Clifford Stott

History repeats.

🤣 People ripping down the covering over Banksy's art.

Lets stop being ridiculous, let the world see its beauty.

Black and white photo of Marjorie Lee Browne. She is wearing a dark blouse with a shirt strand of pearls. Her hair is shoulder length, and it appears she is wearing matching pearl earrings.

Mathematician Marjorie Lee Browne, whose work focused on linear algebra, topology, and the properties of classical groups, was born #OTD in 1914.

She was one of the first Black women to earn a PhD in mathematics from a US university – the University of Michigan.👩‍🔬 🧪 🧮

Another classic piece of timely political commentary from Banksy.

Exactly, the boats are a direct product of Breshit and should be the primary basis of the discussion and attack on Reform’s analysis.

Reefer madness! A lesson from history

Early morning start, so time for a relaxing read in Tavistock Square London before the work today begins

The crowd management failure at 2022 champions league final: inter-organisational analysis of a collective powerlessness

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hello from downtown LA, where the helicopters are circling and sayimg they got the protesters surrounded. Flash bang echoes. They're pushing protesters back

There won't be a lot of pictures today for reasons I assume are obvious

Let's do this

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New pre-print - the first empirical study of the 2024 summer riots, case studies of Bristol, Stoke, & Tamworth detailing the sequence of events, who was involved, and targets

Funded by @ukri.org

www.qeios.com/read/17ASAP

Salt Lake City and Boise Adopt Official Pride Flags in Response to State Laws

Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, adopted official Pride flags on Tuesday in response to state laws barring the display of any nonofficial flags at schools and government buildings.

Who Is the Wisconsin Judge Arrested in Immigration Dispute?

Judge Hannah Dugan, the Wisconsin judge who was arrested on Friday morning on charges of obstructing immigration enforcement, spent most of her legal career working on behalf of low-income people and marginalized groups. Here's what to know.

Atmospheric CO2 has passed 430 parts per million.

The last time atmospheric CO2 was at 430 ppm was during the ancient Pliocene Era, three to five million years ago, and humans didn’t exist.

The role of misperceptions of others' beliefs.

Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull until 2015, book reveals Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks

Whilst the identity of the person whose skull it was remains unknown, it is thought to be a female slave & was donated in 1946 by a eugenicist and supporter of fascism interned during WW2. FFS🤦‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Huge consequences for human rights, for activism and protests.

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic Kemi Badenoch to force vote in Parliament to disapply the Human Rights Act in immigration cases

Tories to force vote to disapply Human Rights Act in immigration cases

Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights- just privileges that can be taken away by people in power when they want
youtu.be/yhXzz_alkSk?...

Liverpool v PSG
Rope a Dope

Unbelievable #LFC

EPISODE ALERT: #80 with Cliff Stott, a distinguished social psychologist specializing in crowd behavior, group identity, and public order policing. Time to debunk some old-fashioned myths about crowds.

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USAID Head Peter Marocco Promoting Christian Nationalist Agenda Favored by Hungary Trump appointee to the State Department Peter Marocco, who is in charge of dismantling USAID, has met with a number of Christian Nationalist groups abroad, including those with ties to the anti-democr...

USAID head Peter Marocco is promoting a Christian Nationalist agenda, working with Hungary’s Viktor Orbán to prioritize aid for persecuted Christians while sidelining other religious groups & dismantling democracy programs.—signaling a shift to prioritize religious nationalism over global equality.

Testimony on the NYPD Criminal Group Database Testimony on the NYPD Criminal Group Database Public Safety Committee New York City Council February 24, 2025 Alex S. Vitale Ph. D. Policing and Social Justice Project, Brooklyn College avitale@bro...

Here is my testimony for today's NYC Public Safety Committee hearing on abolishing the NYPD Gang Database in support of @gangscoalition.bsky.social.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Let them eat fruit: Manchester United close staff canteen in latest cost-cutting Sir Jim Ratcliffe is to close the staff canteen at Old Trafford and replace the free lunches currently on offer with fruit

Let them eat cake… www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Another masterclass from our beloved Reds 🔥

The Road to Glory Continues 🏆

Awesome #LFC

Russia needs a ceasefire to prepare for a new invasion, - Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service Oleh Ivashchenko

The Foreign Intelligence Service is aware of Russia's plans for 2030.
Russia's economy is weak, and it needs a respite from the war to restore its economy and replenish its reserves.

Majority of universities now have only four options:
1. Specialise, shrink, give yourself a skinnier USP;
2. Federate, group together with regional partners;
3. Merge, as a uni with less-bad finances absorbs one or two others;
4. Go for training, become an FE and apprenticeship hub.