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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 01/03/2026

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The Green Party has over 200,000 members. More members, more councillors, more MPs. The Green Party just keep growing. Join us ⤵️

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

High Court: proscription of #PalestineAction was unlawful. Greens voted against proscription, so we welcome this. Govt must now immediately end its authoritarian attacks on peaceful protest, and fully address its complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule

Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

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Dr Evgenia Ilyinskaya @eilyinskaya.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🚨 Fully Funded #PhD Opportunity 🚨 Join us to investigate #lava ignited wildfires on Reykjanes Peninsula in #Iceland using #EarthObservation. Your work will help develop #wildfire forecasting methods for the #Arctic! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... @htuffen.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

This is the saddest day of my professional life.
Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage.
I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys.
I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show,
A show that I named and helped develop over all those years.
Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry.
These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter

In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices.
Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'.
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I chose the latter.
It broke my heart.
I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make.
I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer.
I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence.
One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.

I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more.
I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost".
James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice.
Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences.
I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness.
Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire.
I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal.
I am so sorry to let you down.
I hope that you can understand my reasoning.
I have to accept that I am not what the current
BBC expects of their freelance presenters.

Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not
"just a job"
I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world.
From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too.
The strawberry is dead.
Long live the strawberry. B

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 06/12/2025

Kilauea is doing what Kilauea does. Watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt... (h/t to @sophiecarr.bsky.social)

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 27/11/2025

Today, we're launching our advanced volcanic ash forecasting service to reduce aviation disruption. In 2010, Eyjafjallajökull closed much of Europe's airspace; our new service could halve such disruption and keep skies open during future eruptions. Read more: www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Met Office news release: 27 November 2025 - New Met Office service to cut aviation disruption from volcanic ash

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Brendan @chibdm.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Jenni Barclay @volcanojenni.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project

Summary of what the PhD student will do. QR code in bottom LHS. Project part of our Leverhulme Trust funded project volcanic histories and the student will examine the cultural markers and response to to volcanic activity across the Eastern Caribbean. Understand local ways of knowing and remembering volcanic activity. Integrate scientific. And community knowledge for DRR - joining an interdisciplinary team from several universities.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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IAVCEI - International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry @iavcei.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

🌋 August Compilation of Bulletin of Volcanology! 🌋 3⃣ "Insights into eruption dynamics from TROPOMI/PlumeTraj-derived SO2 emissions during the 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa, Hawaiʻi" Esse et al. link.springer.com/article/10.1... (4/13)

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IAVCEI - International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry @iavcei.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

🌋 August Compilation of Bulletin of Volcanology! 🌋 We’re excited to share the latest research articles published in August 2025 on the Bulletin of Volcanology! 🖇 All IAVCEI members enjoy free access to the journal! (1/13)

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 22/07/2025

🚨 This morning we turned the street outside Labour Party Headquarters in London into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. Listen to @ahmedmasoud02.bsky.social talking about what the Israeli army did to his neighourhood and family.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

🚨 How far are volcanologists from volcanoes? 🌋🚨 Check out our new paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... What started as a conversation about whether we at @exeter.ac.uk (in Cornwall, UK) are further from volcanoes than our global colleagues turned into an exploration of a fruitful data set!

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IAVCEI - International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry @iavcei.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

We are thrilled to announce that the next IAVCEI Scientific Assembly will be held in Costa Rica! 🇨🇷 A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us in #IAVCEI2025 in Switzerland. We look forward to seeing you all again in #IAVCEI2029. Welcome to Costa Rica!

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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

And here is Barbara Bonechi showing us her fantastic decompression experiments! #ECR #IAVCEI2025

Woman standing at the front of a lecture hall with her first slide projected on the wall, it reads "Advancing in-situ observations of magmatic processes: development of an X-ray Transparent Internally Heated Pressure Vessel for High-Pressure, High-Temperature synchrotron imaging"

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Ben Esse @ben-esse.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Arrived in Geneva for the @iavcei.bsky.social Scientific Assembly. Already seen the Jet d'Eau and had two ice creams, I'm ready for the 🌋 science #IAVCEI2025

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Ben Esse @ben-esse.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Had a great time visiting @eumetsat.int in Darmstadt for the first time (also my first proper visit to Germany!). There was a good density of satellite models around, and also fish in an inside pond? Why don't more buildings have inside ponds?!?

Models of meteorological satellites hanging from the ceiling

A model of Meteosat Second Generation satellite

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/06/2025

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff “Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Each of us is here for a short time. It’s depressing that some choose to use their time grifting and generally making life worse for everyone else, instead of trying to improve the world for those who don’t have a voice, whether people, animals, or other life forms.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 31/05/2025

Inspired by @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social and @ohdearz.bsky.social, here's what the White House proposed budget cuts to NASA would do to the entirety of the agency's Science Mission Directorate. Bloodbath is right.

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Barbara Bonechi @barbarabonechi.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🧵 Excited to share our latest research on the 2021 Tajogaite eruption (La Palma, Spain) 🌋 We used 3D X-ray microtomography to unravel how vesicle textures and pore networks in volcanic clasts relate to eruption style and gas escape efficiency. doi.org/10.1007/s004...

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Linking eruptive style with pore network geometry in tephritic/basanitic tephra from the 2021 Tajogaite eruption (Canary Islands, Spain) - Bulletin of Volcanology

Investigating the textural properties and 3D geometry of the connected pore network in volcanic products provides insight into magma ascent processes, due to their influence on magma permeability, out...

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Ben Esse @ben-esse.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

In the these last days of May I'm rapidly beginning to regret the three talks and a poster that I apparently signed up to present next month. Not sure why everyone has decided to organise their meetings in June 🥲 at least it gets all the travel over and done with...

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Ben Esse @ben-esse.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

This is one of the main reasons I'm really hesitant to use LLMs day to day. Tweaks to the prompts can suddenly (and silently) change outputs, which can spread dangerous misinformation fast. Is it really worth the few extra seconds to use a normal search engine? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Musk’s AI bot Grok blames ‘programming error’ for its Holocaust denial

Grok doubted 6 million death toll, days after peddling conspiracy theory of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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IAVCEI - International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry @iavcei.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

April Compilation of Bulletin of Volcanology ! 🌋 We’re excited to share the latest research articles published in April 2025 on the Bulletin of Volcanology! 🔥 🖇 All IAVCEI members enjoy free access to the journal Check out the full paper list of this month! 👇🏼

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 01/05/2025

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The British Medical Association Resident Doctors are the backbone of the NHS, they look after us all in hospital. They passed this motion at their conference which pulls the “supreme” court judgement to pieces. They call it “scientifically illiterate” and “biologically nonsensical” 1/3

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This meeting condemns the Supreme Court ruling defining the term 'woman' with respect to the Equality Act as being based on 'biological sex', which they refer to as a person who 'was at birth of the female sex', as reductive, trans and intersex-exclusionary and biologically nonsensical.
We recognize as doctors that sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender diverse people. As such this meeting:
i. Reiterates the BMA's position on affirming the rights of transgender and non-binary individuals to live their lives with dignity, having their identity respected.
Reminds the Supreme Court of the existence of intersex people and reaffirms their right to exist in the gender identity that matches their sense of self, regardless of whether this matches any identity assigned to them at birth.
iii. Condemns scientifically illiterate rulings from the Supreme Court, made without consulting relevant experts and stakeholders, that will cause real-world harm to the trans, non-binary and intersex communities in this country.
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Commits to strive for better access to necessary health services for trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 25/04/2025

🏳️‍⚧️ NEW 🏳️‍⚧️ We believe the Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from trans people before its decision last week – has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act. So we’re readying a challenge – join us: goodlaw.social/xpme

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I'm able to make this animation of how the ocean breathes in and out CO₂ because of data collected by NOAA scientists, data served at NOAA websites, and tools provided by NASA. All are under threat of being dismantled by the Trump administration.

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Ben Esse @ben-esse.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

We have a summer research internship in Manchester looking at SO2 emissions from volcanoes in the Galapágos! Details are below, please share with anyone that might be interested 🙂

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Ben Esse @ben-esse.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Interested how we can use satellite gas measurements to monitor and potentially forecast the evolution of volcanic eruptions? Then check out our new paper on the 2021 eruption of #Tajogaite! 🌋🛰️

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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

🌋✈️Brand new article in the Journal of Applied Volcanology by Debrel et al investigates changes to aircraft flight paths during ash-rich #eruptions. Greater volumes of airspace affected by ash result in greater deviation of flight paths with longer travel time & fuel use⏬⏬⏬ tinyurl.com/55en2f7e

Figure 2 from Debrel et al. (2025) in the Journal of Applied Volcanology showing the information flow between different organisations involved in response to volcanic emissions for providing hazard information to aviation

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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Sharing some light... Today we set up our "source to surface" #volcano activity as part of #BritishScienceWeek at the #ManchesterMuseum 🌋🌋🌋 Plus a united effort from our department at #UniversityOfManchester in the form of stamp-able cards representing the breadth of #EarthScience research 🌍🌌🌿🪨🦖

A6 postcard with a hexagon graphic of the earth in space, around the hexagon are other hexagons that have been filled with stamps in different colours with icons representing; volcanology, palaeontology, evolution, economic geology, planetary science and plant science. Underneath is a yellow graphic representing the sun with the words "earth and environmental sciences" in purple.

Table with volcanic rocks, a tub of jelly beans and some mineral recipe cards.

Clamp stand with a Lego volcanologist stuck onto it.

Table with "jelly beans magma chamber" three containers of liquids (of different viscosities) and hand pumps and a clamp stand with a volcanologist stuck to the top

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Happy International Women's Day! Despite the efforts, while much more women enter scientific fields, due to numerous factors, few manage to remain in the field or secure senior positions. Support your coworkers, call out harmful systemic behaviour. 😘

"Scissor Graph" showing men overtaking women in proportional representation in sciences after doctorate

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates

It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates

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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

1/3 Disappointing to read today, not surprising, but disappointing nonetheless. I'd like to hear from the fellows at this meeting & whether there was an opportunity to even discuss the Elon in the room? What was the nature of the unity described? #RoyalSociety www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Elon Musk survives as fellow of Royal Society despite anger among scientists

Questions remain over whether further action will be taken after resignations and calls for the Tesla CEO to be expelled

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Today the Royal Society will meet to discuss “Fellows’ behaviour”. Without doubt the fellow they will primarily be discussing is Elon Musk. The behaviour may range from his public dissemination of unfounded conspiracy theories to his attacks on the science 🧵 1/38

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 28/02/2025

🚨 #NOAA is essential for weather forecasting, climate research, and public safety. AGU stands with the scientific community in urging Congress to protect and strengthen NOAA, not dismantle it. Our economy, environment, and safety depend on it.

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This includes the USGS Hawaiian and Alaska Volcano Observatories. HVO's Ironworks is a temporary space while a new facility is built to replace the Observatory critically damaged in 2018. Both groups are near their volcanoes. Neither has anywhere to go and both have been forbidden from telework.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming. 1/11

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Ben Esse @ben-esse.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I just started using The StoryGraph after never being into book tracking apps/platforms and I love it so far! Lots of good reasons to use it over Goodreads outlined in this article #booksky www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon

Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed

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Ben Esse @ben-esse.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I'm writing an EDI statement for a project proposal, which is hitting pretty hard given the attack on this sort of work in the US. Never has it felt more important to promote EDI and its key part of the science we do...

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

An open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

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An open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values | Reciprocal Space

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 11/02/2025

Fuck you, Google. Bootlickers.

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