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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺

@katherineschof8.bsky.social

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Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 9d

We stand up for the vulnerable, not because they will eventually come for us — make no mistake, they will — but because it is the right thing to do.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 37m

Exercise is great for you for a whole host of reasons. Just not weight loss. A 5k run = one piece of toast.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 45m

At some point we are going to consider GLP1 drugs in the same way we think about insulin — a necessary life-long chemical corrective for a specific imbalance.

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 51m

Does not work at all because exercise does not do anything for weight loss — it’s a myth

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 3h

£12 billion when you factor in stamp duty.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3h

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 4h

Still I'm sure it'll be fine. It's not like those expectations are based on a completely unproven product with deranged costs and hysterical levels of hype.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h

BANK OF ENGLAND FPC: RISK OF A SHARP MARKET CORRECTION HAS INCREASED || EQUITY MARKETS ARE PARTICULARLY EXPOSED SHOULD EXPECTATIONS AROUND AI BECOME LESS OPTIMISTIC

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4h

Just in case you are curious - and my God you should be - about the dude Wes Streeting and others are handing loads of public data contracts to. 👇

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4h

"This surveillance supersystem," Thiel wrote, could act as “a political framework that operates outside the checks and balances of representative democracy as described in high school textbooks.” www.wired.com/story/the-re...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 2h

YES

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 2h

I do pilates and cycle, run, and swim now. Thinking of starting kung fu lessons. At a certain point it’s really positive for your physical and mental health to be active and strong. I just hate competing with anyone other than myself

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 2h

I was actually captain of the girls basketball team and not bad at cross-country running, but I was shit at PE.

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 2h

happy place

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 2h

Marie I absolutely love this. Have subscribed to the newsletter.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 2h

Met my son's PE teacher yesterday at a school event. Her eyes glazed over politely at mention of his name.

Let's just say he takes after his mother. In year 9 I actually failed PE.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 5h

Been to the youngest’s harvest assembly.
Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like ‘the apparatus’.
No one has any memory of it ever being used.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 20h

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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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 6h

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 2h

This looks excellent.

Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social · 2h

Join us on Oct. 15 for our next seminar on the American Revolution, "Lineage: Genealogy & The Power of Connection in Early America." Author @kawulf.bsky.social in conversation with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Register here: www.masshist.org/eve....

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 7h

My sense of this is that he does not do primary historical research in this area himself. It’s very difficult to put forth the arguments he does if one has actually worked in the primary sources. Perhaps I have misunderstood his methods.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 5d

The @telegraphnews.bsky.social, @dailymail.co.uk and @thespectator1828.bsky.social have all promoted Nigel Biggar’s latest book as the definitive riposte to reparations claims. But what exactly are its arguments and how do they stand up to scrutiny?

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The Anti-Reparations Bible

Alan Lester Promoting the Anti-Reparations Bible Britain’s right-wing press has mobilised to promote Nigel Biggar’s latest book, Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt as the defin…

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 17h

I kept falling asleep in it. I honestly don’t think it’s worth it

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 17h

Correct. IdeLly they would like slavery back thanks

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 22h

So since I'm annoyed let me say a few things today.Some folks have been writing about Christian Nationalism and apocalyptic right wing movements for YEARS here in the US. YEARS. Do we get to have a platform in major mags and newspapers... rarely.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 23h

No they’re inanimate objects please stop this nonsense

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 23h

Sorry for breathing I guess?

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 1d

My husband is from a working class background, but it drives me nuts when he tells our child that we — a Cambridge professor and a KCL professor with clergy ancestors back as far as the eye can see — ARE working class. (He has a technical point in that we don’t own the means of production 🙄 but ffs)

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1d

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”

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