Dan Cook

Was always inevitable Labour would need to move on youth mobility, and that would probably be part of an overall package. There's nothing else that's new in this long report, for ambition to remove SPS barriers doesn't make that happen...

Big Tech in the UK Dorothy Bishop’s attempt to get The Royal Society to oust Elon Musk has crystallised political dilemmas of sweeping consequence

Today I argue that the fusion of Big Tech and politics in the Tony Blair Institute is causing trouble for both The Royal Society and Keir Starmer.

Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing Digital preservation is not keeping up with the growth of scholarly knowledge. Recognizing its causes is the first step to securing records everywhere for future generations.

Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, which Nature reported on earlier this year, was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve, who studies technology and publishing at Birkbeck, University of London.

Did you know that Indian higher education has now achieved gender parity?

I visualise data from the All India Survey on Higher Education (2021-22)

www.ggd.world/p/indias-unt...

I think about this a lot as I'm panicking in my shower.

Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"

It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social

🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

@kyivindependent.com will you be making a starter pack of all your excellent team? It's great to see such a strong KI presence on this platform!

NSFW or impressionable minds

Excellent use of cursing as a discovery mechanism here.

Xmas jumper that says that wasn’t very data driven of you

Tempted to get this (very real product) to wear to management meetings from here to doomsday… 😂

A powerpoint presentation slide from HESA (a part of Jisc) with the Title "From burden to value - changing the conversation about data in higher education"

I'm honoured to have been asked to deliver the opening plenary at HESPA's Autumn Conference next week, and I can honestly say that it has been one of the most interesting presentations I've worked on for a long while.

If there are any HESPA peeps on BlueSky - I hope you like it!

Thanks Andrew - just seen it. Will follow that up with you.

I can see that. Musing: would UCEA see it as important enough to make supplying it to us a condition on your membership, do you think? I'd be interested in your thoughts on this, possibly on a call if you and colleagues are willing to explore it.

I was just being lighthearted. The idea of a republic is good, but I imagine we'd have to pay too much attention to it for too long for it to end in anything other than a fudge or a disaster. Whereas having a constitution that is as vague as ours keeps us all on our toes.

This makes an alumnus very proud.

Gotta ask who the "we" would be in this scenario. Can you be sure that Wales has not already seceded *in Welsh*?

You'd be pretty close to the cut of their jib with that misreading tbf

Staff data? We're preparing a consultation on that at the moment. I can imagine the optional coverage of non-academic staff is bit of a pain for UCEA.

For anyone who wants to educate themselves about how the devolved elements of the UK's constitution work one-enigma-at-a-time, I've just seen that @thatsdevolved.bsky.social have joined us on BlueSky!

It is taking a commitment to living in the past a little too fervently.

I did it! I wrote up my Posting Middle Classes Theory, and tried to explain why I think Threads failed where Bluesky succeeded: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/down-in-th... (free to read)

I am flattered that you think that people _inside_ the UK might understand the constitution! It is my firm belief that the fact that most of us don't understand it very completely is the only reason it continues to function at all.

So lovely.

Two glasses of Beaujolais Nouveau next to an open bottle of the same.

Just arrived from The Wine Society this minute. Bottoms up!

A half case of 2024 Beaujolais Nouveau

Did someone mention that it is Beaujolais Nouveau night?

We used to be a country x

Alexandra Epps: The Gloaming by #LauraWilder

Well, quite!

Me, Tlyssa Plester and @alexleigh.bsky.social are running a webinar on it next week. Sign up here: www.eventsforce.net/jiscevents/f...

Its niche, it's free, and all are welcome.