Dr Sarah Irving

@marchudson.bsky.social

My secret life as a cat.

'An Iranian missile landed on him': Sky News speaks to son of expat who died in United Arab Emirates Saleh Ahmed, 55, was delivering drinking water when he was fatally struck by debris after a missile attack on the first day of the war. His son tells Sky News he does not believe his father knew the c...

Victims in our countries seldom get profiled and humanised in Western media. This is a portrait of a life cut short. What a tragedy.

"Saleh Ahmed (55) lived in the UAE as an expat for 25 years, sending under £500 per month in earnings to Bangladesh for his wife and four children."

idk guys this kind of talk might alienate gettable fascist votes

The presumed upcoming El Nino will help cement and quantify global warming acceleration, showing that 2C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury.
See Another El Nino Already? mailchi.mp/caa/another-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...

That is great. I was a townie so I guess I never heard that

I remember when Gilbert first arrived in Manchester and started the whole celebrity profs thing with Stiglitz. I think I might have been involved in some direct action on one of them but can’t remember who.

Indeed. The spiritual heir of Alan Gilbert (the most ironic choice possible for a space called a ‘commons’).

This is disgusting. Many of the brightest, most engaged students Ive taught - and the ones who graduate with the highest grades - have had no A levels. This white man on a 6-figure salary wants to slash access to higher education for people who aren’t clones of him and he is just plain wrong:

This appalling fat cat wants to shut the door on all my mature students, many of whom left school after GCSE and give up a lot to go to university. I can tell him that they’re the hungriest for education and far from being unable to graduate, they regularly get the highest grades. Hateful man.

This, btw, is my husband. And yes, I basically agree with him, although I tend towards hollow-eyed despair rather than smugness:

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

This, boys and girls, is why I ... didn't create any boys and girls.

Vasectomy (before any spawning) in late 2004. Yes, I am smug about it. If I were a breeder, I'd be LOSING MY SHIT about now (well, a decade or so ago).

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

216,000 now😉

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Roundtable: War on Iran Was Easy to Start. It Won’t Be Easy to End. President Donald Trump decided to join Israel and attack Iran early on Saturday, February 28—a reckless move that positions the United States as a rogue

New @centuryintl.bsky.social @tcfdotorg.bsky.social roundtable on U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and regional fallout: tcf.org/content/comm...

Quite an opening paragraph.

This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet? | Aditya Chakrabortty The news that healthy life expectancy is in decline in Britain exposes a serious truth about the state we’re in, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

'Yet in a society as unequal as the UK, how well or sick you are depends on how rich you are. The NHS provides free healthcare, but it can’t pay your bills, free your flat of mould or keep your kids fed.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... we could choose health not wealth

Palestinian DJ’s visa not approved ahead of two major music festivals Sama’ Abdulhadi was due to play at huge events in two states this weekend, expected to attract about 120,000 revellers. #culture #music

Sama’ Abdulhadi was due to play at huge events in two states this weekend, expected to attract about 120,000 revellers. #culture #music

For all the talk of an Asian century, China and other Asian powers never prepared for scenarios where the US would flip from the primary security guarantor in the Middle East they relied on to the primary source of instability that would undermine their energy supply chains

A Workshop in Honour of Andrea Zerbini: Legacy, Archaeology, and Digital Innovation 🌠

CBRL invites you to a two-day hybrid workshop on 30–31 March 2026, taking place in Amman and online.

Airport Road, Beirut. First strike inside the capital. 2 cars were struck

🇱🇧 Health Ministry: 3 killed, 6 wounded in Israeli strikes around Beirut.

Rocket salvos are now being launched from southern 🇱🇧 .

Israel’s Channel 12 reports 8 rockets were fired from 🇱🇧 w/o warning sirens being activated.

There are a minority of good people in War Studies at Kings, but jfc we really need to talk about that place as a manufacturer of consent for imperial violence.

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
tucson.com/news/local/b...

Report: Man dies while in Florence ICE custody - KTAR.com A Haitian man who was being detained by ICE in Florence is dead after a tooth infection was reportedly not given "timely medical care."

Another ICE murder

RIP Emmanuel Damas, a 56-year-old Haitian asylum seeker held at the Florence Correctional Center in Arizona, died Monday at a hospital in Scottsdale. His family says he complained for nearly 2 weeks before collapsing and developing sepsis from a tooth infection.

ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal | TechCrunch Many consumers ditched ChatGPT's app after news of its DoD deal went live, while Claude's downloads grew.

Yeah that's the shit

ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/c...

The Erasure of Palestine Published in Contemporary Levant (Ahead of Print, 2026)

New online from @contemplevant.bsky.social: Ido Fuchs reviews The Erasure of Palestine by Ahmad Al-Bazz www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Easier for unarmed Iranians to take to the streets we are carpet bombing?

Good plan, there’s no way that the US would ever betray Kurds who fought on their behalf, or that Turkey would be upset by and seek to frustrate any US-backed Kurdish forces, or that an invasion from Iraq would trigger Iranian nationalist opposition. None of those things have ever happened.

Series of three tweets by Zoe Gardner taking down Nigel Farage's support of attacks on Iran.

Apologies to @zoejardiniere.bsky.social for crossposting her tweets from the nasty place, but I felt this deserves airtime on bluesky because of how emphatically they prove the nasty, immoral, opportunistic politics of Reform.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Today, Yanar Mohammed – one of the most formidable feminist leaders of her generation – was assassinated in her home in Baghdad in what appears to have been a targeted militia attack.

Read MADRE's statement: