Dr Sarah Irving

This, btw, is my husband. And yes, I basically agree with him, although I tend towards hollow-eyed despair rather than smugness:

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

This, boys and girls, is why I ... didn't create any boys and girls.

Vasectomy (before any spawning) in late 2004. Yes, I am smug about it. If I were a breeder, I'd be LOSING MY SHIT about now (well, a decade or so ago).

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

216,000 now😉

➡️ join.greenparty.org.uk

Roundtable: War on Iran Was Easy to Start. It Won’t Be Easy to End. President Donald Trump decided to join Israel and attack Iran early on Saturday, February 28—a reckless move that positions the United States as a rogue

New @centuryintl.bsky.social @tcfdotorg.bsky.social roundtable on U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and regional fallout: tcf.org/content/comm...

Quite an opening paragraph.

This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet? | Aditya Chakrabortty The news that healthy life expectancy is in decline in Britain exposes a serious truth about the state we’re in, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

'Yet in a society as unequal as the UK, how well or sick you are depends on how rich you are. The NHS provides free healthcare, but it can’t pay your bills, free your flat of mould or keep your kids fed.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... we could choose health not wealth

Palestinian DJ’s visa not approved ahead of two major music festivals Sama’ Abdulhadi was due to play at huge events in two states this weekend, expected to attract about 120,000 revellers. #culture #music

Sama’ Abdulhadi was due to play at huge events in two states this weekend, expected to attract about 120,000 revellers. #culture #music

For all the talk of an Asian century, China and other Asian powers never prepared for scenarios where the US would flip from the primary security guarantor in the Middle East they relied on to the primary source of instability that would undermine their energy supply chains

A Workshop in Honour of Andrea Zerbini: Legacy, Archaeology, and Digital Innovation 🌠

CBRL invites you to a two-day hybrid workshop on 30–31 March 2026, taking place in Amman and online.

Airport Road, Beirut. First strike inside the capital. 2 cars were struck

🇱🇧 Health Ministry: 3 killed, 6 wounded in Israeli strikes around Beirut.

Rocket salvos are now being launched from southern 🇱🇧 .

Israel’s Channel 12 reports 8 rockets were fired from 🇱🇧 w/o warning sirens being activated.

There are a minority of good people in War Studies at Kings, but jfc we really need to talk about that place as a manufacturer of consent for imperial violence.

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
tucson.com/news/local/b...

Report: Man dies while in Florence ICE custody - KTAR.com A Haitian man who was being detained by ICE in Florence is dead after a tooth infection was reportedly not given "timely medical care."

Another ICE murder

RIP Emmanuel Damas, a 56-year-old Haitian asylum seeker held at the Florence Correctional Center in Arizona, died Monday at a hospital in Scottsdale. His family says he complained for nearly 2 weeks before collapsing and developing sepsis from a tooth infection.

ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal | TechCrunch Many consumers ditched ChatGPT's app after news of its DoD deal went live, while Claude's downloads grew.

Yeah that's the shit

ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/c...

The Erasure of Palestine Published in Contemporary Levant (Ahead of Print, 2026)

New online from @contemplevant.bsky.social: Ido Fuchs reviews The Erasure of Palestine by Ahmad Al-Bazz www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Easier for unarmed Iranians to take to the streets we are carpet bombing?

Good plan, there’s no way that the US would ever betray Kurds who fought on their behalf, or that Turkey would be upset by and seek to frustrate any US-backed Kurdish forces, or that an invasion from Iraq would trigger Iranian nationalist opposition. None of those things have ever happened.

Series of three tweets by Zoe Gardner taking down Nigel Farage's support of attacks on Iran.

Apologies to @zoejardiniere.bsky.social for crossposting her tweets from the nasty place, but I felt this deserves airtime on bluesky because of how emphatically they prove the nasty, immoral, opportunistic politics of Reform.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Today, Yanar Mohammed – one of the most formidable feminist leaders of her generation – was assassinated in her home in Baghdad in what appears to have been a targeted militia attack.

Read MADRE's statement:

screenshot of a facebook post by a Cambridge college with a picture of a fancy desert plate with a golden egg in the middle. The text reads: Have to praise the spectacular food at the College Feast last week, including this beautiful golden egg by pastry chef Zara Western. Inside the hand painted chocolate egg was white chocolate and mascarpone, with the yolk represented by mango, peach and prosecco. It all sat on a nest of kadaif pastry baked with honey. A feast for the eyes.

We're all experiencing this crisis of UKHE in our own way...

(Love ya, Cambridge. And please keep employing & praising your pastry chefs, and having golden desserts. Just speak up for the sake of the sector from time to time.)

Yanar Mohammed writing for Chatham House

Devastated to learn that the great Yanar Mohammed, founder of the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq, was assassinated today by 'unknown' gunmen in Baghdad.
Here in her own words:

These people are idiots

I’ve just seen Farage referred to as Temu Trump which is perfect

At least 40 students killed so far at a school in Minab according to AlJazeera

All this bs about freedom and democracy. Let's not forget that last time they bombed the trans wing of a prison.

Select tickets – IHA professional training workshop: Environmental Humanities – Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 IHA professional training workshop: Environmental Humanities – Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, Thu 26 Mar 2026 - This Irish Humanities Alliance (IHA) workshop is aimed at those pursui...

Free (in-person) training workshop in the environmental humanities in Dublin, 26 March! #EnvHum #EnvHist

The 2022 Lebanese parliamentary elections: between traditional and alternative politics This article describes the political and livelihoods situation in Lebanon leading up to the parliamentary elections in May 2022. It examines electoral campaigns and the use of social media and trad...

New ‘field note’ from @contemplevant.bsky.social: Rahaf Zaher, “The 2022 Lebanese parliamentary elections: between traditional and alternative politics,” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Don't underestimate Polanski's capacity to turn normal tits into absolutely massive ones.