Jan McArthur

Red Admiral butterfly on my shoulder.

Latest in the Red Admiral series: Red Admiral on shoulder.

Prominent UK women tell rightwingers: stop linking immigration to sexual abuse Exclusive: Open letter says politicians are exploiting violence against women ‘to fuel hate and division’

“We reject the far right’s racist lies about ‘protecting’ women and girls. They are not defenders of women – they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division,”

AMEN

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

I should think not!

Five steps towards writing in fragments The myth of ideal academic writing time persists. We all long to be in a quiet office, surrounded by books, with hours of uninterrupted time to craft elegant arguments. But the reality is very diff…

Use little windows of time to progress your academic writing patthomson.net/2025/08/30/f...

ZMT total social media mentions for all research ever published are higher on Bluesky than Twitter in 2025

We are starting to see higher total cumulative annual mentions for entire organisations on Bluesky than on Twitter.

Below are mentions of all research ever published by @leibniz-zmt.de. Bluesky is higher than Twitter in 2025.

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

New butterfly in our garden.

Red Admiral on ragwort - a much misunderstood wildflower I have learned.

Red admiral butterfly on spearmint.

Red Admiral on spearmint.

Sweet peas from the garden.

Red Admiral on rose Hyde Hall.

I'm going to be in Melbourne for the footy finals. I imagine my friends in CRADLE, Deakin are so pleased to have a Collingwood supporter with them during the finals. ..
Promise I will be on my best-ish behaviour ;-)

Next in the Red Admiral series: Red Admiral on Echinops.

Congratulations!

Red Admiral sitting on The Lark Ascending.

@rafaelmitchell.bsky.social

Storm on the way. So time to get the roses in.

Jeff Bezos is worth $230 billion and is reportedly spending $20 million on a three-day wedding in Venice while sailing around on his $500 million yacht. If he can afford to do that, he can afford a wealth tax and to pay Amazon workers a living wage. Hello?

Antoinette Lattouf: Court finds journalist unfairly fired over Gaza post The judge found the ABC did not give Antoinette Lattouf a chance to defend herself before she was fired

Australian journalist wins unfair dismissal case over Gaza post

Good to see this - too often, corporations are restricting rights to free speech in the grounds of corporate reputation

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

This is so sad. What on earth has English higher education done to itself?

UK higher ed has External Examiners, thousands of qualified people who provide their labour, *almost unremunerated* to check the actual quality of actual teaching & assessment, every year.

In the "national debate on quality assurance", they might as well not exist.

wonkhe.com/blogs/qualit...

Powerful panel discussion on trauma-informed pedagogies at @yorkstjohn.bsky.social teaching and learning conference today.

Monday Giggle!

Enormous roses here at York St John University.

Lovely to be in York again. Looking forward to the York St John University teaching and learning conference tomorrow. They are a university with a particularly strong commitment to social justice.

Take note.

Same here!

It is such a lovely rose. I never thought I would like this colour, but it is sublime.

Is that The Lark Ascending?

Dr Kath Ward from @edreslancaster.bsky.social speaking about her feedback research at #aheconference2025