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Harry Farmer

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Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Greenwich. Interested in studying self, body and social cognition using behavioural, neural and VR methods.

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Applications are now open for the SWC Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme. Join us in London! 🎓 World-class neuroscience training 💰 Fully funded 4-year programme 🖥️Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social Apply by 9 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
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ingmarvisser.bsky.social @ingmarvisser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New paper 🍼📄 ManyBabies 3 is out (open access, registered report in Developmental Science). 30 labs, 33 languages, 839 infants set out to replicate a textbook finding: 7-month-olds learn abstract rules from speech (@garymarcus.bsky.social et al., 1999). We didn’t find it. 🧵
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Harry Farmer @psychfarmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This collection is a great resource for those wanting to make the case against the assignment of consciousness to AI systems
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Harry Farmer @psychfarmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The woman who aspires to govern the Uk lining up in front of a group of separatist traitors.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The playing of stupid games continues at pace. I can’t wait to see what the prizes will be. Good ones probably.
Per the BBC: “ "More freedom handed to new arrivals than British citizens" reads the headline on the front page of the Daily Express.
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In an exclusive for the Daily Express, leader of the Conservatives Kemi Badenoch tells the paper "more freedom [is] given to new arrivals in Britain than British citizens." She was pictured with residents of Piddington, who have voted to leave the UK in a symbolic referendum to protest the government housing migrants nearby.”
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Harry Farmer @psychfarmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Any post docs or about to graduate PhD students looking for a position in London there just 2 days left to apply for this fixed term lecturer in psychology post in the school of Human Scoences at Greenwich. Do come join our great team! jobs.gre.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Vacancy at the University of Greenwich: Lecturer in Psychology
On the 1 August 2026, the University of Greenwich and the University of Kent formed a pioneering new multi-university group called London and South-East (LASE) University Group.Should you join us, you...
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Talk TV and GB News broadcast hate, the media was out of control this summer tearing apart the life and achievements of Jason Arday: nothing from Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary. Racists in Piddington vote to leave the UK, and up she pops, clapping like a seal. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.
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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Looking for a fully-funded PhD studying how our minds and brains work? Students can join @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social via the UBEL scheme (link below). But prospective students and supervisors need to 'pre-register' their interest together by 30th October. ubel-dtp.ac.uk/esrc-student...
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ESRC Studentships Main Competition - UBEL DTP
ESRC Studentships Main Competition The UBEL DTP’s fully funded ESRC studentships cover full payment of tuition fees per year and an annual maintenance stipend. What’s on offer UBEL DTP studentships co...
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Harry Farmer @psychfarmer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Delighted to announce that I am now an Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Greenwich and to give my thanks to all my colleagues and collaborators who helped me get to this point.
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Lasana Harris @lasanaharris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hi folks, we’re hiring a post-doc. Come work in my lab on brain responses to safety. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Harry Farmer @psychfarmer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Fellow travellers”
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.
Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We must remember the Utøya massacre, and remember it for what it was: a far-right attack specifically targeted against democratic socialist activists. Today, the ideologies of its perpetrator are openly espoused by a global network of nationalist oligarchs as they wage war on democratic societies.
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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We, your leaders, whom not only refused to meaningfully invest in this country for decades but have screamed abuse at anyone who requested it, are now going to give a dodecajillion pounds of your money to Lockheed Martin, to impress America’s mad emperor. Fuck you, it could never have been different
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Starmer in 24: my government will let you just get on with your lives, promise Starmer in 26: IS THAT A PRO PALESTINE BIT OF CARD I SEE??? DO I SENSE A TRANS PERSON HAVING A WEE SOMEWHERE??? WHY IS YOUR 17YO NOT TUCKED UP IN BED WITH LIGHTS OUT AT 8.30, CITIZEN?????
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Harry Farmer @psychfarmer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This is so fucking dumb. Why on earth would you choose to respond this issue now?
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Bad news, I’m afraid we can’t afford to keep sending everyone to university, who wants to go, so a lot of kids are going to be disappointed. Which kids is it, that we’re now going to exclude? Well, you’re going to want to sit down for this one, because it’s going to be a real big surprise
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
These sick bastards are the ideological heirs of the Nazis and they know it. They go to D-Day events and implicitly position themselves *with the defending force*. Cannot wait to see them all driven from power.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
TOTTENHAM MOTHERFUCKING HOTSPUR
the 11th place medal celebration meme with "not relegated" caption
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
Twitter thread from Thomas Dietterich, reading "Attention 
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 authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"
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Harry Farmer @psychfarmer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Broadband communism
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Your annual reminder that William Shakespeare was born in what is now Turkey, never visited England and almost certainly could not read or write in English.
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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 22/04/2026
Ian Waterman was 19 when he caught a virus that robbed him of his proprioception. Over years he willed himself to learn how to deliberately move his body by focusing all his visual attention on it. This 1998 BBC documentary tells Ian's story: www.dailymotion.com/video/x12647t #neuroskyence
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The Man Who Lost His Body (BBC Documentary)
Dailymotion video by fabsLab
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 10/04/2026
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I worry that academia has a bit too much joy, camaraderie, and ability to take simple pleasures in the successes of others. That's why I am very much in favour of the proposal that everyone should report their privileges before saying something nice happened for them.
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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A time, not that long ago, where if and when the media rolled out their designated far right political character (ie Nick Griffin) it was purely so absolutely everyone across the public and media could throw eggs at him and boo him, not gladhand him on Question Time once a month for 15 years.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim… What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”
apnews.com
Scientists captured female sperm whales on video working together during a birth to protect the calf
Scientists have captured rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth, offering a window into the large mammals' behavior.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Yes, I’m sure that had Morgan explained he was the prime minister’s chief of staff and his work phone containing his chats with senior government figures and their phone numbers had just been nicked, then the cops would’ve yawned
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A minimum of 1,200 government devices lost or stolen in 2024 (according to FOl requests) so I don't think it would have piqued any interest
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McSweeney did, however, tell the call handler that it was a *government* phone, which you might think would
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Harry Farmer @psychfarmer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
My god how is this real, like what the fuck is going on. Absolutely insane shit.
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 17/03/2026
I don't want to ask the assistant a fucking question – why would I want to ask the fucking assistant a fucking question, I'm very obviously WhatsApping my fucking wife for fucks sake, when will this shit fucking END, get out of my fucking sight, sorry for swearing
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Harry Farmer @psychfarmer.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Starmer fully living on another planet now. I guess he might as well spend his last few months as PM in a comfortable delusion.
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 01/03/2026
Government-Funded infomercial from Norway striking back at US corporations and the tech Bros for filling the Internet with slop. youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...
youtu.be
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Harry Farmer @psychfarmer.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Wow, Labour absolutely bodied here.
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Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
That's why the modern dystopia is not a fully private state but a fully contracted out one. Things are still funded from taxation but the government provides no services directly. It buys everything from the private sector.
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Mark Elliott @thatmarkelliott.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Terrifying in its rapidity - it's taken just 27 years, 2 months and 3 days since scandal first broke.
theguardian.com
Mandelson’s downfall is one of fastest ever seen in British public life
Epstein links have taken political operator from a vaunted position in British diplomacy to arrest in under six months
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”
It’s a Wonderful Life bank run scene.
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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience at University of Birmingham
Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
the only place this should happen is academic conferences
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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Last call for this PhD studentship! Deadline Sun 22nd Feb
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
There is a Kinda Guy that is absolutely gaga for Gruff-Aesthetic White Guy Who Says Kinda Lefty Things. Their love for this is *not* strategic or instrumental to some end, such a person is an object of intrinsic attraction to them, and a strong one at that. They will rationalise anything for this.
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Todd Vogel @toddvogel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🎉 New paper in Nature Communications 🎉 rdcu.be/e24jT Does our environment influence how likely we are to help others?
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Humans are more prosocial in poor foraging environments
Nature Communications - People constantly decide whether to stop what they are doing to do something else. Here, the authors show that the quality of available options has a greater influence on...
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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Olivia > Academics, check if your book is on the list of the Anthropic AI $1.5 billion settlement. Each author will get at least $3,000 per book. Claims must be made by March 30th. Repost to help authors whose works were illegally appropriated. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup?cultu...
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
Submit a Claim
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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Hoping Matt Goodwin loses Gorton and Denton for many reasons, not least because we can deploy the headline, and resulting nickname, Matt Badloss
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 28/01/2026
I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
aiskillshub.org.uk
AI Skills Boost - AI Skills Hub
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I think I’ve solved the mystery of why some people who get booted out of boozers are a national emergency, and others are not at all
Laura Cumming @LauraCu... • 27/10/2025 X This is my beloved daughter Thea Sewell and I COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD! @Docstockk @suladoyle @soniasodha @HadleyFreeman
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"We're now at a point where I no longer can see inaction as just inaction. I now see a lot of it as just cowardice, and I'm not interested in it anymore." - Maeve Halligan, CUSW President and Co-Founder.Laura Cumming @LauraCummingArt
@ObserverUK art critic. Thunderclap - out July 5; On Chapel Sands, Sunday Times bestseller; The Vanishing Man @ChattoBooks @simonschuster Rep:
@pew_literary
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