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[Shahidha Bari 📻 🎙️📚🖌 @ShahidhaBari]

Thank you to the stockpilers. I've run out of nail varnish remover. Have asked Google what's a good replacement. It says "hand sanitiser". FFS. FML. #Crisis

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He's clearly got a great career ahead of him as a magician

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Unless someone can convincingly explain why his folder suddenly changes colour, none of us will ever truly be at peace

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@DrLancaster Excellent!

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@DrLancaster What is the best email for me to contact you?
Matthew Reisz ([email protected]) 2/2

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@DrLancaster I am responsible for obituaries in Times Higher Education and thought that Robert Clarke would be a good person to commemorate in our pages. I will contact BCU but obviously need the biographical details. 1/2

[Mark Edwards @mredwards]

I've heard that coronavirus is going to cause a massive shortage of books, which will be essential when we're all stuck at home, so it's very important for everyone to rush out and start panic-buying novels. Thank you.

[Jim Al-Khalili @jimalkhalili]

Why is there not a long queue outside my office door???

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Thrilled to have got the chance to interview Thomas Piketty: https://t.co/9QlpoPWVeO

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@TribeBankruptcy @HUIWU55590311 @ecshowalter Many thanks for that suggestion. My deadline is very tight (and it's 3 am my time in Kansas!), but I may try and get a quick comment from her

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@mervatim Yes, of course. Would you be able to respond early tomorrow if not today?

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@mervatim I am working on a News piece about academic responses to the announcement of the Netflix series, The Chair, so I've emailed you at your Oxford address

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@ProfHolloway I am a London-based journalist working on a piece about academic responses to the announcement of the new Netflix series, The Chair, and so have sent an email to your Duke address

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@ajwyman I am a staff journalist at Times Higher Education in London working on a piece about the response of academics to the announcement of your new show. I have emailed via your Harvard address (assuming that is still active)

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@ecshowalter I'm writing a short news piece about academic responses to news of this new show, so I'll send you an email separately. (I think you may have known my late father and stepmother.)

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Happy birthday!

[rebekah white @rebek_white]

a "highly intelligent and comprehensively illustrated blockbuster of a book [...] packed with celebrations of what make beautiful, successful, agreeable environments that people can actually enjoy" @TimesHigherArts on Nir Buras' THE ART OF CLASSIC PLANNING https://t.co/dlPhY7VxSh

[Danny Dorling News @dannydorling]

@MunroeL @MrGeographer @EnserMark :-) Thirty years ago you were well over ten times more likely to go to university (if that was your aim) from an elite private school in Oxford than from the average Oxford state school. Today those differences have reduced to much less than two times. All in a single generation.

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

Today Priti Patel said "there's no such thing as dabbling in drugs, these are serious offences".

Last summer, 7 out of 11 Tory leadership hopefuls, including Boris Johnson, admitted they dabbled in drugs.

Why is it one rule for Cabinet members and another for my constituents?

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@zoelaughlin I have just written to you about reviewing in Times Higher Education and hope to hear back soon