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M Sabella

@sabellam.bsky.social
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Founder of The Honeycomb Works, building innovative and inclusive cultures at work. Product Strategist | Queer CEO | London | Belong & Invent thehoneycombworks.com she/her

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
‘But what kind of future are we really hurtling towards? Increasingly, it is looking… like the one anticipated by the drugged-up 1960s oeuvre of Philip K Dick, filled with deranged billionaires, machines that claim consciousness, hallucinated worlds & political breakdown’ www.ft.com/content/bdcf...
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Does Silicon Valley dream of Philip K Dick?
His 1960s science-fiction visions are a guide to our age of erratic billionaires, wild space fantasies and glitchy, invasive technology
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 26/07/2026
150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Please retweet.
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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 13/02/2026
PwC somehow more lucid on AI and education than most university leaders these days
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2026
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
A little reminder for everyone, particularly our friends in the Labour government:
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/03/2025
Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on: “We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties - Volume 11 Issue 1
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M Sabella @sabellam.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Surely if you have to make a statement that a speech is ‘completely different’ to Enoch Powell’s you are dangerously too close
Headline from clipped from Guardian saying 'Starmer’s migration speech ‘completely different’ to Enoch Powell’s, says Yvette Cooper'
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/05/2025
One thing you can take from this is that companies rolling over are simply doing what they wanted to do anyway.
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DEI is emerging triumphant in shareholder battles across at companies ranging from Coca-Cola to Berkshire Hathaway
Here’s what happened to anti-DEI proposals put before shareholders at several U.S. companies including Apple, Goldman Sachs and Costco.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
‘OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes, a red flag for the sustainability of any business. Worse, these costs are expected to increase’ prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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Bubble Trouble
An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.
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M Sabella @sabellam.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
There are more books that exist in the world today from people whose minds amaze me than I will ever have the capacity to read (which breaks my heart btw). Why would I waste my time reading something written by AI? Even if it is 'good.' What problem does this solve?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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cass @cassiusa.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Weird time to be writing a book about trans workers in the tech industry anyway if you want to do an interview with me on signal about your job, feel free to message
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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 25/02/2025
Apologies for the social media orabouros of posting about LinkedIn on BlueSky, but I have begun my annual shout-out for Companies Being Massive Hypocrites On International Women’s Day. Would appreciate you folks spreading the word. TY! www.linkedin.com/posts/sharon...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Apropos of a co-panelist's remarks today: If you're asking how do we get people to trust this technology, you're asking the wrong question. Should be: How do we build technology that is trustworthy & sufficiently transparent so people can make informed decisions abt when to trust it.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
As we head into the final week before the inevitable onslaught of horrifying executive orders, please take a minute to think about what you can do for people who will be directly impacted by those orders in your life. Ask yourself what you will do to support just one specific person. Then scale up.
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Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · 08/01/2025
Whenever someone says they want "free speech" ask them specific questions like: What things do you want to be able to say freely without consequence? Why haven't you been able to speak freely already and what limits on your speech exist currently?
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 07/01/2025
The key thing to understand about Meta without guard rails is that, when they allowed their platform to exist without any content controls in Myanmar under an extremist leader, it was used to directly enable a genocide. Zuckerberg knows that its level of threat. www.amnesty.org/en/location/...
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Human rights in Myanmar
Stay up to date on the state of human rights in Myanmar with the latest research, campaigns and education material from Amnesty International.
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
This is also part of why the PhD is being devalued as a degree. More women than men get PhDs now.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Costco did better than every tech company, university and most of your favorite podcasts Stop accepting crumbs and stop thinking the only point is the fight Sometimes the hardest thing you can do is say “I will be keeping people in humane and safe environs “ fight the wall
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Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
So I’ve had my 1st Black History Month event cancellation because of “DEI concerns,” citing a fear of frivolous suits. Funny thing is, I don’t do DEI, I’m a historian of the Black American experience. A reminder that DEI is just a dog whistle about suppressing history, if you need a reminder.
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Royal Academy of Engineering @raeng.org.uk · 16/12/2024
We're inviting proposals for an equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) feasibility study into the barriers that underrepresented engineers encounter in their careers. We're looking for experienced researchers and organisations with longitudinal study experience: raeng.org.uk/about-us/wor...
Image with a yellow background and black writing, calling for a proposal Feasibility study into longitudinal equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) research. "We invite proposals from organisations or service providers for a feasibility study. We want to evaluate the potential, risks, opportunities, and optimal methodologies for conducting a longitudinal research study into the barriers that underrepresented engineers encounter throughout their careers." The deadline is 13 January 2025.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/12/2024
sign pls
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 24/11/2024
"Here the numbers as they actually exist in the real world: Transgender: 1 percent Muslim: 1 percent Jewish: 2 percent Black: 12 percent Live in New York City: 2 percent Gay or lesbian: 3 percent" If they're this divorced from reality I guarantee these folks cannot conceive magnitude of $1bn
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/11/2024
"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting. Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 06/11/2024
always 🧡
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
NYT is now just a troll factory for lazy wannabe liberals who try to whitewash their own reactionary instincts. This is another example of how their incompetent, lazy journalism feeds misinformation on important issues. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/u...
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Many Gen Z Men Feel Left Behind. Some See Trump as an Answer.
Men under 30 are much more likely to support Donald Trump than women their age. It’s a far bigger gender gap than in older generations.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
This article by @polgreen.bsky.social in the NYT is extraordinary. Read it immediately then share it widely. It is incredible to see this in print at a paper that has otw been so clearly at war with my healthcare, community, and my field for several relentless years. www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/o...
But the report is also full of contradictions.  While maintaining that "for some, the best  outcome will be transition," it nevertheless  effectively recommended that the N.H.S.  abandon the guidelines embraced by major  mainstream medical associations and restrict  the use of medications that have been offered  for decades to adolescents across the globe  with vanishingly few negative side effects or  regrets.The reason, the report says, is that these  treatments are insufficiently supported by  reliable, long-term evidence. Then,  remarkably, the report recommends  treatments - psychological treatment and  medications for depression and anxiety  that have even less proof behind them in  helping children (or adults) with gender  dysphoria, though they may help with other  mental health issues, and many children with  dysphoria already get these treatments. And  for all its insistence of evidence, the report is  peppered with mere speculation about the  potential causes of gender dysphoria:  pornography and the phenomenon of social  contagion are invoked, with zero credible  evidence to support them.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
A damning joint report by Yale Law School and Yale Medicine finds the UK's Cass Review "levies unsupported assertions about gender identity, gender dysphoria, standard practices, and safety of gender-affirming medical treatments, and it repeats claims that have been disproved by sound evidence.”
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Report Addresses Key Issues in Legal Battles over Gender-Affirming Health Care
A new report from The Integrity Project provides an evidence-based critique of a recent independent review that has become central to U.S. litigation regarding health care for transgender youth.
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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
Look. I care about climate change a lot. I'm close to a single-issue voter on the subject! But we have GOT to stop worrying about what are, in the scheme of things, rounding errors. I hate, hate, hate this kind of personal-responsibility climate stuff, it's deeply counterproductive.
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M Sabella @sabellam.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
In the final session of the day on Creating a Learning Culture ( #T1S6 ) and Gemma Paterson talking about how at Lloyds one of the most important things is that there is dedicated time for personal development and it is protected. #LT24UK
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M Sabella @sabellam.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
Next up Zsolt Olah Data literacy - the essential skill for L&D today. Zsolt reminding people when they come in that there is no AI here and yes there is relief at getting a break from it #LT24UK #T5S5
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M Sabella @sabellam.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
Getting ready to kick off AI in L&D with a full house! Lots of people want to know where we are, what’s changing and what we should do. We’ll be hearing from Egle Vinauskaite and Markus Bernhardt, chaired by Don Taylor himself. #LT24UK #T1S4
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M Sabella @sabellam.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
Had a fab day yesterday at Learning Technologies with the rest of the social media team. Yesterday was organisational network analysis and self directed learning. Today it will be A&I in L&D (#T1S4) and Data Literacy (#T5S5) #LT24UK
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M Sabella @sabellam.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
Getting ready to kick off the social learning session with Starling Hunter talking about organisational network analysis. Who is influencing who in an organisation has such an impact in culture. Really looking forward to this one! Will be mostly tweeting this one from msabella #LT24UK #T4S2
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M Sabella @sabellam.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
Detlef Hold from Roche opening his session on self-directed learning by telling us about the beautiful country of Ecuador. Now challenging us on the fact that we never have ‘time’ for learning? What exactly are we doing instead? Being kept busy, not thinking about it as a topic, #lt24uk #T5S1
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M Sabella @sabellam.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
We open the 25th edition of Learning Technologies with a question from our host Don Taylor - where do you WANT to see L&D in 5 years? Best answers (imho): * Advances in technology making the admin and drudgery disappear * Diversity, equity and inclusion woven through our systems #LT24UK #L&D #DEI
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Lior Locher @liorlocher.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
How did we get here? (aka, into L&D) Career journeys only start making sense looking back, so it's always interesting to unpick that in a conversation- and what better than doing this with the brilliant Anna Svitak for our shared article for Training Journal. www.trainingjournal.com/2024/intervi...
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How we got here - career starts in L&D -
Anna Svitak and Lior Locher interview each other and share how they developed their careers as learning professionals About Anna Svitak I’m an organisational psychologist and working as a Learning […]
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M Sabella @sabellam.bsky.social · 11/04/2024
Really disturbing how many outlets that should know better are treating this as a serious report. Note that I did not say surprising.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
Mathematician and aerospace engineer Mary Jackson was born OTD in 1921. She worked at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics until it was succeeded by NASA in 1958. Jackson then became the first Black woman to work as a NASA engineer. 🧪 👩🏾‍🔬 🔭 www.nasa.gov/people/mary-... Image: NASA
A black and white photo of Mary Jackson standing in front of a bank of floor-to-ceiling computers in the 1960s. She has short curly hair and is wearing glasses and a white lab coat. Jackson appears to be pulling a wire from a panel on one of the computers.
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M Sabella @sabellam.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
Next week I'll be part of a brilliant social media backchannel team at #LearningTechnologies. I'll be live blueskying(?) from 4 sessions to share insights for people who aren't able to be there and hopefully spark some conversations. Hope you'll follow along 🤓 #LT24UK #Learning
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The Honeycomb Works
Social Media Team at the Learning Technologies 2024 Conference
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M Sabella @sabellam.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
I don't agree with everything in this @financialtimes.com article, but the point of a diverse team being a positive indicator is important. If everyone making it through your recruitment is from the same background, you are doing something wrong & missing out on brilliantly talented people.
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'I think it’s more accurate to say that diversity matters not because it always leads to success, but because it is a good indicator that you are working in a way that will ultimately lead to success. It is unarguable that talent and potential comes in different shapes and sizes. Therefore if I hire people of different ages, genders, ethnicities or faiths, then I am probably more likely to be hiring well than if everyone I hire hails from the same university, faith or background as me.'
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Lior Locher @liorlocher.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Who is going to Learning Technologies in the UK in April? And who is planning to follow on on here? #LT24UK (getting that hashtag aired out...) #Learning #LearningTechnologies www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/welcome/free...
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Free exhibition | 17-18 April 2024
Showcasing the latest technologies, learning solutions and best practice
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Since this place is open, all I can say is, block early, block fast, screenshot Nazi/troll accounts to warn others, and do NOT engage. Do not QT bad actors. Their accounts will die/wither and they will leave. Defend your queer/trans skeeps with every last ounce.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/01/2024
Unfortunately, humans in general tend to want to believe that technological tools are more accurate than they actually are because doing validation is *boring* and takes time and money. This is a central, massive issue we face when it comes to harm-reduction from new AI/LLM tools.
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Fascinating: regret rates for trans surgery are so low compared to other surgeries that researchers are asking whether informed consent model used for trans people could help reduce regret for other medical procedures. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Researchers Ask Why Surgery Regret is So Low for Trans Patients, What Can Be Learned — Assigned
Dr. Harry Barbee answered our questions about the direction of research into trans patients’ post-surgical regret, and how other areas of medicine might benefit from understanding the unusually lo...
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