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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h

Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.

Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 18h

Utterly awful. Really awful. I am so sorry. I had no idea they had pulled this stunt.

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Especially hard as the role is emotionally hard right now. With lack of sleep for very different reasons from when they physically needed you at their beck and call...

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yes, until you get to the parenting stage where, as older teenagers, they want you to pretend you don't exist. And you are definitely not allowed to exist as a parent on social media. Looking forward to getting out of this phase of parenting!

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How "merit-based" systems actually work:

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Absolutely. Those of us who look white are not questioned in the same way. Although TBF as a kid in NE England and again after Brexit vote, I was told to go back to where I come from. But as soon as I talk, my Englishness is assumed as I have pale skin despite some of my ancestry

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I had no idea she was married to Swinnerton-Dyer - who i knew about because of playing bridge. Weird when worlds collide.

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I thought I had seen it all, but this is an astonishing new low, putting the US in the company of Iran, Afghanistan and N Korea. I abhor the death penalty. The idea that kids, including my own, might see such an execution shocks me to the core. Abhorrent, barbaric, sick, warped, cruel and twisted.

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Let us know if that helps. I have enough stress already so reducing stress by doing similar might be a good plan.

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Think this will appeal also to the zooarchs and bioarchs around! 🏺🦴🧪🐄🐑

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I wish I could say that I was surprised by the resurgence of race science and eugenic ideas. This book tops it off. Complete and utter trash (I deleted my actual word of choice as I try really hard not to swear online...)

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Whaaaaatt?!?! OMG! Oh I see. Edited by Kanazawa. Good gawds. I wonder if it is better to get it reviewed and slated widely or to totally ignore it and hope that it disappears from view...?

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I missed that in Winchester. Nearby... The Point in Eastleigh. We've got tickets.

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Drives me nuts when people object to inheritance tax. Especially when they come up with the double taxation rubbish. We're double-taxed for lots of stuff, e.g. income tax and then VAT, or income tax, fuel tax & then VAT. No problem. We need to pay for the state.

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yup. I do the same. Anything to bring down the costs. And it's better for the environment too.

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Welcome to my world. I try to get 15 months out of a prescription... and I now need 2 different pairs of varifocals in order to work - but, of course, work won't pay for that.

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Unbelievable to realise that that was 20 years ago. And here the world is now...

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is what @unisouthampton.bsky.social has done too. What have York done after their students raised it? And @durham.ac.uk have also had it raised by their students' union too.

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Many of them are REALLY weird.

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, if you can ignore the racism that is.

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's weird how some Italian foods use the plural (e.g. panini) when eaten in the singular, and others seem to be the other way round. Transnational wording...

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I akways find it so weird calling it lasagna rather than lasagne. Why did it become singular in America? I think it became known in UK from USA rather than directly from Italy. When I was a kid, my mum, who lived in Italy as a student, was the only person around us making lasagne

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh no. Hopefully you can see your friend somewhere else and relive the wedding again?

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You're right. I meant 90th. Stupid fat fingers!

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Conservative party's joke Bayeaux Tapestry, whilst having some funny moments, is basically cringe. What is unforgiveable is the racism. #ToryRacism [H/T @eberlmat.bsky.social @generalboles.bsky.social @seanjones.org]

Part of the border of a scene from the Conservative party's joke Bayeaux Tapestry
Migrants who are clearly not white in a small boat
Rats from the small boat chase cats
Tax payers lying on the ground dead
The implication being the migrants brought disease with them

A scene from the Conservative party's joke Bayeaux Tapestry
Keir Starmer giving money and a key to some non white people

A scene from the Conservative party's joke Bayeaux Tapestry
Kemi Badenoch giving a key to a white couple

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There has been lots on Radio 3 today to celebrate his 80th birthday as well. Worth a listen on BBC Sounds

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ah, I see someone has made a map! Cool. bsky.app/profile/simp...

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Reading the replies, tag seems to only be used down south. Tig by anywhere from Cambridge northwards.

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tig or tiggy in county Durham

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thank you. I wondered. But have no economics background. Although we study potential migration a lot in archaeology!

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Worrying. Frustrating. I wish I knew how to explain this (read thread)

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'At least two universities have had to cancel course modules at short notice, with students being offered alternatives outside their disciplines, after the staff cuts and strikes left advertised modules understaffed.'

timeshighereducation.com

Modules cancelled amid ‘panicked’ response to staff cuts and strikes

UK students being told that modules are cancelled and recommended options outside their courses, union reports

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Always good to see disability being recognised in archaeology & history. Raising awareness & visibility. And of course, prosthetics can form *part* of the body and be embodied & imbued with meaning themselves. Truly a part of a person. Like my glasses are part of me & my identity 🏺♿️ ##skystorian

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bears and archaeology. What's not to love? Especially coming at the end of #fatbear 🏺🐻🇪🇬

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Each time I hear him speak, I am more and more gobsmacked. How is he still there?

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I haven’t said anything about the strikes yet (I am so ANGRY but despite all my rage I’m still just a rat in a cage etc etc). So it can’t be me the carefully worded HR email is about, telling us all to be nice to everyone (implying SMT?) including on socials, on threat of disciplinary action?

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