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Nothing needs to be ugly. We choose to make it so.
The western facade of the former Templeton Carpet Factory on Glasgow Green. Designed by William Leiper and bassd on the Doge's Palace in Venice, it was built in 1889.
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#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #glasgowgreen #templetoncarpetfactory #architecturephotography
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"This election has been the worst election I have ever stood in."
Jess Phillips is met with boos and jeers from the audience as she narrowly wins her Labour seat in Birmingham Yardley.
Watch #C4BritainDecides NOW on @channel4 until 9am. #GeneralElection2024
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Be honest. You changed the title because you are total drips and didn’t have the courage to say no to a handful of mad Americans.
We are delighted to introduce a new OA journal: Early Medieval England and its Neighbours!
As a relaunch of Anglo-Saxon England, EMEN features:
📂A broader approach
📰 Interdisciplinary scope
✔️Same high quality as ASE
Find out more 👉cup.org/3Wm9mde
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This has happened because female cyclists, supported by their male colleagues and athletes from other sporting disciplines, and with information about their rights, the law (and a bit of science), came together to demand they be heard.
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... They also endorse F/O in a leader - that's the way out of the mess....
economist.com/leaders/2022/0…
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This piece in @TheEconomist is a good survey, which concludes that sports regulation is in a mess...
economist.com/united-states/…
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Instagram took down one of my posts for violating their rules on "hate speech." What was the thing I posted?
A figure from @FondOfBeetles and @TLexercise's peer reviewed paper showing male advantage in certain sports activities.
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Blimey. Please read section 6 of the project report:
"The overwhelming majority of people who considered fairness and safety could not be achieved with transgender inclusion into female sport did not feel confident to voice these opinions."
equalityinsport.org/docs/300…
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To help contextualize the newly released #IPCC Report, here's 800,000 years of Earth's CO2 history in 30 seconds.
Medical authorities in Britain, Finland and Sweden are pulling back from puberty blockers & cross-sex hormones for kids w/ gender dysphoria. They worry there's little evidence they work (plus evidence they cause harm)
In America, doctors orgs are just avoiding the question
We are disappointed by AAP's decision to disallow our booth at the upcoming AAP conference in October 2021. Our appeal was also rejected with no explanation. The politicization of gender medicine is jeopardizing the long-term health of gender diverse youth.segm.org/AAP_silences_debate…
Ujah tested positive for two SARMs, a newish type of drug that tries to give the effects of anabolic steroids (bigger muscles; faster recovery etc) with fewer side-effects.
Good overview of SARMs if you want the nerdy details: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/58…
Not many athletes test positive *during* a big competition. Testing procedures are (mostly) known, drug half-lives are known, you know you'll be tested.
So dopers ease off the juice before big events.
One expert described in-competition testing to me as "basically an IQ test"
The AIU has started disciplinary proceedings against 4 athletes asserted to have breached anti-doping rules @Tokyo2020 , following testing by @IntTestAgency.
Sadik Mikhou 🇧🇭
Benik Abramyan 🇬🇪
Mark Otieno Odhiambo 🇰🇪
Chijindu Ujah 🇬🇧
👁️⬇️
aiu.link/news
#AIUNews
47 athletes had medals stripped for doping after the Beijing Olympics in 2008. 40 after London 2012. Only 4 (so far!) from Rio 2016.
And now possibly the first from #Tokyo2020
bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/58…
@aiu_athletics say CJ Ujah, who won silver in the men's 4x100m, has tested positive for ostarine and S-23. Both are SARMs - a newish class of drug that aims to similar benefits to anabolic steroids with fewer side-effects
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At Rio 2016, there were 99 national records set in track and field events. In Tokyo, there were 151. My latest blog recaps the incredible performances, and touches on the spikes, the track and the doping behind a breathtaking week of athletics:
trackademicblog.com/blog/tok…
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Annual CO₂ emissions: 1816-2019
Tracking carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels for energy and cement production.
📈 | @OurWorldInData
#IPCC #TruePlanet
