Dr Dave Clements

little bit of history for you:

in 2004, ten new countries were admitted to the european union, of which eight were from (or historically allied to) the former soviet union: the czech republic, estonia, hungary, latvia, lithuania, poland, slovakia, and slovenia. they were known as the "accession 8"

Imperial College ordered to release redacted version of bullying report Imperial College’s Council, including President Alice Gast and CFO Muir Sanderson, have lost a bid to keep a report into bullying at Imperial College unpublished.

The perception inside Imperial is different. They did their best to bury the investigation. It took legal action by the Fail to release it & there were no real consequences for the President. Meanwhile bullying continues. felixonline.co.uk/articles/imp... felixonline.co.uk/articles/up-...

Educational expert "Dr" Ann Limb falsified her academic credentials

21 Group has written to Lucy Cavendish College Cambridge asking for corrections to 'List of Fellows'

More to come out about her role in privatisation of 'City & Guilds' & bonuses

College should now act

21percent.org?p=3316

Oxford University faces backlash over use of gagging order in sexual harassment case - Cherwell The University of Oxford was granted an anonymity order in an employment tribunal over a sexual harassment case, which prevented the media from reporting on the case to protect the University’s reputa...

Gagging orders increase media incentive & are self defeating

US media is not subject to UK gags, so jurisdiction is limited

Since Brexit, they have no force under EU law

Perhaps Oxford University should spend money on fixing its problems rather than on gagging?

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Our woman president was involved in a bullying scandal herself.

Very welcome but ...

Before Dec 2025, Oxford & Cambridge had female Vice Chancellors & female Registrars, & senior roles in HR departments were held by women

It's surprising that there's been so little progress on protecting women from bullying & harassment

We hope this will change quickly

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

A screenshot of a purple-themed announcement text inviting General Practitioners (GPs) to a free virtual event on March 24th titled "Pulse 365." The text highlights a session on "ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – not just tired all the time" presented by Dr. Alastair Miller, a consultant physician at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It notes the event aims to support GPs in confident decision-making, earlier diagnosis, and management, following a Department of Health and Social Care announcement regarding the key role GPs play in caring for patients with mild and moderate ME/CFS.

⚠️ We have serious concerns about Dr Alastair Miller running a GP course for MECFS Diagnosis & Management for Pulse Today.

Miller is:
🔹ex-chair of BACME
🔹reviewer of PACE
🔹GET researcher
🔹anti-NICE

🖇️ tinyurl.com/muvtjbda
📧 support@pulse365.uk

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bateson inspired rather than started it turns out.

Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists?

Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy.

Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists?

Noem: My condolences to their families

Raskin: You lied about them.

Ansari: "The DOJ was caught red handed withholding explosive and credible FBI witness interviews of a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor. Shouldn't we hold hearings on that? Shouldn't Pam Bondi be here, forced to testify about why she's violating the law?"

Last session at IAU404 is a LARPing session to explore reactions to SETI detections. Does sound rather like SimSETI and in fact Gregory Bateson, who I think started that, has just been invoked. 🧪🔭

If you're a military veteran at risk of foreclosure, NPR wants to hear from you The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. We want to hear your story.

The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. We want to hear your story.

They're coming for us! 🐣🐥🦅

But only 16, not four and twenty... What happened to the other 8 - have they escaped????

As someone who has survived multiple jaw bone infections and needed several endodontic treatments for tooth infections, let me tell you that this man died in one of the most painful ways possible

They tortured him. An untreated tooth infection is torture.

Planets Everywhere

Reminder: the Science for Fiction podcast current has two episodes - The Random Universe and Planets Everywhere - available via your usual podcast services eg. open.spotify.com/show/7HzQoyN...

Free speech latest from the USA

Same happened to me this morning (UK time). I think BS servers have been having a bad night and took a while to sort their lives and our accounts out.

Rows of people wearing orange lanyards in a House of Commons committee hearing. At the front is Catherine sporting her "I'm about to perform an appendectomy" mask and looking particularly snazzy.

Here is my run-down of today's Science, Information & Technology Committee hearing (House of Commons) where @jonbutterworth.bsky.social @si-wills.bsky.social & I argued for no funding cuts, & Prof. Michele Doughtery explained why they were needed. The public gallery again packed with physicists 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️

Sad that you're the only person visible taking appropriate precautions against airborne disease. Any idea what the CO2 levels in that room were?

I thought that was a solved question - it was certainly said to have been solved years ago after the last subscription crisis. This is what our competitors do. Why don't we still not do this?

SCRIPTWRITER: So, for the bad guys, I've got a cabal of secretive scientists!

SCIENCE CONSULTANT: Have you ever MET scientists?!

*scriptwriter goes to AAAS meeting*

SCRIPTWRITER: So, for the bad guys, I've got a cabal of secretive Golden Retrievers who are hiding tennis balls...

Dyson sphere searches are on the agenda today at IAU404. Interesting objects being found but no clear Dyson Sphere candidates yet. 🧪🔭

Ouch!

Have been thinking this for a while.

Trump created something they call:

"BABY JAIL"

There are hundreds of preschoolers, toddlers & babies in this "BABY JAIL!"
HUNDREDS!

And it's all being paid for on your dime, with your taxpayer dollars & being done in your name!

Imagine the trauma, the harm, the abuse!

BABY JAIL!
#ICELawlessness

Ball = block chain, from ball and chain

Fitch = zombie process, from Abercrombie & Fitch (yes, I have seen Cocknies vs Zombies)

And there’s Trump’s own actual draft dodging to consider as well