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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1h

What do the LLMs do? Do you give them the research question & let them do the literature review? More than than? (elderly ex academic here)

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1h

Making people dependent on cars has been one of the greatest victories of the global fossil fuel oligarchy.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1h

Like making Hitler the chair of the Nelson Mandela Prize committee

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1h

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny

Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment

bylinetimes.com

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1h

Unbelievable

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1h

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny

Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment

bylinetimes.com

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1h

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny

Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment

bylinetimes.com

Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 2h

Renewables routinely generate more than half of U.K electricity.

They also generate thousands of jobs, reduce our exposure to volatile gas prices, and allow us to stick two fingers up to fossil-fueled dictators.

Leadership is knowing the way, showing the way, AND going the way…🇬🇧♻️⚡️👷👩‍🔧

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 3h

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 6h

Towards unified global action on ultra-processed foods: understanding commercial determinants, countering corporate power, and mobilising a public health response - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Towards unified global action on ultra-processed foods: understanding commercial determinants, countering corporate power, and mobilising a public health response

The rise of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) in human diets is harming global public health. However, policy responses are still emerging—much like tobacco control efforts decades ago—indicating the need ...

www.thelancet.com

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 6h

Nice example of how to shift health inequality research away from victim blaming
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Behind the ‘creative destruction’ of human diets: An analysis of the structure and market dynamics of the ultra‐processed food manufacturing industry and implications for public health

A global transition towards diets increasingly dominated by ultra-processed foods (UPFs) has occurred in recent decades to the detriment of public health and the environment. This study aimed to exam...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 9h

A lesson for us all.

Luc Amkreutz @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 1d

www.science.org/content/arti...

Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished

Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture

www.science.org

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 9h

What a worm that guy is. I cant bear to watch him at all

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 9h

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

Wow!

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

Not this one, not that one...
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

Remarkable how iin this phase of "capitalism" all forms of expenditure on the development & protecton of human capital are being sharply cut. Not just education, health, social services but also policing & military,

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

Great advice.

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s how to protect your contributions and build fair, transparent collaborations: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/subtle-steps-protect-your-authorship #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

Subtle steps that protect your authorship

Many early career researchers working with code, data and analysis assume goodwill is enough to secure authorship – it isn’t. Here’s how to protect your contributions and build fair, transparent collaborations

www.timeshighereducation.com

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

My stepfather, son of Jewish refugees, used to say "It WAS the final solution" , pointing to the low numbers of Jewish people in Germany in the 1980s, & how many prominent Nazi businesses still prospered (Krupp, Thyssen, IG Farben). The Jewish people saw this coming.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose because they benefit from it? And yet "business" surely cannot go on endlessly presiding over UK economic collapse?

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s how to protect your contributions and build fair, transparent collaborations: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/subtle-steps-protect-your-authorship #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

Subtle steps that protect your authorship

Many early career researchers working with code, data and analysis assume goodwill is enough to secure authorship – it isn’t. Here’s how to protect your contributions and build fair, transparent collaborations

www.timeshighereducation.com

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

So true! It was so obvious my Dept , & even my research group, were gagging to get rid of me. When ( very nice) HoD asked if I wanted a retirement party, I told him they could have one if they wanted, but I would not be there.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

UK is most expensive to build almost anything. This is because it is the most corrupt, with fewest safeguards against kickbacks & bribery. The taxpayer then subsidises all this.

Together Against Sizewell C @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social · 1d

Ludicrous- govt blames regulations/planning system for high cost of nuclear. EDF's Sizewell C EPR has been overbudget at Hinkley, Finland, France & China.
Fact is, no developer wants to take the risk so this govt forces UK bill/taxpayers to assume the risk!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK ‘most expensive place’ to build nuclear power, review finds

Government panel’s final report calls for ‘radical reset’ of planning and environmental rules to get reactors built faster and cheaper

www.theguardian.com

Together Against Sizewell C @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social · 1d

Ludicrous- govt blames regulations/planning system for high cost of nuclear. EDF's Sizewell C EPR has been overbudget at Hinkley, Finland, France & China.
Fact is, no developer wants to take the risk so this govt forces UK bill/taxpayers to assume the risk!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK ‘most expensive place’ to build nuclear power, review finds

Government panel’s final report calls for ‘radical reset’ of planning and environmental rules to get reactors built faster and cheaper

www.theguardian.com

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

The Economic Impact of Brexit

Other

siepr.stanford.edu

David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it. We’re in a 1945/1979 moment when the pre-existing economic model has broken down. The difference between now and then is that there is no alternative model waiting in the wings, even if there were politicians who could sell it.

Luc Amkreutz @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 1d

www.science.org/content/arti...

Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished

Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture

www.science.org

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2d

Many have benefitted from your wisdom, Jo

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2d

Typical Wordle perversion
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2d

It is very hard to develop a good new drug. It is very easy to convince people to buy some kind of stuff that promises "better health" but never has to prove its effectiveness.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 3d

Better today
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 3d

exactly💯

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