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Dr Darcey Gillie

@dfgillie.bsky.social

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Careers consultant. Still loves mountains, knitting, bumblebees, agus Gàidhlig cuideachd. #Archbiscuit of #TheBiscuitAppreciationSociety Inbhir Nis. #BeeKind

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · Nov 8

Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 5h

Yikes! That must have been a frustrating discovery 🫤

Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10h

We've always lived in draughty Victorian houses and deliberately kept them draughty or made them more so. This house had a bad damp problem in 2 rooms, after chipping off the concrete coating the drystone foundation and opening things up a bit, after 3 years everything dried out.

Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 21h

We saw a shrew this evening.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 22h

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 22h

We had to phone an operator in the state capital 3 hours away to be connected to the rest of the world until I was in high school. In the 1980s.

Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 22h

Well played 👏🏽

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Jennie Morgan @drmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Violas, maybe the sweetest little cold weather cheer around

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations from gingko of happiness (I hope).

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 1d

Ooo...I think Thursday will be sauerkraut day here. Thank you for the inspiration!

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 1d

Completely different genre, but I love re-reading A Prayer for Owen Meany in tune with the seasons. Particularly the Christmas Nativity episode which is profound but also deeply deeply funny in places.

Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 1d

That reminds of all the State Fair Belgian waffles of my youth 😋

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no. What an awful thing to have in common for us. I am so sorry. Her poor husband- just devastating.

Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 1d

It's worse than you might imagine. No one was charged as they couldn't work out who was driving. And by couldn't work out, I mean one of tfe young men was a nephew of a local police chief. I read the news clippings recently, & my inner 14 yo felt-vicerally felt-let down by the adults in my life.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 1d

Not the point of this tweet, but the Allan Ramsay in Carlops was one of the best pubs ever anywhere, and I will forever mourn its loss.

Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 1d

Tender portrait of 1758 of his wife Margaret Lindsay of Evelick (they had eloped in 1752) by eminent Scottish artist Allan Ramsay, Principal Painter in Ordinary to George III, friend of Samuel Johnson, born #OTD 1713; painted Bonnie Prince Charlie, Hume, Rousseau.
National Galleries of Scotland

Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 1d

The 5 College Consortium is a great example of collaboration in a marketised (🫤) HE sector www.fivecolleges.edu (I attended 4 out of the 5)

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 1d

I get a little obsessive about these things 🤣🫣

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood?

FarmAid
My cousin being killed by a drunk driver when we were 14
Voyager 1 and 2
Mount St Helens eruption
The first Challenger launch

Elisabeth (J) Hobbes @elisabethhobbes.co.uk · 2d

What five events defined your childhood?
Neighbours being shown on BBC- even a weird kid like me could join in class talk

Live Aid

Freddie’s death & tribute concert

Watching When the Wind Blows in RE. Sheer terror for weeks.

Fall of Berlin Wall - slight relief from
thought of above.

TerrorLeopard🎃 @terryleopard.bsky.social · 2d

What five events defined your childhood?

-Getting a BMX with Yellow tyres.

-The Blackadder 4 finale

-Going downstairs at night and seeing my older brother doing odd things with his girlfriend in the living room.

-Seeing an American Werewolf in London.

-Getting our first internet connection.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 1d

I look at the dodgy websites so you don't have to...

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 2d

Can someone help out The Guardians picture editor? @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years

Number of endangered butterfly species also surging amid habitat destruction and global heating, finds study

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 2d

The classic of the genre.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 3d

There are four house martins feeding above my head. They’re six inches long and are about to travel 6,000 miles. That’s about 63 million times their body length. The lunatics.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 3d

I pawsed to admire them.

Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 3d

You are!

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