In the media

"I think people are increasingly less comfortable with the amount of power over our brains and our attention and our time we have given over, and so people are more and more interested in taking back that control,” said Dr Kaitlyn Regehr (UCL Information Studies) on social media.

“Although we don't know for certain that he was targeted by the Ukrainians, they absolutely would have regarded him as a legitimate military target,” said Professor Mark Galeotti (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies) on the shooting of Lt Gen Vladimir Alexseyev.

University College London (UCL), London's oldest and largest university, will celebrate its 200th anniversary this month, marking two centuries of curiosity, inclusion and academic excellence.

“Trump’s video marks an escalation of such hateful depictions and descriptions, which have tended to remain on the fringes of mainstream Republican thought,” said Dr James West (UCL Arts and Sciences) on a now‑deleted social media video showing Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

“What’s really interesting is the invisible and emotional labours that mostly women do in our societies and I think that has connections to…the gaps of words we have to describe women’s experiences across the board,” said Dr Beth Malory (UCL English) on women and productivity.

Renowned artist Professor Dame Sonia Boyce RA will create a lasting testament to UCL’s past, present and future, as a special public art programme for UCL’s bicentenary is announced.

“Gay men would often have the worst kinds of jobs...things that really required a lot of physical work,” said PhD student Mie Astrup Jensen (UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies) explaining why gay men had one of the highest concentration camp mortality rates.

“It’s actually been quiet, off-books contact between the two military intelligence services that has been behind several of the recent prisoner-of-war swaps,” said Professor Mark Galeotti (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies) on Ukraine-Russia negotiations.

“We’ve seen the Russians making it very clear that they’re still expecting and demanding this remaining 20 or so per cent of the Donetsk region,” said Professor Mark Galeotti (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies) on the challenges facing US‑Ukraine‑Russia peace talks.

“What we don’t want is our use of AI, or use of digital, to strip away our social, emotional and cognitive skills…I think it is really exciting to see young people’s interest in analogue,” said Dr Kaitlyn Regehr (UCL Information Studies) on the growing analogue trend.

“By the 1980s, the Windrush generation had evolved a vast structure of black cricket clubs and black Caribbean cricketing talent,” said Dr Michael Collins (UCL History) on the large number of black UK cricket clubs that resulted in the country’s first black cricketers.

“I’m not sure that they can really hold that much mystique for members anymore... One wonders what success it will have in the coming decades,” said Professor John Dickie (UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society) on the future of the Freemasons.

“She knew exactly what had been written before her and what was being read around her in terms of novels. But she also read the literature that she had in her father’s library or his study,” said Professor John Mullan (UCL English) on what Jane Austen read.

“Although Pride and Prejudice has this almost fairy tale love leading to marriage story, it also has what some people think of quite a jaundiced – clear eye vision of what marriage is like,” said Professor John Mullen (UCL English) on Janes Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice.

“There is a fear in this part of Europe that local members of Nato will be abandoned in the face of attacks (hybrid or overtly military) from Russia and Belarus,” said Dr Rasmus Nilsson (UCL Slavonic and East European Studies) on Lithuania declaring a ‘nationwide emergency’.