Nayeli Urquiza Haas

This government's relentless focus on growth has got out of hand.

Very much looking forward to this week’s Board of Governors meeting, at which the VC and his cronies will, as usual, blame others while maintaining that we’re about to hit a gold mine although sadly a lot of colleagues won’t be here to share the loot.

I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations | Let’s put aside the schooldays accusations and look, instead, at the Reform leader’s path since then. I think a pretty clear picture of the man emerges, says author and podcaster Musa Okwonga

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - my new article, if of interest please share.

FT investigation:

Tuna-fishing has among the worst working conditions of any fishing.

If you buy tuna from a UK supermarket, you may be buying the product of modern slavery. ig.ft.com/supermarket-...

Court's Latest Order In Elon Musk Case Includes Pretty Glaring Hallucination - Above the Law Everyone knows about fake cases... but misreading existing cases is much more dangerous.

So...um. Yeah. It's been a really interesting week.

abovethelaw.com/2025/11/cour...

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

More extrajudicial executions...in the name of the war on drugs.

UK lawyers warn of ‘race to the bottom’ after Tory MP issues deportation threat Top lawyers call for change in rhetoric that has left minority ethnic Britons fearful as politicians target migrants

'“We’re in very dangerous times,” said the lawyer Jacqueline McKenzie, who has represented hundreds of victims at the heart of the Windrush scandal, in which Britons from the Commonwealth living in the UK legally were classed wrongly as illegal migrants.'

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Storytelling: Jeanette Winterson, Rory Stewart and Soweto Kinch Jeanette Winterson, Soweto Kinch and Rory Stewart, with Tom Sutcliffe.

A fascinating interview with Rory Stewart on walking through Cumbria, and reflecting on its history and its political importance for the country. Very poignant critique on Cumbria being subject to internal colonial logics, and being seen as terra nullis. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

‘Patients will suffer’: tales from the frontline of the UK pharma crisis The pricing standoff between government and industry has stalled research and put thousands of jobs at risk

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Universities are dying...we are seeing the car crash on very slow motion. The infrastructure is being picked apart bit by bit. What is clear is that knowledge is becoming an incidental by-product.

Betting on a new REF2029 box: "In 200 words, demonstrate how this research project/unit/petting zoo Drives Growth".

'I am melting, help me': The 30-year-old drug website that transformed psychedelic research In the early days of the internet, drug users flocked to a website called Erowid to detail experiences on everything from Advil to LSD. Today it is a goldmine for academics.

A formidable example of citizen science from the margins. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Revocation of Indefinite Leave to Remain in certain circumstances Indefinite leave to remain in the United Kingdom is revoked with respect to a person (“P”) if any of the following conditions apply. Condition 1 is that P is defined as a “foreign criminal” under section 32 of the UK Borders Act 2007. Condition 2 is that P was granted indefinite leave to remain after the coming into force of this Act, but would not be eligible for indefinite leave under the requirements of section 2. Condition 3 is that P, or any dependents of P, have been in receipt of any form of “social protection” (including housing) from the UK Government or 5 10 15 20 25 30 353 Immigration and Visas Bill Part 3—VISAS a local authority, where “social protection” is defined according to the Treasury’s Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses, subject to any further definition by immigration rules. (5) (6) (7) (8) 4 5 (1) (2) (3) (4) (1) Condition 4 is that P’s annual income has fallen below £38,700 for six months or more in aggregate during the relevant qualification period, or subsequent to receiving indefinite leave to remain.

Via @sundersays.bsky.social the Conservatives' draft legislation - absolutely clear that it applies to (and is intended to apply to) legal permanent residents claiming state pension (on the basis of their contributions) or child benefit for British kids.

publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

I am still flabbergasted by the planned 6% levy on international students - which is the kind of policy you would only adopt if you had no idea about university finances or were intending to make almost all of them bankrupt (it could be both)

Scientists charged too much to come to work in UK, says Royal Society Combined upfront cost of the five-year Global Talent Visa and the Immigration Health Surcharge stands at £5,941

NEW: Upfront costs for top overseas scientists to come to work in the UK can be more than 20 times those charged by other countries, Royal Society says.

Government insists this doesn’t contradicts its ambition to lure top researchers, at a time of turmoil in US science.

www.ft.com/content/7144...

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

Kudos to the Guardian for reporting on research published in the European Journal of Political Research. Also: how many more studies on this do we need before centrist parties begin to rethink their strategies?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Who needs that?

Learn to code, bro!

Yeah. Who needs English?

“One Battle After Another” Is a Powerhouse of Tenderness and Fury In Paul Thomas Anderson’s film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s “Vineland,” the fight against American fascism is a family affair.

"More stories surely lurk within these labyrinthine hallways, and there could be no wittier, more charismatic guide than del Toro, who strolls and even dances through the movie with Zen grace."

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For? Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects.

In deploying AI in the medical field, a worst case scenario would be if AI tools remain imperfect and humans lose the ability to function without them: “If you’re a betting person, you should train doctors who know how to use AI but also know how to think.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Buzzing with ideas after the launch of our Wellcome Discovery Award "Between deception and dissent: regulating unproven, disproven, or misleading health-related claims" and our first team meeting. It was great opportunity to meet and welcome our postdoctoral researchers to the team. Stay tuned!

He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks Jon Ganz committed a terrible crime in his youth, but he survived prison, fell in love, and started over. His new life unraveled in a way nobody could have predicted.

This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.

Judith Butler: ‘We are witnessing the restoration of patriarchy and racism’ The leading figure of queer theory, a globally influential voice in feminism and political thought, takes part in an EL PAÍS subscribers’ event

english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

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Starmer wants rethink on international law to tackle migration The PM gives the clearest sign yet the government wants to reform how human rights laws are applied in immigration cases.

The Home Office doesn't lose as many asylum & deportation cases as it does because of some supposed marginal differences between the application of Art 8 in UK courts and the ECtHR view, it loses so many cases because it's caseload has long been woefully mismanaged...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Invisible Diseases Killing Americans "Surveillance is the superpower that allows public health to succeed," writes Dr. Tom Frieden in his new book.

In 2000, tobacco was the leading preventable cause of death among New Yorkers. In an excerpt from his new book "The Formula for Better Health," @drtomfrieden.bsky.social details how public health initiatives helped city residents quit smoking and saved countless lives. Read at @time.com:

What Is Drug Policy For? What Is Drug Policy For?; Julia Buxton looks at how our current drug control regime came about and charts the evolution of the contemporary drugs market, looking at where drugs are now produced and…

‘What is Drug Policy For?’ by Julia Buxton looks at how our current #DrugControl regime came about, the evolution of today’s drug market and what should replace our current strategy.

I'm so tired of Starmer's Labour government pretending to take a moral stance about ILR and simultaneously undermining it, by agreeing with the most cruel positions held by Reform.