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Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · 7d

I’m looking forward to this 👇🏻

The Welsh Politics Pod @welshpolitics.bsky.social · 7d

Here's our trailer for the pod with @lauramcallister30.bsky.social of @walesgovernance.bsky.social , Lauren McEvatt, and Lee Waters MS 👇

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Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · 10d

An excellent win for 🇪🇺

…Shane Lowry’s celebration when we retained the Ryder Cup was absolutely joyous!

#jumpingaround #golf #rydercup

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Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Aug 31

In Wales, The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Act 2023 makes it a criminal offence to supply or offer to supply (including for free) certain single-use plastic products to consumers in Wales, unless an exemption applies.

www.gov.wales/environmenta...

The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Act 2023 | GOV.WALES

An Act to tackle plastic pollution and deliver our commitment to abolish commonly littered single-use plastic products.

www.gov.wales

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Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Aug 29

Never mind guess the castle… guess the coffeeshop! Looks like Marmalade House!

Looks like you had a good day in Cas-gwent yesterday 👍🏻

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Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Aug 27

Well I never. Wow, wow, wow. What a brilliant match and incredible (18 min) penalty shootout!

Huge congratulations to Grimsby Town.

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · Aug 12

The benefit of benefits www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08... There are few things in life that are more straightforward than the economics of paying benefits to those who need them.

The fact every politician should know is that paying benefits can, and often does, pay for itself.

The benefit of benefits – and why wealth floods-up

There are very few things in life that are more straightforward than the economics of paying benefits to those who need them. The simple, straightforward, obvious fact that should be known to every p...

www.taxresearch.org.uk

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Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Aug 1

Today is Ectopic Pregnancy Awareness Day.

Before having my ectopic pregnancy, and the life-changing effects it caused - physically and emotionally, I knew very little about ectopic pregnancies.

Please check out @ectopicpregnancy.bsky.social - they have lots of info and support.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · Jul 21

Poems from the children of Gaza.

"And the question remains - will we tell it or become the story?"

What a line. 💔

Poems from the children of Gaza (2)

"And the question remains - will we tell it or become the story?"

westenglandbylines.co.uk

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Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Jul 15

Very happy that a new series of @sewingbee.bsky.social has begun… equally happy that I get to show huge amounts of appreciation for Esme’s necklaces.

Love, love, love her necklaces!

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Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Jul 13

40 years ago, with a pack of blank videos at the ready, I set our video recorder to long play to tape Live Aid.

What an extraordinary event and an extraordinary response to human suffering.

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Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Jul 13

Now on to the matter of the match!

C’mon Cymru!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

#cymru #england #euro @fawales.bsky.social

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Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Jul 13

A tear or two of pride for this Cymru team. Singing their hearts out to our national anthem - an anthem that is rooted in our people, our places, our culture. They have written a new chapter in our country’s history. Diolch o galon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@fawales.bsky.social

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Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Jul 9

‘The future of quant is qual’

~ Phil Sutcliffe, Nexxt Intelligence

@the-sra.org.uk #annualconference

Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Jul 9

A packed house @the-sra.org.uk Annual Conference this morning!

The first topic of the day…

'Empathetic chatbots and synthetic personas - how AI is shaping research?'

Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Jul 9

Early start this morning for @the-sra.org.uk Annual Conference in Llundain.

I will be ushering and on roving mic duty!

Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Jul 6

Beautiful shapes. Beautiful setting. Beautiful girl.

#acrobatics #gymnastics #colwynbay #gogleddcymru

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Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Jul 4

It was great, thank you! Thank you for enabling a wonderful conference.

Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Jul 3

Awful, awful news. So dreadfully sad 😢

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 3

Diogo Jota, Liverpool and Portugal footballer, dies aged 28 in car crash

It is understood that Jota and his brother were travelling in a car that came off a road in the province of Zamora The Liverpool forward Diogo Jota has been killed in a car accident in Spain. He was 28, a father of three young children and had married his long-term partner, Rute Cardoso, less than two weeks ago. The tragic news was first reported in Portuguese media. It is understood that Jota and his brother, 26-year-old André, were travelling in a car that came off a road in the province of Zamora. More details soon … Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dotiau @dotiau.bsky.social · Jun 30

Team @publicmap.bsky.social out in full force today at the @wiserd-research.bsky.social annual conference.

It was so great to hear different aspects of Public Map being showcased… and also so much interest in the project.

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Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Jun 30

Wearing my @the-sra.org.uk hat at the @wiserd-research.bsky.social annual conference.

If you’re there too, please find me to have chat about how we support the social research community in Wales and beyond.

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Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Jun 30

If you know, you know.

Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Jun 29

I am totally loving this Nile Rodgers and Chic @glastonburyfestivals.co.uk set.

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Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Jun 29

This notion also revealed itself in my Yoga with Adriene practice this weekend. 🧘🏻‍♀️

Referring to yoga, she said, the creative process happens in between (in between movements, in between your breath).

Dotiau @dotiau.bsky.social · Jun 28

I love this quote... music is the space between the notes.

That notion that a certain amount of emptiness is appreciated.

That the space between, the liminal space, allows the notes to resonate, to reach their full potential.

That's where the music happens.

Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Jun 28

Absolutely adored How to Win Against History Bristol Old Vic. Funny, flamboyant, participatory, warm, utterly brilliant, and genius storytelling… a ychydig o Gymraeg hefyd 🙌🏻🤩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · Jun 23

Public Map is a wonderful project to work on and Tristian is fab. I am absolutely sure that this will be a really interesting conversation - mapping Môn’s music.

If you miss it, it will be available on BBC Sounds.

Public Map Platform @publicmap.bsky.social · Jun 23

Tune in to Radio Cymru this evening at 19:00 to hear Dr Tristian Evans talking about Public Map and in particular, mapping Ynys Mon’s music.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio Cymru - Rhys Mwyn, Mapio Miwsig Môn

Mae Tristian Evans yn casglu caneuon am Ynys Môn, ac yn galw heibio'r stiwdio gyda'r hanes

www.bbc.co.uk

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