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Yvonne Nobis

@yvonnenobis.bsky.social
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Librarian, swimmer, sailor, trade unionist.

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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 10h
UKRI launching organisation-wide voluntary severance scheme after announcing Science and Technology Facilities Council needs to shed hundrds of role www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ukri-op... via @francesjones.bsky.social
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UKRI opens voluntary exit scheme as part of staff reorganisation
Ian Chapman outlines plans to add more commercialisation and technology-focused roles to the agency to address ‘skills deficit’
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Anna McDuff @annamcduff.bsky.social · 17h
My parents were born in 45 and from what they say whale meat was real austerity food, relished by no one. When my father didn’t want to buy child me an ice cream he’d tell me the ice creams were made with whale fat. www.theguardian.com/food/2026/oc...
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Whale meat curry for dinner? Study of bygone seafood recipes shows how UK tastes have narrowed
Herring, flatfish and oysters are increasingly off the dining table, with just five fish species now dominating
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 18h
The other day I talked to an aunt who has truly seen everything, and she couldn’t overstate how much more racist England now feels. When a working-class black woman in her mid-seventies tells you it’s bad, then it’s really bad.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12/10/2026
Academic publishing is a study in fighting AI slop ft.trib.al/B7nsObf | opinion
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Academic publishing is a study in fighting AI slop
Original thought, especially in the humanities, is more likely to remain the preserve of humans
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
15 outlets published 249 articles about Jason Arday, but there appears to be a partial media blackout regarding Dr Lola Salem, Michael Gove's ex-girlfriend, who has been suspended from Oxford University after being charged with possessing indecent images of children. jamradio.uk/news/2026/10...
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Lola Salem denies indecent-image charges | Jam Radio
Oxford academic Dr Lola Salem denies indecent-image charges. Her recently reported separation from Michael Gove is a separate matter.
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Still not a hoax.
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UKSG @uksg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Informa to buy Clarion for £2.24 bln, plans to separate Taylor & Francis business" (Yahoo Finance) finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...
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Informa to buy Clarion for £2.24 bln, plans to separate Taylor & Francis business
Investing.com -- Informa on Tuesday announced plans to buy events organizer Clarion from Blackstone for an enterprise value of £2.24 billion, or about $3 billion, and said it will separate its Taylor ...
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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
With two days of strike action under our belts, we now begin over two months of continuous in response to our university's gross financial negligence. Shout out to Notts Solidarity Group for the slides! And @tregenza.bsky.social for the original photos.
67 days of industrial action against course closures and job lossesWhy are staff striking?

The University of Nottingham identified a  £30 million deficit after wasting £80 million pounds on consultants and vanity projects such as the
 ‘Castle Meadow’ Campus, which is now unsellable. 

 Over 3900 staff received notice of risk of redundancy, with 258 administrative
 / professional services roles to be made redundant.

UCU argues that there is now no financial justification for compulsory redundancies. 

 Student recruitment has been strong, voluntary redundancy has increased, staff have submitted extensive alternative proposals capable of delivering further savings and the university itself is saying it now has a surplus. 

Management have refused to rule out further compulsary redundancies and are intent on making students and staff pay for their mistakes by closing courses vital for the East Midlands.When are staff striking?

Staff at the University of Nottingham Started striking on 30th September and 1st October, as the University’s governing Council met to finalize restructuring plans.

The two-day strike is now followed         by sustained strike           Action from 5th October TO              11th December.

Support the UCU: email the vice chancellor to tell her what you think of her plans. and Please consider making a donation if you are able. The Local Branch Hardship Fund is maintained to help strikers who will suffer significant hardship from loss of pay due to striking.No More Course Cuts
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 05/10/2026
Trump rages as Supreme Court appointees fail to do his bidding ft.trib.al/OyEVLsk
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Trump rages as Supreme Court appointees fail to do his bidding
More clashes could be inevitable as the top court prepares to rule on some of the president’s controversial policies
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.
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Conor Fitzpatrick @fitzparticle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Incredible soft-power own-goal for UK science diplomacy. Our Chinese colleagues on @lhcb.bsky.social are doing amazing work on LHCb and the importance of the experiment is recognised by its rapid growth in membership. @francesjones.bsky.social with another bombshell in @timeshighered.bsky.social:
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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stopped in my tracks yesterday by ‘Snakes and ladders: a game for learning about AIDS/HIV’ (London, 1988), which a colleague got out for a display. Self-explanatory but brings home the randomness & chance of it all at the time. At least 10,000 men died from HIV/AIDS in the USA in 1987. (1/2)
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Grateful that my brother, and indeed me and the rest of my siblings, have benefitted from living in a society where there are some safety nets and provisions for people who are disadvantaged through no fault of their own. It’s a mark of a civilised country. Tragic that some would have it different.
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy birthday CERN! 🎉 #OnThisDay 72 years ago, CERN officially came into being, bringing together 12 founding Member States with a shared vision for science and international collaboration. Discover the story behind 72 years of science: home.cern/about/who-we...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Michael Merrifield @astromikemerri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
PSA: in the UK, Covid levels are rising (happily from a low baseline), and flu season is starting very early. If you are vulnerable, worth considering giving your immune system a boost. (www.gov.uk/government/s...)
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
science.org
NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 28/09/2026
Russian drones hit Kyiv science academy and hospital ft.trib.al/mqDSkmE
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Russian drones hit Kyiv science academy and hospital
One person killed and six injured in attack on capital, as Volodymyr Zelenskyy urges countries to do more to protect Ukraine
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about my experiences with being trashed in the media, and I think it’s interesting that the scientists who believed the bad press about me never noticed that the only colleagues who said bad things about me were men And they didn’t question why that was
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great news, and looking forward to a book historian becoming Chief Exec of the UK Space Agency sometime soon in this brave new world!
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Happy publication day morning to me!! Dear friend @chrislintott.bsky.social said on record that it was "Truly unique! Sparkling with charm and interest & uncompromisingly clear". In person he said "I don't want you to take this the wrong way, but it was surprisingly good" 🥳 Major compliment! 🤗🧪
"Sparkling with charm and interest". 
Chris Lintott present of The Sky at Night
Catherine's book is below it, looking dark and moody, but with peachy-pink tones.
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Yvonne Nobis @yvonnenobis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When I was a teenager, a frequent post pub activity was to visit her grave ....
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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A call out to the network - I really like to talk to someone who has worked in prison libraries & has experience of providing LGBTQ+ books in that sector. Is this you? Or do you know someone who I could talk to?
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton donated to medical centres, vaccine research and disaster relief. And had Dolly the cloned sheep named after her! Here are some scientist tributes and a reminder of how she contributed to research. www.nature.com/articles/d41... by @lizziegibney.bsky.social & Dhruv Shenai @nature.com
nature.com
Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – researchers celebrate her contributions to science
The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
'A Russell Group university will no longer use ubiquitous anti-cheating tools provided by Turnitin because of concerns that the company might use students’ work to train artificial intelligence.' Maybe time for UK universities to develop and commercialise their own tools?
timeshighereducation.com
Southampton dumps Turnitin over use of students’ work to train AI
Academic integrity giant denies accusations as university declines to renew contract in favour of ‘other options’
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scott daGHOSTtino @scottdagostino.ca · 19/08/2026
They’re desperately doing damage control with the usual “both sides” shit but @theguardian.com knows they’re filth 😡
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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Today's book: Supporting trans people in libraries by Stephen Krueger. Expecting some harsh truths in here, but I'm at least heartened that on the first page it says "Some libraries are doing spelendidly".
A purple book with a cartoon image on the front of books in trans flag colours. The book is in my lap and you can see a cafe behind me.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The problem can be summed up with one question: how many people who can name Jason Arday can name the plagiarising professor at the same institution who is still in post? How many people can name the VC criticised by name in an employment tribunal this week?
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Very very upset at the University of Cambridge higher ups. I don’t think their remaining in situ given this week - in court and with Arday - is remotely tenable.
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 11/08/2026
good for him and shame on cambridge.
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
“Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?” A major loss to the UK HE and R&D media landscape. Hope the talented staff quickly find new berths.
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David Prosser @davidprosser.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
As part of our Advancing Long-form Open Access Practice Project​ we are running a short(ish!) survey. If you are a UK academic librarian or research manager please do consider responding
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
NOW: The Supreme Court DECLINED to hear Trump’s appeal, leaving the $5 million verdict against him for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll intact.
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Research Information @researchinfo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Elsevier adds AI writing and evidence-checking agents to LeapSpace www.researchinformation.info/news/elsevie... Platform built on 20 million full-text articles and books, with content from more than 1,000 publishing partners @elsevierconnect.bsky.social
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Elsevier adds AI writing and evidence-checking agents to LeapSpace - Research Information
Platform built on 20 million full-text articles and books, alongside content from more than 1,000 publishing partners
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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Emerald Publishing sold to Wiley for £337 million www.timeshighereducation.com/news/emerald... via @jgro-the.bsky.social
timeshighereducation.com
Emerald Publishing sold to Wiley for £337 million
Social science imprint based in Leeds is described as ‘outstanding strategic fit’ for American publishing giant
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A dismantling led and cheered on by Elon Musk FRS that, incredibly, the @royalsociety.org judged to be entirely consistent with its values.
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 27/05/2026
Big let down, to be honest
ijbol adjani ✅
@onbeinganangel

loved her work but this is really disappointing. i
hope she can clear this up

Benji @WrnrWrites [redacted]

To confirm, this “100% AI generated” passage is the
opening of chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein

Your Text is AI/GPT Generated

100%
AI GPT*

It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that
almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of
being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered
dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-
extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive
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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Sculptural effects on Stickyweed caused by the Galium gall mite. #WildWebsWednesday
Distorted Stickyweed leaves caused by the Galium gall mite (Cecidophyes rouhollahi).
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Open Research Leeds @openresleeds.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Fantastic start to the week. Still time to sign up for session this afternoon and throughout the week knowledgeequitynetwork.org/casestudies/... #KEOS26
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Knowledge Equity & Open Scholarship Week 2026 Programme - Knowledge Equity Network
Tue 19 - Thu 21 May 2026 The Knowledge Equity and Open Scholarship Week 2026 (KE & OS Week) Programme brings together a diverse coalition of partners from North Africa, Europe and South Africa and ses...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
that’s Elon Musk FRS
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
Twitter thread from Thomas Dietterich, reading "Attention 
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 authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"
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Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 12/05/2026
Want to stay close to science, but you've decided the lab isn't right for you? Have you considered a career in editorial? Well, if you have a background in biomedical engineering or biomaterials (or materials science more generally - see linked ad) then your next job could be at Nature Materials!
springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com
Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Materials
Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Materials Locations: Shanghai, Beijing, Milan or Pune - hybrid working model Application Deadline: June 2nd, 2026 About Springer Nature Springer Nature is...
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
NEW on the @rorinstitute.bsky.social Substack: Cameron Neylon previews his just-published RoRI working paper examining the challenges & opportunities for developing indicators to track improvement in research cultures & environments open.substack.com/pub/research...
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The more things change, the more they need to stay the same
The challenges and opportunities of monitoring research cultures and environments
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Fiona J Whelan @whelanfj.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
📣 Whelan lab is hiring 📣 We are looking for an entry level technician to help us with our culturing and DNA sequencing prep of cystic fibrosis lung microbiome samples. Applications close 20 May 2026. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
jobs.manchester.ac.uk
Research Technician in Microbiology and Molecular Biology:Oxford Road
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Bill Thompson @billt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Due to changes in circumstances we're selling our traditional stern, barge bow, live aboard 70 ft narrowboat, We are seeking a quick sale and looking for offers around £45,000 complete with fixtures, fittings, equipment, gas bottles etc. You can find details here: thebillblog.com/berengaria-f...
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Berengaria: For Sale – The BillBlog
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Lawsuit harks back to fights over text-mining. Scientists wanted to use software to mine data from research articles at scale but publishers often insisted they had to buy extra licenses for this. 'The right to read is the right to mine'! was the researcher chant. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Elsevier vs. Meta: first science publisher sues over scraped research papers
Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined a class action lawsuit against Meta that alleges the reproduction of copyrighted works in developing the Llama AI model.
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Meanwhile, I'm still reeling from the fact that Richard Tice can't find it in him to condemn someone for saying that Nigerians should be melted down to fill potholes.
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