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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 14h
Cancer drug prices: Centre to cap trade margins at 30% to ease patient burden www.deccanherald.com/india/govt-t... @robinnf.bsky.social
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Govt to cap trade margins at 30% of MRP for anti-cancer drugs
Anti-cancer drug prices: Centre plans to cap trade margins at 30 percent of MRP, bringing relief to patients and reducing costs for 110 medicines. The move aims to curb excessive mark-ups, ensuring af...
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 17h
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 18h
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 Her groundbreaking work included leading the team that programmed the first computers that took humans to the moon. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... #womeninstem
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h
‘Dystopian’: Co-op becomes latest firm to put staff under AI surveillance
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‘Dystopian’: Co-op becomes latest firm to put staff under AI surveillance
Whistleblower says recording and analysis of all probate calls in Co-op Legal Services is oppressive The Co-op has become the latest employer to place workers under AI surveillance with an automated listening technology that rates every phone call some of them make to customers. In a system described as “oppressive and dystopian” by a whistleblower, Co-op Legal Services is using AI models to record, analyse and award a percentage score for interactions between agents and customers seeking advice about probate, wills and estates. Continue reading...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h
".. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that most Americans, 64%, think AI is developing 'too fast,' while 27% say its development has been 'about right' and only 8% say it's moving 'too slow.'" @apnews.com apnews.com/article/arti...
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Most Americans think artificial intelligence is developing too fast, a new AP-NORC poll finds
A new AP-NORC poll finds that most Americans think artificial intelligence is developing too fast. And the vast majority of U.S. adults say it's highly important for the government to ensure that AI s...
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The Hindu @thehindu.com · 17h
Daily Quiz | On Che Guevara
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Daily Quiz | On Che Guevara
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 17h
Chinese-owned science journal created to rival the best | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Chinese-owned science journal created to rival the best
Newly launched Vita is part of a broader government plan to give China a bigger say in what counts as high-quality science.
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 17h
Rising numbers of Asian and African PhD students choose to study in China | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41... @robinnf.bsky.social
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Rising numbers of Asian and African PhD students choose to study in China
International students explain the advantages and challenges that come with pursuing a doctoral degree in China.
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font: Photo-based reconstruction of classic Commodore 64 keycap lettering, with desktop fonts, webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen. github.com/szabadkai/c6...
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GitHub - szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font: Photo-based reconstruction of classic Commodore 64 keycap lettering, with desktop fonts, webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen.
Photo-based reconstruction of classic Commodore 64 keycap lettering, with desktop fonts, webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen. - szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Electrification reshapes BRICS vehicle urban mining: Material flows and circularity by 2050 - ScienceDirect www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bengaluru Tech Summit 2026: GIA Meet invites global participation www.deccanherald.com/india/karnat...
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GIA Meet invites global participation in Bengaluru Tech Summit 2026
Bengaluru Tech Summit 2026: Karnataka IT Minister Priyank Kharge invites over 75 countries to participate in the upcoming tech event, emphasising execution, partnerships, and joint innovation programm...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
India is one of the major cases of democratic backsliding. The Modi government is abusing state power to give itself advantages in elections, purging voter rolls—with a flimsy pretext—in ways that target Indians Modi doesn’t like, in particular Muslims, the minority he’s been violently repressing.
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The Hindu @thehindu.com · 06/10/2026
'Reckless' AI firms can't control models, says whistleblower Jacob Coxon
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'Reckless' AI firms can't control models, says whistleblower Jacob Coxon
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Butterfly survey documents 71 species on Mangalore University campus www.deccanherald.com/india/karnat... @sudhira.bsky.social
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Butterfly survey documents 71 species on Mangalore University campus
The Department of Applied Zoology at Mangalore University conducted its first-ever campus-wide butterfly survey as part of the nationwide Big Butterfly Month 2026, documenting 71 species over five day...
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New Books at Project Gutenberg @new.gutenberg.org · 06/10/2026
New #ebook at Project Gutenberg: A Japanese artist in London by Yoshio Makino www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79734
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/10/2026
Students and faculty members gathered in protest at the center of Cornell University’s campus on Monday, in an outpouring of the anger that has been building since the school was sued over its handling of a 2024 sexual assault allegation. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/n...
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Demographic dividend: DH Toon on October 6 www.deccanherald.com/opinion/cart...
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DH Toon | 'Demographic dividend'
A satirical cartoon examines India and demographic dividend concerns through sharp editorial imagery, highlighting employment challenges faced by the youth and policy gaps today.
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What replaced the slave trade? africasacountry.com/2026/10/what...
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What replaced the slave trade?
What happens after abolition, when control over human movement still has a price?
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
‘Repeatedly erased’: Trans filmmaker flags misgendering, non-inclusivity at IDSFFK www.thenewsminute.com/kerala/repea...
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‘Repeatedly erased’: Trans filmmaker flags misgendering, non-inclusivity at IDSFFK
When trans non-binary filmmaker Harshappi Harsh (they/them) arrived at the 18th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) as a guest
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Keralam: Sanitary napkin vending machines at public transport hubs and depots www.deccanherald.com/india/kerala... @robinnf.bsky.social
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Keralam to install sanitary napkin vending machines at public places
Menstrual hygiene: Keralam launches WOMN initiative to install sanitary napkin vending machines and incinerators at public transport terminals and depots across the state to help women during travel.
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Identify five cities for pilot project on ensuring every road has footpath: Supreme Court to Centre www.deccanherald.com/india/identi... @robinnf.bsky.social
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Identify five cities for pilot project on ensuring every road has footpath: Supreme Court to Centre
Supreme Court orders Centre to select five cities for a pilot project ensuring encroachment free footpaths on all roads, holding that pedestrian access is a fundamental constitutional right.
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
AI companies want to embed safety evaluators, but countries need their own restofworld.org/2026/ai-safe...
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AI companies want to embed safety evaluators, but countries need their own
At a Rest of World event in New York last week, speakers explored how countries sidelined by the U.S.-China race can retain some control over safety standards as they adopt models from OpenAI, Anthrop...
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He Was a Tech Investor Before There Was a Silicon Valley - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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He Was a Tech Investor Before There Was a Silicon Valley
Bill Draper began funding start-ups in the early 1960s, when the Santa Clara Valley was better known for apricot orchards than microchips. He has died at 98.
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
omlahore/RemoveMacAI: Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back. One command, fully reversible. github.com/omlahore/Rem...
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GitHub - omlahore/RemoveMacAI: Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back. One command, fully reversible.
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back. One command, fully reversible. - omlahore/RemoveMacAI
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Up to 500 schools close in France over student protests
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Up to 500 schools close in France over student protests
Lessons will be "totally or partly suspended" in some high schools after clashes between riot police and student protesters, France's education minister says.
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Monash University is offering a fully-funded PhD scholarship to an outstanding student in animal behaviour/evolutionary ecology. Choose from eight project areas. For information about what project I'm offering, please DM me or see application form: forms.gle/ia9t4KPD3FKT.... Deadline: 15 Nov.
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Doug Savage @savagechickens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cake. www.patreon.com/savagechicke...
Cake says to Pie, "It's so great being a cake. Everybody's always happy to see me!"
Cake notices who is standing nearby. "oh... sorry, Raisin Cookie."
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/10/2026
Rowan Atkinson to bring Mr Bean, Blackadder and more to West End in new show
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Rowan Atkinson to bring Mr Bean, Blackadder and more to West End in new show
The actor will perform famous TV sketches – as well as new material created with Richard Curtis, Ben Elton and Howard Goodall – in Rowan Live, which opens in February Rowan Atkinson will return to the stage next year to play Blackadder, Mr Bean and other comic characters from across his career in a West End show, Rowan Live. The production, which will have a short run of 30 performances, is to feature new routines as well as his famous sketches from TV shows including Not the Nine O’Clock News. “It is 40 years since I last did a comedy sketch show in the West End,” said Atkinson. “I thought it would be fun to perform again the sketches that began it all for myself and [writer] Richard Curtis, and in which my most well-known characters originated, alongside some surprise new material written especially for this show.” He and Curtis will be collaborating once more with Blackadder writer Ben Elton and its composer Howard Goodall. Continue reading...
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Political-Emotional Architecture of Bharosa – From Kitchen to Street: Rashid Ali | KAFILA – COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006 kafila.online/2026/10/05/p...
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Political-Emotional Architecture of Bharosa – From Kitchen to Street: Rashid Ali
Guest post by RASHID ALI The word ‘Bharosa’ feels far too ordinary to demand serious analytical scrutiny. Yet, North Indian social life is entirely entangled in its everyday usage. It anchors every…
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Singeetham Srinivasa Rao: CM Shivakumar mourns veteran filmmaker death www.deccanherald.com/india/karnat...
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'Jewel of Indian film industry': Karnataka CM D K Shivakumar condoles director Singeetham Srinivasa Rao
Singeetham Srinivasa Rao: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar has offered deep condolences following the demise of veteran film director Singeetham Srinivasa Rao at age ninety four, remembe...
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why doesn’t high speed rail work in America? | CNN Business edition.cnn.com/2026/10/04/b... @robinnf.bsky.social
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Why doesn’t high speed rail work in America? | CNN Business
American railroads were once the envy of the world and the engine of its industrial age. But that hasn’t been the case for more than half a century.
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Economy of Despair: The Making of India’s Developmental Reversal – Economic Sociology & Political Economy economicsociology.org/2026/09/20/e... @robinnf.bsky.social
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Economy of Despair: The Making of India’s Developmental Reversal
by C.R.Yadu and Kavita Yadaw* India’s economic growth story increasingly sits alongside a less visible crisis: the weakening of the social foundations on which development depends. While headline e…
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cat foods contain toxic chemicals, investigation finds | CNN edition.cnn.com/2026/10/02/h...
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What’s in your cat’s food? New investigation finds lead and other toxins | CNN
Most types of cat foods contain lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury as well as toxic chemicals from plastics and fertilizers, a new investigation found.
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wealth redistribution policies to mitigate the impact of development assistance defunding: a retrospective evaluation and forecasting analysis up to 2030 - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Wealth redistribution policies to mitigate the impact of development assistance defunding: a retrospective evaluation and forecasting analysis up to 2030
The implementation of wealth redistribution policies proposed in recent high-level international agreements could mitigate the health consequences of the current ODA defunding crisis, avert millions o...
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 02/10/2026
For many Americans raised in deprived neighbourhoods, gun violence has fundamentally shaped their inner behavioural scripts to anticipate danger everywhere, perpetuating the cycle – but what can be learned can be unlearned, with programmes designed to help rewrite these scripts buff.ly/ghYgRJZ
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Early violence is a bad teacher. But the mind can learn anew | Aeon Essays
A world of violence sustains itself through guns, poverty and other social ills, but also through the minds it creates
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Dr Jessica Aiston @jessaiston.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New publication from the @mantrap.bsky.social team ( @alexiconartist.bsky.social , @veronikakoller.bsky.social , @markmcglashan.com) in Journal of Gender Studies. We focus on the metaphor of "the wall" and how it is used and adapted in different parts of the manosphere. Available open access here:
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What is the Wall? Negotiating boundaries of women’s desirability in and around the manosphere
In this paper, we explore how the metaphoric concept of The Wall is constructed in both the Reddit manosphere as a whole and in r/PurplePillDebate, a Reddit community purporting to facilitate open ...
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Beyond the Production and Consumption of Digital Technologies: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in India’s Labour Markets - Balaji Parthasarathy, Tony Mathew, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @robinnf.bsky.social
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Degrowth This book argues that degrowth is more than a reminder that GDP is not welfare. practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3136/de... @robinnf.bsky.social
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Degrowth
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why AI companies can’t be trusted to self-regulate | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Why AI companies can’t be trusted to self-regulate
From aviation to banking, high-risk industries are subject to independent oversight and meaningful penalties. AI companies should be no exception.
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Old hearts age backwards: transplanted organs adjust to host’s biological age | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Old hearts age backwards: transplanted organs adjust to host’s biological age
Tracking the biological age of grafted organs suggests that donor pools could be expanded to boost organ availability.
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mumbai's suburban rail: Can the major infrastructure upgrades ease daily commuter struggles? - Citizen Matters citizenmatters.in/mumbais-subu... @robinnf.bsky.social
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Mumbai's suburban rail: Can the major infrastructure upgrades ease daily commuter struggles?
Mumbai's suburban rail overhaul aims to fix overcrowding and safety issues. But do the upgrades make travel easier? Commuters weigh in.
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Half of Rome's Empire Was Paid For by Trade with India nickcollins1953.substack.com/p/half-of-ro... @robinnf.bsky.social
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Half of Rome's Empire Was Paid For by Trade with India
Two legions in Egypt secured a trade that generated roughly half the revenue needed to finance the entire Roman Empire.
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Doug Savage @savagechickens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unexpected. www.patreon.com/savagechicke...
One chicken to the other: "WHY?"
Caption: An unexpected response to the marriage proposal.
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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 01/10/2026
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/10/2026
Recent lobbyist for Palantir had key role in helping Andy Burnham become PM
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Recent lobbyist for Palantir had key role in helping Andy Burnham become PM
Exclusive: Martha Dalton worked closely with Burnham’s team on byelection that secured his return to parliament A recent lobbyist for the controversial $450bn US tech company Palantir played a senior role in helping Andy Burnham become prime minister, it has emerged. Martha Dalton, whose company Lodestone worked for Palantir in 2024 and 2025, campaigned for Burnham in the Makerfield byelection that secured his return to parliament. She worked closely with his team on strategic communications and rebuttals, and was among supporters who clapped him into Downing Street in July. Continue reading...
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bike Ambulance: Manipal Hospitals launches two-wheeler emergency service www.deccanherald.com/india/karnat...
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Manipal Hospitals launches bike ambulance across high-traffic Bengaluru to reach patients faster
Two-wheeler ambulances hit Bengaluru roads to tackle traffic snarls and deliver immediate medical care during critical emergencies before traditional transport arrives. Equipped with vital life-saving...
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Value-driven healthy area development | TNO www.tno.nl/en/healthy/h... @robinnf.bsky.social
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Value-driven healthy area development | TNO
Guidance for healthy area development, providing practical tools to embed health and wellbeing in decision-making and collaboration from the very start.
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
VIMtima: a new Organ‑on‑Chip model to improve vaginal health research www.tno.nl/en/newsroom/...
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VIMtima: a new Organ‑on‑Chip model to improve vaginal health research
TNO leads VIMtima, developing an Organ-on-Chip model to advance vaginal health research and animal-free innovation.
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