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Jon Dean
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Associate Professor in Politics and Sociology, Sheffield Hallam University. Charity researcher.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 10h
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 1d
Woke up to find that the US Senate is a terrible institution and the BBC is in thrall to the hate preachers of the right wing press. Neither is a surprise but it’s a reminder of how rotten the power structures are.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d
I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well

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Sarah Clarke @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 3d
"And then she looked at me! With her transgender eyes! It was terrifying :("

Absolutely pathetic, desperate shit from obvious bigots.
Several nurses alleged Rose gave them "evil looks" or "hard stares", which Rose denied, telling the tribunal she did not know who the nurses were. "I'm not in the business of levelling evil looks at anyone or hard staring," Rose said, adding people could think whatever they wanted about her but that did not influence her view of colleagues "as professionals". One of the lead nurses, Bethany Hutchison, said Rose had smirked at her as they passed in a corridor, which she took to be an attempt at intimidation. Mr Fetto asked Rose if she had "displayed amusement" towards nurse Bethany Hutchison. Rose said she was talking to another colleague at the time about something they found funny, "but it wasn't [Ms Hutchison's] presence which I found amusing".

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 4d
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”

Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk

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Jon Dean @jondeanstuff.bsky.social · 7d
Another shameful episode from our glorious leadership

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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 7d
My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.
How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere
A state-of-the-art road bridge has been built deep in the heart of rural Buckinghamshire. Designed to carry traffic over the HS2 railway, there's just one tiny problem - there's no actual road.
martinrobbins.substack.com

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 7d
Pretty extraordinary story here
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org

Reposted by Dave O’Brien, Lesley A. Hall, Jon Dean

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 14d
British Library workers are sick of poor pay, overwork, and feeling the fallout of a cyber-attack which left them vulnerable to identity theft and blackmail. Now, they are going on strike for a fortnight.

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/from...
From National Treasure to National Scandal
British Library workers are sick of poor pay, overwork, and feeling the fallout of a cyber-attack which left them vulnerable to identity theft and blackmail. Now, they are going on strike for a fortni...
tribunemag.co.uk

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16d
Montie gives Pochin the benefit of his wisdom.

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Alexander Brown @alexofbrown.bsky.social · 16d
The quotes in this are so fucking bad I had to check several times it wasn’t a deep fake
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK MP says seeing adverts 'full of Black people' drives her 'mad'
Sarah Pochin was responding to a question about whether her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts', and claimed white people were 'demonised'
www.mirror.co.uk

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d
Stephen Miller: "The scandal is how Democrats & the left scarred the landscape of our country w/grotesque so-called modern art that celebrates ugliness ... very importantly, President Trump is making sure it's in the neo-classical design around which our nation's architecture has long been directed"

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 17d
Chris Mason once again writing like he’s narrating a children’s book where the protagonist is a bear wearing a little hat.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 19d
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:

- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 20d
people voted for a guy who in the last couple of days posted a video fantasy of himself shitting on americans, torn down the fucking east wing, and declared that the treasury has to pay him $230 million for reasons.

And Lemon, it's Tuesday.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d
Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 22d
Orr sneered at British people who support a democratic ally invaded by fascists as suffering from 'Ukraine brain'. And he did so in autocratic Hungary, whose approach to the war he praised.

www.desmog.com/2025/08/07/j...

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The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 22d
US strikes on drug traffickers play well at home but the threats to topple Nicolás Maduro are a response to Beijing’s fast-growing influence in Latin America | ✍️ Katy Balls
War on drugs or regime change? Trump’s gamble over Venezuela
www.thetimes.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23d
Katie Lam tries to explain to the Sunday Times how her grandparents experience under Nazism informs her view that the postwar institutions forged after the horrors of war, dictatorship & the holicaust won't now work in our times - because "they assume everyone would want to be nice to each other"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23d
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king. But they were...sort of...bad on equal terms. What set Vimes's teeth on edge was the idea that kings were a different kind of human being. A higher lifeform. Somehow magical.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 23d
In the end, it's Jenrick's deep inauthenticity that is so striking. Literally no-one who went to football matches in the 1980s will recognise what he describes. They know only a total charlatan would have said it.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 24d
A *Conservative Party politician* calling 80s hooliganism “largely good natured fun” is absolutely fucking incredible

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 24d
So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · 25d
New Topic Collection for @bmj.com journal, Medical Humanities, on 'Charity and children's hospitals', is live:

mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

Join myself, authors, and editors (Francesca Vaghi and @profellenstu.bsky.social) to discuss at a launch next week. . .

bmj.zoom.us/j/89920901259
Poster for an online launch 'charity and children's hospitals - exceptionalism, experiences and welfare', 23 October, 3PM, https://bmj.zoom.us/j/89920901259

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Christine Kooi, Jon Dean

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 28d
Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.
A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions: Style Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data. #academicsky"

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · Oct 3
Interesting claim from Dylan Riley: by attacking the politically ‘irrelevant’ civic nodes of academia and NGOs, MAGA could unwittingly unleash a more truly potent Left newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Dylan Riley, Contra Arendt — Sidecar
On civil society.
newleftreview.org

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · Oct 1
What company to keep. What a journey.

It's really something to read Goodwin's 'impact case study' from REF2014. Far right extremism: against it before he was for it.
impact.ref.ac.uk/casestudies/...