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Very good news for musicians and artists! "The government suffered a fifth defeat in the House of Lords over controversial plans to allow the AI companies to train their models using copyrighted material."

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Must be hard being a 19 year old at the moment. You've got Doué running the CL final and Mayulu bagging one, whilst you're (occasionally) sitting in class wondering what a paragraph is and whether ChatGPT can do referencing.

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Got an email from EPSA saying they want me to move from the Politics of Climate Change panel. This is great because neither I nor anyone else listed on the panel study climate change or anything even remotely related.

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Barnet graph of doom remains undefeated

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The problem with this argument is that 100,000s of children become political collateral damage and condemned to the horrendous disadvantages of poverty.

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The most essential of all Ph.D. skills! I can now sense free sandwiches and coffee from up to 3 buildings away

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Really good this. Packham's work on Autism a few years ago was great. This looks at something, that I feel, is more overlooked and dismissed Personally, I'd never change being autistic but I'd get rid of being dyslexic in a heartbeat. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Important work looking at the lack of educational resources available to working class children, the use of humiliation in schools, the treatment of "lower-band" pupils and how they internalise it. blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

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Busy in town today like

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🛎️ New Publication 🛎️ How did public and party priorities interact during the 2024 European Parliament elections? In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social article, Daniela Braun, @giucarny.bsky.social @rosanavarrete.bsky.social @annreinl.bsky.social and I find some connections tinyurl.com/yhc4ae8m 🧵

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New paper out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social where I look at the impact of parties’ age-targeted group appeals on age gaps in voting🧵

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Can I put this anonymous comment from a student on my CV?

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I do Widnes to Oxford Rd most days and have done for a few years. It drains the life out of ya. Can't afford to move, driving & parking where I work is a game of chance, so I get the train. It has got worse and worse every year. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

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A few years ago, when I was staying in Reykjavik for a few months, there was a period of unusually good weather - consistently hitting a very high 14°c in May Today, I heard from friends there that temperatures are 22°c. Which toes the line between being a welcome change and oddly terrifying

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Good. The number of times my students write paragraph long sentences because they think semicolons make their work seem more 'academic' leads me to (further) despair. Shorter sentences = clearer argument (Note: I say this as a very dyslexic man whose own grammar is questionable.)

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This is bleak We are letting AI replace actual songwriters and are now actively encouraging it to replace actual academic authors. Why does the apocalypse have to be so boring?

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As a follow-on of mine and @profsob.bsky.social work in the Guardian - here is a graph detailing where Britain stands in comparison with other liberal democracies. This is based on automaticity, deadline, portability of registration, and preregistration. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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As a follow-on of mine and @profsob.bsky.social work in the Guardian - here is a graph detailing where Britain stands in comparison with other liberal democracies. This is based on automaticity, deadline, portability of registration, and preregistration. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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UK has a comparatively difficult registration process. Our comparative analysis of registration difficulty in 62 countries is timely as Labour consider introducing automatic voter registration. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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UK has a comparatively difficult registration process. Our comparative analysis of registration difficulty in 62 countries is timely as Labour consider introducing automatic voter registration. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Yes, there are only 6 Labour seats where the Lib Dems are 2nd. This is because the 2024 Labour vote was propped up by tactical voting between the two parties. Allowing Labour to win seats in Conservative areas... seats they won't be able to keep if their left-wing coalition crumbles

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This take on #BBCNewscast completely misses the point about how it's precisely losing votes to the LD and Greens that can make Labour lose seats to Reform ...

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The Trent vs Stevie narrative is annoying. Particularly in a city proud of its left leanings. Yeah Trent is going to the Royalist, ex-Francoist team that beat us twice in CL finals. But Gerrard went to Rangers, largely viewed as the political antithesis in Liverpool, then took Saudi money.

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Tried to take stock (with the amazing @profjanegreen.bsky.social) of what we do & don't know about what these local results mean for Reform, and the challenges the party would still face in a general election These challenges have implications for the Cons., but also Labour defending their seats...

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Brilliant, timely, and insightful work by Marta and Jane @martamiori.bsky.social @profjanegreen.bsky.social

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Had family members saying how much they supported this idea. Only it isn't an idea, it's a fiction. Painfully depressing

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Out now (OA) in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. Do people in rural areas want politicians offering stronger representation to rural areas - as opposed to just their local area? Yes - based an original conjoint experiment in the UK (1/5) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Runcorn have a by-election, Widnes have a Championship. Halton is truly divided Northern premier league division one West champions (you'll never sing that)

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