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Jack Hardwicke

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Concerned citizen and social scientist. Trying to do stuff that matters

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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
New bit from me & @jackhardwicke.bsky.social in the UK Coaching Research Journal. In this we briefly discuss the existing medical literature, along with safeguarding policy to ask if the costs of contact sport (preventable brain damage) are ethically acceptable. www.ukcoaching.org/getmedia/49f...
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Good stuff @jackhardwicke.bsky.social blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2026/01...
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Why are we still failing to prevent brain injuries in children’s sport? - BJSM blog - social media's leading SEM voice
Key words: Concussion; Brain Injuries; Youth Sport Greek physician Hippocrates is widely attributed to saying, “The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it”. The 16th-century Sw...
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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Do you see the problem of performance sport? @jackhardwicke.bsky.social and i certainly do. So we put this special issue together. Do get in touch if you have an idea. Cheers, CRM think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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The Problem of Performance Dominating Sport, Education and Society
Calling critical scholars of sport, physical education and health, submit to a special issue challenging 'The Problem of Performance Sport'.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
22 authors in a new OA peer-reviewed article in Soc of Sport Journal: Israel is committing *athleticide* in Gaza, "an indispensable component of the overall genocidal campaign enforced by the Israeli settler colonial regime and bankrolled by the US." journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/11/2025
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
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Engaging Sports @engagingsports.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Contrary to popular belief, performance sport does not promote public health. A new article by @jackhardwicke.bsky.social breaks down this pervasive myth. thesocietypages.org/engagingspor...
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Beyond Myths – Thinking Critically about Sport’s Role in Public Health - Engaging Sports
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer future threats but are here now." academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer
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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 28/10/2025
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Sooooo much wasted time from talented scholars has gone into those numbers. I realised a long time ago I can get really good work done with zero or tiny bits of funding, so im more than happy to stop wasting my time chancing something that 99% of people dont get.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
UK children living in the most disadvantaged areas are more likely to die in intensive care, children living in poverty projected to rise to 4.8m by 2029. Govts tinker with poverty. Push real wage/benefit cuts, don't curb profiteering, appease the rich, destroy futures.
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UK children dying through poverty, data shows
A new report published by the Child of the North initiative shows that the two-child benefit cap is pushing 109 families a day into hardship.
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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UK must prepare for 2C of warming by 2050, government told for first time
The goal is hotter and sooner than most official previous advice, and is a nod to the high chance of breaching the ambitious Paris Agreement limit. National advisers on the Climate Change Committee ho...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Richest 1% has more wealth than 70% of UK population combined. Top 20% own two-thirds of wealth, receive 36% of income. Bottom 20% own 0.5% of wealth, receive 9% of income. Can't grow economy or have social stability. Poverty is political choice. Which political party wants to address this?
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The government must ensure fair distribution of income
'The average real wage of workers has hardly moved from the 2008 level whilst bosses never had it so good.'
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Since privatization, shareholders of water, rail, bus, energy and mail have received £200bn in dividends. Plus £bns more through intrgragroup transactions. In public ownership this would have gone into infrastructure and lower bills, alleviated poverty. Govts still don't curb profiteering.
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If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership
Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.
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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
There is a paucity of good evidence suggesting that these interventions reduce substantially the risks of neuropathology that attend participation in a collision sport like American tackle football. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...
One reason participation has rebounded since then is because leaders at every level of football, from Pop Warner to the N.F.L., have tried to address worries by teaching tackling techniques to reduce head hits, treating concussions more proactively and introducing new equipment designed to reduce the impact of blows to the head. Leagues have also promoted flag football as a safer alternative.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of privatised water, rail, bus, energy and mail services, mostly foreign owned. Investment neglected. Regulators useless. Often little/no competition, captive customers fleeced,, more pushed into poverty. Privatisation is one of the biggest scams.
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UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation
Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010
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Prof. David Kitchener @davidbsky1.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Happy Socialist Sunday #SocialistSunday
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
How popular are post-capitalist/socialist ideas and policies? Here's a list of studies and surveys with some striking results...
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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Someone who supports my work has paid for 3 books for me to give away! I'll double that - so I have *six* to give away!!! To enter just repost & comment below. I'll announce the winners on friday (1st Aug). Please do share, thanks. 🙏🤟🍻 More info on the book here - www.routledge.com/Doing-Good-S....
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Thames Water shareholder funds in 1990, £1.3bn; invested ZILCH since Extracted £10.4bn dividends Paid £13.6bn interest Now borrowing at 9.75% One-third customer bills service debt Pays £200m a year to consultants Billions would have gone into infrastructure, if not privatised. Must nationalise.
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Public ownership is the only way to save the water industry
Public ownership is the only viable alternative but is opposed by the government
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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The follow up 'twin paper' is now published 👇. If the first one laid a solid but rather bland foundation, this one zeros in on a much more obvious set of critical issues. I think the opening line is telling - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Approaching, Contacting, and Grasping: An Annotated Methodology - Christopher R. Matthews, 2025
Social scientific methods are not as they should be. In this extended essay, I offer a way of framing and writing about methodological discussions that can tack...
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
New research published by The Lancet finds that economic sanctions imposed by the USA and EU are associated with more than 500,000 deaths per year since 1970, five times more than deaths by war. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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The health toll of economic sanctions
Financing for global health is the main topic of discussion in 2025, especially since the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville earlier this month. This issue contain...
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Jack Hardwicke @jackhardwicke.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Our latest paper challenges a powerful myth: that investing in performance-sport straightforwardly benefits health. We explore how this belief persists, why it's misleading, and how it can influence harmful personal and policy decisions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Destroying the myth that performance-sport promotes public health
Within this essay, we seek to critically deconstruct and destroy a rather pervasive myth – that funding and developing performance-sport promotes public health in meaningful and straightforward way...
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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
New one. Its the 2nd of 3 that mark out some very clear foundational issues in qualitative social science. These will be really useful for PhD scholars and early career researchers that are funding their feet. Please do share, comment & ask questions. 🍻 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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What Do We Do When We Do Social Science?: Approaching, Contacting, and Grasping - Christopher R. Matthews, 2025
It is important to understand what we do when we do social science. While this might sound obvious, it is quite challenging to produce relatively detached knowl...
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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Many people, including scholars, have a warped understanding of sport. This means they struggle to develop critical thought and often reproduce myths. We want to put an end to that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Destroying the myth that performance-sport promotes public health
Within this essay, we seek to critically deconstruct and destroy a rather pervasive myth – that funding and developing performance-sport promotes public health in meaningful and straightforward way...
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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Astonishing to discover that the £70m per year cost of policing football matches isn't paid by the football clubs (which are commercial businesses) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Football clubs should pay towards £70m policing cost, Met chief says
It comes as Sir Marks calls for the creation of 12 to 15 bigger police forces as part of radical reforms.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"83 per cent of 5-year-olds will be exposed to ‘unprecedented’ extreme heat in their lifetime" "Dangerous heat is deadly for children, warns the charity which has plotted the impact of different climate scenarios throughout their lifetimes." www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
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How will climate change impact today’s 5-year-olds?
Dangerous heat is deadly for children, warns the charity which has plotted the impact of different climate scenarios throughout their lifetimes.
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Labour are not for the elderly, sick or disabled, the homeless, low paid families with children, and they’re definitely not for the working class. youtu.be/UWcddtfV-_E?...
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Eddie Dempsey explains why RMT won't affiliate with Labour Party
YouTube video by Peeps
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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Do you ever read qualitative social science; sociology, psychology, criminology, and the like, and get a sense that the methods just don't give enough insight into what actually happened? Yep, me to, esp in relation to where scholars' ideas came from. More here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Abstract
This essay takes aim at normal academic practice in interpretative analysis. Specifically,
the ways methodological discussions are often stilted, wooden and don’t sufficiently
attempt to trace the intellectual journeys which scholars have traveled to arrive at their
understandings. Based on this I consider some of the epistemological under-laboring
that sits at the foundation of social scientific analysis of much qualitative data. With a
sound understanding of what it means to understand, we can grasp something of the
“rational shadow” that is often cast over the realities of human knowledge production.
That is because, while we scholars might organize our time so that we can have a
moment when we are “doing our analysis,” such a moment, when understood as a
bounded, linear and rational event or series of progressive steps, is an epistemological
fiction. It is, then, more rational to acknowledge the diffuse, tacit, and non-rational
features of human understanding, and build methodological and analytic strategies
which lean into these realities. And, in that regard, we can provide a more rational
analysis of our relatively rational analysis.
Keywords
interpretative analysis, research philosophy, understanding, epistemology, knowledge
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Some epistemology from me & @drcrmatthews.bsky.social This wasn’t really about biobanding or parents understanding of it, this was more about the critique of the tools typically used to “measure” such understanding. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Measuring’ methodological artefacts – thinking critically about surveys via knowledge of ‘biobanding’
Surveys can efficiently generate big datasets, but they can misrepresent participants’ understandings. Our article discusses the potential for surveys to produce ‘methodological artifacts’ when mea...
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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Funny and somewhat true. . .
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵
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Jack Hardwicke @jackhardwicke.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
No child should acquire brain damage that is within adult control to prevent. Sport is no exception. New paper on this: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Preventing sport-acquired brain damage in children: ‘If in doubt, sit them out’ on its own is not good enough
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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Doing Good Social Science - www.routledge.com/Doing-Good-S...
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I delivered the last @jcms-eu.bsky.social annual lecture, a arguing that #Europe needs to enter the #postgrowth era to come to grips with the #social-ecological crisis and its colonial legacy. I also outline a #sustainable #welfare deal for the EU #degrowth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Europe in the Postgrowth Era: Towards a Sustainable Welfare Deal
Europe is confronted with a multiple crisis while coming to grips with its colonial legacy. Given the lack of empirical evidence for sufficient absolute decoupling of gross domestic product (GDP) gro...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Thames Water wants to be spared billions of pounds of costs and fines over the next 5 years. TW ripped off customers, dumped sewage in rivers, neglected investment, borrowed money to pay dividends. Laws must apply. No public bailout. Let it go bankrupt. Nationalise for nominal sum.
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Thames Water begs to be spared fines and costs, warning bidders will walk away
Exclusive: Managers and lenders racing to find a buyer want regulator to agree to leniency amounting to billions of pounds
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I have finally got hold of images from an MRI of my brain from last year! Any suggestions of who may be willing to look at it in relation to brain injury? @alanpearcephd.bsky.social any suggestions?
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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Horrific. And I bet these deaths show a gradient of inequity!
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Fossil Free Football @fossilfreefootball.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“The report makes two main practical demands to the football industry, beyond the obvious of reducing emissions, raising awareness and collecting more data: to ban polluting sponsors and to redesign the football calendar to make it more regional.”
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Gianni Infantino given wake-up call as stats show FIFA driving climate crisis
A major new scientific report shows how damaging football's sponsorship deals with fossil fuel companies and airlines are - and tells FIFA what needs to be done
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
In my column today I argue that, unbelievably, Labour are worse on environmental issues than the Conservatives. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this? | George Monbiot
Our rivers, our wildlife, the air we breathe: the government is sacrificing all to the insatiable god of GDP – and mocking our objections, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🚨New Publication🚨 "Sport at the Conjuncture: Sport History, Sexual Abuse, and Resistance" in Public Humanities over at Cambridge University Press 👇🏻 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Sport at the Conjuncture: Sport History, Sexual Abuse, and Resistance | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
Sport at the Conjuncture: Sport History, Sexual Abuse, and Resistance - Volume 1
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Badvertising @badvertising.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
As new fires rage in LA, Olympics presidential candidate warns the city set to host the 2028 Games to be "better prepared". 🤥 Translation: "Don't look into the polluters that fund us, just get better at dealing with the apocalyptic scenes they cause."
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Los Angeles must be better prepared for climate crises by 2028 Olympics, says IOC member Johan Eliasch
Mr Eliasch says it's vital to ensure future Olympic hosts have the capabilities to properly deal with the effects of climate change
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Jack Hardwicke @jackhardwicke.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
The Olympics pose a grave threat to the planet and meaningingfully dealing with climate change is the proper framing. Hosting any sport mega events in a climate crisis is gross. inews.co.uk/sport/olympi...
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'A financial nightmare': LA wildfires pose a grave threat to 2028 Olympics
Experts warn that the risks could be even higher by 2028 when the Olympics is set to be hosted in Los Angeles
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David Ullrich @davidullrich202.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post” — Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos
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Jack Hardwicke @jackhardwicke.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
In a context of declining gov funding for public parks and greenspaces, it's important to understand the role they play in communities and people's lives. Latest paper shares some insights on why they matter 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The significance of urban greenspaces in everyday life
Greenspaces are recognised as important assets for supporting and promoting human flourishing in an increasingly urbanised world. Whilst much epidemiological research has shown the various health b...
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