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Fi Daisy G @fidaisyg.bsky.social · 5h

Went looking for railway phrases in folk songs and found this gem of a project that I missed earlier in the year @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social #Railway200 canvas-story.bbcrewind.co.uk/radio-2-21st...

Radio 2's 21st Century Folk 2025

21st Century Folk returns to BBC Radio 2 with songs inspired by train stories to celebrate 200 years of train travel around the UK.

canvas-story.bbcrewind.co.uk

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Fi Daisy G @fidaisyg.bsky.social · 5h

I'm going with geology. Not enough coal or too much chalk?

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 17h

Hattie T. Scott Peterson. In 1946 1st African-American woman to earn bachelor's degree in civil engineering. 1947 Survey & cartographic #engineer for US Geological Survey. 1954 1st woman engineer to join local US Army Corps of Engineers. #WomenInSTEM b. #OTD 11 Oct 1913 bit.ly/3hKbQLJ

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.

We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.

Archaeologists 🥺
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Sign Up

Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.

www.skypeascientist.com

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 3d

further thoughts on this: the idea of ‘prompt engineering’ as a ‘skill’ that requires a mix of technical and linguistic ‘skills’ has been around for a while and doesn’t seem to disappear. what i’m interested in is not whether it’s a well-defined skill (probably not) or ‘valuable’ (probably not) but

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 3d

okay, pals, i have heard one too many prompt engineering is a real and valuable skill’, this is gonna be a research project now

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

Labour's proposed immigration changes lead to families ripped apart, more people becoming undocumented, and more deportations.

Different framing, but inevitably similar outcomes to Reform/Tory "mass deportations". Xenophobia as policy is bad no matter party making it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Care worker says visa rule changes are 'tearing' families apart

The government is proposing a 10-year wait for migrant workers who want to apply for settled status.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Prof Penny Endersby @pennyend.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my goodness! We’ve been discussing using gracehopper chips in our next supercomputer but I didn’t know! Respect!

Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 1d

Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming who was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages.

#COBOL
#FLOW-MATIC
#WomeninSTEM
#WyrdWomen

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to describe the size and scope of Everything Electric event, just accept that it’s quite big.
Plus, this afternoon there is the first live test of the ZapHeap machines
#madness
#farnborough

A picture of a very large hall in which we hold the everything electric show

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Fi Daisy G @fidaisyg.bsky.social · 1d

Not forgetting that 50 years is the standard design life for concrete car parks www.concretecentre.com/Structural-d...

Car parks

Concrete has many benefits which can be utilised for a car park, including edge protection, durability...

www.concretecentre.com

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 1d

I know we are a couple of weeks into term, but I went back to @jimdickinson.bsky.social ‘s recent wonkhe.com/blogs/for-st... because I think its message is even more important now our students are here. We have to keep asking what is being normalised, where we need to be calling attention.

That matters because normalisation is the enemy of change. If students "learn to love their limitations," policymakers have little incentive to do better. The lesson has always been that sometimes the most powerful intervention isn't a tidy solution or a polished set of recommendations, but the act of refusing to let the intolerable become invisible.

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 1d

VACANCY: KTP Associate – Peat Management and Restoration Project Officer based at @uhiinverness.bsky.social

(Desirable: Experience of 4 x 4 driving off-road)

www.nwh.uhi.ac.uk/en/staff/vac...

Staff - Vacancies - KTP Associate - Peat Management and Restoration Project Officer

www.nwh.uhi.ac.uk

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 2d

NEW on Wonkhe: What looks like efficiency in UK higher education often masks systemic injustice. Jim Dickinson explores how policies around reassessment quietly entrench inequality buff.ly/89mzFbe

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 3d

Mental ill health is frequently caused or exacerbated by entrenched workplace cultures of overwork and bullying.

Until all UK workplaces are forced to take their statutory workplace mental health & safety duties seriously, people with mental ill health will be unable to return to or remain in work.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

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John Lechner @johnlechner.bsky.social · 3d

Here's a little cartoon for #WorldOctopusDay 🐙

Ink and watercolor cartoon showing an octopus peeking out of a coconut shell underwater. The octopus says: "I've been working on a novel, but I'm afraid to show anyone. Maybe I'll put one page out there." A fish swims up to look at the page and says, "That stinks!" The octopus disappears inside the shell and says, "Everyone's a critic."

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 5d

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"

We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Highlights
For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement.
Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design.
Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically.
Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street.
There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.

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German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social · 4d

8 October 1985: stamps issued in the GDR depicting bridges in East Berlin

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 4d

"Rebuilding in a way that is just & inclusive will be a slow process that starts with sharing our memories & perceptions of the city & the way we lived within it ... We have to learn to see the city in the ways that others see it, drawing maps and inviting others to draw with us ..." #deepmapping

Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 4d

"The City and the City and the City"
by Ayham Dalal

A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, illuminates the complexity of rebuilding after war.

Read more: placesjournal.org/article/mapping-homs-syria-rebuilding-after-war/

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 4d

With yet another university hosted event closed to 'non academics' (aka those not employed by a university)* I'm just going to leave this piece by @drhelenkara.bsky.social and myself here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

* yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis

Institutional affiliation should not be a requirement for doing research - Impact of Social Sciences

Universities espouse a universalist approach to creating research-based knowledge. Helen Kara & Petra Boynton argue, from the outside these claims are hollow.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 5d

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 5d

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem

Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 5d

See how teeny tiny the estimated HYPED recarbonation of concrete would be in 2050. (Lower right corner.)
This is used as THE argument vs bio based "temporary" storage to keep the status quo biz alive.
From:
Decarbonizing the cement and concrete industry, Griffiths et al.
doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

$Cement/concrete production, ccus, end-use differentiated for contribution to net zero goals. Durable CO2 sinks are only a very small fraction compared to the ongoing marketing of these products$

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5d

The govt should be investing in NHS staff, not putting doctors at the start of their careers on the scrap heap. These newly qualified doctors have run up massive debts to get to that point, & the govt is then saying, sorry, no jobs for you.

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Sophie Vénétitay @svenetitay.bsky.social · 5d

Les politiques d'E.Macron ont conduit à ce désastre. La question n’est plus de savoir dans combien de temps l’École s’en relèvera mais si elle pourra s’en relever. Ce n'est pas juste un enjeu éducatif, c'est aussi un enjeu démocratique. Quelle cohésion sociale avec une École dans cet état ? 1/3

Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 5d

L’ampleur du mal-être des enseignants français confirmé par une enquête internationale

L’enquête Talis, menée par l’OCDE sur un échantillon de 280 000 enseignants et publiée mardi, est la plus grande étude consacrée à la profession. Les résultats de l’édition 2024 de ce bilan quinquennal témoignent des difficultés des professeurs français, dont le niveau de satisfaction quant à leurs conditions d’exercice a enregistré la plus forte baisse.

www.lemonde.fr

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