Lizzie Ellen

Going insane. Laughing at the frozen rain. Science comms in HE. All my own views.

[Lizzie Ellen @LjaEllen]

Time to leave the cesspit that is #X ?

[Lizzie Ellen @LjaEllen]

Excited to be at the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering to discuss all things #QuantumTechnologies - and how academia and industry can collaborate on the #QuantumRevolution

[UNIFIL @UNIFIL_]

Despite putting on protective masks, fifteen peacekeepers suffered effects, including skin irritation and gastrointestinal reactions, after the smoke entered the camp. The peacekeepers are receiving treatment.

[Lizzie Ellen @LjaEllen]

Loving the autumnal colours @UniofNottingham for todays @RussellGroup Comms Conference!

[Lizzie Ellen @LjaEllen]

If you can’t even rely on #chatbots to accurately distinguish between an adverb and an adjective, what are they good for? #googlegemini #ai #llms #GenerativeAI

[Lizzie Ellen @LjaEllen]

#BlockElonMusk this man is insane! How has the world got to throw? Time to leave this cesspit of horro?

[Lizzie Ellen @LjaEllen]

@Wayfair @WayfairUK Thank you @WayfairUK please help asap this is ridiculous

[Lizzie Ellen @LjaEllen]

@Wayfair I’m still waiting for the remainder of my delivery made 3 weeks ago. I’ve now got in touch 3 times on your chat function because you don’t provide an email - you keep telling me the problem is DHL, yet they say it’s you. What am I supposed to do?!

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I commend #Ireland for its steadfast commitment to international law. May this serve as an leading example for other European countries that have regrettably drifted from these principles.

[Lizzie Ellen @LjaEllen]

@limebike please instruct your users to not leave your bikes in real bike stands! Stamford Brook station this morning. #outwithlimebikes #curseofthehighstreet

[Lizzie Ellen @LjaEllen]

@aviancateguia Gracias, lo espero

[Lizzie Ellen @LjaEllen]

@avianca primero me had perdido por siempre mi maleta preciosa durante mi luna de miel, segundo no me confirma nada sobre el estado de perdida entonces no puedo reclamar con mi cobertura, tercero no me da nada de compensación.

[Dr Christine Cheng 鄭穎茵 @cheng_christine]

Important to mention that it was de Villepin who stood up to the US at the UN Security Council to oppose the Iraq invasion in 2003.

So much legitimacy and credibility lost by the West in that moment. And we’re still paying the price of that mistake today.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Truly extraordinarily powerful interview of Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, on Gaza.

I can't stress enough how rare it is to hear a former French PM speak like this.

He says France "no longer has a voice on the international scene", because (among other things) of its "double-standards" and lack of action with regards to Gaza.

He calls France's internal silencing of what's happening in Gaza a "real scandal in terms of democracy", making France live in "absurdity" and resulting in it "fading away". He says that we (France and the West in general) would have many levers to stop the war - in terms of armament or economic sanctions - "but we refuse to use these levers with arguments which are absolutely unreal culturally or intellectually speaking. Saying 'we need to let Israel fight its war to the end': but what end? What is the end?".

As a consequence he says that France and the West will "foot the bill" for what's happening in terms of loss of credibility and legitimacy.

On Gaza specifically he calls it "undoubtedly the biggest historical scandal since... I don't even dare to find a reference", calling it a war "not like the others since it is civilian populations that die". He also rebukes the journalist for using the usual term "according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health" with regards to the number of death: "There's not only the Ministry of Health from Hamas which says that there are 40,000 dead. And there are probably many more, MANY more! So from this basis let's not give the feeling that it would be a number like that, unreliable. No!"

Probably the most powerful quote of the interview, literally gave me shivers: "In Gaza bodies are torn into pieces, Hearts are in pieces! Souls are in pieces! Heads are in pieces!" ("À Gaza les corps sont en morceaux! Les coeurs sont en morceaux! Les âmes sont en morceaux! Les têtes sont en morceaux!")

He says that ""Israel has no political objective and when you have no political objective the only thing you can do is war... There is a security objective, there is an identity objective, there is a messianic madness and that explains the catastrophe that we're witnessing."

[Lizzie Ellen @LjaEllen]

@aviancateguia He enviado una reclamación con esta pagina en agosto - no he recibido nada respuesta estoy al límite ya con el servicio que me dan

[Lizzie Ellen @LjaEllen]

@aviancateguia Hace 7 semanas desde mi llegada!!!! Tengo un número de caso etc

[Lizzie Ellen @LjaEllen]

@avianca Isn’t it enough that you’ve lost so many precious and irreplaceable things? And then you treat me with such contempt? I’m beyond words, but you are literally the worst airline I have ever travelled with.

[Lizzie Ellen @LjaEllen]

@avianca first you lose my baggage forever on my honeymoon, then you completely ignore me, you don’t even fully it’s lost so I can’t claim insurance, then you don’t send me any information about reimbursement. I am sick and tired of this treatment.