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Helen Scholar

@drhelenscholar.bsky.social
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Retired social work academic, still interested and involved, but with more time for socialising, singing, walking, researching my Irish family and ag foghlaim Gaelige (slowly).

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States, thereby justifying the need to “federalize” elections. We must anticipate it, with sadness and resolution, and not be surprised, if it happens. snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...
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The Desire for Terror
And the defense of democracy
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
💥New | The popularity of “new antiquarianism” challenges how we understand research impact ✍️ Ben Earley (@hugheshall.bsky.social) #Skystorians #ResearchImpact #REF2029
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The popularity of “new antiquarianism” challenges how we understand research impact - LSE Impact
Research in the humanities is not confined to academic institutions. Particularly in history & archaeology where "new antiquarianism" creates public research.
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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
How incredible
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Good luck to anyone starting the year with a new health regime. Here’s how mine always goes.
My Year in Diets 
 
Veganuary 
Fibreuary  
Starch 
Cakepril 
MaycaroniCheese 
June&tonic 
Julicecream 
Augustickytoffeepudding 
Septembeer 
Octoblerone 
Doughvember 
Decemburger 


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Helen Scholar @drhelenscholar.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
@philbrickellmp.bsky.social Can Labour not find somebody who can predict (unintended?) consequences of policy statements and posts? So many mis-steps lately. Or if the consequences are intended, then it's even more worrying.
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niceone2b.bsky.social @niceone2b.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Have you seen this ... ? 😎 youtu.be/RYPRQj0NtIU?...
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Why the dossier that took down the BBC might be wrong
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day. Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏 History.
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Helen Scholar @drhelenscholar.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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Helen Scholar @drhelenscholar.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Boston Consulting Group, key backer of @frontlinesw.bsky.social (Approach Social Work) complicit in war crimes. How long are we going to pretend involvement with BCG doesn’t reflect ill on the profession? Students and staff involved with the scheme need to find their voices on this.
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 06/06/2025
An unusual favour. I have a chance of potentially making money from TikTok to help pay costs incurred when doing @projectinfant.ie. If you want to help, share this post, then watch the video & interact with it & follow along with me. Every little helps! vm.tiktok.com/ZNdSaqCLS/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Helen Scholar @drhelenscholar.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Enter Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of Palantir and close ally of Musk. Thiel and his company are now central to Trump’s newest plan: building a massive government-run database on every American.
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 29/05/2025
I try to visualise the work that my volunteers & I do at @projectinfant.ie, but sometimes I need it in front of me. These are the 2,452 names [mothers & children] we've found, continuing to work to the total: 3,658. It really hammers it home seeing it all there in black & white.
A photo of the St. Patrick's Mother and Baby Home names.A close up of some of the St. Patrick's Mother and Baby Home names in sharp focus with a slightly blurred background.A close up of some of the St. Patrick's Mother and Baby Home names in sharp focus with a slightly blurred background.
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Helen Scholar @drhelenscholar.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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Helen Scholar @drhelenscholar.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 21/05/2025
No one experiencing the tragedy of a miscarriage should be arrested, much less abandoned in jail for 5 months with a $100k bond. But that’s exactly what happened to Mallori Patrice Strait in Texas. Women, particularly women of color, in this country are no longer allowed dignity even in extreme loss
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Andy Kroll @andykroll.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging. "My resignation represents such a refusal, not a surrender of responsibility but an assertion of it." time.com/7285045/resi...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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chessmom41.bsky.social @chessmom41.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.
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Helen Scholar @drhelenscholar.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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Helen Scholar @drhelenscholar.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I heard earlier that a local school is mandating trousers for female students from September because of the number of upskirting incidents...by boys..
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Joe Hanley @joehanley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The last time social work student bursaries increased was 2014. That’s the year of the ice-bucket challenge, Scottish independence vote, Interstellar, King Joffrey’s death, Brazil World Cup, Pharrell's "Happy"... That is history, and this is a scandal. www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/05/01/s...
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Social work bursary levels frozen for 11th consecutive year - Community Care
Social work bursary rates worth £1,200 to £1,900 less annually than they would have been had they kept pace with inflation since 2014
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Helen Scholar @drhelenscholar.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
@socwkhistory.bsky.social I wonder if anyone can suggest sources of information about the role of "social workers" in hospitals prior to implementation of the 1926 Adoption legislation? I am helping someone to identify her adopted father's birth family. He was born in hospital in March 1926.
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Helen Scholar @drhelenscholar.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Hawthorn’ Trees, 1963. Artist: SR Badmin
A mixed media illustration of a Hawthorn tree in full and exuberant blossom on a grassy lawn
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
It’s the things you don’t realize Musk will cut until he does. DOGE has slashed funding for a reading program serving dyslexic children at the historic Hindman Settlement School in Kentucky.
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Andy_Bilson @bilson.org.uk · 24/04/2025
Here's the UKs upcoming Trump
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
An ‘Executive Order’ is not, legally speaking, a thing by itself. A president has no universal power to rule by mere decree. An Executive Order only has legal force to the extent other laws (constitution, statutes) provide for that order to have effect.
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Maggie Chouinard @swagnet.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
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Helen Scholar @drhelenscholar.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.
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Zepha @shooflyzoo.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Helen Scholar @drhelenscholar.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Tony Benn's five questions to ask the powerful: 1. What power have you got? 2. Where did you get it from? 3. In whose interests do you exercise it? 4. To whom are you accountable? 5. And how can we get rid of you?
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
#tariffs
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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 28/03/2025
🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
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TG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
An Aimsir in Éirinn ☔
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Helen Scholar @drhelenscholar.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Well, I was surprised to find my few humble social work journal articles in this database, not sure what Meta will have learned from them but I don't remember being asked - or thanked!
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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
For those of you who can, Please support your local bookshops. They pay their taxes and support our communities. And don't squander profits on big boy toys. @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @kennysbookshop.bsky.social @bookshop-org.bsky.social @forumbooks.bsky.social
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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Shop local, remind friends and family to shop local. Delete Amazon apps and bookmarks, get audiobooks, ebooks, movies and music from your local library. Show your parents and grandparents how to. littledeercomics.ie
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Little Deer Comics
Little Deer Comics is a Small Press Comics focused bookshop in Dublin, Ireland.
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Joe Heenan @joe-heenan.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Traditional St Patrick's Day breakfast
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding. inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
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Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia
Trump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 14/03/2025
Hagiographies (writing on the lives of saints) give us a glimpse of the food culture of early medieval Ireland, when Patrick lived.
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What food did the real St Patrick eat? Less corned beef and cabbage, more oats and stinky cheese
Hagiographies (writing on the lives of saints) give us a glimpse of the food culture of early medieval Ireland, when Patrick lived.
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Hal Gregory @halgregory.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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Geese Theatre Company @geesetheatre.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Still some places left on our training course, exploring our use of theatre and drama in criminal justice settings. For more information or to book your place: www.geese.co.uk/what-we-do/t... #artsincjs #appliedtheatre #prisontheatre #training
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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 06/03/2025
How much power do we have? This much power! www.politico.com/news/2025/03... Keep it up!!! Our noise is working!!!!
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Trump puts new limits on Elon Musk
The president convened his secretaries, with Musk, to clarify power.
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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