Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Cardiff University contributed more than £3.6bn to the UK economy in one year https://nation.cymru/news/cardiff-university-contributed-more-than-3-6bn-to-the-uk-economy-in-one-year/

🎵 A new digital platform launching today will give every child and young person in Wales free access to bilingual music tuition. https://nation.cymru/culture/every-young-person-in-wales-given-free-access-to-bilingual-music-tuition-platform/

Basque language expert says Welsh-medium education for all children is possible https://nation.cymru/news/basque-language-expert-says-welsh-medium-education-for-all-children-is-possible-2/

#Mondrian #painting has been hanging #UpsideDown for 75 years | #PietMondrian | The Guardian

#SchoolboyError!

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/28/mondrian-painting-has-been-hanging-upside-down-for-75-years

#Art

#RayOfJoy: #Nasa captures image of the #sun #smiling | Nasa | The Guardian

The Sun smiling

#Space #Smiley #Quirky

Blimey, its finally dawning on the sharp elbowed that social funding of healthcare is much more equitable than allowing profiteers like BUPA to gouge them at the first sign of ill health.

Good to see NHS trusts closing the door on BUPA too.

https://apple.news/AskR4FC9-TW28Bv66SweDPA

@TheBeastOfBaglan Cymru needs independence from the UK in my opinion. #IndyWales #YesCymru

Hi everyone! Shwmae pawb? Here's my #introduction.

I'm Daf. A welshman living in the English Midlands. I'm an #engineer in automotive, #design, and #OpenUniversity student in #Renewables and energy engineering.

Big #rugby fan, #football fan, #curling fan, most sports really.

I'm an avid supporter of #WelshIndependence, and a member of #YesCymru. I'm also a #cymraeg learner.

Finally, I'm a big fan of having 500 characters to play with!

#introductions #dliyn

@anniemo71 @Siencyn #shwmae bawb! We are certainly an alternative to Twitter and as you can probably tell there's quite the #TwitterMigration happening right now.

This service is provided by Toot Wales Inc., a registered non-profit. It uses a global social networking standard called #ActivityPub, which is an open Web standard for communicating across various services (unlike proprietary corporate systems)

I am writing this using the #Mastodon software service.

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EARN IT - Anti-Encryption Bill Passes Senate Judiciary Committee

Sad day + I have no candy for the kids... shame on me ...

https://gizmodo.com/earn-it-anti-encryption-bill-passes-senate-committee-1848515670

@VictorVenema @micefearboggis @Ruth_Mottram @wolfgangcramer @tasvo @saravicca @arthurgessler @steve

That's fantastic! I would love to see more academics convert from non-free social media to Fediverse. This independence and decentralisation are suited to the notion of open science.

So far, there are only a handful of us from #biomedicine / translational research field, but hopefully that will change.

Hello, all. I've been around for a few days but haven't yet made an #introduction post. So here we go.

I'm a #bioinformatics consultant with [The Bioinformatics CRO](https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/) working on a variety of small and large projects ranging from fundamental genomics to clinical decision support. Before that, for several years I was a postdoc and ORISE fellow specializing in high-altitude medicine and physiology at the University of Colorado Altitude Research Center. My academic background is a nearly even mix of #biostatistics, machine learning, and biology.

The ARC* has been sadly moribund for a few years, but thanks to collaborations with other groups, we're [starting to get more active again](https://harcsummit.org/). Hopefully I will have more to say about that in the future. Meanwhile, feel free to ask me anything about #altitude medicine---I think I still remember most of it.

Years before _that_, I was an Air Force #medic (after a brief stint as an Army infantryman) followed by a couple of years as a civilian EMT. My time in patient care informs my approach to science: the numbers I crunch represent human lives.

Otherwise, I'm an armchair #paleontologist hoping to be able to call myself an _amateur_ paleontologist again one of these days---by which I mean actually spending some time in the field and/or the prep lab---a too-occasional science fiction writer, and chronically sleep deprived. Also, my life is the internet: it's cats all the way down.

*Fellow #Primeval fans may recognize the jacket in the picture. My wonderful fiancée found it for me when I was hired at the ARC, for exactly the reason you think.

Migrant crisis (the Tories created): Alarm at Braverman’s racist immigration rhetoric

#EnoughIsEnough
#GeneralElectionNow!

https://apple.news/A5znt7pChQImsQAanMpZZJQ

#BenJennings on #JairBolsonaro’s defeat in #Brazil – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2022/oct/31/ben-jennings-on-jair-bolsonaros-defeat-in-brazil-cartoon

#Politics #Satire

Current #emissions pledges will lead to catastrophic #ClimateBreakdown, says #UN | #GreenhouseGasRmissions | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/26/current-emissions-pledges-will-lead-to-catastrophic-climate-breakdown-says-un

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #FossilFuels

The Age of Anonymous Email Is Nearly Over https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/anonymous-email.html

RT @GeorgeMonbiot@twitter.com

Rishi Sunak, the first Chancellor in UK history to receive a criminal sanction while in office, reappointed Cruella Braverman 6 days after she was sacked for what we now know were “multiple breaches of the ministerial code”.
They have started as they mean to go on.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1585517325528305665

#Shell paid zero #windfall #tax in #UK despite record global #profits | Shell | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/27/shell-doubles-its-profits-to-95bn

#Environment #FossilFuels

Treorchy Male Choir have recorded a beautiful version of Eli Jenkins' Prayer to celebrate the day of Dylan Thomas' birth https://nation.cymru/culture/watch-choirs-stirring-tribute-to-dylan-thomas-on-his-birthday/