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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 20d

With impact papers doing the rounds again

- speak to the experts like @boslough.bsky.social
- he knows what to look for

Interested in airbursts then just watch his 2022 presentation
“The Physics of Cosmic Airbursts”, youtu.be/GvsMhV46ciU?...

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 20d

What do they want their community, and wider UK, to be like in the future ?

And how will they know that they have got what they voted for ?

Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 20d

Some of those interviewed say they would never vote Labour again.

Is that true even if Labour increased investment in public services, and take a stronger stand against racism ?

What do they expect Reform UK will do on issues like welfare state, workers rights, and public services ?

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 20d

We should try to ensure that our political identity does not dominate our thinking.

Question. Ask why. Ask what is fact and what is opinion.

But above all else try not to fall down a rabbit hole.

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 20d

Farage and Reform are no doubt very happy that the media's focus is on immigration rather than the other policies that make a bigger difference to every day lives (if done properly).

When they actually told about Nigel Farage's position on, say workers rights, some are shocked.

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 20d

Great piece by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social on Reform voters, and their thoughts on Farage's narrative of political renewal.

I'm still unclear on what concrete steps they want Reform to take ?

Public Services ? Welfare state ? Business ? Policies on workers rights ? Tax ?

@anandmenon.bsky.social

David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 21d

Sacha's work presented here is a fascinating and sensitive deep dive into how de-industrialisation has been felt, understood, and interpreted in the places Reform is now winning, with reflections on what it means for Labour's political strategy

Sacha Hilhorst @sachahilhorst.bsky.social · 21d

So much talk about Reform voters, but I'm yet to read much about their lives beyond tropes and excuses ('legitimate concerns').

I've been back in the midlands to interview people and learn more. Here's my piece on them and Reform's attempts to present itself as a community-minded, pro-worker party:

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 20d

Looks interesting. Hopefully will be added to the @fimeinstitute.bsky.social YouTube channel.

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 21d

Given UN Commission report yes'y only wide-ranging suspension, removing trade concessions, stopping co-operation, sanctions, import/export bans, ... will do.

Doesn't help that there is no linkage between different components of international law, e.g. b/w TFEU/WTO/GATT and the Genocide Convention.

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 21d

Text of EU Commission proposal to partly suspend trade provisions of EU/Israel association agreement now public - in fact the proposed suspension is wide-ranging - ec.europa.eu/transparency...

Register of Commission Documents

ec.europa.eu

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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 21d

“He estimates that 70% of the contents of the ground-floor storeroom were successfully removed. They included many rare finds.

But all items left behind were crushed when rockets destroyed the 13-storey al-Kawthar building on Sunday. The IDF said it was targeting ‘Hamas terrorist infrastructure.’”

Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 21d

BBC, Reuters et al about the frantic race to save some of Gaza's historic artefacts.

Fadel al-Otol, one of Gaza's leading the effort. From Switzerland, his new home, he and others guided volunteers and aid workers to move truckloads of artefacts to a safer loaction.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 21d

The wanton destruction Gaza of Gaza's cultural heritage continues bsky.app/profile/dpma...

Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 21d

Gaza City mosque blown up by Israeli air attack.

Clearly the Israeli state and IDF are attempting to erase Gaza's cultural identity.

www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

Gaza City mosque blown up by Israeli air attack

Israeli forces bombed and destroyed a 13th century mosque in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City on Tuesday.

www.aljazeera.com

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 21d

Gaza City mosque blown up by Israeli air attack.

Clearly the Israeli state and IDF are attempting to erase Gaza's cultural identity.

www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

Gaza City mosque blown up by Israeli air attack

Israeli forces bombed and destroyed a 13th century mosque in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City on Tuesday.

www.aljazeera.com

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 21d

Which EU-Israel trade concessions are the EU proposing changes to ? The press release doesn't say.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 EU Commission proposes to suspend some trade parts of EU/Israel association agreement (needs qualified majority of Member States), sanction violent settlers and extremist ministers, Hamas leaders (needs unanimity of Member States) - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Commission proposes suspension of trade concessions with Israel and sanctions on extremist ministers of the Israeli government and violent settlers

Following the announcement of President von der Leyen in her State of the Union address, the European Commission presented today its proposal to the Council to suspend certain trade-related provisions...

ec.europa.eu

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 21d

#icap2025 available here
journals.openedition.org/archeoscienc...

ArcheoSciences appear to charge for full papers. Even if past research papers on same subject are open access 🤷‍♂️

ArcheoSciences - Revue d'archéométrie

Revue consacrée à la recherche sur l'application de techniques scientifiques à la résolution de problématiques archéologiques. Articles publiés en français ou en anglais.

journals.openedition.org

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 21d

Keynote lecture from @vincegaffney.bsky.social on submarged landscapes, incl EU @subnordica.bsky.social.

Shame #icap2025 keynote videos aren't available.

Partial abstracts appear to be available, the papers are not. For EU funded reseach may go against open research policy ?

@sef049.bsky.social

Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 21d

ICAP Day 2 and the keynote is Bradford's very own Prof. Vince Gaffney, opening the landscapes and paleoenvironments session, summarising 20 years+ of research into the submerged landscapes of northern Europe and elsewhere - Doggerland is of course at the fore #ICAP2025

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Wim Zwijnenburg @wammezz.bsky.social · 21d

Increase of illegal goldmining in #DRC comes with heavy health and environmental price for local communities, a new join @paxvoorvrede.nl / IPIS report finds. Using both #earthobservation analaysis and interviews we documented these impacts

➡️ paxforpeace.nl/news/illegal...

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 21d

That the local geomagnetic field in the region experienced a 'jerk' in 2007 was reported on in 2016, Kotzé and Korte (2016).

Though this is the first time signals related to these events have been detected by orbiting satellites.

Kotzé and Korte (2016), DOI : 10.1186/s40623-016-0403-7

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Nature @nature.com · 21d

Material deep inside Earth — thousands of kilometres down, near the planet’s core — has undergone a mysterious shift

go.nature.com/47IdVUY

Mysterious changes near Earth’s core revealed by satellites in space

Orbiters can pick up gravitational shifts thousands of kilometres below the surface.

go.nature.com

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 21d

Testimonies of Israeli doctors from the torture camp of Sde Teyman. By my colleagues Hagar Kotef and Meirav Amir. theconversation.com/israeli-doct...

Israeli doctors reveal their conflicted stories of treating Palestinian prisoners held in notorious ‘black site’ Sde Teiman

Israeli medical staff who treated Palestinian captives in the wake of the October 7 attacks say they are haunted by their experiences.

theconversation.com

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 21d

I can't play the movies in Supp Info with Microsoft Media Player, appears they have been generated with an HVEC codec.

Though VLC Media Player has no such problems ☺️

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Fabrice Ardhuin @fabriceardhuin.bsky.social · 21d

🌊 I've been working on the SWOT satellite for some time, and on ocean waves even longer, including as the science lead for @esaearth.esa.int SeaState Climate Change Initiative. This paper is about the largest ocean waves, looking back at 34 years of data www.umr-lops.fr/en/SWOT-reve...

SWOT reveals the largest ocean waves

Building on the 34 years of wave height measurements by satellite and the capabilities of the new SWOT satellite, a study reveals a new record for the highest ocean waves ever measured in the open oce...

www.umr-lops.fr

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Avi Scharf @avischarf.bsky.social · 21d

Fresh Planet Labs imagery (15Sep v 1Sep) shows already displaced Gazans leaving for the south. Most tents gone - as expected - first from north (Naser) and south (Tel El Hawa) n'hoods.

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 21d

And no the UN Commission report was not stanted. Ms. Pillay is the chair of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry wrote an opinion piece in the NYT.
archive.ph/FP2ek#select...

The UN Commission documented the Hamas war crimes back in June 2024 ↘️

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 21d

Quite telling that former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett claimed without evidence that Hamas has turned every hospital, school, and home into a terror base.

Israeli state/IDF clearly don't distinguish between combatants and civilians.

From C4's @krishgm.bsky.social youtu.be/OW66LokZqwY?...

"Sloppy and slanted": former Israeli PM on UN commission ‘genocide’ report

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

youtu.be

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 21d

So much for investment being spread around all regions and nations.

From my reading of this UK-US Tech Prosperity Deal announcement most of the investment will end up in and around London or South East 🙄

www.gov.uk/government/n...

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