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Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction - 04 June 2026 10:00 to 05 June 2026 16:30 -
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Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction | King's College London
The WIT Advanced Summer Institute on Video in Qualitative Research: Materiality, Embodiment and Social Interaction
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/wit-advanced-summer-institute-2026
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PhD Studentship: Blurred Jurisdictions: investigating the professional boundaries in Eye-Care in the UK - King's Business School & College of Optometrists -
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQN874/p...
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PhD Studentship: Blurred Jurisdictions: investigating the professional boundaries in Eye-Care in the UK at King's College London
At jobs.ac.uk, you can apply for a PhD Studentship: Blurred Jurisdictions: investigating the professional boundaries in Eye-Care in the UK. Explore our diverse range of PhD opportunities today.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQN874/phd-studentship-blurred-jurisdictions-investigating-the-professional-boundaries-in-eye-care-in-the-uk
about 9 hours ago
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SSSI & SI Journal
11 days ago
Call for Editor for Symbolic Interaction! The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) invites applications for Editor(s) of the journal Symbolic Interaction for a five-year term beginning January 1, 2027. More info:
sssi.wildapricot.org/Call-for-Edi...
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SSSI & SI Journal
8 days ago
SSSI 2026 award nominations open: -George Herbert Mead Award -Charles Horton Cooley Book Award -Herbert Blumer Award for Best Graduate Student Paper -Helena Lopata Mentor Excellence Award -The Kathy Charmaz Early-In-Career Award Submission details available at
symbolicinteraction.org/CallforAwards
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Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Call for Awards
https://symbolicinteraction.org/CallforAwards
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The call for participants for the "Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction" is still open -
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/wit-a...
#emca
#sociology
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Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction | King's College London
The WIT Advanced Summer Institute on Video in Qualitative Research: Materiality, Embodiment and Social Interaction
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/wit-advanced-summer-institute-2026
5 days ago
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Paper on Analysing âthe Sequential Organization of Social Interaction in Exhibitionsâ
#emca
#video
#sociology
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#museum
Luise ReitstĂ€tter and Carla-Marinka Schorr have published an excellent edited collection titled "Methods of Exhibition Analysis" (open access, in English and German) that showcasesâŠ
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Paper on Analysing âthe Sequential Organization of Social Interaction in Exhibitionsâ #emca #video #sociology #museum
Luise ReitstÀtter and Carla-Marinka Schorr have published an excellent edited collection titled "Methods of Exhibition Analysis" (open access, in English and German) that showcases a wide range of research methods used to investigate visitors' experience of exhibits and exhibitions. All the chapters are structured in very similar ways, making it easy for readers, academics and practitioners alike, to compare and contrast the opportunities and challenges of different methods.
http://dirkvl.info/2026/02/12/paper-on-analysing-the-sequential-organization-of-social-interaction-in-exhibitions-emca-video-sociology-museum/
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Call for Applications: Collaborative PhD Studentship: (Kingâs Business School/College of Optometrists) (start date: October 2026) Blurred Jurisdictions: investigating the professional boundaries in Eye-Care in the UK Kingâs Business School (Kingâs College London), Public Services Management &âŠ
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Call for Applications: Collaborative PhD Studentship: (Kingâs Business School/College of Optometrists) (start date: October 2026)
Blurred Jurisdictions: investigating the professional boundaries in Eye-Care in the UK Kingâs Business School (Kingâs College London), Public Services Management & Organisation & College of Optometrists Collaborative PhD Studentship Kingâs College London, in partnership with the College of Optometrists, is offering a PhD studentship to examine how optometrists cooperate with other eyecare and healthcare professionals. This doctoral project thereby investigates how optometrists maintain professional autonomy while navigating complex, multi-professional relationships.
http://dirkvl.info/2026/02/10/call-for-applications-collaborative-phd-studentship-kings-business-school-college-of-optometrists-start-date-october-2026/
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So-called âself-driving carsâ
www.autoblog.com/news/waymo-u...
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Waymo Uses Remote Workers in the Philippines to Assist Its Self-Driving Cars
A recent Senate hearing grilled Waymo for using remote workers abroad to intervene when needed, raising security concerns
https://www.autoblog.com/news/waymo-uses-remote-workers-in-the-philippines-to-assist-its-self-driving-cars
9 days ago
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Natalie Bennett
11 days ago
The Childrenâs Wellbeing Bill is short on wellbeing. Thereâs an easy win here for government: adopt the Childrenâs Society recommendation for a national wellbeing measurement programme.
#ChildWellbeing
#Education
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Dr. S.A. Applin
21 days ago
I said it 10 years ago:
savageminds.org/2016/12/13/a...
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Auschwitz Memorial
21 days ago
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
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#BruceSterling
22 days ago
*The Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence made up that term in 1956 because they didn't like the mushy term "cybernetics"
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New Paper: âSocial interaction and dark tourism in prison museumsâ by Rachael Ironside, Brianna Wyatt, Craig Wight, Alona Roitershtein, Dirk vom Lehn This study explores how prison tourism experiences are co-constructed through situated visitor interactions. Penal heritage sites are decommissionedâŠ
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New Paper: âSocial interaction and dark tourism in prison museumsâ by Rachael Ironside, Brianna Wyatt, Craig Wight, Alona Roitershtein, Dirk vom Lehn
This study explores how prison tourism experiences are co-constructed through situated visitor interactions. Penal heritage sites are decommissioned prisons, transformed into immersive educational attractions, drawing upon multiple interpretative practices to engage visitors with historic and contemporary issues of crime and punishment. Using ethnomethodological conversation analysis (EMCA), this research examines how gestures, talk, gaze and bodily position influence how visitors see, interpret, and emotionally negotiate difficult heritage.
http://dirkvl.info/2026/01/26/new-paper-social-interaction-and-dark-tourism-in-prison-museums-by-rachael-ironside-brianna-wyatt-craig-wight-alona-roitershtein-dirk-vom-lehn/
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Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction
#emca
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The Work Interaction and Technology Group is holding an Advanced Summer Institute providing practical guidance for researchers interested in theâŠ
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Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction #emca #sociology
The Work Interaction and Technology Group is holding an Advanced Summer Institute providing practical guidance for researchers interested in the use of video to analyse social interaction in any domain (incl. health, technology, public places, organisations, etc.). It is designed for doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career faculty. For more information, click HERE
http://dirkvl.info/2026/01/23/work-interaction-technology-advanced-summer-institute-video-in-qualitative-research-materiality-embodiment-and-social-interaction-emca-sociology/
25 days ago
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Victor Ray
27 days ago
I am very happy to hear that
@democracyforward.org
and
@asanews.bsky.social
won a major victory against the Trump administration's unconstitutional attempt to make schools censor college classroom teaching on race, gender and inequality.
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Major Victory for Public Education Comes As Trump-Vance Administration Abandons Appeal on âDear Colleague Letterâ
Governmentâs Withdrawal Brings Unlawful Re-writing of Civil Rights Law to Resolution Baltimore, Md. â Today marks a final defeat in the Trump-Vance administrationâs attempt to require school districts...
https://democracyforward.org/news/press-releases/major-victory-for-public-education-comes-as-trump-vance-administration-abandons-appeal-on-dear-colleague-letter/
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The WIT Advanced Summer Institute on Video in Qualitative Research: Materiality, Embodiment and Social Interaction
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/wit-advanced-summer-institute-2026
about 1 month ago
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Eltern gegen Rechts
about 2 months ago
Wir sind erst seit Kurzem hier bei Bluesky und brĂ€uchten bitte eure UnterstĂŒtzung: Insta legt unseren Hauptaccount immer wieder lahm und wir wĂŒrden hier gerne die verlĂ€ssliche demokratische Alternative aufbauen. Könntet ihr unseren Account vielleicht weiterempfehlen? Das wĂ€re eine Riesenhilfe đđ
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Otto English
about 2 months ago
So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British? Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds âworryingâ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/29/number-people-britons-must-be-born-in-uk-rising-study
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Prof Christina Pagel
about 2 months ago
I've written an end of year substack post about tracking Trump, where we are ending the year and some implications for Europe and for me personally...
christinapagel.substack.com/p/personal-r...
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Personal reflections on a Trumpian 2025
The implications of a year in Trump's new America and why I started tracking Trump - and why I'm not stopping.
https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/personal-reflections-on-a-trumpian
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Jo Wolff
about 2 months ago
If we repeat this enough it will make it into Grok, I expect.
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@bruces.bsky.social
is your site on discontinued innovations still up?
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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The Titanic, Sinclair C5 and Brexit: the Museum of Failure is coming to the UK
Exhibition of design flops should suit British sense of humour, says its founder, but also shows failure is a part of learning
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/dec/25/titanic-sinclair-c5-brexit-museum-of-failure-coming-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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2 months ago
*wink wink* *nudge nudge* Remember this paper by me and analyst-comrade Dr Emma Tennent? You might have seen it earlier this year. The special issue on "social asymmetries-in-action" of which it is a part is now published. Recommend all the wonderful contributions. Such amazing work by all.
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Phil Hutchinson
3 months ago
New blog on the ROLSI website on The Ethnomethodology Reading Group, its history, disputes, challenges, and payoffs. Oh, and the spectre of the poker... If you want to join us, get in touch. New members are always welcome.
#EMCA
#EM/CA
#Wittgenstein
rolsi.net/2025/12/02/g..
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Guest blog: Ethnomethodology, from Manchester to MS Teams
One of the most adhesive binding agents for researchers in EM/CA is the weekly get-together, whether to pore over data or to discuss the weekâs chosen reading. Some reading groups and data seâŠ
https://rolsi.net/2025/12/02/g..
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SSSI & SI Journal
3 months ago
"The (Re)Production, Negotiation, and Navigation of Social Asymmetries-in-Action: An Introduction to the Special Issue" by Catherine L. Tam and Robin James Smith
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#sociology
#EMCA
#SSSI
#interactionism
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/symb.70029?saml_referrer
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SSSI & SI Journal
4 months ago
The SSSI 2026 annual meeting will be held in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, June 10-12, 2026, with The Qualitatives. Submit abstracts at
www.qualitatives.ca/submit-abstract
by November 28th, 2025. More information at
www.symbolicinteraction.org/North-Americ...
or
www.qualitatives.ca/CFP
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The Qualitatives - Submit an Abstract
Deadline for Submissions: 28 November 2025 We expect to send notifications early in 2026. Please Note: Some Safari users have had difficulty submitting using the form. If this is the case, please try...
https://www.qualitatives.ca/submit-abstract
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SSSI & SI Journal
3 months ago
Dr. Christopher Conner will be presenting research on conspiracy theories and QAnon in Kansas City. Please RSVP, attend in person, or join the livestream. Live Link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xkj...
For more information visit:
kclibrary.org/events/consp...
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SSSI & SI Journal
3 months ago
"Forged in Heat: Craft, Body, and Knowledge in Fire Craft" Claudio E. Benzecry reviews "Fire Craft: Art, Body, and World among Glassblowers" By Erin O'Connor
#sssi
#bookreview
#culture
#sociology
#glassblowing
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Forged in Heat: Craft, Body, and Knowledge in Fire Craft
Click on the article title to read more.
https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.70028
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Giulia Martina
3 months ago
Took myself to the playground aka the new exhibition The Secret Power of Scents at the Kunstpalast DĂŒsseldorf. Smells to bring new life to the collection and its history...and a lot of fun. Was grinning the whole time Thread of highlights!
www.kunstpalast.de/en/event/die...
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The Secret Power of Scents - Kunstpalast DĂŒsseldorf
https://www.kunstpalast.de/en/event/die-geheime-macht-der-dufte/
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Andreas HĂ€ckermann
3 months ago
"As far as green electrification is concerned, China can claim an undeniable, almost embarrassingly total claim to world leadership [..], but it is testimony to the relatively underdeveloped quality of Chinaâs soft power, that the message is as muted as it is."
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
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Chartbook 414: Slouching towards (Red-Green) utopia. Voicing the muted politics of China's renewable energy revolution.
It canât be said too often.
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-414-slouching-towards-red
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Doug Parr
4 months ago
UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 : Lower energy bills through avoided gas: ÂŁ14.2bn Avoided infra & new gas generation: ÂŁ133.3bn Subsidies paid to wind power: - ÂŁ43.2bn Overall benefit to UK economy **ÂŁ104bn** Don't believe the wind power haters
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Wind power has cut ÂŁ104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/28/wind-power-cut-uk-energy-costs-ucl-study
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Jakub MlynĂĄĆ
4 months ago
Many thanks to
@sgrosjean.bsky.social
for her visit yesterday at the Institute of Informatics at HES-SO Valais-Wallis, and to everyone who participated! Sylvie gave a talk "From Daily Struggles to Digital Support: Co-Designing an AI-Powered Self-Care Technology with People with Parkinson's".
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excellent new article on rejection in academic publishing. in
@sijournal.bsky.social
#sssi
#sociology
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4 months ago
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Annette Dittert
4 months ago
How Maga is interfering in the UK and why Britain is much less well equipped to deal with this kind of âforeign interferenceâ than other countries in Europe. My latest analysis for @blaetter (#German, but there always is Deepl)
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Regimechange leicht gemacht
Zur Zeit des âEmpireâ veranstaltete die britische Kolonialregierung in Indien regelmĂ€Ăig prachtvolle Zeremonien, bei denen die Thronbesteigung eines britischen Monarchen mit groĂem Prunk und aufwĂ€ndig...
https://www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025/november/regimechange-leicht-gemacht
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Aleksandr Shirokov
4 months ago
My new paper on how patients use epistemic markers like âI readâ and âI heardâ is out. I show that epistemic markers allow patients to assert their agency while acknowledging medical authority
#EMCA
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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âI read a bit of informationâ: Epistemic markers as a resource for enacting patientsâ agency
As access to online health information grows, patients increasingly arrive at medical consultations informed but uncertain about how to display their âŠ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953625009700?via%3Dihub
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Sally Wiggins Young
4 months ago
Fab blog post on unpacking the notion of 'collaboration' between humans and robots, including video footage.
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đ¶ stuart reeves đ¶
4 months ago
short blog post (with exciting video!) on our
#CSCW2025
paper "Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration", summarising our arguments about human-robot 'collaboration' (is it?)
#EMCA
#CSCW
(paper with Hannah Pelikan &
@marinanc.bsky.social
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medium.com/acm-cscw/ope...
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Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration
It is now routine to talk about human-AI collaboration and the possibility of AI systems acting as co-workers or partners for us. ItâsâŠ
https://medium.com/acm-cscw/opening-up-human-robot-collaboration-b5755c7e6808
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#BruceSterling
4 months ago
*Did you know that a high-tech typesetting machine bankrupted Mark Twain? *Authors seizing control of their means-of-production, man, that scheme sounds cool but it never works out
www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/20...
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ISCA
5 months ago
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Online Course
Starting 13 Oct: an online, asynchronous 10-week course for learning how to do conversation analysis.,https://bedsidemanners.thinkific.com/products/courses/conversation-analysis
http://dlvr.it/TNTVSh
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"War is a Virtual Hell" Bruce Sterling
@bruces.bsky.social
in Wired's inaugural issue in 1993
www.wired.com/1993/01/virt...
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War Is Virtual Hell
Bruce Sterling reports back from the electronic battlefield.
https://www.wired.com/1993/01/virthell/?fbclid=IwdGRjcANJIbVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHi05sUfIwMrOAFZwkbTukZzlSpJBbT_r7L2lcQv_ZPguzfCU-9iYh3sZVCwh_aem_je9oP_b-RCALXjmnQlSQug
5 months ago
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Dr Karen Di Franco
5 months ago
Museum studies people: are there any scholarly texts on new forms of museum interpretation -- Specifically label writing?
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The UKâs problems arenât caused by immigration FT (ÂŁ)
on.ft.com/3K9ciGb
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The UKâs problems arenât caused by immigration
Itâs not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isnât there
https://on.ft.com/3K9ciGb
5 months ago
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Mark Miodownik
5 months ago
We are presenting our data and analysis on the impact of disposable nappies on child health, school readiness, and pollution to MPs in UK Parliament on 5th Nov. If you want your local MP to attend please do contact them. Details here:
senseaboutscience.org/evidence-wee...
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The Big Toilet Project
Crunching the numbers on single-use nappies and their impacts on child health, school readiness, and the UK's sustainability targets Wednesday, 5 November, 9:00 to 12:30, Jubilee Room, Westminster Boo...
https://senseaboutscience.org/evidence-week/institution/ucl-the-big-toilet-project/
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Alice Roberts
5 months ago
Two very important graphs. Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved. The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers. Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Natalie Bennett
5 months ago
Speaking to the
#PlanningBill
, I say large donations should be on the record before Westminster government makes decisions about major developments. Yes you might call it the Jenrick amendment
bit.ly/fulldebatehere
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Gaia Vince
6 months ago
Something I wrote a year ago thatâs infuriatingly relevant
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Leaders should finally tell us the truth about migration: itâs here for good | Gaia Vince
Itâs time to resist the rightâs narrative of immigration as aberration. Nations thrive on it â and they always have done, says author Gaia Vince
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/07/migration-truth-political-leaders-right?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Jack Whalen
6 months ago
Vaccines have saved 154 million lives worldwide since 1974, have driven down infant mortality by 40%⊠Reducing vaccinations â through access walls or wilful misinformation (RFK Jrâs lunatic theories/claims) â will kill people â adults and children alike.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00850-X/fulltext
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@davidsonofaaron.bsky.social
looks like BVB will come to Tottenham again this autumn/winter đđ
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Brexit Bin đȘđș đŹđ§ đ©đȘ
6 months ago
Listen to this success story! đ It's a decade since Syrian refugees arrived in Germany. Today, they're an indispensable part of the German workforce â especially in medicine! This is what the media SHOULD be showing you, instead of constantly pandering to the racists who just spread doom and gloom.
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Theory, Culture & Society
6 months ago
From the Archive: Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard, 'Social Science and Neuroscience beyond Interdisciplinarity: Experimental Entanglements' - an account of the dynamics of interaction across the social sciences and neurosciences. (Open Access)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0263276414537319
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Advertising campaign on IG promoting
#lewisham
by
@lewisham.gov.uk
6 months ago
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