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Basically, they could only find one person (and Dominic Cummings) who thought it was a good idea to follow this think tank's way of scrapping REF.

Just up on ResearchProfessionalNews: The UK Day One proposal to scrap the REF and base core funding on external income is regressive—"entrenching the status quo and making the sector far more homogeneous", warns Rachel Persad GuildHE researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-vie…

US dialysis patients are really in life-threatening trouble thanks to the hurricane. Baxter, the company that handles crucial dialysis supplies, has a huge supply problem as they were hit by the storm in N Carolina. These patients only have days to live w/out these supplies.

Northern Lights!

vx-underground Well, we've kind of gotten out of the "here is all our internal stuff" business, as the advantages of being completely transparent and open are diminishing in the modern world. But here's a shot of a set of modern petaboxes:

"Fix the welfare state; fix palliative care; define terminal conditions and treatment paths better and come back then. There’s so much that we need to do better and right before we can even start to have this discussion" On the UK's assisted dying bill. eve.gd/2024/10/14/my-…

Contacted my new Labour MP (who has been encouraging contact) just under two months ago. No reply whatsoever. One step down from the unhelpful replies I would at least receive from the previous Conservative.

Yeah. Not good. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"Charging a fee – no matter how nominal – feeds into an individualised and commodified perception of a good that ultimately benefits society as a whole". theguardian.com/education/2024…

Just read this article and now have a severe headache from repeatedly slamming my head against my desk.

Someone asked for my ranking of all the Disney songs in a single image so here ya go! A few months later, and I still stand by my top 20 and bottom 10

Percival Everett and Samantha Harvey favourites to win 2024 Booker prize theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

I have begun my much longer but overnight dialysis sessions. It's having great results. I feel better and my kidney function is equivalent to 38% afterwards, which is fantastic - almost transplant equivalent.

A pretty stunning special issue from /19/ on the London Mechanics' Institute, or, Birkbeck College. Features pieces from Jacqueline Rose, Isobel Armstrong, Esther Leslie, Laurel Brake, and many others 19.bbk.ac.uk/issue/1289/inf…

Worth remembering: Rachel Reeves and her husband have a gross income of circa £400k a year. I voted Green in the last general election. Couldn’t be happier with my decision.

A book about the life of a woman - Rachel Speght - who dared, in 1617, to publish a polemic in defence of women, under her own name.