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Dr Chris Kirk @chriskirkasp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Meanwhile his braindead supporters will continue to cheer him, and they will buy his next scam too, because they are the dumbest, most moronic people on Earth.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Dear God what a tragedy

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Her comment about the 4 in 5 reveals a fundamental misunderstanding about the economic importance of HE as a sector, partnerships with local industry and the NHS, and that other rather important work of universities alongside teaching - research.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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Dr Chris Kirk @chriskirkasp.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Wonderful statement. Personally, outside of speeding up some statistical analyses, I’m yet to see a single thing that AI is actually useful for. I’m bewildered as to why so many people are falling for tech companys’ obvious bullshit.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

They: “We cannot ban AI from the classroom!” Us: “Would you allow students to smoke in class?” -- It is still possible to do the right thing. You can sign our Open Letter here: openletter.earth/open-letter-... 🖋️

• Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves.

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Dr Chris Kirk @chriskirkasp.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

@gregjenner.bsky.social Just listening to your History of the Phone episode - can’t believe you missed the chance to highlight that “a-hoy-hoy” is always how Mr Burns answers the phone in The Simpsons. Shame, bad miss from yourself there!

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

🚨 Let's be really clear: NONE OF THIS HAS GOOD EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT! Longevity industry mostly a massive marketing scam. Wellness woo 2.0. 🚩 Supplement sales = massive red flag for bunk. Tech Bros Hacked Their Diets. Now You May Be Doing It, Too. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/d...

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Tech Bros Hacked Their Diets. Now You May Be Doing It, Too.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

france24.com

US to rewrite its past national climate reports

US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.

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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 15/03/2026

If you're not good at something and you rely on Al to do it for you, you won't be able to discern what's right or wrong.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Trump: ‘When oil prices go up, we make a lot of money’. Thousands killed, children orphaned, infrastructure destroyed, UN emasculated to enable US companies to make bigger profits - capitalism thrives on destruction. Trillions of atoms, billions of years of human evolution and the world got Trump.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 10/03/2026

If you're someone for whom the writing process is just a time-suck that can be offloaded to the shitty algorithm slop heap, you're in the wrong fucking business.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 10/03/2026

"AI will let us turn PhDs from 4 year degrees into 6 month degrees!" Literally shitting on the part that makes it intellectual development. It requires things like *reading* for yourself and *writing* for yourself. Those aren't chores, they're part of skills acquisition and critical development.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Started/Going This is what happens when snake oil peddling political appointees are installed in leadership positions at HHS. There was never any credible evidence that leucovorin could treat autism spectrum disorder, and now the FDA has been forced to admit it.

FDA NEWS RELEASE
FDA Takes Action to Make a Treatment Available for Autism Symptoms
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For Immediate Release:
September 22, 2025
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today initiated the approval of leucovorin calcium tablets for patients with cerebral folate deficiency (CFD), a neurological condition that affects folate (a vitamin essential for brain health) transport into the brain. Individuals with cerebral folate deficiency have been observed to have developmental delays with autistic features (e.g., challenges with social

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

When the mRNA Covid vaccine came out, those of us involved in teaching and science communication sat round thinking how to explain it simply to the general public. Then @hotvickkrishna did it brilliantly on Tiktok, and that was that, job done. A masterclass.

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Dr Chris Kirk @chriskirkasp.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Thinking back to the good old days when every single iphone update didn’t render your phone completely useless.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I’m coming to Barnsley next month! Really looking forward to a lovely evening of history chat — affordable tickets available here 🎫 barnsleycivic.co.uk/event/in-con...

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In Conversation with Greg Jenner

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Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Ludicrous from Sheffield management. If they want lost teaching rescheduled, they should return deducted strike pay – simple. Solidarity with Mark and all other @sheffielducu.bsky.social members dealing with this BS – and do fling them some pennies if you can afford to spare anything. #UKHE #UCU

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Juniper @juniperbevensee.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Call it what it is. Door to door concentration camp round ups. You know when the full record comes to light there *will* be horrifying degrees of intentional genocide of non-whites in ICE facilities due if nothing else to over crowding. It is happening.

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

fellow linguistics pals, in case you missed it, this is where we’re at right now at Essex if you are a student or alumni, please please please make your concerns known to the university

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Dr Chris Kirk @chriskirkasp.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Tories are such belleneds that even when they’re nowhere near any kind of power they still go out of their way to be damaging bellends who break everything. Nadhim Zahawi defects to Reform UK after peerage bid ruled out by Tories www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Former Tory Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi defects to Reform UK

Zahawi is the latest former Conservative MP to join Nigel Farage's party, as a Tory source claims he had approached Kemi Badenoch seeking a nomination for the Lords.

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Dr Chris Kirk @chriskirkasp.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

What the hell do you people think you’re doing?!?

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 08/01/2026

My full statement on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good.

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“The murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota by ICE agents in broad daylight is horrific and unacceptable. This harrowing tragedy should never have happened, and my heart breaks for Renee, her loved ones, and the entire Minnesota community.

“ICE is a rogue, violent agency that moves with reckless disregard for human life and due process, and it has no business in our communities. It must be abolished and the agents involved must be held fully accountable.

“DHS’ claim that an agent shot in self-defense is a bold-faced lie and the video footage is damning. But after I moved to subpoena all records and footage related to this killing, Republicans shamefully voted it down—demonstrating once again that they have never cared about law and order or keeping our communities safe.

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“What happened today is a despicable consequence of Donald Trump’s campaign of terror, fear, and demonization of vulnerable communities and we cannot allow it to be normalized in America.

“I demand a thorough and independent investigation into this tragedy so Renee, her loved ones, and the public get the accountability and transparency they deserve.

“It’s time for the Trump Administration to end its cruel, unlawful mass deportation agenda once and for all.”

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The world capitulates. 150 countries agree plan to stop global companies shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions, but US companies will be exempt from 15% global minimum tax. They make profit we fund the cost. The race to the bottom will accelerate.

theguardian.com

US will be exempt from global tax deal targeting profits of large multinationals

Agreement finalised by the OECD waters down a landmark 2021 deal that set a minimum global corporate tax of 15%

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Right. My students working two part time jobs and/or having an hour and a half commute to uni because they have to live at home due to the cost of student accommodation lack drive and vigour. Sure thing, Peter. The UK Govt still haven't a clue about the realities of universities today.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam

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The Physiological Society @physoc.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

In 2026, the Physiological Society celebrates its 150th anniversary: a landmark moment to celebrate physiologists past and present, the discoveries that have shaped our understanding of the body, and the community driving physiology forward. buff.ly/3gfFNUg

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- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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B Grrl @bgrrl.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

OMG! This is AWESOME! Owner of South Park writer Toby purchased the domain name trumpkennedycenter.org. Check it out. Brilliant way to be proactive and resist. Love this. Let's make this go viral! #TrumpKennedyCenter #EpsteinFiles #TrumpisaPedo

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HOME | Trump Kennedy Center

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Dr Chris Kirk @chriskirkasp.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

‘Supershoes’ have been around for about 8 years, so now seems to be good for a timely reminder that if you set your PB wearing a pair of these shoes then you didn’t really set a PB. Young Science Writer of the Year: How 'super shoes' transformed running www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

How 'super shoes' transformed running

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/12/2025

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

A forlorn landscape of layered rocks in the foreground, with hills fading into the background haze. At upper top right, a small crescent moon, and a bright star.

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Dr Chris Kirk @chriskirkasp.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

A sentence I never thought would be possible, but is completely true: Guillermo del Toro made Frankenstein boring.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 30/12/2025

“An AI scientist, for example, could figure out how the human brain works, or deliver any gene to any cell in the body.” Yeah and a magic pony could shit bricks of 24k gold and piss a highly concentrated solution of pure heroin.

hertzfoundation.org

Building an AI Scientist

Hertz Fellow Sam Rodriguez launched FutureHouse, a nonprofit research lab working toward building an AI scientist or AI systems that can automate scientific research in biology and other complex scien...

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

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Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Nigel Farage is a racist. Reform is a racist party. People who vote for Reform are racists - attracted by the only policy they offer: racism. Can we call a spade a spade? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Reform candidate who told Lammy to ‘go home’ questioned other MPs’ loyalty to UK

Exclusive: Labour says Nigel Farage’s party should swiftly condemn Chris Parry after further comments emerge

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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The political movement that postures itself as the epitome of toughness is so fragile that they’re banning people from the US for saying mean (and often true) things about the movement & its leaders. Performative strength is the ultimate admission of weakness.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 19/12/2025

I've said it before but it bears repeating: Don't question ChatGPT results in the same way that you're questioning results from Google or Wikipedia. Instead, question them in the same way as you're questioning the statements that a drunk stranger on the street makes about your mother. Here's why:

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I'm here to tell you that this is generational levels of damage. Generational in that it will take a generation or two to fix the damage. Some damage will be unrecoverable, and that makes us all lesser. This is not making America "great"... This is a self-inflicted wound that is mortal to many.

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Dr Chris Kirk @chriskirkasp.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

What dumb, dumb fucks these people are.

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Dr Chris Kirk @chriskirkasp.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Buzzing for the World Cup now, can’t wait for the likes of New Caledonia, Jordan, New Zealand and Haiti to bring some genuine World Cup quality football to our eyes…… It’s definitely not a participation tournament with too many teams in it………..

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I am on strike this week, in support of colleagues placed at risk of compulsory redundancy. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423... If you a student and want to know more/how to support the strike, see here: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a... @sheffielducu.bsky.social

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This Spring, the University Executive Board (UEB) announced reviews of academic staffing in five work areas:

Chemistry
Civil Engineering
The Management School
Materials Science and Engineering
The School of East Asian Studies
In September, staff in five additional work areas were told they face targeted voluntary severance (VS):

Medicine and Population Health
School of History, Philosophy, and Digital Humanities
School of English
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
Research Partnerships and Innovation
Restructures are anticipated to follow in some, perhaps all, of these areas. UEB aim to save at least £5m through cuts to staff costs across these areas, but have also been clear that they will potentially pursue cuts beyond this figure with a view to changing departments’ ‘size and shape’.

The University is also undertaking restructures of IT Services, and language teaching staff in the School of East Asian Studies, and at the conclusion of the five Professional Services restructures in June, at least 20 staff still remained at risk of redundancy.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

'Face of the Moon.' (1797) John Russell was the finest British pastel artist of his time. One of his sitters, the astronomer William Herschel encouraged him to buy a telescope, and with this he produced a number of remarkable pastel drawings of the moon.

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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

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