Nadia Hilliard
@nadiahilliard.bsky.social
Political science/theory, fraternity, wine, piano, cats. Lambing in the spring. Quaker tendencies. AUK.
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Petition: Urge NICE to Reverse Its Decision on the Life-Saving Drug Vorasidenib
Please read and think about signing
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Please read and think about signing
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Sign the Petition
Urge NICE to Reverse Its Decision on the Life-Saving Drug Vorasidenib
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October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Petition: Urge NICE to Reverse Its Decision on the Life-Saving Drug Vorasidenib
Please read and think about signing
www.change.org/p/urge-nice-...
Please read and think about signing
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As tensions rise and divisions deepen across the UK and beyond, Quakers are inviting everyone to pause, reflect, and act on one simple but radical idea: Love Your Neighbour.
Find out more about Quaker Week and this year’s theme: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Find out more about Quaker Week and this year’s theme: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quaker Week 2025: Love Your Neighbour - a call for compassion in a divided world
As tensions rise and divisions deepen across the UK and beyond, Quakers are inviting everyone to pause, reflect, and act on one simple but radical idea: Love Your Neighbour.
www.quaker.org.uk
September 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
As tensions rise and divisions deepen across the UK and beyond, Quakers are inviting everyone to pause, reflect, and act on one simple but radical idea: Love Your Neighbour.
Find out more about Quaker Week and this year’s theme: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Find out more about Quaker Week and this year’s theme: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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What would an anti-oligarchic, republican economy look like? UBI? Wealth tax? Workplace democracy? Strong trade unions? Investment democracy? I explore a radical republican economics in my new book, 'The Wealth of Freedom', which is now out online. academic.oup.com/book/60075
The Wealth of Freedom: Radical Republican Political Economy
Abstract. What is an economy for? The republican tradition in political thought offers a compelling way of exploring this question. The economy is for the
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May 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
What would an anti-oligarchic, republican economy look like? UBI? Wealth tax? Workplace democracy? Strong trade unions? Investment democracy? I explore a radical republican economics in my new book, 'The Wealth of Freedom', which is now out online. academic.oup.com/book/60075
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A writing prompt to distract you for a few minutes from the sadness of what we see around us:
“Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul”
— Pessoa, 1931
“Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul”
— Pessoa, 1931
May 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
A writing prompt to distract you for a few minutes from the sadness of what we see around us:
“Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul”
— Pessoa, 1931
“Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul”
— Pessoa, 1931
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We marched with and for families today to protest the cuts to the ASGSF. It was a really well organised and moving event.The support fund is a lifeline for so many and cutting it does not make economic or moral sense. Thank you @asgsfprotest.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We marched with and for families today to protest the cuts to the ASGSF. It was a really well organised and moving event.The support fund is a lifeline for so many and cutting it does not make economic or moral sense. Thank you @asgsfprotest.bsky.social
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FosterWiki’s Noah’s Campaign is about protecting those vital connections.When we break attachments, we break trust. When we protect them, we hold their future in our hands.
Join us. Speak up. Share.
#NoahsCampaign #FosterWiki #FosterCare #AttachmentMatters
FosterWiki’s Noah’s Campaign is about protecting those vital connections.When we break attachments, we break trust. When we protect them, we hold their future in our hands.
Join us. Speak up. Share.
#NoahsCampaign #FosterWiki #FosterCare #AttachmentMatters
Prevent broken attachments for children in care
Prevent broken attachments for children in care, a FosterWiki Campaign - It takes a village to raise a child.
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April 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
fosterwiki.com/prevent-brok...
FosterWiki’s Noah’s Campaign is about protecting those vital connections.When we break attachments, we break trust. When we protect them, we hold their future in our hands.
Join us. Speak up. Share.
#NoahsCampaign #FosterWiki #FosterCare #AttachmentMatters
FosterWiki’s Noah’s Campaign is about protecting those vital connections.When we break attachments, we break trust. When we protect them, we hold their future in our hands.
Join us. Speak up. Share.
#NoahsCampaign #FosterWiki #FosterCare #AttachmentMatters
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When the right complains about 'over-diagnosis' they really mean people aren't suffering at all & so don't warrent support. For the left that's disengenious, as people's suffering is real, but rather points to psycho-social problems that over-medicalisation mistreats & ignores.
April 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
When the right complains about 'over-diagnosis' they really mean people aren't suffering at all & so don't warrent support. For the left that's disengenious, as people's suffering is real, but rather points to psycho-social problems that over-medicalisation mistreats & ignores.
Just spent 30 mins discussing the metaphysics of the Easter Bunny with a 6-yr old refusing to sleep. Wish I’d done my own personal prolegomena to avoid contradictions in my story, all of which were caught out by said 6-yr old.
April 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Just spent 30 mins discussing the metaphysics of the Easter Bunny with a 6-yr old refusing to sleep. Wish I’d done my own personal prolegomena to avoid contradictions in my story, all of which were caught out by said 6-yr old.
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One of an expat's unofficial functions is to serve as a cultural interpreter and translator between their countries of origin and their countries of adoption.
And I think I'm speaking for all US expats when I say that we are working overtime right now.
And I think I'm speaking for all US expats when I say that we are working overtime right now.
April 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
One of an expat's unofficial functions is to serve as a cultural interpreter and translator between their countries of origin and their countries of adoption.
And I think I'm speaking for all US expats when I say that we are working overtime right now.
And I think I'm speaking for all US expats when I say that we are working overtime right now.
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Can Mexico build a national care system covering care for children, people with disabilities, the elderly—and the caretakers themselves?
This is a great piece by @carinzissis.bsky.social on a regional movement to revalue "care," one that could be yet another LatAm model the US can learn from.
This is a great piece by @carinzissis.bsky.social on a regional movement to revalue "care," one that could be yet another LatAm model the US can learn from.
In Mexico, the Push for a National Care System Is Gaining Momentum
A national care system would go a long way toward addressing Mexico’s workforce gender gap, but building it will take time and resources.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Can Mexico build a national care system covering care for children, people with disabilities, the elderly—and the caretakers themselves?
This is a great piece by @carinzissis.bsky.social on a regional movement to revalue "care," one that could be yet another LatAm model the US can learn from.
This is a great piece by @carinzissis.bsky.social on a regional movement to revalue "care," one that could be yet another LatAm model the US can learn from.
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MPs call on government to confirm future of Adoption & Special Guardianship Support Fund as lack of clarity over vital funding beyond March causes anxiety for thousands edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... @jessbrownfullermp.bsky.social
Future of the adoption and special guardianship support fund - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
That this House expresses deep concern over the future of the adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF), which is set to expire on 31 March 2025; recognises the vital role the fund plays ...
edm.parliament.uk
March 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
MPs call on government to confirm future of Adoption & Special Guardianship Support Fund as lack of clarity over vital funding beyond March causes anxiety for thousands edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... @jessbrownfullermp.bsky.social
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More Than a Memory: Seeing Children in Care as Individuals, Not Numbers
bob-lynn.medium.com/more-than-a-...
#Empathy #Individuality #Care #Respect #Dignity
bob-lynn.medium.com/more-than-a-...
#Empathy #Individuality #Care #Respect #Dignity
More Than a Memory: Seeing Children in Care as Individuals, Not Numbers
At a recent gathering of foster carers at our local pub, I found myself in a conversation that has lingered in my thoughts ever since. A…
bob-lynn.medium.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
More Than a Memory: Seeing Children in Care as Individuals, Not Numbers
bob-lynn.medium.com/more-than-a-...
#Empathy #Individuality #Care #Respect #Dignity
bob-lynn.medium.com/more-than-a-...
#Empathy #Individuality #Care #Respect #Dignity
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Defund the Police never meant Defund the Police, which is why I don't think it was effective. But coverage rarely explained what it did mean (radically reorient policing through new institutions.)
By contrast, when Trump says, "We will take Greenland," the media bends over backward to sanitize it.
By contrast, when Trump says, "We will take Greenland," the media bends over backward to sanitize it.
March 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Defund the Police never meant Defund the Police, which is why I don't think it was effective. But coverage rarely explained what it did mean (radically reorient policing through new institutions.)
By contrast, when Trump says, "We will take Greenland," the media bends over backward to sanitize it.
By contrast, when Trump says, "We will take Greenland," the media bends over backward to sanitize it.
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I happen to think Defund the Police is not good messaging. (I'd have gone with Reimagine Policing.)
And the pro-Palestine protests also suffered from messaging that fairly or unfairly got pinned on them.
That said, it's revealing whose messaging gets the benefit of "translation" and whose doesn't.
And the pro-Palestine protests also suffered from messaging that fairly or unfairly got pinned on them.
That said, it's revealing whose messaging gets the benefit of "translation" and whose doesn't.
March 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I happen to think Defund the Police is not good messaging. (I'd have gone with Reimagine Policing.)
And the pro-Palestine protests also suffered from messaging that fairly or unfairly got pinned on them.
That said, it's revealing whose messaging gets the benefit of "translation" and whose doesn't.
And the pro-Palestine protests also suffered from messaging that fairly or unfairly got pinned on them.
That said, it's revealing whose messaging gets the benefit of "translation" and whose doesn't.
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This is why philosophy courses should start with Aristotle and Plato and not Nietzsche…
“The fundamental weakness of Weatern civilization is empathy.”
—Elon Musk
—Elon Musk
March 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is why philosophy courses should start with Aristotle and Plato and not Nietzsche…
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Going back and telling 4 year old me that the guy who sings 'Brush your tooth' on my cassette tap will, in 33 years, be promoting a full on, and perfectly justified, boycott of American goods
March 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Going back and telling 4 year old me that the guy who sings 'Brush your tooth' on my cassette tap will, in 33 years, be promoting a full on, and perfectly justified, boycott of American goods
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Unpopular option: reality tv (not just The Apprentice) has more to with the rise of Trump than does social media.
November 16, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Unpopular option: reality tv (not just The Apprentice) has more to with the rise of Trump than does social media.
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Recent PhD in 20th century US history, or planning to defend before Sept 2025?
We are looking for the next *Mellon Research Fellow*, a three-year postdoc with our large and thriving American history group. Deadline 9 March so don't delay!
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50345/
We are looking for the next *Mellon Research Fellow*, a three-year postdoc with our large and thriving American history group. Deadline 9 March so don't delay!
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50345/
February 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Recent PhD in 20th century US history, or planning to defend before Sept 2025?
We are looking for the next *Mellon Research Fellow*, a three-year postdoc with our large and thriving American history group. Deadline 9 March so don't delay!
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50345/
We are looking for the next *Mellon Research Fellow*, a three-year postdoc with our large and thriving American history group. Deadline 9 March so don't delay!
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50345/
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Is it just me, or have the recent episodes of reality not been as good as in the earlier seasons?
February 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Is it just me, or have the recent episodes of reality not been as good as in the earlier seasons?
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A foster carer’s urgent plea from the frontline: “Dear Team Around the Child, I write to you as one of the ‘supposed’ team members around the child…”
A powerful, anonymous call for change. 📢 #FosterCare #fosterWikiOpinionPiece
A foster carer’s urgent plea from the frontline: “Dear Team Around the Child, I write to you as one of the ‘supposed’ team members around the child…”
A powerful, anonymous call for change. 📢 #FosterCare #fosterWikiOpinionPiece
Dear Team Around the Child: A cry for help from the frontline | FosterWiki
Author: Name withheld to protect foster carer
fosterwiki.com
February 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
fosterwiki.com/dear-team-ar...
A foster carer’s urgent plea from the frontline: “Dear Team Around the Child, I write to you as one of the ‘supposed’ team members around the child…”
A powerful, anonymous call for change. 📢 #FosterCare #fosterWikiOpinionPiece
A foster carer’s urgent plea from the frontline: “Dear Team Around the Child, I write to you as one of the ‘supposed’ team members around the child…”
A powerful, anonymous call for change. 📢 #FosterCare #fosterWikiOpinionPiece
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Yes, and “constitutional” actually refers to nothing more than a brisk walk after dinner to aid digestion.
February 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Yes, and “constitutional” actually refers to nothing more than a brisk walk after dinner to aid digestion.
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Shameless for the Israeli defence minister to call for "freedom of movement" now when, as every human rights organisation will tell you, Israel has massively restricted Gazans' freedom of movement for *decades*, it's one of the principal tools of the occupation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel minister tells army to plan for Palestinians to leave Gaza
Defence Minister Israel Katz says Gazans should have freedom of movement and critics of the war should take them in.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Shameless for the Israeli defence minister to call for "freedom of movement" now when, as every human rights organisation will tell you, Israel has massively restricted Gazans' freedom of movement for *decades*, it's one of the principal tools of the occupation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...