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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An awesome video about @zackpolanski.bsky.social's campaign in Holborn & St Pancras. No wonder Burnham is running scared.

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Campaigning With Zack Polanski In Holborn & St Pancras - Episode 2

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.

Stuff of nightmares UK cuts aid to Un Gaza food operations by 78%

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Lucy Faire @drlucyfaire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Out in Regent's Park knocking doors. #BackZack

A sign for Castlehaven Community Gardens. At the base is a sign that says Vote Green.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I talked this week about the mental health crisis afflicting young people, in particular the isolation and loneliness caused by the neoliberal smashing of society. Everyone needs community. Everyone needs belonging. We cannot survive without them.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yes students want a good job after Uni but, as is the case for Humanities students anyway, their main priority during their degrees is TO ENJOY THEIR STUDIES AND LEARN. I’ve held focus groups and have the data. But all Universities care about are workplace skills like it’s the fucking Soviet Union.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Lucy Faire @drlucyfaire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Steps today were reporting blocked drains with Stonegate Greens. Surprisingly fun.

Blocked drain with plants growing out of it.

Blocked drain almost invisible under leaves.

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Lucy Faire @drlucyfaire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

2050 is just too late. The clue is in the word emergency.

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VaughanCoop.bsky.social @vaughancoop.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A big thank you to Janet for giving us such an interesting tree walk in Abbey Park today! #DiscoveryCircles

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VaughanCoop.bsky.social @vaughancoop.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Our Human Factor at Work coordinators ran their first session last night! A taster for the 'Learning to be a Facilitator' course. For more info: vaughan.coop/course/learn...

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humanfactoratwork.bsky.social @humanfactoratwork.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We had a very engaged group of participants at our 'Learning to be a Facilitator' taster. Lots of ideas in our 'Popcorn session' about when do we need facilitator and why are they needed or useful? Deadline for applications next week! (17 September)

A white board with various sticky notes on it answering the question 'When might you decide to use a facilitator for an event? When are they useful or needed?'

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Labour has delayed its plans to allow new North Sea drilling until after the Holborn and St Pancras byelection. A Green win on 8th October will add pressure on Labour to reverse this shortsighted and dangerous plan. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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People ‘incensed’ by North Sea plans can vote Green in byelection, says Zack Polanski

Party leader, who will contest Starmer’s former seat of Holborn and St Pancras, says gas drilling has come up on doorstep

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And Leicestershire police were tipped off about the big Hindutva 'protest' that kicked off in Sept 2022, but all fucked off to London for the Queen's funeral anyway. I'm picking up on a theme about who matters, who doesn't...

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 03/09/2026

The Government is letting data centre developers bypass local scrutiny... BUT they don't even know what the data centres are being used for 🤯 It's time to put the brakes on. It's time for a national data centre strategy.

UK government does not know what datacentres are being used for, FoI request shows

Zack Polanski
Leader of the Green Party:
“The government plans to steamroller over local opposition so private companies can build these facilities – yet they can’t even explain what the benefits are and who is benefiting.”

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Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box Green Party London SE1P 6YL

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The government must know full well that many people have neither the space nor the money to store extra food in their homes. It is individuating responsibility for a collective problem. As usual, it is the poorest and most excluded who will suffer from it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Minister tells Brits to stock up on days of supplies after ‘supersize’ El Niño warning

Exclusive: Angela Eagle urges UK citizens to be ‘a bit more resilient’ as they plan for national emergencies

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humanfactoratwork.bsky.social @humanfactoratwork.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's one week until our taster session for our 'Learning to be a Facilitator course' which starts at the end of September. Sign up soon if you want to find out more because the taster session is nearly full! vaughan.coop/course/facil...

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'Learning to be a Facilitator' Taster Session - Leicester Vaughan College

A taster session for those who want to find out more about our 5-week course 'Learning to be a Facilitator' course.

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Lucy Faire @drlucyfaire.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Doing a talk for Curious Histories!

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yeah this -- there's thousands of people in abusive or dangerous households with secret phones. Hope they are all OK now.

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Lucy Faire @drlucyfaire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So how many people didn't get the 'really important' message because they hit 'stop' button to get rid of the horrible noise? If you missed it apparently there's a Welsh version on some government website.

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Lucy Faire @drlucyfaire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Great climate change sorted by a Government alert! If we don't have barbecues or pit fires the rapid heating up of the planet will all okay!

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Lucy Faire @drlucyfaire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Great blog on why historians do research better than AI. Also (with the very rare exception) we don't just make stuff up.

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VaughanCoop.bsky.social @vaughancoop.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Vaughan Exhibition visitors saw in the Attenborough Arts Centre the exhibition ‘Jason and the Adventure of 254’, a major solo exhibition by Jason Wilsher-Mills. To be recommended, especially to those with children. #DiscoveryCircles

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Lucy Faire @drlucyfaire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Just been to this exhibition with the @vaughancoop.bsky.social Exhibition Visitors. If you've not been, Leicester people, it's really worth a visit.

Front of the exhibition cover for Jason Wilsher-Mill's exhibition 'Jason and the adventure of 254'. Just the name of the exhibition on a yellow background. The exhibition is from the Welcome Collection.

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Solve the School Run @solveschoolrun.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Cars are growing bigger every year, creating an increasingly dangerous environment for road users. If current trends continue, an additional 2,500 adults, and 79 children, could die on Europe’s roads by 2040, compared to a scenario where new car sizes return to 2015 levels. ➡️ bit.ly/3SRno6P

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Ever-bigger? Car size at a crossroads

The impacts on safety, space and resource use if carspreading continues to go unchecked.

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humanfactoratwork.bsky.social @humanfactoratwork.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We're running a taster session for our 'Learning to be a Facilitator' course. Come along if you want to find out more! 10 Sep 2026, 6.00-7.30pm Leicester Adult Education College. For more information and to book your place👇 vaughan.coop/course/facil...

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Maxim Voronov @drmaximvoronov.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Unlike in Hungary, India, and Türkiye, where academic freedom declined gradually over many years, the U.S. deterioration unfolded in just six years, showing how quickly university autonomy can erode." Mapped: Which Countries Have the Most Academic Freedom? www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-which...

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Mapped: Which Countries Have the Most Academic Freedom?

Academic freedom is declining worldwide. Explore the latest rankings and see where the U.S. stands among its peers.

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Lucy Faire @drlucyfaire.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

So sad to hear the Co-operative College closes today. I worked with the College as a member of @vaughancoop.bsky.social when the Co-operative College was trying to set up the Co-op University. It was such an exciting time. I hope one day there will be a co-op university of the kind we envisaged.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 31/07/2026

As Europe burns, Shell has banked £7.4 billion in just three months. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.

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VaughanCoop.bsky.social @vaughancoop.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Our Human Factor at Work coordinators enjoyed heading up to Coalville this morning. The event took place on the Coalville CAN premises - a fellow co-op. If you've not been up to see what they doing, it's worth a visit!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

4 nations, but ultimately 1 major UK crisis.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Food growers & farmers are increasingly experiencing climate breakdown harvests That means higher prices - and more food insecurity. Politicians have been quiet on this growing crisis - but silence isn't good enough when our food supply is at risk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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More than half of England officially in drought - Environment Agency

The drought declarations follow an exceptionally hot and dry period, which has hit rivers, crops and nature.

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Lucy Faire @drlucyfaire.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This Sunday. Raising funds for Peckleton Church. Mozart's Solemn Vespers and Balfour-Gardiner's Evening Hymn. 4pm Sunday 19 July Peckleton Church. No tickets just donations.

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Lucy Faire @drlucyfaire.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Great working for the @humanfactoratwork.bsky.social project and looking forward to this course in the autumn. #upskilling #cocreation #cooperativelearning

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Lucy Faire @drlucyfaire.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So a good teaching and learning experience = students having the confidence in their own abilities and thus not using AI ?

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Jesus. 35 UK universities quietly- without debate - joined the Ministry of Defence’s “Battlefield Alliance” which seeks to “reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security” They’re destroying the social sciences and humanities while militarising the institutions

• Durham University
• Newcastle University
• Northumbria University
• Lancaster University
• University of Cumbria
• University of Lancashire
• University of Liverpool
• University of Manchester
• University of Huddersfield
• University of Sheffield
• University of York
• Loughborough University
• University of Lincoln
• University of Nottingham
• Aston University
• University of Birmingham
• University of Warwick
• King's College London
• Kingston University
• Queen Mary University of London
• University College London
• University of Oxford
• University of Portsmouth
• University of Surrey
• University of Bath
• University of Bristol
• University of Exeter
• University of Plymouth
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Glasgow
• University of Strathclyde
• Cardiff University
• Swansea University
• Queens University Belfast
• Cranfield University

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14 July 2026
UK Universities Betray Public Trust by Joining MoD's 'Battlefield Advantage' Alliance
Without Debate
A coalition of campaign groups has accused UK universities of quietly integrating themselves into Britain's defence infrastructure after 35 institutions signed up to the Ministry of Defence's Defence Universities Alliance (DUA).
The Ministry of Defence says the alliance aims to "reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security", strengthen links between universities and the defence sector, and translate research into "battlefield advantage".
Campaigners say the move represents a significant shift in the role of higher education and has taken place without meaningful public debate.
Among the founding members are the University of Oxford, University College London, King's College London, the University of Manchester, the University of Edinburgh, Cardiff University and Queen's University Belfast.
"We are witnessing the formal incorporation of Britain's universities into the defence ecosystem," said Jinsella Kennaway, Founder and Executive Director of Demilitarise Education.
"The Ministry of Defence is explicit about its intentions. Universities exist to advance knowledge and foster critical inquiry, not to become pipelines for military research and defence recruitment.
Students and staff deserve to know who agreed to this and why."
Campaigners are calling on all 35 universities to publish the governance documents and board minutes relating to their decision to join the alliance, and to explain whether staff and students were consulted.
Many UK universities already maintain relationships with major defence companies, including BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, Leonardo, Thales, Lockheed Martin and QinetiQ. Critics argue that the DUA formalises and accelerates the integration of academia, industry and the state.
The coalition warns that, at a time of rising defence spending, universities risk becoming increasingly aligned with governme…

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Post-92s have seen a 25% fall in the number of staff teaching history. 25% since 2018-19.

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Susan Joudrey @sujo.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

"A lot of academic research on AI currently is also funded by the AI industry, which creates the risk of distorting scientific knowledge, similar to how we’ve seen happen in the past’, adds Iris van Rooij, co-author and professor of computational cognitive science at Radboud University."

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Trout in Plaid @troutinplaid.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

"While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests."

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AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

New UN report on the environmental cost of LLMs. Key points include: inference (use) causes 90% of energy cost; web search with AI summary costs 10 times a regular search, and video generation is extremely energy intensive. Also, land and water use must be tracked too. unu.edu/inweh/collec...

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Environmental Cost of Artificial Intelligence: Carbon, Water, and Land Footprints

AI’s rapid growth drives huge energy, water, and land use, raising environmental and equity challenges across its global infrastructure.

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Lucy Faire @drlucyfaire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I had a really great time at the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 50th anniversary conference. So many interesting papers and many from MA and PhD students. My co-written paper on 'Feeling the street: touch and emotion in 20th century town and city centre streets' - had some interesting questions!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

“for a Labour government whose base is incredibly graduate heavy & a lot of whose MPs represent university seats, it’s sort of almost the antithesis of what you’d expect them to do,” said Jonathan Simons... perhaps due to the party’s strategy of chasing non-graduate, right-wing leaning voters.' 2/2

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

'Schools across Delhi and in about half of India’s 28 states have been ordered to close from mid-May until the end of June, when in many places the summer break starts.' Heatwaves began in April in India this year.

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How India’s heatwaves are shutting schools – and pushing women out of the workforce

Forced to stay home or switch jobs, working mothers are bearing the brunt of the climate crisis as classes go online for weeks or months at a time

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Whatever the result, we badly need a party that is willing to redistribute wealth and power. A party that will nationalise our public services, tax the super rich and call a genocide exactly what it is. And that's the Green Party. Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

'Now analysis of health records has found emergency admissions to hospital reduced after the introduction of the T-charge and ultra-low emissions zone (Ulez) in central London.' Kudos to @london.gov.uk for making this happen. Good politics in bad times. 2/2

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