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Amateur conservationist, professional Political Sociologist | Unionise | He/Him |

Cambridge, England
Joined September 2015
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If you want to know why crypto is tanking, have a listen to @ScamEconomy
the latest @ScamEconomy drops early... Listen now! 😮 Terra? 😬 Luna? 🤔 Do Kwon? 😱 Why is crypto crashing?! @BennettTomlin of @CryptoCriticPod joins me to break it down Web: ScamEconomy.com Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/52w… Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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A few years back I caught him plagiarizing from a literal Nazi, so this doesn't really surprise me. youtube.com/watch?v=beA1A9BV…
New: YouTuber Paul Joseph Watson helped popularize the phrase “New Right.” In recent audio verified by @BylineTimes, Watson unloads racial epithets and talks about wiping “Jews off the face of the earth” — showing what’s underneath that branding: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022…
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.@susanabartels: "The structural violence, including that introduced by foreign intervention in Haiti, needs to be recognized and addressed as it continues to contribute to intergenerational cycles of poverty and oppression.” #CholeraAccountability bit.ly/3iNhZss
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We have rainforests right here in Britain! But though rainforests once flourished over perhaps 20% of Britain, they now cover less than 1%. Please sign my petition to protect & restore Britain's rainforests - we need 4k signatures to get a govt response: petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Please donate if you can.
It is with great sadness that we share that my wife @Nicole_ACA lost her battle with cancer. She was a beautiful soul, loving wife, daughter and mother who will live on through her family. To honour her memory, please donate to her Race For Life page: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.o…
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Is it too soon to be critical of Madeleine Albright? All I know is she was quick to dismiss the deaths of Iraqi children in pursuit of US policy. Her inhumanity in life shouldn't be forgotten in death.
The 2020 valuation of UK academics' pension fund, conducted at the nadir of the Covid crash (March 2020), has been our employers' main weapon for gutting our pension scheme. This is therefore HUGE news
BREAKING: The UK High Court has over-turned a decision to deny legal action by academics against the #USS pension scheme over the handling of the controverisal #2020 valuation. #UCU #USS #UUK Details follow.
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Remembering Dr. Paul Farmer: A Public Health Pioneer Who Helped Millions from Haiti to Rwanda democracynow.org/2022/2/22/p…
This is literally why I teach journalism So we never produce another generation who spout and normalise this
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Good morning to everyone except those who are trying to gut our pensions and marketise every aspect of higher ed
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I want to see more co-authoring in the humanities. It is so much harder to share credit than to take all the credit yourself. Negotiating what it means to write together informs the work. But instead collaboration is often seen as a weakness.
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So, some mythbusting/clarifications before we start the #ucustrike next week. 1. Staff on strike don't get paid. They're forfeiting significant amounts of money to draw attention to something that's gone very wrong
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🚨BREAKING: Strikes at 44 unis over USS pensions are ON from Monday. Employers today failed to accept our viable proposals for the scheme, having had 2 weeks to consider them. Responsibility for disruption lies firmly with them. It is in their gift to resolve the dispute.
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