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Media lecturer at Bournemouth University in the UK. Academic twin account to personal account: @simonperkins.bsky.social
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"Britain’s future Nobel prizes will come from encouraging young people into university rather than making sandwiches in high street chains, according to the science secretary Peter Kyle, who declared that the previous government’s 'war on universities' had ended."

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Quietly noted in this obituary: He was the son of a miner, and got his acting education at Manchester Polytechnic. Arts and humanities programs at accessible schools in non-metropolitan locations change lives.🎥📺 www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/o...

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Really fascinating! My first book, Automating Finance, looks at how techies from working class backgrounds reinvented finance. They did so because they weren’t caught in that “middle of the organization” which seems to reproduce so much class inequality. They were invisible, until they they weren’t.

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“‘Cultural and social vandalism’: mass redundancy plans at Goldsmiths attacked” https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/mar/27/goldsmiths-university-of-london-redundancy-plans

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I'm sure Tories will want to take opportunity of this to keep the students from the polls: #UKpol www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Fascinating- woman who diagnosed #Parkinsons by #smell www.npr.org/sections/hea...

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After watching the Orson Welles documentary "They'll Love Me When I'm Dead" (2018) I noted that they used a section of Yes's "Heart of the Sunrise" (1971): www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5XW... which also features in Vincent Gallo's "Buffalo 66" (1998). What a track (especially this instrumental buildup)

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