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Lois Lee @loielee.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This is SOOO out of date (after slow start to my bluesky journey) but what a joy to come on today and be reminded of a joyful day and an amazing accomplishment!

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

A reminder that the entire #DisabilityStudies team at Liverpool Hope (my former colleagues) are threatened with redundancy. Devastating not just for individuals, but for the field. Students have written this powerful open letter about the impact. #SaveHopeDisabilityStudies

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Lucy Potter @lucypotter.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Delighted to hear the news that Mubarak Bala (president of the Nigerian Humanist Association) has been released, after being imprisoned on blasphemy charges. This case is a reminder that blasphemy & apostasy laws should be repealed, so everyone has the freedom of religion or belief.

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SUCCESS: Mubarak Bala is free!

President of the Nigerian Humanist Association Mubarak Bala is finally free after nearly four-and-a-half years of imprisonment for ‘blasphemous’ posts on Facebook. Mubarak was jailed in 2020 and convi...

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Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This is a really important point about the very low number of academic texts available in audio format. I often use a screen reader but citation practices, pdf formatting etc means they don’t work well for academic work. To be truly open access, academic publications must have audio versions.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Academic jargon, translated

Humourous translations of academic jargon like "it has long been known" might mean "I didn't look up the original reference."

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The average social science journal article now cites five times as many references as such an article did back in 1960 www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AcademicSky

Chart showing that "the number of references in papers has steadily risen over time, with papers in the sciences now including more than 40 on average."

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Are you interested in applying for a DPhil that focusses on pandemic research? buff.ly/4fHGfI2 The Pandemic Sciences Institute is offering a scholarship for Oxford Population Health's DPhil in Population Health to work with PSI Investigators on a PSI-related project, apply by 3 Dec.

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DPhil in Population Health scholarship for pandemic research

Are you interested in applying for a DPhil that focusses on pandemic research? Apply for Oxford Population Health's DPhil in Population Health by Tuesday 3 December 2024 and you could be offered a…

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Aaron Reeves @aaronreeves.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

Two year post-doc at LSE's International Inequalities Institute working on inherited inequality and social mobility - deadline Dec 1st jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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