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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 42m

UK food industry blames govt for rising grocery bills - on.ft.com/43df9V1

Fascinating all round. Factors include:

Bad Brexit effects
NICs rise pass through
Higher NMW
Skills shortage exacerbated by post Brexit effects
Weather
Producer responsibility regs
Subsidies don't incentivize growing 1/

UK food industry blames government for rising grocery bills

Living wage increases, new regulations and backed-up planning system driving price rises, say producers

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 18h

A corrected version of our colloquium program @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social , with an additional talk by Sven Beckert on Nov 5: Capitalism: A Global History

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Munich Security Conference @munsecconf.bsky.social · 18h

📢 After over 2 years as Vice-Chair, @rainerrudolph.bsky.social is returning to @germany.diplo.de and will take up a new posting as German Ambassador to Kosovo. His dedication, strategic insight & international perspective have left a lasting mark on our work!
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MSC Vice-Chair Rainer Rudolph Returns to the German Foreign Service

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Maud Anne Bracke @maudannebracke.bsky.social · 18h

📣📣Call for papers

sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/...

Hybrid workshop, "Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939)".

27 feb 2026, University of Glasgow.

Please share!

Motherhood Without Poverty 2026

Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939) Call for papers A One-Day Hybrid Workshop at the University of Glasgow Frid...

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 19h

Agree, but prospective applicants can find out about employment prospects after uni by degree course: the Graduate Outcomes Survey includes that data for individual subjects, I think. And employment prospects after graduation are not just (and I'd even say not mainly) an indicator of degree quality.

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Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social · 20h

Plus everyone (including the Tory party leader) has forgotten that the Conservatives *designed* the current funding system to subsidize degrees with the RAB charge: it was a feature then, not a bug, and now it is a 'rip off'.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20h

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:

Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees

Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected

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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 19h

Interested in cycling and Europe?
Fancy talking with other researchers about how we might develop our work?

Then sign up for the launch webinar of a new network, Cycling Europe Study Circle, with me and @patrickbijsmans.bsky.social, on 24 October, 14-16 UK time

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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 1d

The @stsucl.bsky.social History of Science Reading Group is back. Yesterday we discussed Helen M. Rozwadowski @oceanhistories.bsky.social , ‘Ocean literacy and public humanities’, Parks Stewardship Forum (2020) 36(3) escholarship.org/uc/item/11w5... (suggested by Janet Browne & Jordan Goodman)

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

At some point these imbeciles are going to realise that arts courses are *funding* the courses they do like and if they cut those places unis will just go bankrupt so no maths or science either.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

The UK’s steel sector warned of a potentially existential crisis after the European Union proposed raising tariffs to shield its own ailing sector

UK Steel Sector Warns of Crisis as Starmer Vows EU Tariff Talks

The UK’s steel sector warned of a potentially existential crisis after the European Union proposed raising tariffs to shield its own ailing sector.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 2d

Go Fred! This is commitment to the detox and I love it. He gets to have his holiday without the inevitable intrusive thoughts about the Nobel.

Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social · 2d

All hail a true hero. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

www.theguardian.com

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 1d

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of the children’s services funding formula halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government grants.

By me, for Politics Home: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

London Councils Face Losing Half Their Share Of Children's Services Funding

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of funding for children’s services halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government gran...

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 2d

This is already operating in the UK...and I can tell you that it's not just Turkish people who feel that way...

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out.

Every single one.

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 2d

I'd love it if it looked as clean and tidy where we live.
There's one pavement that you cannot use because a tree has started growing through the tarmac...

Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 2d

A walk from near ARU on East Road down Burleigh Street in #Cambridge. Sad to see my home town in such a state. Dread to think what other places are like after 15 years of austerity. (I’ve not left the county since…2019 😳)

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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 2d

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Lithuania: Balloons used to smuggle cigarettes shut Vilnius airport

Officials say 25 weather balloons carrying thousands of illicit cigarettes from Belarus were detected.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 2d

'Russian grey zone warfare'

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 3d

More great writing via @manchestermill.bsky.social. Nuanced and personal piece on Jewish and Muslim lives in Cheetham Hill, by @ophiraophira.bsky.social

manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...

Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story

‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

https://manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-muslims-in-crumpsall-cheetham-hill-manchester-attack/?ref=the-mill-newsletter#sharehttps://www.manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-muslims-in-crumpsall-cheetham-hill-manchester-attack#share

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 5d

The government seems to be looking at the politicisation of the Manchester synagogue attack like a deer in headlights.

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Clemens Villinger @clemensvillinger.bsky.social · 6d

Die andere Seite der Medaille.
zweiteroktober90.de

zweiteroktober90 – Die Gewalt der Vereinigung

Online-Dokumentation neonazistischer Angriffe, die am 2./3. Oktober 1990, also zum Tag der Vereinigung der beiden deutschen Staaten stattgefunden haben.

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FES history @feshistory.bsky.social · 6d

Heute vor 40 Jahren, #andiesemTag 1985, starb der frühere Bundesfinanzminister Alex Möller in Karlsruhe im Alter von 82 Jahren. Sein jahrzehntelanger Spitzname: „Genosse Generaldirektor“. Wie kam es dazu? 1/

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 6d

One reflection talking to other Jews today is how unshocking this is.

Numbing, upsetting, scary but not shocking. We all knew it was coming. Given the enormous rise in antisemitic incidents in recent years, it's a surprise it hasn't happened more often.

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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 6d

We were just finishing Yom Kippur morning service when our rabbi announced this had just happened. We’d been reflecting on the atrocities in Gaza & praying for peace. Our tiny community is horrified & heartbroken

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

Two dead after suspected terror attack on Manchester synagogue, police say, with suspect shot by officers – latest

Keir Starmer will fly home early from Europe to chair a Cobra meeting, while Greater Manchester mayor tells people to avoid the area

www.theguardian.com

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