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Arantxa Gutierrez
@arantxa-gutierrez.bsky.social
Lecturer in Private law @UofGlasgow.bsky.social Interested in Tort law (and Private law more generally), Comparative Law, and Legal History 🇵🇸
We know ultra-processed foods are bad for you – but can you spot them? Take this quiz (got 8/8 😜) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
We know ultra-processed foods are bad for you – but can you spot them? Take our quiz
Test your knowledge in eight questions to prove you know your onions from your emulsifiers
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November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Applications are now open for the James McCune Smith PhD Scholarship at @uofglasgow.bsky.social

These support Black UK-domiciled students across all research areas, with mentorship, placements, leadership training & more

More here: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Firefox Focus has already blocked 1,260,332 trackers for me www.firefox.com/en-GB/browse...
Firefox Focus: The privacy browser
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October 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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New research shows that ocean acidification has now crossed the planetary boundary. That's 7 of 9 boundaries crossed. Capitalism is driving ecological catastrophe and will continue to do so until we align production to a new law of value.

www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Scientists announce that 7 of 9 key 'planetary boundaries' have been crossed
A team of global scientists issued a new report on Wednesday, noting that seven out of nine of key "planetary boundaries" have been crossed. Carbon dioxide emissions have increased ocean acidification...
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September 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
“When you consider the ecocide alongside the genocide, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Universities around the world cut ties with Israeli academia over Gaza war
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Universities around the world cut ties with Israeli academia over Gaza war
Educational bodies from Europe to South America are boycotting Israeli institutions, though Universities UK said it did not support the action
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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🎓 40 brilliant Palestinian students have pushed through war, loss & destruction - just for the chance to study.

Now UK bureaucracy is standing in their way.

✍️ Students & alumni: sign & share the open letter.
We’re at 3,000 - let’s hit 10,000 by Sunday.

🔗 linktr.ee/thegaza40

#Gaza40
August 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Every single university in Gaza has been destroyed. A historian writes about the recent efforts among the American Historical Association to condemn Israel’s scholasticide and genocide.
Historians Against Israel’s Genocide
Every single university in Gaza has been destroyed. A historian writes about the recent efforts among the American Historical Association to condemn Israel’s scholasticide and genocide.
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August 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Is there anything left to say? It’s the book I needed to read, but it’s so so heartbreaking 💔🇵🇸
August 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Early primates evolved in cold, seasonal climates, not warm tropical forests - new research by our Associate Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology, Dr Thomas Püschel, and collaborators ‪@uniofreading.bsky.social‬ challenges our assumptions about where primates originated: ‪https://shorturl.at/3AnbC
August 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Palestine Action can challenge UK ban, court rules www.bbc.com/news/article...
Palestine Action can challenge UK ban, court rules
Palestine Action has won a bid to bring a legal challenge after the government banned the group as a terror organisation.
www.bbc.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I've just counted 15 butterflies using the #BigButterflyCount app 🦋
July 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A law firm that helped Cardiff university obtain a year-long ban on unauthorised protests, which could lead to students being jailed for up to two years, has quietly coached several others on how to take similar legal action www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...
British law firm coached universities on how to obtain sweeping protest bans
Revealed: Shakespeare Martineau LLP, which helped Cardiff get year-long ban on unauthorised action, promoted court orders at webinar
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Glasgow Law School @uofglasgow.bsky.social is hiring a Lecturer in Private Law (focus on Land Law) in the Common Law programme. Fantastic environment and a truly great place for early career academics!

More info here: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

#AcademicJobs #LandLaw #ECRchat
Lecturer in Common Law (Private Law) (R&T)
College of Social SciencesSchool of Law Lecturer in Common Law (Private Law) (R&T)Vacancy Ref: 178052Salary: Grade 7, £40,497 - £45,413 per annum The School of Law seeks to appoint a Lecturer i...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk
July 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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And @righttoroam.bsky.social has
won!! The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camping on Dartmoor 🎉👏. Huge congratulations to all involved!
Now Government must step up & pass a comprehensive Right to Roam Act, to protect & extend public rights of access to nature across England
Today we find out if we lose our right to wild camp on Dartmoor - the last place in England where it’s still legal without permission.

We will share updates, verdict news and rally plans soon.

Live coverage of the verdict available on Sky News. More details can also be found here supremecourt.uk
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
supremecourt.uk
May 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
starting a new read 📚
May 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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The Israeli military has killed over 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza, and is illegally withholding all food, fuel, electricity and humanitarian aid.

Demand the UK government do all it can to push for a permanent ceasefire, unrestricted humanitarian access, and a path to justice now at bit.ly/4hmgn5z
March 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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#NoOtherLand co-director Hamdan Ballal was reportedly attacked and injured by Israeli settlers, then abducted from the ambulance he was placed in

Co-director Yuval Abraham says there has been no sign of Hamdan since
March 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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‘The last plant left’: can Rapa Nui’s extinct tree be resurrected?
‘The last plant left’: can Rapa Nui’s extinct tree be resurrected?
Seeds from the last toromiro, unique to remote Easter Island, were taken away in the 1960s. Now, after a crucial discovery gave hope for its survival, it is making a return
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM