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Tom Shakespeare
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Sir Thomas William Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet, is an English sociologist and bioethicist. He has achondroplasia and uses a wheelchair.

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Please order The Ends: "exit, pursued by a polar bear" - I've even written the headline for your review. Hope you are enjoying the book: it's a laugh, but also about the climate crisis.

Vote Reform, and get Tories...
BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.
How Trump's bizarre Greenland obsession could create a global crisis. From @radiofreetom.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump Is Risking a Global Catastrophe
His irrational fixation on Greenland could lead to widespread conflict.
www.theatlantic.com

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Frida Kahlo...with her pet hawk, 1939 (photo by N. Muray) #womensart
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.

“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
www.semafor.com
🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️
At a time when multiple federal departments run by Donald Trump have posted Nazi slogans or imagery or songs in the last week—with the total number of incidents being impossible to count just on one hand—Trump is now demanding lists of Jews from U.S. institutions.

Time to wake the fuck up, all.
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’
Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights
www.theguardian.com

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26 years ago, there were no food banks. Now, because of rising food, rent and bills, and our poor social security system there are over 1,400.

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🚼 New research by @lshtm.bsky.social researchers and global partners shows how a vaccine could prevent newborn sepsis 💉🌍

@shaunkeegan.bsky.social, @neleshg.bsky.social, @childrensphila.bsky.social, @ahmedmicrobes.bsky.social, @kemriwellcome.bsky.social

Read more 👇
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

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I'm talking about flooding and climate change, chaired by @tomshakespeare.bsky.social, next Tuesday, following on a journalism project: muckrack.com/katharine-qu.... If you're in South London and want to come along, do join 20 January, free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flooding-a...
Flooding and Climate Change
Katharine Quarmby, award-winning writer, editor and journalist
www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Haidt is not an expert.

Here is a review of his book by an expert www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Client Challenge
www.nature.com

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This is tomorrow (thursday), live online at 7pm UK time. Join me, co-editor Simon Barraclough and fellow contributors Adele Evershed and A C Clarke. All welcome!

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MAGA👎

Welcoming iced-lshtm.bsky.social, being the very wonderful International Centre for Evidence in Disability, at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Check out our website for hundreds of research papers on disability & development.

The Thames.

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Last week, the Health and Social Care Committee questioned Stephen Kinnock on the findings of the report which the committee commissioned into palliative care.

The reports findings were worse than we were expecting.

It is clear that palliative care services are not good enough and must improve.

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"Whether you are a fan of the novel or film, here are five of O’Farrell’s best books for Hamnet fans. " www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

#MaggieOFarrell #Hamnet #Buchsky #BookSky
If you loved Hamnet, here are five other great Maggie O’Farrell reads
If Hamnet’s recent success has inspired you to delve deeper into Maggie O’Farrell’s bibliography, then here’s a good guide
www.irishtimes.com

"Heathcliff doesn't seem to have aged well," said Cordelia to her friend Euphemia.
#GirlsOwnCC

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New York City turned OUT.
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social ✊❤️
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

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The demented, orange felon “We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting.”
UK “You sure about that?”

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“Trump has given an honest account of how he sees himself: not so much a national president as a global emperor. Now those who oppose him have to be just as honest.” Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
From Caracas to Minneapolis, the threat is the same – an American president ruling like a global emperor | Jonathan Freedland
Trump’s admission that he recognises no constraint outside his own morality was a horrifying moment of truth, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com

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"Elon Musk limits the generation of child sexual abuse material to paying customers"

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'Global investment in low-carbon energy now outstrips that in fossil fuels by two to one. Taking over Venezuela’s basket-case oil industry will make no perceptible difference.'

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A colossal own goal’: Trump’s exit from global climate treaties will have little effect outside US
For much of the last 30 years, the rest of the world has been forced to persevere with climate action in the face of US intransigence
www.theguardian.com

A friend has warmed my new kitchen with bowls and mugs from the Bernard Leach Pottery in St Ives. I may expire from an overdose of loveliness.
Jesse Welles doing that thing he's really good at
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies