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Ellie Moodie

@noramoo.bsky.social
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A Gallovidian exiled in Clackmannanshire. Lover of wind and high places. Psychology and corvids. Store all the good in your hump for the lean days.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Death by a thousand cuts as universities revoke international offers "en masse" of prospective students from Bangladesh, Nigeria and Pakistan to avoid losing ability to recruit international students. More job losses and course closures predicted in consequence. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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UK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket ban
Pullback comes in response to doubling in number of study visas being refused by the Home Office in the first six months of 2026
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's hard to think of anything less British than the morons doing this to the heroic RNLI
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
One of the most moving and harrowing books about the Holocaust I have ever read (and I have read a lot). Timely, too, with its reference to Central and Eastern European history, Poland and Ukraine.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I am no lawyer but I love this. Take two minutes to read it. Go Berkeley. www.law.berkeley.edu/academics/re...
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Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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Ellie Moodie @noramoo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Manchesterism, is it really a thing! www.spiked-online.com/2026/06/29/b...
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Burnham’s devolution plans are just so much hot air
Labour’s PM-in-waiting is desperately trying to create a veneer of purpose.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Norway is banning generative AI for schoolchildren under 13 starting in September.
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Norway says math, reading, and writing come first as it introduces AI restrictions for under-13s
Norway is taking steps to limit how generative AI can be used in schools from the start of the next school year.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/05/2026
2. Whether or not this email was indeed AI-authored, it's worth taking a moment to reflect on why we write, where authenticity matters, and what happens when we use LLMs as communication surrogates to express our thoughts (or the thoughts think we are supposed to express) for us. From our course:
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Lesson 14: Authenticity
In this lesson we explore the concept of authenticity in human communication, and the ways in which LLMs get in the way.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
If you have children, if you have anything to do with education, if you are somehow active in politics: stop what you are doing and read this article about the harm AI can do to adolescents. reclaimchildhoodmedia.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...
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The Cost of No Friction
Adolescence happens once.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
A Reddit user has meticulously kept a diary of Trump’s daily victory claims. It should form part of every historical archive on the planet. Brace yourself, here goes 🧵👇
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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Had the same thoughts this morning listening to that story. If you decide to make a headline story about that kind of inflammatory accusations you shd have a few more facts to support that claim.
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frankrennie @frankrennie.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Mid-afternoon today, 16 April, it is exactly 280 years since the slaughter on Culloden Moor. We should have one minute of silence for the Highlands and Islands.
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
A sobering story from Science News: Emperor Penguins have been moved up to "Endangered" status on the IUCN Red List. #ornithology
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Emperor penguins are marching toward extinction. Antarctica fur seals too
Conservationists now list the penguins and seals as “Endangered.” Climate change in Antarctica has led to plunging populations.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A dilemma which we resolved at Nuremberg
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Trump threats cause dilemma for US officers: disobey orders or commit war crimes
Legal experts say attacking Iran’s infrastructure would constitute a war crime – but would military officers be held responsible?
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/03/2026
1. Over the last few days I have received a set of queries about my research. The first one I thought was legitimate, and I was planning to answer when the second arrived, and then the third, from the same sender. Viewed together, they’re clearly LLM generated.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/03/2026
The escalation trap: how the Iran war could become more costly and complex
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The escalation trap: how the Iran war could become more costly and complex
Iran’s is trying to create wedges between Gulf states and the US, but Trump is very comfortable on the ‘escalatory ladder’ In its current phase, the Israeli-US war against Iran and its proxies has become a proving ground for two competing concepts of military escalation, each of which threatens to become a trap. On one side, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have failed thus far in their ill-defined and shifting strategic aims. Despite killing Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and other key leaders in the opening salvo of the campaign, the clerical regime remains and Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium is unsecured. Airstrikes are intensifying and hitting a greater number of targets. Continue reading...
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
An utterly brilliant article on a revolting spectacle. Do Read. @questingvole.bsky.social spectator.com/article/trum...
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Trump is heading for a hard reckoning over Iran
It isn’t a sign of Trump Derangement Syndrome to consider the Trump administration's Iran war video obscene
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Alastair McIntosh @alastairmci.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This guy, Lamin, originally from Gambia, deserves the Freedom of the City of Glasgow. Sad to have watched all the abuse he got online as people misunderstood his heroic sense of civic duty. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Passer-by tried to tackle Glasgow vape shop fire which led to inferno
Lamin Kongira told BBC Scotland News he had been walking past when a shopkeeper ran out saying
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/02/2026
It's just a teaser for a future thread, but by the magic of the international dateline, I'm home in Seattle sipping whisky and snuggling with my dogs tonight but I took this photo in mountains outside of Wellington this morning.
Wild brown kiwi chick snuggled in the arms of a conservationist.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Of all the wildflowers in an Irish Atlantic rainforest, this may be the most important for pollinators: plain old sally. A willow tree in spring is often a great humm of flying insects.
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Helen Todd @helenrambler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
What great news! Loch Lomond's Flamingo land rejected by Scottish Government. Just too big (a huge traffic generator!) and too damaging to the environment. Please, let's have smaller scale developments that work for local communities and work with nature. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Flamingo Land: Plans for controversial resort at Loch Lomond rejected
The decision comes after years of often bitter debate over the plans for a £40m holiday park on the banks of the loch.
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Ellie Moodie @noramoo.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
It's that day in February when the light returns...
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Ellie Moodie @noramoo.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The first wild daffodil of the year. Locally, Stirling Uni campus is the best place to see masses of wild ones.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Peter Mandelson embroiled in scandal on Groundhog Day. Apt.
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Far From The Madding Crowd Bookshop @ffmaddingcrowd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The wonderful @shonamaclean.bsky.social is visiting Linlithgow! She's joining us in March to discuss her new historical novel The Cromarty Library Circle, which tells the stories of a disparate group of people over the course of a particularly extraordinary year. Tickets: tinyurl.com/FFTMCSGMaclean
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵
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Ellie Moodie @noramoo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Snowdrops. I saw my first few at this spot on Christmas day. A couple of pioneers on a recce!
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
On the Starmer doctrine: pretend there is a way to avoid the hard choice, find out the hard way there isn’t. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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From the Burnham row to the China visit, avoiding hard choices is the Starmer doctrine | Rafael Behr
Whether at home or abroad, the pattern of ducking difficult arguments and calling it pragmatism is the same, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files more to follow www.ft.com/content/c950...
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Jeffrey Epstein sent £10,000 to Mandelson’s husband, emails show
Epstein sent Reinaldo Avila da Silva payment in 2009
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/01/2026
Take four minutes out of your day.
youtu.be
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Dr Craig Dalȝell @thecommongreen.scot · 22/01/2026
Trump is about to announce his "Board of Peace" at Davos. Several of the inaugural members will not be at the launch due to their outstanding warrants for war crimes. This is 2026.
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Ellie Moodie @noramoo.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Excellent piece ⬇️
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"Who is we?“ As we wait for events in Davos to unfold, a thread about a question posed to me in London a few weeks after the invasion of Ukraine, and why I am thinking about it today, on a day of severe crisis for the Western Alliance. 🧵
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Prime Minister Keir Starmer will hold an emergency press conference in Downing Street this morning after an intense weekend in the wake of Trump’s tariff threat over Greenland
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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The corvids were celebrating surviving the storm last evening, as I left the cottage, so I wound down the car window & watched. The displays went on far into the gloaming & was late arriving at my destination. #Corvids #Rooks #Jackdaws #Nature #Whatdoesitallmean
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/12/2025
Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.
A forlorn landscape of layered rocks in the foreground, with hills fading into the background haze. At upper top right, a small crescent moon, and a bright star.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
The EU plans to implement a digital payment service which will be free of charge and replace the Visa/Mastercard/Paypal/Google/Apple methods which all charge 1-3% for nothing, it will be the standard payment method in the EU. This the exactly what needs to be happening.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/12/2025
Christmas dinner and festive treats up to 70% more expensive, reports Which?
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Christmas dinner and festive treats up to 70% more expensive, reports Which?
Price of turkey jumps as much as £15 compared with 2024, while chocolate has steepest mark-up Shoppers are paying up to 70% more for Christmas chocolate treats compared with last year, while the price of a turkey has jumped by as much as £15, according to the consumer champion Which? The group analysed a range of ingredients for a typical Christmas dinner, as well as other typical festive treats including mince pies, sparkling wine and chocolates. Continue reading...
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
My main takeaway of the whole Epstein thing is that women, on a very fundamental level, still don‘t really matter.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects #Bees🐝 www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...
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Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects
Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
There is a serious, principled case for a codified constitution, for some of the reasons George sets out. But botching together a constitution to stop Farage - a constitution that could not command widespread support and that was widely seen as rigged - would deepen our problems, not resolve them.🧵
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/10/2025
Americans are on the verge of losing their ability to choose their government. But they don't seem to have realized it yet.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The fact that this is even seriously discussed, by frontbench politicians and in mainstream publications, shows that something fundamental has broken in UK politics. All those who look at Germany with horrified faces because of the rise of the AfD, kindly take a look in the mirror.
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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Sad to discover a new writer through their passing. It’s only a 3 minute read but Kaleb Horton’s last blog says a lot. kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
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2025, So Far
I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...
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Ellie Moodie @noramoo.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Is this the first step in saying brexit is a disaster with plans to start to remedy it or just looking to blame and then business as usual!
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I enjoyed this interview. Writing as a way of dealing with the fact that you don‘t quite fit into the world.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Micheal Heseltine is a person with principles and a spine.
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