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Sue Timmis
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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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Sue Timmis @suetim.bsky.social · 3d
“When students are asked to contribute time, emotional labour, credibility, and personal experience (…) yet see no meaningful shift in outcomes, participation stops feeling like partnership and starts feeling transactional and tokenistic.”
wonkhe.bsky.social Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 3d
This week on Wonkhe: Dáire Martin challenges the comforting myth that listening to students is enough – arguing that legitimacy in higher education comes not from consultation, but from consequence.
The great myth is that listening equals legitimacy
Dáire Martin challenges the comforting myth that listening to students is enough – arguing that legitimacy in higher education comes not from consultation, but from consequence.
buff.ly

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 3d
This week on Wonkhe: Dáire Martin challenges the comforting myth that listening to students is enough – arguing that legitimacy in higher education comes not from consultation, but from consequence.
The great myth is that listening equals legitimacy
Dáire Martin challenges the comforting myth that listening to students is enough – arguing that legitimacy in higher education comes not from consultation, but from consequence.
buff.ly

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 8d
It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8d
Very refreshing that. Didn't miss a beat.
saulstaniforth.bsky.social Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 8d
#bbclaurak tries to get a gotcha. Zack, you refuse to fly. How can you be a candidate for high office if you'd refuse to ever get on a plane?

Well Laura, in that situation I'd get on a plane.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 9d
This tracks with the number of things i’ve been asked to review/examine this year that had fake citations of me. Just incredibly, staggeringly boneheaded.
franklinsayre.bsky.social Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 10d
I’m curious if the reason why articles written with AI so often have hallucinated zombie citations claiming to be by the very editors of the journal who are evaluating the article is because the authors are giving the AI the journal information and asking it to make it more likely to be accepted
benpatrickwill.bsky.social Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 10d
Academic publishing is currently experiencing a viral spread of “zombie citations.” I tried following one to see how these references are infecting academic knowledge systems codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/t...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11d
We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org.

www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...

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Alex Sobel MP @alexsobel.co.uk · 15d
If the threshold for the maximum student maintenance loan is not increased by 2028, a child from a single-parent household with a parent working full time for the minimum wage will not qualify for the full maintenance loan.

Full clip: https://loom.ly/azyhbWM

#StudentLoans #Students

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16d
I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 18d
Help us make hope normal again.

Join the Green Party now.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19d
‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23d
A real shame if this photo went viral again today.
Trump and Farage

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23d
When we said NATO wasn't working we were derided.

When we said a nuclear weapons system relying on the US is dangerous we were called stupid.

The truth is the establishment are more interested in kissing US feet than keeping the UK safe.

It's time for a rethink.

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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 23d
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27d
People try to ascribe motives, strategy and logic to Trump but it's not acknowledged nearly enough that he's simply a spectacularly stupid man who happens to be extremely rich and entitled with it and therefore has gained a lot of power.

He's a very clear example of the Dunning Kruger effect.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27d
Q: The premier of Greenland said today, 'We prefer to stay with Denmark.'

TRUMP: Who said that?

Q: The premier of Greenland

TRUMP: Well, that's their problem. I disagree with him. I don't know who he is. Don't know anything about him. But that's gonna be a big problem for him.

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Marlene Halliday @weegiefifer.bsky.social · Dec 27
Postie brought a leaflet from Reform UK today, in Glasgow. Incl a 2nd Class postage paid envelop. If you get one, remember to post the envelop back to them, empty or perhaps with a special message. Every envelop returned will cost them 85p. If every Glasgow household does that, cost will be £250K 😂
ReformUK paid return envelope to Glasgow

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · Dec 8
This is the best analysis I’ve read about Trump’s alignment with Putin, and the future for Ukraine and Europe

And it accords with my optimism. On the ground, Ukraine and Europe can resist the globalist oligarchs

arthursnell.substack.com/p/americas-w...
America's Weakness, Europe's Strength
The 'new' national security strategy is the admission of defeat from a declining country
arthursnell.substack.com

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Nov 27
As a journal editor I have 4 (obvious) rules when desk reviewing submissions about AI:

Anything new to say?
Based on good research?
Likely to make a difference?
And... Did the author/s *write* it?

Papers on AI aren't worth publishing unless they advance knowledge, even now for preprint services.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · Nov 27
Also: where’s the fecking investigation, Keir Starmer?

The Welsh parliament, Nigel Farage, @prifweinidog.gov.wales @eddavey.libdems.org.uk & @zackpolanski.bsky.social are all now in agreement that we need a govt-led inquiry into Russian interference. So what on earth is the problem??

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · Nov 27
Yay!! I couldn’t be there but Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring just won gold at the APA podcast awards!!

Whole thing was crowdfunded by @the-citizens.bsky.social to highlight 5-year legal case to get an investigation into Russian interference in UK politics. Power to the people!

Reposted by Margot C. Finn, Sue Timmis

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · Nov 23
Children. Teens. Pregnant women. Victims of domestic violence. Anyone from an ethic minority. Care home residents. People with disabilities. The list of overlooked vulnerable groups goes on & on.

The lesson is to build processes that include them next time.

Not to airbrush away 250,000 Covid dead.

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Sue Timmis

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · Nov 23
But the obvious lesson to learn is this.

When weighing how to act - & even if your group of Downing Street decision-makers is predominantly middle class white men - consider EVERYONE. Including the vulnerable. The voiceless. The overlooked. The people who don't look or sound like you.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · Nov 23
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."

My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.

Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk

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Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · Nov 17
I spent a lot of time this semester explaining why it produces bad work but at the end of the day, they're being asked to do a thing they find difficult, and this makes it easy for them, without any meaningful consequence. And the university encourages them to use it.

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · Oct 31
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 · Oct 30
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 · Oct 30
😂😂 This is spot on - lol

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Oct 29
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 · Oct 27
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 · Oct 26
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.