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Alix Mortimer
@alixmortimer.bsky.social
I(i)mpact and engagement for my brilliant colleagues in politics, economics, social sciences @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Often I dream of islands.
🚢 ships
🏺archaeology
🏰 medieval history
🇭🇷 učim Hrvatski
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I read three student newspapers in the course of writing this & on the off chance any student journalists at York, Exeter or Cambridge are reading this; God you’re all so much better than student journalism was in my day www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff
A debating society didn’t want to invite two figures connected to the party to speak. Cue an authoritarian response, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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BREAKING NEWS: Small Otter does important small otter stuff.
February 13, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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So at the beginning of the pandemic I said it would take about 5-7 years for people to figure stuff out using heuristic learning methods.

I am a crystal ball.
February 13, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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This ruling shows that proscribing Palestine Action was a grave misuse of terrorism laws.

Labour must accept its mistake, drop its appeal and stop wasting taxpayers' money suppressing civil liberties.

Degrading counter-terror powers is a genuine threat to national security.
February 13, 2026 at 2:31 PM
So we get an update on how [he thinks] it’s going yes?
GUESS WHO JUST WON BRONZE AGAIN
February 13, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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Another idle Chinese shipyard springs back to life as capacity nears 2010’s peak

▶️China Merchants to restart Wuhan Qingshan Shipyard in 2026 after eight-year hiatus
▶️Revival part of broader wave of reactivations pushing Chinese capacity near early-2010’s peak
Another idle Chinese shipyard springs back to life as capacity nears 2010’s peak
Strong demand and full berths at leading yards fuel wave of shipyard reactivations across China
https://www.lloydslist.com/articles/2026/02/12/another-idle-chinese-shipyard-springs-back-to-life-as-capacity-nears-2010’s-peak
February 13, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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🚨 New research: AI, Automation, and Expertise🚨

We analyze hundreds of millions of job ads across 39 countries to understand how AI is changing labor markets around the world.
January 26, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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📢 Call for papers!

We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London!

Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU)

No fee, travel grants might become available!

Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026
February 13, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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I mean look at that!!!
February 13, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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This is the best explainer I’ve seen on Ratcliffe’s motives for his racist outburst. We shouldn’t enter into any ‘debate’ on immigration on these terms. It’s a deeply dishonest and dangerous call to arms by cynical people who prioritise profit over everything else
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
February 13, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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UK Humanities and Social Science researchers: If you want DSIT's metascience agenda to include your disciplines and subject areas, this is the prompt to apply by 23 April for up to £350,000 to make that happen. Don't be left out in the cold. #Skystorians
Metascience research grants: round two
Apply for funding to undertake cutting-edge Metascience research into more effective ways of conducting and supporting research and development (R&D), including the impact of artificial intelligence (...
www.ukri.org
February 12, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Key stakeholders
February 12, 2026 at 4:55 PM
The shouty old right used to lay into the BBC for pro-European propaganda and the real reason millennials are pro-Europe was hidden from them all along because we had the volume turned down
The year is 1995.

You've finally got a tv in your bedroom. You pretend to sleep, before hearing your parents finally go to bed.

With the thrill of disobedience, you turn it on, volume right down. You cycle through the channels, to number 4.

You see whatever the fuck this is.
February 12, 2026 at 3:57 PM
*looks at swathes of colleagues with PhDs, looks at office work that needs to be done, studies interface between the two*

Is this a trick question?
February 12, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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I can't be the only one who immediately thought of Belfast when I saw that photo.
February 12, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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Thanks to all the charlatans, quacks and fools who've allowed measles to reach my child's secondary school in London
February 12, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
February 11, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Pleased to say I had never heard of Jim Ratcliffe before but he has wrong’un hair.
February 12, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
February 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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You can’t offload emotional labor. Believe me, I’ve tried
February 11, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Truly incredible number of projects slated to reach some sort of crescendo in late May, no way can this go wrong.
February 11, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Right, I missed this, what the what now?
Now that the air travel has been shut down around El Paso for 10 days, the next thing worth looking out for is how far federal forces set up checkpoints around the city towards its links to the North and not just directly at the Mexican border
February 11, 2026 at 12:59 PM
This is the truth the January-haters cannot face.
Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
February 11, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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#EarlyModern 🗃️

Rosamund Oates is researching the history of early modern deafnes - see her P&P article, book out soon I think.

academic.oup.com/past/article...
February 11, 2026 at 9:18 AM