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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The funeral for irony will be held next week.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Our current economy is rigged. It just is. A new report shows that 88 of the largest companies in America, including: Amazon Citigroup Haliburton Kohl's Palantir PayPal PG&E Southwest Airlines Tesla United Airlines Disney paid ZERO corporate income tax last year.
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British Society of Plant Pathology @bspp.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Thinking about a Master's in plant pathology? BSPP is offering up to 5 bursaries of £4,000 each to support students on MSc, MRes, or MPhil courses with a plant pathology focus. You don't need to be a BSPP member or based in the UK to apply. Deadline: 30 June 2026 bspp.org.uk/funds/mscmres
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Europe is the shield against imperialism. The US is gone.
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Plants, People, Planet @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A walk in the park—Identifying healthy #greenspaces using scents Kay at al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @williamkay.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk #PlantScience
(A) Map of the sampling locations used in this study. (B) Sampling box (VOKSBOX) developed for this work on a tripod at 1.5-m height. Air from the GilAir® sample pump is split up to six ways using brass splitters with silicone tubing. (C–E) A flow chart of the methods used in this paper for acquisition, identification and processing of compounds. (F) Example chromatogram resulting from sample collection in botanical gardens outdoors sampling site.
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williamkay.bsky.social @williamkay.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A walk in the park—Identifying healthy greenspaces using scents - I'm chuffed to get our early work (with Kathy Willis et al) out there: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Thanks to @naturerecovery.bsky.social for funding and support. @biology.ox.ac.uk @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social
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williamkay.bsky.social @williamkay.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A walk in the park—Identifying healthy greenspaces using scents - I'm chuffed to get our early work (with Kathy Willis et al) out there: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Thanks to @naturerecovery.bsky.social for funding and support. @biology.ox.ac.uk @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/01/2026
White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
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White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested on Thursday in a case touted by attorney general Pam Bondi, to make it seem as if she was dramatically crying, a Guardian analysis of the image has found. The woman, Nekima Levy Armstrong, also appears to have darker skin in the altered image. Armstrong was one of three people arrested on Thursday in connection to a demonstration that disrupted church services in St Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday. Demonstrators alleged that one of the pastors, David Easterwood, was the acting field director of the St Paul ICE office. Bondi announced the arrests on social media Thursday morning. Continue reading...
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
a column on the brave, brave comedians who went to saudi arabia and told jokes about gay people and women drivers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime? | Jonathan Liew
The tawdry event was an ultimately doomed attempt by the Saudi government to buy the kind of authentic grassroots culture it is unwilling to countenance, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Kemi Badenoch said earlier this year that “silencing free speech harms democracy and “we must fight for it”. Unless of course its the free speech of a news organisation she happens to disagree with bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...
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Kemi Badenoch's 'Free Speech' Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference
The ban on covering the party's annual gathering came despite Badenoch's repeated commitment to "fight" for free speech and a free press
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
"If you can purchase US citizenship for $5 million, the “illegals” are only guilty of being poor." -Feminist News
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/01/2025
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Jimmy Carter never needed redemption The former president, who has died at age 100, knew that America should not confuse restraint with weakness. By Mark Damazer www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
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Jimmy Carter never needed redemption
The former president, who has died at age 100, knew that America should not confuse restraint with weakness.
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williamkay.bsky.social @williamkay.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Happy to announce our new Zymo paper (with @quietscientist.bsky.social) which looks at the amazing long-term survival of asexual spores (blastospores). We argue that primary disease inoculum doesnt have to come from wind-blown ascospores.... bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Long-term survival of asexual Zymoseptoria tritici spores in the environment - BMC Biology
Background The fungal phytopathogen Zymoseptoria tritici, causal agent of the economically damaging Septoria tritici blotch of wheat, is different from most foliar fungal pathogens in that its germina...
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Helen Fones @quietscientist.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Tagging #PlantPathology #PlantScience and #MicroSky - and I nearly forgot, the first author of this work is here on Bluesky now, so congrats to @williamkay.bsky.social on the publication of this paper!
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