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UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students
\n\n\n University leaders are warning of financial turmoil in British higher education after new figures suggested a collapse in international student numbers would deprive the sector of vital income and undermine its future.\n
The problem is having so heavily relied on gouging foreign students to begin with.
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\n\n\n A masterful and refreshing take… I found the book’s thesis – that uncertainty is not a hindrance to knowledge, but an opportunity to learn (and learn more) about the world – simultaneously liberating, humbling and empowering.\n
— Chrysi Malouchou Kanellopoulou
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\n
The full image of the sun looks like a disc, but you can see the shape of the ongoing partial eclipse due to the imperfect optics of my phone camera.
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Partial
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Who else is off to Spain (or Iceland, or Greenland, or… ) for the eclipse?
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\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fandrewjaffe.net%2Fmicroblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F08%2Fimage-1-scaled.jpg\")
60 looking (surprisingly?!) good so far.
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\nVote here (free, 30 sec) — closes Aug 23.
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Peter Coles points out, I fear with some justification, that the recent STFC cuts to high-profile fields of physics like astronomy, cosmology, and particle physics might have as much (or more) to do with internal conflicts and jealousy within physics as with financial issues.
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\n![\"Man](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fandrewjaffe.net%2Fmicroblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F07%2Fbfb9c761325c464e9393b494aa9c62e4.jpg\")
This White House paper marks a huge change to US science funding, trying to pick tech winners, alongside its efforts to align science with its right-wing ideology.
\nFor a party supposedly against communism, they are doing their best to reproduce some of the worst excesses of the soviet state.
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\nWhat does this mean?
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Fun paper “The Squealer: Sensification of model exploration and model misfit” with new co-authors Andrew Gelman, Eliot Carlson and Philip Greengard, all computational statisticians in the New York area.
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