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Graham Dutfield
@grahamdutfield.bsky.social
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Once a geographer, avid practitioner of slow scholarship, Leeds Uni prof, philhellene, ChatGPTphobe, loves mountains & coasts, teaches intellectual property & justice, health, food, biodiversity. Time to take the money out of politics. South London .. more

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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · Jul 5
Just out - my article "Landscape and Law" in Harvard International Law Journal. This was for a special issue on the new WIPO treaty on genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge journals.law.harvard.edu/ilj/volume-6...
Volume 66, WIPO Special Edition
Visit the post for more.
journals.law.harvard.edu
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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 3d
Andrew Wakefield claimed without evidence in a retracted study that there was a link between autism and the combination MMR vaccine -- but not separate shots.

Wakefield filed a patent for his own separate shots the year before the study was published.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak
Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated
www.theguardian.com
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Reposted by Graham Dutfield, Aurélien Mondon, Vaughan S. Roberts

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d
Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues.

Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 3d
The rules apply to any non-EU citizens not covered by free movement law, not just British citizens. All these possible penalties for overstay already exist.

Brexity folks are allowed to worship British border controls; but the EU is not supposed to enforce theirs against Brits.
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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 5d
People breaking immigration law can be deported. EVEN IF THEY'RE BRITISH.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 3d
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
www.ucl.ac.uk
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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · 3d
If we allow ourselves to get bullied by an unfriendly government and a pharmaceutical 'cartel', when's it going to stop? www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/uk-go...
UK floats plan to fend off Trump tariffs by raising NHS drug spending threshold: Politico
Amid mounting pressure on U.K. officials relating to the pharma industry, the government is reportedly preparing its defense against potential U.S. | The U.K. government is in "advanced talks" with th...
www.fiercepharma.com

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 4d
A new paradigm that integrates human and nonhuman communication and culture.

Melissa Leach and James Fairhead's Naturekind is now available. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#Anthropology #Communication #Culture
Naturekind: Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human by Melissa Leach and James Fairhead
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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · 4d
Still, it’s an interesting alternative to the let’s be like Singapore pipe dream we more often hear from the Right

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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · 4d
So our xenophobic Reform Party wants us to emulate a country nearly 90% of whose resident population is foreign born.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d
UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 4d
Trump's $100,000 skilled worker visa fee gives Britain a golden opportunity to attracted global talent. Needless to say, we're going to piss it away because we're scared of upsetting Nigel Farage.

inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...
Trump's migrant obsession offers Starmer a rare win - but Farage has scared him off
We have a golden opportunity to kick-start the British economy
inews.co.uk
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d
UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent
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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 4d
Enjoyed this piece on Pynchon by @devintoshea.bsky.social which phrases a point @mattseybold.bsky.social makes - “Print is a Rent Strike” - in another way

lithub.com/thomas-pynch...
I've been thinking a lot about how, now, thanks to our phones and screens, every waking hour of the day is subject to capital extraction through data, which is collected and bundled, and sold without you or I even knowing we labored. Reading a physical book breaks from that, and I sometimes feel physical relief in my head when I detach from the monitor; putting eyes on text that doesn't move, read a line, close the book, take a breath, stare out into the sky, open the book back up, notice something, then notice something about the room I'm in, or the park bench. Sometimes the relief of this feels like someone cracked open my skull and poured cool water on the hot machine; other times I'm too scattered and frightened about the future to do anything but sit beside the book while I scroll.
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Global Food and Environment Institute @globalfoodleeds.bsky.social · 4d
A key focus of agroecological practice is understanding ecosystem functions.

Researchers are studying how plant-level treatments, field-level crop compositions & landscape-scale structures & vegetation interact to influence crop pest & disease risks.

fosta-health.eu/index.php/bl...

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Fall armyworm on a green leaf that has been partly eaten
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 4d
I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 4d
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 4d
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 4d
Brutally on target from @rafaelbehr.bsky.social.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d
The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth
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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · 7d
Exactly
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 7d
Just not sure, really not sure, that I'd follow Kemi Badenoch as an example of the USA as a country that is protecting human rights without being in the ECHR.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 7d
Just not sure, really not sure, that I'd follow Kemi Badenoch as an example of the USA as a country that is protecting human rights without being in the ECHR.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8d
Nine jobs Nigel Farage hasn't updated his ­register of interests in months.

Potentially hundreds of thousands of ££££ from his many "outside interests" remain undeclared

observer.co.uk/news/politic...
‘Nine-jobs Nigel’ Farage denies not declaring extra earni...
Roles outside Parliament make Reform leader the highest-earning MP, but register of interests has not been updated since end of May
observer.co.uk
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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · 9d
Sympathies for those farmers who knew Trump was a wrong ‘un and didn’t vote for him.
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Dan Osborn @osbornforne.bsky.social · 9d
“I was astonished when I heard about this,” said Osborn. “Our own government – which supposedly exists to promote the interests of our people – just gave Argentina the ability to undercut our farmers and steal our biggest customer.
www.centralnebraskatoday.com/2025/10/02/d...
Dan Osborn calls out U.S. government’s Argentina bailout that hurts Nebraska soybean farmers
OMAHA - Independent U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn today criticized the federal government's decision to pro...
www.centralnebraskatoday.com
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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · 9d
Really important message here, that you don’t have to cut down trees to grow more food www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/09/conv...
Conventional wisdom says more forests means less crops. What if that’s not always true?
In a new case study in Rajasthan India, researchers showed that afforestation was linked to a 24% surge in crop production.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · 9d
‘Thrilled’ Indonesian scientists celebrate return of fossil trove from the Netherlands | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Thrilled’ Indonesian scientists celebrate return of fossil trove from the Netherlands
The items to be returned, which include Java Man, were collected during the colonial era
www.science.org
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Dan Osborn @osbornforne.bsky.social · 9d
“I was astonished when I heard about this,” said Osborn. “Our own government – which supposedly exists to promote the interests of our people – just gave Argentina the ability to undercut our farmers and steal our biggest customer.
www.centralnebraskatoday.com/2025/10/02/d...
Dan Osborn calls out U.S. government’s Argentina bailout that hurts Nebraska soybean farmers
OMAHA - Independent U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn today criticized the federal government's decision to pro...
www.centralnebraskatoday.com
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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · 10d
When such contested origin stories going far back in time matter to dictators today, you just know it’s dangerous www.science.org/content/arti...
China bolsters controversial claim to Pacific languages with new museum
Nationalist narrative holds that Austronesian language and culture originated in China, not Taiwan
www.science.org

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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · 10d
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘A tool in the fight against Amazon’: independent bookshops to begin selling ebooks
A new platform will be an alternative to Kindle, and bookshops will earn 100% of the profit from sales
www.theguardian.com

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 10d
If you feel the need to do something in the wake of the Manchester attack why not donate to the Community Security Trust, the organisation that works to keep jews in Britain safe

cst.org.uk/donate-now
Donate Online Now – CST – Protecting Our Jewish Community
cst.org.uk
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 10d
Brexiters, including Lord David Frost, John Redwood, Steve Baker and Jacob Rees-Mogg are awfully excited about this.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 10d
Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete
Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act
Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate
www.theguardian.com
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 10d
The absolute state of political debate about asylum and immigration. A global reality that has no obvious "answer" leading to various unconvincing solutions more or less nasty, more or less likely to achieve their goals.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com
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Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social · 10d
The price to be paid in human lives when people elect a goverment that moves fast and breaks everything www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The damage done - Nature Medicine
When clinical trials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts, there are repercussions for investigators and patients, and they do not stop at borders.
www.nature.com
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