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Stephanie Harris

@mllesharris

Lawyering, contracting, research funding. Formerly of universities, now Senior Contracts Manager NIHR. Photos of my cats and garden.

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Anyone else tired of being forced to find out when they did not fuck around?

09.03.2026 03:39 πŸ‘ 4193 πŸ” 610 πŸ’¬ 142 πŸ“Œ 35

Remembering how Rumsfeld was mocked for the known unknowns speech and actually that was pretty thought through.

09.03.2026 12:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is outrageous slander on Sir Percy Blakeney

08.03.2026 10:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ugh. Also Shakira law is awesome.

06.03.2026 08:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

On the work chat someone has said that their word of the week is 100 and I’m fighting the urge to be pedantic.

06.03.2026 08:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
November
@postoctobrist
FRANCE: we're fancy
WORLD: ok
FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich is our national lunch
WORLD:
FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich with an egg is its wife
1:27 PM Β· Feb 18, 2017

November @postoctobrist FRANCE: we're fancy WORLD: ok FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich is our national lunch WORLD: FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich with an egg is its wife 1:27 PM Β· Feb 18, 2017

had occasion to remember this one

01.03.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 681 πŸ” 129 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 11

My Apple Music just played a song it says I last played on 1 March 2013. Damn I listened to that song obsessively back in the day.

02.03.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fare dodgers targeted as train ticket refund rules are tightened In a bid to clamp down on ticket fraud that costs the railways millions each year, the government has quietly changed the rules on claiming refunds for unused train tickets.

DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE!
On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules.
Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel.
If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on Β£100+ tickets.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/far...

02.03.2026 09:12 πŸ‘ 347 πŸ” 281 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 63
Text of poem - Pact.  This is my child; that is yours. Let peace be between them when they grow up. They are far off now; let it not be through war they are brought near. Their languages are different. Let them both learn it is peace in the hand is the translation of peace in the mind.

Text of poem - Pact. This is my child; that is yours. Let peace be between them when they grow up. They are far off now; let it not be through war they are brought near. Their languages are different. Let them both learn it is peace in the hand is the translation of peace in the mind.

Pact - RS Thomas

Dydd GΕ΅yl Dewi hapus...

01.03.2026 10:17 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

Good grief Barclaycard, who decided that I want to see an analysis of categories of spending instead of a simple transaction list. Really great way to make it more difficult to keep track.

01.03.2026 10:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

01.03.2026 05:20 πŸ‘ 2641 πŸ” 1161 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 72

My dad in Montreal currently has a whole hour more daylight than me. I think March is the month I overtake him.

01.03.2026 09:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not only that but those meetings were the most likely to be cancelled at the last minute.

27.02.2026 08:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My robot vacuum keeps leaving the room and coming back a few minutes later like it can’t let go of an argument.

26.02.2026 12:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Butter yellow crocuses are blooming in the foreground while in the background a bunch of daffodils have all opened in the sunshine. A cat can just be seen inspecting the daffodils.

Butter yellow crocuses are blooming in the foreground while in the background a bunch of daffodils have all opened in the sunshine. A cat can just be seen inspecting the daffodils.

The sun came out and the flowers are happy. As is the #ProofOfCat

25.02.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We’ve just passed three years of ownership and I still skip at the thought of no longer dealing with landlords, letting agents, and the annual eviction notice.

25.02.2026 10:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Super excited about your UK house though.

25.02.2026 10:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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It won't come as a surprise to most in UK higher ed that redundancies at research-intensive universities have gone up

But it's stark to see that they practically *doubled* between 2023 and 2025

(figures are from FOI responses from 24 members of either the Russell Group and ResearchPlus)

...

25.02.2026 08:51 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
Official Team GB Paralympic photo, with the the crests and everything, and a professional headshot, but it's for "Pickle, A Very Good Girl", who is a black labrador, with a hi-viz harness and a red collar.

Official Team GB Paralympic photo, with the the crests and everything, and a professional headshot, but it's for "Pickle, A Very Good Girl", who is a black labrador, with a hi-viz harness and a red collar.

Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos

24.02.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 2711 πŸ” 877 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 74

You be the judge is… interesting… given that so many judges rule against them.

23.02.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

On the one hand, people keep posting that vile tweet from the White House and it makes me mad each time I see it. On the other hand it’s always to say how vile it is so I take solidarity from that.

22.02.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Shame Canada couldn't win gold at hockey, but on the bright side, they've probably saved their nation from the imposition of 1000% punative tariffs on goods into the USA

22.02.2026 17:48 πŸ‘ 496 πŸ” 64 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 4

Dammit team Canada.

22.02.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Time to revisit Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses saga.

22.02.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For those that missed the discourse back then, this was it:

21.02.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3
a cat in a tie sits outside of a factory. the cat says "Hope no one is weird to me." The factory is labeled "Being Weird Factory" and has the bluesky logo on it

a cat in a tie sits outside of a factory. the cat says "Hope no one is weird to me." The factory is labeled "Being Weird Factory" and has the bluesky logo on it

20.02.2026 22:03 πŸ‘ 11474 πŸ” 1938 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 47

Variety is the spice of life!

21.02.2026 10:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting thread about yesterday’s tariffs judgment. Is Wessex the new Magna Carta?

21.02.2026 07:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So, the government that’s busy building new concentration camps across the US is also throwing research ethics processes out the window.

21.02.2026 06:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No paywall.
More accurate headline.

20.02.2026 06:32 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1