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Eliz Mizon

@elizmizon.com

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• Journalism (esp. business models, climate coverage & protecting grieving families) • Words: Byline/openDemocracy/NetflixUK etc • Played by Merritt Wever in future biopic

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Eliz Mizon @elizmizon.com · Apr 10

One cool thing about me is that if you Google my name, the first photo that comes up is this stupid meme I made of myself a couple of years ago.

Another cool thing about me is that yesterday I Googled myself. #ThisIsFine

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Marie Colvin Journalists' Network @mariecolvinnet.bsky.social · 5d

✨ We're so close to 𝟓𝟎%! ✨

Our fundraiser is just steps away from halfway — and we’re aiming to get there tonight! Now’s the perfect time to give 💙

Every donation will be matched 🟰 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭!

donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

#WGMF #MCJN @biggive.bsky.social

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Journalism.co.uk @journalismnews.bsky.social · 5d

£10k crowdfunder launched to support Arab women journalists' mental health: The Marie Colvin Journalists' Network wants to provide mentorship, trauma counselling and professional development for women in the Middle East and North Africa, as global funding for media faces intense cutbacks

£10k crowdfunder launched to support Arab women journalists' mental health

The Marie Colvin Journalists' Network wants to provide mentorship, trauma counselling and professional development for women in the Middle East and North Africa, as global funding for media faces intense cutbacks

dlvr.it

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 8d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 8d

Experts feared it would take 193 years to reduce London's deadly levels of NO₂ air pollution to legal levels.

This week Mayor Sadiq Khan announced his team had defied the howls of pro-fossil fuel and motoring lobbyists to achieve the life-saving target in just 9 YEARS.

Here's how they did it 🧵

Deadly NO2 air pollution levels in London in 2016 before the introduction of the Ultra Low Emissions Zone

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Eliz Mizon @elizmizon.com · 10d

One of the most important #dataviz investigations to come out recently from @porcelinad.bsky.social*** & team @theguardian.com

***Who, by the way, published same week she also published our collaborative data investigation, #GreenToGrey. Much sleep deserved.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow

The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation

www.theguardian.com

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Arena for Journalism in Europe @journalismarena.eu · 10d

🟢 We’ve described Green to Grey as a ‘first of its kind’ data investigation. That’s a big claim – so, let us explain what we mean.

The data methodology process for measuring nature loss across Europe is fascinating — but complex, and most of us are not data specialists! 🧵👇 [1/3]

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Altered State @alteredstatetalks.bsky.social · 11d

Women are paying the price for ancient & contemporary gender bias in medicine & surgery

We ask what we can do about it Oct 30 at Hen & Chicken, North St, BS3

W/ Gabriel Weston Gene Feder & @elizmizon.com

time.com/6074224/gend...

#bristoltalks #women #medecine #surgery #genderequality #feminism

time.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 11d

I’m beginning to think it is bad that some of the world’s the worst people control our entire media infrastructure.

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Eliz Mizon @elizmizon.com · 11d

What a thread! Phenomenal work on your part, and that of the 41 other journos and scientists 👏💚

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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 11d

🎅🏻 The “Santa Claus effect”: booming tourism in Lapland is eating into green space in Finland, with a huge number of UK and Irish Irish tourists descending in Nov/Dec

The finding is part of a major cross-border investigation into landtake in Euro 🧵👇🏻

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Santa Claus effect: how expanding tourism ate into Lapland’s green space

The number of visitors to the region has risen 160% in 30 years as concerns grow for its fragile ecosystem and indigenous practices

www.theguardian.com

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 11d

📢 The #InternetArchive is celebrating an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved by the #WaybackMachine. 🎉

Join us!
📆 Weds, Oct 22

🎟️ IN-PERSON: 5–10 PM PT (SF) ⤵️
www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...

💻 ONLINE: 7–8 PM PT ⤵️
www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011...

#Wayback1T

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Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our paper on clusters of schools across the UK is out.

We find five clusters: multi-racial & super-diverse middle & working-class schools of towns & cities, suburban white middle class schools, established elite schools & (post-)industrial white working class schools.

doi.org/10.1002/berj...

A hierarchical cluster analysis on principal components showing five clusters of points, coloured by cluster, on a graph.

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Eliz Mizon @elizmizon.com · 12d

I'm thinking about developing my comms/impact process and learnings into something...if anyone is interested in chatting to me about what that could look like, comment/DM! 🔥

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Eliz Mizon @elizmizon.com · 12d

💚 #GreenToGrey has got to be the biggest project I've worked on, not only geographically, but in level of revelation, clarity and potential impact. So you know it's got a good behind the scenes story...

My piece on how @journalismarena.eu makes this happen:
journalismarena.eu/arenas-green...

Arena’s ‘Green to Grey’ project reveals scale of Europe’s nature loss

Our collaboration with 11 newsrooms shows Europe’s undeveloped land is disappearing up to 1.5 times faster than previously thought, equivalent to 600 football pitches per day.

journalismarena.eu

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Eliz Mizon @elizmizon.com · 12d

Arena's major new investigation spans 11 countries, 10 months and millions of m² to reveal the scale of nature and cropland loss across Europe for the first time 👇

💚 This is the largest scale project I've worked on. Find out how to get involved (you can!) at the 'About' page: greentogrey.eu

Eliz Mizon @elizmizon.com · 13d

Hoping the following people will see this and share: @thierryaaron.bsky.social @profbillmcguire.bsky.social @climatedad.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @climateadam.bsky.social @data.ft.com @jburnmurdoch.ft.com @amywestervelt.bsky.social @racheldonald.bsky.social @matthewtodd.bsky.social

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Arena for Journalism in Europe @journalismarena.eu · 13d

🚨 NEW: By the end of this video, Europe will have lost 2850m² of land to construction. That’s almost half a Premier League football pitch.

This rate of loss, amounting to 600 football pitches a day, is 1.5 times higher than official EEA estimates.

This is the #GreenToGrey project. [1/3]

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Altered State @alteredstatetalks.bsky.social · 13d

Everyone does't get treated all the same in medicine & surgery

Gender & racial bias exists

We'll ask why & what we can do about it

Early bird & student tickets www.alteredstate.org.uk/tickets

@elizmizon.com #bristoltalks #medecine #surgery #surgicalprocedure #bristol #bristolevents #talks

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Eliz Mizon @elizmizon.com · 14d

Stay tuned.

Can’t wait to share the latest work from the Arena team 💚

#InvestigativeJournalism #DataJournalism #impact

Arena for Journalism in Europe @journalismarena.eu · 14d

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Eliz Mizon @elizmizon.com · 14d

"While we can’t exactly call today a happy #WorldNewsDay today, there is hope. Together, people are organising and mobilising toward a better media future, with real answers to some of the biggest questions our news landscape tackles today. Will you join them?"

Look up @mediarevolution.channel.org!

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Altered State @alteredstatetalks.bsky.social · 21d

Early birds & student discounts available now for our next talk o Oct 30

BENEATH THE SKIN - A INTIMATE LOOK AT OUR BODIES w/ Gabriel Weston Prof Gene Feder & @elizmizon.com

www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/hen...

#talks #bristoltalks #medecine #surgery #genderequality #feminism #genderequity

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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 24d

Is this The Onion?

Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 24d

A group called 'Our Party' is trying to take over 'Your Party'

A group called ‘Our Party’ is trying to take over ‘Your Party’

They've called for Corbyn and Sultana to 'hand the reins over to the grassroots membership'

leftfootforward.org

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 25d

It’s easy to despair when Tommy Robinson and 100,000 far-right marchers fill London + Reform is surging in the polls.

But the UK — and other countries — have stopped the far right in its tracks in the recent past. Here’s how 🧵

Young woman protestors faces down an English Defence League thug

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 28d

Karl Popper was the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. Jewish by birth, he fled the N*zis in 1937.

What does his Paradox of Tolerance tell us about "Tommy Robinson" and those who marched with him in London on Saturday? 🧵

cartoon explaining Karl Popper's Paradox of Intolerance

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Altered State @alteredstatetalks.bsky.social · 29d

BENEATH THE SKIN - A INTIMATE LOOK AT OUR BODIES

The influence of tradition, male bias & race inequality in medicine & surgery

W/ Gabriel Weston, Gene Feder & @elizmizon.com of @journalismarena.eu

Tickets www.alteredstate.org.uk/blank

#medecine #surgery #bristoltalks #bristol #alteredstate

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