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Horst Puschmann
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I just wrote to my MP, asking them to attend the debate on 2nd September and speak out in favour of scrapping First Past the Post for Mayoral elections.

Use this tool by ‪@makevotesmatter.bsky.social‬ and ‪@unlockdemocracy.bsky.social‬ to do the same. actionnetwork.org/letters/devo...
Email your MP about scrapping First Past The Post (FPTP) for Mayoral elections
On the 2nd of September, MPs will debate abolishing First Past the Post for Mayoral and PPC elections. Since the system was introduced, it has resulted in Mayors being elected on as little as 25% of t...
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August 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
mulomulo.bsky.social
It's not too late to register for the ICDM10 in Durham in July and learn what Quantum Crystallography can do for your crystal structures! www.icdm10.org
An image of Durham Cathedral, with the lettering: ICDM10 Durham, 14th -17th of July 2025
May 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration
Slightly amended so I can fit this here: I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame! I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one. I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country. This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong. Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues. I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean? Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens. This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way. You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position. Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces. What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly. The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy. Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed. Tanja Bueltmann
May 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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maticlozinsek.bsky.social
Would you like to study air-sensitive samples using 3D electron diffraction?
📢 Check out our latest @japplcryst.iucr.org paper on a cryotransfer method tested on reactive xenon fluorides.
doi.org/10.1107/S160...
#ChemSky #3DED #microED #Crystallography
A simple cryotransfer method for 3D electron diffraction measurements of highly sensitive samples
A simple protocol for transferring highly moisture-sensitive compounds into a transmission electron microscope for 3D electron diffraction measurements is described, with xenon fluorides as a test cas...
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May 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
mulomulo.bsky.social
An amazing evening with @katherinepriddy.bsky.social and George Boomsna in Gateshead tonight. Just mesmerising. Thank you!
Katherine Priddy and George Boomsma on stage in Sage 2, Gateshead.
March 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Very tasty opportunities at the single crystal #XRD beamline 'SPLINE' @esrf.fr: postdoc (up to 5years) or team leader (5years)! -- Follow the links for details, deadline end of March. #crystallography

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February 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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stecanossa.bsky.social
📣Just 7 days left to apply for joining the 4th #MOFschool, where you can learn from a fantastic lineup of leading #MOF scientists (plus me 😀) and enjoy the magical venue on the Como lake! Follow @mofschool.bsky.social for updates and visit mofs.lakecomoschool for useful information.
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The 4th edition of the #MOFschool has been announced and will be held as an in person and remote mixed event in June, 2025! You can find all the important information here --> mofs.lakecomoschool.org Don't lose your chance to participate, applications closes on feb 10th!
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February 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM