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Nadia Hilliard

@nadiahilliard.bsky.social
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Political science/theory, fraternity, wine, piano, cats. Lambing in the spring. Quaker tendencies. AUK.

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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
American Studies, too…
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Totally separate question: what is the name of the post postmodern era?
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Same!
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Testing mania has trickled down to KS2 as well…we spend so much time at home rehearsing times tables ahead of the Y4 exam instead of exploring any number of topics…
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Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Petition: Urge NICE to Reverse Its Decision on the Life-Saving Drug Vorasidenib Please read and think about signing www.change.org/p/urge-nice-...
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Urge NICE to Reverse Its Decision on the Life-Saving Drug Vorasidenib
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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 23/09/2025
As tensions rise and divisions deepen across the UK and beyond, Quakers are inviting everyone to pause, reflect, and act on one simple but radical idea: Love Your Neighbour. Find out more about Quaker Week and this year’s theme: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Quaker Week 2025: Love Your Neighbour - a call for compassion in a divided world
As tensions rise and divisions deepen across the UK and beyond, Quakers are inviting everyone to pause, reflect, and act on one simple but radical idea: Love Your Neighbour.
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Congrats! Go celebrate.
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
What has happened?!
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
What book is this?
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Congrats, Stuart! Excited to read.
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Stuart White @stuartgwhite.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
What would an anti-oligarchic, republican economy look like? UBI? Wealth tax? Workplace democracy? Strong trade unions? Investment democracy? I explore a radical republican economics in my new book, 'The Wealth of Freedom', which is now out online. academic.oup.com/book/60075
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The Wealth of Freedom: Radical Republican Political Economy
Abstract. What is an economy for? The republican tradition in political thought offers a compelling way of exploring this question. The economy is for the
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Same…
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Love this one.
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
What do you think Leo might do with the synod and its fruits?
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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
As promised…
A baby fox gives their nose a good scratch beside a bed of yellow flowersMother fox has stern words with baby fox, possibly about tidying their room or eating their greens before they’re allowed an ice cream.Mother fox and baby fox crossing a driveway. Mother has once again clocked me.
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Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
A writing prompt to distract you for a few minutes from the sadness of what we see around us: “Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul” — Pessoa, 1931
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Adoption UK @adoptionuk.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
We marched with and for families today to protest the cuts to the ASGSF. It was a really well organised and moving event.The support fund is a lifeline for so many and cutting it does not make economic or moral sense. Thank you @asgsfprotest.bsky.social
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Carolyn Moody MBE @carolynmoodymbe.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
fosterwiki.com/prevent-brok... FosterWiki’s Noah’s Campaign is about protecting those vital connections.When we break attachments, we break trust. When we protect them, we hold their future in our hands. Join us. Speak up. Share. #NoahsCampaign #FosterWiki #FosterCare #AttachmentMatters
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Prevent broken attachments for children in care
Prevent broken attachments for children in care, a FosterWiki Campaign - It takes a village to raise a child.
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Prof. James Davies @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
When the right complains about 'over-diagnosis' they really mean people aren't suffering at all & so don't warrent support. For the left that's disengenious, as people's suffering is real, but rather points to psycho-social problems that over-medicalisation mistreats & ignores.
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
What kind of wheelchair?
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I’m kinda curious!
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Just spent 30 mins discussing the metaphysics of the Easter Bunny with a 6-yr old refusing to sleep. Wish I’d done my own personal prolegomena to avoid contradictions in my story, all of which were caught out by said 6-yr old.
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
It was 1:55 when I was a kid. But in recent years, it’s taken me more than 4 hours on more than one occasion.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
One of an expat's unofficial functions is to serve as a cultural interpreter and translator between their countries of origin and their countries of adoption. And I think I'm speaking for all US expats when I say that we are working overtime right now.
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
!!!
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Le pauvre ! He looks in good form, though
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Bumble sends healing purrs Oxford-way.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Can Mexico build a national care system covering care for children, people with disabilities, the elderly—and the caretakers themselves? This is a great piece by @carinzissis.bsky.social on a regional movement to revalue "care," one that could be yet another LatAm model the US can learn from.
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In Mexico, the Push for a National Care System Is Gaining Momentum
A national care system would go a long way toward addressing Mexico’s workforce gender gap, but building it will take time and resources.
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Adoption UK @adoptionuk.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
MPs call on government to confirm future of Adoption & Special Guardianship Support Fund as lack of clarity over vital funding beyond March causes anxiety for thousands edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... @jessbrownfullermp.bsky.social
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Future of the adoption and special guardianship support fund - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
That this House expresses deep concern over the future of the adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF), which is set to expire on 31 March 2025; recognises the vital role the fund plays ...
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Bob Lynn @boblynn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
More Than a Memory: Seeing Children in Care as Individuals, Not Numbers bob-lynn.medium.com/more-than-a-... #Empathy #Individuality #Care #Respect #Dignity
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More Than a Memory: Seeing Children in Care as Individuals, Not Numbers
At a recent gathering of foster carers at our local pub, I found myself in a conversation that has lingered in my thoughts ever since. A…
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Defund the Police never meant Defund the Police, which is why I don't think it was effective. But coverage rarely explained what it did mean (radically reorient policing through new institutions.) By contrast, when Trump says, "We will take Greenland," the media bends over backward to sanitize it.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I happen to think Defund the Police is not good messaging. (I'd have gone with Reimagine Policing.) And the pro-Palestine protests also suffered from messaging that fairly or unfairly got pinned on them. That said, it's revealing whose messaging gets the benefit of "translation" and whose doesn't.
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Dr. Brian Flanagan @brianpflanagan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This is why philosophy courses should start with Aristotle and Plato and not Nietzsche…
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Going back and telling 4 year old me that the guy who sings 'Brush your tooth' on my cassette tap will, in 33 years, be promoting a full on, and perfectly justified, boycott of American goods
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It’s not entirely free of pessimism, but this is a good account to follow: bsky.app/profile/para...
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Ditto.
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Similar convo here: bsky.app/profile/nadi... @duhe.bsky.social
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Yes!!!!
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Unpopular option: reality tv (not just The Apprentice) has more to with the rise of Trump than does social media.
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Yes, I can definitely see the ‘discouraging immediate consumption’ rationale…might be a rather wise strategy!
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
See, my problem is that in my house there’s just no need to freeze cheese. It gets eaten. Very, very quickly. No matter how much is there. But I’m tempted to try!
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thank you for this clear and nuanced analysis of the world’s current situation. I have nothing further to add.
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Yup.
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
news.sky.com/story/operat...
news.sky.com
Operation Iron Wall: West Bank areas 'turning into mini-Gaza' as Israeli troops bulldoze homes
Israel's stated aim is to prevent another 7 October attack, but 40,000 people have been displaced already and it appears to be a way of appeasing far-right figures in Benjamin Netanyahu's government w...
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Fully agree. Decades ago, ca. 2005 I think, William Pfaff wrote some good articles about similar themes with regard to Iran and its tumultuous 20th c history: religious fundamentalism as response to rapid external change forced upon a country. (I think the articles were in Commonweal?)
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Lent is just around the corner…
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Recent PhD in 20th century US history, or planning to defend before Sept 2025? We are looking for the next *Mellon Research Fellow*, a three-year postdoc with our large and thriving American history group. Deadline 9 March so don't delay! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50345/
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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Is it just me, or have the recent episodes of reality not been as good as in the earlier seasons?
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Carolyn Moody MBE @carolynmoodymbe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
fosterwiki.com/dear-team-ar... A foster carer’s urgent plea from the frontline: “Dear Team Around the Child, I write to you as one of the ‘supposed’ team members around the child…” A powerful, anonymous call for change. 📢 #FosterCare #fosterWikiOpinionPiece
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Dear Team Around the Child: A cry for help from the frontline | FosterWiki
Author: Name withheld to protect foster carer
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Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
(Kind of!)
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