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by Prem Sikka — Reposted by Nikki Fairchild, Prem Sikka

premnsikka.bsky.social
Banks make $26bn in a decade of financing deforesting companies.

Destruction of the world’s forests reached the highest level - agricultural expansion, mining, infrastructure, logging.

Profits before climate change, human lives and the planet.

The cult of deregulation will make matters worse.
Banks make $26bn in decade of financing deforesting companies
US, EU and UK banks have made over $10 billion in income since Paris Agreement by financing companies involved in deforestation, new analysis ahead of COP30 reveals
globalwitness.org
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Reposted by Nikki Fairchild, David Bartram

trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
New qualitative (health services research) post with my old pal @gemhughes.bsky.social in Leicester. Good team, fun project
jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/12...
Research Associate in Health Services Research in Leicester | University of Leicester Recruitment Team
View details and apply for this Research Associate in Health Services Research vacancy in Leicester. We are seeking a Research Associate to our School of Management and contribute to the NIHR-funded ...
jobs.le.ac.uk
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thekentacorn.bsky.social
Ancient Woodland doesn’t mean the trees are ancient

It means trees have been there undisturbed for thousands of years, & at least since consistent national records started in the 17th Century

It’s the soil that is ancient

The ghosts of the dying & the dead feeding the living
Ancient woodland floor covered in Autumn leaves, seeds and twigs
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Printmakers interviewed for the best WA book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' include Gail Brodholt, known for her fantastic depictions of London life #WomensArt
Print featuring a curved London Underground station as a train arrives, with a small number of people waiting on the platform
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nisreenalwan.bsky.social
-UK net economic benefits of international students starting in 21/22 =£37.4 billion.
-Net economic contribution per constituency during their studies=£58 million.
-That's £560 per member of the population.
So stop the hostile rhetoric & stupid policies!
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
International students in UK higher education
The government met its 2030 international student recruitment target of 600,000 ten years early and numbers have continued to increase since 2020. This briefing looks at student numbers, government po...
commonslibrary.parliament.uk
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by Prem Sikka — Reposted by Nikki Fairchild, Marina Jirotka, Prem Sikka

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froebeltrust.bsky.social
We’re looking forward to seeing everyone at our Annual Lecture tonight with guest speaker, Jane Clarke – a progressive educator with over 40 years’ experience of specialising in early childhood teaching. 🤩

Let us know what you’re most looking forward to ⬇️

#FroebelianPrinciples #FroebelianEducation
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oceanauk.bsky.social
🐋📸 If you love humpback whales, look no further. Captured over a five-year period, these stunning pictures offer an intimate glimpse into the lives of these ocean giants, whilst on their annual migration across our seas 🌊
https://bit.ly/4345FLJ
Jem Cresswell’s striking whale images – in pictures
The photographer spent five years documenting humpback whales in the waters surrounding the Tonga Trench
www.theguardian.com
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Reposted by Nikki Fairchild, Anne Applebaum, Michael Cox , and 42 more

kojamf.bsky.social
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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meemalee.bsky.social
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian
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froebeltrust.bsky.social
“I just don’t think you can do your job as an educator if you don’t spend the time to get to know the children, because that’s where you’re teaching from,” - Rachna Joshi
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Reposted by Nikki Fairchild, Katherine Brickell

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charlesfourier.bsky.social
Dreadfully sad - please consider signing the petition - thanks
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Sign the Petition
Vigar’s Law - Ban brick walls around football pitches
chng.it
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Reposted by Nikki Fairchild, Alison Phipps

nikitagill.bsky.social
Been writing again today.
A Man Tells Me To Get Back In The Kitchen As though the kitchen is a small place, a place he believes should only fit women, he says the kitchen is where women stay out of trouble. But I remember the way women gathered in a kitchen, how grandmothers gave their daughters and granddaughters solace, the amount of women our mothers have carried through their brutal marriages around kitchen tables, the cadence of stories we have told each other as we build nourishing meals from mere ingredients - fierce fables and tales rooted in rage, how we plotted rebellions in kitchens, navigated painful secrets, taught each other politics, confided our fears, our sorrows, our anger - and found ways to help each other thrive. They relegated us to a "small space" but we made it magic, powerful, beautiful anyway. Get back in the kitchen, he says. Without realising, that in my home, the kitchen is where the revolution is. - Nikita Gill
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by Andrew Scott — Reposted by Nikki Fairchild, Rosemary A. Joyce, Leigh Sparks , and 9 more

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Reposted by Nikki Fairchild, James Connelly

oceanauk.bsky.social
Bottom trawling BULLDOZES our ocean floor, decimating marine life. The UK Government must take action and ban this destruction in all offshore marine protected areas. Have your say via the link below, before it's too late.

Act now! 🛑🌊
👉👉👉 https://bit.ly/42b3BBj
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Reposted by Nikki Fairchild, Jason Mittell

0hbetave.bsky.social
Go update your LinkedIn settings.
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Reposted by Nikki Fairchild, Lesley A. Hall

iandunt.bsky.social
Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.
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Reposted by Nikki Fairchild, Marc Goergen, Graham Dutfield , and 2 more

13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
British media pumps out daily propaganda pieces for Farage, fails to offer *any scrutiny* and basically legitimises rampant racism, then puts on its ‘innocent face’ and clutches its pearls at the rise of the far right…
What a grim betrayal of our democracy.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins
Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'My Garden...' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt
Print in blue and white of a stylised garden with trees, plants, birds, tools and plant pots as well as winding text which says 'In my garden I can feel life and it is beautiful"
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coolbikeart1.bsky.social
Harlem
📷Gordon Parks
Photo of a man standing astride a cruiser bike on a wet city street. There are children on the sidewalk behind him; it looks like they may be playing with an open fire hydrant.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
The indigenous Mollo women of West Timor use their looms to both spiritually and literally block mining companies in environmental protests to protect their natural surroundings. During protests, hundreds of women reportedly occupied mining sites for months on end #WomensArt
Photo of a standing woman wearing colourful dress facing forwards on a muddy track in a rural landscape with her hand resting on a small loom
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Reposted by Nikki Fairchild, Nandita Sharma, Will Jennings , and 2 more

ralphjanik.com
“Harvard geneticist David Reich said … increasingly sophisticated analysis of genetic material made possible by technological advances shows that virtually everyone came from somewhere else, and everyone’s genetic background shows a mix from different waves of migration that washed over the globe.”
Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
news.harvard.edu
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by Rebecca Sear — Reposted by Nikki Fairchild, Kostas Kampourakis, Elizabeth Ewan

rebeccasear.bsky.social
“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before”

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
news.harvard.edu
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by Prem Sikka — Reposted by Nikki Fairchild, Prem Sikka

premnsikka.bsky.social
The Post Office paid law firm £86m for dealing with the public inquiry into the scandal.

30 years later victims await compensation for false prosecutions. Despite evidence no exec charged.

Fujitsu, lawyers, advisers complicit. Made millions in fees. No contribution to compensation fund.
‘Utter madness’ as Post Office paid law firm double the cost of scandal public inquiry | Computer Weekly
The Post Office legal representation at public inquiry into Horizon scandal cost twice as much as the actual inquiry
www.computerweekly.com
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Reposted by Nikki Fairchild, Graham Dutfield, Mark Priestley

davidosland.bsky.social
Nigel Farage (Dulwich), Danny Kruger (Eton), Richard Tice (Uppingham) and Isabel Oakeshott (Gordonstoun) aren't 'standing up to the elite'. They are the elite.
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theguardian.com
What do the immigration figures for the UK really show?
What do the immigration figures for the UK really show?
Official figures indicate net migration is falling, yet concern among Britons is close to the highest it has been since polling began in 1974
www.theguardian.com
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, she used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state.
Find out more in the 1st @womensart1 book,
'Unravelling Women's Art'....
Textile artwork featuring a central stylised sun surrounded by small circular representations of orbiting planets, against a dark background
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childhoodjourn.bsky.social
Vol. 50(1) for the Journal of Childhood Studies is available now: bit.ly/42cAyxp
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karenattiah.bsky.social
Columbia cancelled my class on race and journalism, but I'm teaching anyway.

Only 9 Days left to register for my class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101, and 102!

I will not be teaching this again until 2026, so don't miss your spot!

www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series
A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.
www.resistancesummerschool.com
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