Airbus Beluga XL. Big big cargo plane for carrying large items.
I’m sure there’s a joke there about carry on bags, but it’s not coming to me right now
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
Tens of thousands of homes in the New York City area could be lost to floods over the next 15 years, a new report warns.
This Friday April 11th sees the release of Corpus/Mimesis on cassette through @fiadh.bsky.social and also digital formats
The compositions were produced in collaboration with Jean-Luc Nancy, AMAE and Pier Giorgio De Pinto to explore Nancy’s 58 Indices on the Body. More to come.
Seattle understands what's at stake here
Live D&D at the International Literary Festival in Dublin. Featuring me! Really looking forward to it! ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...
Morgan Stanley planning for a 3°C world is an astonishing admission. It's a commitment to business as usual while writing off billions of lives and, in all likelihood, dozens of nation states.
According to the publication, the letter said that Trump’s executive order applied to companies outside the US if they were a supplier or service provider to the American government.
Financial Times: the Trump administration has sent a letter to some large companies in the EU warning them to comply with an executive order banning diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
The call for submissions to the IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds at L'Aquila, Italy closes July 1st for Papers, Performances and Tutorials.
If your work bridges Sound and Music Computing with the Internet of Things do consider a submission:
internetofsounds2025.ieee-is2.org
This is freakishly wrong. Extortion, corruption, submission. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.
For those who don’t know, “Big Berks” is the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians; yet another case of erasing groups under the current US regime
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration.
FBI ordered Citibank to freeze the group bank's accounts.
newrepublic.com/post/192660/...
Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
As a senior digital person in Higher Education, the thing i have to drill into everyone is that young people lie constantly on surveys.
Surveys are a game to be won, by saying the thing they think the old people want them to say.
They're not even conscious they're doing it. /1
Ladies, be your own Valentine. Buy yourself chocolates. Order yourself flowers. Bring yourself the head of your own enemy after seven years of bloody warfare to prove yourself worthy of your affection. It's called self-care.
Ongoing thread about the DOGE Bros, who turn out to not just be bad, but seemingly every possible kind of bad
The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.
these aren’t the actions of people who are strong
these are the actions of weak losers
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Family (most of, Xander was playing Munchkin) at Warpcon 35
I guess it turns out that US leadership culture is nothing more than three insipid clichés in a trench coat.
Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
‼️Job alert‼️
Curator of archaeology at Manchester Museum. Great collection and wonderful team.
Details here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
