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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 5h

Love being back at the ocean and playing around with handheld long exposures - just amazing what effects you can get :)

#ICM #IntentionalCameraMovement #Reynisfjara #Iceland #CreativePhotography

A moody blue hour photo of crashing waves - the exposure is slowed down and it's handheld so there's some movement of the waves as they break - making it look like little white peaks. The sea behind is dark blue, with a lighter later on the horizon and another layer of blue above. There is some last light shining on the waves.

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🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥 @deborahobrien.bsky.social · 5h

Oh wow, see—-let the show of stunning pictures begin 🌎

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

this is insane.

www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

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🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥 @deborahobrien.bsky.social · 1d

Very seldom will I say anything degrading but what kind of human being would want a necessity taken away from a disabled person? Answer = a lousy piece of garbage 🤬🤬

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🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥 @deborahobrien.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you. Calendar marked 🌎

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

This is precisely what I remember Trump's bathrooms looking like.

Ben Carter @benjustgiggles.bsky.social · 1d

It just did not feel the same without the boxes

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🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥 @deborahobrien.bsky.social · 1d

Have a great trip Sophie and I look forward to seeing spectacular photographs as always 😎

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.

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🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥 @deborahobrien.bsky.social · 1d

This pretty much sums everything up in a few sentences

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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 2d

I am heading back to my Somerset-ish homelands on 18th Nov. to take part in the (impressive) Bristol Festival of Economics. I am part of a panel on polarisation alongside people much more expert than I, who will make it well worth attending.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/divided-we...

Divided we stand?

Part of the Festival of Economics 2025

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...

The value of public R&D

www.gov.uk

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my, the HMRC/Home Office assumption that they have complete data about each individual case - naive/reckless. Schemes like this need to have straightforward redress mechanisms designed in.

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 1d

More information coming out now on this. Looks like a Cabinet Office scheme led by Georgia Gould… planned savings of £10m-£30m a year (back up lower Premier League full-back price) don’t really seem worth the candle if this the result IMO.

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🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥 @deborahobrien.bsky.social · 1d

Just wondering if you announced the date the government is discussing the Parky charter? I do hope it is successful and other countries can initiate the same process. 🌎

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🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥 @deborahobrien.bsky.social · 2d

He can also sell secrets about the bunker 🤣

🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥 @deborahobrien.bsky.social · 2d

So very sad

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2d

For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.

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🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥 @deborahobrien.bsky.social · 2d

This should not happen. It can’t happen 👇

Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 2d

Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 3d

It’s lurve - @rorycj.bsky.social and #sophiefromromania

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 2d

V interesting. I grew up in this area in what used to be a very industrial (cotton and paper) town. A childhood of mills, chapels and walks on the beautiful moors.

JP Spencer @jpspencer.bsky.social · 2d

The Pennines are an unbroken chain of upland areas from near Stoke to Scotland.

But looking closely at a map of protected landscapes like national parks – the chain is broken between the Peaks and the Dales.

Why is this one area not protected - and should it be?

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Protected landscapes map - Defra (link in post)

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 2d

We used to love Club Med holidays when the kids were young because of the splendid Petit Club childcare offer…

Policy Sketchbook @policysketch.bsky.social · 2d

Is this an opportunity to post my favourite chart about French parenting? Not really, but I am going to do it anyway.

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 2d

People are misled by low false positive/negative rates for some AI applications but these can mean large numbers of high-impact cases that are costly to resolve. The rate matters but also the actual size of the denominator - and the impact of error.

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 2d

Somebody at HMRC needs to be canned for this idiotic ‘fraud-detection’ idea. And I fear future use of AI in welfare cases might well produce this kind of story regularly (as they have in Nevada for example).

UK woman who booked Oslo flight but did not fly loses child benefit ‘because she emigrated’

Exclusive: HMRC told Lisa Morris-Almond there was no record of her return to UK, but she did not take the trip

www.theguardian.com

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🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥 @deborahobrien.bsky.social · 3d

#nationalcatday

Precious moments in life are the ones where cats are always around.

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Alessio Terzi @terzibus.bsky.social · 4d

A few weeks ago, the @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk was officially launched. How exciting to be part of the founding faculty of a new department, and at Cambridge U no less!

Can't wait to see the BSPP grow to become a leading policy school worldwide

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🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥 @deborahobrien.bsky.social · 4d

@rorycj.bsky.social have you heard about this? 👇 I haven’t and I was wondering if you or any of your Parky group had any thoughts about this. 👇 I wonder if it’s legit?

www.prweb.com/releases/ibo...

Ibogaine for Parkinson's: A Groundbreaking Treatment at MindScape Retreat in Cozumel, Mexico

/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic, progressive neurological disorder that affects millions worldwide. It disrupts motor function,...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 5d

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At Bay Area protest, a second pastor is shot by federal agents with a pepper round

OAKLAND, Calif. (RNS) — For the second time in six weeks, a pastor was struck in the head with a pepper round fired by a US immigration agent as faith leaders protested the arrival of more than 100 US...

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