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Quintin Lake @quintinlake.bsky.social · 2h

Sunset above Mynydd Tal-y-Mignedd (Mountain at the End of the Bog) a peak in the centre of the Nantlle Ridge in Eryri/Snowdonia.
The peaks of the Nantlle Ridge marked the culmination of my walks across all 188 mountain summits of Wales last August. #442Mountains

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 5h

Get some more culture. Come hear from all the authors shortlisted for our @britishacademy.bsky.social Book Prize on Tuesday 21 Oct. In person or tune in online
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...

British Academy Book Prize 2025 Shortlist Event

Join the shortlisted authors of this year's British Academy Book Prize for a dynamic conversation exploring the issues that define our time. These imaginative writers will share insights from their gr...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Sep 9

Cracking shortlist for our @britishacademy.bsky.social Book Prize 2025 including @profsophieharman.bsky.social, Bronwen Everill, @willdalrymple.bsky.social, Sunil Amrith, Graeme Lawson and @lucyaash.bsky.social
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/power-p...

Power, Politics and the Environment: British Academy Book Prize 2025 shortlist announced

Six books offering new perspectives on issues of global importance, united by rigorous research and a remarkable ability to tell powerful stories in an engaging and compelling way.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 5h

This is a strong effort

Danspur @danspur.bsky.social · 5h

Come Together - The Beatles 10/10
Come Together - Primal Scream 8/10

Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 7h

Fun music game.

Take two songs with the same name and post your combined score out of 10. How high can you get?

No covers/no triples (e.g. Power of Love)

My first effort, which i think is hard to beat...

Zombie (Fela Kuti) 10/10
Zombie (The Cranberries) 7/10

Total score: 17

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 5h

What an interesting idea for a new long-ish distance trail between Sheffield and Manchester through the #PeakDistrict peakdistrictbytrain.org/the-steel-co...

The Steel Cotton Rail Trail - Visit the Peak District by train

In the first half of the 20th Century, Sheffield’s steel workers and Manchester’s cotton mill workers escaped their polluted cities to reach the clean air of the Peak District. They travelled by train...

peakdistrictbytrain.org

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 6h

The 21st century is such a spectacular failure when viewed from the ideological optimism of the 1990s
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 9h

Waning immunity. A significant Covid wave in England. No new variant.
Thanks Prof Pagel for highlighting and contextualizing

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 1d

What an unpleasantly condescending, entitled, patronisingly nasty piece of churnalism.

Gals.

Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 1d

You do. And I reckon you’ll rock at it.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 1d

As an American watching our best & most crucial institutions crumble in less than a year under Trump, I suggest you make as many of these changes now, while you can.
We didn’t, obviously.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

I for one wasn't aware they'd even started.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently there’s a chance that Trump will win the Nobel Peace Prize tomorrow. I think today we’re in Schrödinger’s cat territory about whether irony is dead or not.

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David Walker @mrdavidcwalker.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder what it is about teaching facts, critical thinking, kindness and tolerance that Farage finds so unpalatable?

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 1d

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 1d

new term just dropped.

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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 2d

"The shadow justice secretary has railed against the lack of integration in parts of Britain. But it’s the ‘flag-bothering patriots’ who don’t want to mix", writes @sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social.

Read their full piece now: https://bit.ly/4mWSYtp

Yes, Robert Jenrick, we have an integration problem: raci...

The shadow justice secretary has railed against the lack of integration in parts of Britain. But it’s the ‘flag-bothering patriots’ who don’t want to mix

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure everyone has heard the story of the Australian tourists asking for Loogybaroogy

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 1d

I do wonder what the longest place name is that still gets pronounced fully. Locally, Nottingham and Loughborough are still pronounced with all three syllables. Well-ish: Nottnum and Luffbra aren’t uncommon. Pretty certain that Ashby De La Zouche or Kirkby in Ashfield are rarely pronounced in full

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 1d

Just over the county boundary, locals pronounce the town of Ilkeston as ‘Illsten’. It drives me to distraction. I get that ‘k’ at the start of words is often silent, but this feels like some smartarse school kid had that lesson and then thought ‘how far can I take this?’

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 2d

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

You know that thing about a frog being slowly boiled and not realising it?

Can we change 'boiled' to 'radicalised'?

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