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V.H. Belvadi

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PhD student at Cambridge HPS • Trinity–Cambridge Researcher 2025 • Caian • Researching climate models • Cambridge ThinkLab • Bromptonista —— @iop.org • @bshsnews.bsky.social • #IndieWeb • FC Bayern • fmr @hpsleeds.bsky.social —— ↳ VHBelvadi.com

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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most disappointing video you’ll see today.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Exclusive: I asked Andy Burnham about the gangs of masked thugs marauding around parts of our country and asked if he and his government should be doing more to call out their actions He called them ‘poisonous’ amongst other strong words. His condemnation was unequivocal. Full story here 👇
liverpoolecho.co.uk
Burnham slams 'poisonous' masked gangs & praises Liverpool solidarity
The Prime Minister was unequivocal in his condemnation of those sowing intimidation and division on the south coast as he arrives in his Liverpool, which he says has a proud history of fighting discri...
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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is what we are up against. It’s why I’ve always said the under 16 social media ban doesn’t go far enough. We shouldn’t be banning it for children, we should be properly regulating it for everyone. This is scary. How do we fight this?
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 26/09/2026
It does skew a bit American this. Terrific shows nevertheless.
nytimes.com
Best TV Shows of the 21st Century: A Printable List
More than 500 stars, showrunners and TV lovers voted on their favorite shows of this century. Here are the results of our poll.
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 08/09/2026
‘India is, admittedly, a baffling place. Not even those who have lived in it … can claim to understand it. Yet a good way to approach it is with humility. Xuanzang walked thousands of miles to partake in its treasures. Foreign researchers can start the journey simply by opening their minds.’
economist.com
Why India baffles China
Chinese scholarship on India has grown in breadth but not depth
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Reuters @reuters.com · 03/09/2026
Feminist activist and journalist Gloria Steinem died on September 2, at the age 92, her foundation said. The co-founder and consulting editor of Ms. Magazine championed the feminist movement from the late 1960s onwards and inspired generations of women. reut.rs/3T6z0n7
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 03/09/2026
Despicable
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 02/09/2026
Another book review so quickly? Indeed, this time it is Claire Keegan’s fantastic novella that I’m perhaps late to reading. Highly recommended.
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Small things like these • V.H. Belvadi
A book as cosy as a blanket on a snowy winter eve
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 31/08/2026
My review of ‘The Mulai’ by Munir Hachemi – what a wonderful book.
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The Mulai • V.H. Belvadi
Not the promise of transcendence but an uncomfortable wait
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 27/08/2026
How does one get to be a fly on the wall in one of these meetings?
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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is an extremely well-written open letter from faculty at Ghent. I've heard colleagues privately express uncertainty about what the facts on the ground actually are. I urge everyone to read this letter. The people on the ground have been ringing the alarm bell, and been doing so for months
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 26/08/2026
Congratulations!
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🚨BREAKING🚨 In more serious news, I have been told on good authority by a third source that Flemish media has revealed the racist academic, de Vries, is the real author behind the pseudonymous article, 'Refugees’ IQs are Normatively Consequential' Thank you to all the sources that contacted me
Refugees’ IQs are Normatively Consequential
Tavren Oshal (pseudonym)
How to Cite: Oshal, T. Refugees’ IQs are Normatively Consequential. Controversial Ideas 2025, 5(3), 6; doi:10.63466/jci05030006.
Received: 18 December 2024 / Accepted: 23 September 2025 / Published: 11 November 2025
Abstract: Responding to an article by Rindermann et al. (2024), which reports that refugees in Germany, on average, have significantly lower intelligence than the German host population, Bradley Hillier-Smith has argued that such cognitive disparities – if they exist – are irrelevant to states’ moral duties toward refugees. This article challenges his position. It further contends that even if we adopt a cosmopolitan perspective that denies states the right to prioritize the interests of their own populations, it is not clear that states in the Global North are morally required – or even permitted – to admit large numbers of relatively low-IQ refugees from the Global South. This, I show, is especially true given that assistance could instead take the form of supporting their relocation to a safe country within the region.
Keywords: refugees; migration; intelligence; hereditarianism; innovation; Global South; nationalism; cosmopolitanism
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 24/08/2026
11GB and less useful than a post-it note.
A screenshot of my macOS storage settings page showing Apple Intelligence taking up 11.37GB of precious space on my MacBook.
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 21/08/2026
Lovely.
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 20/08/2026
Good argument except this bit: ‘Were the White House to attempt such weaponisation, Palantir and its fellow American tech giants would resist it, given the sizeable share of revenues they derive from Europe, including Britain.’ How do you know? We’ve seen before if the top dog’s pockets are lined…
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 20/08/2026
theguardian.com
By disparaging 2020 protests as ‘Woke 1’, liberals are following the rightwing’s lead
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s co-opting of conservative language to discuss a movement against state-sanctioned killings of Black people is damning
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 19/08/2026
The Infinite State review: A riveting tale of an oppressive galactic empire
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This sci-fi novel is a riveting tale of an oppressive galactic empire | New Scientist
The Infinite State review: A riveting tale of an oppressive galactic empire
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 19/08/2026
theguardian.com
Calls for urgent law change as UK’s largest water reuse system cannot be switched on
Recycling system in Cambridgeshire development ready since 2021 is deemed not in line with drinking water rules
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Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge @hpscambridge.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Our new exhibition 'A Most Valuable Library' is now open to the public. It tells the origin of the Whipple Library, Museum, and HPS Department through archive documents and Robert Whipple's books. The exhibition is on Level 1 of the Whipple Library, viewable from 9:15 AM to 5 PM, Monday to Friday.
A poster for an exhibition, with a collage of written and typed archival documents. Text reads: A Most Valuable Library. The Origins of the Whipple Library and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. 17 August to 19 December. Whipple Library exhibition cases on Level 1.
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 18/08/2026
Thoughts on a revised definition of the #IndieWeb that focuses on the ideas behind it rather than the tools, and argues for placing sovereignty, in its many forms, at the very heart of the IndieWeb.
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Focus on the philosophy, not on tools
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 18/08/2026
Turns out ‘newscord’ is an AI-slop site. So for the record all I refer to in this post are its numbers, not its ‘analysis’.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/08/2026
this is also a good time to state once again that the phrase "many things can be true at once" is a lazy, cheap, shitty cop-out. you don't need to stand up and be the brave, fearless defender of biographical detail integrity right now, you need to have a fucking heart
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 17/08/2026
If all goes well, this should end in a media reckoning. So far, they’ve got away with too much. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Calls for public inquiry into Jason Arday media 'witchhunt'
Lord Simon Woolley said Arday had been "hounded" by the media and pursued relentlessly.
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UK Prime Minister Updates @downingstreet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Second week as Prime Minister ✅
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 16/08/2026
The new game ‘No. 10: Full Confidence’ is great fun. A bit like Medieval Dynasty but modern and text-based, so no reason not to like it.
‘Report card’ from the new game No. 10: Full Confidence showing my character Percival Ashwoerh having been PM for 3 years and 6 months.
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Jack Churchill's Arrow @churchillsarrow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
They were warned.
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 15/08/2026
The Telegraph, and plenty of other media outlets, and people on Substack and elsewhere, need to introspect. This was criticism turned into an unrelenting assault, fuelled by racial hatred, that lasted longer than any criticism proportionate to the individual’s academic activities warranted.
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 14/08/2026
There was a human being in the middle of all this.
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 14/08/2026
A 63/30 vote share between Farage and the Count then. Very well done @countbinface.bsky.social! www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
bbc.co.uk
Nigel Farage wins Clacton by-election that major parties boycotted - live updates
The Reform UK leader won 22,239 votes while Count Binface came second with 9,455.
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 13/08/2026
The polls just opened but Bluesky has already declared Farage the winner.
Bluesky trending list says ‘Farage wins Clacton seat’.
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IPCC @ipcc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Fourth Lead Author Meeting of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities ended last Friday, 7 August. More than 100 scientists from 56 countries met in Bhopal, India to prepare the final draft. Look out for the report in March 2027. bit.ly/CitiesLm4
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We need to talk about Richard Tice In May 2024, Tice told me he didn't expect to fund Reform through his companies any more. So why did £1m from 'Posh' George Cottrell's mother move through a company he controls, then to Reform weeks later? New by me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/richard-ti...
democracyforsale.substack.com
Richard Tice and Reform’s money - the new unanswered question
Before the 2024 election, Farage's deputy told me he'd stop donating to Reform - so why did £1m from George Cottrell's mother go to one of his companies weeks later?
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 28/07/2026
Zanny Minton Beddoes’s brilliant interview for @economist.com with Elon Musk. In the last 50 min, as Musk’s worldviews come together incompatibly and he is fairly criticised for his actions, his only responses are denial and childish, baseless counter-accusations. www.economist.com/insider/the-...
economist.com
An interview with Elon Musk | The Economist Insider
Elon Musk may be the most powerful man in the world. He’s worth almost $1trn, runs Tesla and SpaceX, boasts an enormous social-media following and, to top it all off, he reckons he’s pretty good at pr...
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 26/07/2026
This is what it looks like when a candidate has their priorities in order.
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 22/06/2026
‘I've always said these players, and I'm not racist, but Black players don't have the concentration to last more than 60 to 80 minutes…’ If you find you’re prefacing something you say with ‘I’m not racist but…’ then perhaps you are about to be unequivocally racist. en.nogomania.com/read/Live-TV...
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Live TV controversy: Former footballer Rade Bogdanović sparks outrage with World Cup comments - News - Nogomania
Serbian TV analyst Rade Bogdanović has come under fire after making controversial remarks about Belgium defender Nathan Ngoy during a World Cup broadcast.
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 15/06/2026
Brilliant @the-independent.com
Full page headline on The Independent newspaper, which reads, ‘Their promises of more jobs, more trade, more power for Britain have proved a con, Michael Heseltine writes as the Brexit vote 10th anniversary approaches. Never have so few done so much damage to so many with so little ability to execute what they lied about. Their scandalously false prospectus has turned to dust and ashes. Naturally, they blame everyone but themselves. They are the guilty men and should ... hang their heads in shame.’ It is accompanied by photographs of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Nigel Farage.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 05/06/2026
Thousands of Albanians again took to the streets of Tirana protesting against a development planned by a company linked with Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner on an environmentally sensitive part of the Adriatic coast.
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 29/05/2026
I always like it when an article somehow clarifies that it unequivocally does not concern me.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 26/05/2026
Social media as bad for children as smoking, British doctors say reut.rs/4e9i85R
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Social media as bad for children as smoking, British doctors say
Social media ranks alongside smoking as a danger to children, ‌senior British doctors said on Tuesday, as they urged lawmakers to tackle the harm that they say excessive screen time is causing to young people.
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
So Britain has a decade or so to reengineer itself to cope with 40⁰ tempretures. This is terrifying and not adapting will mean people dying because of the heat. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’ and needs urgent changes to survive global heating, report warns
Landmark report calls for widespread air conditioning and says UK temperatures forecast to exceed 40C by 2050
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 13/05/2026
My review of the book ‘Climate changed’ by Mara Freilich, Irmak Turan, Jessica Varner, Lizzie Yarina has just been published with @springernature.com in @metasciencejournal.bsky.social. Read here: rdcu.be/fisGy #hps #histsci #climate #climatescience #climatechange
rdcu.be
Climate and concrete: new perspectives on the Anthropocene
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 08/05/2026
Elected officials should be discouraged from using analogies. This is a classic case of a baseless analogy intended solely to serve the speaker. Pilots do change mid-flight on long haul but, more importantly, to rationalise this analogy, how is running government like flying a plane?
Overnight, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy said now was not the time for Keir Starmer to resign: "You don't change the pilot during the flight."
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 07/05/2026
My new favourite Github repo: github.com/patrickschap...
github.com
GitHub - patrickschaper/matrixScreenSaver: A macOS screen saver based on the iconic rain of characters and symbols known from the movie The Matrix
A macOS screen saver based on the iconic rain of characters and symbols known from the movie The Matrix - patrickschaper/matrixScreenSaver
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 01/05/2026
This article makes it look like all 650 pieces were returned today while in fact only 19 were. 612 were returned back in November 2024 and 26 in July 2025 as reported by Indian media (www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
New York officials return more than 650 antiquities valued at $14m to India
Move comes after mayor Zohran Mamdani spoke of return of the Koh-i-noor diamond after UK royals’ visit to New York
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 29/04/2026
An unnecessary, specious, cheap hit piece on Zack Polanski. I agree he should’ve never ‘liked’ posts name-calling journalists but if that’s the worst thing about him, given society today, there are viler, more repugnant candidates deserving @economist.com’s criticism. economist.com/britain/2026...
economist.com
The prickly side of Zack Polanski, Green Party leader
His activity on social media shows how the eco-populist bristles at criticism
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Lower/negative migration did *not* benefit native workers in US. Good analysis but dumb headline - pretty much every serious immigration economist predicted exactly this.. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
wsj.com
What Everyone Got Wrong About Jobs and the Immigration Crackdown
More than a year into President Trump’s immigration crackdown, there is little evidence of widespread disruptions in the labor market, or of meaningful benefits to American workers.
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 21/04/2026
Unacceptable. Time to complain (link further down the thread).
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 20/04/2026
Well, this news certainly was expected but its timing wasn’t. Following Jobs seemed impossible when Cook took over, but he had a great era by all counts. He certainly oversaw a more critical era than any Apple will possibly ever have. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
giftarticle.ft.com
Tim Cook to step aside as Apple chief executive in September
Head of hardware John Ternus to take over as CEO while Cook will become iPhone maker’s chair
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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 18/04/2026
Might be helping the Pope that even atheists are on his side in this one.
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