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UoP Law @uoplaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Blog post for Connecting Legal Education @connectinglegaled.bsky.social Barristers-in-Residence: Developing Social and Cultural Capital for Aspiring Barristers by UoP's Dr Shane McKinder (Assoc Head, Student Experience) and Charlotte Harrison (Assoc Prof of Graduate Employability...)

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Barristers-in-Residence: Developing Social and Cultural Capital for Aspiring Barristers — Connecting Legal Education

In this blog post, Dr Shane McKinder (Associate Head, Student Experience, School of Law) and Charlotte Harrison (Associate Professor of Graduate Employability & Work-Integrated Learnin...

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James Hand @jamesahand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A post by some great colleagues about an important initiative on a much-valued network’s blog

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Universities have managed staff costs significantly below inflation,[between 2016-17 and 2023-24] increasing only 14% compared to the 41.2% increase in RPIX [measure of inflation]” Substantial real terms pay cut, which continues a trend existing years before that…

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Cost of undergraduate provision and qualifications in England

A study of the full economic cost of providing undergraduate-level higher education and other qualifications in England.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Reacher (book) kills white supremacists (fictional), but Reacher (streaming) hasn't yet despite Alan Ritchson (Reacher (streaming)) wanting to because of studio fear of white supremacists (actual, government).

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Philip King @junkshopper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The headline of a story on new ITV series Rock Follies in Time Out 20-26th February 1976 that the Buzzcocks got their name from.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 09/09/2026

hahaha holy shit

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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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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Blimey, lucky they didn’t block the M25 by sitting on the Dartford Bridge….people have gone to prison for not much short of five years for that

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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent

Traffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

James Cleverly will fix this

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A few years ago I went to a pig sanctuary and most of the pigs were stoned from eating green acorns. This one, Wilbur, couldn’t stand up and was too big to lift, so the staff had to leave him in this bush and wait for him to sober up.

Wilbur, a stoned pig lying in the dirt and unable to stand at Pigs in the Wood sanctuary, Huddersfield. I later adopted him.

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Michael Doherty @dohertylawteach.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Or … ‘a boulder rolling down a hill today shattered Bolt’s record’

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Michael Doherty @dohertylawteach.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Well done David. I'm thinking of another Public Service Broadcasting song: 'Why should a man climb Everest?' '... because it is there'

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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.

Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/08/2026

We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...

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Michael Doherty @dohertylawteach.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly quite literally getting a dose of her own medicine (2021 - Moderna vaccine) Just add it to the staggering list of the lives saved and enriched by her youtube.com/watch?v=jf0f...

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Dolly Parton on the importance of getting vaccinated against COVID-19

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Only vaguely knew about Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library and thought “wow, millions of kids get/got a free book every year, that’s amazing” and it turns out it’s over a hundred million and the books are every MONTH?

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Michael Doherty @dohertylawteach.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She told the kids ‘every book is a treasure’ And she also all those kids ‘you are terrific’.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

NASHVILLE, TN (August 25, 2026) – Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000).

A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.

At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at www.dollyparton.com.

In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com.

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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was truly the only person on this planet who might have deserved immortality.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 23/08/2026

theory: the only people left in provincial nightclubs are England cricket players and people trying to start fights with England cricket players

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

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Michael Doherty @dohertylawteach.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Lancaster Uni - message from VC this morning.

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Sarah Cowan @sarahcowan1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Having just been to the vigil, a place where thousands temporarily put down their anger to think of Jason only with love, I’d rather point to this than any piece in the press. I didn’t know Jason, only of him, of his work, and of his reputation as a kind man. leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo...

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Everything Good About Jason Arday

First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.

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James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’m a big fan of this photo of Madonna looking like a visiting lecturer who will absolutely not give you an extension on your modernist poetry essay just because you chipped your tooth on a Snickers bar.

Madonna, seated at a desk in front of a typewriter and a stack of books. Madonna is wearing trousers and a white shirt.

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Dear government, don’t send startling, high-pitched alerts about wildfires to ordinary people's phones. Send them to the CEOs of fossil fuel companies and make them impossible to switch off until they stop the destructive plunder that's contributing to climate change.

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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Did anyone else get this message?

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)

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Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In a week of incendiary statements, this from Kevin Lamour, who at least for tonight remains FIFA COO, is incredibly damning in that it is from an insider that goes beyond this one scheme and is an assassination in a few hundred words of the FIFA president as a leader of global football.

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Ishan Kolhatkar @ishankolhatkar.com · 30/07/2026

Over on the other place, @dohertylawteach.bsky.social called me 'Barnet's answer to Michael Parkinson' and that easily wins as the nicest thing anyone has said to me in July. A fab podcast episode with him, @veronanid.bsky.social, @parkendlydia.bsky.social and @arwenjoyce.bsky.social

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Michael Doherty @dohertylawteach.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Nice one David - look forward to reading it in!

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DESIGN THINKING! Comic @designthinking.lol · 28/07/2026

Did you know I draw DT! style avatars for people? I do! And I can draw one for you too, for the low low price of £5! ko-fi.com/c/bc05c4f1cb

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Get your own DT! Avatar!

Commission available on Ko-fi.com

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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Me: Depeche Mode, what's it like in Perth & Kinross? DM: It's a lot, it's a lot It's a lot, it's a lot It's a lot, it's a lot It's a lot like Fife

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Morning

Meme: a photo of a cooked lobster on a white background, captioned “Crustacean”. Below it, a photo of Preston’s famous concrete brutalist multi storey car park which also serves as a public transport hub. It has buses outside and is captioned “Bustacean”.

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Michael Doherty @dohertylawteach.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Did you know a barrister is facing prison just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has existed since 1670. We can't let it be silenced in court now. Add your name to help protect Britain's juries: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

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Save Britain's Juries

Juries have had the right to acquit based on their conscience for centuries. Now, a barrister is facing jail just for mentioning it in court. Add your name to help save Britain's juries.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

More people can fit on to the top deck of a London bus than will be directly employed on the new #Jackdaw gasfield in the North Sea, industry documents show #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Jackdaw gasfield would create only 27 direct full-time jobs, documents show

Campaigners say field will bring minimal benefit for UK economy, as industry lobbies Burnham for go-ahead

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