Nollaig McEvilly
@drmcevil.bsky.social
Editor of European Physical Education Review. Lecturer in sociology of sport & exercise. Book & film lover. AI hater. Never knowingly undercaffeinated. She/her.
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Physics is under the cosh, Astronomy and Chemistry in peril, Geography is losing territory, English, Modern Languages and History are among the many shrinking UK disciplines.
Surely it's time to have a concerted, structured conversation about universities and the national research base.
Surely it's time to have a concerted, structured conversation about universities and the national research base.
UK physics research and science facilities face ‘substantial’ cuts.
Major cuts will hit UK science facilities and government research grants for physics and astronomy over the next four years, Research Professional News can reveal.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Major cuts will hit UK science facilities and government research grants for physics and astronomy over the next four years, Research Professional News can reveal.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
UK physics research and science facilities face ‘substantial’ cuts - Research Professional News
Exclusive: Science and Technology Facilities Council seeks £162m cost savings, with existing projects facing axe
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Physics is under the cosh, Astronomy and Chemistry in peril, Geography is losing territory, English, Modern Languages and History are among the many shrinking UK disciplines.
Surely it's time to have a concerted, structured conversation about universities and the national research base.
Surely it's time to have a concerted, structured conversation about universities and the national research base.
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'A consultation run by the City of London Corporation and published on Thursday found that nearly 90% of respondents backed trans-inclusive access to the ponds' 💪🏳️⚧️❤️
Hampstead ponds trans access challenge dismissed
Hampstead ponds trans access challenge dismissed by High Court
The current policy is that trans men and trans women are entitled to use the pond of their choice.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 12:26 PM
'A consultation run by the City of London Corporation and published on Thursday found that nearly 90% of respondents backed trans-inclusive access to the ponds' 💪🏳️⚧️❤️
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This government clearly don't really understand the complexity or the danger of the situation. They show no sign of beginning to understand, and every sign of asking the monorail salesman how public transport should work. It's going to be an uphill struggle, but don't leave this to politicians.
January 28, 2026 at 1:26 PM
This government clearly don't really understand the complexity or the danger of the situation. They show no sign of beginning to understand, and every sign of asking the monorail salesman how public transport should work. It's going to be an uphill struggle, but don't leave this to politicians.
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How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.
January 28, 2026 at 1:12 PM
How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.
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Absolute ghoul. You know who can help you with this? People. Teachers. Tutors. Not slop machines that will rob children of knowledge, opportunity, empathy and humanity.
Education is a fundamentally human endeavour. If the education secretary doesn’t understand this then we are all truly fucked.
Education is a fundamentally human endeavour. If the education secretary doesn’t understand this then we are all truly fucked.
We want to make sure tutoring isn't the preserve of a lucky few, but accessible to every child who needs it.
AI can help us do that.
Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
AI can help us do that.
Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
Poorest pupils to be given AI tutors
Bridget Phillipson says tuition would no longer be the preserve of ‘the lucky few’
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Absolute ghoul. You know who can help you with this? People. Teachers. Tutors. Not slop machines that will rob children of knowledge, opportunity, empathy and humanity.
Education is a fundamentally human endeavour. If the education secretary doesn’t understand this then we are all truly fucked.
Education is a fundamentally human endeavour. If the education secretary doesn’t understand this then we are all truly fucked.
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Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Stepping away from this for the sake of my own blood pressure and personal productivity, but this makes me so sad. The thing above actually says "as little as under 20 minutes", turning the nation into a movement of LinkedIn grifters, one industry-sponsored course at a time.
January 28, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Stepping away from this for the sake of my own blood pressure and personal productivity, but this makes me so sad. The thing above actually says "as little as under 20 minutes", turning the nation into a movement of LinkedIn grifters, one industry-sponsored course at a time.
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The government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.
January 28, 2026 at 8:37 AM
The government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.
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There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 9:40 AM
There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree
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RT if you would sooner dig your brain out with a fork than open a ChatGPT tab.
RT if you have zero interest in knowing how to open a ChatGPT tab 🙄
RT if you don't even know how the hell to open a ChatGPT tab
January 22, 2026 at 9:47 AM
RT if you would sooner dig your brain out with a fork than open a ChatGPT tab.
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Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
January 27, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.
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Government row breaks out over proposals to slash spending for PE in schools
Government row breaks out over proposals to slash spending for PE in schools
Both the health and education departments have proposed cuts to funding for physical education
A major row between government departments has broken out after the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) proposed cutting all its funding for physical education in schools, the Guardian understands.
The DHSC is now intending to restore the funding despite insisting privately for weeks that it would end its contribution, until the Guardian contacted the department. Ministers are understood to have overruled the cuts. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Government row breaks out over proposals to slash spending for PE in schools
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This is how the BBC is reporting Matt Goodwin's selection as Reform's candidate in Gorton and Denton.
He's not an academic. He holds no academic position and hasn't done for quite some time.
He's not an academic. He holds no academic position and hasn't done for quite some time.
January 27, 2026 at 2:44 PM
This is how the BBC is reporting Matt Goodwin's selection as Reform's candidate in Gorton and Denton.
He's not an academic. He holds no academic position and hasn't done for quite some time.
He's not an academic. He holds no academic position and hasn't done for quite some time.
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association
January 25, 2026 at 11:49 PM
signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association
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This is excellent and well worth a read, especially if you work in a university: www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
January 24, 2026 at 11:15 AM
This is excellent and well worth a read, especially if you work in a university: www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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Labour's ruling committee, which is stuffed full of allies of Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney, has just blocked Andy Burnham from standing to be an MP in Gorton and Denton.
The odds of Labour losing this previously safe seat to Reform now look much higher
The odds of Labour losing this previously safe seat to Reform now look much higher
January 25, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Labour's ruling committee, which is stuffed full of allies of Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney, has just blocked Andy Burnham from standing to be an MP in Gorton and Denton.
The odds of Labour losing this previously safe seat to Reform now look much higher
The odds of Labour losing this previously safe seat to Reform now look much higher
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Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.
January 24, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.
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I'm honestly just sick. If you can stomach watching any of this footage & still let the words "more training" escape your mouth, I cannot ever forgive you. These are state-sanctioned street executions. This is the training.
January 24, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I'm honestly just sick. If you can stomach watching any of this footage & still let the words "more training" escape your mouth, I cannot ever forgive you. These are state-sanctioned street executions. This is the training.
This is excellent and well worth a read, especially if you work in a university: www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
January 24, 2026 at 11:15 AM
This is excellent and well worth a read, especially if you work in a university: www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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Minnesota is the best of us.
January 23, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Minnesota is the best of us.
New issue of #EPER (February 2026): journals.sagepub.com/toc/EPE/curr...
European Physical Education Review - Volume 32, Number 1
Table of contents for European Physical Education Review, 32, 1
journals.sagepub.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM
New issue of #EPER (February 2026): journals.sagepub.com/toc/EPE/curr...