Stephen Jackson

Interested in multimodal brain imaging and brain stimulation and the pathophysiology of Tourette syndrome. Tweeting in personal capacity

[Stephen Jackson @jackson684]

@HazelLiaqa4848 Do you think there might be a good reason for this?

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

The Israeli ambassador to Europe is protesting the spread of this image. Let it spread all over the world. 🌍🔥"

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

Solidarity with University of Nottingham staff beginning their 61 days of strike action today.

I share their deep concerns about the impacts of 600+ proposed job cuts and 40+ proposed course closures on staff, students, and our city.

I look forward to joining them on the picket line and I will continue to raise the union’s concerns and counter-proposals at the highest level.

[UK HE News @HigherEd_UK]

Discipline-leading departments have been routinely dismantled over the years in UK HE; the pace of this will accelerate.

If you didn't come up with a degree course to serve as a cash cow or pay for your whole department with grants on 'government priorities', it's game over.

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

"Does my bum look big in this?"

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

Nigel Farage - the leader of Reform UK - is under investigation for failing to declare a £5 million 'gift'.

Please RT this until the BBC gives this story the same level of blanket coverage - as it would for the leader of any other UK political Party.

[UK HE News @HigherEd_UK]

At universities, astrophysics is judged on how many customers it brings in, while HR is a priority that is subsidised without question.

This is what we mean by the shift to pure degree sales universities turning upside down.

[tom hebert @tominwindsor]

@MaryKPH @geoff9cow @MrsG9cow @peggy_blair

[John Tasioulas @JTasioulas]

"Averaged over the past three official evaluations, in 2008, 2014 and 2021, the physics department at Nottingham has been rated second only to the University of Cambridge for research quality."

https://t.co/ajtzTKOKLa

[Xi Znping @XiZnping]

🚨🇬🇧 UK Parliament is now being forced to confront a question the establishment avoided for years.

A public petition demanding scrutiny of alleged Israeli lobbying and foreign influence in British politics has crossed the threshold for a parliamentary debate.

When over 100,000 people demand answers, silence is no longer an option. 👀🔥

[Stephen Jackson @jackson684]

@21percentgroup Just checked we have more professional staff than academic staff

[Stephen Jackson @jackson684]

@21percentgroup Not sure if we haven’t got more APM. Staff than academic staff

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

This is indeed a superb letter from The Astronomer Royal of Scotland. “Someone, somewhere, has taken the decision to defund astrophysics research in the UK, but no-one seems quite sure who that was, or why.” I agree - my colleagues in particle physics have also tried, without success, to discover who owns the decision to damage physics research in the UK, perhaps irreparably, at a time when our economy desperately needs the skills and knowledge we develop and teach. @UKRI_News need to get a grip urgently and fix the problem someone, somewhere, has created.

[21group @21percentgroup]

One reason why UK universities are in trouble is growth of layers of management, HR & marketing

These depts do not bring in money. They consume but do not produce

Worse still, many of them like HR create massive additional problems & costs -- all distracting from core mission

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

In case anyone was wondering what the judge's ruling against Trump in the E. Jean Carroll case was.

[UCU @ucu]

Eight Nobel prizewinners just called
Nottingham's physics cuts "intellectual vandalism”

You don't rebuild a world-leading physics department with the stroke of an accountant's pen.
https://t.co/CRbST12NMF

[21group @21percentgroup]

Nottingham University is story of absolute incompetence of senior management

They played 'Monopoly' & lost badly

Students are broke, courses are being shut down, academics are being fired ...while executives keep their high-paying salaries & bonuses

https://t.co/CKoXdC7Xbx

[DonkConnects ♻️™ @donkoclock]

SOUND UP!! Trump fans called Biden Sleepy Joe for years

Now I need MAGA to explain this video with a straight face. 💯

Whatever you do, DO NOT share this.

Would be a shame if Sleepy Don went viral. 🤣

[Stephen Jackson @jackson684]

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