Barbara Jennings

Latest substack on Iran by @snellarthur.bsky.social is a must read

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This cartoon from @derspiegel shows the world as seen by Trump. It's a new take on an old cartoon premise. I live on the Idiots island. Source: buff.ly/hvd2Bys

"I really want to encourage more people from backgrounds like mine to get into a system that has always shut us out."

Hannah Spencer MP: plumber, plasterer, parliamentarian

INTRODUCING! Hannah Spencer The new Green MP for GORTON & DENTON Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Student loan scandal

If it was kept at the same amount you borrowed, in real terms, that would make sense. But the fact they’re using RPI, which is something they refuse to use for pay rises, and then adding 3% on top of that, that’s just incredible

www.thetimes.com/money/family...

Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) remains underdiagnosed, despite being a common cause of premature coronary artery disease.
📢 This study shows that genetic cascade testing can be delivered effectively in primary care ⬇️

🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Well there's a graph for you.

Freelance Work Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…

A reminder that I do freelance work: transcription, archival visits and more. My rates are here (subject to surcharges or discounts):

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A1 One of the best things I have done is a pre course "survey" asking students to share a bit and their challenges. I model it by posting a video about me. Great connections which I try to continue by remembering bits about them. Showing you are interested about what's going on for them.
#lthechat

Happy Pancake Day! 🥞

There are lots of great places to enjoy pancakes across Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket - including Petite Pancakes, just opposite the constituency office!

Floral patterns embroidery with orange blossoms and green-blue feathered leaves on a light brown background

Embroidery design by May Morris (1862-1938) influential English artisan, embroidery designer, jeweller, socialist, and editor #WomensArt

Student debt is a generational injustice. Why are we squeezing graduates harder than the super-rich? | Gaby Hinsliff Reform of this stealth tax is long overdue – and with it, a shake-up of the whole university system, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Student debt is a generational injustice. Why are we squeezing graduates harder than the super-rich? | Gaby Hinsliff

WE HAVE A DIAGNOSIS FOR PETER Many year-end reflections from executives include metrics, milestones, lessons learned, and gratitude for teams. This one is different.

This is a really impactful blog from Gregory Moore on his adult son with a very rare genetic condition, the impact of the diagnostic odyssey and the diagnosis itself, and the power of #genomics and Dr Seuss.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-hav...

Do not stop talking about Palestine.

#stopgenocide

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
— James A. Baldwin

Colonisation
/ˌkɒlənʌɪˈzeɪʃn/
NOUN

The act of moving to a country, changing your name to one more easily pronounced by existing citizens, introducing food so good it's adopted as national cuisine and sustaining the health and transport infrastructure of the nation

Associate Tutor Roles University of East Anglia

Cesar Orsini - Course Director for the innovative online Masters in Clinical Education & Leadership programme @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social is appointing to his team www.uea.ac.uk/about/workin...

Some exciting openings in Exeter for clinical academics (professor and senior lecturer). Come and shape the future of translational genomic medical research in the South West! Lovely place to work, lovely people to work with, and freedom to pursue great science... www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

£99,987 and counting: graduates trapped by ballooning student loans As their debts rise, graduates reveal how loans are reshaping careers, finances and faith in the system

£99987 and counting: graduates trapped by student loans.

Govt froze repayment threshold. By 2030, be at minimum wage.

At the margin grads pay 20% inc tax + 8%NIC +9% repayment. Insane.

Loan increases, if not repaid.

Grads can't buy home, start family/business.

Abolish Uni fees. Write-off debt.

First Past the Post leaves most of us without voice in parliament We live in a country where each constituency has a single MP. Yet for most people this means the MP who “represents” them in parliament doesn’t share their politics, didn’t win a

First Past the Post leaves most of us without voice in parliament

electoral-reform.org.uk/first-past-t...

This testimony is from someone waiting with their mum in hospital 💔

Listen to their story - this is the reality of corridor care.

The Government's first response wasn't good enough, so we're sending a SECOND letter.

🚨We're not going away 👉 everydoctor.eaction.org.uk/ministers-mu...

“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?”
Oli Dugmore

It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end

Young people deserve affordable ways to get to college, work and training, in both rural & urban areas.

Free bus travel for under-22s removes cost as a barrier and helps tackle isolation.

The Wildebeest Norwich Relaxed Fine Dining Restaurant 3 AA Rosette Restaurant close to central Norwich in the South Norfolk village of Stoke Holy Cross. Chef Patron Daniel Smith takes great pride in his kitchen serving the freshest ingredients, bringing ...

In Norwich? -you could wander along St Benedicts Street for options like Haggle or the Bicycle Shop. Out of town this is always fab www.thewildebeest.co.uk

Great night. Thank you 😊

“I do not think this is a moral thing for you to do...”

Martin Lewis shares his message to Chancellor Rachel Reeves on her decision to freeze the threshold at which graduates begin to repay their student loans.

#Newsnight

On this basis we would stop paying for free school meals for children and free bus passes for pensioners.

I don’t use it/don’t benefit is literally the direct opposite reason why we have taxation to fund pubic goods.

Education is a public good. Fund it!

British Library placements for doctoral students at UK universities: www.bl.uk/services/res...

Good opportunity to spend focused months at the BL. One of these is 'Describing the British Library’s Illustrated and Illuminated Incunabula'!

Deadline's 27 February.

The Open University is for people who want to learn.
AI is for people who don't even want to think.

Happy Burns Night. Scottish Greens.

Happy Burns Night 💚