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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 3h

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.

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🎃 Boo-nas 🦇 Karlscream 👻 Ghåstrøm, 🕷️ PhD ☠️ @pigalopp.no · 3h

Americans to Norwegians right now

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Mike Flaherty @mflah.bsky.social · 3h

Oh thank goodness.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

#NobelPrize

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 4h

a woman with long hair is standing in front of a crowd of people and making a funny face .

Alt: GIF from the Princess Bride: a woman with long, scraggly hair is standing in front of a crowd of people and making a disapproving face. She says "boo" emphatically.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 13h

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 23h

hahahahaha oh god

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 23h

Today’s mandatory faculty mental health slideshow, “Going Through the Motions: How to Function Despite the Fact Your Supervisors Hate You and Your Job Is Destroying You Spiritually,” has been postponed again.

The Faculty Mental Health Fair Has Been Postponed Again

Dear Faculty: Due to concerns expressed by the students, parents, and staff, you are invited to attend a mandatory emergency mental health fair in ...

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 1d

Not to rush to the defence of R4, but I was listening this morning and heard multiple references to "the Arab and Muslim world". It's an inelegant dodge to include Christian Arabs and non-Arab Muslims who care about Palestine. But that *may* account for what you heard.

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for the methodological smackdown! Well deserved here - journalists need to understand numbers! (Though maybe this starts with PR people at the orgs that send out press releases... I haven't looked into it, unlike your diligent work here. But still.)

Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 1d

The last concert of Cdn music giants The Tragically Hip was broadcast live, & they included the song "Tired as Fuck" from their latest (last) record, prompting staid & sober news anchor Peter Mansbridge to quip "late-breaking F-bomb on the CBC". (This was itself a reference to another Hip lyric.)

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1d

Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for that. As a j-skool grad and working journalist for years (albeit in broadcast), I didn't know the "why" of this, only that it sometimes/often happened.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 2d

I don't want to give Badenoch's trope too much attention. Really, that's the only purpose for these "policy" proposals anyway.

But Otto's final line below is exactly right: study what interests you, and the rest will follow. You can't know what doors will open and close in your life.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 2d

God speed.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d

Newspaper editors who will all fall behind this 'what's the point of humanities degrees' bunkum when that's exactly what most of them studied in the first place.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 3d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 3d

Holy shit! That is terrible and feels unthinkable in this day and age, and yet many things I would hope to class as "unthinkable in this day and age"...

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 3d

Update - this is terrible. Clearly meticulously planned.

#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Thieves in four-minute raid on museum gold

Two thieves stole 'irreplaceable' gold artefacts in a targeted attack on St Fagans Museum in Cardiff.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 3d

By the time I arrived, Rob was in love with someone else. He had told me he was seeing someone but that it wasn't important. I have been, as you can imagine, devastated & very unhappy.

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 3d

These reminders need to be made and made again in public. I know the polarised and hyped political discourse seems uneasy with reasoned arguments and truths like this, but I have to hope that if (enough) people hear it (enough), it will sink in.

The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 3d

And of course, your reminder that the Conservatives in government enthusiastically approved every single one of the Sentencing Guidelines that they now claim are evidence of the far-right “two tier justice” myth.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 3d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 3d

I had a horn section for the night, which happens never, so after folding them into a couple of my own tunes near the end, I fulfilled a life-long dream and led them through Paul Simon's "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes". Video captured here! youtu.be/8Wo-AdcqWS4

Michael Munnik "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" (Paul Simon cover) Live at St John's Church

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