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Bettina Wilm

@bwilm.bsky.social
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European German-British research scientist at a U.K. University with own views, avid hiker, swimmer, foodie, gardener, mom; also on @BWilm@mas.to

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 6h
A, timely, and timeless, lesson. “Never be afraid to make some noise. It’s their shame, not yours.” Destroy the patriarchy.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.
Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1. #MedievalSky, grab a lifejacket and a seasickness bag, we’re casting off on a thread about the Norman invasion fleet in 1066! 960 years ago, the Normans landed at Pevensey and established a base at the Roman shore fort which was already succumbing to erosion from the sea on its south side. 1/20
Photograph of Pevensey Castle with an information board in the foreground showing an artists impression of how the view may have looked in 1066 when the sea came almost up to the walls.
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Gilda Sahebi @gildasahebi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ich würde gerne massenhaft Analysen darüber lesen, wie es demokratische Kräfte in Berlin geschafft haben, einen Wahlkampf zu führen, der bewirkt hat, dass die autoritäre Partei in dieser Stadt nur 16% bekommen hat. Wo sind diese Analysen? Haben wirklich alle den Verstand verloren?
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Thread Reader by Skywriter | unroller @unroll.skywriter.blue · 27/09/2026
The thread as a shareable webpage: skywriter.blue/@ruthdeyermond.bsky.…
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble
Headline: "‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary"
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Deutschland Wählt / Österreich Wählt @de.whln.eu · 22/09/2026
Welcher Partei trauen Sie zu, mit den Problemen in Deutschland am besten fertigzuwerden? | Umfrage Forsa/RTL, n-tv AfD: 13% Union: 10% (-1) GRÜNE: 8% SPD: 6% (+1) LINKE: 6% (+1) Sonstige: 3% Keiner Partei: 54% (-1) Änderungen zur letzten Umfrage vom 15. September 2026 #btw29
Säulendiagramm zur Umfrage
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Es gibt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Aber es gibt auch Mecklenburg und Vorpommern. Wie wir heute Abend voraussichtlich wieder sehen werden, unterscheiden sich beide Regionen deutlich in ihrem Wahlverhalten. Woher kommen diese Unterschiede? Ein Thread mit Daten aus dem Kaiserreich bis heute. 🧵
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The bronze head of the goddess Sulis Minerva which was discovered in 1727 during the construction of sewer under Stall Street in Bath. Now part of the museum collections at The Roman Baths in Bath. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #Bath
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lord give me the arrogance of a tax exile who feels the right to comment on the tax policies and general running of a country who you have deprived of billions by registering yourself in Monaco
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So sad to hear of the death of Bonnie Greer, novelist, broadcaster and hugely inspiration woman. She was a great supporter of this Womensart project & WA books and our chats will be cherished always. A true intellectual & beautiful person. RIP xx
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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Grey day on the Wirral - at least some colour from the bus stop and the rainbow 🌈 #autumn #rainbow
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
14 September 1915 | A Polish woman, Sabina Dzik, was born in Biała Rawska. An accountant. In #Auschwitz from 30 July 1942. No. 13151 She was transferred to KL Flossenbürg and liberated there. --- Women at Auschwitz. Lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A woman wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with a bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a headscarf on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump has not once called on Putin to stop bombing civilian population centers, which he targets daily. Witkoff & Kushner never said that to Putin. We cut off Patriots to Ukraine for air defense. But now he demands Ukraine stop bombing refineries while Russia murders civilians.
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Emathion 📯 @emathion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Some nights only the best will do. 🎧 Episode 118 - Lullaby sea by Nothe Fort (50 mins) This is a *sleep safe* episode. Just the soothing sound of the sea in Dorset at night.
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118 Lullaby sea by Nothe Fort (sleep safe) | Radio Lento podcast
It's the dead of night. Everything still. A panoramic stillness, stretching for miles, across this coastal Dorset landscape. The tide's in, and without the chivvying warmth of day to energise it, the ...
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Rael571 @rael571.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Would you love to fall asleep (or just relax) to the sound of the ocean off the English Dorset coast but live too far away and can't get there? No problem - Radio Lento's quality recording will bring it to you (this and many other beautiful quiet places)!
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Özden Terli @terliwetter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
„Hocheffiziente Verbrenner“ Verbrenner waren niemals effizient, fahrende Heizungen effizient zu nennen ist eine krasse Umkehrung der Realität. Man kann sie auch Luftpumpen nennen, vorne rein hinten raus und dazwischen viel unnütze Technik - alles aber nicht effizient.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Peter Lammer is chef in a restaurant in Germany. He was involved in a motorcycle accident and, after rehabilitation, doctors advised him to retire. Together with his friends, he came up with this effective mobile seat. Original post
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/09/2026
If every statement about Extinction Rebellion had opened with "Climate change is the single biggest issue facing humanity, and we understand why people have legitimate concerns the world isn't doing enough to tackle it…" this approach might be *faintly* defensible. But they didn't, and it isn't.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Please keep doing this…
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
6 September 1907 | A Pole, Edward Wittmann, was born in Tarnopol. A dentist. In #Auschwitz from 5 May 1942. No. 34799 In 1942 he was transferred to KL Mauthausen. He survived.
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Wow. Researchers at Leiden university and TU Delft university in the Netherlands accuse TU Munich of "gross misrepresentation" of their findings in the TUM press release of last week, which attacked EU regulations on vehicle emissions www.linkedin.com/pulse/misint...
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Immigration Bot @immigrationbot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"The police response to a protest involving hundreds of black-clad and masked anti-illegal migrant protesters who blocked roads in Dover is set to come under scrutiny after authorities appeared to be caught off guard." — Sky News
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Police response to Dover protests set to come under scrutiny, as Tommy Robinson associate appears to claim credit
The police response to a protest involving hundreds of black-clad and masked anti-illegal migrant protesters who blocked roads in Dover is set to come under scrutiny after authorities appeared to be caught off guard.
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Michael Cruickshank @cruickshank.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Big day for EU spaceflight, with Germany's Isar Aerospace becoming the country's first private company to successfully reach orbit. Congrats to all involved!
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Roman (geographyquiz.app) @geographyquiz.app · 05/09/2026
Isar Aerospace rocket 🚀 reaches orbit! Well done 👍 #isaraerospace #rocket #space www.space.com/space-explor...
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Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
"This is right now making history — making history for Spectrum, making history for Isar, making history for Europe."
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the FIRST time, been shown to PREVENT COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.
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Diane Messias @comedywriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
All decent oysters would disagree with him.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 04/09/2026
It's rare to see a mainstream news broadcaster explicitly referencing loss-and-damage finance, climate justice and big-emitter responsibility in its reporting. So this moment on the BBC's News at Ten really caught my attention. Report by @azadehmoshiri.bsky.social in Nepal
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Elvira Rosert @elvirarosert.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Och logo 🥴. Jetzt durfte Ulrich Siegmund erklären, dass geflüchtete Kinder alle wieder nach Hause fahren und deswegen in speziellen Klassen unterrichtet werden. Manche Kinder haben Eltern, die mit ihnen darüber sprechen werden, was dahinter steckt. Für die anderen aber habt ihr es so stehen lassen.
Fernseh-Bildschirm, auf dem die Reporterin von ZDF logo Ulrich Siegmund interviewt.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... huge
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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Your Moment of Zen: Martin Gregus Jr. captured this polar bear swimming alongside a pod of beluga whales on drone footage in the Arctic. Polar bears are occasional predators of belugas (ambush at airholes), but they know they can easily outrun the bear in open water. (📷: mywildlive on IG)
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Der Wäller @der-waeller.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Es klingelt – und die AfD steht vor der Tür. 💯 Drei sehenswerte Minuten. Die Methode-AfD auf den Punkt gebracht. 🎯 #Sehenswert Vielen Dank, Wayne Carpendale! 👏 🗣️ „Ich steig nicht in ein Auto, bei dem ‚Früher‘ im Navi steht.“ 🫳  🎤 #NoAfD Instagram 👀 www.instagram.com/reel/DcjYmk1...
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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Liebe @nzz wo ist euer artikel zu Cofnas? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Ghent professors challenged expertise of Jason Arday’s plagiarism accuser
Allegations Nathan Cofnas was unqualified for Ghent role and would cause ‘negative impact’ made to senior leaders months ago
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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Moon on Pico Island -Azores.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 22/08/2026
It's me, Cofnas, writing about how inferior black academics have it too easy in the age of DEI from my position at Ghent University, where despite being famously a pair of calipers away from preaching perfect Aryan skullshapes I was hired to research <checks notes> "the future of liberalism".
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P. Thomas Johnson 🇨🇦🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 @ptomj.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
What's funny is that the EU *did* bend the rules for the UK when it was a member. No nation had been accommodated so generously and granted so many exemptions that other members had to follow, and it still wasn't enough.
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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Lets hope a lot of brilliant memes come out of this! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump shows off White House renovations and ornate new helipad
Former real estate developer leads press corps on tour of grounds and says ‘one thing I know how to do is build’
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Ernst Kirchner @ernstkirchner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Mountains in Winter www.wikiart.org/en/ernst-ludwig-kir…
Mountains in Winter
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