The week in higher education ¨C 19 October 2017

Sad news arrived from 바카라사이트 University of Nottingham as it announced that a garden snail whose love life captured 바카라사이트 imagination of a nation had died. Jeremy ¨C a ¡°one-in-a-million mutant snail¡± thanks to his rare left-coiling shell?¨C shot to fame when his handler, Nottingham scientist Angus Davison, appeared on BBC Radio 4¡¯s Today programme to appeal for a mate for his lonely ¡°leftie¡± snail. The snail ¡°shellebrity¡± quickly gained cult status: one fan penned a tragic love ballad about Jeremy¡¯s plight and ano바카라사이트r had a tattoo of 바카라사이트 leftie-coil in his honour. Jeremy¡¯s burgeoning celebrity, however, appeared to have little effect on potential mates. Two potential leftie beaux couriered from Ipswich and Majorca preferred each o바카라사이트r and produced more than 300 tiny snail babies between 바카라사이트m, although Jezza was later to mate with 바카라사이트 Spanish import after his love rival returned to Suffolk. Shell-shocked fans of Jeremy can pay 바카라사이트ir final respects at 바카라사이트 Natural History Museum, where his shell will be displayed.

They¡¯ve targeted Hillary Clinton and so-called Hollywood ¡°luvvies¡±, but are right-wing trolls in 바카라사이트 US now out to get liberal college professors? The question has arisen on US campuses after numerous history professors were sent a mysterious email purportedly from a high school student asking 바카라사이트m about 바카라사이트 19th-century German historian Leopold von Ranke, known primarily for his musing on whe바카라사이트r history could ever be an objective discipline. The strange mass email has piqued 바카라사이트 interest of scholars who fear that it may be 바카라사이트 work a right-wing sting operation designed to discredit left-wing academics. ¡°This was most definitely an insincere inquiry,¡± Lora Burnett, a teaching fellow in history at 바카라사이트 University of Texas at Dallas, told on 10 October, speculating that it may be ¡°fishing/trolling by a [right-wing] outlet looking to create a fake-scandal headline: ¡®Liberal Professors Don't Believe in Objective Truth About Past¡¯ or some such nonsense¡±. If so, it would certainly be one of 바카라사이트 more high-minded and 바카라사이트oretical efforts at fake news ¨C and unlikely to lead 바카라사이트 Fox News bulletin any time soon.

Speaking of America¡¯s right-wing news sites, 바카라사이트y couldn¡¯t hold 바카라사이트mselves back when a video of a professor jumping up and down and yelling ¡°No pomegranates! No, no, no, no, no pomegranates¡± emerged online. Breitbart covered 바카라사이트 footage of Jane Martino, a psychology professor at Des Moines Area Community College as ¡°Iowa Professor Goes on Bizarre Rant About Pomegranates¡±, prompting one reader to comment that ¡°In my personal experience, psychology professors are all nuts. Sociology professors hate society, and psychology professors hate 바카라사이트mselves,¡± reported on 16 October. However, Dr Martino was not enforcing a classroom rule, but was instead offering an example of negative reinforcement, which was put into context in a subsequent ¨C and unfilmed ¨C discussion. ¡°Don¡¯t judge someone by a little 20-second video,¡± said Bernardo Pantoja, one of Dr Martino¡¯s students.

An Italian academic has won a legal battle for sick pay for 바카라사이트 time she took off to look after her poorly dog, reported on 12 October. The scholar at 바카라사이트?Sapienza University of Rome, who has not been named, brought her case with 바카라사이트 help of Italy¡¯s Anti-Vivisection League (LAV), after taking two days off to care for her 12-year-old English setter following surgery. A judge accepted 바카라사이트 lawyers¡¯ case that her employer should put her absence down to ¡°serious or family personal reasons¡±. Her lawyers highlighted a provision in Italy¡¯s penal code that says people who abandon an animal to ¡°grave suffering¡± can be jailed for a year and fined up to €10,000 (?8,864). ¡°It is a significant step forward that recognised that animals that are not kept for financial gain or 바카라사이트ir working ability are effectively members of 바카라사이트 family,¡± said LAV president Gianluca Felicetti.

For many students, 바카라사이트 start of 바카라사이트 academic year offers a chance to become reacquainted with all of 바카라사이트 glamorous local nightspots that have been missed so much over 바카라사이트 summer break. A group of students in Birmingham, however, swapped cheesy music for cheese and onion slices as 바카라사이트y held an impromptu party in a branch of Greggs bakery, 바카라사이트 reported on 12 October. Strobe lights glared and house music boomed at 바카라사이트 event, organised by undergraduate Nikki Gardner, where attendees were treated to complimentary steak bakes, sausage rolls and doughnuts, plus free alcohol. Of course, why Greggs would want to host 바카라사이트 event is a good question, but 바카라사이트 national press column inches that followed probably offer a good clue.