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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Come on down to the Council House for International Day of Birmingham, see the Re-Union Jack ♥️ #OneBrum Goldship have repurposed dozens of dirty & torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts to create a huge Union Jack, adorned with the names of people who have called Birmingham home

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GOLDSHIP Re-Union Jack 2026

Repurposed polyester flags/Mixed media.

Re-Union Jack is an ongoing community art project conceived by GoldShip, the creative duo of textile sculptor Clare Elisabeth and event producer Sam Shipman.

Repurposing dozens of dirty and torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts, Clare and Sam, alongside countless contributors from the wider community, pieced them together to create a huge Union Jack.

The flag was then transformed over several months by countless more contributors into a visual celebration of the people and stories that have helped shape the West Midlands. Across its surface are the names of influential Midlanders, spanning from the Anglo-Saxon Beorma, after whom Birmingham takes its name, through to the present day. Each has a connection to migration, immigration or the positive influence of people who have made the West Midlands their home.

Together, these names reflect the region's extraordinary history as a vibrant melting pot of cultures, ideas, talent and communities - and the positive contribution that migration has made to its identity.

The flag has since been signed in black by many of the people whose names feature upon it as a collective endorsement of its message of unity, inclusion and community.

Photo of huge Union (Jack) Flag on lighting truss in the hall of the Council House.
It's glorious and bears many names upon it of the people of Birmingham
Each has a connection to migration, immigration or the positive influence of people who have made the West Midlands their home.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.

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Dr Emma Bridger @emkbridger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

a timely and important piece psychologically explaining why members of at-risk groups sometimes support deportation policies. and just in time for my introductory lecture on system justification theory

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Post doc alert: Very nice new opportunity in Hamburg: Climate change and social conflict www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

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Dr Emma Bridger @emkbridger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The UK Data Service is one of the richest research resources in the UK so it was a real pleasure to be invited to contribute to their Data Impact blog and talk about networks and systems-stuff within @usociety.bsky.social. Thank you to the @ukdsimpact.bsky.social team

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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Let’s create that tipping point: 🔸 Sign the petition to get a parliamentary debate: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... 🔸 Host a screening of our film in your community / workplace: www.nebriefing.org/host-the-film www.theguardian.com/membership/2... #NationalEmergencyBriefing #TimeToStepUp

“The greatest question we confront, possibly the greatest question humanity has ever confronted, is whether we can hit the social tipping points before we hit the environmental tipping points.”

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It's encouraging that today, the Prime Minister will chair a meeting of COBR. Extreme heat, drought and wildfires are only part of the picture. This is what we would like to see on the agenda: www.nebriefing.org/cobr-agenda.... #NationalEmergencyBriefing #TimeToStepUp

Image of proposed agenda. Link to PDF in the post

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Dr Emma Bridger @emkbridger.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

fantastic set of resources about an academic i've long wanted to learn more about. can't wait to get stuck in!!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I know he has a lot on, but in the midst of a ferocious drought, fires, heat events and severe threats to food production, it would be quite edifying to hear Andy Burnham mention climate breakdown.

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I will be advertising a funded PhD studentship shortly, for a project on adding psychological theory (social identity) to modelling of epidemics ( @leverhulme.ac.uk funded, with Marijn Stok). The studentship will start in January 2027. Get in touch now for informal enquiries.

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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I’m recruiting two new PhD students to start in 2027, working with me on my program of research in quantitative psychopathology. I’ve put some information for interested students on my website: miriamkforbes.academic.ws Please share with anyone you know who might be interested!

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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

As Ed Miliband leaves his post as energy and net-zero secretary, a final tally: There have been an incredible 251 newspaper editorials attacking him and his approach to net-zero since the start of 2024 That amounts to two editorials a week, mainly in the Sun, Daily Mail, Times and Daily Telegraph.

cumulative line chart showing that UK newspapers have published 251 editorials criticising Ed Miliband since the start of 2024

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

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Climate Psychology Alliance @climatepsychol.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

💚 First, we tend to our own feelings, so we can hold theirs. Talk to others who get it, in a dedicated online space with trained facilitators. Next circle for parents, carers and guardians: Wednesday 22 July, 10-11.30am BST. Free/pay what you can. bit.ly/3SHvKhz

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Across all taxes, small businesses fail to pay between £30 billion and £48 billion of tax. These figures are massive. Enough to fund significant tax cuts or additional expenditure

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Samira Shackle @samirashackle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 11/06/2026

Want to share some thoughts. I know the rioting in Belfast has had lots of coverage. But I still think more needs to be said. This was so incredibly shocking. *people burned out of their homes because of the colour of their skin*.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

"The prime minister is not afraid about taking on the tech companies and their bosses to protect young people." A ban is by far the weakest form of taking on big tech. As @margaritap.bsky.social just wrote a few days back:

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Nuffield Foundation @nuffieldfoundation.org · 04/06/2026

Higgledy piggledy – that's how young people describe the complex mental health support system that's failing them. Young people are turning to AI, family, friends, schools and everywhere but a system that clearly isn't meeting their needs.

A maze shows the complexities that young people are facing to access mental health support

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Marios Richards @mariosrichards.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Great bit of research looking at the impact of Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech (shifted perceptions of Labour to more hostile to immigration ... only succeeded in hurting support for Labour / helping Reform in the group Labour were targeting).

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 22/05/2026

Equality is not conditional. Dignity at work is not negotiable. The EHRC Code of Practice has been published. UCU is examining it urgently. This is a significant and unsettling moment and we will not leave branches to navigate it alone. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1451...

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

There we have it - you have to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces (so maybe avoid having them if you can). A bathroom ban from people who recognise that they’re doing a bathroom ban, and feel guilty about it. Shameful. www.gov.uk/government/p...

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James Goss @gossjam.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Toilets. We're running out of fuel, we're not running out of fascists. But sure, let's talk about toilets.

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A lot of our discourse seems to assume that 1) these wrong beliefs somehow arise naturally and 2) politicians have a duty to behave as if these wrong beliefs are true. It saves asking questions about old and new media, or doing anything brave, but it’s rotting our society and economy.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The govt seem to be doing everything wrong on oil, poor economics, poor politics. They should be encouraging energy and travel saving, pushing on policies that help that, increasing benefits to help poor families cope with higher food and energy prices, being clear that Trump is to blame.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 13/05/2026

The last three years of marking in particular make me extremely concerned about what this means not just for (higher) education but for democracy more generally as the work required for developing critical skills and learning become increasingly shunned and/or the guarded domain of the privilege few

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Oliver Skånberg-Tippen @oskanberg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I built some ecological inference modelling, and found by far the largest swing is abstention -> Ref. Lab -> Ref is relatively small bsky.app/profile/oska...

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krat @kwholesaler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Thank you for calling. Please listen closely, as our menu options have changed. If the old world is dying, please, press 1. For new world is struggling to be born, press 2. If now is the time of- Ok. You selected "Monsters." If it is the time of monsters please have your reservation code ready.

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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Are we still posting our raw datasets now that they're being farmed for genAI-written papers? I'm starting to feel differently now sharing data before I'm totally done with my own research questions...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

'A report published on 28 April identifies domestic political fragmentation as one of several “drivers of change” for the UK research system over the next 20 years.' Like it or not, science is political. 1/2

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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

New paper— everyone is collecting intensive longitudinal data but recent review studies report that less than half of studies consider measurement/psychometrics. The paper covers a few foundational psychometric methods for ILD and provides a shiny app to apply them link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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A primer on intensive longitudinal psychometrics - Behavior Research Methods

Many intensive longitudinal studies are interested in topics that are not always amenable to direct physical measurement and instead are often theorized as latent constructs (e.g., affect, emotion, mo...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Statement from UK Biobank - 'Listings offering access to UK Biobank data (which did not contain any personally identifying information) were found on a Chinese consumer website. These listings were swiftly removed before any purchases were made.' www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/news/a-messa...

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A message to our participants: UK Biobank data security update

We would like to inform you about an incident involving UK Biobank data. We apologise to our participants for the concern this will cause, and we hope to provide reassurance by outlining the serious a...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

It is obvious - as a revealed preference - that a 33% rise in crossings is treated as x10 or x100 as newsworthy as a 33% fall in crossings. When this is most salient issue, BBC and public service broadcasters [if not the newspapers] should be checking that skew: it feeds a big public misperception

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Joseph Elliott @jelliott94.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It's a bit of a myth that rents are constantly increasing faster than earnings or overall inflation - on average, they're not. So what *is* the problem of unaffordability in the private rented sector? And what does this mean for how we go about fixing it? Our take 🧵⬇️

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Dr Emma Bridger @emkbridger.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I learnt a heck of a lot working on this piece, now out in American Psychologist. Big thanks to all collaborators particularly the mentorship of @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social and @ludvigdb.bsky.social. And of course the amazing resource that is the UKHLS @usociety.bsky.social

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 08/04/2026

🔴 MAPPED: The Reform-Orbán Network Ahead of elections in both countries, DeSmog has catalogued the connections between Hungary’s autocratic government and Farage’s operation. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

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Mapped: The Reform-Orbán Network

“Viktor Orbán is the strongest leader in Europe and the EU’s biggest nightmare.” These were the words posted on Twitter by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage about the prime minister of Hungary in April 20...

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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

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Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I’ve been describing supply loss from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz as an “air pocket” moving through the normal flow of oil out of the Gulf Helpful map from JPM highlighting when that air pocket will “land” in different major consuming regions: Asia this week, Europe next, N America two more

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

There is a difference between 1) having emotions about the state of the world and 2) trying to convince people that it’s too late to act on climate (a false premise that assumes climate change is pass/fail when it’s a matter of degrees). Impeding climate action is complying in advance.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 20/03/2026

Progressive resistance against the far right must be uncompromising and, as such, must be radically intersectional. Some communities cannot be sacrificed to appease the far right and all must be protected. An injury to one is an injury to all If you want to read more: feps-europe.eu/publication/...

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There must be an alternative - Foundation for European Progressive Studies

Against mainstream defeatism and towards the rejuvenation of the democratic public space

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 20/03/2026

🚨New policy study🚨 There must be an alternative: Against mainstream defeatism and towards the rejuvenation of the democratic public space We make seven key recommendations to turn the tide @feps-europe.eu 🧵 1/ feps-europe.eu/publication/...

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Sometimes I feel like academic work is a poor fit for the moment. While the university is under threat, engagement with the public is not incentivized. Along with some friends, we started Society Workshop as a way to bring more social science to the public. www.societyworkshop.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Holy shit: the guy who cut millions in grants because they were DEI cannot form a coherent explanation of what DEI is bsky.app/profile/lmrh...

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Dr Emma Bridger @emkbridger.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This is definitely worth a read. The electoral implications of two deprivations: "In the parts of the country where you can get a good job, you can’t get a good house; in the parts of the country where you can get a good house, you can’t get a good job."

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drtomrichardson.bsky.social @drtomrichardson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

If you have experienced #bereavement in the past 12 months? Please consider taking part in our research on the impact of #money problems on grief. #Grief #Debt #MentalHealth #CostofLiving tinyurl.com/costofgrief

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Dr Emma Bridger @emkbridger.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

really interesting analysis (and beautiful data visualisations) from @profjanegreen.bsky.social. take-home for me: "Reform are starting to make substantial in-roads in Labour areas ... but it is not true that they are doing so by making substantial in-roads among Labour’s recent **voters**"

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