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London, UK
Joined October 2014
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Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.
ALT Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.
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There is a “catastrophic decline” in formal language learning in Britain:
Only 2.97% of A-Levels taken in 2024 were for Modern Foreign Languages, Classical Subjects, Welsh (Second Language) and Irish.
linkedin.com/posts/philbaty_…
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Leaving aside all the other criticisms, the proscription of Palestine Action is a monumentally stupid action from the perspective of the legitimacy of the state & the legal system. The draconian powers of the Terrorism Act 2000 worked when they were confined to organisations that only a tiny fraction of the population would ever support. Has the government really thought through the second-order effects of branding the opinions of likely millions of people as supporting ‘terrorism’?
Even if there isn’t a mass campaign of disobedience against the new laws, the government has significantly weakened the seriousness with which many people will now view terrorism proscription & undermined the fight against those organisations that actually deserve to be proscribed. I think we can also expect many more jury nullification type acquittals putting further strain on the system and all for little practical effect, given many people will continue to silently support Palestine Action, even if they can’t express it out loud.
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This is the HQ of Avis Capital. It claims to be one of the largest companies in the UK, with £58bn in assets and 31% returns promised to investors.
Except it's all a lie.
Here's how regulatory failures are letting international fraudsters create massive fake UK companies.
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Wow. Nigel Farage's nephew caught upskirting.....
Avoided jail.
Is this two tier justice @Nigel_Farage @LeeAndersonMP_ @TiceRichard ?
I think women in Orpington and around should be able to see the face of Joseph Farage, Nigel’s nephew who just admitted to upskirting. His sentence was just a series of fines, and he’s not on the sex offenders register, so how else are women kept safe? thetimes.com/uk/society/arti…
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People need to stop hoping. It is way past time to act but act we must.
Tears live on air from this hurricane specialist and meteorologist @JohnMoralesTV
Everything that scientists predicted is coming true, and those who wilfully denied or hid it, and still do, have committed nothing less than crimes against humanity.
nitter.gq/ChrisHushNBC/status/18…
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Phew!!!
Rishi Sunak backs away from radical reform of graduate visas ft.com/content/a9f24fb8-a9c6…
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“What we’re seeing isn’t some slow, careful rebalancing of the system, done [in] teenagers’ best interests... Instead, it’s just another messy, confused decline of something Britain was genuinely once good at, which contributed billions to the economy while projecting soft power”
Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that the Guardian's 'deep dive' into university finances is riven with snobbery, class prejudice, and the claim that rather than more funding what universities really need is to be 'restructured' 🙄
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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UK students going to lower and medium tariff universities will be getting meaningfully less funding per student (about 25%) than their peers – paying the same fee – going to selective universities. Essential analysis from @markcorver 👇🏼
linkedin.com/posts/markcorve…
Great to see LDOC grad @OliviaFVane in the prize-winning team. Congratulations to all.
MapReader won a prize! It's an honor to have this collaborative work from @LivingwMachines recognized by the @AHAhistorians.
living-with-machines.github.…
@turinginst @ahrcpress @NLSMaps @britishlibrary
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Delighted to receive the new and updated second edition of the @routledgebooks Companion to #Design Research. A must for all Design Researchers. 38 cracking contributions from authors based in over 20 countries @strathdmem @UniStrathclyde @StrathEng @ahrcpress @JoyceYee_Design
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The Executive Board of the DRS condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the recent treatment by Elsevier of the Editor-in-Chief and other Editors of Design Studies, the academic journal of the Design Research Society. Read more from the DRS here: designresearchsociety.org/ar…
Great to see LDoc grad @OliviaFVane excelling in design, coding, and communication about her work.
Utterly loved this talk from @OliviaFVane at the SHOW conference at @GraphicHunters giving us a behind-the-scenes look at some wonderful interactive #dataviz & narratives she and the team at the Economist have been making. Creative visuals and embracing showing big datasets ✨
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Nice🧵 by LDOC grad @OliviaFVane
It was not until the 19th century that Ordnance Survey made the first complete, detailed map of Britain. It would take 8 decades.
OS #maps were made in a particular order, for particular reasons. In a story in @TheEconomist we piece the maps together to trace how OS did it.
Nice🧵 by LDOC grad @OliviaFVane
It was not until the 19th century that Ordnance Survey made the first complete, detailed map of Britain. It would take 8 decades.
OS #maps were made in a particular order, for particular reasons. In a story in @TheEconomist we piece the maps together to trace how OS did it.
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Voters will be turned away from polling stations in May for not carrying the right sort of ID - make sure you aren't one of them. electoral-reform.org.uk/vote…
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A day after of the Taliban BANNED female university education, women & girls have come out on the streets of Kabul protesting against the decree.
They chant —“Either for everyone or for no one. One for all, all for one”
Amplify their voices.
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Extract from the prison diary of the remarkable Katie Gliddon, Croydon Suffragette & focus of my @LDocDesign PhD research: YOU ARE NOT A COWARD #proud #100yearsofsuffrage #illustrationresearch @Turf_Projects @MuseumOfCroydon
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Coinciding with the new term, our Special Collections team curated this charming display of RCA student publications from the Archive.
If you missed it, you've only yourself to blame... fortunately, these gems and countless other marvels can be viewed by appointment.
ALT RCA student publications on display
ALT RCA student publications on display
ALT RCA student publications on display
ALT RCA student publications on display