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Listen to @rebeccakhelm.bsky.social from @uniexeterlawschool.bsky.social discuss the impact of reforms to jury trials
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The jury’s out? The verdict on Lammy’s justice reforms
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December 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Congratulations to @crpr-exeter.bsky.social student Maeve Leith, who has been awarded a national ‘Centenary Award’ bursary from the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust to support her work to explore how land use decisions are made
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The NFU Mutual Charitable Trust Centenary Award 2025
The Centenary Award is a long-term scheme, run by the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust, and was launched in 2010 to celebrate the 100th birthday of NFU Mutual.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Professor Neil Harrision from the @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social Graduate School of Education gave evidence to MPs on the Work and Pensions Select Committee about the experiences of young people not in education, training or employment

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Work and Pensions Committee
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November 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Alex Adams, @exeter.ac.uk Arboricultural Manager, spoke to BBC Radio Devon during National Tree Week about the amazing trees on the university's campuses and how he cares for them 🌲🌳

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John Acres - 26/11/2025 - BBC Sounds
Join John for fun, great chat and all you need to start your day in Devon.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Listen to the new podcast about the amazing wartime life of Winston Churchill by @richardtoye.bsky.social from @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social and Dr Warren Dockter. "Churchill: The Finest Half Hour" begins with the momentous events of 1939

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Winston Is Back - Episode 1: The Battle Begins
YouTube video by Churchill: The Finest Half Hour
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November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Professor @fhpitts.bsky.social from @hass-cornwall.bsky.social @exeterspspa.bsky.social spoke to BBC Radio Cornwall ahead of the #budget today

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James Churchfield - 26/11/2025 - BBC Sounds
Play Budget Bingo with me!
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November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I joined the IMF podcast to discuss trade’s complex historical relationship to globalization, economic crisis, imperialism, and war. www.imf.org/en/news/podc...

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Marc Palen on Peace Economics and Trade
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November 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Dr @drkevorko.bsky.social from @exeterspspa.bsky.social has been commenting on the Russia peace talks

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Witkoff to meet Putin as Zelensky 'ready to accept' US-backed peace deal
Donald Trump says he will meet Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin once peace talks are in 'final stages'
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November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Professor Anthony King from the @exeter.ac.uk Strategy and Security Institute spoke to BBC 5 Live about the Russia peace plan

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5 Live Drive - 24/11/2025 - BBC Sounds
A round-up of the day's top news and sport with Chris Warburton and Felicity Hannah.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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I recently published a policy briefing looking towards the new Critical Minerals Strategy as the government's 'securonomics' agenda in action - a testbed of reindustrialisation in pursuit of both national security & environmental sustainability: criticalmineralschallengecentre.co.uk/publications...
Publications & Policy Briefs - Critical Minerals Challenge Centre
Browse our latest publications and policy briefs to explore the evidence, insights, and recommendations shaping the future of critical minerals. These downloadable resources highlight our research imp...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Great to see our @ukri.org Critical Minerals Challenge Centre at @exeter.ac.uk mentioned in Vision 2035, the government's new Critical Minerals Strategy. As test case for securonomics in action, it has a clear focus on Cornwall's tin, tungsten & lithium. 🔗in thread below

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November 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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You can read more about how the new Critical Minerals Strategy chimes with the research & policy work of our Critical Minerals Challenge Centre, bringing together Camborne School of Mines with @hass-cornwall.bsky.social & more, via @uniofexeternews.bsky.social here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Experts hail Cornwall as the ‘Engine Room’ of PM’s new Critical Minerals Strategy
The UK’s new Critical Minerals Strategy must make domestic extraction, refining, and recycling pillars of sovereign capability, experts have urged. The plan should define critical minerals as key to a...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Research by Karen Nokes @laws.ucl.ac.uk @richardmoorhead.bsky.social Rebecca Helm and Sally Day from @uniexeterlawschool.bsky.social shows "innocent until proven guilty" was rarely taken seriously enough when subpostmasters came into contact with the legal system

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Post Office cases cast doubt on the “golden thread” of British justice, study says
The “golden thread” of British justice – the principle that people are innocent until proven guilty – has been exposed by the Post Office Scandal as more deeply tarnished than previously thought, a ne...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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“The reported peace plan was negotiated without Ukrainian or European involvement, and it shows" - @drkevorko.bsky.social from @exeterspspa.bsky.social has been analysing what is known so far about the Russia peace plan

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France slams US & Russia plan as general warns ‘we'll lose our kids’ in war
FRANCE’S top general has warned the country must be ready to “lose our children” in a future war with Putin as Paris erupted in anger over the secret US-Russia peace plan. General Fabien Mand…
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November 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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On the 12th Day of COP30, the project, We Are The Possible @exeter.ac.uk, releases the final poem of its anthology 'Planet Forest'.

'So Let Us Speak' is a call-to-action that the future of the planet lies in human hands.

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Today's Poem - So Let Us Speak · GreenFutures
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November 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Featuring analysis by @richardmoorhead.bsky.social from @uniexeterlawschool.bsky.social

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Rule of law: holding the line between anarchy and tyranny - Committees - UK Parliament
The rule of law in the UK is being weakened, and everyone must take steps to protect it against further erosion, says the House of Lords Constitution Committee.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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On Day 10 of COP30, producer and actor Nic Jeune reads 'Tree', the tenth poem from the anthology 'Planet Forest', created by We Are The Possible @exeter.ac.uk.

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Today's Poem - Tree · GreenFutures
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November 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Professor Lee Elliot Major spoke to BBC 5 Live about why social mobility is now less likely, and why change is needed so younger people get a fairer deal

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Nicky Campbell - What's a ticket worth? And has your hometown held you back? - BBC Sounds
What's a ticket worth? And has your hometown held you back? Nicky takes your calls.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Our sense of reality is intimately entwined with our interactions with other people. What happens when those interactions are instead with social AI? See my piece on (so-called) ‘AI-induced psychosis’ in The Conversation

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AI-induced psychosis: the danger of humans and machines hallucinating together
We’ve always relied on friends and family to confirm our sense of reality. Now we’re increasingly expecting AIs to do it instead.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Our latest #COP30 blog looks at the the Parliamentarians' Global Guide to Climate Change and Climate Solutions, launched last Friday.

With mis- and dis-information rife, the guide provides lawmakers with the latest science to better inform their decisions.

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New global guide provides lawmakers with the latest climate science - and solutions · GreenFutures
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November 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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As we enter the second week at #COP30, our Deputy Vice-Chancellor @stuartbrocklehurst.bsky.social, who's in Belem, observes that the Amazon surroundings are not yet having the desired effect of driving progress.

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Will there be progress at COP30, and on what exactly? · GreenFutures
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November 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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On day eight of COP30, We Are The Possible @exeter.ac.uk offers a Monday poem called 'Making'. Read by actress Lisa Coleman, 'Making' is about working sustainably, with and alongside the rhythms of nature.

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Today's Poem - Making · GreenFutures
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November 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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As we near the halfway point of COP30, We Are The Possible @exeter.ac.uk invites readers to consider the capuchin monkey when its tree is cut down. 'Last One Standing' is poem six in the 12 Days of COP30, and it's read by actor and writer Caroline Pegg.

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Today's Poem - Last One Standing · GreenFutures
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November 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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When did dogs begin to diverge from wolves? That's one of the questions that's been answered by archaeologists @exeter.ac.uk in an extensive study published in the journal, Science. By analysing more than 600 specimens, spanning tens of thousands of years, researchers have traced...
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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On Day Five of COP30 comes a poem about how we navigate nature, time and our surroundings - courtesy of We Are The Possible @exeter.ac.uk.
Read by Nic Jeune, 'Canoe' questions how we can restore the health of our planet.
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Today's Poem - Canoe · GreenFutures
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November 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM