Jon Wheatley

I went in that shop for the first time in years yesterday. It’s both completely different and exactly the same.

At #HEM25 listening to Lizzie Burrows @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social paint a picture of the challenging landscape of UKHE

This is excellent

First, we need to turn around the crisis in our universities. British universities are one of our biggest economic strengths, as a major export industry, as a source of innovation and ideas, and as anchor institutions that play a crucial role in our cities. Finding a sustainable funding model and taking in far more overseas students are both essential. The UK simply cannot pretend it is striving for economic growth until it does this.

I'll run through the main immediate / obvious things the UK govt needs to do in service of this:

1. Fix the crisis in our universities.

Something we're good at? Check
Huge exporter? Check
Important anchor for most of our cities? Check

The universities problem cannot go unchecked.

Upset by the lack of hum

Well this is bloody rubbish. Feeling for Tom and all the other authors wondering if they can pay the bills.

That brand does a great preserved mustard greens too but I’ve only ever seen it once in my local shop…

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Time to get the Dark is Rising off the bookshelf again

It’s great seeing people I actually follow on here but it’s strange how x conditions you to infinite scroll. I’m not being fed random content and I’ve forgotten how to interact

Cutting open pockets?

Late night in Chinatown

Coming to the end of a relaxing view days in Perth. I hear it’s snowing in the uk. This is deeply troubling.

A bottle of beer on the beach in freemantle

Out of office

Adventure time

Got a student recruitment trip on the other side of the world tomorrow. Cue 18 hours on a plane. Excited and apprehensive.

Those Marvel films are long… that’s like 15 hours of screen time.

Oh look. I can see the posts of people I actually follow. This is novel.

Twitter continues to burn. Will this be the next big thing? Or one of the others. Either way, I'm here now.

Might try and spend a bit more time here...

Sorted. Thanks @sharonodea.com