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Cyclist, consultant, analyst, researcher, writer covering scholarly communications & Scientific, Technical & Medical (STM) publishing and information markets

Bristol, UK
Joined June 2008
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punchline to the old Round the Horn joke, What are those for, Daddy?
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This Christmas, after a trying year packed with wars, migrations, inflation, cost of living crises and a worsening climate emergency, a reminder of what the Nativity Scene looks like without migrants, minorities, Jews, Arabs, Semites, Africans and refugees #MerryChristmas all
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you’ve been watching that tractor porn again, haven’t you?
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signed the petition "Stop Bristol Central library being moved" goal is to reach 2,500 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here: chng.it/scjLDJkhFF
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Crikey, what was in those chocolates?
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Mind truly blown, amazing concert! Shame it didn’t get a bigger audience – scheduling at 6pm on wet Sunday night can’t have helped Scriabin Piano Sonatas | St George's Bristol stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/whats…
Just say no
Luxury cruises are punctured garbage bins on water >47 cruise ships emit 10 times more sulphur dioxide in European waters (2017 data) than all of Europe’s 260m cars combined >That's just 1 of 3 air pollutants discharged from the ships’ smokestacks And it gets worse THREAD
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Oh yes
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I'd argue that Google Scholar plays a critical role in modern research. It is free, and it absolutely crushes every other scholarly search engine, including specialized ones 👇 Though it is a bit scary that it seems to be a tiny team & it exists only by the charity of Google...
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I'm proud to live in a country where a Wykehamist can become prime minister. It was starting to look like an Eton stitch-up
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amazing concert so far (half time scores)
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Oof, kind of wish I hadn’t read this: The gathering crisis - Charlie's Diary antipope.org/charlie/blog-st…
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That’s Liz Truss, right?
This is a parody, right? RIGHT?!?!?
What does 148 mean?
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- neil, who’s john deere? - just some guy i met on Grindr, i promise. - he’d better be. if i catch you wanking to tractors again i’ll cut your dick off…
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Uh oh
With just sound, listeners can do scary things: 🔑Create a duplicate key based on the sound of a key sliding into a lock ⌨️Figure out what someone is typing from keyboard sounds 🖨️Reproduce what is being made by 3D printers 🏠Figure out household activities from wall vibrations
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1/31 Truth and free information hit Putin's insane regime just as hard as Javelins. This is a thread about opening the second front against the war criminal from the Kremlin — the informational front.
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