Someone needs to do an analysis of ethnic and cultural divide in academic ranking systems and their outcomes.

Latest Marmot report describes structural racism and links it with inequalities. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

Structural racism leading to stark health inequalities in London, report shows

Exclusive: Review finds poverty and daily racism result in poor mental and physical health for some ethnic groups

Deep. We just submitted a paper on surgery robots and how they show some agency.

Is there a scholarly collective in the UK that lobies for changing university governance rationales from financial good to social good? I would like to join one or create one. It is about time we end over financialisation of science and education in the UK.

Treating unis like centres of commerce has been a disastrous policy choice for UK HE. We need a social model in university education. Using financial rationales over social needs for keeping or letting go of fields of study is barbaric and anti-social. Students are right on multiple fronts.

Is the American media ‘sanewashing’ Donald Trump? On latest Media Confidential @Lionel barber and I talk with Rebecca Solnit bout the routine normalisation of incoherence and lies. mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastAh

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Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber dive into the hugely important world of media. What—and who—drives it? What do they get right... And what do they get wrong? Lionel, former editor of the Financi...

Neuronormativity as ignorant design in human resource management: The case of an unsupportive national context - @CihatErbil @Ozbilgin and @DrNurGundogdu - Human Resource Management Journal - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/oidcC...

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“Let children live!” is now a radical statement of social bravery in Turkey and the USA. Absolutely horrendous.

When presented with evidence, some people still refer to their beliefs that contradict the evidence. Unless they have a methodological or philosophical objection to how evidence is garnered, personal beliefs and feelings are important to note but insufficient for making evidence led decisions.

Please take a moment to mourn the departure of one of the UK's leading cosplayers. Ironically, he's off to be an immigrant.