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very cool article about us in the #canary with a very cool video from us about the #OUPSG activism disrupting careers events at #BAE & #Cisco who are 2 #WeaponsManufacturers heavily involved in #genocide & dominating the #OpenUniversity, privatising it effectively from the inside out.
there's links in the article encouraging you to join in our actions & support us.the #OU is the biggest online university on the planet, & we're probably the smallest protest group against #warcrimes & genocide so your help is very much appreciated!
#press #IndependentMedia #news #FreePalestine 🇵🇸
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/04/18/open-university-students-protests/
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consider signing this #petition set up by one of my #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 activist student pals who are holding the #OpenUniversity to account for their active complicity in the #genocides their 'partners' are waging with our tuition fees. #BAE #Cisco #Alphabet #Google #Microsoft & others.
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@Geri Please consider sharing and signing this #OpenLetter to the #OpenUniversity:
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On-point infographic about #Rewilding in the historical context 🙂 #ByDesignOrByDisaster ?
#RewildingEurope #OpenUniversity #TheOpenUniversity #OpenEdu RT https://cutie.city/@aaron/115944291334353238 (24h-long #SelfPacedLearning course)
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Free ways to beat the January blues including food and drink freebies
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/free-ways-beat-january-blues-36603761
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Dear Friends in the the #UK, :agummyhug:
Very pleased about the good news, which as you know does happen. Maybe if only on a personal level:
1) Did a lot of mantra through the night to the feminine principle (nothing to do with a head mistress)
2) Watched "The Brothers Grimsby'' which for some reason had very poor reviews. We laffed almost incessantly. #Outrageous spoof Bond movie. Maybe it's #Britishness is not to all (bad/crude) tastes
3) Very pleased that my concentration is returning. It maybe due to extra #Meditation. Maybe doing some #OpenUniversity courses will help further
4) Now have quite a selection of computer options, OS options and many leads to a better #Cyberverse. #Hopeful
5) Was very pleased that antipasti and antifascist are not for aunties or indeed related
Have a great day everyone. Remember your roots are not just for dyeing.
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the #OpenUniversity is complicit in war crimes & genocide by partnering with #BAEsystems, #Microsoft, #Cisco & #Alphabet (#Google ) & probably others. please sign & share this #petition.
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Why do lots of people think that the Open University is somehow less real or less legitimate than other UK universities?
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Sree Narayana Guru Open University to join High Court case against Calicut University over resumption of distance education courses in Kerala. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/education/news/calicut-university-distance-education-challenges-sree-narayana-guru-open-university-nxuaeiny?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SGOU #UniversityOfCalicut #OpenUniversity #DistanceEducation
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Sree Narayana Guru Open University to join High Court case against Calicut University over resumption of distance education courses in Kerala. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/education/news/calicut-university-distance-education-challenges-sree-narayana-guru-open-university-nxuaeiny?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SGOU #UniversityOfCalicut #OpenUniversity #DistanceEducation
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After waking up with the news that the entire remaining AlJazeera team of journalists in #gaza has been murdered as well as 500 arrests of mostly elderly pensioners peacefully protesting the #PalestinianGenocide and supporting PA in #london yesterday, i have postponed my #CrimPsych course at the #OpenUniversity for the second yr running.
i have told the #OU exactly why:as long as the uni uses my tuition fees to fund #BAE #cisco #alphabet (#Google) #microsoft & others carrying out #warcrimes, i refuse to finish my degree, not only because of that, but also because i can't cope. my personal life mirrors the situation globally, i am recovering from the same narcissistic abuse my ex-partners have put me through that increasingly state institutions and most multinational companies subject me to.
the OU has not engaged with me in any meaningful way about my complaints, nor my fellow students & staff who are tirelessly campaigning for over 2 yrs now.
the OU should immediately divest from these parasitic companies and behave like a public institution should: for the public, by the public.
outsourcing work to commercial monopolies undermines moral integrity, academic development and democracy itself.
universities will become meaningless propaganda machines brainwashing ppl into servitude to the capitalist system. -
After waking up with the news that the entire remaining AlJazeera team of journalists in #gaza has been murdered as well as 500 arrests of mostly elderly pensioners peacefully protesting the #PalestinianGenocide and supporting PA in #london yesterday, i have postponed my #CrimPsych course at the #OpenUniversity for the second yr running.
i have told the #OU exactly why:as long as the uni uses my tuition fees to fund #BAE #cisco #alphabet (#Google) #microsoft & others carrying out #warcrimes...
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This free course, Citizen Science and Global Biodiversity, deals with the importance of biodiversity and explores how anyone can contribute to and be involved in identifying and recording wildlife as a citizen scientist https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/citizen-science-and-global-biodiversity/content-section-overview?active-tab=content-tab&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-07-31&utm_campaign=OpenLearn+newsletter+August+2025 🪲 #Wildlife #Biodiversity #Nature #Science #CitizenScience #OpenUniversity #OU #OpenLearn #FreeCourse
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Trying the free *Plant Biology* course from UHI and OU.
#UniversityOfTheHighlandsAndIslands #UHI #OpenUniversity #OU #scotland
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my complaints to the #OpenUniversity sent on the 23/06/25 for which, besides 2 emails saying they'll reply within 10 days, i am still waiting to get a meaningful reply:
i am a student criminology and psychology at the #ou. i am hereby complaining about the fact that the ou spends student's tuition fees on contracts and so called partnerships with companies that are actively involved in the mass murder of fellow human beings for profit.
the university has a legal duty to uphold domestic and international law, including by cutting ties with companies linked to ongoing #warcrimes.
#BAE weapons have been linked to mass civilian deaths in both #Gaza and #Yemen, confirmed by #UN investigations and independent human rights organisations.BAE arms authoritarian regimes including #SaudiArabia, #Egypt, #UAE, and #Bahrain—all of which are known for state violence, #repression, and #torture.
In 2024, BAE posted record #profits of over £2.5 billion, profiting from #weapons sold to governments actively involved in #MilitaryAssaults on civilian populations.
BAE has faced multiple major #corruption scandals, including a £286 million #UK settlement and a $400 million fine in the #US over #bribery in arms deals.
#University partnerships whitewash BAE’s image, giving it legitimacy and access to students—despite its central role in the global war machine.
The Open University’s #collaboration with BAE helps normalise the arms trade, making #students #complicit unless we speak out.
War is not only deadly—it is #ecocidal. BAE profits from destruction that fuels #ClimateCollapse, yet the #OU claims to value #sustainability.
why is the ou engaging in this #criminal behaviour for years now, whilst teaching me about so called #crime?
the university has a moral imperative to defend freedom and justice across the world, including the human rights of its academic colleagues in the #Palestinian territories.
#Israel has destroyed all universities in Gaza, and over 300 #schools and #libraries. Education is a target in Gaza, and the OU’s academic peers are at risk.
i demand the open university to immediately #divest our tuition fees from b.a.e. , #microsoft, #alphabet, #cisco and others involved in supporting and enabling #genocide and war across the world.
i am currently on a year off from studying because of #MentalHealth conditions, which only have worsened because of this.
i am seriously considering ending my studies because my #MoralIntegrity is more important than anything in my life, and i am not willing to get a huge debt that i know is being used to kill people. that makes me complicit with war crimes and genocide.
besides , i can't take the study material seriously when the ou is #enabling, #normalising and #funding criminal conduct by the companies it contracts to deliver services and infrastructure, and then refuses to take #accountability.
shame on you!
kahlo demmenie -
📢Registration for our event in Milton Keynes (UK) is open until 30 June✅
We warmly welcome in-person attendance on 09 July to ensure discussions are critical & spontaneous♨️
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In case of interest, the #OpenUniversity #GraduateSchool has just published its guidance on the use of #GenAI in #DoctoralWriting:
Informed comments are welcome as this document has been conceived as a 'living document' responsive to change in an evolving tech landscape.
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please sign this important petition to put pressure on the #OpenUniversity to divest from the #WeaponsIndustry among which #BAE, #Cisco, #Alphabet & #Microsoft who the #OU is partnering with.
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After much bureaucracy, this event is scheduled 9 July 2025.
It will be advertised asap on #BAAL #BALEAP #DoctoralWriting #AcWri #tleap #EATAW #CUP networks.
It will be in person-hybrid at #OpenUniversity in #MiltonKeynes but due to funding constraints, tickets will be limited.
Email me for info.
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Imagine parting the veils of clouds that obscure Venus, and seeing through the crustal basalts to understand the mantle beneath. This is the journey Julia Semprich (@planetju) took us on as the Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer.
#MinSocAm #OpenUniversity #McGillUniversity #Venus #Mantle #PlanetaryScience
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🎉 We’re thrilled to welcome Lenny Moskalyk, Delivery Manager at @drupalassoc #DrupalAssociation, to #DrupalCampBerlin 2024!
🗣️ Back into the Future: Sneak Peek at Exciting Things 2025 is Ought to Bring
🔍 2024 was an exciting year for the #Drupal Association! Join Lenny for a glimpse into 2025 for the #DrupalCommunity: #DrupalCMS updates, local community support, and initiatives like #OpenUniversity to nurture future Drupalers.
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❤️🔥#NewRelease #OEGVoices #OpenEdHeroes
Host @cogdog explores open education history with Martin Weller, who retired in June 2024 after 30 years at the Open University. Clint Lalonde (BCcampus) is also in the studio.
Listen 🎧 https://bit.ly/OEGVoices72
#weekendlistening #openeducation #inaction #openedstories #openuniversity -
❤️🔥#NewRelease #OEGVoices #OpenEdHeroes
Host @cogdog explores open education history with Martin Weller, who retired in June 2024 after 30 years at the Open University. Clint Lalonde (BCcampus) is also in the studio.
Listen 🎧 https://bit.ly/OEGVoices72
#weekendlistening #openeducation #inaction #openedstories #openuniversity -
I'm convening an #OpenAccess Educational Resource Group (#OER) at #OpenUniversity #PalestineSolidarity to collate, share, initiate, etc. educational mentorship, accreditation, etc. in #HigherEducation for #Gaza, & an end to the #diaspora for a long-term sustainable #FreePalestine.
Pls get in touch if you have resources, contacts, privilege, power, money, #BonneFoi and the fundamental #SociologicalImagination to #SpeakTruthToPower and hardwire the structures for an enduring #SocialJustice ✊🏽 🙏🏽 🇵🇸
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At 4pm (UK) on Thursday 25 January, I'm giving a #IOEWritingSeminar on how the theory of #CriticalRealism helps me make sense of #WhatMakesWritingAcademic.
Chaired by my #OpenUniversity colleague Dr Jackie Tuck.
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Having a good #LineManager in #HigherEducation is an absolute boon & game changer.
After decades of VERY poor, uninspiring, useless and professionally & mentally damaging line management in #UK #universities, I had absolutely no idea of what a good line manager actually does.
They:
#listen
#care
#trust
#suggest
#MakeEnquiries
#Facilitate
#KeepInTouch
#remember
#share
#explain
#motivate
#encourage
#inform
#LeadByExampleSimilar to my exceptional #PhD #supervisors.
Thank you #OpenUniversity
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In case of interest, I've started to collate and curate an eclectic nascent series of talks by international scholars on #DoctoralCommunication:
https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/PACE
Full series of talks is listed here: https://www.open.ac.uk/students/research/system/files/PACE%20EXTRA%20flyer.pdf
#AcademicCommunication #GraduateSchool #OpenUniversity #AcWri #tleap #AcademicReading #Multilingualism #Serendipity
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#BakeYourResearch update from the #OpenUniversity #GraduateSchool (who are still on the bird):
https://ougraduateschool.padlet.org/robertwilson13/b7ggrqtrlfhno1y5
Unbelievable creations!
#AcademicChatter #PhDLife #ResearchWriting #AcWriMo #AcWri #DoctoralResearch #AcademicBaking #VisualThinking #CulinaryThinking #AcademicProcess #Interdisciplinarity
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#BakeYourResearch update from the #OpenUniversity #GraduateSchool (who are still on the bird):
https://ougraduateschool.padlet.org/robertwilson13/b7ggrqtrlfhno1y5
Unbelievable creations!
#AcademicChatter #PhDLife #ResearchWriting #AcWriMo #AcWri #DoctoralResearch #AcademicBaking #VisualThinking #CulinaryThinking #AcademicProcess #Interdisciplinarity
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#BakeYourResearch update from the #OpenUniversity #GraduateSchool (who are still on the bird):
https://ougraduateschool.padlet.org/robertwilson13/b7ggrqtrlfhno1y5
Unbelievable creations!
#AcademicChatter #PhDLife #ResearchWriting #AcWriMo #AcWri #DoctoralResearch #AcademicBaking #VisualThinking #CulinaryThinking #AcademicProcess #Interdisciplinarity
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It's not made its way over to #AcademicMastodon, yet, but the #OpenUniversity research community - via the Graduate School, which employs me - has a phenomenally creative tradition of baking research, which is simply outstanding.
Posting 2 of several brilliant entries (currently still being shared on the bird).
Voting starts tomorrow and ends 29 November #BakeYourResearch #PhDLife #AcademicChatter #DoctoralResearch
Entries include:
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It's not made its way over to #AcademicMastodon, yet, but the #OpenUniversity research community - via the Graduate School, which employs me - has a phenomenally creative tradition of baking research, which is simply outstanding.
Posting 2 of several brilliant entries (currently still being shared on the bird).
Voting starts tomorrow and ends 29 November #BakeYourResearch #PhDLife #AcademicChatter #DoctoralResearch
Entries include:
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It's not made its way over to #AcademicMastodon, yet, but the #OpenUniversity research community - via the Graduate School, which employs me - has a phenomenally creative tradition of baking research, which is simply outstanding.
Posting 2 of several brilliant entries (currently still being shared on the bird).
Voting starts tomorrow and ends 29 November #BakeYourResearch #PhDLife #AcademicChatter #DoctoralResearch
Entries include:
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It's not made its way over to #AcademicMastodon, yet, but the #OpenUniversity research community - via the Graduate School, which employs me - has a phenomenally creative tradition of baking research, which is simply outstanding.
Posting 2 of several brilliant entries (currently still being shared on the bird).
Voting starts tomorrow and ends 29 November #BakeYourResearch #PhDLife #AcademicChatter #DoctoralResearch
Entries include:
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It's not made its way over to #AcademicMastodon, yet, but the #OpenUniversity research community - via the Graduate School, which employs me - has a phenomenally creative tradition of baking research, which is simply outstanding.
Posting 2 of several brilliant entries (currently still being shared on the bird).
Voting starts tomorrow and ends 29 November #BakeYourResearch #PhDLife #AcademicChatter #DoctoralResearch
Entries include:
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Today was about starting to better understand calculus. The maths has always been my Achilles heel for the #fastai course and I can’t afford to wait until we cover those topics in my #openuniversity degree, so I’m diving in now.
Watched the beginnings of the #3blue1brown video series and started to develop a very high-level understanding.
Two key concepts: derivatives and integrals.
I’ll write a blog tomorrow summarising the extent of my understanding. #100DaysOfFastAI
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Another one to order for the #OpenUniversity Library and Graduate School #PGRs
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Another one to order for the #OpenUniversity Library and Graduate School #PGRs
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Another one to order for the #OpenUniversity Library and Graduate School #PGRs
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Hello #Astrodon ! I still feel #NewHere so here’s an #introduction . I’m an #extragalactic astronomer at the #OpenUniversity in the UK, interested in submm blobs, strong gravitational lensing, #MachineLearning applications, crowdsourced data mining (#CitizenScience), and #OpenScience. I do fun stuff in the European Open Science Cloud #EOSC and work with #Euclid, #LSST #DESC #SLSC, #Herschel, #ALMA, #HST, #JWST and pretty much anything that’ll give me observational data tbh
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Hello #Astrodon ! I still feel #NewHere so here’s an #introduction . I’m an #extragalactic astronomer at the #OpenUniversity in the UK, interested in submm blobs, strong gravitational lensing, #MachineLearning applications, crowdsourced data mining (#CitizenScience), and #OpenScience. I do fun stuff in the European Open Science Cloud #EOSC and work with #Euclid, #LSST #DESC #SLSC, #Herschel, #ALMA, #HST, #JWST and pretty much anything that’ll give me observational data tbh
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Hello #Astrodon ! I still feel #NewHere so here’s an #introduction . I’m an #extragalactic astronomer at the #OpenUniversity in the UK, interested in submm blobs, strong gravitational lensing, #MachineLearning applications, crowdsourced data mining (#CitizenScience), and #OpenScience. I do fun stuff in the European Open Science Cloud #EOSC and work with #Euclid, #LSST #DESC #SLSC, #Herschel, #ALMA, #HST, #JWST and pretty much anything that’ll give me observational data tbh
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Hello #Astrodon ! I still feel #NewHere so here’s an #introduction . I’m an #extragalactic astronomer at the #OpenUniversity in the UK, interested in submm blobs, strong gravitational lensing, #MachineLearning applications, crowdsourced data mining (#CitizenScience), and #OpenScience. I do fun stuff in the European Open Science Cloud #EOSC and work with #Euclid, #LSST #DESC #SLSC, #Herschel, #ALMA, #HST, #JWST and pretty much anything that’ll give me observational data tbh
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Hello #Astrodon ! I still feel #NewHere so here’s an #introduction . I’m an #extragalactic astronomer at the #OpenUniversity in the UK, interested in submm blobs, strong gravitational lensing, #MachineLearning applications, crowdsourced data mining (#CitizenScience), and #OpenScience. I do fun stuff in the European Open Science Cloud #EOSC and work with #Euclid, #LSST #DESC #SLSC, #Herschel, #ALMA, #HST, #JWST and pretty much anything that’ll give me observational data tbh
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#NewHere so here are some things I like/support: #astronomy #astrophysics #running #ParkRun #science #SciPolicy #stem #bbc #OpenUniversity #SciFi #Humanism #CurlyHair #piano #choir #lgbt #pilates #juggling #puzzles #ProVax #CovidIsAirborne #ClimateChangeIsReal #ProChoice #OpenScience #EOSC #MachineLearning #DataScience #Python #CitizenScience #Zooniverse #chess #ProportionalRepresentation #ProgressiveAlliance #LoveEU #RejoinEU #HigherEducation #JWST #ESA #NASA #coffee #cheese #adventure
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#NewHere so here are some things I like/support: #astronomy #astrophysics #running #ParkRun #science #SciPolicy #stem #bbc #OpenUniversity #SciFi #Humanism #CurlyHair #piano #choir #lgbt #pilates #juggling #puzzles #ProVax #CovidIsAirborne #ClimateChangeIsReal #ProChoice #OpenScience #EOSC #MachineLearning #DataScience #Python #CitizenScience #Zooniverse #chess #ProportionalRepresentation #ProgressiveAlliance #LoveEU #RejoinEU #HigherEducation #JWST #ESA #NASA #coffee #cheese #adventure
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#NewHere so here are some things I like/support: #astronomy #astrophysics #running #ParkRun #science #SciPolicy #stem #bbc #OpenUniversity #SciFi #Humanism #CurlyHair #piano #choir #lgbt #pilates #juggling #puzzles #ProVax #CovidIsAirborne #ClimateChangeIsReal #ProChoice #OpenScience #EOSC #MachineLearning #DataScience #Python #CitizenScience #Zooniverse #chess #ProportionalRepresentation #ProgressiveAlliance #LoveEU #RejoinEU #HigherEducation #JWST #ESA #NASA #coffee #cheese #adventure
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#NewHere so here are some things I like/support: #astronomy #astrophysics #running #ParkRun #science #SciPolicy #stem #bbc #OpenUniversity #SciFi #Humanism #CurlyHair #piano #choir #lgbt #pilates #juggling #puzzles #ProVax #CovidIsAirborne #ClimateChangeIsReal #ProChoice #OpenScience #EOSC #MachineLearning #DataScience #Python #CitizenScience #Zooniverse #chess #ProportionalRepresentation #ProgressiveAlliance #LoveEU #RejoinEU #HigherEducation #JWST #ESA #NASA #coffee #cheese #adventure
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#NewHere so here are some things I like/support: #astronomy #astrophysics #running #ParkRun #science #SciPolicy #stem #bbc #OpenUniversity #SciFi #Humanism #CurlyHair #piano #choir #lgbt #pilates #juggling #puzzles #ProVax #CovidIsAirborne #ClimateChangeIsReal #ProChoice #OpenScience #EOSC #MachineLearning #DataScience #Python #CitizenScience #Zooniverse #chess #ProportionalRepresentation #ProgressiveAlliance #LoveEU #RejoinEU #HigherEducation #JWST #ESA #NASA #coffee #cheese #adventure
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