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So excited to be here at the #LawscotConf today, and excited for all that is to come!

#ProBonoWeek 2022 has arrived! The free legal advice provided by our members to people, community groups, and charities makes a huge difference in Scotland and beyond. Check out the events being held this week in Scotland at probonoweek.org.uk/events

Aaron Swartz liberated scientific articles by making them available to the public. Jon Tennant (Jon Tennant) followed closely in his steps. Two of our most important open access activists. Jon would have been 34 this year, Aaron 36.

Pause for thought: Test & trace cost £37b (much useless). Giving NHS workers inflation related pay rises would cost about £10b less - much of which would go back into the economy and HMG in terms of spending and taxes. Would improve services, retention, safety and morale.

Adults are at times farther from comprehending the world than children. Children have yet to educated, but remain open to learning, while adults have often been 𝘮𝘪𝘴-educated, and so jealously guard the granite of their preconception from being cracked by a contrary truth.

Violent threats towards women tweeted by a trans activist who was in the public gallery at Holyrood yesterday & widely interviewed on media outlets. MSPs stood to applaud this person. This is what feminists like me are concerned about. #NoToSelfID

7. How I wish our late friend and colleague, Jon Tennant, could have seen the remounted 'April'. He wrote a superb thesis on this specimen. Dr Dean Lomax Rebecca Tennant Nigel Larkin

If you’re concerned about the erosion of women’s rights in the UK - the right to single sex spaces like domestic violence refuges, rape crisis centres and prisons - sign the Sex Matters petition to make the Equality Act clear. #InternationalWomensDay2023 sex-matters.org/take-action/ma…

"Open Science for me is primarily about breaking down walls, so let’s make sure that we do this and focus on building bridges too." Read this interview with Jon Tennant to learn more about #openscience & working remotely as a nomadic researcher. igdore.medium.com/in-focus-jon-t…

.Jon Tennant Memorial 9.4.2023 Open Science Open Science MOOC Rebecca Tennant Rebecca Willén 🦕 Paola Chiara Masuzzo 🦕

Rebecca Willén 🦕 Rebecca Tennant Jon Tennant My tribute here biblioskill.altervista.org/jontennant/

Humanity will win

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo: "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's

Views sought on enshrining human rights in Scots law scottishlegal.com/articles/views…

“I am struck by the alarming level of tolerance to serious human rights violations against refugees, asylum seekers and migrants that has developed across Europe,” says Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovic, in Lampedusa today. coe.int/en/web/commiss…

UN warning over ‘worrying precedent’ set by UK migration law scottishlegal.com/articles/un-wa…

🥳 Happy #HumanRightsDay! ✉️ To mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we’re joining 75+ orgs calling on political leaders to protect human rights for everyone in the UK. 🔗 See the open letter, Easy Read version & video: buff.ly/3N9MwQy

To support ‘open science’ you don’t have to agree with or practice the whole messy bulk of it. Share your papers openly; version your code; cite data sets; use open source software; blog. Small steps can make a big difference.