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Neil Chadborn

@neilchadborn.bsky.social
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Researcher at University of Nottingham & NIHR Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands. Interested in dementia, inequalities & digital ORCID: 0000-0003-1368-7983 #publichealthsky #gerontology

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 6h
Timeline Cleanse 🎶 🎹 🎼 FRANZ LISZT : Consolation no.3 - Markus Schirmer 👏👏👏👏👏👏 Enjoy this little calm and beautiful piece ⚜️🎶⚜️🎹🎶⚜️ 🔊🔊🔊☺️
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
'A new messaging and payment “super app” [ZyMix] marketed at British students uses servers owned by a Chinese company that has been put on a US military blacklist for its alleged affiliation to the People’s Liberation Army.'
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‘Super app’ aimed at UK students uses servers owned by Chinese firm on US blacklist
ZyMix platform has contract with Tencent, which US alleges has links to People’s Liberation Army
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Throughout this period, I have stood in solidarity with striking staff and met with university leaders, urging them to protect jobs and courses. It is not too late for the leadership to engage with @uonucu.bsky.social and its detailed counter-proposals.
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Many constituents have contacted me, devastated by the University of Nottingham’s decision to approve plans to close modern languages and music degrees, cut support services and end one-to-one personal tutoring.
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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Brexit was an act of war by Russia against the UK and its home in Europe. It was an extension of Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine that defeated the UK’s political establishment in 2016. Chronicling Russia’s war from the beginning, I called out Brexit for what it was more than ten years ago.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 09/10/2026
Happy Friday! Here's a site I've built because I've been thinking about it & want to see more of it in the world: a space for describing and sharing scholarly skills that I've picked up and nurtured over the years. Also this is a no AI zone in at least two ways: no talking about it and no using it.
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Royal Society for Public Health @rsph.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We welcome the Government's commitment to make dementia a national priority and accelerate research. Nearly one million people are currently living with dementia in the UK, and around in one two will be affected by it in their lifetime.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Professor Peter Hallward was arrested on the National March for Palestine for holding a banner with a factually accurate legal statement on it. “In the UK it’s a crime to say I support Palestine Action” #ukterrorlaws #freepalestine
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 12/10/2026
As a father and grandfather, I want the same for every girl as I want for my own daughters and granddaughters: to grow up healthy, safe, and free to pursue their dreams. But the reality for millions of girls is very different.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This summer: Thousands of deaths from extreme weather. This weekend in the media: What's the point of the Green Party? This morning from the Labour party 👇
Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 11/10/2026
Breaking news: UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has accused Moscow of meddling in the 2016 Brexit referendum and warns European voters of the Russian threat ft.trib.al/ucfuDpV
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I've just added my name to the call for the UK to join the European Union by 2036. A stronger economy, more jobs, greater security, and a louder voice in the world. Add your name: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/join_eu_by_2...
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Add your name - Let's join the EU by 2036
Add your name to back the ambition for the UK to join the European Union by 2036. Join thousands calling for a confident future at the heart of Europe.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, the world’s largest steerable dish radio telescope at the time (now the third largest). was switched on in 1957 on this day. Built by Bernard Lovell, it was the only radar device that could track the carrier rocket of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik I.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
TL;DR it'll be a plain text, one-minute read consisting of a list with 5-10 of the day or week's most important stories that are, in my professional opinion, flying under the radar or being overlooked otherwise—plus a sentence or two of context or analysis for each link. and that's it.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
i'm going to be piloting a new, free public health newsletter in the coming weeks. if you've been wanting to benefit from my public health news addiction and analytic experience in peace without all the shitposts or tangents in between, this is for you! 😊
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'm generally not given to conspiracy theories - I think people are useless or unthinking rather than successfully evil - but if I was trying to destroy the long-term success of a democratic nation, then closing universities would be pretty high on my list.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Let me say more on this. The researcher has stated that she *knows* the hep B vax birth dose is proven to save lives. Her argument is that, since Guinea-Bissau is too low income to buy the birth dose, her trial at least helps to save lives among HALF the babies in her trial. That’s very problematic…
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a very disturbing read by Philip Moriarty about the corporate consultants at University of Nottingham, whose "bloodless prime-LLM-grade corporate boilerplate" called Future Nottingham 2 is guiding decision-making - cuts, cuts and more cuts. muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.com/2026/10/07/j...
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Just how much of Future Nottingham 2 was written by vastly overpaid consultants?
PA Consulting misled a government department, threatened the press, and over-charged the NHS up to £2,500 a day. So why is a PA consultant listed as the author of the Future Nottingham 2 business c…
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Amal Chatterjee (migrant, grumbler) @amalkc.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
It's out. The book that brings together so much that I think about, and speak of. Do read it. Do share it. Do talk about it.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Haaretz's detailed story on the Israeli gulags, in which nearly 10,000 Palestinians are held, vast majority of them have not been charged or convicted. These are crimes against humanity. archive.ph/LdVXQ
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Neil Chadborn @neilchadborn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I received a letter from NHS England /Crapita asking me to confirm I was still a GP patient. I have NHS App, I had recently responded to GP communication - I didn’t see the need to respond to NHS Engl. Maybe I’ll be de-listed - but what about my family??
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 09/10/2026
and now, young Jedi, witness the awesome power of fully functional health services and bureaucracy
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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Water firms made £340m+ from it. Works can’t remove most chemicals in contaminated Heathrow wastewater. PFAS anyone? It ends up in rivers, seas, farmland. With River Action I built a database of 26,000 consents to show the scale. And mapped it: watershedinvestigations.com
watershedinvestigations.com
WATERSHED Investigations
Independent not-for-profit investigative journalism in the public interest. WATERSHED partners with national and international media to run high impact articles and investigations focusing on all aspe...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection
Victory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will be a relief for Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for the left of British politics
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 09/10/2026
I can't remember: when Thatcher wrote The Right Approach in 1976, did she also do this?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/10/2026
Firmus has been telling an obviously absurd environmental / efficiency story and because Business Men genuinely have no critical faculties they all just believed it unquestioningly
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Andy @andy.sitegeistwebservices.com · 09/10/2026
The accessibility page is just a button that says "Read the full brief" and it goes no where. Cool cool cool www.sovereignai.gov.uk/accessibility
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
In my view, one of the most important innovations of the modern world.
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Victory for diversity and inclusion in London by-election (Holborn & St Pancras): Labour 45.2%, Green 32.8%; rejection of far-right Reform 5.92% and Restore 2.52%
Sagal Abdi-Wali (Lab) 12,292 (45.17%, -3.75%)

Zack Polanski (Green) 8,928 (32.81%, +22.37%)

Ewan Cameron (C) 1,922 (7.06%, -0.13%)

Peter Newman (Reform) 1,612 (5.92%, -0.22%)

Patrick Stillman (LD) 924 (3.40%, -2.40%)

Tyler Johnson (Restore) 692 (2.54%)

George Galloway (WPB) 314 (1.15%)

Briony Kapoor (Rejoin) 236 (0.87%)

Barmy Brunch (Loony) 87 (0.32%, -0.10%)

Helen Spiby-Vann (CPA) 63 (0.23%)

Clare Fischer (Climate) 51 (0.19%)

Ben Walker (UKIP) 51 (0.19%, -0.01%)

Ketankumar Pipaliya (Voice) 23 (0.08%)

Jonathan Silberman (Comm Lge) 9 (0.03%)

Tom Darwood (ND) 7 (0.03%, -18.92%)Labour’s Sagal Abdi-Wali celebrates with fellow party members following her victory in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. Photograph: Toby Shepheard/Reuters
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 09/10/2026
By August, some livestock farmers were already feeding their animals the supplies they'd put aside for winter. After five heatwaves and months of drought, the consequences for our food supply are becoming impossible to ignore. Martin Lines explains
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Food security and resilience vital after extreme summer drought
After this summer, the climate crisis is impossible to ignore. We need major changes to how we farm if our food system is to remain resilient
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Mindaugas Galvosas, MD @mgalvosas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It was a really successful International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society congress in Seoul this year for Indivi #MDSCongress #MDS2026
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Former Labour Deputy Leader Lord Thomas Watson, now Senior VP at Palantir UK, wrote to me defending their public contracts. Instead of trading letters, I’ve challenged him to an open, public debate. He can defend Palantir’s ethos; I’ll argue for public accountability. Will you accept, Tom?
Formal letter from Clive Lewis MP, Member of Parliament for Norwich South, to Lord Thomas Watson of Wyre Forest, Senior Vice President of Palantir Technologies UK Limited, dated 7 October 2026. In the letter, Lewis challenges Watson to a public debate regarding Palantir's role in government contracts and public institutions. Lewis rejects Watson's claim that criticisms malign software engineers, stressing that elected officials must scrutinize corporate power, democratic control, and public accountability. He proposes a debate with an impartial chair, equal time, and audience questions.
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Visa applications to study in the UK fell by 10.3 per cent for the key recruitment month of September, new Home Office figures show. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #highered #visas #internationalstudents #edusky ow.ly/3LSs50ZVPAE
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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
RFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.
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THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute) @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk · 08/10/2026
How should AI in healthcare be evaluated when technologies change rapidly and safety risks can be hard to predict? Join #THISspace2026 to examine these challenges and explore evaluation designs and innovation pathways that can address them. Register here: ths.im/2026 @nielspeek.bsky.social
THIS Space 2026 online conference, 24 November. Session: “Evaluating AI for the NHS – is there a better way?”, 13:00–13:50 GMT. Speakers: Carl Macrae, David Taylor, Kathrin Cresswell, Niels Peek and Susanna Stanford.
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Over 70 civilians have been murdered in Ukraine in just over 24 hours, by a state on the UN Security Council, which vetoes every action or even vote against it. Three more innocent people have died in Kyiv this morning, though here a very luck escape from one downed drone.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern
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Neil Chadborn @neilchadborn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tinky-winky?
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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
more about far right violence that really should be national news www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
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Salford mayor calls for city to unite
'The spirit of Salford is what unites us'
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
'The UK government must urgently come up with a clear plan for what would happen to students who are left stranded by university closures, according to the Conservatives’ shadow education minister [Joanne Cash].'
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Labour unprepared for universities going bust, says Tory peer
Party’s higher education spokesperson calls for all university students to have at least English and maths GCSEs
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When the ceasefire in Gaza was declared, a yellow line was drawn, with Israel occupying 52% (reports varied a bit) of Gaza. After a year of "ceasefire", Israel occupies two thirds of the area (BBC). The people face another cold, wet winter. #R4Today
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“To fight back, Americans need to learn the counterspy techniques of C.I.A. officers: using multiple sources to check information; testing those sources regularly for reliability; never getting complacent and trusting one source without thinking.” These are also known as critical thinking skills.
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Opinion | A.I. Is Lying to You. Here’s How to Fight Back.
In the age of A.I. disinformation, we all need to use the tools of counterespionage to find the truth.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Archive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
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Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online
Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is a positive development, full stop. Anti-racism norms matter, elite cues on anti-racism norms matter, a broad political consensus on anti-racism norms matter so a strong signal from the leader of a party which has been blurring red lines lately is good news.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Did a Scottish film 'beat Hollywood to the punch' as the first ever talkie? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Was Scottish film Till the Bell Rings the first ever 'talkie'?
In 1927, The Jazz Singer made movie history with the first recorded dialogue on film - but new evidence suggests the first feature talking film was Scottish.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Obviously laughable. But a reminder of how these people would behave in power: Financially benefiting the journalists and pollsters who do their bidding, legally pursuing those who do not.
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Neil Chadborn @neilchadborn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
IMHO management are completely blind / head-in-sand about research, and are living in fantasy-land that research income will continue, research reputation will continue, and presumably research-led teaching will continue. All they’ve said is that they will ‘invest’ in research, without any plan
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