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Steve Byford

@issueblessyou

Human being with many questions and a cat. Also scholarly communication, publishing and open access. Views all my own.

Joined December 2011
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Robert Reich
@RBReich17 Sep 2024
Donald Trump left office with the lowest approval rating of any president ever. But some people now seem to be suffering from amnesia. Let me jog your memory

10 Worst Things About the Trump Presidency

Donald Trump left office with the lowest approval rating of any president ever. But some people now seem to be suffering from amnesia. Let me jog your memory.

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Jisc@Jisc6 Mar 2024
We're pleased to announce that @WeAreTandF, one of the world’s largest publishers of scholarly journals, is now piloting providing full-text journal articles to the Jisc Publications Router service. Read more -> bit.ly/3IrnN7S #OpenAccess
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@PPPublishing @BiochemSoc is now supplying full-text articles to @Jisc Publications Router for onward distribution to UK repositories #OA #OpenAccess #JiscPubRouter research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/…

Portland Press supplies full-text articles to Publications Router - Research

Full-text articles from Portland Press are now being deposited automatically into UK institutional repositories via a live feed into Jisc’s Publications Router service. Automated deposit straight...

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If you'd like this petition to have more impact, then sign here. I didn't start the petition, merely amplifying it, as the gaslighting of voters by this govt about the post Brexit economy is truly obscene petition.parliament.uk/petit… Then please RT RT RT
Petition: We call upon the Government to hold a Public Inquiry into the impact of Brexit

Petition: We call upon the Government to hold a Public Inquiry into the impact of Brexit

The benefits that were promised if the UK exited the European Union have not been delivered, so we call upon the Government to hold a Public Inquiry to assess the impact that Brexit has had on this...

petition.parliament.uk
Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) profile pictureMike Galsworthy@mikegalsworthy21 Apr 2023
Excellent. Looks like this will be well over 150,000 signatures ahead of the live-streamed debate on Monday. If you’ve not yet signed, please do so here —> petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Cliff Pickover
@pickover6 Apr 2023
Mathematics. Retweet if you love Italian food OR if you love Fibonacci numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 ...). They're named after Italian mathematician Fibonacci (c. 1175 – c. 1250), who introduced Europe to the sequence. Source: bit.ly/3zEtfzz
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950,000 views The British people back the Governments (Illegal Migration) bill” says @SuellaBraverman Help RT this to a million if you think she’s wrong
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Led By Donkeys@ByDonkeys1 Jun 2022
7 times the Met came to Boris Johnson’s rescue on Partygate
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'When you peer past the daily scandals, you find an executive that is entirely empty, a kind of legislative black hole' – @IanDunt on terrific form inews.co.uk/opinion/boris-jo…
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At night, I occasionally dream of briefly unplugging light-ridden cities such as New York, enticing all to look up & embrace the splendor of a Starry Sky.
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Great speech by John Kerr in House of Lords. The UK is not a popular destination for refugees. We’re way down the list. The dangerous sea route is the only refugee route now our govt have shut safe routes. The facts do not support govt case for cruelty.
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Welcome back to this stage of your journey, UK.
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Since #BBC broadcasted this interview yesterday has a single news show pointed out Boris Johnson sold his Brexit deal to the public & Parliament on the promise there would be NO CHECKS on goods coming from Great Britain to Northern Ireland?
Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) profile picturePeter Stefanovic
@PeterStefanovi230 May 2021
“We are going to have 15,000 checks per week of goods coming from Great Britain to Northern Ireland” #Marr fails to remind viewers Boris Johnson sold his Brexit deal to the public & Parliament on the PROMISE there would be NO CHECKS on goods! RT if you think that’s important
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Steve Byford retweeted
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NHS Million
@NHSMillion3 Mar 2021
NHS million is run by frontline NHS staff. We have done everything we can to tell the public the truth during this crisis. Honestly we are broken and exhausted. If you believe in us & what we are doing please will you follow & RT this to your followers? Katie, Joe and Sammy 💙
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So many of our Brexit problems have a common source: the govt's refusal to be honest about the deal it negotiated. It persistently represents its own choices as hostile incursions, to be repelled by a sovereign state. It's a case-study in how dishonesty drives bad policy. THREAD
David Henig 🇺🇦 (@DavidHenigUK) profile pictureDavid Henig 🇺🇦@DavidHenigUK4 Mar 2021
Worth a reminder that the UK government chose to minimise regulatory alignment with the EU in the full knowledge this would mean greater checks on Great Britain - Northern Ireland food trade. David Frost also said non-tariff barriers were not economically important.
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Happy new year everyone (📽️ 31/1/20 - sound on)
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Femi
@Femi_sorry26 Oct 2020
This is the most chilling explanation of what Brexit will do to the UK economy after December. By @AdamPosen, President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. #ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor
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Joe Biden
@JoeBiden25 Oct 2020
Thank you @iamwill and @IAMJHUD for this powerful video. Hate has no place in the United States — and on November 3rd we will prove that.
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Ian Dunt
@IanDunt15 Jul 2020
This statue is incredibly beautiful. It encapsulates the moment. theguardian.com/world/2020/j…
Edward Colston statue replaced by sculpture of Black Lives Matter protester Jen Reid

Edward Colston statue replaced by sculpture of Black Lives Matter protester Jen Reid

Exclusive: Artist Marc Quinn leads secret mission to install resin-and-steel figure of Jen Reid at site of toppled Bristol slave trader

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This man is 10/10 on fire. 🔥 BBC screws up and accidentally interviews a Remainer... then can’t stop him.
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Femi
@Femi_sorry27 Sep 2019
The logic below is undeniable but it leaves us in a mess. We need to recognise that this mess is the obvious consequence of giving people a choice between geopolitical status quo and... literally anything else.
Femi (@Femi_sorry) profile pictureFemi
@Femi_sorry26 Sep 2019
Do all Brexit voters want No-Deal? No? Then stop saying that Parliament is getting in the way of what the Majority/17.4M want!!! If even 4% of Leave voters oppose No-Deal, then a MAJORITY OPPOSES IT! DO BETTER MATHS!! #BBCqt
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