“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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‘The result is an intriguing experiment in democratised curation, substituting a sense of deliberate polish in the displays for a madcap cabinet-of-curiosities.’ Matthew Kerr visits the renovated Hull Maritime Museum in Yorkshire, and likes the cut of its jib.

If it helps, we’ve had a Lego one for years. Just dismantle and repack into tiny plastic bags each year and you’re good to go. The cardboard box has held up pretty well considering!

2yrs after I finished my MA History at Goldsmiths, my research rights were bought and I was hired to work as historical consultant on this TV show. It's had BAFTA and International Emmy nominations. I got a book deal, too. Goldsmiths: "No point in MA History, let's fire everyone and delete it."

If I were running a university where staff spent weeks and weeks of time putting grant proposals together only for UKRI to feed them into LLMs without informed consent—effectively theft of the time and work—I’d be taking serious action to defend those staff. But I’m not running a university, so

Cannot tell you how much I hate this & how ashamed & angry I am that @ukri.org have taken this step. We KNOW this sort of gAI is socially biased, we KNOW it favours slopAI output over human-written. Our research landscape is falling apart due to underfunding, & they do this? it's *appalling*

I was delighted to be one of three judges for this year's Conversation Prize. Huge congratulations to @emilyrobinson.bsky.social, our unanimous choice as winner for her brilliant work on the vanishing island of Ravenser Odd. Congratulations too to Alison Garden on her powerful writing. Read more:

Thank you so much, Catherine. I’m absolutely delighted by this. And really loved reading @notsecretgarden.bsky.social’s piece; what a brilliant project!

Emily Robinson from the University of Sussex and Alison Garden from Queen’s University Belfast are winner and runner up in The Conversation Prize for writers 2026.

It’s Welcome Week, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and campus smells of freshly-cut, slightly wet grass. Sometimes things are good.

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes: