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Miranda L. Barnes

@mirandab-oa.bsky.social
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Research Associate, Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences (MORPHSS), Uni. of Cambridge (Cambridge Digital Humanities & Cambridge University Library). Views my own. [Find my poetry account at @luminousjune.bsky.social]

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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 4h
I'm very excited and honored to be part of this seminar series! I'll be talking about the vulnerability of social infrastructure within the knowledge ecosystem. Please consider registering!
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Trust, Open Knowledge & Infrastructure Research Network @toki-crassh.bsky.social · 6h
The talk will be a virtual event open to anyone. You can register to hear Lisa Schiff speak on 'Responding to political upheaval with #DefendResearch' at the link below. We look forward to you joining us at our first seminar of the series! @crasshlive.bsky.social luma.com/onkgv07k
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Responding to political upheaval with #DefendResearch · Zoom · Luma
For details of the event, please visit: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/networks/future-of-open-knowledge/#1-programme-2026-2027 About the network In…
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Trust, Open Knowledge & Infrastructure Research Network @toki-crassh.bsky.social · 6h
We are very happy to share with you our schedule of events for the Michaelmas term! Find out more by clicking on the 'Programme' tab at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/networks/future-of-open-knowledge/ Our first event with @lschiff.bsky.social at @defendresearch.bsky.social is coming up 15th October
Image is of a poster sharing a series of five events, mostly in shades of dark blue and purple with white text. A geometric logo with white dots inside sits at the centre. The events are as follows: Responding to political upheaval with #DefendResearch on 15th October 2026 from 15:00 to 17:00, Online, Speaker Lisa Schiff; On the Ukraine War Archive: Preserving civilian experiences in wartime, 29th October 2026 from 17:15 - 19:00, Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, UK, speaker Maksym Demydenko; Reading group and discussion: The Politics of open Infrastructures, 5th November 2026 from 15:00 - 16:30, Online; Panel discussion with the editors of The Politics of Open Infrastructures, 12th November 2026 from 13:00 to 14:00, Online; and, Sustainable research infrastructures and community Stewardship, 10th December 2026 from 15:00 - 17:00, Online, with Kathleen Gregory (Leiden University).
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Critical Internet Studies Institute @criticalinternet.bsky.social · 8h
This exclusive report from @kashhill.bsky.social pairs well with our briefing on the U.S. data center refusal movement www.criticalinternet.org/research
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Research | Discover Insights Today — Join the Conversation — The Critical Internet Studies Institute
Explore CISI's research on surveillance, networked incitement, and digital security, focusing on technology impacts, policy, and civil liberties. Stay informed on emerging issues.
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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You’ve been seeing very large #bumblebees on the wing for the past while. Why? Okay I’ll tell you why in this quick thread if you promise to #repost as the more people who know that these are queens the more likely that someone will help some out meaning more colonies next year. Deal? 1/15 #bees
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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
PhyloPic is having an October fundraiser. The goal is to raise enough money to cover web hosting for the past six months. Please share the link, and chip in a bit if you can! www.phylopic.org
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PhyloPic
PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...
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Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just over one week until the October 1 due date for abstracts for this CFP on Accessibility in Digital Publishing! Please submit if you work in this space, and please share. Click the quoted post for a short wishlist I put together for this issue.
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 22/09/2026
'Ladies, Lives, and Letters: The Making of Gentleman Scientists through their Wives’ Words in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain' Talk by Dr Grace Exley, Munby Fellow @theul.bsky.social next month www.lib.cam.ac.uk/research-ins...
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Ladies, Lives, and Letters: The Making of Gentleman Scientists
WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER 5-6PM (the talk will be followed by a drinks reception till 6.30pm) LOCATION: Hosted in-person at Cambridge University Library. Directions TICKETS: Free, booking essential.
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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Do you or one of your colleagues need an index created for a book in the humanities? I make beautiful indexes that convey complex research to the reader w/o the use of AI or indexing software. I have space to take on 1-2 additional projects October, and 1 in Nov. Get in touch! RTs appreciated.
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LucyCes @lucyces.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Out now! 📜 Where does Canadian research and journals sit in the local-global interplay of scholarly communications? Who publishes in national journals and what does "national" even mean? How are research topics distributed across institutions, journals and languages? Read all about it! #AcademicSky
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Who Needs National Journals? Dissemination Strategies in Canadian Scholarly Communication | The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 18/09/2026
If you're only interested in solutions that "scale" you're just going to create new problems that you'll eventually have to solve with approaches that do not scale.
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 18/09/2026
Researchers are churning out AI-papers they don't understand so these editors are developing an AI system that will question authors about the papers they're submitting. Can't say I'm optimistic about this solution.
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Researchers submitting AI-assisted papers they ‘don’t understand’
Computer sciences journal editor is developing an AI system that will question authors about their understanding of their submissions
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🌳 UKCEH has secured funding from The National Archives' Archives Revealed Scoping Grant Fund to explore preserving and digitising 70 years of woodland & land-use records. Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... #WoodlandResearch #EnvironmentalScience
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Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
These cuts disproportionately target the arts & humanities: the Business School loses only three courses; the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures loses 48 – many of these are joint degrees, removing the optional breadth of study which has always been one of the appeals of a Scottish degree
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Higher Education risks irreversible damage, says British Academy president Prof Susan Smith, with humanities and social sciences disciplines disappearing in many cold spots. BA is tracking subject provision & calling for a comprehensive review www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...
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British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage
As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
👇"the thing that alarms me most…when an AI pretends empathy, when it uses the first person, when it says, “I hear you, I see you,” or even worse, “We are going to do something together. We are going to work on this.” People…start to feel…there’s a there there, even though there’s not a there there"
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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...
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Jobs - National Museum Directors' Council Website
Association of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
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MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great to hear colleagues at Essex and UEA found the MORPHSS project's work useful in developing an expansion pack of the game Copyright Dough for arts, humanities and social science PGR students #OpenFest26
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
If you are willing to drop $47 million on AI services but unwilling to invest in research support & infrastructure for humanities faculty & students, you show that austerity is a choice. It’s not “too expensive” to give people the resources they need; you just don’t want to. bsky.app/profile/ashe...
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 17/09/2026
This is going great lads.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland @araukie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Another job posting on the recordkeeping careers hub: Archives Workflow Coordinator (Full-time / 1 year fixed-term / Hybrid Working) working with UK Parliamentary archives and National Archives - listing here: recordkeeping-careers.org/job/archives...
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Archives Workflow Coordinator - Recordkeeping Careers
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“Solar panels bolted over 2 working irrigation canals in California’s Central Valley cut evaporation beneath them by as much as 70 percent, and the aquatic weed that fouls those channels dropped by about 85 percent”
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MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
NEW MORPHSS resource for qualitative researchers: Qualitative Data Sharing with Care: A Concise Guide Incorporating examples & case studies, this resource is informed by a series of interviews with qualitative researchers on decision-making processes around data sharing ⬇️ doi.org/10.17613/khv...
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MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
NEW MORPHSS PREPRINT on Mixed methods and ethnographic researchers’ perspectives on sharing qualitative research data in the social sciences doi.org/10.31222/osf... #OpenResearch #OpenQualData
Title and abstract of preprint.

‘Trying to apply a care-based approach’: Mixed methods and ethnographic researchers’ perspectives on sharing qualitative research data in the social sciences'

Expectations around qualitative data sharing have a vexed history. While some assert their importance, including in facilitating the impact of rich data beyond the confines of an individual research project, others highlight the barriers around sharing data that is often personal, sensitive, and highly situated, indicating a need for ongoing research on how these challenges are perceived and negotiated within specific methodological contexts. Responding to a scarcity of both research on ethnographers’ data sharing practices and attention to qualitative sharing in the context of mixed methods, this article details the findings from a series of 22 interviews with ethnographic and mixed methods researchers regarding their decision-making processes around whether and how to share qualitative data. 

We find that interviewees’ consideration of the rationale for and benefits of qualitative data sharing goes far beyond a focus on reproducibility or verifiability to embrace a broad range of factors. Among both mixed methods and ethnographic researchers, data is perceived as both a rigorous research output carrying profound evidentiary weight and a product of a co-created, contextually-situated endeavour, a finding that is reflected in the variety of factors that inform decision-making around whether and how it can be shared. This necessitates, we suggest, care-full, situated negotiation between the needs and interests of diverse actors alongside pragmatic handling of logistical parameters. After detailing the moderating mechanisms used to achieve such negotiation in instances where data sharing is possible, we conclude by highlighting the supportive environment within which such processes of care must in themselves take place.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/08/2026
England’s ancient oak trees dying in extreme hot and dry weather
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England’s ancient oak trees dying in extreme hot and dry weather
Woodland Trust says trees struggling in drought stress, with older ‘survivors’ disproportionately affected England’s ancient oak trees are dying in the summer’s extreme heat and dry weather, according to the Woodland Trust, with trees and ecosystems unable to adapt fast enough to the changing climate. The heatwaves across much of Europe this summer have had a notable impact on crop growth and plant health. To cope with the extreme conditions, many trees are undergoing “early autumn”, wilting and losing their leaves early. Crow Leasow oak, Shropshire. Tea Party oak, Suffolk. King John oak, Devon. Enmore oak, Somerset. Lydham Manor oak, Shropshire. Old Knobbley, Essex. Pwllpriddog oak, Carmarthenshire. Continue reading...
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MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
New experimental preprint on zine-making, feminism and open research from MORPHSS colleagues @jenniad.bsky.social & @mirandab-oa.bsky.social alongside collaborators @domismithson.bsky.social and others:
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026
A former director of BBC News speaks:
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Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Spell check has been degrading for a while, but we are reaching clown car levels of a tool that is older than I am.
Screenshot of a grammar suggestion in Word that suggests replacing impoverish with improve.
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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Prepared to be amazed by yet another incredible woman from history via the fab @whatshernamepod.bsky.social whatshernamepodcast.com/mary-ann-pat...
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THE SEA CAPTAIN Mary Ann Patten — What'shername
It’s 1857. A clipper ship is headed into a monster storm at Cape Horn – the most dangerous waters on earth. The captain is in a coma; the first mate is locked up in the brig. Who can lead the ship thr...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
'Neighbourhoods across the United States that experienced a growth in their undocumented population also saw property-related and violent crime fall, not rise, according to an analysis of 11,500 neighbourhoods in more than 100 cities.' Link to original research: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds
The analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 cities in the United States finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.
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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Pro Tip: If you don't have at least two copies, in two different locations, one of which is on storage that you own, data doesn't exist. www.tomshardware.com/software/clo...
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PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archiv...
This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives.
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Emma Wilson @emmawilson.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026
⭐ Amazing new paper from Jenni, Shuolin, and Zuzanna on cross-disciplinary conversations around open, transparent and rigorous research
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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The full print catalog for 'We are each other's Harvest': Gwendolyn Brooks and the Formation of Black Literary Canon can be downloaded here! www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/131934
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We are each other's harvest: Gwendolyn Brooks and the formation of Black literary canon: An exhibition celebrating the 75th anniversary of the publication of Annie Allen | IDEALS
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
some Good News from the world of vaccinations 💉 "Around 50% fewer infants under 6 months were admitted to intensive care with RSV disease in England... [demonstrating] the annual impact of the NHS RSV maternal vaccination programme for the first time." www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Newborn ICU admissions drop 50% in first full year of RSV maternal vaccine programme
While around 60% of women giving birth every month are vaccinated, UKHSA warns many thousands of babies still at risk.
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tracey 🌱 🔜 gateway fate 203 @sheepskin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
since referencing and repurposing creative works is a topic of discussion today i am just going to drop zhang jingna’s lawsuit article here as well zhangjingna.com/blog/luxembo...
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Something to ponder this week.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 11/08/2026
Pond ripples? Sound waves? Both and more #sciart artologica.etsy.com/listing/4528...
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Wave Interference 2 - Ink Painting on Yupo - Physics Art - Etsy
This Ink Paintings item is sold by artologica. Ships from Washington, DC. Listed on Jun 27, 2026
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It’s just so nice to hear a smart person.
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I think this is a really important op-ed from the Mellon Foundation today, doubling down on their philanthropic commitment to humanities research and encouraging universities and other foundations to do the same. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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With Humanities at Risk, How Mellon Sees Its Role (opinion)
Some may disagree with our emphasis on broadening who shapes the humanities. The real challenge to the field is the decline in overall support.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
NEW: A hacker tracked @agreenberg.bsky.social from his apartment to the subway to his desk using a $30 kids' smartwatch, took photos through its camera and listened in on him at work. Tens of millions of the devices run on three backends in China, and they're all broken.
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Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.
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Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Thanks to everyone who already completed the survey, it's been lovely to read the responses coming through 😊 Please do complete it if you have 5 minutes and if you are able to share it that would be great 😊 tinyurl.com/5579y76e #SoundHeritage #Soundscapes #Acoustics
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 05/08/2026
"This is precisely the moment we need the humanities. To ask what counts as human. To challenge power. To hold new technology to account." Dr Peter Riley of Exeter UCU on why we now, more than ever, need the humanities. Defend jobs. Defend the Humanities. Defend Exeter.
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Miranda L. Barnes @mirandab-oa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Sure, totally fine. Absolutely won't be used for massive harm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack
The UK's AI Safety Institute said recent behaviour from Anthropic and OpenAI models was malicious and unprecedented.
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Miranda L. Barnes @mirandab-oa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Stories generated by a machine that has been fed huge amounts of cannibalised, *human-created* material without permission or due payment to human creators, mimicking the creations made by humans for thousands of years, does a thing that people like. Hmm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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AI-generated tales preferred to human-written ones, study finds
A study sees if readers can spot if short stories were generated by artificial intelligence.
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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ESRC Digital Good Network @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What does a good digital society look like? is a two-day conference taking place in Sheffield, on 10th and 11th June 2027. We invite proposals for papers, panels and workshops from researchers from any discipline and stakeholders from any sector. digitalgood.net/conference-2...
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Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys) @sarahhlib.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Call for submissions for #OxFOS27 are now open! Do disseminate widely: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/open-researc...
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PA Humanities @pahumanities.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Original poems by Corry Area High School students came to life in Corry City Park this weekend as part of the Rain Poetry project “Finding the Light," supported by PA Humanities.
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Miranda L. Barnes @mirandab-oa.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
What a world we could have if liars in power had consequences to face for their actions.
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