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Julie Dickson

@jd2711.bsky.social
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Birding, Nature, Photography, some Video Gaming. Day job = legal philosophy academic. From 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 now in Oxford. 1st generation Uni. Personal website (academic plus bird photos!): julie-dickson.academicwebsite.com

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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Puffin on Inner Farne, July 2026, for #SuperSeabirdSunday @steelyseabirder.bsky.social
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Dragonfly, Little Marlow Lakes, Buckinghamshire, September 5th.
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bbirds.bsky.social @bbirds.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Group of juvenile lesser black-backed gulls flew in to bathe at Scaling, in golden light. @teesbirds.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social #birds
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've had a terrific experience with Owlstown website builder for academics www.owlstown.com - I made my first ever personal website (academic stuff plus bird photos!) in just one day with no prior experience or technical expertise. I found the interface to be intuitive - delighted with the result!
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Owlstown: the website builder for academics
Build your academic website and keep it updated easily. Owlstown is designed for all academics, from students to professors to labs.
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@owlstown.com Please add my academic website to the Owlstown Academic Gallery.<br><br>URL: julie-dickson.academicwebsite.com
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Julie Dickson
I am a Professor of Legal Philosophy in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Law, Somerville College, Oxford. After completing a...
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Really looking forward to the publication later this year (just in time for the Christmas market?!) of Dialogues in Jurisprudence: Bridging the Analytic-Critical Divide - www.routledge.com/Dialogues-on... - by my wonderful colleagues Alex Green @sturdyalex.bsky.social , Joshua Jowitt & Sahar Shah.
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Website now has a "News and Updates" section! Am slowly dragging myself into the 21st century! julie-dickson.academicwebsite.com/pages/10087
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Julie Dickson - News and Updates
I am really looking forward to the publication later this year of Dialogues in Jurisprudence: Bridging the Analytic–Critical Divide, edited By Alex Green, Jo...
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New personal website! julie-dickson.academicwebsite.com julie-dickson.academicwebsite.com/projects/812... Never tried anything like this before - have used the Owlstown website builder to put together a personal website w/ both academic stuff & bird photos! Just starting out - will add to over time!
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Julie Dickson - Some of my bird and nature photos
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Fair Isle Bird Observatory @fairislebirdobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"It is a fitting tribute to this most hallowed of ornithological isles and will surely work its way on to the bookshelves of many of those birders who have visited at some point over the years – and probably a lot of those who haven't been, too. Go out and get yourself a copy – you won't regret it!"
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The Birds of Fair Isle - BirdGuides
This is a fitting tribute to a most hallowed of ornithological isles and will surely work its way on to the bookshelves of many of those birders who have visited at some point over the years – and pro...
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Tried for eclipse with DSLR camera and very dark filter and high shutter speed & aperture narrowed right down. Won't exactly be a true image cos of glare & stray light but it gets the main point of only a bit was left of bright sun ... did it on live view on camera screen not with eyes!
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Happy #SuperSeabirdSunday ! Gannets, RSPB Bempton, on Friday 31 July. Seen with @richard013.bsky.social #UKBirding
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Happy #SuperSeabirdSunday ! Puffin, Inner Farne, Tuesday 28th July. Seen with @richard013.bsky.social #UKBirding
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Happy #SuperSeabirdSunday ! Gannet, RSPB Bempton, on Friday 31 July. Seen with @richard013.bsky.social #UKBirding
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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
It might not look much but this young Guillemot (aged just 20-21 days old) has jumped off its cliff ledge home and is now following dad out 60 miles. The chick will rely on father for next 6-8 weeks. Remarkable start.
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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Fulmar chicks have been hatching over the island in the last few weeks and you can just see this youngster peeking its head out. It’ll be early September before it fledges.
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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds. Here is my contribution, thousands of Gannet’s off the Bass Rock. A remarkable sight. #SuperSeabirdSunday
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Common blue (we think!) butterfly, seen last weekend with @richard013.bsky.social at Rushbeds meadow.
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Butterflies and dragonfly on a walk at Rushbeds meadow last weekend. With @richard013.bsky.social
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Martin George @jannerbirder.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Yesterday's harvest time* walk around the local patch. Highlight was the four Oystercatchers that flew past me, calling loudly, as I overlooked Crose Mere from the site of the Bronze Age settlement, and another calling Quail. *Reckoned to be three weeks early by two local farmers.
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
So lovely to see swifts overhead tonight at a pub in Kidlington, Oxfordshire. #UKBirding @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social ❤️💜🩷 with @richard013.bsky.social
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
What's happening at the University of Exeter is a disaster for both the region and the country. The way the sector is set up, it is *inevitable* and *unstoppable* that this will continuously happen everywhere. We need to stop, get out a blank sheet of paper and start again.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The cuts at Exeter University won't work. They never work. The high-ups will be back for more in a year or two, then even more a year or two after that. Unis just keep doing the same thing consultants tell them to do, over and over again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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University of Exeter in talks to cut about 150 members of staff
The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I've said and done all I can on universities. It was obvious all along what would happen, right down to the year and the order of the dominoes. Without big policy changes the next two to four years are utterly predictable as well. Sorry to all colleagues and students it's working out this way.
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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?
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Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The nadir of 30 years of relentless monetisation of education.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is one of the dumbest and saddest things I've ever seen. We should not think of universities in this way, and if we do that'll destroy everything that is both useful and good about them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Find out which university degrees could earn you most across your lifetime
New data suggests which university degrees have the highest and lowest financial returns over a lifetime.
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Couldn't agree more with this. Priorities are so skewed in so many academic institutions. Particularly awful for those early career scholars coming through after us. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A vanity project turned into a money pit at Nottingham University Staff pay the price Those at the top? CBEs, not consequences. Those who didn't understand "listed building" status have moved upward This tells you everything about UK Higher Education timeshighereducation.com/news/careers...
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Universities of Sheffield, Nottingham & Edinburgh have all run into costly IT failures in Human Resources Same pattern every time: consultants/audit companies push “professionalised” HR systems, universities buy in & results are poor Money flows out far more easily than accountability flows back
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Voice of Victim "At universities, typical manner in which senior management addresses an academic is one of extreme haughtiness Inconceivable to them that any academic might know how to solve problem which needs 'seven-figure sum' consultants Like whether a costly IT project is good value"
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Cormorant @rspb.bsky.social RSPB Otmoor today, seen with @richard013.bsky.social #UKBirding
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Beautiful Demoiselle damselfly at RSPB Otmoor near Oxford today.
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Curlew at RSPB Otmoor @rspbengland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social near Oxford. With @richard013.bsky.social #UKBirding
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Curlews at RSPB Otmoor @rspbengland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social near Oxford. With @richard013.bsky.social #UKBirding
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Canada goose family day out - at RSPB Otmoor with @richard013.bsky.social
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Lovely views of marsh harriers over RSPB Otmoor, @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social near Oxford, today. With @richard013.bsky.social #UKBirding
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Lovely views of marsh harriers over RSPB Otmoor, @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social near Oxford, today. With @richard013.bsky.social #UKBirding
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Think this is called a "beautiful demoiselle" damselfly and it's a female. Seen at Adderbury Lakes, Oxfordshire on a very very warm day today, on a walk with @richard013.bsky.social
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Moon, evening of Friday 22nd May 2026.
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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
However, this shag, sat right on the cliff edge, with its glossy black iridescent feathers and bright yellow mouth, was perhaps the most beautiful bird I saw today.
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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Fantastic visit to #RSPBBempton. I know everyone loves the puffins, but for me, it's the gannets that really steal the show. Over half of the worlds gannets live in the UK, and Bempton Cliffs simply pulsate with them - they are just magnificent birds. @rspb.bsky.social
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The starling fledglings have arrived! No more peace and quiet for their parents! #UKBirding 2/2 @richard013.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The starling fledglings have arrived! No more peace and quiet for their parents! #UKBirding 1/2 @richard013.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social
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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I find it very healing to spend time in local nature reserves, so I decided to join @rspb.bsky.social. I also treated myself to this little 'charm of goldfinches' vase from their shop. In my first visit to St Aidans after joining, it was a goldfinch that welcomed me in.
RSPB membership pack and goldfinch vaseGoldfinch
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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
One of our favourite Saturday hangouts in York - Valhalla is Viking themed with good beer and a heavy rock soundtrack. And these loaded fries (with salami, pepperoni, chorizo, sheffield forge cheddar, spring onions, chillies, parmesan and honey sriracha sauce) are THE BOMB!
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Ro 📷 @roshn.me · 08/05/2026
Egrets.. I've had a few But then again, too few to mention. 📷 🌿 🪶 #nature #wildlife #birds #photography
A white egret in calm water, bending its long neck to dip its beak below the surface. A clear, symmetrical reflection of the bird is visible in the water below.
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Grey wagtail, Farmoor Reservoir, Oxfordshire. @rspb.bsky.social #UKBirding
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Swift over Deddington, Oxfordshire #UKBirding
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Gosling, Farmoor Reservoir, Oxfordshire. #UKBirding
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Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Cormorant over Farmoor Reservoir, Oxfordshire. @rspb.bsky.social #UKBirding
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