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I research youth studies and environmental sociology: young people, climate action & climate justice, and I am a dinosaur from the internet. 👨‍🏭Senior Lecturer @ Manchester Centre for Youth Studies / MMU 💚Quaker | #COYS | (he/him) 🔗 www.bennosaurus.com
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🎵 We just can't get enough of Djed Spence, oi! oi! 🎵 Djed's mum is fully #COYS

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Thanks to everyone who sent me kind messages about my hand. It's healing slowly so I'm hoping to be back at work in April.

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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

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Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.

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Black scholars argued this incessantly after the war. Britain killed 10’s of millions of Indians, Belgium enslaved and genocided the Congo, France slaughtered its Algerian subjects. Nazi Germany was the logical extension of US and European colonialism, not an aberration.

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Alexei Navalny supporters visit grave on first anniversary of his death

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🎉 our research group celebrates 3 successful PhD defences! Milly Woods, Wendy Alabaster & Luisa Leo! 🌸 Hei Puāwaitanga-our team-means future flourishing.They studied how to support: young climate activists (Milly), low income students (Wendy) wellbeing of Samoan diaspora in climate change (Luisa)👏

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"It's unlikely to be Godzilla" said Dr Josie Walsh of the University of Florida, as she put up another → THIS WAY TO TOKYO → sign directed at Mar-a-Lago

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There you stand, lost in the infinite series of the sea, with nothing ruffled but the waves.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Check your phone, Ryan Mason

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In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

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sink low beneath the surface

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Every review of AI is like: This isn’t very useful and it makes it harder to do simple tasks than if I just did it myself. Riddled with errors. Can’t see anyone using this. I feel stupider having tried this. That said I believe it will soon make human cognition redundant and eradicate us all.

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When you're 2 years old and you make it to your parents' bed at 3am

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Please close Snake Pass to motor vehicles! That would be incredible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I'm currently off work with a hand injury, but voice typing isn't really working for me! I live with kids and I get to chatty (see attached)... In case I'm start working with my weaker hand for several months, does anyone have any experience of one hand computer use, and tips they can give?

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Daily life in 2025. #AI #Tech #JustLetMeBe #FFS

submitted 35 days ago • 17 comments

When I say ‘young’ it js not about age, but about career stage. Young at heart is also important.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

There is no death for an otter, only life to the end.

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Shell Q4 results - £19bn paid out to shareholders in 2024 - £14bn spent on oil and gas capex - £2bn on on ‘renewables and energy solutions’ "They’re continuing to rake in billions from planet-wrecking oil and gas," says Alice Harrison at Global Witness www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

I’m so proud

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

sons of bibliography

submitted 30 days ago • 31 comments

It would be an opportune moment for countries like the UK to recruit some really significant talent, had we not totally ballsed up our our own higher education system

submitted 30 days ago • 19 comments

Commuting by bicycle in Belgium pays off as employees earn compensation for every km they ride. 1 in 6 employees commute by bike and get a bicycle allowance of €0.28/km. People cycling to work in 2024 earned an average of around €460 net per year (some as high as €810), up 20% over the past year.

submitted 30 days ago • 20 comments

Et oui, il y a maintenant plus de trajets en vélo à Paris qu'en voitures. Et ça se voit. Comme quoi, agir en local, ça change la ville - et la vie 😍

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