Elaine WIlson
@egwilson.bsky.social
Emeritus Fellow of Homerton College University of Cambridge
https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/wilson/
https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/wilson/
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Reform politician Matthew Goodwin tells the Sunday Times that he would "rather shoot myself in the head" than be at dinner with Nick Robinson and Mary Beard, and the last thing the ex-acadenuc would ever have wanted would be to be a Professor at some Oxford college "backwater with zero influence"
You dont win 'em all! Reform's Matt Goodwin in Sunday Times: 'Most .. people criticising me are nerds.The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson & Mary Beard. I'd rather shoot myself in the head'. Hang on, I'm not THAT bad!Nerds sometimes have a (thoughtful!) point.
February 1, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Reform politician Matthew Goodwin tells the Sunday Times that he would "rather shoot myself in the head" than be at dinner with Nick Robinson and Mary Beard, and the last thing the ex-acadenuc would ever have wanted would be to be a Professor at some Oxford college "backwater with zero influence"
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The Cambridge Disinformation Summit will start a new webinar series soon.
The first topic on the agenda will be “Cognitive Hybrid Warfare.”
More information about how and when to tune in is coming soon.
The first topic on the agenda will be “Cognitive Hybrid Warfare.”
More information about how and when to tune in is coming soon.
January 29, 2026 at 7:21 AM
The Cambridge Disinformation Summit will start a new webinar series soon.
The first topic on the agenda will be “Cognitive Hybrid Warfare.”
More information about how and when to tune in is coming soon.
The first topic on the agenda will be “Cognitive Hybrid Warfare.”
More information about how and when to tune in is coming soon.
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"In 2013, Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey earned the Victoria Cross for heroic actions in Helmand, Afghanistan. During a Taliban ambush, he repeatedly braved heavy machine-gun fire to provide first aid to a wounded US Marine and single-handedly relocated two machine guns across 200m of exposed terrain"
January 23, 2026 at 3:30 PM
"In 2013, Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey earned the Victoria Cross for heroic actions in Helmand, Afghanistan. During a Taliban ambush, he repeatedly braved heavy machine-gun fire to provide first aid to a wounded US Marine and single-handedly relocated two machine guns across 200m of exposed terrain"
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More evidence of Kremlin and Russian papers gloating. This from BBC's @bbcstever.bsky.social in 🇷🇺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Europe is at a total loss': Russia gloats over Greenland tensions
The BBC's Russia editor Steve Rosenberg analyses why pro-Russian government papers are full of praise for Donald Trump's desire to buy Greenland.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 8:17 AM
More evidence of Kremlin and Russian papers gloating. This from BBC's @bbcstever.bsky.social in 🇷🇺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Last night, RF forces conducted a large-scale multi-modal aerial strike focusing primarily on the #Kyiv, #Odesa and #KryvyiRih. Weapons used:
- 339 C-UAVs
- 1 "Zircon" AShM
- 15 Kh-101 cruise missiles (Tu-95MS)
- 18 Iskander-M ballistic missiles
Source: TG "StrategicaviationT"
#OSINT
- 339 C-UAVs
- 1 "Zircon" AShM
- 15 Kh-101 cruise missiles (Tu-95MS)
- 18 Iskander-M ballistic missiles
Source: TG "StrategicaviationT"
#OSINT
January 20, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Last night, RF forces conducted a large-scale multi-modal aerial strike focusing primarily on the #Kyiv, #Odesa and #KryvyiRih. Weapons used:
- 339 C-UAVs
- 1 "Zircon" AShM
- 15 Kh-101 cruise missiles (Tu-95MS)
- 18 Iskander-M ballistic missiles
Source: TG "StrategicaviationT"
#OSINT
- 339 C-UAVs
- 1 "Zircon" AShM
- 15 Kh-101 cruise missiles (Tu-95MS)
- 18 Iskander-M ballistic missiles
Source: TG "StrategicaviationT"
#OSINT
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For those asking for more practical steps, here's some of the tools and platforms we use at Bellingcat. The AutoArchiver allows online media to be collected and automatically archived, allowing centralised collection of sources
www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
The Open Source Tool That Has Preserved 150,000 Pieces of Online Evidence - bellingcat
Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down
www.bellingcat.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:01 PM
For those asking for more practical steps, here's some of the tools and platforms we use at Bellingcat. The AutoArchiver allows online media to be collected and automatically archived, allowing centralised collection of sources
www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
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Panda saw his first ever snow today. What a recovery considering…
🥵 Found with 24 hours to live
🇹🇭 Collapsed outside a 7-11 in Thailand
🐶 Obese and covered in leeches and ticks
🏥 He spent 2 weeks in ICU
🌴 Months of rehab
His new forever home in Scotland is ❤️
🥵 Found with 24 hours to live
🇹🇭 Collapsed outside a 7-11 in Thailand
🐶 Obese and covered in leeches and ticks
🏥 He spent 2 weeks in ICU
🌴 Months of rehab
His new forever home in Scotland is ❤️
January 6, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Panda saw his first ever snow today. What a recovery considering…
🥵 Found with 24 hours to live
🇹🇭 Collapsed outside a 7-11 in Thailand
🐶 Obese and covered in leeches and ticks
🏥 He spent 2 weeks in ICU
🌴 Months of rehab
His new forever home in Scotland is ❤️
🥵 Found with 24 hours to live
🇹🇭 Collapsed outside a 7-11 in Thailand
🐶 Obese and covered in leeches and ticks
🏥 He spent 2 weeks in ICU
🌴 Months of rehab
His new forever home in Scotland is ❤️
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A discussion of how crypto influencers form communities and how some can be highly exploitative.
Chris Temple, Optimist
Lorena Billi, Furt'her
Max Brichta, University of Virginia
From the 2025 Cambridge Disinformation Summit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uioB...
Chris Temple, Optimist
Lorena Billi, Furt'her
Max Brichta, University of Virginia
From the 2025 Cambridge Disinformation Summit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uioB...
Crypto Influencers and Communities
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
www.youtube.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:04 PM
A discussion of how crypto influencers form communities and how some can be highly exploitative.
Chris Temple, Optimist
Lorena Billi, Furt'her
Max Brichta, University of Virginia
From the 2025 Cambridge Disinformation Summit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uioB...
Chris Temple, Optimist
Lorena Billi, Furt'her
Max Brichta, University of Virginia
From the 2025 Cambridge Disinformation Summit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uioB...
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"If the safeguarding principles of professional curiosity and challenge are lost to the white noise of such a zealot-like approach, we have truly lost our way." Hackney safeguarding chair Jim Gamble lambasts DfE's school behaviour ambassador Tom Bennett. chscp.org.uk/wp-content/u...
chscp.org.uk
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"If the safeguarding principles of professional curiosity and challenge are lost to the white noise of such a zealot-like approach, we have truly lost our way." Hackney safeguarding chair Jim Gamble lambasts DfE's school behaviour ambassador Tom Bennett. chscp.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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This story has made me reflect again on the Gove/Gibb/traditionalist/conservative reform programme in England, its ideology and networking around it. Perhaps it becomes even clearer as you see it spreading elsewhere. So am making this article open access.
educationuncovered.co.uk/news/sound-f...
educationuncovered.co.uk/news/sound-f...
December 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
This story has made me reflect again on the Gove/Gibb/traditionalist/conservative reform programme in England, its ideology and networking around it. Perhaps it becomes even clearer as you see it spreading elsewhere. So am making this article open access.
educationuncovered.co.uk/news/sound-f...
educationuncovered.co.uk/news/sound-f...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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"Confronting the politics of race, ethnicity and nation in schooling: evidence from school practices around the world"
Call for papers!
#EduSky @edusky.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/cer...
Call for papers!
#EduSky @edusky.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/cer...
Comparative Education Review: Call for papers - Confronting the politics of race, ethnicity and nation in schooling
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"Confronting the politics of race, ethnicity and nation in schooling: evidence from school practices around the world"
Call for papers!
#EduSky @edusky.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/cer...
Call for papers!
#EduSky @edusky.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/cer...
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New episode 🚨
In a special episode of The Crisis Room, Amber, @markurban.bsky.social & @mpolymer1.bsky.social look back at the Salisbury Poisonings - Russia's extraordinary attempt to assassinate a former spy on British soil.
Listen on @globalplayer.com 🎧
In a special episode of The Crisis Room, Amber, @markurban.bsky.social & @mpolymer1.bsky.social look back at the Salisbury Poisonings - Russia's extraordinary attempt to assassinate a former spy on British soil.
Listen on @globalplayer.com 🎧
November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New episode 🚨
In a special episode of The Crisis Room, Amber, @markurban.bsky.social & @mpolymer1.bsky.social look back at the Salisbury Poisonings - Russia's extraordinary attempt to assassinate a former spy on British soil.
Listen on @globalplayer.com 🎧
In a special episode of The Crisis Room, Amber, @markurban.bsky.social & @mpolymer1.bsky.social look back at the Salisbury Poisonings - Russia's extraordinary attempt to assassinate a former spy on British soil.
Listen on @globalplayer.com 🎧
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”.
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
Toby Young to Address Orbán-Backed Group on UK ‘Censorship’
Conservative peer and right-wing commentator Toby Young is due to deliver a talk tomorrow (25 November) at the in-house think tank of Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán. Young is being interviewed by Mat...
www.desmog.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”.
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
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Explore these, and plenty more, on Cambridge Digital Library! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DAR-...
Darwin Manuscripts : Miscellaneous letters from and to C. R. Darwin and others. Also individual leaves and fragments of Cirripedia and Origin,...
This item is included in the Library’s 600th anniversary exhibition Lines of Thought: Discoveries that changed the world
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Explore these, and plenty more, on Cambridge Digital Library! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DAR-...
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#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published.
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published.
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
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The Daily Telegraph is being bought by the Daily Mail. With columnists who write this kind of incel style bilge about someone they disagree with on immigration think it’s unnecessary tbh …
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The Daily Telegraph is being bought by the Daily Mail. With columnists who write this kind of incel style bilge about someone they disagree with on immigration think it’s unnecessary tbh …
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Lives cut short by whatever means always leave us wondering about lost potential (apart from any other kind of grief). Czechoslovak geologist & mineralogist Ludmila Slávíkova (1890–1943) died aged 53 at the hands of the most brutal regime imaginable ⚒️🧪🌊
www.geological-digressions.com/ludmila-slav...
www.geological-digressions.com/ludmila-slav...
Ludmila Slavikova, (1890–1943)
Czechoslovak geologist and mineralogist Ludmila Slávíkova was scientist who died aged 53 at the hands of the most brutal regime imaginable.
www.geological-digressions.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Lives cut short by whatever means always leave us wondering about lost potential (apart from any other kind of grief). Czechoslovak geologist & mineralogist Ludmila Slávíkova (1890–1943) died aged 53 at the hands of the most brutal regime imaginable ⚒️🧪🌊
www.geological-digressions.com/ludmila-slav...
www.geological-digressions.com/ludmila-slav...
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To all university managers thinking that AI is a good thing, take note.
The reputational damage of fuck ups like this is not worth it.
The reputational damage of fuck ups like this is not worth it.
This is the 2nd time a major government report from Deloitte has been found to contain errors likely generated by AI.
First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte
First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte
A major healthcare policy paper commissioned by @govnl.bsky.social government from Deloitte at a cost of $1.6 million, cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months. #nlpoli #AI
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
To all university managers thinking that AI is a good thing, take note.
The reputational damage of fuck ups like this is not worth it.
The reputational damage of fuck ups like this is not worth it.
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🚨 Bonus episode alert!
An exclusive with Armed Forces Minister @alcarns.bsky.social - he reveals why he quit the Royal Marines to become an MP, discusses the idea of national service, and explains why UK defence must step up in the next few years
The Crisis Room on @globalplayer.com 🎧
An exclusive with Armed Forces Minister @alcarns.bsky.social - he reveals why he quit the Royal Marines to become an MP, discusses the idea of national service, and explains why UK defence must step up in the next few years
The Crisis Room on @globalplayer.com 🎧
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🚨 Bonus episode alert!
An exclusive with Armed Forces Minister @alcarns.bsky.social - he reveals why he quit the Royal Marines to become an MP, discusses the idea of national service, and explains why UK defence must step up in the next few years
The Crisis Room on @globalplayer.com 🎧
An exclusive with Armed Forces Minister @alcarns.bsky.social - he reveals why he quit the Royal Marines to become an MP, discusses the idea of national service, and explains why UK defence must step up in the next few years
The Crisis Room on @globalplayer.com 🎧
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I recently testified in EU Parliament that
“Fines on billionaires and fines on big tech companies and multinational corporations will do almost nothing for behavioural change.”
@reuters.com
@tomhals.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/world/zucker...
“Fines on billionaires and fines on big tech companies and multinational corporations will do almost nothing for behavioural change.”
@reuters.com
@tomhals.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/world/zucker...
www.reuters.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I recently testified in EU Parliament that
“Fines on billionaires and fines on big tech companies and multinational corporations will do almost nothing for behavioural change.”
@reuters.com
@tomhals.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/world/zucker...
“Fines on billionaires and fines on big tech companies and multinational corporations will do almost nothing for behavioural change.”
@reuters.com
@tomhals.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/world/zucker...
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Most Americans want science to govern our public health policy. Not crackpot ideas.
This move marks a dire turning point for the CDC that the next Congress and administration must correct ASAP.
www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-up...
This move marks a dire turning point for the CDC that the next Congress and administration must correct ASAP.
www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-up...
CDC Updates Website To Promote Debunked Theory On Vaccines And Autism
“DO NOT TRUST THIS AGENCY. This is a national embarrassment,” said ex-CDC vaccines chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis.
www.huffpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Most Americans want science to govern our public health policy. Not crackpot ideas.
This move marks a dire turning point for the CDC that the next Congress and administration must correct ASAP.
www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-up...
This move marks a dire turning point for the CDC that the next Congress and administration must correct ASAP.
www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-up...