Dan Bratton 🇺🇦
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Dad, scientist, cyclist, works in biotech. Fan of anything that flies. Cambridge UK
I’m quite happy to wear a poppy, but those tacky plastic things tied to lamposts and crappy soldier silhouettes are just crass.
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Rachel Coldicutt
3 days ago
I don't think enough people talk about how great BBC Bitesize is. Secondary school textbooks are now vanishingly rare and Bitesize content is (a) not in a terrible app, (b) engaging and interesting and easy to understand, and importantly (c) FREE. A properly great digital public good.
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Are they aye
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Technical appreciator
3 days ago
Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
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Ben Ansell
4 days ago
All of which is to say, this has costs, for us in HE sure, but also for business, medicine, finance, tech, arts and entertainment, pharmaceuticals. The industries that this country is a world leader in. And if you cannot fathom why this uncertainty is a problem then you are not fit to govern.
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Staggered to discover that Katie Lam is 34. Her views are those you might have heard from a more extreme Grandparent in the early 90’s. Just where is all the crazy coming from?
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Maggie’s woke now lads.
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Stephen Collins
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Jason Sinclair
7 days ago
These Sumo boys are all living their best lives.
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This is an opinion you might have heard from a pensioner 30 years ago. Jess Gill is 20. Some real weirdness going in in some people’s heads.
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Fools, money, etc., etc.
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Kiran Stacey
9 days ago
EXC: English councils will still be poorer in 2029 than they were in 2010, according to the IfG. Report finds councils are increasingly providing social care and little else. Libraries, youth services, parks, all falling by the wayside.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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English councils to remain poorer than in 2010 despite funding rise, says report
Exclusive: Impact of austerity cannot be undone by end of parliament despite above-inflation funding, analysis finds
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/15/english-councils-to-remain-poorer-than-2010-despite-funding-boost-says-report
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The moral arc of the internet is long, and it bends towards pornography.
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Bo Jacobs Strom
10 days ago
Headlines going to the English requirements but I'd completely missed this part of the plans, yet another act of idiotic self harm. Completely incompatible with the government's stated aims on housebuilding, growth, etc.
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Lord Sam
11 days ago
British Antarctic Territory why does your flag go so hard
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Yeah, he’s going to go nuts when he wakes up 🤣
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Prof Christina Pagel
15 days ago
🧵🚨 The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with
@martinmckee.bsky.social
to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news. Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/news/2025/oct/uks-arms-length-public-bodies-are-highly-vulnerable-politicisation
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Blimey
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Spin the wheel and place your bets.
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Sorry, how does Cleverly, Badenoch, Patel et al., put up with this?
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18 days ago
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19 days ago
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That last sentence ☠️
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Bleeding radiators. Proper Dad coded autumnal tasks.
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Thomas Hegghammer
26 days ago
Brits being contrarian (again). Norway has had this for years and I can tell you 1) it simplifies everything from online banking to gov services enormously & 2) it is less of a threat to privacy because data are kept properly in one place instead of in tens of different places with varying security
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Phil Lewis
27 days ago
George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100
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George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100
Hardy, a lieutenant colonel, became the youngest Tuskegee fighter pilot at 19, and was among the first Black military pilots in the United States.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lt-col-george-hardy-tuskegee-airmen-world-war-ii-pilots-dies-100-rcna234028
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Rachel Wearmouth
28 days ago
UK needs ‘ambitious’ EU youth migration scheme, says Rachel Reeves
www.thetimes.com/article/ea32...
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UK needs ‘ambitious’ EU youth migration deal, says Rachel Reeves
The chancellor believes allowing young people to live and work in Britain would boost the economy and reduce the need for tax rises in the budget
https://www.thetimes.com/article/ea32eaea-f274-4ff4-be7e-59cdb162e0eb?shareToken=ce6e213c23fe310ab9b96f62fdb7d6cb
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Micah
29 days ago
twenty five years ago today, on September 25, 2000, the United States men's basketball team was playing France in the Sydney Olympics with sixteen minutes left in the second half and the USA up 69-54, Vince Carter stole the ball between him and the rim was 7'2" Frederic Weis then he did this
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The Guardian
29 days ago
Will he? Won’t he? Do the King of the North’s antics remind you of anyone? | Marina Hyde
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Will he? Won’t he? Do the King of the North’s antics remind you of anyone? | Marina Hyde
As Andy Burnham heads to Liverpool, think back to the Tory conferences of 2017 and 2018. We all know how that panned out, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/26/king-of-the-north-andy-burnham-liverpool-tory-conferences?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1758892404
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George Monbiot
29 days ago
Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it. Yes, they might. And he should wear it as a badge of honour. Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet. Where's the hazard in that?
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Ok, but ‘Brit card’ better only br a working title.
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If you zoom in, they don’t even saw Easter. Bloody woke nonsense.
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Rebecca R Helm
about 1 month ago
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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If you know, you know.
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Wow
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Helen Barnard
about 1 month ago
Just to be clear: - Paracetamol does not cause autism. - Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK - We do not have a massive free speech problem here. - Britain is not on the verge of civil war. These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
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Tom Clark
about 1 month ago
Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
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This is why I won’t have any products made by this **** in the house. Over priced, over engineered rubbish.
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Forgotten how bonkers Vindaloo was
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Pathetic, even by this government’s low standards.
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Roland Smith
about 1 month ago
Just randomly bringing this up again.
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Greg Jenner
about 2 months ago
By the way, the brilliant scholar of early medieval history @rorynaismith.bsky.social has written this superbly detailed history of the phrase “Anglo-Saxon” and how its meaning has shifted over the centuries. No paywall, free to read if you click the link
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Anglo-Saxons: Myth and History | Early Medieval England and its Neighbours | Cambridge Core
The Anglo-Saxons: Myth and History - Volume 51
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/early-medieval-england-and-its-n/article/anglosaxons-myth-and-history/4EE8D5AB12285021E0F51357BE783C44
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Dr Rachel Clarke
about 2 months ago
This is exactly the kind of despicable scaremongering that Aseem Malhotra has made his modus operandi. Insinuations, hearsay, anti-vaxx, non-evidence-based, lurid, self-enriching, anti-scientific claptrap. Of course Reform UK lapped it up. 1/4
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Bit of a niche rant but surely in this age of digital documents we can scrap the daft two column format that patents use and embed the figures in the text?
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Lilian Edwards
about 2 months ago
Honey, weve all been there.
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Absolute danger of a man. Also, first time I’ve actually heard his voice, didn’t realise how grating it was.
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We’re cooked. Country’s done mate.
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about 2 months ago
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It’s all go in the local wildlife facebook page.
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Josiah Mortimer
about 2 months ago
Actually jaw dropping from James McMurdock MP, even by his standards. We cannot become numb to this. The far right are in Parliament, and they're trying to normalise outright, vicious racism (same goes for the likes of Rupert Lowe too)
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Ben Ansell
about 2 months ago
On where UK Bluesky does have a blind spot, I haven’t seen anything on here about the vandalism of Policy Exchange’s office (see below). This kind of stuff should be called out and criticised and I’m very happy to do so.
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Cllr Brian Wernham 🔶 C.Eng. MA History
about 2 months ago
Doubly immoral Nigel Farage and the Reform Party’s Taliban Tax means sending hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money to an oppressive regime that British soldiers fought and died to defeat.
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