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Mari Wiliam

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 05/12/2025
We can heed the science, connect the dots, and refuse to fund poultry production, or we can post a sad face reaction on social media about swan deaths, chow down on a roast bird, and practice farewelling our ICU-ailing relatives via Zoom ✍️Kate Werner
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When will we learn: Our diet kills chickens, swans, and soon enough, us?
Kate Werner Once again, the bird flu alarm is ringing, this time triggered by the deaths of a dozen swans in Fendrod Lake, Swansea, with a sign nearby claiming that the birds showed signs of avian flu...
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 21/11/2025
Unskilled labor does not exist!
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We Keep You Alive | Lizzie O’Shea
Workers at unskilled jobs deserve solidarity and dignity, and we should support them however we can as they organize to fight for recognition and respect.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
If this policy really was enacted, I would hope to see civil disobedience and non-compliance with the state across civic society in an attempt to disrupt and block it. Countries have the right to enforce borders, not steal people's stuff for performative cruelty. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
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Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Pan mae cymaint o wleidyddiaeth yn hyll a chynhennus, roedd gweld rhain wedi casglu ynghŷd i ffarwelio â Arlywydd Iwerddon - â’i gi, wrth gwrs - yn donic ❤️
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
If you blame migrants collectively for the horrible actions of a few but do not hold white people collectively responsible when white people commit heinous crimes, that's racism. Just saying.
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Martin Johnes @martinjohnes.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
A fair critique here. And one that's been made before but no one in government seems to want to listen. The Curriculum for Wales requires Welah history to be taught at all levels but never specifies what that means in practice. It needs to be far more directive.
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Welsh historian calls for urgent overhaul of GCSE history qualification
Emily Price  Welsh history is being sidelined in secondary schools and a complete overhaul of  Wales’ GCSE history qualification is urgently needed, a prominent historian has warned. Dr Huw Griffiths ...
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Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Ymateb cyntaf i ganlyniad Caerffili… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Gwleidydda - Plaid yn Cipio Caerffili - BBC Sounds
Yr Arglwydd Dafydd Wigley sy'n ymuno i drafod arwyddocad canlyniad is-etholiad Caerffili.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 24/10/2025
The people of Caerphilly are not nearly as gullible as Nigel Farage thought they were. For him and his abominable party, the by-election loss is a huge setback that they weren’t expecting✍️ Martin Shipton
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Reform's defeat is a triumph for Wales
Martin Shipton Lindsay Whittle’s triumph in the Caerphilly by-election is a victory not only for Plaid Cymru, but for Wales. Like many others, I had been seduced into believing that the Farage bandwag...
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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
What if they want to live and work in Wales?
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MeidasE @ericpere.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Being an academic is like carrying an armload full of balls. Sometimes you pick up new balls and add to the pile, but most of the time other people are putting balls in your pile. Eventually you start dropping balls and then people get upset with you. But no one can hold all the balls at once.
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Mari Wiliam @marillansannan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
www.bangor.ac.uk/taster-sessi...
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 05/09/2025
New Green Party leader Zack Polanski has accused Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of betraying a ‘colonial mindset’ towards Wales.
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New Green Party leader slams Reform’s ‘colonial mindset’ towards Wales
New Green Party leader Zack Polanski has accused Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of betraying a “colonial mindset” towards Wales. Speaking ahead of his visit to Cardiff this weekend, Mr Polanski, who se...
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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
"If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books, you're afraid of thinking."
~Andrea Junker
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 12/08/2025
Two thirds of people believe the Duke of York should be stripped of his remaining royal titles, according to a new poll
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Big majority backs removal of Duke of York’s titles - new poll
Two thirds of people believe the Duke of York should be stripped of his remaining royal titles, according to a new poll. Research by YouGov found that 67% of the public would back the removal of Andre...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Just stupid. The govt's hands-off idleness in Higher Education means that universities don't pick students and enforce their offers - students dictate to unis who they'll take. This is why you don't try to 'govern' with a quasi-market and a joke regulator. (1/2) inews.co.uk/news/univers...
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Universities offer cut-price fees, £500 handouts and laptops in bid for students
This year's clearing is set to be a 'buyer's market' for UK students as institutions fight to fill their courses and secure their financial viability
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Ieuan Wyn Jones @ieuanwyn.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Mari Wiliam @marillansannan.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Eisteddfod Wrecsam 2025
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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
🧵 How beautiful is this #embroidered #map sampler of #Ireland by Sarah Curran? Coloured #silk threads on a piece of satin backed with linen #canvas, mounted in a modern frame and glazed, 1801. 🪡 Zoom in to see the detail: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0....
Embroidered map of Ireland
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Looks like university corporate governance and audit have been doing their usually fine job. Houses raided by the cops! Cool cool cool cool cool fine fine fine fine fine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Raids over alleged bribery and fraud at Greater Manchester university
Homes are searched as part of an investigation into finances at the University of Greater Manchester.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 16/07/2025
A new scheme funded by the Welsh Government will enable state-maintained schools in Wales to visit local museums for free ✍️Emily Price
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New scheme to fund free school visits to local museums in Wales
Emily Price A new scheme funded by the Welsh Government will enable state-maintained schools in Wales to visit local museums for free. The Museum Visits Bursary scheme was launched by the Group for Ed...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
‘All they offer is love… ’ 🐔❤️🐓 #SoundOn #EndSpeciesism
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Dr Marc Collinson @marccollinson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The Menai Suspension Bridge will celebrate its bicentenary in 2026. To help with celebrations, please consider supporting the #TelfordCentre, a small museum in Menai Bridge promoting the bridge's unique story @archpbu.bsky.social @bangorhistory.bsky.social: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/200th-anni...
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200th Anniversary of the Menai Suspension Bridge
Raising funds for our museum & building to improve access, displays & facilities during the 200th anniversary of the Menai Suspension Bridge
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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Is WWE folklore? If so, who are the 'folk' and what is the 'lore'? These are questions my brilliant Folklore MA student is asking for her dissertation. Please share this and, if you watch WWE, please consider filling in her survey. It would be a HUGE help: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
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Herman Lambers @herman61.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We are in the middle of it.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
'Wild Poppies' by Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #womensart
Three open purple-pink poppy blossoms on long stems with four seedheads on stems behind on a cream background
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Thing I hate most about this uni disasterama - in a crowded field - is UK, Scottish and Welsh Ministers BSing all the time that they can't do anything. They could start to change structures and begin the salvage work on Monday morning. They just don't want to. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5282...
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EXCLUSIVE: Stirling University voluntary severance scheme launched as £8m cuts loom
Some staff fear the institution is headed for a crisis akin to Dundee University's.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 03/07/2025
Opposing the move to ban Palestine Action, Lord Hain said he was proud to lead a militant campaign of direct action to disrupt all-white, racist South African rugby and cricket tours in 1969 and 1970
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Former Wales secretary opposes bid to proscribe Palestine Action
A Labour former Northern Ireland and Wales secretary has warned that he would have been “stigmatised as a terrorist today rather than vilified” when he led an anti-Apartheid “militant” campaign. Speak...
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I’m in The Times today defending Universities against bad faith narratives: www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/are-uk...
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 29/06/2025
Luned Rhys Parri has released a series of new dioramas as part of one of the Wales' most highly anticipated exhibitions this year, including some of her most political and important works to date
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Documenting Wales: Luned Rhys Parri returns with most potent work to date
Stephen Price Luned Rhys Parri has released a series of new dioramas as part of one of the Wales’ most highly anticipated exhibitions this year, including some of her most political and important work...
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 26/06/2025
A distinguished archaeologist and academic who publicly opposed Cardiff University’s cuts programme has been ‘spitefully’ denied a status often given to retired professors ✍️ Martin Shipton
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Cardiff University academic who objected to cuts robbed of title through 'spite'
Martin Shipton A distinguished archaeologist and academic who publicly opposed Cardiff University’s cuts programme has been “spitefully” denied a status often given to retired professors. James Whitle...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I'll be reading this about universities today, looks really interesting: 'What flexibility exists is taken up with a focus on the latest emergency... rhythms of crisis-emergency-crisis suck life gradually out of the creativity and functionality of the sector'. So we end with a 'slow death'. (1/2)
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
What we're doing in the uni sector is shutting off routes for kids with Bs and Cs to do key (and prestigious) subjects, and closing down the ability of young people to go to the local uni just when it becomes ruinous expensive to go way. Will have incalculable consequences for social mobility.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 22/06/2025
I am here to extol the virtues of bypassing the cute Instagram-friendliness of a new puppy, and hoping to open minds to older, forgotten, ill or unwanted dogs ✍️ Stephen Price
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The infinite joy of an older dog
Stephen Price Of all my passions in life, dogs are ranked pretty highly – so much so that my CV and LinkedIn unapproved career detour before joining Nation Cymru saw me dog walking and sitting – such ...
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Sid the Seagull has been stalking us the past few weeks, and is always waiting on the verandah. Nothing disturbs him and he’ll sit there for a good hour or two in the morning doing…nothing. I’m not sure if he’s waiting for a chance to strike or if he’s just chilling.
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Mari Wiliam @marillansannan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
www.bangor.ac.uk/cy/digwyddia...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The Senior Management Teams of our universities should never have been put in the position where they either had to or were empowered to destroy a key sector of state infrastructure piecemeal. Basic governance failure.
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Olivia Gaines, Author @ogaines.com · 17/06/2025
#booksky #writingcommunity
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Angela Marie Morton @angemmorton.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
New in the shop: Single Crane Taking Flight in Wetlands If you enjoy Zen-inspired, calming art, created by an indie artist (that's me 🙋‍♀️), I invite you to visit my online shop and have a browse. 🖼 The link for this recently completed piece is below. 🙏🏻💚💙 www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/171534083
A brush pen drawing of a crane taking flight from water at a wetlands. There are reeds and grasses blowing, and water from the crane's feet is splashed on the paper. A very pale blue and light green Chinese watercolor wash creates a frame in the background. Art by me.
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Zane Gray sez! @zanegray.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Good doggie
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Lindsey Rachev @lrachev.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The world has gone mad.
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JLMeyer @jenniferlmeyer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Say Friend and Enter the Bookclub #sketchbook
Bunny enters a book arch with her beloved book. On a book pile is a happy chipmunk
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Jesus fucking christ
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Dr Peredur Glyn Webb-Davies @doctorpreds.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Mae Ieithoedd Modern ym Mhrifysgol Bangor dan fygythiad / Modern Languages at Bangor University are under threat. Manylion a deiseb yma / Details and petition here: stopcutsinmlatbangor.uk
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Talk of 'boosting science' and 'widening participation' plans is all just pie in the sky BS given that Britain's university sector is dissolving into something that looks quite like chaos. Just look at all this. Whitehall and Westminster are not grounded in the real world. (1/2)
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I hear this all the time, even though people know I work in a university. There's a real hatred of unis building up, and often people seem to like it: a fashionable pose that's congealing into conventional wisdom.
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Meesh @cookiedoves.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
⭐️ party birds ✨
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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Multiple universities across Serbia have been occupied since December, in response to the government's (non)handling of a collapse of a canopy in Novi Sad, resulting in deaths of 16 people. The government has withheld salaries of all university employees (100% deductions) for three months now. 1/
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