This is an important read for anyone trying to understand the HE sector in the UK. As one of the staff persuaded into voluntary redundancy this year I was saddened to leave. But I am beginning to feel as if I escaped in a lifeboat from a burning ship loaded with gunpowder.
Hugh Pumphrey
Thanks to @fdmadsen.bsky.social for restarting the gravity meter with little delay. It is taking its time to settle down, but just about detected this afternoon's quake from Cuba. (I heard about this one on the radio: #BBC5Live 's world cup team felt it from Florida.)
It is news like this that makes me glad that I accepted enhanced voluntary death a few months ago.
Very much this. (As I have said before: bsky.app/profile/hugh... )
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Conjunction of Venus (top right) and Jupiter, bracketing the town hall spire.
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What's it actually feel like to live through the decline and fall of mass Higher Education in Britain? Today I've written about this from the inside here... Hope you like it, and hope you find it useful.
isrf.org/blog/what-do...
This morning's quake in the Philippines detected in Edinburgh on both the gravity meter and the @raspishake.bsky.social. On the Raspishake it is mostly visible in the lowest frequency bin of the spectrogram. On the gravity meter the signal has stuck the instrument against its endstop.
We are into that time of year when it doesn't really get dark at night. And I think that pale wisp of cloud is my first noctilucent cloud sighting of the summer.
This morning's quake in the Philippines detected in Edinburgh on both the gravity meter and the @raspishake.bsky.social. On the Raspishake it is mostly visible in the lowest frequency bin of the spectrogram. On the gravity meter the signal has stuck the instrument against its endstop.
Hugh Pumphrey
Now, #Fungi seem a popular subject here on Bluesky, so here are some that I spotted in the woods surrounding super-spooky Yester Castle.
Every staff update in every university right now:
1. We are excited to announce a strategic investment of eleventeen squillion pounds in ACRONYM, a new AI-powered centre for the development of strategic acronyms.
2. Staff have until Friday to apply for enhanced Voluntary Death.
Readers in the UK might want to sign this one. Especially if they are annoyed by they way that Ol' Frogface is getting paid to be an MP and (mostly) not doing the job.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
