Conservation biologist and behavioural ecologist. Treasurer of Scientists for Labour. Postdoc at @durhamanthropology.bsky.social, DPhil from @biology.ox.ac.uk
Daniel Villar
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We still live in the world created by the Great War, and the shattering of Utopian possibilities that war wrought. Particularly the shattering of the second international
The good thing is the actual sway of public opinion in the UK is massively, *massively and overwhelmingly*, against the racist hooligans. They're a small minority here. The bad news is that various facts about our political system and media ecosystem may mean that fact doesn't matter.
Absolutely fascinating work at the intersection of sexual and social behaviour, showing female dolphins recognise and avoid sexually coercive males
The ITUC was (perhaps not unsurprisingly) more divided that posterity might assume about the founding of a distinct Irish Labour Party. There’s a reason the impetus for it came from the ITGWU, which had members across the country, and not one of the unions whose membership was primarily in Belfast
I remember my first uni Labour club meeting and some people were one-upping each other in working class credentials, only to later find out that most (though not all) had been the beneficiaries of social mobility in the last generation or two. Which is a good thing! We shouldn’t be ashamed of that
Aircon is great and as the climate warms needs to be seen as necessary as heating is for winter. Mandate it for all new buildings and have plans to retrofit old buildings, and let the pernicious European superstitious distrust of this great technology die the death it deserves
Of course I couldn’t play that game because I come from an unbelievably long line of urban professionals. Accountants, lawyers, and doctors going back bloody centuries. Closest I could get was a Scottish great-great-great grandfather who was a joiner
Complete non sequitur but an opportunity to bring up some trivia; the first every Labour Party conference in 1907 was in Belfast
Daniel Villar
Once again, makes you proud to be Scots
This man was the chair of Ofcom until literally weeks ago!
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Love this city. The racists are all stuck in a shit pub rn being yelled at by *checks notes* Fatboy slim?
