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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 25/09/2026

night before and eat out at Mowgli (and you could take Freya - dog friendly restaurant)

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 02/09/2026

Climate change didn’t arrive as one great catastrophe. It just quietly became the background to their entire adult life.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 02/09/2026

Food prices have jumped after another failed harvest overseas. The NHS is struggling through another heatwave. Wildfires and floods that once looked extraordinary on the news barely register anymore.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 02/09/2026

Your train is cancelled because the tracks have overheated. Your parents are clearing floodwater from their home again, but can no longer afford to insure it.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 02/09/2026

In 2038 you wake after another sleepless 30°C night to a warning not to use too much water.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 02/09/2026

Imagine being 18 today, looking at life at 30.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 01/09/2026

In the UK Premier League football clubs have broken their all-time summer transfer record after spending reached £3.198bn this year

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 01/09/2026

The UK spends around £800 million a year through on research and innovation tackling climate change and supporting the transition to a green economy.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 01/09/2026

Between 2025 and 2030, it’s likely that extreme heat could be associated with 8,000–18,000 excess deaths in the UK, and climate change is increasing the risk.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 16/08/2026

You can complain to the BBC here www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

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Make A Complaint | Contact the BBC

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 16/08/2026

Just a reminder that in July she described him as “unambiguously mediocre” and compared him to a “modern-day Forrest Gump” and referred to him as a “useful idiot”. She suggested that his race, autism and personal history enabled his career and universities had suspended academic judgement.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 16/08/2026

Unbelievable that R4 Broadcasting House allowed Kathleen Stock on to review the papers and comment on Jason Arday.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 07/08/2026

Names like Intrepid, warspite, dreadnought, Ark Royal have been used since the middle ages. Also looking at ships mottos which can also tell you about the intent behind the name. Termagant's motto was "Untameable"

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 07/08/2026

There were seven Royal Navy ships called Termagant, names carry on with their traditions (and their battle honours). The image is of the Ship's Crest, which also usually carries on from previous incarnations. The interesting thing here is if the Shrew was changed at some point from the original?

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 28/07/2026

Just sense-checking - how are people feeling about the new Turnitin EULA?

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 22/07/2026

Not just about tv though - lots of other stuff funded by licence fee

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Anthony Roberts @anthony-zed.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Your regular reminder that cryptocurrency does in fact have a use case and that use case is crime

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Martyn Broadest @martynbroadest.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Indeed. Proud to say my IDVA colleagues at @connecthousing.bsky.social will be out with @westyorkspolice.bsky.social tonight helping to make life a little safer for those affected.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 05/07/2026

A quick reminder that when England play and lose, incidents of Domestic Violence increase by 38%. When they win they still increase by 26% - womensaid.org.uk/get-involved...

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Football and domestic abuse - Women’s Aid

For many, football means passion and pride, but for survivors, match days can bring fear. Explore how we can help change the score.

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Anthony Roberts @anthony-zed.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 24/06/2026

In Porto and they have a nice bridge, but it’s no Pontcysyllte. #justsaying

A bridge in Porto crossing the river Douro

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

One of the more bizarre aspects of American politics for a European or Canadian observer is how what in Ottawa, Brussels or Rome comes across as boring milquetoast Social Democracy will be inevitably portrayed in the United States as harbingers of the next Leninist Red Terror

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 23/06/2026

There is a festival in Porto where you get to walk up to strangers and hit them with hammers. I am here for this challenge.

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Financial strain to be recognised in REF submissions, say advisers. Chairs of advisory panels say sector-wide challenges a “live issue” in assessment exercise. Report from #ARMA26 in Harrogate. Free to read. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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Arma 2026: Chairs of advisory panels say sector-wide challenges a “live issue” in assessment exercise

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 11/06/2026

Social media did not cause the Belfast riots, bad actors and individuals caused them. Including elected representatives.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 09/06/2026

Are you sure you are not confusing getting old with "fascinating"

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 08/06/2026

Surely sinkholes implode rather than erupt?

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 08/06/2026

I found this 3d model of an "ammonite" over the weekend. The "author" wrote: "This model is generated by the state-of-the-art 3D GenAI tool, Rodin Gen-1.However, its ideas and creativity originate from the human author." Clearly the "human" has decided that the animal will never leave the shell

a 3d model of 3 circles with groves in them

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 02/06/2026

I think I would ask what makes it human centred?

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 02/06/2026

This came into my LinkedIn feed today. This guy is "bragging" that he has posted up to 900 posts he wrote with ChatGPT in the last 12 months on LinkedIn.

A screen shot of text that reads:

I’ve written 800–900 LinkedIn posts using ChatGPT since May 2025.

Which also means I’ve spent an unhealthy amount of time in front of a screen.

So recently, I switched to using ChatGPT voice mode while going for walks instead of typing prompts.

And honestly, I underestimated how good it is.

I now brainstorm ideas, refine posts, think through business problems, and dump random thoughts while walking.

Without trying too hard, it quietly added 1 to 1.5 hours of movement into my day.

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 26/05/2026

Really simple question posed by @charliewestney.bsky.social that should give everyone pause for thought as we go deeper into a climate emergency.

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Charlie Westney @charliewestney.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Images have power. How would you think about the heatwave if this image was of elderly people in a stuffy care home, roofers or builders sweating at work, or a hospital ward with nurses helping patients sip water?

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 18/05/2026

Big birthday at the weekend, so I’ve done the most HE thing imaginable, produced an excessively long reflection mixing institutional critique, technology history, AI scepticism and a satirical university. Possibly a memoir. Possibly evidence for HR. lawriephipps.co.uk/60/

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Sixty, apparently, and most of it spent working in Digital Education – lawrie : converged

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 15/05/2026

After decades in education, technology and policy, I have concluded that the sector largely runs on acronyms, existential anxiety, expensive lanyards, and people saying “we should probably have a working group for that”. Anyway, I turned 60 and wrote about it. lawriephipps.co.uk/60/

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Sixty, apparently, and most of it spent working in Digital Education – lawrie : converged

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Delighted to be making my debut at Jisc’s Connect More event, on May 13th, 10:50 - 11:20. I’ll be talking about our interdisciplinary undergraduate module on #sustainability and #ClimateChange, why the module was needed and how it works, as well as some of the impact. www.jisc.ac.uk/connect-more

Promotional card for speaker at Jisc’s Connect More 2026 event. Design shows multiple overlapping squares of differing sizes with a black and white picture of a man, faintly smiling. Text reads Speaker: Dominic Pates, Senior Educational Technologist, City St George’s, University of London. Session: Working together for change: co-designing climate curricula. Date: 13 May.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 12/05/2026

newly elected Reform councillor asking for UFO monitoring over Doncaster fb.watch/H2-zWjMjzV/

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 05/05/2026

No chance - it must be AI

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