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Director, @msei-unimelb.bsky.social. Researching social economy & social innovation for fairer societies. Growing. Cooking. Eating. Living w/ MS, bloke, Zoe the beagle & Stormy the Lab x. Views mine. She/her
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My new post mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information. Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully! christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...

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Resplendent Quetzal #CostaRica #birds #nature 🌿

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Russian ballistic missile strike killed dozens in Sumy, Zelensky says

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Between the 1970s and 2010s you the taxpayer built up UK Higher Education with your own hard-earned cash. Hundreds of billions of it in today's money. Are you really content to see it flushed down the toilet? www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

A tree bathed in the golden glow of sunrise. I love this tree, especially as it starts to bud in Spring time. It's in a field just at the base of Glastonbury Tor.

submitted 19 hours ago • 54 comments

#Newspoll Federal 2 Party Preferred: ALP 52 (0) L/NP 48 (0) #auspol

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Karoline Leavitt, "All foreign nationals in the US longer than 30 days must register with the gov. Or be fined, arrested, imprisoned, deported"

submitted 17 hours ago • 173 comments

People, if you are eligible & haven't done it yet, get your shingles vaccination! It's a very painful condition & once you have it, you can't get vaccinated for a year 😫

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“For electronics, at least, we’re now putting much higher tariffs on intermediate goods used in manufacturing than on final goods. This actually discourages manufacturing in the United States.”

submitted 18 hours ago • 121 comments

North of North is very good

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

We urgently need a change of culture in property, away from a "me" to a "we" when we think of a place to call home. Community Land Trusts are an authentic pathway forward, something sorely missing in this election. #auspol

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

What's so funny about Peace, Love, and Understanding? 🇨🇦🇺🇸 "We want to make sure every British Columbian and Washingtonian knows they’re welcome to come down to support friendship across our border.”

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Yes, fight back. #academicsky

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Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including: - Holocaust Remembrance Day - MLK Day - Juneteenth

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US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky

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I am a professor at Columbia University. All of the student NIH training grants have been canceled and now there are reports that ALL funding will be frozen. Why are Universities not banding together and speaking out publicly and forcibly about governmental attacks on biomedical research?

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don’t forget to play today

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Nearly a 1,000 student visas invoked by Sec. of State Rubio and counting.

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Do you think people get that a war on domestic science, universities & scientists is counterproductive to driving a nationalist economic agenda?

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Because, of course 🙄 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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www.latimes.com/environment/...

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Bluebells in a pool of April light - in a Dorset Wood this morning. #wildflowerhour #bluebells #botany #woodlands

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I’m glad people are out there asking the important questions about emerging technologies. Such as “why DO so many AI company logos look like bum holes?” velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...

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"We need a right to remember, and not simply to support researchers. Maintaining an informed citizenry in a democratic society calls for deliberation, transparency and accountability. Archives are essential to that function." #DataLoss essay from @nannathylstrup.bsky.social & @richove.bsky.social

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US Departure Hall, Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, 0800 Wednesday 9 April.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

The number of Europeans travelling to the US has plummeted by up to 35% because of Trump Everything.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Found this amazingly blue damselfly while out looking for birds in Costa Rica. I post all of my non-bird sightings to @inaturalist.bsky.social - it's a great app that can help you ID various organisms and the data is often used by scientists to better understand ranges of plants and animals.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments