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Elaine WIlson

@egwilson.bsky.social

Emeritus Fellow of Homerton College University of Cambridge https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/wilson/

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The impartiality of Question Time: An analysis of panellists in 2025 β€” Researching the impartiality of political news The BBC’s weekly debate political programme, Question Time , has long been a magnet for controversy. And 2025 has been no different, with critics regularly questioning its impartiality, most often be...

A new blog from the Enhancing the Impartiality of News project takes a look at who appeared on Question Time throughout 2025 & what those guest choices reveal about how the programme interprets political balance.

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#BBC #QuestionTime #impartiality #impartialityproject

20.01.2026 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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Ahh nothing to see here but Dominic Cummings, spouting pure Putin/Kremlin propaganda, while wishing the death of British citizens.
Brexit making more sense now?

27.02.2026 07:00 β€” πŸ‘ 471    πŸ” 123    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 5
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Bristol Zoo Project We are deeply saddened to share the news that Jock, our much-loved silverback western lowland gorilla, has died at the age of 42.

Sad news from Bristol Zoo Project. Rest in peace, Jock.

bristolzoo.org.uk/news/remembe...

26.02.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pleased to announce that

The Honourable Malcolm Turnbull,
29th Prime Minister of Australia,

will offer a keynote discussion about

β€œthe effects of concentrated media ownership on democracy,”

at the Cambridge Disinformation Summit.

www.malcolmturnbull.com.au

18.02.2026 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pleased to announce that a keynote speaker for the Cambridge Disinformation Summit is 2001 Nobel Economist, Prof Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Prof Stiglitz will discuss systemic economic risks from disinformation and from platforms that amplify or monetize disinformation.

business.columbia.edu/stiglitz

18.02.2026 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Self-sustaining learning: What happened when Huntingdon sixth formers took a mini-PGCE? An experimental project at a Cambridgeshire schools trust in which sixth formers stepped into the shoes of teachers has found that the approach can generate valuable forms of learning that complement ...

What happens when you teach sixth formers to teach? Charle Pettit, an affiliated lecturer on the Cambridge PGCE, decided to find out with students at his school, and early results suggest that a remarkable form of self-sustaining learning emerged.

content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/self...

17.12.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exporting status differences? The stratification of British transnational higher education Literature on transnational education (TNE) has grown rapidly, yet the power relations underpinning this form of internationalisation, as well as the increasing diversification of TNE provision, re...

The number of students studying for British degrees overseas has risen sharply over the past decade. This new study suggests the expansion is exporting not just British degrees, but the hierarchies of Britain’s highly stratified higher education system.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

09.01.2026 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cambridge-developed tool launched to steer universities through maze of free-speech checks

A University of Cambridge spin-out has developed what it says is the UK’s first automated free-speech compliance system for universities, amid concerns that institutions are struggling to interpret new freedom of speech rules.

content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/camb...

11.02.2026 08:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”
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Feb 12, 2026
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"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

13.02.2026 05:44 β€” πŸ‘ 12538    πŸ” 6213    πŸ’¬ 444    πŸ“Œ 785

Billionaires couldn’t care less about immigration really. What they care about is getting people riled up about immigration so as they’ll vote for the far right who’ll implement an agenda that protects their wealth

12.02.2026 10:33 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Did the Lobby Misread the Starmer Story? Our political press can be an asset or liability

Did our feral political press pack call time on Starmer prematurely? Accusations are flying . markurban.substack.com/p/did-the-lo...

11.02.2026 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 140    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 23
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Lineup for day 2 of the Cambridge Disinformation Summit.

10.02.2026 07:48 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Useful updates and wonderful music thank you.

10.02.2026 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am really tired of our media not putting as much effort into investigating the wider issues like: why is Starmer the fall guy for the Epstein files and what was Peter Thiel and James Orr discussing with a specially invited audience in a closed meeting in Cambridge last week.

10.02.2026 09:33 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bellingcat founder: β€˜Playing whack-a-mole with disinformation is always going to fail’ Eliot Higgins discusses the future of investigative journalism with Alan and Lionel

I joined @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social to discuss my work and the work of Bellingcat, why I don't like Seymour Hersh, and getting verified information out quickly on the ICE shootings.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

09.02.2026 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 269    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2
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She fell off a bridge after being scared by a truck.

The last 2 months have been hard with her confidence shot. But things have changed a lot. Her tail is wagging, she is coming alive again and she has even found love.

Bridget

09.02.2026 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1372    πŸ” 167    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 5

News from the β€˜multiverse’ . Varsity the student paper at Cambridge University reported that James Orr hosted Peter Thiel last week. Orr glowed about a β€˜stunningly original and erudite series of lectures. Thiel is the walking antidote to the modern multiversity. The highlight of our academic year.”

09.02.2026 06:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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People Just Want To Be Happy And Kind Kindness matters

If you need some proof there is good in the world this is it. Prepare to smile

niallharbison.substack.com/p/people-jus...

08.02.2026 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1049    πŸ” 159    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 7
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We are deeply grateful to everyone who helps Ukrainians survive this brutal winter. We are not alone in this horror.

Marat from Kazakhstan has opened up a yurt with heating for the residents of Desniansky district in Kyiv, hit very hard by Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.

04.02.2026 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 682    πŸ” 173    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4
Reading Russia Weekend Extra
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg Reading Russia Weekend Extra

In β€œReading Russia Weekend Extra”: news about Russia’s economy, an interview with a newspaper chief, plus details of our film for BBC Panorama: β€˜Our Man In Moscow’ is on BBC One
at 8pm on Feb 2nd. Also available on BBC iPlayer.

01.02.2026 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 276    πŸ” 73    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 6

Reform politician Matthew Goodwin tells the Sunday Times that he would "rather shoot myself in the head" than be at dinner with Nick Robinson and Mary Beard, and the last thing the ex-acadenuc would ever have wanted would be to be a Professor at some Oxford college "backwater with zero influence"

01.02.2026 08:32 β€” πŸ‘ 157    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 22

The Cambridge Disinformation Summit will start a new webinar series soon.

The first topic on the agenda will be β€œCognitive Hybrid Warfare.”

More information about how and when to tune in is coming soon.

29.01.2026 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Please share. πŸ’”

25.01.2026 04:46 β€” πŸ‘ 13484    πŸ” 8392    πŸ’¬ 297    πŸ“Œ 401

"In 2013, Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey earned the Victoria Cross for heroic actions in Helmand, Afghanistan. During a Taliban ambush, he repeatedly braved heavy machine-gun fire to provide first aid to a wounded US Marine and single-handedly relocated two machine guns across 200m of exposed terrain"

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'Europe is at a total loss': Russia gloats over Greenland tensions The BBC's Russia editor Steve Rosenberg analyses why pro-Russian government papers are full of praise for Donald Trump's desire to buy Greenland.

More evidence of Kremlin and Russian papers gloating. This from BBC's @bbcstever.bsky.social in πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

20.01.2026 08:17 β€” πŸ‘ 305    πŸ” 135    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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Last night, RF forces conducted a large-scale multi-modal aerial strike focusing primarily on the #Kyiv, #Odesa and #KryvyiRih. Weapons used:


- 339 C-UAVs
- 1 "Zircon" AShM
- 15 Kh-101 cruise missiles (Tu-95MS)
- 18 Iskander-M ballistic missiles

Source: TG "StrategicaviationT"

#OSINT

20.01.2026 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Open Source Tool That Has Preserved 150,000 Pieces of Online Evidence - bellingcat Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down

For those asking for more practical steps, here's some of the tools and platforms we use at Bellingcat. The AutoArchiver allows online media to be collected and automatically archived, allowing centralised collection of sources
www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

18.01.2026 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 324    πŸ” 135    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 7
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Panda saw his first ever snow today. What a recovery considering…

πŸ₯΅ Found with 24 hours to live
πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡­ Collapsed outside a 7-11 in Thailand
🐢 Obese and covered in leeches and ticks
πŸ₯ He spent 2 weeks in ICU
🌴 Months of rehab

His new forever home in Scotland is ❀️

06.01.2026 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1414    πŸ” 169    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 7
Crypto Influencers and Communities
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit Crypto Influencers and Communities

A discussion of how crypto influencers form communities and how some can be highly exploitative.

Chris Temple, Optimist
Lorena Billi, Furt'her
Max Brichta, University of Virginia

From the 2025 Cambridge Disinformation Summit.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uioB...

02.01.2026 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"If the safeguarding principles of professional curiosity and challenge are lost to the white noise of such a zealot-like approach, we have truly lost our way." Hackney safeguarding chair Jim Gamble lambasts DfE's school behaviour ambassador Tom Bennett. chscp.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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