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Skyla Baily

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🌱 Comms officer @ GDI Writer

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Skyla Baily @blueskyla.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Super fun editing and designing this magazine for @globaldevinst.bsky.social! Check it out: globaldevinst.my.canva.site/magazine-vol1
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Skyla Baily @blueskyla.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Delivery today from @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social ! My second dive into the Northern Weird Project with Turbine 34 after reading Good Boy earlier this winter
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Skyla Baily @blueskyla.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I had a fantastic time at the @eadi.bsky.social Research Communications Workshop last week in Berlin! Over the two days we had some really productive conversations, and I was grateful to meet so many other comms professionals from across Europe. 📍: @isdcberlin.bsky.social
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/10/2025
‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read
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‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read
Bloodthirsty ghosts, sadistic supercomputers, creepy childhood games ... Mariana Enríquez, Paul Tremblay, Daisy Johnson and others on the tales that kept them up at night
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Levenshulme Old Library @levyoldlibrary.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We’re absolutely delighted to share that Levenshulme Old Library is a finalist at this year's Manchester Culture Awards! We're shortlisted in the 'best event' category for last year's Ghosts at the Old Library, our homegrown winter storytelling project. Huge thanks to all involved. Wish us luck!
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/10/2025
BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n
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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Happy #bookshopday! Support fine indie publishing by ordering directly from our bookshop For UK readers, we've a limited supply of signed copies of Good Boy by @talkscaredpod.bsky.social, pawprint included 🐾 More signed copies of our other titles COMING SOON www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/good...
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Good Boy by Neil McRobert paperback ebook The Northern Weird Project — wild hunt books
After a boy vanishes on the outskirts of a small town, a woman spies a mysterious man digging a grave in the exact spot of the disappearance. However, when she confronts him, the man's true purpose is...
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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"Silence now risks normalizing the use of hunger as a political tool-not only in Ethiopia but in conflicts settings across the world. By naming and recording what happened in Tigray, we contribute to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability." Blog: bit.ly/48SMgkA
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Famine in Tigray: “we are dying by a silent war” - World Peace Foundation
Report authors explain why recording events in Tigray contributes to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability.
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
In a new GDI blog, Edwin Rwigi and Anifat Ibrahim reflect on the moments of planned and unplanned waiting that characterise fieldwork, and how this 'waiting time' can be reframed and used as research material itself. Read the piece here: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/waiting-as-m...
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Waiting as method: reflections on access, positionality, power and scheduling during fieldwork - Global Development Institute Blog
Reflections on access, positionality, power and scheduling during fieldwork.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/05/2025
How we can smash Britain’s two-party system for good at the next election | George Monbiot
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How we can smash Britain’s two-party system for good at the next election | George Monbiot
Labour is beyond repair. Time for a co-ordinated strategy to support progressive parties committed to electoral reform, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Join the GDI Students for Palestine on Weds 30 April for an evening of Palestinian food, film, and discussion. The evening will feature a screening of the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land'. For more info and to register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scree....
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Film Screening: No Other Land
Join us for an evening of Palestinian food, film, and discussion. We'll be screening the Oscar-winning documentary film No Other Land.
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Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Extraordinary joint statement from UN Under-Secretary-General and heads of UNICEF, WHO, WFP, IOM, UNRWA, UNOPS and OCHA: "World must act with urgency to save Palestinians in Gaza" www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A new blog written by GDI's Khalid Nadvi (@kmn-mcr.bsky.social) considers the effect of Trump's tariffs on global value chains, asking 'is this the end of globalisation?' Read the blog here: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/trumps-tarif...
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Trump’s Tariffs: Is This the End of Globalisation and Global Value Chains? - Global Development Institute Blog
Khalid Nadvi, Professor of International Development, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester 5 April 2025   As financial markets across the world continue to reel from the tariffs impo...
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Asteroid contains building blocks of life, say scientists. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bennu asteroid contains building blocks of life, say scientists
Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.
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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
After the publication of his recent working paper analysing the US-China “AI Cold War”, we caught up with Richard Heeks (@cddmanchester.bsky.social) about the controversy surrounding DeepSeek. Read Richard's take below, and find the full working paper here: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati...
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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Community reporters from the Social Homes for Manchester coalition have released a new short film following two women as they share their experiences navigating the housing system. The film also covers the launch of a policy brief co-authored by GDI’s Isis Barei-Guyot in Nov 2024 📽️: bit.ly/4gjhRfi
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Manchester Social Housing Commission: What is the City but the People?
Thirza Asanga-Rae and Zoe Marlow explore the ways in which the crisis in social rent housing in the city of Manchester is impacting on women and families and what women across the city are doing to challenge the system.
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Skyla Baily @blueskyla.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Loved speaking with Edwin and putting together this video! This series has been such a nice way of getting to know the people behind the work at @globaldevinst.bsky.social, and Edwin is a truly brilliant and fascinating person and researcher. Check it out 👇
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Skyla Baily @blueskyla.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Heading to Parliament today with the Manchester Social Housing Comission, who are bringing five urgent demands to government concerning the failing housing system in MCR. You can read their report in full here: www.socialhomes4mcr.org.uk/publications
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Publications | Social Homes for Manchester
Social Homes for Manchester Coalition Social Homes 4 Manchester Social Homes For Manchester
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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hello! We're the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester, and we're excited to be on Bluesky 👋 We will be bringing you news from across the institute very shortly, but in the meantime drop us a hello below and/or give us a follow!
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Skyla Baily @blueskyla.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hello! First post (skeet?) on BlueSky - who should I be following? 👩‍💻
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