Sherrill Stroschein

"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."

Palestine Action protest arrests rise to more than 500 Police say the majority of arrests were for displaying placards in support of the banned group.

Government has got this spectacularly wrong.

If an organisation is breaking the law, prosecute it.

But arresting people for holding up signs is a waste of police time, it's increasing support for the organisation &, above all, it's a flagrant violation of free speech.
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Hyper-casualisation and overwork are NOT EFFICIENT.

If you hadn't cut your workforce to the bone, these kinds of things could be covered by giving more hours to fractional contracts, maybe combined with some reprioritisation. Instead: the cost & time of a search + onboarding.

nous group has slowly taken over the university sector, filling VCs' offices with ex-staff and buying 'incredibly sensitive' data that is sold back for benchmarking. By rick morton.

Meanwhile, staff isn't allowed to see much data on which their futures (and academic priorities...) are decided, because they are 'commercially sensitive'.

To think that that consultancy will treat you as that one special uni is naive beyond measure. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

Here’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine Malik He is part of a political establishment that is fuelling a crisis way beyond the point that they can ever be seen to solve it. It’s a cynical, idiotic doom loop, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Every word of this.

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Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

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AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

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Nebraska's Mike Flood got an earful from voters. He's still standing by Trump's agenda After his town hall this week wrapping with chants of "Vote him out!" Nebraska Rep. Mike Flood told Morning Edition he understands it is "cathartic" for constituents to voice their opinions.

After his town hall wrapping with chants of "Vote him out!" Nebraska Rep. Mike Flood told Morning Edition he understands it is "cathartic" for constituents to voice their opinions.

Thousands march the streets of Tel Aviv against Netanyahu's new plan Thousands of people took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest Netanyahu’s new Gaza takeover plan, while families of hostages pledged to bring an end to the war in Gaza and secure the return of their loved ones.

Thousands march the streets of Tel Aviv against Netanyahu's new plan

What do we know about the Covid-19 virus five years on? As the virus continues to evolve, experts assess its latest variants, seasonal prevalence and levels of vaccine uptake

Really good points in here:

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Police arrest 474 people at Palestine Action ban protest The Metropolitan Police said the number of arrests was the largest made by the force on a single day in the last decade.

The largest number of arrests in a single day this decade! Wow, that must have really dealt a serious blow to the criminal underworld in London. Dozens of car thieves, street robbers, drug dealers and fraudsters off the streets…

Saying ‘I support a proscribed organisation’ or ‘I support illegal action’ should not, without more, be criminal.

Aiding or abetting or inciting the commission of criminal offences is different.

I don’t see why this is so difficult (for many).

In the modern media environment, the public simply doesn’t trust “we have secret evidence that shows why we have to do this”.

The Home Office needs to convince the public proscription was necessary, or else use measures that don’t criminalise support for the group.

At some stage, someone in the government needs to look at the Palestine Action situation in purely pragmatic terms: is proscription specifically achieving any of the goals they wanted it to, or is it proving entirely counterproductive?

Absolutely this 👇

Nothing is settled. Everything is in danger. And I am not being hyperbolic or alarmist at all.

Absolutely right. The entire field of Political Science needs a serious rethink.

Some researchers are just continuing on with business as usual. Not gonna cut it.

Shout out to the colleagues who ask why I bother studying a settled issue like women’s suffrage.

Lots of people — even credentialed political experts! — don’t understand that literally nothing is ever settled, because the opponents of progress never go away & never stop fighting, especially after they’ve recently lost. It’s 1 of many reasons I think much of the field gets US politics all wrong.

This is what every handshake with Putin endorses.

Journal editor hat on.
If I read one more piece with a subheading entitled "methods and data," I will lose it.

Seriously, folks, respect your work enough to provide readers with more specific and informative subheadings at the very least. Not ones that could be in any piece on any fricking topic.

Long-term effects of COVID-19 on endothelial function, arterial stiffness, and blood pressure in college students: a pre-post-controlled study - BMC Infectious Diseases Background The COVID-19 has been shown to have negative effects on the cardiovascular system, but it is unclear how long these effects last in college students. This study aimed to assess the long-ter...

Some University students are having their whole lives upended with long covid. It’s causing arterial stiffness and blood pressure problems. In teenagers. Please don’t keep ignoring this very urgent problem! bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
This needs an urgent Review

Long COVID in Young Children, School-Aged Children, and Teens This JAMA Pediatrics Patient Page describes the symptoms of long COVID in children.

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#SARSCoV2 carries POST infection risks lasting years and yet I only see UKHSA talking about the acute stage. Why? Long Covid has surpassed childhood Asthma, children have suffered lung damage! 🧵https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2834486

BREAKING: A police officer has died after he was shot by a Anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist, who opened fire near the CDC complex and Emory University in Atlanta.

Your stupid conspiracy theories are literally killing people.

Covid protection racket GOVERNMENTS are very good at covering up. so what hope is there of proving that health and care workers died or were seriously harmed by Covid because they weren't given adequate protechon against what was known to be an arbome virus? The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has a duty to prevent workplace death, injury and ill health, with legal enforcement powers against any dangerous practices. In April 2020, it issued guidance to its inspectors confirming that the SARS-CoV-2 virus "transmits when someone breathes in acrosolised droplets from an infectious Person* ",and that people were at risk of airborne infection if "they were within a metre of someone aerosolising the virus (eg through coughing)". To protect health and care staff who would invariably come into close contact with infected patients would require them to wear efficient respirators such as FFP3 or powered respirators. Alas, the UK didn't have nearly enough. The optons were for the govemment to be honest about the lack of protective equipment, giving staft the choice to devise or seek alternative protection. Or to downgrade the threat of the virus, pretend it wasn't airborne and pretend that simple surgical masks with gaping side holes provided adequate protection in most health and care settings The government chose the latter. Not only did the UK suffer one of the highest rates of death among health and care workers, but also inadequately protected and infected workers passed the virus to patients. More than 14,000 patients died of Covid-19 that they acquired in hospital. This could be another hugely expensive scandal the government is keen to avoid The decision to downgrade respiratory protection during the pandemic lies squarely with the Department of Health and Social Care, Public Health England and NHS England. But the HSE should have objected. Instead, it helped prepare an FAQ document for staff reassuring them they would be safe, However, HSE knew that surgical masks a…

I can’t keep posting this enough. Bravo @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Just watched (on Israel’s Kan TV News) a general in the Israeli reserves bitterly denounce the Netanyahu govt.’s horrifically insane decision to try and “conquer” Gaza City or the entire Gaza Strip or whatever it is they think they’re doing. 1/2

We are on a bullet train to the end of US science, and possibly the country as a whole, when political appointees are reviewing every scientific grant submitted to NIH to determine if The Regime finds the science acceptable.

I don't think AC really has the hang of this social media thing.

Foreign correspondents > “Broke Britain’s on the edge of financial disaster, Labour’s out of its depth — and people are angry. I’m scared for what’s to come.” — Andrew Neill, Daily Mail, 22 July. Brillo lives largely in the South of France > “Migrant hotels are radicalising Middle England.” — Guy Dampier, Daily Telegraph, 22 July. Dampier lives in Germany > “Small boats and sky-high legal immigration will continue to wreak demographic havoc. This change is permanent. Millions of immigrants from clashing traditions will bring only more of their friends and families. None of these people are going home.” — Lionel Shriver, Times, 24 July. As Shriver explained in her column, she recently moved to Portugal, having previously migrated to the UK from America > “Epping proves the police are the paramilitary wing of the left.” — Richard Littlejohn, Daily Mail, 25 July. Littlejohn lives in Florida for much of the year > “All the online censorship & superinjunctions can’t keep the English down. Regime change.” — Former MP and Telegraph columnist Douglas Carswell commenting on footage of asylum hotel protests, X, 3 August. Carswell lives in Mississippi > “Unless our leaders get a grip — and fast — exasperated communities will turn vigilante. Then things could get really ugly.” — Isabel Oakeshott, Daily Telegraph, 4 August. Oakeshott moved to the UAE in January for tax reasons

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Many of the columnists seemingly egging on English rioters don't even live in the UK. Private Eye again

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