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Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 23m

📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣

We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.

Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 3d

Who could be more deserving? x

www.normalisland.co.uk/p/venezuelan...

Venezuelan woman who begged Trump to bomb her country wins Nobel Peace Prize

María Corina Machado has become the first person since Barack Obama to win the Nobel Peace Prize for doing absolutely nothing.

www.normalisland.co.uk

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 4d

Zack Polanski rips Zia Yusuf's misinformation apart, he's trying to blame immigrants for Conservative and Reform policies.

#bbcqt

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Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 7d

Decisions have been made on @asab.org conference grants for Winter 2025: we had 52 eligible applications and are going to make 37 awards, so that's a success rate of 71%!

We're also awarding two additional grants to help with childcare costs. #EDI

#ASABWinter2025

Isn't @asab.org just awesome?

Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 17d

ASAB @asab.org conference grants for the Winter meeting in Edinburgh, up to £500, close 1st October!

@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025

All the details needed are here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Don't forget I also need a referee statement emailed direct by the same deadline!

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Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 7d

Decisions have been made on @asab.org conference grants for Winter 2025: we had 52 eligible applications and are going to make 37 awards, so that's a success rate of 71%!

We're also awarding two additional grants to help with childcare costs. #EDI

#ASABWinter2025

Isn't @asab.org just awesome?

Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 17d

ASAB @asab.org conference grants for the Winter meeting in Edinburgh, up to £500, close 1st October!

@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025

All the details needed are here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Don't forget I also need a referee statement emailed direct by the same deadline!

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Gill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social · 8d

BBC will do everything possible to sideline & undermine voices that challenge the regime it works so hard to protect & perpetuate. For real change join @greenparty.org.uk
Follow and share widely any social media from @zackpolanski.bsky.social let’s build a movement despite efforts to silence us.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Andrea Robertson @mrsrobbo.bsky.social · 8d

Whether you're a Green Party supporter or not, this stinks!

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 8d

Earlier today, a Palestinian child stood in shock in Gaza, mourning her sibling who was killed in an Israeli airstrike.

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Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 13d

Last hours for this - deadline is midnight tonight, 1st October, UK time. That's for both the application (online form) and the referee statement (emailed direct to me). All info here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...

Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 17d

ASAB @asab.org conference grants for the Winter meeting in Edinburgh, up to £500, close 1st October!

@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025

All the details needed are here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Don't forget I also need a referee statement emailed direct by the same deadline!

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Bad Boy 🔻 of Mandalore 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪🇮🇷 @dindjarinsway.bsky.social · 13d

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Bad Boy 🔻 of Mandalore 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪🇮🇷 @dindjarinsway.bsky.social · 13d

Reebok asks 'Israeli' Football Association to remove logo from national team jersey.

#BoycottIsrael
#BDSWorks ✊🏽

en.royanews.tv/news/63664

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Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 13d

Last hours for this - deadline is midnight tonight, 1st October, UK time. That's for both the application (online form) and the referee statement (emailed direct to me). All info here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...

Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 17d

ASAB @asab.org conference grants for the Winter meeting in Edinburgh, up to £500, close 1st October!

@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025

All the details needed are here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Don't forget I also need a referee statement emailed direct by the same deadline!

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Bad Boy 🔻 of Mandalore 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪🇮🇷 @dindjarinsway.bsky.social · 15d

A list of all 77 countries that walked out of the UN Chamber to avoid giving an audience to war criminal Satanyahoo was notable by who WASNT on it....

UK, USA, Australia, Canada, France, Germany & much of the White West ....

Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
#WhiteWestComplicity
#Z10Lickspittles

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Stu Bearhop @stubearhop.bsky.social · 26d

Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17d

"It's the immigrants."

Look at this picture.

It's these people.

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Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 17d

ASAB @asab.org conference grants for the Winter meeting in Edinburgh, up to £500, close 1st October!

@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025

All the details needed are here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Don't forget I also need a referee statement emailed direct by the same deadline!

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Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 17d

ASAB @asab.org conference grants for the Winter meeting in Edinburgh, up to £500, close 1st October!

@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025

All the details needed are here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Don't forget I also need a referee statement emailed direct by the same deadline!

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Anita zx @omi684.bsky.social · 22d

⚡️🇮🇹BREAKING:

Italy is holding a powerful 24-hour national strike demanding an end to Italian arms sales to Israel, sanctions, to ending the genocide and justice for Palestine.

Footage from the top of Termini station in Rome.

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RiseUp @riseup.wiki · 22d

We will never forget.

#FREEPALESTINE

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PrivetEye @priveteye.bsky.social · 29d

#fascism

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Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 29d

Elon Musk has damaged science in the U.S., and here he is this weekend undermining democracy in the U.K.

Yet @royalsociety.org still has him as a Fellow.

If "a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists" doesn't stand up to fascism, something is very, very wrong.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Sep 13

Elon Musk, "There's got to be a change of government in Britain"

"We don't have another four years or whenever your next election is, it's too long, something has got to be done"

"There has got to be a dissolution of parliament and a new vote held"

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James A Campbell @rtbecard.bsky.social · 29d

I think the take home message here (for me at least) is that scientists, when grouped into elite clubs of "prestige and achievement", are just as shit as everyone else.

I wish we'd stop pretending these affiliations hold value.

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Bad Boy 🔻 of Mandalore 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪🇮🇷 @dindjarinsway.bsky.social · 29d

Javier Bardem arrives at the 2025 #Emmys red carpet wearing a keffiyeh.
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸
#StopGazaGenocide

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