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Each Virtually Social kicks off with engagement & #SciComm news. The thread below is a round up of all the recent engagement happenings. If you have stories to feature, let
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In week when I’ve heard overwhelmingly from female colleagues about how lack of childcare is impacting on them & there’s extensive coverage in the press about this & other gender
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1/11 A Pre-action claim for Judicial Review (JR) is underway and a Letter Before Claim is in process. This is to be served upon the Prime Minister Boris Johnson at
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Sensory theatre & Black creatives. THREAD: Over the last month I’ve been looking inwardly as well as outwardly, reflecting on the very obvious & long overdue systemic change that needs
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In light of a global pandemic, I thought I’d share my experience with this exam season as a postgrad physics student at @ucl. Firstly, UCL did a brilliant job of
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A ten minute warning for this evening's #IfGDataBites event! Watch it @instituteforgov here: http://bit.ly/IFGDataBites12 Questions for our speakers?- Ask here: http://bit.ly/SlidoDB12 - Send a q in the Youtube comments-Tweet
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A thread about @itvnews at @hackneynewsch I showed @RiaChatter & @JonMitchell_ITV around during their visit.They had the entire school open to them and offered to take them wherever they wanted
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Today we launch our Young Women's Activist Movement, and applications are open to join our feminist activism training!Together with young women we are building a movement for economic justice to
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As I tweeted 2 days ago, this week I've collated local statistics, including by Constituency, Local Authority & Region. Included is:Pop. density, health, deprivation, age, gender, ethnicity, deaths due to
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THREAD please read with an open mind.As new evidence has emerged & our understanding has grown, I believe the (partially-abandoned) slogan “Stay home, Save lives” is overly now simplistic, out
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This week, I and other @theBMA committee chairs wrote to Trust CEOs across England to urge them to:- adopt risk scoring tools- alongside measures to allow staff at risk of
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Hi! This week, @tigerinstemm will be talking about a new report which has been released by EPSRC about the gender balance of their grant portfolio: https://epsrc.ukri.org/files/aboutus/epsrcunderstandingourportfolio-agenderperspectivereport
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Thinking of doing a name and shame of so-called comedians I think are racist and right-wing and probably deserve never to hold a microphone unless it is to apologise for
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Results of latest #COVID19 policing poll / A THREAD1/ A second @YouGov poll*, commissioned by Crest, has found that over two thirds of the UK public continue to support the
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Training in clinical psychology IS hard for trainees & trainers caught in interaction of toxic systems of academia & mh & at bigger picture, clash of extrinsic neoliberal values of
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I’m surprised there’s not more discussion as to why London - the most densely populated part of the UK - now has the lowest levels of infection.More cautious behaviour? Fewer
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