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The Men's Shed movement has been instrumental in improving men's health and wellbeing.
On International Men's Day we look back at the success of the Essex Shed Network.
On International Men's Day we look back at the success of the Essex Shed Network.
How the shed movement has helped improve men’s health and wellbeing
The Essex Shed Network now has at least 30 sheds. We take a look at how the movement started and what it aims to do for older men.
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The Men's Shed movement has been instrumental in improving men's health and wellbeing.
On International Men's Day we look back at the success of the Essex Shed Network.
On International Men's Day we look back at the success of the Essex Shed Network.
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enjoyable little video on how wool gets graded and sorted
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
enjoyable little video on how wool gets graded and sorted
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
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Tues 25.11 at 9am then @BBCSounds In the first of four 2025 #BBC #ReithLectures, recorded in London, the Dutch historian #RutgerBregman asks what can be done to counter the moral decay of today's un-serious elites.
BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution, 1. A Time of Monsters
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman delivers his first BBC Reith Lecture: Moral Revolution.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Tues 25.11 at 9am then @BBCSounds In the first of four 2025 #BBC #ReithLectures, recorded in London, the Dutch historian #RutgerBregman asks what can be done to counter the moral decay of today's un-serious elites.
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Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
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Donald Trump destroyed public service broadcasting in the US - it's little surprise Nigel Farage wants to do the same thing here.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Donald Trump destroyed public service broadcasting in the US - it's little surprise Nigel Farage wants to do the same thing here.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
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Very cool post, thanks for finding our initial paper on this issue interesting. Turns out we had another one just out, where we extend the idea of critical ignoring and relate it to the detrimental consequences of information overload: doi.org/10.1016/j.co... 1/n
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Very cool post, thanks for finding our initial paper on this issue interesting. Turns out we had another one just out, where we extend the idea of critical ignoring and relate it to the detrimental consequences of information overload: doi.org/10.1016/j.co... 1/n
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yes. this is the reason. the reason is not "it is always right". the reason is "it will always be better to have the BBC than to be relying on Musk, Truss and X for news".
November 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
yes. this is the reason. the reason is not "it is always right". the reason is "it will always be better to have the BBC than to be relying on Musk, Truss and X for news".
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English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books.
Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich.
Social vandalism.
Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich.
Social vandalism.
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books.
Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich.
Social vandalism.
Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich.
Social vandalism.
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Indian vultures help keep rabies down as they hunt wild dogs. Giant sequoias store CO2. Tokay geckos have inspired waterproof adhesive bandages.
Plants and animals help humans in surprising ways. See how:
Plants and animals help humans in surprising ways. See how:
50 species that save us
Explore the ways animals and plants protect human health and what’s at stake when species are endangered.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Indian vultures help keep rabies down as they hunt wild dogs. Giant sequoias store CO2. Tokay geckos have inspired waterproof adhesive bandages.
Plants and animals help humans in surprising ways. See how:
Plants and animals help humans in surprising ways. See how:
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Stasis, sanctimony and the liberal paradox. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog with such Brexit news as there is, but mainly analysis of what 'responsible Farage' tells us about the tensions in Reform and what the BBC row tells us about Brexitism: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/stas...
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Stasis, sanctimony and the liberal paradox. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog with such Brexit news as there is, but mainly analysis of what 'responsible Farage' tells us about the tensions in Reform and what the BBC row tells us about Brexitism: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/stas...
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Job opportunity! There's still time to apply for a Research Associate position on the project “Money, History, and Moral Economies: Communicative Functions of Monetary Information in the Institutional Historiography of the Later Middle Ages (1250–1530)” funded by the German Research Foundation!
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November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Job opportunity! There's still time to apply for a Research Associate position on the project “Money, History, and Moral Economies: Communicative Functions of Monetary Information in the Institutional Historiography of the Later Middle Ages (1250–1530)” funded by the German Research Foundation!
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We are recruiting five Postdoctoral Research Fellows and one Research Partnership Manager for the University of Stirling FORTH2O project
paulcairney.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/w...
paulcairney.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/w...
We are recruiting five Postdoctoral Research Fellows and one Research Partnership Manager for the University of Stirling FORTH2O project
These posts will help to deliver key tasks for the FORTH2O Policy Innovation Partnership at the University of Stirling. For a thorough description of the project and its progress, please see: A ren…
paulcairney.wordpress.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
We are recruiting five Postdoctoral Research Fellows and one Research Partnership Manager for the University of Stirling FORTH2O project
paulcairney.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/w...
paulcairney.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/w...
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who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
October 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
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New environmental psychology jobs: 1 full professor, 2 postdocs:
Lüneburg, Germany is hiring a Full Professor in “Psychology, in particular Behavior Change and Sustainability Transformation”. www.leuphana.de/en/universit...
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Lüneburg, Germany is hiring a Full Professor in “Psychology, in particular Behavior Change and Sustainability Transformation”. www.leuphana.de/en/universit...
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Full Professorship “Psychology, in particular Behavior Change and Sustainability Transformation” (W2/W3)
THE SCHOOL OF SUSTAINABILITY AT LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY LÜNEBURG INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING FULL PROFESSORSHIP:
www.leuphana.de
October 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
New environmental psychology jobs: 1 full professor, 2 postdocs:
Lüneburg, Germany is hiring a Full Professor in “Psychology, in particular Behavior Change and Sustainability Transformation”. www.leuphana.de/en/universit...
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Lüneburg, Germany is hiring a Full Professor in “Psychology, in particular Behavior Change and Sustainability Transformation”. www.leuphana.de/en/universit...
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🚨 New LSE job in political science 🚨
We're looking for a *Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy* to join the LSE School of Public Policy
Please share!
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
We're looking for a *Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy* to join the LSE School of Public Policy
Please share!
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy,
,
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></...
jobs.lse.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🚨 New LSE job in political science 🚨
We're looking for a *Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy* to join the LSE School of Public Policy
Please share!
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
We're looking for a *Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy* to join the LSE School of Public Policy
Please share!
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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The AI trump shitting on Americans video is a demonstration of how the functional role of synthetic images isn’t deepfakes, it’s low-cost affective propaganda. Also notably you are the audience and the goal is to get you outraged, to make you feel owned, which you don’t have to participate in.
October 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The AI trump shitting on Americans video is a demonstration of how the functional role of synthetic images isn’t deepfakes, it’s low-cost affective propaganda. Also notably you are the audience and the goal is to get you outraged, to make you feel owned, which you don’t have to participate in.
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Trump and Musk share a commonality of somehow being both quite clever and extremely dumb which I (and others) have found confusing.
I have a model that has been working.
I think they’re both clever guys with extremely narrow worldviews.
I have a model that has been working.
I think they’re both clever guys with extremely narrow worldviews.
October 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Trump and Musk share a commonality of somehow being both quite clever and extremely dumb which I (and others) have found confusing.
I have a model that has been working.
I think they’re both clever guys with extremely narrow worldviews.
I have a model that has been working.
I think they’re both clever guys with extremely narrow worldviews.
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Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts experiment has given creatives a weekly payment for three years. Now, a permanent program could be on the way.
Ireland plans to make a $1,500 a month basic income for artists permanent
Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts experiment has given creatives a weekly payment for three years. Now, a permanent program could be on the way.
www.businessinsider.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts experiment has given creatives a weekly payment for three years. Now, a permanent program could be on the way.
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Great to visit St Mary’s Primary School in Battersea today - one of the first schools to receive indoor air quality filters as part of my initiative to improve children’s health.
More than 200 schools will be getting indoor air quality filters soon.
More than 200 schools will be getting indoor air quality filters soon.
October 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Great to visit St Mary’s Primary School in Battersea today - one of the first schools to receive indoor air quality filters as part of my initiative to improve children’s health.
More than 200 schools will be getting indoor air quality filters soon.
More than 200 schools will be getting indoor air quality filters soon.
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Wild honeybees have been officially listed as endangered in the EU – the first time their decline has been formally recognised.
Dr Arrigo Moro tells us why their survival matters for biodiversity, agriculture, and food security. ⤵️
Dr Arrigo Moro tells us why their survival matters for biodiversity, agriculture, and food security. ⤵️
Wild honeybees now officially listed as endangered in the EU
The wild cousins of beehive honeybees are disappearing – here’s why that matters
eastangliabylines.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Wild honeybees have been officially listed as endangered in the EU – the first time their decline has been formally recognised.
Dr Arrigo Moro tells us why their survival matters for biodiversity, agriculture, and food security. ⤵️
Dr Arrigo Moro tells us why their survival matters for biodiversity, agriculture, and food security. ⤵️
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Visited my children’s primary school this week and had parents’ evening and once again just left in awe of the teachers. Can’t imagine there are many more important or worthwhile jobs in the world and sign of how wrong we are as a society that these people are not appropriately rewarded financially
October 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Visited my children’s primary school this week and had parents’ evening and once again just left in awe of the teachers. Can’t imagine there are many more important or worthwhile jobs in the world and sign of how wrong we are as a society that these people are not appropriately rewarded financially