Hannah Barker

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Why research impact is so important—and hard to show - Research Professional News Five specialists discuss the benefits and challenges around research impact

Why research impact is so important—and hard to show.

Five specialists discuss the benefits and challenges around research impact.

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International students are a key driver of the export sector in Exeter and Leicester Universities as a share of export gross value added Exeter Leicester Newcastle York Nottingham Cardiff Sheffield Coventry Brighton Leeds Respective percentages 15.3% 14% 9% 8.4% 8.4% 7.6% 6.9% 6.9% 5.8% 5.7% Source: Centre for Cities • Data for top 10 cities/towns in England by share of GVA

What’s a big export sector shared by Leicester, Exeter and Newcastle? Award yourself five points if you said higher education

Family History Societies survive because of volunteers. Every hour given helps protect records, knowledge, and heritage. With just a little time you can get involved in many different ways. Find your local society and ask about how you can help? www.familyhistoryfederation.com/find-a-society

A great opportunity here - a fully-funded PhD working with some of MIE’s finest!

[PDS Award] Climate Change, Heat and Inequality in School Environments at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - [PDS Award] Climate Change, Heat and Inequality in School Environments at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

Based at the Manchester Institute of Education.

Deadline: March 18, 2026

Full details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

@educationuom.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social @uom-humsdocacad.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social

Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Discover Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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UK to invoke ‘emergency brake’ to ban student visa applications from four countries Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan will be affected by the move

If you know your British including British colonial history, you might be a bit appalled.

Though a least 2 days ago members of US government were still referring to this guy’s long dead grandad as being in charge 😂

A waterfall in a Welsh valley with surrounding Atlantic Rainforest vegetation on a sunny March day.

Nant Cadair, Cadair Idris National Nature Reserve 📷 03.03.26

#WaterfallWednesday #scape
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersofBluesky

The majority of UK academic institutions now no longer post on X - LSE Impact For the first time, more UK universities and associated organisations are inactive on X than active.

💥New post | The majority of UK academic institutions now no longer post on X

✍️ @andytattersall.bsky.social

#AcademicSky #X #AcademicSocialMedia

UKRI update from Professor Sir Ian Chapman YouTube video by UK Research and Innovation

And here is the UKRI video explaining buckets. 2/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=osnq...

Mine went on for ages but feel like I’m on the other side now

What if AI just makes us work harder? [FREE TO READ] Employees have reported increased momentum, but also a feeling of having more to do

What if AI just makes us work harder?
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The @ipso.co.uk ruling of Telegraph’s preposterous “We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays”, reveals the article to have been a fabrication. There is no such family as Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy. Glad to have acted as lead complainant on this.

Home As part of the Centre for Biblical Studies’ CIDRAL funded programme of events entitled Encountering Biblical Bodies, we are pleased to host works from artist Sarah Lightman’s Biblical Domestic and Men...

The online exhibition is available here where you can see the art and listen to reflections from our Centre of Biblical Studies' members & mates sites.google.com/view/encount...

The exhibition is up both in the Glass Corridor and online. Online link in comments.

Handwritten recipe with title 'Oystar Pie'.

Handwritten recipe for Oystar Pie continued.

Typed transcript of the Oystar Pie recipe

To celebrate British Pie Week, our #ArchiveOfTheWeek is this recipe for oyster pie from about 300 years ago! Up to you whether to make it, or just enjoy the vocabulary, such as caudle and verjuice.

#BritishPieWeek #HistoricRecipe

It can happen to the best of us

Whatever else this is from Paul Ovenden, demanding Labour MPs back Mahmood’s immigration crackdown, it is the most over-written, pretentious thing I’ve seen for some time.

For those interested in (or with an interest in) UK research, perhaps the clearest visualisation of the infamous UKRI 'buckets' I've seen.

For those who are minded to do so, there's now a petition to sign too...

#DirtyBusiness

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

“My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors”: Gemini generates false records and fake screenshots of TNA website | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine The Gemini LLM generates fake records and screenshots from the UK National Archives, a family historian has revealed

Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.'

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Research Fellow (French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685) at University of Birmingham Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Fellow (French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Job: The University of Birmingham is seeking to appoint someone to a 21-month post associated with a research project called "French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685" www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQN896/r...

Top academics warn UK physics cuts threaten effort to boost economy More than 50 heads of departments tell science minister that changes risk undermining crucial tech growth fields

Lots of talk about thinking seriously about what we need for future research. Little talk of how and where we have that discussion, systematically and in dialogue with the needs of the wider research ecosystem. And then there is the resounding silence on university finances which underpin all that.

A stone and brick bridge with a round arch. Water flows under the brdige onto a beach. To either side of the arce someone has sprayed the word 'SEWAGE' in white paint, with arrows pointing from the word to the water.

the south west, February 2026

diolch yn fawr 😊

Child in traditional Welsh costume

Happy St David’s Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Great and friendly archive in the Town Hall too

Librarian & Executive Director of the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut, 06032 | Other at Yale University Apply for Librarian & Executive Director of the Lewis Walpole Library job with Yale University in Farmington, Connecticut, 06032. Other at Yale University

JOB ALERT 📜📚

Librarian & executive director of Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library (Farmington, CT)

•Research center for 18th-century Britain
•You’d report to the fabulous Michelle Light

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