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Did you know that you can watch recordings of our events online?

Check out this talk on the history of maternal health and women campaigners in the prison system! buff.ly/7VQDl78

#HistNursing
July 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I am old enough to recall as far back as 2018 when Cooper sported a suffragette rosette. A reminder that the suffragettes, unlike Palestine Action, actually planted bombs and destroyed property.
June 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨

WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.

4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.

Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Barry Blitt’s first 100 days cover for the New Yorker.
April 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Maybe we should honor the women who were real astronauts.

From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.
April 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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April 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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It is 2008. I am starting my first career and watching the stock market tumble double digits in a single day.

It is 2020. I am making a career change and watching the stock market tumble double digits in a single day.

It is 2025. I am making another career change and watching the stock market tumb
April 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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pharoah sanders in the tunnel
March 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Arla suspends farmer after undercover footage shows cruelty ino.to/P5F8NqD
Arla suspends farmer after undercover footage shows cruelty
A farmer has been suspended from supplying milk to Arla after undercover footage showed him attacking cattle with bars and electric goads.
ino.to
March 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Garrowby Hill - by David Hockney

#Yorkshire #art #landscapes
March 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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When America has your back — the weekly illustration from The Economist
March 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Bat fan, c. 1900.
March 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world.

“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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3. All supplies of US-manufactured emergency food packets for starving children on the brink of death – terminated. newrepublic.com/article/1919...
Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Ugly Turn, Putting Starving Kids at Risk
Two U.S. nonprofits that manufacture a treatment sent by USAID to help severely malnourished children abroad say the process is in chaos. This isn’t what Marco Rubio said would happen.
newrepublic.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Sunrise on the A14
February 28, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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The number of people applying to study nursing is at a record low, UCAS figures show.

The government must launch an urgent student recruitment campaign, as 35% decline in numbers applying to study nursing in England highlights a broken nurse education model. Read more ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4htA0IS
'Hammer blow for NHS reforms’, as student nursing applications fall again | News | Royal College of Nursing
We say government must launch urgent student recruitment campaign, as 35% decline in numbers applying to study nursing in England highlights broken nurse education model
bit.ly
February 13, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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The UK government has been funding ads to *increase* meat consumption, yet all relevant health and environmental/climate organisations, incl. government advisers, say we need to *reduce* consumption drastically. See philiplymbery.com/why-are-we-s...
WHY ARE WE STILL BEING TOLD TO EAT MORE MEAT?
The Impact of Government-Sponsored Meat Advertising on Health, Animals and the Environment Why are we bombarded with ads for products we already consume in abundance? This question becomes even more p...
philiplymbery.com
February 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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I just remembered Alexei Sayle talking about the ruination of the Young Ones
December 19, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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Dutch avant-garde artist Jacoba Heemskerck van Beest, Komposition, 1912 #womensart
December 30, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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Attention Street Design Nerds! One of the most intriguing cities in recent years at reconsidering streets for people instead of just for cars, Oslo Norway, has translated their great Street Design Manual into English and put it on-line. Worth digging into. #Oslo
www.oslo.kommune.no/getfile.php/...
December 12, 2024 at 8:07 PM