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Scientist. Recovering academic. Works in Research & Biz Innovation in Data & Health. Professional career coach, writing guide, academic mentor (get in touch here or on annacupani.com) Storyteller, walker and music lover.

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AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · Apr 11

To all my Italian-speaking friends: this is a podcast you want to listen this April.
It retells the last months of WWII in Padova. The Resistance and the key role that its university played in it. The tortures, the silences, the meaning of anti-fascismo for us today
open.spotify.com/episode/2YRQ...

Episodio 1 – Ultimo viene il corvo

Dietro gli scuri. L’ultimo inverno della Banda Carità · Episode

open.spotify.com

AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 21h

Not worth it, mostly due to missed wages. My pay has gone up significantly in the past 8 years, but I'll never make up for the previous 8 (spent getting a masters, a PhD and in precarious and poorly paid employment).

AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 21h

I'll bring this up, thanks for the suggestion!

AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 21h

I work in an open plan office. There are easily 50 people in there and I move across floors. We share meeting rooms that we enter and free every 30min. No windows that you can open of course.

AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 21h

Even in purely financial terms, it's a no brainer!

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AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 21h

To me it's still insane that we cannot get vaccines unless we fork out £98.
And flu vaccine, which was £14 in 2019, is now £21.
By all means I am fine with prioritising others, but I get vaccinated because 1.I don't like being sick 2.it helps reduce the spread. Accessible vaccines are a smart move!

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AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 1d

100%. Reform will do bad things. So we may just do them ourselves, ha!

AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 1d

"the need is for leadership"
Oh well, then I'm not holding my breath.
No sense of leadership in the current government, they can't even make their mind up on whether it's OK to make people like me second class citizens or not!

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

"The need is urgent for some coalition of politicians to take the lead and state baldly that Brexit was an error."

"The public is clearly ready to see Brexit reversed. There cannot be a single industry that would oppose it. The need is for leadership."

https://bit.ly/42Btcnf

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins

With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

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AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 1d

I never will, András! 😭
For years I travelled between Belgium and the UK and if border control was a nuisance and unnecessary imo, it's gotten worse and worse.
A stupid decision through and through.

AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 1d

Women talk too much, Olivia. All those words.

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AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I had to fill in a form and the person at the counter had to fill in a digital form copying what I had just written so there Definitely is some extra work as none of this was done before.

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AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 1d

The lady at the post office told me "everyone hates us now" and I had to refrain myself from telling her what you just said, that the price is set by us. Agree that it's RM decision but I suspect that the increase in postage is a way to recover the additional burden of extra customs work.

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AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 1d

Please read this.
Shame on media outlets for not checking.
I don't know what level of cognitive dissonance is needed to fabricate images using content that refers to entirely different places and not call it lying.
The thought that this is used to justify killings is even more sinister.

Jeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · 1d

How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda

An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

www.972mag.com

AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 1d

Did they just fed a nonsensical prompt to an AI and this is what they got?

AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 1d

I've massively cut down on Christmas and Birthday cards too.
A letter to Switzerland cost me £2.50 (I think it's gone up in the meanwhile), 2 weeks later I was in Italy and had to send another one to the same person €1.50.

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AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. My friend used to send some cute hair clips and cards to her little niece in Finland. Stuff that costs little but has a big emotional value. Gave up entirely for how much it costs (for both parties).
Stupidity: doing something to hurt others Even If it hurts us.

AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 1d

I posted a book and a card to a friend in Spain in a padded brown envelopes. Only when I made it to the counter and was asked to fill in an entire customs declaration I realised the implications. My friend had to pay 7EUR on receipt (I'm still ashamed).
Just 1 more way to make our life less pleasant

Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 2d

1. This does not target the UK

2. This is clear evidence of being inside a customs union rather than floating alone

3. It was inevitable that Trump's actions at the head of such a large economy would result in dumping elsewhere.. Europe has to be able to take action to counter that.

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AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 1d

I was there on a wet and grim autumn evening a few years ago. I don't remember the food but the people watching was great. A man in his 50s having dinner with his maman, a table of American young women dressed up, a couple who ordered Everything. The man next to me, on a business trip and chatty.

AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 3d

1 vote??? 😱

AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor appeared to be referring to the little whirlpool ramshorn snail, which is 5mm in diameter, and one of the rarest creatures in Britain. It is an indicator of clean rivers and ponds as it is very sensitive to sewage pollution."
Dispiriting.

Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 3d

I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 3d

I remember not long ago a Labour MP saying on this platform that expecting new developments to be accessible and have services was somehow too much because for someone on the street any home is better than no home. I was speechless.

AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 5d

Naive me thought that the point of education was... Learning (?), expanding one's horizons, understanding the world, having the tools to improve it. I know wealthy people don't need any of those to make a comfortable living, but I assumed they at least bought into the same value system.

AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 5d

I share your feelings, Karen. When I entered the UK system I was shocked at how much it seems geared to maintain class status while covering it with a varnish of 'meritocracy'. I once had a discussion w/ lecturers on whether the goal of education is learning or ranking students. Surreal.

AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 5d

Genuinely impressive rhetoric skills at play here.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6d

A Chicago citizen confronts the hypocrisy of a fellow Hispanic man working for ICE, shaming him and making a powerful point by asking how his family ended up in the United States.

AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 5d

They are terrible.
Terrible morals and terrible at politics.

AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 5d

I bumped into a couple of those and felt so strange...