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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14h

Pay strict attention to this when considering forthcoming US elections.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h

Why has Dominion Voting Systems been settling defamation lawsuits with Trump allies who falsely claimed the company stole the 2020 election?

Because Dominion has just been bought by a company run by a former GOP election official.

Be warned.

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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 11h

a black and white photo of a little girl covering her face with her hands .

Alt: a black and white photo of a little girl covering her face with her hands .

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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 11h

Ah! No need to apologise!!!!

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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 12h

Isn't he still going? About 63?

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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · 22h

If you read one book during #Bannedbooksweek read Burning the Books by Bodley’s Librarian @richove.bsky.social. The strongest wake up call yet that we need to stand up for our intellectual freedoms!

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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 17h

I suspect this may be a joke. However, what is so weird is that I'm really not completely sure. 🙃

mean dean the halloween machine 🎃 @deanr.co.uk · 18h

us military reportedly being mobilised to stockholm

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18h

Paedophiles will love this - a great way to identify and target their victims.

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 1d

Mary mother of Christ, these people are overpaid fools.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 21h

What was that they were saying about Digital ID's only being used for 'right to work'? Either they are forcing 13 year olds out to work... or Digital ID's really are to be rolled out for everyone...

Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 21h

I think it was @hannahfearn.bsky.social who was asking what's up with the govt's ability to read the room ...
In what world is the response to high-profile and vocal groups of parents raising concerns about teens and smartphones to propose digital ID for teenagers?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Government to consult on digital IDs for 13-year-olds

There has been a backlash to the announcement a UK-wide digital ID scheme will be introduced by 2029.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 1d

Make it stop!

Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 1d

My day is shot bc a colleague just shared this UNC press release about a still to-be-named, to-be-designed, to-be-planned AI school where the only known fact seems to be that it will replace the library school.

www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...

University leadership announces development of new school at Carolina | UNC-Chapel Hill

The School of Information and Library Science and the School of Data Science and Society will be founding leaders of a new school to amplify and lead Carolina’s response to the information and data ne...

www.unc.edu

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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure I agree we need to go that far!

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sinister stuff.

Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 1d

As you'll see from the @openrightsgroup.org analysis, Ofcom is considering banning anyone under 18 from streaming legal online content if they also get comments or payments for it. People old enough to be in paid employment would be breaking the law if they start a legal business online.
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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 1d

You can read about David Killingray's approach and methods to identifying black Britons in rural settings (from 1600 onwards) in @balhnews.bsky.social's journal, 'The Local Historian'. Recommended.

The Local Historian Volume 51 Number 4 October 2021 | | Local History News | British Association For Local History

www.balh.org.uk

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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 1d

What a coup de grace!

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

"The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote." www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Britain’s Bathroom Ban

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

Estimated 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25.
"the original sin was to sell higher education to policy makers as ‘skills training’ or ‘investment’ "
#HigherEd #teaching #research #edchat #students
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 1d

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

“We want our international students to continue to feel welcomed for the positive social and cultural and economic contributions they make in Wales, and we're very keen to ensure that that continues so there will not be a levy in Wales.” (Welsh education secretary Lynne Neagle)

Wales rules out levy on international student fees

Education secretary confirms devolved nation will not follow UK government in taking a cut of overseas tuition fee income

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who still thinks Turning Point is a benign organisation defending free speech in universities needs their head examined.

RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 2d

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2d

Leunig, a former gov adviser, said scrapping it — while it would boost growth and productivity — would be “a very, very big tax cut for rich people”. One effect would be to boost house prices, making the main beneficiaries the existing owners of expensive properties in the south-east of England.

Should stamp duty be scrapped in the UK?

Conservative party says property tax deters people from moving house and stifles productivity

www.ft.com

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Goblin Gower, PhD (the Ph is for Phantasm) @medievaliste.bsky.social · 2d

This is a key piece of the attacks we’re seeing on all levels of education: A public that distrusts teachers and professors is a public that is primed to allow government leaders to divert public funds—meaning taxes—towards tech billionaires and their questionable products.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2d

Fueling distrust in teachers--particularly among vulnerable students--might also be by design. Because tech companies have a great deal to gain financially if they can persuade families and policymakers that AI can replace teachers in struggling public schools. 3/

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 2d

Wow.

h/t @samanthabrennan.bsky.social

This looks really incredible.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This article examines the paradox of the humanities: they are simultaneously denigrated while non-humanities disciplines utilize (and champion) the very skills that are considered uniquely cultivated by a humanities education. My examination reveals that with the fissure between the humanities and other disciplines, knowledge about what the humanities do—and thus contribute to education in other fields—continues to diminish, furthering the cycle of marginalizing the humanities while also benefitting from them without attribution. I consider a time when a humanities education explicitly played a crucial role in the development of leaders, especially in business, because of the role the humanities played in the cultivation of analytical skills and the development of good judgement. I use this examination to consider what this lost connection means not only for the development of leaders but also for realizing the significant role that the humanities play across the professions and in our universities. The pedagogical role of the humanities in its development of analytical ability and judgment is crucial to public life from the flourishing of the business world to the lives we lead living with each other as fellow citizens.

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