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Graham Dutfield
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Once a geographer, avid practitioner of slow scholarship, Leeds Uni prof, philhellene, loves mountains & coasts, teaches intellectual property & justice, health, food, biodiversity. Time to take the money out of politics. Living in safe South London .. more

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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · 1d
Very sorry to hear this. I never got to know the great Indian ecological scientist Madhav Gadgil, but we met a couple of times at conferences in India back in the late 90s. A hugely impressive and highly influential scholar www.nature.com/articles/d44...
Client Challenge
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d
Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans.

This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:

“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
ANDING ROCK Standing Rock Sioux Tribe The Office of Chairman Sitting Bear P.O. BOx D Fort Yates, ND 58538 CHAIRMAN SITTING BEAR'S STATEMENT REGARDING SRST PUBLIC SAFETY JANUARY 9, 2026 I have been receiving reports and evidence of First Nations people being racially targeted, assaulted, and detained by the federal agency Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). We want to remind our members to be safe and proactive by carrying with you at a minimum your tribal identification cards or a copy of your degree of Indian Blood. Our tribal identification affirms our citizenship and political status. Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands. Any federal activity within our boundaries must recognize and respect our tribal sovereignty, treaty obligations, and established jurisdictional boundaries. Any ICE presence or activity within our lands is not authorized, not welcome, and will be addressed. Unauthorized personnel will be escorted off our lands.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 4d
Farage: "I believe in vaccinations when they're vaccinations. I don't think what happened with Covid were vaccinations. You have to keep having them every 6 months."

Conspiratorial nonsense.

Some vaccinations like Covid shots require multiple/seasonal doses because immunity fades & viruses change.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 8d
A gangster state at home, a rogue state abroad: and entirely because Congress and the Supreme Court have abdicated their proper constitutional roles.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9d
The fun part here is that people who don’t like migrants largely believe this because they’re constantly screamed at about menacing immigrants from every TV, radio and news stand, and the whole reason that’s done is to discourage people from noticing who it is that gets most of the money, and how.
Luke Tryl @LukeTryl • 3h X There has also been a shift in how Britons think the UK is divided, for the 1st time since tracking in 2022 Britons are more likely to say that the biggest divide is between immigrants and those born in the UK rather than divides between rich and poor, that remains a close second

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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · 12d
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first
Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’
www.theguardian.com

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 14d
For the last month (arguably year) Ukraine and Europe have been effectively negotiating with someone who claims to be their ally over a deal that they find entirely unacceptable and that the other side of the war has already rejected.

Take a moment to think about the performative insanity of that.

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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · 14d
A bit old but just came across this www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘This is your mission’: why one Brazilian doctor is training to be a shaman
Adana Omágua Kambeba fought to become one of the country’s first Indigenous woman doctors. Now she wants to bring the worlds of traditional and western medicine closer – and help Amazonian communities...
www.theguardian.com

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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 15d
Foreign medics NOT shunning NHS Scotland because of anti-migrant rhetoric from London parties

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/27/f...
Foreign medics NOT shunning NHS Scotland because of anti-migrant rhetoric from London parties
Professor John Robertson OBA The Guardian above has another of its ‘UK’ pieces with not a word on Scotland in it. There is, of course, no peer-reviewed research on this topic but, the M…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15d
This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
Farmers' anger grows as Australian beeffloods into Britain Meat imports surge 80pc as free- trade deal sparks criticism over impact on local producers

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 15d
163 years ago in Mankato, 38 Dakota men were hung in the largest mass execution in our nation’s history.

I’m grateful to the riders who continue to remind us the importance of fighting for accountability and healing for the Dakota people.

www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Dakota riders return home to Minnesota via horseback, honoring legacy of Dakota 38
Dakota riders completed a journey of hundreds of miles to honor the 38 Dakota men executed in 1862 — the largest mass execution in U.S. history. The annual rides ending in Mankato serve as a poignant ...
www.mprnews.org

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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · 16d
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck
Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute
www.theguardian.com

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Int Society for the History & Theory of Intellectual Property @ishtip.bsky.social · 20d
The deadline for paper proposals has been extended to

🗓️ 16 January 2026!

We would be grateful if you could forward this call to your respective networks, particularly those in the humanities.

Please find details for the call for paper here: ishtip.org/forthcoming-...

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 20d
There's a word for selling political influence for cash... (sadly Reform aren't the first to do so)

Via Private Eye
FOLLOW THE LEADERS REFORM UK's 2024 general election manifesto, titled "Our Contract with You", promised the party "will end the corruption of our government and politics" and thereby "make Britain a more democratic" and "accountable" country. So, how is it going about bringing in this new era of ethics and accountability? Earlier this month it emerged that the party has set up a "Leaders' Club", for those donating at least £10,000 a year. Attempting to convince prospective wealthy donors to sign up, it describes the club as "Reform UK's most exclusive inner circle" and reveals that "members gain exceptional behind-the-scenes access... As a recognised Leader of Reform UK, your support becomes a defining force in shaping our strategy, amplifying our impact, and Image 2: steering the party's future direction." So, completely different from the Tories' "Leader's Group" for wealthy donors in the days of David Cameron, Boris Johnson and others, then!

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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · 21d
Took this photo last week at Pompeii with Vesuvius looming ominously in the near distance. Wonderful to be there with so few other visitors.

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 23d
Something pathetic about these last gasp defences of Brexit. 1. "It was a great idea to jump off the cliff. The broken bones are all the fault of the politicians". 2 "We are too good to be ruled by Brussels. But it turns we are incapable of governing ourselves". Sad.
www.ft.com/content/42b3...
The Brexit implementation fiasco
It is not too late to reverse bad policy but that requires good governance
www.ft.com

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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · 23d
Journal retracts weed killer study backed by Monsanto, citing ‘serious ethical concerns’ | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Journal retracts weed killer study backed by Monsanto, citing ‘serious ethical concerns’
Highly cited paper was used as evidence that the widely used herbicide Roundup is safe
www.science.org

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24d
The ‘Raise the Colours’ campaign, widely praised by politicians and commentators as a "grassroots" campaign for "unity" has now pivoted to harassing migrants and charity workers on the beaches of France.

Activists were seen stabbing dinghies and releasing dogs to intimidate migrant and aid workers
Nigel Farage-Backed 'Raise the Colours' Campaign Pivots to Racially Abusing Migrants and Harassing Aid Workers on French Beaches
Far-right activists were seen stabbing dinghies and releasing dogs to intimidate migrants and aid workers
bylinetimes.com

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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · 25d
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The quest to hatch a bird-flu vaccine
Although development of a jab for the H5N1 strain of avian flu is well under way, other strains are receiving less attention — and political obstacles to research could hamper progress.
www.nature.com

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H-Net Reviews @hnetreviews.bsky.social · 25d
New book review:
Stump-Smith on Bruno, Maria C.: _Growing the Taraco Peninsula: Indigenous Agricultural Landscapes_. University Press of Colorado, 2024. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20135698
Bruno, Maria C.. Growing the Taraco Peninsula: Indigenous Agricultural Landscapes. : University Press of Colorado, 2024. Illustrations, graphs, maps. 232 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781646426126. Reviewed by Madison Stump-Smith (Bowling Green State University) Published on H-Environment (December, 2025) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · 26d
The price we all have to pay when the government appeases the xenophobic Right

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26d
The BBC is not just any other institution. It's a core part of this country's identity. It's ours to criticise, ours to get cross with, ours to love and ours to the end.

By attacking it Trump may actually be doing us all a favour as we are obliged to remember that.

www.politico.eu/article/brit...
British government backs the BBC as Trump sues it for billions
Stephen Kinnock said the public service broadcaster is “right to stick by their guns.”
www.politico.eu

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Eye Of The Idol @eyeoftheidol.bsky.social · 26d
I’m running out of words to describe this ugly, vile piece of shit who’s squatting in the people’s house right now. Imagine the uproar if any other president before him had put out this message after Rob Reiner and his wife were brutally murdered.

Fuck all the way off Donald Trump! 🖕

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 29d
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com

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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · Dec 12
I country I won’t be going to again until it has regained its sanity.
newseye.bsky.social News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Dec 11
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.

The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.

Below is the full, mind-blowing list.

🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨

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- All social media accounts from the last 5 years - All your biometrics: face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris - All your phone numbers from the last 5 years - All your email addresses from the last 10 years - IP addresses and metadata from your submitted photos - Names of your family members (parents, spouse, siblings, children) - All your family members' phone numbers from the last 5 years - Your family members' dates of birth - Your family members' places of birth - Your family members' residencies - All your business phone numbers from the last 5 years - All your business email addresses from the last 10 years

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Kaitlin E Mara @kaitlinemara.bsky.social · Dec 12
@medslawpolicy.bsky.social 's annual (highly biased) 2025 year in review is here! Read what we thought were the most important goings on in global health law & policy here: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2025/12/wrap...
Fireworks over a lake

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Dec 11
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.

The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.

Below is the full, mind-blowing list.

🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨

1/
- All social media accounts from the last 5 years - All your biometrics: face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris - All your phone numbers from the last 5 years - All your email addresses from the last 10 years - IP addresses and metadata from your submitted photos - Names of your family members (parents, spouse, siblings, children) - All your family members' phone numbers from the last 5 years - Your family members' dates of birth - Your family members' places of birth - Your family members' residencies - All your business phone numbers from the last 5 years - All your business email addresses from the last 10 years

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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · Dec 11
www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/magazine/iss...
Dream State
Imagine your family are completely autonomous. How you live, where you go, who you live with and what you value are entirely your call. But over time, food becomes scarce and movement difficult. You’r...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Dec 10
Very good series of proposals from the UK Trade and Business Commission on a UK-EU youth mobility scheme: Set it initially at 44,000, keep fees at a nominal level, have it last for two years with an optional year add-on at the end www.bestforbritain.org/launch_yes_w...
Launch UK-EU youth experience scheme with initial 44,000 cap, says cross-party commission
A new cross-party report recommends the UK and EU should launch the UK’s largest and most generous scheme to restore opportunities for young people who have been denied them by Brexit.
www.bestforbritain.org

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Dec 10
Ed Davey asks to stand up to Trump's threats to Europe and to strengthen the UK with a Customs Union with the EU

Stramer dodges the Trump comment, and says post Brexit trade deals outside the EU are better than a Customs Union with the EU

Labour under Starmer makes us smaller and poorer