Sue Timmis

@suetim.bsky.social

170 followers 160 following 20 posts

Recovering academic, HE researcher, social and climate justice, inequalities, geopolitics. Also gardener, art and culture lover. Green/left politics. Bristol, UK

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 10d

Dumb for the people - cunning for his boss. Where is justice? “Now new emails released to Byline Times, following a freedom of information request, reveal the true extent of Dominic Cummings’ subsequent involvement in lobbying senior officials to hand over huge Covid contracts to Thiel’s company”

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 11d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 12d

😂😂 This is spot on - lol

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 12d

Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close.

And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.

Musk is everything he hated.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 15d

For ‘adverts’, see also: ‘hospitals’, ‘the Cabinet’, ‘kindergartens’, ‘the England football team’ and, of course, ‘the country’. The only way you can miss this is deliberately. And just watch them try.

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Martin Travis @martintravis.bsky.social · 15d

When you moan that ethnic minorities “won’t integrate” and then complain that TV adverts show integrated, mixed-race families, you’re not defending British culture — you’re just proving Schrödinger’s racism: minorities are wrong whether they fit in or not.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25d

British.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · Oct 9

“Why is it always hard choices for working-class communities — not for multimillionaires and billionaires?”

Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · Oct 5

Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.

Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · Oct 4

🔴NEW🔴

Thread 🧵

@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

bylinetimes.com

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · Oct 2

My reflection on the movie "Gandhi" (1982) notes that for any movement for social justice to achieve its goals, it requires the endurance of the long-distance runner more than the brief burst of speed of the sprinter.
folukeafrica.com/gandhi-the-m...

Gandhi The Movie: A child in the 80s learns about resistance

‘There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.’

folukeafrica.com

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Oct 1

If your institution requires you to use Blackboard for teaching (like me), be aware its parent company is broke and it's getting new private equity owners whose plans for the platform, and how they'll capitalize on it, remain unknown (bet it includes "AI") onedtech.philhillaa.com/p/anthology-...

What This Means for the LMS and EdTech Markets

For campus leaders: Blackboard will continue operating through the case, but the ownership and investment thesis behind the LMS are changing. This could affect long-term product direction and stability.

For EdTech executives: This is a textbook example of distressed-debt control in our sector. It shows how private equity cycles, first driving aggressive expansion, now dictating asset sales, reshape vendor landscapes.

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · Sep 27

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · Sep 24

This is how it begins, with indirect insinuations and fake-humble pleas of uncertainty, as if online conspiracy theories, cranks and grifters carry equal weight to the overwhelming body of scientific evidence and medical expert opinion. Then they get into power and start shredding the health service

LBC @lbc.co.uk · Sep 24

"We were told thalidomide was a safe drug and it wasn't..."

Nigel Farage says he has 'no idea' if Donald Trump is right about paracetamol being linked to autism.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Sep 19

The findings “suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less ‘empathy’ towards Black and Asian ones.”

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities

Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients

www.ft.com

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · Sep 16

"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · Sep 6

This is exactly the kind of despicable scaremongering that Aseem Malhotra has made his modus operandi. Insinuations, hearsay, anti-vaxx, non-evidence-based, lurid, self-enriching, anti-scientific claptrap. Of course Reform UK lapped it up. 1/4

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Sep 3

'This country needs migrants'

Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, speaks to #BBCBreakfast about his views on immigration

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · Sep 2

Stop, look and listen, for here comes the AI antichrist

AI is trained not to give the unbiased truth, so what will protect us from potential manipulation or darker agendas?

By Professor Juliet Lodge

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Stop, look and listen, for here comes the AI antichrist

AI is trained not to give the unbiased truth, so what will protect us from potential manipulation or darker agendas?

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Aug 26

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Aug 9

Researchers (including some fantastic people at UW) found that chatbots can persuade people on political issues, and that they often do so by shifting the frames of the debate: www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...

With just a few messages, biased AI chatbots swayed people’s political views

University of Washington researchers recruited self-identifying Democrats and Republicans to make political decisions with help from three versions of ChatGPT: a base model, one with liberal bias and....

www.washington.edu

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · Aug 9

Today a far right protest is expected to take place outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Bristol

Let me be clear: the far right are not welcome in Bristol. They don’t represent us, or what we stand for

But I also want to be clear about what’s driving this wave of unrest...

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Dave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · Aug 8

OpenAI: we’re giving you PhD-level expertise in your pocket!

Everyone with PhDs: I know exactly who you’re automating and I hate him

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Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social · Jan 10

On PowerSchool, AI, and other fires 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/everything-e...

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Apparently there’s been an "incident" at PowerSchool. An incident. A breach. A hack. NBD, just one of the largest ed-tech companies in the world, provider of a student information system for about 16,...

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · Jan 24

If true, what Labour front bench is doing is unforgivable. The #CANBill is essential & has backing of huge number of experts, scientists, unions & enjoys cross-party support. If backbench Labour MPs ever consider rebelling against leadership on anything, let it be this - a liveable future for all 👇

Labour MPs ordered to sink landmark climate and environment bill

Exclusive: Supporters of bill say Labour has already insisted on removal of clauses requiring UK to meet targets agreed at Cop and other summits

www.theguardian.com

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Shannon Kneis @shannonkneis.bsky.social · Jan 27

Have something to say about higher education and the institutions? New @manchesterup.bsky.social series ''University reimagined'' is now accepting proposals

Steve Jones @profstevenjones.bsky.social · Jan 23

New book series, UNIVERSITY REIMAGINED, edited by @sadiahabib.bsky.social and me, with thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social, & esp. commissioning editor @lauramswift.bsky.social. BOOK PROPOSALS NOW WELCOME - please get in touch if you have an idea. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/unive...

University Reimagined - Manchester University Press

The University Reimagined series offers a home for fresh ideas about higher education and innovative solutions to the challenges it faces, both within the UK and internationally.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Jan 27

'This kind of rush by knowledge-producing and knowledge-disseminating institutions to make use of AI, be it to increase their web traffic, save money on labor costs, show they’re on board with the next big thing, or whatever, is irresponsible.'

Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · Jan 27

I took a look at the philosophy entries at Nature's AI-generated research summaries. Oh, the things I do for you.

Rushing and Ruining: “Nature Research Intelligence” - Daily Nous

“We’ve been the most trusted name in research for over 150 years” says Nature on its “Nature Research Intelligence” site. You’d think they’d be a little more careful with that reputation. Promising “i...

dailynous.com

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · May 18

Huge scale of carnage in UK Higher Education revealed

96 Universities are announcing redundancies in 2024-25

Not all give numbers. Average of those who do is 245

245 x 96 is 23520 job losses

This doesn't include fixed term positions not renewed

@qmucu.bsky.social @gsoh31.bsky.social

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Feb 15

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

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