Roma sorge dalla violenza.

'Personalised care' in the UK has thrived under conditions of austerity. It is not churlish to ask how and why that is possible.

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There's no official confirmation, but this could be a fabulous story. Dinamo Bucharest sources claim Edgar Ie (ex. Barcelona, Lille, Trabzonspor, Basaksehir, Feyenoord) sent his twin brother Edelino to play for the Romanian club. There is no official reaction as of now.

🚨 Assetising twin data is political. The twin studies revival of the 1980s and 1990s (Plomin set up TEDS in 1994) now paying dividends in 2020s; highly structured longitudinal datasets, managed by untransparent and undemocratic data sharing practices. cf. Tim Spector & ZOE

It was a privilege to speak with Doug Fabrizio - big thanks to everyone KUER's RadioWest KUER 90.1 for hosting this conversation about TWINKIND Princeton University Press Thames & Hudson radiowest.kuer.org/show/radiowest…

But who are the researchers? OFH cannot say because they do not know. 1.5mn people have signed up to be invited into trials and studies with biotech and pharma. What does informed consent look like for that? It looks like a giant tbc.

.William Viney examines the projectification of academic research and argues for critical responses to the normalisation of casualised work cultures in medical humanities funding schemes thepolyphony.org/2024/06/18/med…

Hanif Kureishi on twins, biography and the geminate self

After 11 fixed-term contracts in UK HE USS recommends that I start "planning for retirement". What else should I do, I wonder; buy a yacht? Enter the church? Swallow the red pill?

via Antonio Gramsci in Rome meets a road once called viale dei Martiri Fascisti. This viale was renamed, & now remembers Bruno Buozzi, murdered by the SS. Nearby, graffiti declare dead ultras 'presente' Dr Amy King asks how Italian fascism remains present: historytoday.com/archive/behind…

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It's not a "Roman salute" it's just an act of remembrance, says large group of neo-fascists. rainews.it/articoli/2025/…