Mark Stephens

Only the BBC does From Our Own Correspondent. Kate Adie introduces stories from France, Israel, Yemen, Greenland and the US.

People with lived experience are asked to share their stories but are often excluded from policy decisions. We call on all decision makers to move from listening to action & build mental health systems with people who live with mental health conditions, not merely for them. #WorldMentalHealthDay

I think this could make a good Mitchell and Webb sketch.

Pierre Damas Bel. Wright State University. Class of 2029. Twenty years old. Ankle monitor. Springfield, Ohio. August 31, 2026. He wanted to be a doctor.

Pierre Damas Bel

An excellent synopsis of recent events and circumstances from the ever industrious and well informed @sundersays.bsky.social

We see disabled people every week at @trusselluk.bsky.social food banks struggling to afford food, other essentials, to run vital medical equipment. For many PIP is the difference between surviving, working & part of their community vs being hungry, isolated & more unwell. See below...

Ok, some thoughts, as an olde tyme academic, on the Arday tragedy. First, allegations about causes. We don't know what was in his mind, but many people are keen to blame him, or woke lefties/academia, or the media. Some people are absolutely certain that the media are faultless. 1/

I found the racism of my black Irish childhood embarrassing, now it has given way to fear

What you're saying when you say "DEI" when universities say "EDI" (as happens here) and vice versa. And why it actually matters. The great majority of UK (esp. British) universities use "EDI" while US universities use "DEI". Is that "just" semantic, or does it matter? A thread. 🧵1/8

You can demand a return to "Christian values", or you can attack empathy as "suicidal". You cannot do both.

'Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row, has been found dead at an address in Battersea, south London. Met Police said: "At this time his death is being treated as unexpected, but is not believed to be suspicious".' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Ebola update, on the situation and challenges of the response in the #DRC ⬇️

Our Diversifying Leadership programme supports higher education staff from racially minoritised backgrounds to develop confidence, grow their networks and lead authentically. The London cohort starts 7 October, book now: advance-he.ac.uk/programmes-e... #DiversifyingLeadership #HigherEducation

I created one: open.spotify.com/playlist/0T2...

I wrote this many years ago on the invention of the "wealth creator", as one of the most important ideas in modern politics. gladstonediaries.blogspot.com/2014/02/repa...

This, from today's @alphaville.ft.com further reading, is delightful taxa.substack.com/p/how-to-sur...

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I say this with all due respect but simultaneously with a rage that can unmake stars, a software-intensive system that “exhibits all the cognitive capabilities that the brain has” is not “a few short years away”. x.com/demishassabi...

@lukecharters.bsky.social I have signed this petition. Government services should be accessible to all in a manner that does not impose unnecessary risk or burden on the citizens.

AI 'Artists' all be like... #webcomics #comicsky

Social media makes you sterile and doom scrolling is a prophylactic. This impressive FT article skewers all the popular platitudes of population decline with graphs and data. Correlation is not causation but the explanations for why smartphones frustrate fecundity are plausible as are the solutions

Journalist Selina Mills has described how she was forced to rely on her husband to vote in the local elections because accessible options weren’t available at her polling station. www.aop.org.uk/ot/news/2026...

Gary Larson was joking about this almost 40 years ago!

This definition of “Brownstudy” would well befit BlueSky.

I scored 26 / 30 Time Elapsed: 3 minutes 40 seconds

A cover from 1998, by Harry Bliss.

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Thank goodness for my library of real, physical books, each a conversation with another real thinking, feeling human.

Advance HE is inviting tender submissions for an independent impact evaluation of the Race Equality Charter (REC). Queries by 19 March, tenders by 30 March. For more information visit: bit.ly/4soErJX. #RaceEqualityCharter #AdvanceHE

Musical music made amazing. Classical skills in new context delivers delights.

Out of context this is too much for this time of the morning.

Join the Advance HE EDI Conference 2026! 25-26 Mar, Manchester Airport. Keynote: Prof Donna Whitehead. Essential for EDI leads & HE professionals committed to embedding equity. Find out more and book: bit.ly/3ScRgHv

While we all choose to look away. #Sudan.

"Coffee for the things I can control, red wine for those I can't." Just overheard this in a leadership course going on in the background. A common meme apparently. But what do I consume to be given the wisdom to know the difference?

Genuinely had never heard of or seen the 1990 Capitol Crawl protest until a TikTok last night and holy shit. m.youtube.com/watch?v=KRCs...

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains.

since just asking for dms didn't work out as i expected, i'll just say it here: i'm gifting a 3-months Sponsor deck.blue membership for artists on bluesky! just reach me out on the dms to get it and be able to schedule posts! requirements: 1k+ followers, don't use ai and keep posting real art!

Possibly one of the greatest formed jokes ever in my opinion. #stewartlee youtube.com/shorts/iNBMk...