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Nick Johnston
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Project Support at Queen's University Belfast https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nick-Johnston-5?ev=hdr_xprf & Ed Admin for @jrlepp.bsky.social Views are personal and not those of my employers or funders
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · Aug 31
Public Service Announcement:
If you would like even a 5 minute break from the world, pop on to YouTube and add "ISIHAC" to the search box.
"I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" is pure joy, and has been running on the BBC for more than 50 years.
An example (watch to the end):
www.youtube.com/shorts/Ity43...
The Hokey Cokey in the style of Mariah Carey!
YouTube video by BBC
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 1h
Oh please no - I think that might be worse than his current incarnation
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 2h
Oh THAT'S why she had the rear basket. Miss Gulch was ahead of her time!
a woman in a straw hat is riding a bicycle
ALT: a woman in a straw hat is riding a bicycle
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 4h
A special photo for you in gratitude - we're trying to persuade Wilma (we already named her!) to live with us, and this was what greeted my daughter this morning (please ignore the messy foreground)
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 4h
That's an incredible story with a good outcome - thank you for that
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 23h
Just started his Substack from 2024 about this - I got as far as Dennis Prager and had to look him up and now I'm wondering how long it's going to take me to read it if I have to keep finding out about more and more terrible people!

(But thank you for the tip. Every day is a school day etc)
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 1d
Daily Show shorts are now deeply embedded in my YouTube algorithm - the onyl problem is I have to keep checking the dates to see if this is a new outrage or one that passed without me being aware of it previously!
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 1d
Are you on a phone? Is it one of those b@stard last milli-second autocorrects that make me want to scream?
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 1d
Superficially at least baseball is egalitarian in a way that used to be a selling point of rugby, perhaps?
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 1d
This is on the front page of the BBC News web page - I could weep

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
AI holiday planning: I found the perfect seaside town for my summer trip
Holiday-makers say AI-powered chatbots really help organise where to go - but some things need double-checking.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 3d
Apart from the eye watering image of things being grated...
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 3d
Exquisite archetypal "Shot, chaser" material!
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 3d
Oh, I meant Starmer and people at that level, but maybe they know and have decided (how would we know?) that being 'guided' by these galaxy brains is a good idea, despite all evidence to the contrary
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 3d
How long before RKF jnr wheels out [disgraced fraudster, anti-vaccine activist, and doctor who has been struck off the UK medical register] Andrew Wakefield as an expert in these matters?
A snake eating its own tail, known as an Ouroboros, symbolizes eternity, endless cycles, and the unity of beginning and end, representing concepts like eternal recurrence, life and death, and creation and destruction.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 3d
Rather than investing in our recycling industry – which could create 5,000 jobs, as well as having an environmental benefit – the UK is dumping more and more plastic waste on other countries.

It’s shortsighted, it’s irresponsible, and it’s immoral.
https://bit.ly/437k75H
Britain missing out on potential £2bn recycling industry by exporting plastic waste
Exclusive: Government failure to close loophole allows 600,000 tonnes to be shipped elsewhere each year
www.theguardian.com
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 3d
Agreed, and the final (heartbreaking) part of that seems so thunderingly obvious too.
(Maybe it's not a requirement to be seen as good at the roles they perform though, rather than hidden to the people who should know better)
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 3d
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I'm just learing to think in these terms, but this feels like an application of at least three of the four pillars of disordered doubt?
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 3d
When a collaborator is targeted because her scientific findings that attribute extreme weather to human-caused climate change is being used (effectively) in climate lawsuits against oil companies, you know times are dark indeed.

ICYMI @davidho.bsky.social

www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming
Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.
www.eenews.net
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 3d
Interesting - to put it in the context of the rest of the thread, what's their motivation? Would it be worse to know they just stumbled on this level of influence and decided to run with it, or if it was always their aim to have power and no accountability, or some other explanation?
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 4d
MTG's face is in there somewhere...
A fat leopard with the words "the average leopard for the next four years" https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1gl4fqy/its_gonna_be_a_feast/
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 4d
Oh lordy, McSweeny has probably just read this and said "Hold my beer and watch this" to someone in the office...
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Taylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social · 4d
💻 We're hosting a webinar next week, and you're invited to attend!

🔎 What: exploring #OpenAccess publishing
⏱️ When: Weds 15th October 2025, 9am BST
🎫 Register your place here: spr.ly/6009AXhhB
The background is dark blue with bold white text in the foreground. It reads, "Live Webinar. Exploring open access publishing: strategies for successful outcomes. Wednesday 13 October 2025, 9am BST, with Victoria Babbit". In the bottom left corner is a profile picture of the webinar speaker, Victoria Babbit.
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 4d
If it's any consolation I failed mine when I got spooked trying to turn right (in the UK) and was so annoyed that it wasn't smooth that I ended up literally speeding to the point where the examiner remarkably gently pointed out I was breaking the law during my test!
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 4d
A couple of generations of practising what he is preaching?
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 4d
If he gets his way, he'll be the start of a dying breed (if the genetic dice roll in his favour, at least)
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 4d
Amazing to see the energy transition social acceptance triangle being reframed to research rewilding!
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 11d
It's ruined by them being called to attention. I'm sure someone will say it wasn't appropriate for them to clap at that point, but your alternative is definitely true. He is an absolute oxygen thief
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