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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jul UK GDP: 0.4% m/m, 0.4% 3m/3m, 1.3% 3my/y. 2026: q2 0.5% (0.5%), q1 0.6% (0.6%). 2025: 1.2% (1.0%). 2024: 1.0% (-0.1%).
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Prince of Wales/Pennsylvania Road crossing in Exeter is dangerous. No pedestrian button on northwest corner, cyclists and pedestrians often ignoring red lights. @exeterlibdems.bsky.social
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Aug UK gov't borrowing: £18B (£77B 26/27; £134B 25/26 = 4.4% GDP; £152B 24/25). Budget deficit: £12B (£52B 26/27; £47B 25/26 = 1.6% GDP; £76B 24/25). Gov't debt: £2.99T = 93.8% of GDP (£3.18T). Debt interest: £9B (£50B 26/27; £98B 25/26; £85B 24/25).
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Aug UK CPIH 3.3%, CPI 3.1% UK HPI 1.4%, av price 273K (Exeter -1.7%, 283K, 8% below Oct '22 peak).
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Jul UK unemployment: 4.9% (employment: 75.1%). Earnings growth: 3.9%/3.5% nominal, 0.9%/0.6% real (with/out bonuses, 3m/y).
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Jul UK GDP: 0.4% m/m, 0.4% 3m/3m, 1.3% 3my/y. 2026: q2 0.4% (0.4%), q1 0.6% (0.6%). 2025: 1.3% (1.0%). 2024: 1.0% (-0.1%).
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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Good. Much more of the balaclava-clad e-bike/scooter menace in Exeter this summer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Police operation targets illegal riders in Devon and Cornwall
Riders were stopped and found carrying kitchen knives, illegal drugs and illegal monies.
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Financially inevitable as ECFC recallibrates for League 2 mediocrity.
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Jun UK unemployment: 4.9% (employment: 75.1%). Earnings growth: 4.1%/3.5% nominal, 1.1%/0.5% real (with/out bonuses, 3m/y).
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Devon @countyofdevon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Pregnant mums in Devon advised how to give birth in car after maternity ward closure #Devon
devonlive.com
Pregnant mums in Devon advised how to give birth in car amid ward closure
Mums-to-be have spoken out about the issue as they face the possibility of having to give birth in their cars on the hard shoulder of the motorway since the maternity ward closed
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"But you don't need to cite sources disproving the existence of ghosts and the Earth being flat!"
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A kinder, gentler discourse prevails on Bluesky!
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Many philosophers (e.g., Judith Butler, Cordelia Fine and John Dupré) make truth claims about biology despite not being biologists.
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Enjoyed Nick Mackintosh's lectures on inteligence when his book came out. Worth reading if you want to avoid issuing facile takes on the topic.
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
But, within the law, what is "academic freedom"? Where are its boundaries and who sets them? No shortage of 'Moon Man talk' in academia!
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Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
As I have long said, this is mostly evidence that many people haven't met a professor...
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Jul UK gov borrowing: £2B (£57B 26/27; £130B 25/26 = 4.2% GDP; £152B 24/25). Budget deficit: -£4B (£35B 26/27; £47B 25/26 = 1.6% GDP; £76B 24/25). Gov debt: £2.98T = 94.1% of GDP (£3.17T). Debt interest: £8B (£41B 26/27; £98B 25/26; £85B 24/25).
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A controlled experiment (e.g., measure reactions to hypothetical plagiarism, manipulating only ethnicity of protagonist) is worth doing, but the tragic Arday case is *not* that. Bias may still be true, ofc.
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Devon @countyofdevon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Woman sexually assaulted in Exeter nightclub #Devon
devonlive.com
Woman sexually assaulted in Exeter nightclub
Police want to find the man pictured
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Christian Jarrett @christianjarrett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
How to rediscover your purpose later in life psyche.co/guides/how-t... New Psyche Guide by chartered psychologist Denise Taylor
psyche.co
How to rediscover your purpose later in life | Psyche Guides
You don’t have to ‘reinvent’ yourself to live happily after 60. There’s a better approach grounded in lifespan psychology
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Jul UK CPIH 3.1%, CPI 2.9%, RPI 3.2%. Jun UK HPI 2.0%, av price 272K (Exeter -1.7%, 281K, 9% below Oct '22 peak).
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Christian Jarrett @christianjarrett.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How to enter a state of flow psyche.co/guides/how-t...
psyche.co
How to enter a state of flow | Psyche Guides
That moment of sweet immersion in the task at hand: that’s flow. With some strategy, you can experience it more often
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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
💡Open Call for Proposals 💡 Special Issue of Clinical Psychology Review: Phenomenology and Classification of Repetitive Thought We plan to accept 1-2 narrative, systematic, or meta-analytic reviews of underrepresented perspectives/areas. Email me your 1-page letter of intent for consideration.
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
B1 Lancer heavy bomber flying east over Devon yesterday. Oil price up 34% year-on-year.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
'Geography courses at the University of Exeter’s Cornwall campus have been shuttered, with staff and students only learning of the decision on A-level results day.' And it's not 'just' Geography. The week that 'doing an Exeter' entered the UK higher education lexicon. Don't do an Exeter.
timeshighereducation.com
Exeter shuts geography courses in Cornwall on A-level results day
University closes programmes just as applicants find out if they have gained a place, with students told to transfer to other courses or study 80 miles away
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Jun UK GDP: 0.3% m/m, 1.1% (1.0% per capita) qy/y. 2026: q2 0.4% (0.4%), q1 0.6% (0.6%). 2025: 1.3% (1.0%). 2024: 1.0% (-0.1%).
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
De Montford University's VC sounding relaxed this morning on BBC R5 about DMU's financial position (£23M/9% deficit in 24/25), praying in aid the cash reserves (£96M).
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Why was the Jason Arday story broken by a racist blogger and not the mainstream press? Because Times Higher Education was intimidated off the story by a letter from notorious libel firm Carter-Ruck. I'm publishing the letter. Its central claim may be false.
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Cronos v Abaddon & Plastic Head Music Distribution Ltd. Disputed copyright of Venom band logo and artwork.
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
AIRAC 08/26: Gloucestershire airport runways 04/22 and 09/27 redesignated 03/21 and 08/26 respectively. Defection of the North Magnetic Pole to Russia is to blame! Bournemouth 08/26 is also due for redesignation.
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Today's discovery in esoteric metal lore is that Aort a.k.a. Andrew McIvor of <code> was the guy from Farnham who wrote Hringnum newsletter in the late 1990s, featuring diverse interviewees from Dog Eat Dog to Arcturus.
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Seven metal albums I enjoyed from 2013: Beastmilk: Climax Carcass: Surgical Steel Ghost: Infestissumam Hell: Curse & Chapter Orphaned Land: All is One Purson: The Circle and the Blue Door Volbeat: Outlaw Ladies and Shady Gentlemen
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Arday's amazing back story, serial fabulism, silencing of journalists via Carter-Ruck, fêting by Cambridge (on top of the plagiarism) make him a headline even before the 'DEI' angle. The tragedy is that they co-created it.
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In my department, the university is proposing to close down the entire Children's Health and Exercise Research Centre (CHERC). Pool of 4, with 4 positions redundant. Nightmare scenario for those involved docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com
Open Letter in Support of the Children's Health and Exercise Research Centre (CHERC) at the University of Exeter
To the Vice-Chancellor, University Executive Board, and Council of the University of Exeter, We write to express our extreme concern regarding the proposal to close the Children's Health and Exercise...
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Spoiler: it won't be very dramatic. Saw the 1999 solar eclipse from Hove (98%) and there was only a subtle oranging of sky.
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Hear me now, I only cross-post on X.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 03/08/2026
Today is the 20th day of the year in which a temperature of 32 °C or higher has been recorded in the UK - this exceeds the previous record of 19 days in 1995 📈
A map of the UK showing the maximum temperature in the UK on Monday 03 August 2026. This is provisionally 33.5 Celsius in Wisley Surrey.
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
How many Cambridge profs have 33 publications and an H-index of 13 (Arday)? Plenty of unpromoted lecturers at my institution at this level, but perhaps not bringing in £££.
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
July saw only 2.2 mm of rain fall on our Exeter garden. Warmest July ever recorded, probably.
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Purpose in life is moderately negatively associated with depression: meta-analysis. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41412337/
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 27/07/2026
After Arday enlisted Carter-Ruck, one of the United Kingdom’s leading defamation law firms, to send @timeshighered.bsky.social a letter, the publication spiked the story, according to three sources who spoke to Retraction Watch.
retractionwatch.com
Exclusive: News outlet killed story on plagiarism allegations after Cambridge prof hired law firm
Jason Arday In September 2025, Times Higher Education had a bombshell story in the works: A star sociology professor at the University of Cambridge had allegedly plagiarized parts of his Ph.D. thes…
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
'Dementia tax'? But we already have dementia financial Russian roulette.
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Cold front blew over on Sunday morning and spattered a mocking 0.2 mm of rain on the garden. Total rainfall of 0.4 mm for July and 40 days since a rain day (>0.9 mm).
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 23/07/2026
Kalshi recently opened prediction betting markets for clinical trials and drug approvals. It's intriguing, but in my view also risks weakening the integrity of trials and worsening participant dropouts. Short post by me:
open.substack.com
Ask your bookie if this drug is right for you
What we're reading spotlight
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Jun UK CPIH 2.8%, CPI 2.6%, RPI 3.0%. May UK HPI 2.7%, av price 271K (Exeter -2.2%, 281K, 8% below Oct '22 peak).
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
May UK unemployment: 4.9% (employment: 75.1%). Earnings growth: 4.3%/3.4% nominal, 1.1%/0.3% real (with/without bonuses, 3m/y).
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nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
How often do universities experience a yearly deterioration in operating surplus (EBIT) exceeding 5% of their previous year's total revenue?
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MegNaylor_DClinPsy @parentinginpain.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Hello! Are you a parent who experiences long term pain? The research below is being conducted by Meg Naylor, a trainee Clinical Psychologist at the University of Exeter. To take part, please follow this link - exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @wobblygoose.bsky.social @livewellwithpain.bsky.social
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com
Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter
To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...
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