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Postdoc call‼️

I am opening a call for a postdoctoral position within my ERC project CONSENT.

Come to Madrid to be part of my research team and more broadly of the @ipp-csic.bsky.social community.

Application deadline: December 10th.

Call details: tinyurl.com/yfu83p9m

It is indisputable that Brexit has been an economic disaster, and notable that none of its political architects have paid any price.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Good. Dems not backing down in the slightest in the face of Trump's call for their execution. Keep this up, Dems. Treat Trump like *he's* the violent criminal and the real threat to our Constitution order. Because he is.

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.

In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

Smart move to alert the police and smart politics to publicize it. This is serious.

VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it

After another week of banging on about immigration, Keir Starmer's ratings fall to their lowest ever level.

At what point do Labour strategists start to think that maybe this isn't quite the winning strategy they believed?

Mr Former Human Rights Lawyer, once again demonstrating his commitment to the removal of human rights from as many of us as possible

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support

New #EpsteinFiles @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation: how Steve Bannon’s planned “European revolution” ran through Nigel Farage’s network – with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein quietly helping in the background. 🧵 1/12

Is hope back on the agenda? Anti-trans narratives flail in US elections, with lessons for UK As Harvey Milk famously said, “you gotta give 'em hope”, a message politicians in both the US and UK have been adopting to surging success

As Harvey Milk famously said, “you gotta give 'em hope”, a message politicians in both the US and UK have been adopting to surging success

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/is-hope-back-on-the-agenda-anti-trans-narratives-flail-in-us-elections-with-lessons-for-uk/

Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus

'Nursing leaders told the Guardian the plans were “immoral” and treated highly skilled migrants as “political footballs”. They said a mass exodus of nurses would threaten patient safety'.

Combine this with the number of UK universities shrinking or closing their nursing programmes....

Running for every seat possible, up and down the ticket, is first on the list. Make sure not one seat is left vacant

Every election in 2025 (specials & the ones that just happened) Dems have way over performed. Momentum is real.

Nov 2026 feels like an eternity BUT the time is NOW to start running

Do policy preferences of voters and non-voters differ in European democracies?

My new article in @ejprjournal.bsky.social finds: Yes, sometimes, but this is not the norm.

Let's break it down. 🧵 1/10

We must copy Denmark Social Democrats' hardline anti-asylum measures in order to win back voters' trust, says Shabana Mahmood.

Meanwhile in Denmark:

“Screenshot of a social media post. At the top is a profile photo of a woman next to the name ‘Maya Forstater’ and the handle ‘@MForstater.’ The post reads: ‘This evening I met the woman responsible for the trans crime UK website. She told me how she didn't want men's crimes to be recorded as women and so she set up this website to record the facts. transcrimeuk.com.’ Below the post is a timestamp of 5:44 PM, Nov 18, 2025, and a view count of 11.9K.”

Maya in 1933: "I met the publisher responsible for Der Stürmer and its publication of Jewish crimes.

They told me how they they didn't want Jewish crimes recorded as German crime so they set up the publication to ensure accuracy to the Volksgemeinschaft."

I'd really want to know about the guardrails being implemented here, given our recent results in @nature.com showing that people are likely to ask LLMs to help them cheat with taxes, and that LLMs are likely to accept

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Several recent studies have found that politicians aren't very good at estimating public support for policies. But we have little idea about whether politicians are good at knowing which issues are more important to voters. Our new publication has a first go at answering this question rdcu.be/eQGm4

The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

The Against Generative AI bibliography over on my blog is now updated with full dates for each piece, making it easier to find new information (added almost daily): catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Labour MP Brian Leishman: "The Government has surrendered to... the vile rhetoric of Reform. Does the Home Secretary not see that removing the legal obligation to support asylum seekers who will be otherwise destitute, is as far away from Labour Party principles and values as we can get?"

Leo thinks it is not ok that major institutions refuse to divulge basic information over use of automated decision-making algorithms when deciding questions over human rights @equalityhumanright.bsky.social @sarahowen.org.uk If it is too expensive to report then maybe it was too expensive to use.

tldr; The @equalityhumanright.bsky.social is a making a mockery of FOI and transparency with the use of AI at the same time it is using these analyses to push through highly controversial and likely illegal guidance on minorities' rights.

a practice that undermines the most fundamental standards for transparency which very confusingly given the issues with GROK only holds socials on X. What a downgrade of human rights in the UK if this continues to be the standard. www.davidalton.net/2025/11/06/j...

Seems like a pressing issue not only for the Women and Equalities Committee @sarahowen.org.uk, @davidbsampson.bsky.social, @niagriffith.bsky.social, @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social, @kevinmckenna.co.uk, @racheltaylormp.bsky.social, @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social but also

The @equalityhumanright.bsky.social‬ even has the audacity to highlight "cases of responsible" use while themselves exhibiting highly problematic reporting use and standards

What are the challenges facing the government's AI action plan Sir Keir Starmer has unveiled proposals which he says will make the UK 'one of the great AI superpowers'.

These were exactly the sorts of issues highlighted by media early in Starmer's push for greater use of AI in politics. Furthermore, the use of AI by public institutions is completely incompatible with current transparency regulations if it is too expensive to report on www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One can only assume this is purposeful and gross negligence. This reporting would fail most basic undergraduate assignments at reputable universities & one assumes the refusal to report meaningful details is a massive failure of transparency from public officials.
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