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Tim Wildschut
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Professor of Social and Personality Psychology at University of Southampton.
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Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Go Heels
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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​Where the veil between seasons and legends is thin. Wayland's Smithy is cradled by a blazing ring of fall foliage. The very definition of a timeless landscape. 🍁 #History #Mythology
October 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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This explains a lot (Source: www.ft.com/content/20d6... )
October 29, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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October 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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​The ancient earthwork of Wansdyke snaking its way over Tan Hill. A historical line of sight, with Woodborough Hill framed above the Kennet and Avon Canal. #wiltshire 🏞️
October 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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NEWS: ICE arrests Chicago man whose teenage daughter is fighting cancer: “He belongs with her.” I spent yesterday afternoon with Ofelia Torres and her mother, Sandibell, talking about Ruben Torres. Here’s the story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/i...
ICE arrests Chicago man whose teenage daughter is fighting cancer: ‘He belongs with her’
Ofelia Torres has spent almost every day of the past month at Lurie Children’s Hospital, where the 16-year-old Lake View High School student is fighting cancer.
www.chicagotribune.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Scientists charged too much to immigrate to UK, says Royal Society on.ft.com/3KYRjpU
Scientists charged too much to immigrate to UK, says Royal Society
Combined upfront cost of the five-year Global Talent Visa and the Immigration Health Surcharge stands at £5,941
on.ft.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
October 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Dusk at The Clumps. The moment you feel the temperature fall away.
October 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Beaulieu
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 9, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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93 million U.S. residents are immigrants or are U.S. born and have at least one immigrant parent.
October 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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The River Itchen approaching Hockley Link, Winchester. In the background is the beech clumps on St Catherine's Hill (hillfort). This is a chalk stream river and has exceptionally clear water; a rarity nowadays.
HedleyThorne.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I already go out litter picking because British people don’t know how to use bins.
September 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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This is exactly what a baby trying to convince his doctor not to give him a shot would say.
Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."
September 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...
theonion.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)
September 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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St Catherine's Hill, Winchester, rising high above the Itchen Valley floodplain. On the summit of then iron age hillfort is a beech clump and nearby buried remains of a Norman chapel.
September 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Old Sarum in the morning, looking eastwards. Visible is the outline of the old cathedral. #OldSarum
September 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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This virtual special collection, The Psychological Science of Anti-Black Racism, an Ongoing Social Problem, highlights a selection of articles published in APS journals over the past decade that explore the enduring problem of anti-Black racism in the U.S.

journals.sagepub.com/page/aps/cro...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Bonus Friday column! The Guardian asked me to write about being blacklisted by Moscow and it got me thinking about an old Russian proverb ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
By sanctioning journalists, the Kremlin admits how much the truth hurts | Rafael Behr
I’ve been accused of ‘anti-Russia narratives’ but Russia has many stories – including resistance against tyranny, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM