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From a a PT grad student with a FT job: PLEASE could talks & conferences go back to having streamed content or recorded sessions? Everyone managed it during Covid! The return to only-in-person lectures/conferences is very disheartening (I assume also for carers/the ill/those w/access challenges etc)

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We started working on this in 2021 and there is finally a physical copy of the book in my hand. It feels great that other people can now read all the great work that's in this collection. It is available as a free e-book and in paperback: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...

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Too many people fail to understand the role poverty plays in chronic illness. Money can’t buy health or happiness, but a lack of money can make your health worse & life harder. Universal healthcare & basic income would do more to create a healthier society than all the “wellness” in the world.

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Moutet vs. Fritz at Queens this evening has been absolutely absorbing! Brilliant play from Moutet to win against all the odds. Slicing and dicing like he’s Tatjana Maria or something.

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This was so worth staying late at Queen's to watch. A few fireworks along the way and so gripping for spectators. Many oohs, aahs, oh nos and whoops from the crowd

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Oof. Finally Jack Draper steadies British nerves with a break of serve here at Queen's

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Some reassuring replies here

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The five broad approaches: Digital trailblazers Digitally strategic Digitally reactive Digitally hesitant Strategically traditional

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Britain's most comically illiterate headmistress strikes again. I mean... How could one find opportunities to discuss racism, in the context of Othello and The Merchant of Venice, or sexism, while teaching The Taming of The Shrew and Twelfth Night?

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The juxtaposition of these posts in my timeline break my heart Nothing changes does it...😥

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There is no such thing as too much tennis (Just in case you were wondering)

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This is what fascism looks like - using a conspiracy theory about a dehumanized outgroup as a pretext for seizing political power and wielding arbitrary authority. What you read about in the history books is happening right here, right now.

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Absolute star

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This story is horrific, but it's worse than the title lets on. Because one of the people who harassed a trans woman for using a bathroom at Parliament was Kate Harris of the LGB Alliance. So while Falkner was assuring the committee that trans women hadn't lost any rights, her own ally was...

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And will Trump cancel his vainglorious parade out of respect? Will he heck

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And their spouses. Shocking political violence

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“Universities are in crisis and this inquiry couldn’t come soon enough.” @drjogrady.bsky.social After sustained pressure from UCU, The Education Committee has launched an inquiry into university finances. We’ll be submitting evidence. Full statement here: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1405...

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Imagine your stats being so bad your report features in Private Eye

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“Brexit has shattered confidence in Britain’s economy” And yet the politicians who championed Brexit still strut around like they’re owed power, rather than a heavy dose of proper scrutiny and public disgust for the damage they’ve collectively done.

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This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

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Europe was promised a new golden age of the night train. Why are we still waiting? | Jon Worth

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#OxfordshireCC is proposing a congestion relief scheme for Oxford in advance of the traffic filters. @cycloxoxford.bsky.social and @cohsat.bsky.social give their thumbs up 👍🙌👏 www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2522760...

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In this CDC-led study of 622 children, #COVID19 vaccination (≥2 doses) was associated with a 57% reduction in the odds of ≥1 and a 73% reduction in the odds of ≥2 #LongCovid symptoms in kids aged 5-17 yrs with lab-confirmed SARSCoV2 infection. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Oxford Labour coming out against the Congestion Charge & offering no policy alternatives, saying people want "less congestion" and "to be listened to." So like the recent Labour-sponsored Citizens Assembly which voted 74% in favour of a congestion charge?!? oxfordclarion.uk/citizens-ass...

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One small step

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Fascinating stuff from @amyborrett.ft.com but also a reminder of a stain on our society - namely that, in 2025, nearly a third of British kids are living in poverty. www.ft.com/content/f0fc...

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Good. Though of course the anti-ECHR brigade will use it.

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At a dinner party last night and found myself having to defend higher education against people - all well educated - parroting government lines about ‘rip off degrees’ and ‘value for money’. It seems the wider public have also reduced education to a financial commodity. We definitely are in trouble.

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