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Nikki Fairchild

@nikki-fairchild.bsky.social

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Associate Professor in Creative Methodologies and Education. Interest in place-spaces and post-philosophies 🌿

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 1d

-UK net economic benefits of international students starting in 21/22 =£37.4 billion.
-Net economic contribution per constituency during their studies=£58 million.
-That's £560 per member of the population.
So stop the hostile rhetoric & stupid policies!
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

International students in UK higher education

The government met its 2030 international student recruitment target of 600,000 ten years early and numbers have continued to increase since 2020. This briefing looks at student numbers, government po...

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Froebel Trust @froebeltrust.bsky.social · 2d

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone at our Annual Lecture tonight with guest speaker, Jane Clarke – a progressive educator with over 40 years’ experience of specialising in early childhood teaching. 🤩

Let us know what you’re most looking forward to ⬇️

#FroebelianPrinciples #FroebelianEducation

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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 4d

🐋📸 If you love humpback whales, look no further. Captured over a five-year period, these stunning pictures offer an intimate glimpse into the lives of these ocean giants, whilst on their annual migration across our seas 🌊
https://bit.ly/4345FLJ

Jem Cresswell’s striking whale images – in pictures

The photographer spent five years documenting humpback whales in the waters surrounding the Tonga Trench

www.theguardian.com

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 5d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Froebel Trust @froebeltrust.bsky.social · 8d

“I just don’t think you can do your job as an educator if you don’t spend the time to get to know the children, because that’s where you’re teaching from,” - Rachna Joshi

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 11d

Dreadfully sad - please consider signing the petition - thanks
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Sign the Petition

Vigar’s Law - Ban brick walls around football pitches

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 11d

Been writing again today.

A Man Tells Me To Get Back In The Kitchen
As though the kitchen is a small place, a place he believes should only fit women, he says the kitchen is where women stay out of trouble. But I remember the way women gathered in a kitchen, how grandmothers gave their daughters and granddaughters solace, the amount of women our mothers have carried through their brutal marriages around kitchen tables, the cadence of stories we have told each other as we build nourishing meals from mere ingredients - fierce fables and tales rooted in rage, how we plotted rebellions in kitchens, navigated painful secrets, taught each other politics, confided our fears, our sorrows, our anger - and found ways to help each other thrive. They relegated us to a "small space" but we made it magic, powerful, beautiful anyway.
Get back in the kitchen, he says. Without realising, that in my home, the kitchen is where the revolution is.
- Nikita Gill

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12d

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 13d

Bottom trawling BULLDOZES our ocean floor, decimating marine life. The UK Government must take action and ban this destruction in all offshore marine protected areas. Have your say via the link below, before it's too late.

Act now! 🛑🌊
👉👉👉 https://bit.ly/42b3BBj

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thickamus prime @0hbetave.bsky.social · 16d

Go update your LinkedIn settings.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18d

Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18d

British media pumps out daily propaganda pieces for Farage, fails to offer *any scrutiny* and basically legitimises rampant racism, then puts on its ‘innocent face’ and clutches its pearls at the rise of the far right…
What a grim betrayal of our democracy.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins

Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19d

'My Garden...' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt

Print in blue and white of a stylised garden with trees, plants, birds, tools and plant pots as well as winding text which says 'In my garden I can feel life and it is beautiful"

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 19d

Harlem
📷Gordon Parks

Photo of a man standing astride a cruiser bike on a wet city street. There are children on the sidewalk behind him; it looks like they may be playing with an open fire hydrant.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19d

The indigenous Mollo women of West Timor use their looms to both spiritually and literally block mining companies in environmental protests to protect their natural surroundings. During protests, hundreds of women reportedly occupied mining sites for months on end #WomensArt

Photo of a standing woman wearing colourful dress facing forwards on a muddy track in a rural landscape with her hand resting on a small loom

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Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 19d

“Harvard geneticist David Reich said … increasingly sophisticated analysis of genetic material made possible by technological advances shows that virtually everyone came from somewhere else, and everyone’s genetic background shows a mix from different waves of migration that washed over the globe.”

Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette

Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

news.harvard.edu

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 19d

“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before”

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette

Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

news.harvard.edu

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23d

The Post Office paid law firm £86m for dealing with the public inquiry into the scandal.

30 years later victims await compensation for false prosecutions. Despite evidence no exec charged.

Fujitsu, lawyers, advisers complicit. Made millions in fees. No contribution to compensation fund.

‘Utter madness’ as Post Office paid law firm double the cost of scandal public inquiry | Computer Weekly

The Post Office legal representation at public inquiry into Horizon scandal cost twice as much as the actual inquiry

www.computerweekly.com

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 24d

Nigel Farage (Dulwich), Danny Kruger (Eton), Richard Tice (Uppingham) and Isabel Oakeshott (Gordonstoun) aren't 'standing up to the elite'. They are the elite.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26d

What do the immigration figures for the UK really show?

Official figures indicate net migration is falling, yet concern among Britons is close to the highest it has been since polling began in 1974

www.theguardian.com

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26d

'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, she used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state.
Find out more in the 1st @womensart1 book,
'Unravelling Women's Art'....

Textile artwork featuring a central stylised sun surrounded by small circular representations of orbiting planets, against a dark background

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J. Childhood Studies @childhoodjourn.bsky.social · 27d

Vol. 50(1) for the Journal of Childhood Studies is available now: bit.ly/42cAyxp

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 29d

Columbia cancelled my class on race and journalism, but I'm teaching anyway.

Only 9 Days left to register for my class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101, and 102!

I will not be teaching this again until 2026, so don't miss your spot!

www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series

A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

www.resistancesummerschool.com

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 10

Christi Belcourt, contemporary Métis visual artist known for her paintings which depict floral patterns inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork art #womensart

Painting with busy multicoloured floral motifs on a black background

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 9

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia

A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Sep 9

The grift goes on.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals

Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests

www.theguardian.com

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Froebel Trust @froebeltrust.bsky.social · Sep 8

HUGE congratulations to Dr Stella Louis who has been shortlisted for the Nursery World Awards 2025 Professional Book of the Year! 🙌

Her new book, Let’s Talk About Race (Routledge) co-authored with Hannah Betteridge, explores the importance of race and representation. (1/2)

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