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Andy Lloyd

@arlloyd.bsky.social
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Northern (UK), professional science communicator, amateur cynic, recovering Cauda Equina Syndrome (insufficiently disabled)

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"All scientific observations at Jodrell are expected to cease on the 1 April 2028 unless alternative funding can be found." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
“Pick a fight with migrants, benefit claimants, or protestors – and the country knows who you are. Pick a fight with water bosses, landlords, private equity, tech monopolies, and the rentier class – and the country knows that too.” Full article here: bylinetimes.com/2026/06/19/a...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The next PM could - and in my view should - properly stick it to Trump (as Meloni has just done); announce a plan to undo Brexit; put immigration to bed for at least one electoral cycle; take their government off Twitter; unequivocally condemn Netanyahu & resurrect Leveson 2… A boy can dream.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It's actually a good thing that Keir Starmer isn't prioritising posting on social media when he's considering the Iran war. The people who think he should be are fundamentally unserious people who need to sit the fuck down. You are not owed a first-person narrative from the Prime Minister!
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure without apparent military value is a war crime. Shouldn't be surprising since America elected a war crimes advocate, who in his first term pardoned convicted war criminals, and in his second made the public champion of those war criminals SecDef.
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Life Science Centre @scienceatlife.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
We’re up for three North East England Tourism Awards! ⭐Large Visitor Attraction ⭐Accessible and Inclusive Tourism ⭐Festival or Event of the Year for our magical Santa Experience Read more: tinyurl.com/mr2ypk4s
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Life shortlisted for three tourism awards - Centre For Life
Life Science Centre in Newcastle has been nominated for three prestigious North East England Tourism Awards.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/03/2026
“The workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips, which appear to come straight out of Western homes, from people who use the glasses in their everyday lives. Several describe video material showing bathroom visits, sex…”
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She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says
Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Susie Wiles is wearing an Apple Watch during a highly classified meeting on Iran. Unreal.
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Colbobs.bsky.social "Col" he/him/his @colbobs.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This is why you should fight for the NHS. To assume health insurance denial can't happen in the UK is delusional. Farage wants it. Streeting is a liar and more private interests are seeping in under Labour The @greenparty.org.uk oppose all forms of NHS privatisation. #votegreen
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Natalie Fleet MP @natalie-fleet-mp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Judge only trials: ✅Still deliver justice for accused, ✅Protect jury trails for cases that need them ✅Rebalance power between victims & criminals We cannot continue with a system where hell of being raped is made worse by hell of the court system. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jan...
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Labour MP who was groomed asks colleagues to back judge-only trials
Exclusive: Natalie Fleet says power balance is with criminals not victims as delays make ‘hell of being raped’ worse
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Highlight of the Olympics opening ceremony as J D Vance is booed when he appears on the screen.
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Clam_Daniel @clamdaniel.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/01/2026
Trump: "They emptied out, if you think about it, they emptied out all of their mental institutions into our country." (Trump doesn't understand the difference between insane asylums and political asylum claims.)
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/01/2026
Reminder: The US has refused to join the International Criminal Court because it argues extraterritorial justice is incompatible with national sovereignty and citizen's rights.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Absolutely true. What Americans need to understand is that Trump is betraying every one of the 250,000 US servicemen who fought and died for freedom against the Nazis in World War 2. Every single one of them.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
A great thread by my friend, the peerless @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social - a must #follow on foreign affairs. As (intimidatingly) brilliant as always.
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Andy Lloyd @arlloyd.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Being a science communicator means watching the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures but critiquing every demo...
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
A white British father and son BOTH raped the same child and pled guilty to multiple counts of Sexual assault. This has been in the press for 2 days. The Mirror is the only National newspaper to report on it… And THAT’s why people have such a skewed perception of the links between race and SA🤷🏼‍♀️
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 06/12/2025
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings. “It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale. This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading: www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
thenerdreich.com
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 24/11/2025
This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is. The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
lemonde.fr
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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Sandy Thomas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐕🌱🌏🐝🇪🇺 @sandythomas.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Obscene.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit ◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley ◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas ...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
northeastbylines.co.uk
Houchen’s deprivation failure exposed – official
Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 05/11/2025
If this is what happens when Reform runs a council, just imagine Farage running the country. Care homes closed and vulnerable people abandoned. We cannot let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.
Headline: Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Dems Win, Donald Loses #marytrump #marytrumpmedia #democrats #nyc #election
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/11/2025
the Teen Vogue politics section's last newsy story 🥲 Rainesford knocked it out of the park
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Maggie. 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇪🇺British/German @maggie29047241.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
She seems to be a bit of a racist. Most tories are responsible for all the refugees arriving in GB. They came out of EU hoping they would dissappear but they didn't anticipate all the problems they would bring.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Britain is not a country of racist bigots. Time for the decent majority to "take back control". Repost if you agree.
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Dave Rackliff @daverackliff.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
If this is what local journalists can find out, it’s quite embarrassing for the mainstream media considering they seem to just parrot Farage’s bullshit.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
No Money For SNAP Benefits, but For Chump,Always Time To Grift....
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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
It's not a grassroots working class movement. "Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
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The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Bet365 CEO Denise Coates paid herself £277,000,000 this year, and £410,000,000 in 2020. This was more than 20,000x the Minimum Wage that she paid most of her workers. The betting industry needs to be taxed, heavily.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral." I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
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It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral
The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Does Robert Jenrick even realise English clubs were banned from playing in any European football competitions after May 1985 for the rest of the decade, returning only in 1990/91, after Heysel disaster, as UEFA + our government felt fans couldn't be policed safely travelling away?
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Can we please get some perspective. If Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were banned because of a risk to them it would absolutely be anti-semitism. When they are banned because they have a track record of causing violence it is just common sense. Preventing football hooliganism is normally a good idea.
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Andy Lloyd @arlloyd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 17/10/2025
If Prince Andrew has his Order of Garter revoked (as opposed to just not used), it requires the heralds to remove his coat of arms from St Georges Chapel and kick it out of the door and into Windor Castle's ditch. ... or prime time TV viewing as it might be called.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 22/04/2025
Marxism is a system where smart people read so many books that they become incredibly unpleasant to talk to
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Andy Lloyd @arlloyd.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Having worked with and for several science centres over my career I am convinced by their value to society and disappointed that they fall in a hole between arts, heritage and museums when it comes to funding culture. Please sign our letter if you can:
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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Between them, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social at @thenerve.news and @peterjukes.bsky.social at @bylinetimes.bsky.social have blown the Farageov treachery wide open. The big UK media players are *u**ing cowards, and reveal themselves to be a stinking, corrupt part of the plot to destroy Britain. 1/2...
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Ben Taylor @vox-dei.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This is pretty crucial to consider now. Imagine what happens if Farage, Badenoch or Jenrick decides to go down the same route as Trump on science.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 08/10/2025
According to FullFact.org, under the last Tory Govt, elected in 2019, only 2 of their 42 manifesto pledges were delivered. Conversly, Starmer - elected in July 2024 - has enacted 57 of Labour's 83 manifesto Pledges. And Kemi wants to reverse them all.
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Our media lets us down badly : Labours accomplishments - rarely mentioned Nigel Farage’s house - dropped/ignored Nathan Gill’s admission of working for Russia - zilch Russia/Iran funding Reform/Farage - silence Instead they spread lies on the Budget/MPs/anything to discredit Labour Why????
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill. Farage is still silent. It’s deafening. #ReformRussianBribes
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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 06/10/2025
Tories misspell the country they wish to run.....
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