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"The public sphere is where policy decisions are debated and ultimately legitimised. This must be a reciprocal process — .. “communicating with your ears” — rather than just deploying a bigger megaphone. Great piece by @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/bf6e...

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Question Time last night was pretty fierce. And had to be. There's a deliberate effort now to shift the ground: towards appeasement, inhumanity and authoritarianism. Once more, we must resist it. We must fight hard for kindness. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Do you feel you need to do something other than doom-scrolling? #Resist somehow? But how? In @hrw’s Daily Brief today, @astroehlein offers some tips: www.hrw.org/the-day-in-h...

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Define confusion.

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good www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

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Will Labour’s new child poverty strategy exclude migrant children?

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"She hails from the House of Brexit, the natural successor to Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak in a tradition defined by incoherent bombast, culture war performance, policy as gimmick, intellectual vacuity clad in libertarian verbiage."

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'Even if revisions are planned, they may still have a cost: lower public trust in the data.' @migobs.bsky.social's Madeleine Sumption explains why the UK’s net migration numbers keep being revised ⬇️ theconversation.com/why-do-the-u...

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Interesting and useful post from Altmetric. TDLR: 🎉 BlueSky is an awesome place to share research. ❌ Don’t use link shorteners (unless it’s the DOI one) ✅ Keep the link in the post (don’t remove it once you have the auto-preview) #AcademicSky #PhDSky

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Altmetric is now tracing research engagement on #Bluesky! It's time to share your research with the #AcademicSky community! #science #academia

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Policy peeps/ wonks and Oxford academics, interested in learning more from each others working lives? Our Peer Mentoring Scheme deadline is 16 Dec. Start 2025 with a new opportunity to share your work with others interested in better informed public-policy. More at www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi...

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💥New: By sidelining climate disinformation COP29 undermines climate action @pallavis.bsky.social #AcademicSky #COP29 #ClimateComms #Misinformation

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I've thrown together a Starter Pack for the climate crisis-info crisis overlap. Lots of members from @caadcoalition.bsky.social, so do give them a follow. It's a work in progress, @ me if you'd like to be included! 🧪 🔌 💡 (@davidrvetter.bsky.social ask and ye shall receive...) go.bsky.app/J3783tF

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NEW: Courtown, Co Wexford. Photographer JP Keating and I talk to asylum seekers past and present in a town that proves to be a model of best practice for harmony. Community give their top tips for other towns. One of them is "talk" to them. Here's their stories www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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I do enjoy how the Irish defy stereotypes by producing the most insane election graphics known to man

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How to get started here! Ned Potter offers ten tips for academics getting started on Bluesky via @lseimpactblog.bsky.social. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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I've just received reviewers' comments back for a paper where the first author is a student. This is their first experience of peer review, and the comments made them cry. PLEASE, when doing reviews: think about the real person at the other end and whether you can be a bit nicer in tone

submitted 86 days ago • 6 comments

Best research infographic I've seen recently. Accompanied by a brilliant new podcast #FuelToFork. Great stuff tabledebates.bsky.social

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Now hold on - this feels like déjà vu… Farmers & rural communities voting on an aggressive anti-immigration ticket - - and then finding it hits their farm workers who are largely an immigrant population… …and it screws their industry capacity heavily. Where have I seen this before??

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Is Long-Form Video Making a Comeback? While short, snappy videos have reigned supreme in recent years, new research suggests that long-form video content is back in vogue! All the insight here www.prmoment.com/pr-insight/b...

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Oxfordshire's electric car club pilot scheme has proved so popular that 15 vehicles are set to remain in place following the end of the 18-month trial period. The scheme includes research by TSU's Hannah Budnitz. www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/oxfords...

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This is us!

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The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has today announced it will cease active posting on X. I hope they join us here soon! newsroom.cipr.co.uk/cipr-to-ceas...

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My starter packs for folk working in and around research but not actively researching e.g. Funders/Managers/Administrators/Enablers/Adjacent are growing Please shout if you want to be added especially if you are early career and want to make connections go.bsky.app/KAw6Gka go.bsky.app/6tKLB2W

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Thanks @shuhbillskee.bsky.social for not letting your research be misinterpreted and weaponised by those trying to somehow legitimise banning under16s from social media! www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/20/t... (And well done @cameronwilson.bsky.social for super timely reporting!)

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International Policy Engagement event with Oxford's Policy & Engagement Network. 🗓️27 November | 10:00 - 11:30 GMT, Online tinyurl.com/b66bvfy7 Engaging policymakers across international borders requires a nuanced approach that accounts for diverse political, cultural, and regional contexts.

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@politicsoxford.bsky.social's @marniehowlett.bsky.social is part of a new interdisciplinary Hub focusing on uniting expertise at Oxford with international researchers and practitioners working on issues related to Ukraine: ow.ly/yT4y50U4ZnC

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Ghost in the Machine

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💥New: How to get started with academic Bluesky 👨‍💻 @nedpotter.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PhDSky

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The fact that UCC hid a 3000-year-old mummy under the floorboards of a lecture theatre on a campus where two and a half tonnes of uranium rods were being stored in a basement nearby and DIDN'T end up with a zombie-pharaoh apocalypse is both a mystery and endlessly disappointing

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This is really excellent!

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What does policymaking look like? paulcairney.wordpress.com/2023/02/13/w... Now with a few more images. I'm doing a talk on this topic next month - uobevents.eventsair.com/ukapa-2024-c... - and will argue that Steven Rhodes T-shirts sum up policymaking better than the policy cycle.

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Remembering Paddy Coulter, our beloved former International Board Chair. His passion for #freespeech, #mediafreedom & his compassionate spirit made a lasting impact on all of us. Paddy will be missed but his light will shine on in our work and in the hearts of those he inspired! ❤️☘️ shorturl.at/JOKF2

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The Oxford University Biodiversity Network has moved over to Bluesky. Follow us here to know about the many biodiversity-related events in Oxford, and also our weekly high profile seminars which are live streamed and recorded and available worldwide @biodivoxford.bsky.social

submitted 106 days ago • 3 comments

Dear Lovely BlueSky People, Please go to your settings and select "Require alt text before posting". This will help you remember to always add descriptive text to images. Please also use capitals for new words in hashtags #SciComm Let's make this a brilliant community!

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Bluesky is passing the test: forming a viable alternative, adding more followers, and generally being a better experience than threads. Tho I will never not be angry about the co-option of labor, data and the destruction of social infrastructure for which Elon Musk will never pay

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My job .....

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To kick-start Bluesky, search for feeds + starter packs on topics you're interested in. I've got this feed with 2800 scientists who study climate + 8 starter packs on climate-related topics. Use SkyFollowerBridge to find your X follows + BlueArk to move your tweets over. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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In my part of the social web, Bluesky is starting to pick up and gain momentum - feels like Twitter in about 2011. So here's a thread as to how those on here (and still on X) help others make the switch. As I have noted, most research and uni orgs remain active there. 1/17

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I haven't seen a starter pack with people doing research on migration related topics, so here it is! Likely to be missing a bunch of folks. Feel free to create another list and add more scholars! #sociology #polsky #socsky go.bsky.app/2uhhmeA

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