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Christine Cardin

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X-ray crystallographer and nucleic acids fan. Ruthenium is still my favourite element. Still proud mum of two. Pro EU.

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Christine Cardin @christinecardin.bsky.social · Nov 22

Happy to say that the proposed closure will not be going ahead as proposed. The Department will remain, albeit with some changes. I rapidly realised that for many of you, this will be what you wanted to see. Huge thanks to all supporters!

Christine Cardin @christinecardin.bsky.social · Nov 17

On October 22nd, without warning, we were emailed about this. The proposal will go to our University Council on 20th November. Please sign the petition (661 signatures now) and please write to the Vice-Chancellor, Robert van de Noort ([email protected]).
www.change.org/p/stop-unive...

Sign the Petition

Stop University of Reading from closing the Department of Chemistry

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adrianbbonnie.bsky.social @adrianbbonnie.bsky.social · 8d

#FarageBoats
“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage and others that before we left the EU, we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU and he told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that,”
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...

Starmer to rethink human rights law to tackle ‘Farage boats’

Prime minister blames Brexit for surge in numbers of small boat crossings but defends UK’s membership of ECHR

www.theguardian.com

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MakeBritainNiceAgain @grahamgrumps.bsky.social · Sep 1

The last thing #Farage wants is a stop to the small boats. They are his passport to wealth on his gravy train of hate and divisiveness. He caused this problem by pulling us out of the Dublin agreement with his #Brexit

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Greyrigs @greyrigs.bsky.social · 17d

Go Ed!
#FarageBoats

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17d

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place"

"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people"

-Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

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lukewarm24.bsky.social @lukewarm24.bsky.social · 8d

The Brexit effect is clear and obvious

The Farage boats

Or Brexit boats

Both seem appropriate

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The Braes o' Bonúll @bonullbraes.bsky.social · 9d

This is what Farage's Brexit did to the figures for migrants arriving in small boats. Before Brexit there was a negligible amount. Farage told us it would be controlled by Brexit.
Farage, the root cause of all this, is apparently the most popular political leader in the UK right now???

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 8d

“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏

PM Keir Starmer

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 8d

Starmer: “Controlling migration is a reasonable goal- but if you throw bricks and smash up private property that is thuggery…if you incite violence that’s criminal…if you graffiti on a Chinese takeaway telling them to go home, that’s not pride that’s racism.”

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PoliticsJOE @politicsjoe.bsky.social · 9d

Starmer firing shots at Nigel Farage in his Labour conference speech.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13d

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 13d

Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts

After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...

Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts

Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.

pressgazette.co.uk

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jimmy alto @jimmyalto.bsky.social · 11d

#Portland #PDX #books #read #powells #powellsbooks #bookseller #independentbookstore #shoplocal #WarRavagedPortland

Powell's City of Books is a renowned independent bookstore located in Portland, Oregon. It is widely recognized as the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world, spanning an entire city block and housing over a million titles across various genres. Founded in 1971 by Walter Powell, it has grown into an iconic cultural landmark in Portland.

The store is known for its unique organization, featuring color-coded rooms by genre, and its distinct practice of shelving new and used books side-by-side. It also boasts a notable Rare Book Room, containing valuable first editions, signed copies, and collectible prints. Beyond being a retail space, Powell's City of Books serves as a community hub, regularly hosting author events, storytimes, and other literary gatherings.

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Annie Andrews, MD @drannieandrews.com · 11d

Trust your doctor, not the President, with your healthcare decisions. 🩺

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12d

ARE

YOU

PAYING

ATTENTION

YET?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12d

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

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Christine Cardin @christinecardin.bsky.social · 14d

Exactly x

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16d

Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist."

RT if Mick is right.

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Christine Cardin @christinecardin.bsky.social · 14d

Does it! Did not know that. Anyway. We both understand this sort of thing better than Trump ever will 👍

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Christine Cardin @christinecardin.bsky.social · 15d

Exactly. As a chemist, I teach chirality and enantiomeric separation. But I don't think paracetamol has chiral centres anyway?

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The British Pain Society @britishpainsoc.bsky.social · 15d

📢 MHRA Drug Safety Update:
Paracetamol remains safe to use in pregnancy. It is the first-choice pain reliever, used at the lowest dose for the shortest duration. It also treats fever.

ℹ️ More info & guidance: www.gov.uk/drug-safety-...

Paracetamol and pregnancy - reminder that taking paracetamol during pregnancy remains safe

Patients should be reminded and reassured that there is no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children. Paracetamol is recommended as the first-choice pain reliever for...

www.gov.uk

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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info · 15d

For some perspective on this whole ass autism shit. Autism was first included in the DSM-III in 1980 and has been updated in every DSM since. Acetaminophen or Paracetamol has been commercially produced since fucking 1878!!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracet...

Paracetamol - Wikipedia

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Christine Cardin @christinecardin.bsky.social · 15d

Someone explain enantiomeric separation to Farage please.

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Christine Cardin @christinecardin.bsky.social · 16d

Please do. And get it on the telly!

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Richard Wingfield @richardwingfield.bsky.social · 16d

One of the biggest topics of discussion at #LDConf has been the threat from Reform and how we fight back.

The depressing spectacle of the Conservatives' capitulation to the populist right, and Labour's equivocation, means it falls to the Lib Dems to lead the charge against Farage. And we will! 💪🏻🔶

Lib Dems have moral duty to defeat Nigel Farage, says Ed Davey

Speaking at the Lib Dem conference. Sir Ed tells the BBC he's afraid of Nigel Farage and is offering

www.bbc.co.uk

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itomski.bsky.social @itomski.bsky.social · 16d

The libdems have to have a conference for Ed Davey to appear several items down the BBC news items. Farage just has to open his mouth and he appears at item number two on evening broadcast.

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Christine Cardin @christinecardin.bsky.social · 16d

My PhD students 😡

Christine Cardin @christinecardin.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you, so would everyone I know.