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Shomari Lewis-Wilson

@shomarilw.bsky.social
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🚨NEW FUNDING: Introducing the 2025 Round of the @wellcometrust.bsky.social Accelerator Awards! 🚨 Our funding scheme for researchers of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani applications has reopened.   💰 £200,000 per researcher 🗓️ Up to two years ✅ Apply by 15 July 2025 ⤵️https://lnkd.in/e6PT-TQR
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
It was back to work today for me after 6 beautiful months of parental leave with my little family. I wrote about how going back to work makes me feel on LinkedIn here: www.linkedin.com/posts/shomar... ❤️ to wonderful @wellcometrust.bsky.social colleagues past and present who made this happen.
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#paternityleave #worklifebalance #parenting #ukworkplace | Shomari Lewis-Wilson | 16 comments
*Back to Work for Me: 6 Months of Precious Time with My Son* It's back to work for me after reaching the end of an incredible six months of fully paid paternity leave, covered by my employer, Wel...
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Article of the year and it is only January: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Is BlueSky our only hope?
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Concern as some universities get early access to REF guidance. Staggered release of people, culture and environment guidance causing “significant amount of anxiety”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Simone Sacchi (he/him) @simosacchi.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Are you working on making a meaningful change in your academic institution? You think people and values should be at the heart of the process? Then the Values-Enacted Leadership Institute is for you. Join my @humetricshss.bsky.social colleagues today for an info session at 18:00 CET!
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
We are so finished. Starmer and Badenoch's lunchtime sandwich split www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch's lunchtime sandwich split
The Conservative leader says sandwiches are "not real food" while the PM says they are a British institution.
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The absolute wickedness of the mother who reported this young man to the police 😦. May she find no peace. apple.news/A5HC0JFTjQ7-...
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Briton, 18, jailed in Dubai for sex with 17-year-old girl, campaign group says — The Standard
Detained in Dubai said Marcus Fakana ‘feels abandoned by the British government and Keir Starmer’.
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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Given that BlueSky has so few employees, I suggest that people do most of the work of closing right-wing grifters down themselves. Don’t name them or share them at all and block them individually. If the grifters are only talking to themselves, that will be enough to drive them off.
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What is rage-baiting and why is it profitable?
Called rage-baiting, making people angry with social media posts can be a business.
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I wonder what Elon Musk thinks about this CEO murder and the legions of blue tick weirdos on the bad place endorsing violence. Is that healthy discussion?
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 09/12/2024
Counterpoint: Do
Headline from a rich person who writes: "Don't replace the culture war with the class war"
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Goodness me there are a lot of homophobes in football. 🙃❌
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
We have a contract opportunity live @wellcometrust.bsky.social at the moment seeking a partner organisation to help us deliver up to £1m in small grants to Black-led academic researcher initiatives and networks 🧫🔬🧪👨🏾‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬. More info is available below. www.linkedin.com/posts/faith-... #academicsky
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Faith Uwadiae on LinkedIn: Competitive Procurement RFP | 12 comments
📢 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲!!! 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨… | 12 comments on LinkedIn
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
**Black UK PhD students** This is the programme you want! It is all the bells and whistles, full fees and stipend, any subject, industrial experience offered, 50 other Black scholars already on board and administrated in an environment of care. **Tell everyone**
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Triggered partly by John Lewis Christmas ads and partly by a conversation I had today…why do some people still think that marginalised people are now unfairly over-represented in positions of power and/or on TV, when all the data I’ve seen suggests this isn’t the case…?
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
This is a really interesting and insightful essay - brings together a wide range of different political phenomena, and offers some useful conceptual frames for making sense of them
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The gang is all here. Wellcome!
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Lots of chat about Bluesky being an echo chamber just for harbouring more reasonable debate and moderation. Does that in itself make it an echo chamber? Twitter used to be a place where anyone’s voice could be heard even if it was problematic and the discussions were at least a bit more reasonable.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We need a word for "Sorry if you followed me from a starter pack and weren't expecting this"
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The idea that you *must* coexist with and listen to people who are cruel, unjust, and just plain unpleasant to be around is the logic of abusers, by the way
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Blimey, for a minute I thought Ant & Dec had landed him on I'm A Celeb
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I really don’t understand this whole ‘stay on Twitter and fight’ thing. You’re jousting with bots and reply guys and wading through ads it’s not Waterloo.
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
You should follow Paula - can’t wait for the book!
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Paula Akpan @paulaakpan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hello! I’m Paula, I’m a historian & my first book will be out next April! WHEN WE RULED: THE RISE & FALL OF 12 AFRICAN QUEENS & WARRIORS was shaped by my research trip across 10 countries (Côte d’Ivoire, Bénin, Madag., SA, Rwanda +), meeting local historians & storytellers. #blacksky #skystorians
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
What sorcery is this?? *Furiously scans following list*
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Me re-discovering every person, thought-leader, friend or account I have is moving here from #TheOtherPlace:
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a man with a beard and mustache is smiling and looking at the camera
ALT: a man with a beard and mustache is smiling and looking at the camera
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Paula Akpan @paulaakpan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Who’s gonna do the London Black t*itter starter pack I miss you guys
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
*Is* the verb for posting here a “skeet”? Is that what I am hearing?
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Hugh @hughafc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
To all my fellow Arsenal fans, give this a signature: openletter.earth/arsenal-supp...
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Arsenal Supporters Against Sexual Violence
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Within minutes of looking at X, I am angry again.
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Martin Smith @martinrsmith.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I don't think I've seen a start pack for UK science & research policy, but it looks like we might have critical mass now! 👇A collection of wonks, commentators, journalists, organisations and senior figures with an interest in policy-for-science. Additions welcome! go.bsky.app/UYei1fk
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
All this place is missing is a good trending feed. Please share if you have found one.
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Glad to see that things are heating up here again but yet it still feels healthy and normal… for now.
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
I never want to hear anyone describe a person in the public eye as someone “who tells it like it is” ever again.
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
With huge respect to Sir Paul Nurse, and his vast amounts of experience, surely the Royal Society can do better than re-elect someone who has had the role before. If it can't then what does that say about the next generation of scientific leaders? www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
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Row at Royal Society over bid to re-elect former president to head ‘boys’ club’
Exclusive: Fellows divided as council reportedly puts forward Sir Paul Nurse for role never held by a woman
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
I really want Bluesky to take off so I can leave X for good. I’m not sure Threads is it either.
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 28/04/2024
I still think #BlueSky is the best Twitter since Twitter. If they brought more journalists and news sites here, it would work perfectly. How a ‘utopian vision’ for social media became a ‘toxic mess’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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The demise of Twitter: how a ‘utopian vision’ for social media became a ‘toxic mess’
In the early days it was seen as a place for ‘genuine public discourse’, but users have fled since Elon Musk took over. What went wrong?
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 28/03/2024
every morning i have to stop sleeping. because of wokeness
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
I am convinced that most users in the #otherplace app are Russian bots designed to amplify any non issue. #EnglandShirt
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
To the average voter, there probably isn’t enough of a difference between Labour and the Tories except for the “mood”. I doubt it will substantively lose because of that, but when in government it will immediately be on the back foot. How do you sustain momentum off that?
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
I seem to have engineered myself into being a 6am riser. I don like it.
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Oh wow, this place is open now? I feel nervous
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
I won’t forgive the British govt for not making Covid boosters readily available to everyone.
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
Enjoyed the Villa draw. Warmed me cockles
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
Locked out of my x account because I changed my phone. Maybe this is the the push I need.
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
V2 The Luck of Draw: Wellcome’s Institutional Fund for Research Culture wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/8-5... We discuss: * How we funded (partial randomisation) * Who the funding went to * What we want the funding to achieve #researchonresearch #partialrandomisation #researchfunding
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
Being in France is once again making me appreciate everyone who is multilingual. Definitely a work in progress for me.
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
Dear everyone - stop advertising on X. Stop buying Teslas. Do not financially support anything this man does www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-mu...
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Elon Musk faces growing backlash over his endorsement of antisemitic X post
IBM and the European Commission are halting advertising on X after a report showed that ads are appearing next to Nazi-related content.
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
New Open Letter in Wellcome Open Research: The Luck of Draw: Wellcome’s Institutional Fund for Research Culture wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/8-5... We discuss: * How we funded (partial randomisation) * Who the funding went to * What we want the funding to achieve
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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
As someone who is regularly alarmed at the nonsense that appears in the Cortana field of my work laptop, it all makes sense now.
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