As I have seen others say, he was a tremendously kind man who was very supportive and encouraging of those he taught and/or supervised.

Here’s the link to the full @royalsociety.org report on UK researcher visa costs compared to other countries
royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

If any Labour MPs are reading (go on, you know you want to), as someone trying to hire six new Oxford professors in AI / experiments / big data / all the stuff you say you want, I would really appreciate knowing if new hires can, you know, stay in the country they move to... current policy is chaos

All of which is to say, this has costs, for us in HE sure, but also for business, medicine, finance, tech, arts and entertainment, pharmaceuticals. The industries that this country is a world leader in. And if you cannot fathom why this uncertainty is a problem then you are not fit to govern.

The final release before they discontinued expansions improved it a lot.

A song that brings Wolf Alice's excellent new album "The Clearing", to a satisfying conlcusion.

open.spotify.com/track/6APpl5...

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The openstax textbooks are pretty great if you weren't already aware of them: openstax.org/details/book...

ditto “1066 and all that”, possibly “diary of a nobody” though I haven’t reread the latter in ages.

Saki’s short stories are also still funny I’d say, at least in my memory of them.

University lecturers striking could affect a lot of businesses and organisations that need to hire properly qualified employees, since degrees/qualifications can be delayed in getting awarded to the students. It's just not as direct and immediately apparent.

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