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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 12h

American Fiction is on BBC iPlayer (for the next couple of weeks). Treat yourself!

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 17h

🚨MIT says "NO"!!🚨

They are the first to respond to the "compact" sent to 9 universities last week -- crucially, this sets the tone.

“Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone”

#academicsky

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 17h

Farewell, My Looney. The Ivory Tower at @resprofnews.bsky.social channels Chandler this week. www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/news/uk...

Research Professional Sign-in

www.researchprofessional.com

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 3d

19th In ‘Long Island’, the sequel to ‘Brooklyn’, Colm Toibin picks up his story 20 years later, a story of people caught in webs of secrets spun from their reluctance (inability?) to find words for everything in their hearts. Captivating and tragic, I struggled to put it down. #BooksOf2025

The paperback copy of Long Island lying on its side on a wooden table. In the spine, crinkled by use, you can read the author’s name and the title.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 1d

Carolyn just put this to bed.

Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 1d

My HPLC was definitely overlooked

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery

The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality.

www.nature.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

🧵 In case you are still wondering why so many of us in the academy are still so very angry about That Column

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’

Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.

www.foxnews.com

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 1d

Good. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

French appeal court increases sentence of Gisèle Pelicot rapist

Husamettin Dogan loses appeal after jury at retrial finds him guilty of raping Pelicot while she was sedated

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty impressed with the photo I took with what is effectively a 200mm lens using my phone. But would it have killed him to look at the camera? Tit.

A great tit faces away from the camera on a wire bird feeder full of sunflower seeds. Green leaves in the background.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

'Arm’s-length bodies such as the Office for Students (OfS) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are particularly “vulnerable to political interference”, a new report has warned.' 1/3

‘Learn lessons from US’ and stop political interference, UK told

OfS and UKRI seen as particularly vulnerable to meddling from government, with report authors calling for more safeguards to ensure independence

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 1d

I'm proud to support #HospiceCareWeek, celebrating how hospices do #MoreThanYouThink – delivering care on the wards, in homes, & the community.

With proper funding, they could do even more. Learn more about vital role they play here:
www.hospiceuk.org/our-campaign...

Hospice Care Week

From 6 - 12 October 2025, help us celebrate hospice care across the UK along with our 200+ hospice members. This year's theme is: hospice care is more than you think.

www.hospiceuk.org

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 1d

And not a very nice flavour according to my taste buds!

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 1d

Skips every time

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 1d

If only there was a Nobel War prize, then once Putin and Netanyahu had had their awards, Trump would be a shoo-in for bringing war to the streets of his own country.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 1d

Woke Pope Says Nope To DisInfo Slope

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 1d

Good piece from @himself.bsky.social explaining why is it so important for universities to resist Trump’s invidious ’compact’. open.substack.com/pub/programm...

Would that the @royalsociety.org could see the value of consistent & coordinated action in dealing with challenges to academic norms.

open.substack.com

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 1d

God I hope this sticks. Lucid & richly informed backstory to the latest peace deal from @ldfreedman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/w...

Will there finally be peace in Gaza?

One never goes too far wrong by being pessimistic about events in the Middle East.

open.substack.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 2d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 2d

He was known to them as Huggy Russian Bear

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Cassidy R. Sugimoto @crsugimoto.bsky.social · 2d

Please come join our team! Looking for junior and senior faculty in science, technology, and innovation policy!!

Aaron Levine @aarondlevine.bsky.social · 3d

The Carter School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech invites applications for multiple open-rank tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions with a focus on science, technology and innovation policy.

careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psc/careers/...

#AcademicSky #PolicySky @appam.bsky.social

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 2d

I nearly quit it altogether when I missed a day and the icon changed to a sad owl face.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 2d

@anjahuja.bsky.social captures precisely the dangers lurking in the @royalsociety.org’s mishandling of Musk’s reckless disregard for scientific values. “The Royal Society risks looking like a bystander as reason and rationality come under sustained global assault from populism.”
on.ft.com/46JGQXO

The Royal Society should be protecting science, not Musk

The esteemed club risks becoming a bystander as reason and rationality come under attack

on.ft.com

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 3d

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 3d

19th In ‘Long Island’, the sequel to ‘Brooklyn’, Colm Toibin picks up his story 20 years later, a story of people caught in webs of secrets spun from their reluctance (inability?) to find words for everything in their hearts. Captivating and tragic, I struggled to put it down. #BooksOf2025

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 3d

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 3d

Coming soon to the USA?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Burning down the house: Milei plays rock star as Argentina economy crashes

Facing protests and scandal, Argentina’s ‘rock star president’ performs in Buenos Aires, saying: ‘I’m human’

www.theguardian.com

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