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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I am not sure when the last time I looked at a banknote at all was!

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It DOES mean that; it's simply that the Australian crawl (or front crawl) is the fastest freestyle stroke so it has completely taken over. You were robbed! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freesty...

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Freestyle swimming - Wikipedia

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Eight years ago

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Many constituents have contacted me, devastated by the University of Nottingham’s decision to approve plans to close modern languages and music degrees, cut support services and end one-to-one personal tutoring.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Zelenskyy might be saving our democracy. The mad genius is bombing Russian data centers linked to FAKE NEWS bot farms. Without them, Putin’s midterm influence will accidentally fall from a 30th floor window. I 💙 Ukraine 🇺🇦

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations... It’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from."

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Ian Charles @iancharles007.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yes!

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My favourite of the professional photos of me running the London Royal Parks Half Marathon. The weird thigh bulges are electrolytes! Keen followers might like to know I made a rude hand gesture as we ran past the statue of Clive of India in Whitehall.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Insanity is signing up for another half marathon the day after your first... ...Cambridge Half, here I come.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In 2012-13, there were 51 UK universities offering Russian and East European Studies. In 2024-25, there were 32, and provision is shrinking further. Perhaps that's a serious security risk? www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/10/2026

This article offers half a dozen reasons why people have stopped having friends and family over, but it ignores the fact that the women who planned parties and kept homes tidy enough for unplanned guests are now working for pay full-time (usually more than 9-5). www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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The dreadful decline of hosting at home: ‘I feel shame any time a friend comes over’

It used to be quite normal to pop next door for a coffee or invite friends over for dinner. But not any more. What’s behind this change – and just how damaging is it?

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Smashed my Royal Parks half marathon goals raising funds for @sheltercharity.bsky.social My very first half, and I clocked 2:14:10 (Garmin recorded 2:12:50!), with negative splits AND a 5k PB of 28:55 to finish! Thanks so much for supporting my efforts! ♥️🙏💪 www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

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Katherine is running the Royal Parks Half for Shelter

Help Katherine Schofield raise money to support Shelter

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Feeling excited now! I've done my training, I have carb loaded today with oodles of pizza and tomorrow I run my first ever half marathon! My aim is to finish on my feet :-) If I manage to run under 2 hours 30 minutes I will be very happy. Thank you everyone for supporting me!

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Holborn and St Pancras byelection: Polanski is an utter failure and it's time for him to go iandunt.substack.com/p/holborn-an...

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Definitely not judging. My thermostat's set to 17, and my heating came on all by itself this morning — it was 7 degrees outside when I went for my morning run. Autumn is finally here, yay

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Friends, please do go and write reviews of this on Amazon pointing out that it's AI plagiarised shite. Many thanks.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

passing the "zionism is racism" motion on the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street is a bit on the fucking nose isn't it

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But not Jews, and not Zionists. A large proportion of Israeli society perhaps. But not Jews, and not Zionists. You may think I am splitting hairs. I am not. It is vitally important to continue to be able to observe the distinction.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I realise. Zionism itself is still not racism; there are Zionists who repudiate every one of these ghastly beliefs and actions.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The dog is real; it's the black shape covering the bottom half of the photo. Unless I am hallucinating and it's an arm or something.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

*I have many Jewish friends who are Zionists — in the sense that they believe there must be a nation state for Jews in Israel — who are, at the same time, visceral and loud opponents of what Netanyahu's government and the IDF and their supporters are doing to the Palestinian people.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is depressing. If you are against antisemitism, I am afraid it is now impossible to vote Green. What is happening in Gaza is genocide and in the West Bank ethnic cleansing, at minimum. That does NOT mean that Zionism is racism, or — ffs — that attending a Zionist synagogue makes you a racist*

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just so dispiriting to watch the Greens be corrupted by the same poison that took over Labour. All the same shit: the excuses, the mealy-mouthed justifications, the tortured position statements, the deafening silences. Like a historical reenactment.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

See Margot Finn's post I reposted — she lists the Reform Trust candidates. Just don't vote for them and you're good.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's that time of year again when we need to remind National Trust members that Restore Trust is a dark-money funded right-wing astroturfing entryist outfit. Please vote, and vote for literally anyone else.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Though what we also do not want is 100s of delivery riders on ebikes blatantly breaking traffic law endangering pedestrians and cyclists, as well as delivering illegal drugs, both of which are also happening. (I unfortunately live on a county lines route.) More regulation absolutely is needed.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There are a bunch around Cambridge station that we refer to as "safety deposit boxes in the sky".

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is insane.

Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Cambridge student newspaper Varsity is reporting that James Orr (or, as they call him, "Disgraced theology professor James Orr") hasn't been turning up to his own lectures.

archive.varsity.co.uk

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Please tell me you have the teeth! (Modern fake, everyone)

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I HAVE A COVER! And a pub date - July 6, 2027! If you want six true stories of antiquities fraud, from a California college convinced that Hong Kong tourist trinkets were worth millions, to an entire fake museum, to the titular mummy carved from styrofoam, preorder at www.amazon.com/Styrofoam-Mu...

Cover of the book The Styrofoam Mummy https://www.amazon.com/Styrofoam-Mummy-Tales-Antiquities-Market/dp/1324035870

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tapering down towards my first ever half marathon next weekend! (Royal Parks Half on 11 October running for @sheltercharity.bsky.social) My training app tells me I have to run pyramid intervals today. I hate intervals. Experienced runners: do I have to? Can I just run?

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The most UGs I had was 15, at a different university, but it again depends on the programme.

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