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RSS feed from UN
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/02/13/rss-feed-from-un/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2012 Get the RSS feed from the U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library http://un-library.tumblr.
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Crowd Behaviour Network
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/26/crowd-behaviour-network/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2012 http://www.crowdbehaviournetwork.org/ Recently launched international forum for academic research on crowd behaviour, management and safety.
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Bloomberg: Twitter’s IPO
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/15/bloomberg-twitters-ipo/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 15, 2013 Twitter Inc. filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Sept. 12. Use Bloomberg’s functions to analyze IPOs in the communications sector.
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Twitter and government bodies
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/19/twitter-and-government-bodies/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2014 CIA launch Twitter account. Their first post was ‘we can neither confirm or deny that this is our first tweet.
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Is the electoral system broken?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/08/is-the-electoral-system-broken/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2015 According to the Electoral Reform Society the UK electoral system is in crisis as the first-past-the-post system does not reflect votes cast.
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LGBT Hate crime under-reported
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/lgbt-hate-crime-under-reported/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 88% of UK LGBT people have experience emotional or physical hate crime and only 14% have felt able to report the most recent crimes to the police.
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Thousands of women are criminalised needlessly
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/07/03/thousands-of-women-are-criminalised-needlessly/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2015 According to the latest Report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System large numbers of women are being sent to prison for short term sentences which are...
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Business and Management MOOCs
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/business-and-management-moocs/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016 For a subject-based list take a look at the FT tracker for business and management In the UK a major service with content from the British Library and other major universities is...
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International Political Science Association launch a MOOC
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/international-political-science-association-launch-a-mooc/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016 Coming soon a range of free politics and International relations courses from this specialist professional society The blog describes how they aim to form a core introductory curriculum.
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Online harassment: US
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/12/metoo-and-gender-equality-france-and-us/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 12, 2018 A recent Pew report on the American population has also found that the genders and different sectors of the population have different conceptions of what constitutes online harassment.