Dr Dave Clements
@davecl.bsky.social
Astrophysicist at Imperial College London. Works with space missions like Herschel and Planck, on extragalactic astronomy, observational cosmology and astrobiology. Ask about phosphine on Venus! Also writes science fiction. Not speaking for anybody
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Ongoing sexual harassment cases at Oxford University discussed in new blog posting
21percent.org?p=2925
"I complained about my experience as a postgraduate student in the Faculty. Prof [REDACTED]’s response was to tell me about the sex lives of the lecturers. Fascinating as these stories were ..."
21percent.org?p=2925
"I complained about my experience as a postgraduate student in the Faculty. Prof [REDACTED]’s response was to tell me about the sex lives of the lecturers. Fascinating as these stories were ..."
November 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Ongoing sexual harassment cases at Oxford University discussed in new blog posting
21percent.org?p=2925
"I complained about my experience as a postgraduate student in the Faculty. Prof [REDACTED]’s response was to tell me about the sex lives of the lecturers. Fascinating as these stories were ..."
21percent.org?p=2925
"I complained about my experience as a postgraduate student in the Faculty. Prof [REDACTED]’s response was to tell me about the sex lives of the lecturers. Fascinating as these stories were ..."
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📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
How on earth can a Labour MP for the most diverse constituency in the UK, with refugee constituents from across the globe, possibly stand for this? @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social
And is the government’s principle now that the few European Jews to whom we granted asylum in the 1930s have been returned to Germany, Poland, etc, where it was ‘safe’ in 1945?
Question on Monday
Is it now your principle that every Ukranian refugee in Britain should leave, must leave once it is safe + that they will all be made to leave?
Is it now your principle that every Ukranian refugee in Britain should leave, must leave once it is safe + that they will all be made to leave?
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
How on earth can a Labour MP for the most diverse constituency in the UK, with refugee constituents from across the globe, possibly stand for this? @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social
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The women who actually use Kenwood Ladies Pond spoke clearly: the 900 members democratically voted to maintain their trans+ inclusive policy, in place since 2019. 🏊♀️
notinourname.org.uk/nion-women-r...
#TransInclusion #KenwoodLadiesPond #TransRightsAreHumanRights @nionwomen.bsky.social
notinourname.org.uk/nion-women-r...
#TransInclusion #KenwoodLadiesPond #TransRightsAreHumanRights @nionwomen.bsky.social
NION Women Rejects Anti-Trans Narrative at Kenwood Ladies Pond - Not in our name
NION women supports the previous decision by members to keep the Kenwood ponds inclusive, and calls for people to engage in the consultation
notinourname.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The women who actually use Kenwood Ladies Pond spoke clearly: the 900 members democratically voted to maintain their trans+ inclusive policy, in place since 2019. 🏊♀️
notinourname.org.uk/nion-women-r...
#TransInclusion #KenwoodLadiesPond #TransRightsAreHumanRights @nionwomen.bsky.social
notinourname.org.uk/nion-women-r...
#TransInclusion #KenwoodLadiesPond #TransRightsAreHumanRights @nionwomen.bsky.social
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Temerko, a Soviet-born oligarch and a major Conservative donor, told Belton that he and Johnson spent time… plotting the overthrow May. According to Temerko, Johnson had finally been persuaded to back Brexit in 2016 by a group of “eastern European businessmen”.
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
Landmark Ruling in Strasbourg as MPs Challenge UK Government over Failure to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit
'Nothing less than the future of democracy is at stake' says Caroline Lucas as a cross-party coalition and The Citizens win an unprecedented hearing over electoral safety and national security
bylinetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Temerko, a Soviet-born oligarch and a major Conservative donor, told Belton that he and Johnson spent time… plotting the overthrow May. According to Temerko, Johnson had finally been persuaded to back Brexit in 2016 by a group of “eastern European businessmen”.
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
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"Upland forests are like natural rainmakers," Jiang said. "Protecting these ecosystems isn't just about biodiversity—it's about sustaining agriculture."
#ClimateEmergency and #NatureCrisis intimately interlinked
phys.org/news/2025-11...
#ClimateEmergency and #NatureCrisis intimately interlinked
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Rainfall's origin reveals a hidden driver behind drought risks for farmers
A new University of California San Diego study uncovers a hidden driver of global crop vulnerability: the origin of rainfall itself.
phys.org
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
"Upland forests are like natural rainmakers," Jiang said. "Protecting these ecosystems isn't just about biodiversity—it's about sustaining agriculture."
#ClimateEmergency and #NatureCrisis intimately interlinked
phys.org/news/2025-11...
#ClimateEmergency and #NatureCrisis intimately interlinked
phys.org/news/2025-11...
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Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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And is the government’s principle now that the few European Jews to whom we granted asylum in the 1930s have been returned to Germany, Poland, etc, where it was ‘safe’ in 1945?
Question on Monday
Is it now your principle that every Ukranian refugee in Britain should leave, must leave once it is safe + that they will all be made to leave?
Is it now your principle that every Ukranian refugee in Britain should leave, must leave once it is safe + that they will all be made to leave?
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
And is the government’s principle now that the few European Jews to whom we granted asylum in the 1930s have been returned to Germany, Poland, etc, where it was ‘safe’ in 1945?
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Bursaries for writers of colour to attend the Milford Writers Workshop next year are now open. I seriously cannot recommend the experience enough. Apply here: www.milfordsf.co.uk/bursaries.htm @milfordsff.bsky.social
Milford Bursaries for Writers of Colour
www.milfordsf.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Bursaries for writers of colour to attend the Milford Writers Workshop next year are now open. I seriously cannot recommend the experience enough. Apply here: www.milfordsf.co.uk/bursaries.htm @milfordsff.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
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Two postdoc positions open now: let's work together to understand microbial regulation of the gut-brain axis in ageing:
buff.ly/UuJciHZ
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November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Two postdoc positions open now: let's work together to understand microbial regulation of the gut-brain axis in ageing:
buff.ly/UuJciHZ
buff.ly/vjp98fx
buff.ly/UuJciHZ
buff.ly/vjp98fx
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Analysis: The Post found that documents recounting President Ronald Reagan’s relations with the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, one of the most dangerous periods of the Cold War, have been removed.
The State Department had deleted history.
The State Department had deleted history.
Analysis | State Department deleted records about risk of inadvertent nuclear war
Key historical records about the incident during the Reagan administration, known as the Able Archer 83 War Scare, were removed without explanation.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Analysis: The Post found that documents recounting President Ronald Reagan’s relations with the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, one of the most dangerous periods of the Cold War, have been removed.
The State Department had deleted history.
The State Department had deleted history.
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"Everyone should have the right to refuse to engage with technologies that harm them, their students, and the planet."
A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal"
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
A Year of Refusal
Maggie Fernandes, University of ArkansasMegan McIntyre, University of ArkansasJennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University Photo by Francis Glenn Marciano on Pexels.com It’s been about a year …
refusinggenai.wordpress.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 AM
"Everyone should have the right to refuse to engage with technologies that harm them, their students, and the planet."
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READ THIS: A British-Russian dissident sentenced to 25 years of solitary confinement by Vladimir Putin has said his sanity was saved by the European Convention on Human Rights👇
🔗 www.yahoo.com/news/article... via @telegraphnews.bsky.social
#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
🔗 www.yahoo.com/news/article... via @telegraphnews.bsky.social
#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
ECHR stopped me from going mad in Putin’s gulag
A British-Russian dissident sentenced to 25 years of solitary confinement by Vladimir Putin has said his sanity was saved by the European Convention on Human Rights.
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
READ THIS: A British-Russian dissident sentenced to 25 years of solitary confinement by Vladimir Putin has said his sanity was saved by the European Convention on Human Rights👇
🔗 www.yahoo.com/news/article... via @telegraphnews.bsky.social
#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
🔗 www.yahoo.com/news/article... via @telegraphnews.bsky.social
#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
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With a life expectancy more than 10 years shorter than nowadays.
Hundreds of thousands of cases of measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough and other preventable infections.
The golden 1970s.
Hundreds of thousands of cases of measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough and other preventable infections.
The golden 1970s.
Ah the 1970s.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
November 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
With a life expectancy more than 10 years shorter than nowadays.
Hundreds of thousands of cases of measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough and other preventable infections.
The golden 1970s.
Hundreds of thousands of cases of measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough and other preventable infections.
The golden 1970s.
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‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’ is not just a title of a famous album, it was originally a wonderful - if disconcerting - chapter in The Wind in the Willows.
And now Westminster Abbey are banning illustrations from beloved children’s books…
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
And now Westminster Abbey are banning illustrations from beloved children’s books…
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’ is not just a title of a famous album, it was originally a wonderful - if disconcerting - chapter in The Wind in the Willows.
And now Westminster Abbey are banning illustrations from beloved children’s books…
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
And now Westminster Abbey are banning illustrations from beloved children’s books…
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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Regretfully (for the sake of the authors and journal staff), I have this morning declined an invitation to review for a @royalsociety.org journal because of the Society’s continued refusal to stand up for its values in dealing with Elon Musk FRS.
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Regretfully (for the sake of the authors and journal staff), I have this morning declined an invitation to review for a @royalsociety.org journal because of the Society’s continued refusal to stand up for its values in dealing with Elon Musk FRS.
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Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
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Ah yes Leicester, a tip-top History UoA in REF2021 currently eviscerating it’s History provision (among other subjects). Have they also won the THE irony of the year award?
#THEAwards Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences goes to the University of Leicester for an interdisciplinary study, led by Dr Sarah Inskip, which uncovered the long-term health impacts of tobacco use in historical populations. Leicester’s second win tonight! 🤩
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Ah yes Leicester, a tip-top History UoA in REF2021 currently eviscerating it’s History provision (among other subjects). Have they also won the THE irony of the year award?
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'A chancellor with an overriding commitment to growth would not slap an arbitrary tax on one of the country’s most successful export sectors.'
Raising costs for overseas students won’t help cash-strapped universities | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
'A chancellor with an overriding commitment to growth would not slap an arbitrary tax on one of the country’s most successful export sectors.'
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Reform in Lancashire threatens closing five day centres and five care homes, with “reprovision” forcing disabled or older adults (including a 106-year-old) into alternative support.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Reform in Lancashire threatens closing five day centres and five care homes, with “reprovision” forcing disabled or older adults (including a 106-year-old) into alternative support.
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Dundee Uni won ‘Entrepreneurial University of the Year’ in 2024… then its principal resigned amid a £30m deficit that exposed serious financial mismanagement
THE awards are spin, branding & optics
They don't align with what's happening behind the scenes
THE awards are spin, branding & optics
They don't align with what's happening behind the scenes
#THEAwards 2025: the full list of winners: ow.ly/5Zu050XpZqN
November 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Dundee Uni won ‘Entrepreneurial University of the Year’ in 2024… then its principal resigned amid a £30m deficit that exposed serious financial mismanagement
THE awards are spin, branding & optics
They don't align with what's happening behind the scenes
THE awards are spin, branding & optics
They don't align with what's happening behind the scenes
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British intelligence believes Xi Jinping is watching Ukraine. “There’s a real danger that if he sees us being weak on Ukraine, then he will draw conclusions on his own behaviors around the South China Sea, and potentially on Taiwan.”
Intel Shows Putin Not Ready for Ukraine Deal, Ex-MI6 Chief Says
Recent intelligence assessments show Vladimir Putin has no intention of reaching a peace deal with Ukraine, Britain’s former spy chief said, confirming a view underpinning a harder line from the US an...
www.bloomberg.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
British intelligence believes Xi Jinping is watching Ukraine. “There’s a real danger that if he sees us being weak on Ukraine, then he will draw conclusions on his own behaviors around the South China Sea, and potentially on Taiwan.”