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Angela Cassidy

@angecass.bsky.social

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Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm. Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'

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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · Nov 13

Please please, GIVE ME A SIGN YOU'RE REAL!
"1. Fill out your profile BEFORE you start following people: issue is that accounts with generic avatars and no biography or introductory text are perceived as likely to be bots, so users not only eschew following back but they may even automatically block"

University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social · Nov 13

We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky!

It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide...

>> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...

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The Researcher’s Guide to Bluesky – The Library, Learning, Archives and Wellbeing Blog

blogs.york.ac.uk

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 17h

What timing! The "planetary health diet" has just been updated: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 8h

Without one I just couldn’t balance work/kids and would have given in and bought a car. The biggest challenge for mass take-up is everyone’s buying them through regressive Cycle to Work tax dodge. So a £5k bike costs 12 x £241 monthly payments if you’re high earner or 12 x £416 if you’re in poverty.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 1d

Electric cargo bikes can replace many everyday car trips for the average family and “reshape suburban family mobility”, say Oxford University researchers. 49 British households were loaned e-cargo bikes for school runs, shopping trips, family outings and other day-to-day use.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 8h

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 8h

This also applies I think to environmental campaigning. People are always talking about the need to stop using 'challenged' words or phrases like rewilding, net zero, climate change - but ultimately it is the content of these things which threatens powerful interests, not the words.. ⬇️

Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 8h

“The changing of names in order to destigmatise these conditions has been done for a very long time... And in my opinion, it doesn't work... because history suggests that sanitising a name only works for as long as people don't know what that new name means.”

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12h

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Melissa Paints @melissavandiver.bsky.social · 13h

This is a REAL strategy! I will keep posting about the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army until morale improves!! beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool...

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Julia 🐝 🏳️‍🌈 @juliaboogers.bsky.social · 13h

Get you a sister that will surprise you with a trip to a contemporary artspace with a rideable nudibranch 🥰 fun fact, I learned that nudibranch rhymes with “tank,” who knew? Not I!

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Brian Rifkin @brianrifkin.bsky.social · 1d

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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

Good morning to all the excellent people of Brum www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3LF...

Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution - 01 - Handsworth Revolution

YouTube video by ReggaeRootsChannel

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ROTO Research Group @roto-rub.bsky.social · 2d

Next Monday, we start the new Lecture Series! We're very happy to welcome @celsoneto.bsky.social as our first speaker. 🤩 Celso will talk about race reification and population descriptors in human genomics.
Just register here to participate: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#PhilSci #PhilMed

Poster for the talk by Celso Neto (University of Exeter), entitled "Race Reification and Population Descriptors in Human Genomics". It will take place on Monday, 13 October 2025, at 4 pm (CET) via Zoom.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Nobody cares and nothing will happen but this is classically, paradigmatically fascist language. Comparing opponents to vermin and pests is straight out of the textbook.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

Brief clip of a (very) short film I've done based on the @dartmoorcollective.org Flow brief and which I'll be showing at next week's zine launch.

Bit of an experiment this - mixing up video footage taken on the moor over a 2 year period with a layered synth sequence and ambient drone.

#Dartmoor

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the badgers, for today is their special day!

To celebrate National Badger Day, here is an illustration of a badger from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc.

📷 Reserve 590 BUF

#NationalBadgerDay #BadgerDay #RareBooks

Cropped image from a book, showing a colour illustration of a badger standing on a patch of grass, painted in shades of black, white and green.

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 3d

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

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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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 2d

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Framing the Planetary and Calculating the Complex: The Controversies, Overflows, and Floods of the EAT-Lancet Planetary Diet" by George Cusworth #overflows #complexity #planetary #environmentalknowledge #scientificcontroversies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

📢NEW POST📢

I had a chat with Catherine Hurcombe for the Public Engagement with Research at Exeter series.

Read on to learn more about the wills project engagement with volunteers and artists👇

#EarlyModern 🗃️ @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social

sites.exeter.ac.uk/per/2025/09/...

What's in a Will? Using Public Engagement to Add Depth to a Project

In this interview, Catherine Hurcombe speaks to Dr Laura Sangha from the Department of Archaeology and History about her role on the research project, The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790,...

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Simon Pooley @s-pooley.bsky.social · 2d

I will be giving an Animal History Group seminar on aspects of my forthcoming book Discovering the Okapi: Western Science, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Search for a Rainforest Enigma - online on 12 November at 8pm GMT.

Book for this free event here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ahg-semina...

AHG Seminar - 12 November: Book Talk - Discovering the Okapi

Join us for our monthly seminar series.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 2d

Didn't take long. Age verification puts users of lawful services at risk.

John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

It's fascinating how there are still replies on this, and indeed on every post about the decline of the Tories, with people on the left and centre-left people going 'good'. Honestly, I don't know how big of a warning sign you need that the death of the Tory party is bad for your politics!

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3d

Removing her will be an act of mercy at this point. It's getting unbearable to watch her flail around.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

Well, at least that's over now. (The speech. Her leadership has between one to seven months left to run.)

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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 3d

Can tell it's officially autumn because sunsets have started doing this again.

View of sunset from my house - banks of little, dappled clouds, painted red, pink, orange, yellow, with contrasts of grey and blue sky peeking through. Sunset reflected in a puddle on neighbours flat roof

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 4d

Many lichen species are sensitive to nitrogen pollution, making them natural indicators of air quality.

📱LicheN is a new app enabling people to help monitor air quality using lichens. Data gathered will improve understanding of N pollution and its impacts on ecosystems.

buff.ly/AmWAOQB

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Side by side photos of a person looking at a picture of lichen on an app and comparing it to lichen on a tree trunk

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3d

a very windy wet run and also I suddenly can't run the route I've run for the past 15 years because the university has now completed the erection a fence around their city edge playing fields. It took all summer, can't help wonder how much it cost, & if that's where my lost research allowance went

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 5d

Worth always keeping in mind that the Guardian has a commercial partnership with OpenAI, so nothing it writes about AI can be trusted

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 6d

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting research on attitudes towards & use of e-cargo bikes in the UK.

Particularly noteworthy for demonstrating the level of interest in e-cargo bikes nationally and the extent to which they replace car journeys. In a trial in suburban areas over 50% of the distance travelled replaced car use

E-cargo bikes as a personal transport mode in the UK: insights from surveys and suburban trials

This paper explores the potential of e-cargo bikes as a personal transport mode in the UK, reporting on a series of surveys and trials. Hypothesising …

www.sciencedirect.com

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