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Join us for a special event on the value of knowledge in an age of disinformation.

📍 Conway Hall, London
📅 Monday 17 November, 2025

Buy your 🎟️ here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/5x15-lever... @expeditions.bsky.social @ucl-sbb.bsky.social
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The Philip Leverhulme Prize Collection, created in partnership with @expeditions.bsky.social www.joinexpeditions.com/partners/lev...
Bringing our collection live to a stage: www.5x15.com/events/5x15-... Join us!
White text on black background: The Philip Leverhulme Prize Collection. Logos: EXPeditions, Leverhulme Trust.
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Hannah Skoda, medieval historian @stjohnsox.bsky.social reflects on gender equality in higher education today and how progress can be made. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4619
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Cosmologist and professor of physics and astronomy @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, Clare Burrage, will demonstrate how her research bridges disciplines and is probing the dark universe.

Don't miss out! More details 👇 @royalsociety.org
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Dark matter remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in physics. Join Rosalind Franklin Prize winner Professor Clare Burrage as she discusses how her research is probing our dark universe, and how she aims to engage girls of all ages with the joy of physics: bit.ly/4mFfvL6
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Exploring the least explored planet of our solar system – Mercury. Featuring Philip Leverhulme Prize winner Emma Bunce @physicsuol.bsky.social, this film by @nftsfilmtv.bsky.social explores the BepiColombo mission.

🎬 media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/journe...

#WorldSpaceWeek 🚀
An artist's impression of the BepiColombo spacecraft in space with Mercury in the background. Image credit: spacecraft: ESA/ATG medialab; Mercury: NASA/JPL.
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Published today on #WorldHomelessDay: my book Debt Trap Nation – a deep dive into how government policy is driving families into homelessness & debt.

All royalties to @seacharity.bsky.social 💜

Families aren't failing. They're being failed.

📖 www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

#DebtTrapNation
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🌟 Meet Dr Diāna Bērziņa, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Centre for Digital Trust and Society

🗣️ "My research examines online marketplaces for digital objects – focusing on the blurred boundaries between legal and illegal activity, the drivers of these markets, and the role AI plays..."

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Contextualising anthropogenic extinctions. Jack Hatfield discusses his recent article resulting from a series of LCAB funded workshops bringing together paleobiologists and ecologists to discuss the evidence around how current extinctions compare to the fossil record.

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Join us for a special event on the value of knowledge in an age of disinformation.

📍 Conway Hall, London
📅 Monday 17 November, 2025

Buy your 🎟️ here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/5x15-lever... @expeditions.bsky.social @ucl-sbb.bsky.social
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Our Dr Iain Robertson & Dr @juliettedesportes.bsky.social are both delivering papers at Scottish Local History Forum's conference, ‘Popular Protest in a Scottish Local History Context’, in Paisley on Saturday 25 October! To view the full programme and to book your place, visit bit.ly/4fxbKp5
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We’re delighted to celebrate Prof. Federica Genovese, whose contribution to the Philip Leverhulme Prize Collection is now live on the EXPeditions platform.

The collection marks the Leverhulme Trust’s centenary, featuring conversations with 60 prize-winning scholars across disciplines. 🥳
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@fgenovese.bsky.social, professor @politicsoxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk reflects on the ideas and experiences that shaped her approach to tackling climate change. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4624
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Professor Vivienne Wild and her team @uniofstandrews.bsky.social exploit the unique capabilities of a powerful spectrograph to expand our understanding of why galaxies stop forming stars.

Read now: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/vwild

#WorldSpaceWeek 🚀
Side view of the optical components inside the MOONS, over two times as high as the man stood next to it.
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I meant Wednesday March 25th 2026...!
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The Philip Leverhulme Prize Collection, created in partnership with @expeditions.bsky.social www.joinexpeditions.com/partners/lev...
Bringing our collection live to a stage: www.5x15.com/events/5x15-... Join us!
White text on black background: The Philip Leverhulme Prize Collection. Logos: EXPeditions, Leverhulme Trust.
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@fgenovese.bsky.social, professor @politicsoxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk reflects on the ideas and experiences that shaped her approach to tackling climate change. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4624
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If, like Vik, you’re looking to complete a piece of original research, but the day-to-day is getting in the way, apply for a Leverhulme Research Fellowship:
👉 www.leverhulme.ac.uk/research-fel...
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📢OUR NEW PODCAST discusses legal personhood of nature, also known as rights of nature or more-than-human rights.

We talk to lawyer and professor Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito, the founding director of the More-than-Human Life (MOTH) Collective. @ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk
Podcast: More than Human Rights with César Rodríguez-Garavito
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Hear from Prof Daisy Fancourt and other groundbreaking researchers at a special event in London next month 👇
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What do literary historian Santanu Das, psychobiologist Daisy Fancourt, archaeologist Naoíse Mac Sweeney, geographer Simon Reid-Henry, and cultural historian @tiffwattsmith.bsky.social all have in common?
Black background with gold swirls. Headshots of Santanu Das, Daisy Fancourt, Naoíse Mac Sweeney, Simon Reid-Henry and Tiffany Watt Smith. Leverhulme Trust logo and URL leverhulme.ac.uk
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There's still time to grab your ticket for a FREE 'WILLS PROJECT' EVENT

Join @lsangha.bsky.social & musician Chris Hoban this Saturday for a FREE performance of history & music inspired by #EarlyModern wills 📜🎵

📍Exeter Phoenix
📅Sat 11 Oct
🕐13.30

Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-an...
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What happens when stars die? Vik Dhillon @sheffielduni.bsky.social @iacastrofisica.bsky.social will enhance HiPERCAM, a high-speed camera mounted on the world’s largest optical telescope, to study stars and measure the density of dark matter.
media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/vdhi...
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A view looking up at the instrument platform inside a large telescope dome, showing scientific equipment and structural supports.
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Join us online at 16:00 BST for Professor Rob Wilson’s talk, “Norming Human Individuality,” part of the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory Autumn 2025 seminar series.
Details and link: placememory.net/events-2/#Wi...