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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4h

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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James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social · 1d

Subtle. Very subtle. Perhaps too subtle…

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 1d

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James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social · 1d

This sounds like a brilliant PhD project!

Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 1d

This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.

I’m sure many of you might be interested.

#STS #HPS #HistSci

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LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone should leave a Teams meeting this way

James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social · 2d

Its opinion with no substance. Argument with no facts.

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James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social · 3d

I thought they were all about not intervention and letting the market respond to peoples’ wants?

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James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social · 3d

15kg of coffee grounds is a lot of coffee….

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James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social · 3d

I'm asking the Australia Institute to go through my credit card statements.

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James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social · 4d

Yes. Luckily we’d avoided visa fees, NHS surcharges etc due to EU citizenship.

James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social · 4d

Of course in the UK it’s very expensive. And you have to swear allegiance as a subject of the king…..

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 4d

Former Tory MP Penny Mordaunt’s claims that trade unions are “openly antisemitic” are false, dangerous and deeply irresponsible.

Trade unions have long stood against antisemitism and all forms of hate and continue to fight for equality, fairness and solidarity for all working people.

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James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social · 4d

My wife took citizenship after Brexit as she felt her rights would otherwise always be at risk of erosion. I thought she was nuts…

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James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social · 6d

The moment when I thought it was going to go horribly wrong and the boy was going to take off with the ball, cackling.

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James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social · 6d

My phone deserves the right to vote.

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James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social · 8d

Because he played no role whatsoever in undermining - politically and materially - science in the U.S.

James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social · 10d

It feels a bit bitcoiny

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James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social · 13d

They just didn't have to be shit, surely?

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James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social · 14d

I don’t know how he can be so prolific and so consistently good. Just read Shroud, which was great in the ‘humans can’t understand aliens and vice versa’ genre, and another Children of Time novel apparently on the way.