12–2pm
📍 Sheffield Town Hall
✊ Building against racism and for the politics of hope.
🎫 Book transport linktr.ee/sheffieldsutr

#antiracism #antifascism #sheffield #southyorkshire #together

Teaching-only and temporary roles bear brunt of UK jobs cull Decline in fixed-term and zero hours contracts ‘not good news’ in sector shedding thousands of positions

'Of the 244,755 academics recorded [by Hesa], the largest share were in teaching and research roles – 105,630 (43 per cent of the total), which was slightly fewer than in 2023-24.' 1/3

My Greek niece's marble-cutting friend uses an electric drill to make frappés.

One night they camped overnight in a mountainous region. An irate farmer woke and castigated the interlopers till they calmed him with Nescafe. He turned his head...to see our individualist engaged in frappé preparation.

Never argue with a barrista.

Next week, what Jane Austen thought of AI.

It achieved thousand of small objectives of killing people and smashing things up but forgot to have an achievable main objectives. Iran is a huge country that takes science education seriously. You can destroy their current weapon capability but you can’t kill the knowledge to build it up again.

Government welcomes five soccer players while bolting the door closed for others On the day that five members of the Iranian women's soccer team were given humanitarian visas to protect them from possible persecution in Iran, the Albanese

On the day 5 members of the Iranian women's soccer team were given humanitarian visas to protect them from possible persecution in Iran, the Albanese Gov introduced legislation which would have prevented them from entering Australia in the first place.

www.refugeecouncil.org.au/government-w...

There’s a philosophical debate about whether evil is ordinary badness to a very high degree or whether it’s a special category of its own. We’re getting new cases every day on which to test our intuitions.

If you are a @ucu.org.uk member at the University of Sheffield, don't forget to vote! @sheffielducu.bsky.social

A. The evidence is overwhelming.

Bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure to have major environmental fallout, experts warn Monitors admit they are struggling to keep track of the environmental disasters arising from widening war

Bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure to have major environmental fallout, experts warn

Opinion: “What I think about is if I return to Afghanistan, will I have the chance to continue my teaching at university? There, I see zero per cent job security.”

The UK’s visa ban is another blow for Afghanistan’s despairing intellectuals, says scholar #highered
https://ow.ly/Po5r50YraxQ

Continuity correction in separability tests Introduction A separability test (Wallis 2019, 2021, 2026) is a meta-test method for evaluating whether two test results of a particular type are significantly different from each other. There are many such tests because for any given test evaluation we might have a corresponding separability test. These tests are relatively straightforward to derive from any test that consists of a series of Gaussian evaluations such as χ2.

Continuity correction in separability tests

Introduction A separability test (Wallis 2019, 2021, 2026) is a meta-test method for evaluating whether two test results of a particular type are significantly different from each other. There are many such tests because for any given test evaluation we…

Indigenous Australians share the racist messages they receive online: ‘No one’s feeling safe’ Australia has announced an inquiry into racism and hate directed at First Nations people, as Lidia Thorpe says racism has ‘never been this bad’

Important read about the incredibly ugly racist hate, abuse & threats Indigenous Australians get

"Many noted a marked uptick in violent rhetoric since the failed voice to parliament referendum in 2023."

“A lot of people in general feel really comfortable being racist.” 1/

Tell the AI giants to stand together against killer robots The US Secretary of War is on a rampage. He’s trying to bully the world’s top AI companies to rip out their safety guardrails and "tailor" their models for Trump’s military. He wants to turn AI into a

Tell the AI giants to stand together against killer robots actions.eko.org/a/tell-the-a...

'Don't die': the two words that sum up our lives in Tehran now | Anonymous In a park overlooking the city, I ran into a group of young people chatting and joking. As the bombs fall, fragments of life remain, writes an anonymous Tehran resident

'Don't die': the two words that sum up our lives in Tehran now | Anonymous

Dedication page from the book that my PhD became, which reads: For mum, dad and Tom - thank you for the world. And for my Grandad Jimbo, who probably still doesn’t believe ‘girls’ should go to university.

In my house ‘International Women’s Day’ is also known as ‘My PhD’s Birthday’. Happy 8th birthday PhD, and happy reminder day to everyone else that if you say misogynistic things to me I will never let you forget them 🤭

Midlands Together Against the Far Right International Women's Day

🗓 Sunday 8 March, 12:00
📍 Assemble: Victoria Square, Birmingham

Bring colleagues, friends, placards and banners. Let’s show that our campuses and communities are united against misogyny, racism and the far right.

And the next step is to give the AI control of, oh, I don't know, let's call them anti-missile missiles... what could possibly go wrong?

If hiring a private jet to avoid taxes makes financial sense, you don’t pay enough tax and have more money than you need.

The idea the North Sea is some great goldmine waiting to be tapped is entirely at odds with reality.

What an ad. Today, about 38% of our rail is electrified. India just hit 100%.

The oil didn't run out, as we've drilled in ever more dangerous places (eg DeepWater Horizon) and in dictatorships. But it's suffers the same problems that OPEC showed in the 1970s.

Electrify everything.