TOMORROW NIGHT - new speaker
Felix Warnock, Mary's son, will be joining the panel of expert speakers at the PET event. There is still time to register.
17 April, 5.30-7.30pm (BST)
To learn more and to register go to progress.org.uk/event/warnock/
#marywarnock #ivf #bioethics

🚨🚨 Massive job klaxon 🚨🚨

We are advertising a full-time, open-ended lectureship in the history of modern medicine. Applications are due on 26 April.

Please don't hesitate to get in touch with any questions (details in the job description)
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jobs.ac.uk/job/DGY958/lec…

Kent VC leaving just six weeks after announcing multiple course closures, with no succession plan in place, and acting like this is all normal. This is the leadership for which VCs are claiming hundreds of thousands of pounds in salary, is it? Shameful. kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/new…

Upcoming Wed night PET event marking the 100th birthday of the late #MaryWarnock .
Chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers Ruth Deech, Julia Chain, Prof Anna Mastroianni and Dr Duncan Wilson
Learn more & register at progress.org.uk/event/warnock
#bioethics #embryolaw Anna C. Mastroianni

Baroness Foster falsely accused a Muslim student, Ms Gorgianehon, of antisemitism over an octopus mascot on University Challenge (note: the others weren't accused)

Foster tried to get Gorgianehon expelled from Oxford

She's now been forced to pay *significant compensation*

Good

Very clear explainer of how Policy Exchange's lies and Michelle Donelan MP's gross misconduct led to a disgraceful witch-hunt that left the taxpayer on the hook for damages.

Do read and retweet.

A predictable end to a disgraceful incident. Senior people at UK Research and Innovation should be deeply ashamed at their part in it.

Far from the cliches about Manchester ‘doing things differently’, the city’s rapid takeover by luxury property developers is driving out working-class communities and suffocating local culture. tribunemag.co.uk/2024/03/the-la…

You'll never guess what this extinction-themed (and victim-blaming) advert is trying to sell...

New David Peace proof 😱🔥

Thank you Faber Books. Munichs is out in August.

The great auk watches the latest eruption in Iceland (photo by Harpa Másdóttir). In 1830 the main breeding ground of the species was destroyed by an eruption not far from this one. See my book:
press.princeton.edu/.../9780.../th…
Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s
@extinction

I don't know if the £28bn plan was the right tool. Others know more about that.

But we can't keep treating climate action as a second-order issue: nice to have, but only if the fiscal rules allow.

It has to be the star around which everything else orbits theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

What if we stopped burning fossil fuels?

smh.com.au/world/middle-e…

I'm excited to announce the publication of my new book on extinction. It provides an indepth, personal account of the discovery of extinction and the search for the last great auks. Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s bit.ly/3ueGxnz
Also on Amazon
#extinction
#ornithology
#environmental

Breaking #job news: #Egenis Exeter Socio Philo Anthro Crim is recruiting a Philosophy of Science faculty position (lecturer)! Deadline for applications is 21/02; there will be a social science post appearing soon, too; please help us spread the word and consider applying! jobs.ac.uk/job/DFR195/lec…

It's truly the end times for UK philosophy if top departments like Kent (ranked 5th on GPA in the most recent REF) are being shut down. University of Kent should value its reputation for excellence in this area, it seems to me.