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Zhidan Lin
@zhidanlin.bsky.social
An educator, 2024/2025 Chevening scholar, who biked 32,000 km+ around the world.
Palmiers are the best pastry in this world.
March 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Kinda feel sorry for my course instructors who have to put up with my silly elevator pitches on even sillier coursework ideas. 😂😂
March 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Fizzy drink + prep work for GRiEG talk + pop hits 2000s = a semi-unproductive evening
March 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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China Briefing | Miliband in China; ‘Two new’ promoted; ‘Two sessions’ ended

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March 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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2500km, 33 Days, One Mission!
Join us to champion the 1.5 million UK children with disabilities by running, cycling, or wheeling for inclusive sport and play. Relay Your Way!
Relay Your Way
Join us to champion the 1.5 million UK children with disabilities by running, cycling, or wheeling for inclusive sport and play. Relay Your Way!
www.relayyourway.org
March 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Since starting this programme, my lecturers have encouraged even my craziest ideas. In a way, this has been freeing—but it also makes me wonder: does true freedom exist (in academia), or is it just a desire or illusion, like what Erik said about Nature?
March 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Turns out, even professors (luckily not from my course) have a syllabus for throwing people around (in Akibudo lessons) 😂😂
March 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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9/365

Follow for the best daily art memes!
#arthistorymemes
#classicalartmemes #art #funny #history #philosophy
January 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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The education system is complex but maybe the elephant in the room impacts all the others, and vice versa 🐘
March 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A + B + C ≠ D’s cumulative lesson
Europe has failed to learn from history’s examples—and ignored three distinct geopolitical developments, Jo Inge Bekkevold writes.
The Cost of Ignoring Geopolitics
Like Napoleon and the Ming dynasty, Europe is paying the price for strategic blindness.
foreignpolicy.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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The incredible story of how degraded gorse-infested farmland has been regenerated back into beautiful New Zealand native forest over the course of 30 years.
Man Spends 30 Years Turning Degraded Land into Massive Forest – Fools & Dreamers (Full Documentary)
The incredible story of how degraded gorse-infested farmland has been regenerated back into beautiful New Zealand native forest over the course of 30 years.F...
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March 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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1. Against my own political instincts, I’ve taken what feels like a drastic step, and started stockpiling food. This week’s column explains why.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Plus a brief thread.
Britain’s food supply is precarious – and Trump’s chaos is spreading. I have a plan. Do you? | George Monbiot
I’ve started a stockpile, but that isn’t the answer. If crisis strikes, the government needs a strategy to protect us all, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Who's ready? 😂
Join the Purplewave and run with us!
The Purplewave is The University of Manchester’s entry to the Great Manchester 10K Run, where students, staff, alumni, and friends come together to create a vibrant wave of purple!
Sign up here: studentnews.manchester.ac.uk/2025/02/10/j...
a cartoon of a coyote running down a road with cactus in the background
ALT: a cartoon of a coyote running down a road with cactus in the background
media.tenor.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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FUN FACT: Microplastics are stopping plants from photosynthesising.

But don’t worry, that only impacts

- the air we breathe
- the food we eat
- the joy of living alongside the beauty of nature on this planet
- the food source and habitat of every other being on this planet

….oh wait.
March 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM