Prof Mark Priestley

Zelensky shares new update on liberated Ukrainian territory, says Kyiv 'more positive' than at end of 2025 Ukrainian forces have liberated up to 435 kilometers of Russian-occupied territory in the country's south, thwarting Moscow's efforts to mount a southern offensive, President Volodymyr Zelensky claime...

Ukrainian forces have liberated up to 435 kilometers of Russian-occupied territory in the country's south, thwarting Moscow's efforts to mount a southern offensive, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on March 8.

kyivindependent.com/zelensky-sha...

‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein’s chief enabler. Maxwell’s conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The coldest 'stars' in the galaxy might actually be alien megastructures Ever since physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the concept in 1960, the "Dyson sphere" has been the holy grail of techno-signature hunters. A highly advanced civilization could build a "sphere" (or...

The coldest 'stars' in the galaxy might actually be alien megastructures - #Astronomy - phys.org/news/2026-03...

Silfen The Silfen are an alien species that inhabit many worlds within the galaxy. The Silfen are bipeds and are slightly taller than humans. Their heads are proportionally larger than humans with a flat fac...

Well they must be better than a world dominated by a senile narcissist toddler

peterfhamilton.fandom.com/wiki/Silfen

My favourite aliens are the Silfen - mystical elf-like beings who travel mysterious pathways through the galaxy in Peter F Hamilton’s Commonwealth saga

Stormy space weather may be garbling messages from aliens, new research suggests Researchers who listen for signs of non-human life say signals ‘can slip below detection thresholds, even if it’s there’

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict

What a revolting, small minded arsehole he is

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Under a regime that banned them from school, work & public life — a small but fearless group of Afghan women walked into the streets of Kabul today. No protection. No guarantees. Just courage. 🤍
This is what IWD looks like under the world’s only gender apartheid regime. Share this. 🌍​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Happy International Women’s Day!

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

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Criminal megalomaniac leaders are ultimately enabled by disgusting ordinary people

How the right-wing British press became Trump’s trumpet Fleet Street is happy to ignore the real history of transatlantic relations to score points against Keir Starmer

Churchill would have been appalled by a figure like Trump. But some journalists have convinced themselves that Starmer is to blame for this hiccup in the “special relationship” app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72649/...

Chandra telescope spots first alien 'astrosphere' around a sun-like star The first bubble of hot gas seen around another star has been spotted around the "Moth," just 117 light-years away. What it is: HD 61005, a sun-like star nicknamed the "Moth" Where it is: About 117 li...

NASA’s Chandra Telescope took this image of a young (100 million year-old) sun‑like star HD 61005 ~120 light years away showing formation of an early heliosphere and how stellar winds interact with local galactic environments around forming planetary systems.
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He’s not the messiah, he’s a very nasty old man

When I first started out as a journalist I thought it paid to have a background in US history when covering America. Then I thought it would probably be better to be a constitutional lawyer with expertise in jurisprudence. Now I think it would be useful to be a psychiatrist.

Ukraine Defeats Russia’s Winter Bombardment Campaign

Historically it’s pretty much impossible to beat Russia in winter war – but Ukraine just did.
by Stefan Korshak

Article:
www.kyivpost.com/post/71319

So, Johnson, Farage, Badenoch, the Telegraph… howl about the UK being “an irrelevance on the world stage”.
Remind me again who decided to isolate us with a strategically and economically idiotic Brexit, relying on a trade deal with the US to save us from exactly the kind of weakness they now bemoan.

Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin.

How come the leaning tower of Pisa has relocated to Edinburgh 😂

In this response piece, @markrpriestley.bsky.social discusses debates on curricular justice raised across our recent Special Issue exploring whose knowledge counts. Mark reflects on how recognition and representation shape just curricula. Open access article 👇 #CurricularJustice #CurriculumStudies

The men who want their wives to obey them are exactly the men who should never be obeyed.

Or married.

Snickers, get off the cat!

Cat? What cat?

Iceland locks in on date for EU referendum | Euractiv As a member of the European Economic Area, Iceland is already aligned with much of the bloc's legislation

Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.

A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Mike Johnson always seems to be a bit of a ‘limited operation’

There are a few horse hills around Scotland. No horses on this one though, but a thriving population of feral goats.

Ben Each and Stuc a Chroin today - magnificent snowscapes and blue skies

Worth reading, especially if you like to venture into the mountains in winter