Various meetings and tasks (including picking up a new laptop) before hand - but very much looking forward to attending our Student Learning Assistant Awards (and giving out two of the awards myself) and joining our SLAs in celebrating the value and impact of their work.

Telegraph journalist Sophia Money-Coutts, of the Coutts dynasty, says young people have it too good.

Paul Nowak isn't having it.

I just hope Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe are having a wonderful day with their successful careers and their millions of pounds being unproblematic and carefree

We have actual empirical data. They just don't like what it says - that most trans people are happy with transition, that trans people are slightly happier when they're allowed to transition earlier, and that this is life saving for some people.

The cass review is pissy because there are no double blinded studies on puberty blockers or hrt?

Have they heard of this thing called 'medical ethics'?
Yeah no the reason they didn't do that is because that'd be horrendously unethical.

Raises questions about research integrity

In case you weren’t aware - the mayoral election is now first past the post. You only get one choice so make sure you #VoteLabour and keep the Tories out!

Those of us who worked in Sure Start could see the difference it was making. Part of the success was highly qualified and experienced professionals working together for the benefit of children and families. This is not the same as ‘free childcare places’. Nottingham Trent University Institute of Education Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network #ECSDN

'Hands up if your mates closed Sure Start centres because they hated the idea that kids from poor backgrounds might get a fairer start in life and be lifted out of poverty'

The deliberate and cynical destruction of Sure Start stands out - against stiff competition - as one of the worst long-term policy decisions taken by a British government in recent decades.

The Telegraph has said it will once again correct its false claims about the National Trust’s governance, mentioned by Stewart Lee. But the Daily Mail’s recipe claims travelled halfway round the world before the scones could get their pastry boots on. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Doctoral studentship: Growing up Queer, 1790-1918; Very excited about this project. Student will work with Matt Cook, me, & the wonderful Museum of Home & be nurtured by Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood & WGIQ at Oxford CGIS.history.ox.ac.uk/ahrc-cdp-stude…

haaa, this is lovely

Gosh, this sounds terrible.

Imagine losing 70% of your customers overnight…….

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Or do we think someone might be being slightly economical with the truth?

Let’s dig in!

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This looks fabulous!

We can, and should, argue about whether this burden should fall on students but you would be hard pressed to make the case that this is sustainable 😐

A brilliant & important thread from John Warner. A blank page is not “a problem to be solved.” h/t Jane Rosenzweig

👀 Society of Authors The Authors Guild Human Artistry Campaign T.J. Stiles

UK universities are one of the biggest drivers of economic growth. Their excellence on a global scale makes them a powerhouse in terms of bringing in overseas students (and money) to the country. To let them collapse through negligence of home students would be shameful.

Hang on... everyone's getting annoyed at the England kit having gone woke or whatever, but the colours on the St George's Cross having nothing to do with 'woke' issues whatsoever???

God, our political and media class are fucking embarrassing.