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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 5h

What a week! Packed out theatres, fantastic audiences, and finishing the week catching up with my lovely friend Dana Goodburn-Brown. I’ve visited Bradford, Sheffield, Newcastle, Hull, Northampton this week. On to Nottingham, Leicester, Colchester and Truro next week!

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 5h

That would be fun!

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Understanding Humanism @humanismedu.bsky.social · 1d

A little treat for the weekend! Our wonderful animation with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on the humanist approach to making the most of the one life we have. understandinghumanism.org.uk/res_films/on...

One Life, Live It Well: watch our new animation narrated by Alice Roberts

'Life is like a piece of string. It has a beginning and an end. We don't get much say about that. But we can make choices about the bit in between. We have the freedom to shape our own lives.'

understandinghumanism.org.uk

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

And I think Cicero might have been rolling in his grave (or urn) at the particularly asinine non-assonant 3-word-salad of “hands face space”! A gem from 5 years ago.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

A particularly fabulous episode of my current favourite podcast here - as @aiannucci.bsky.social and @nataliehaynes.bsky.social discuss bad rhetoric, the ghost of Goebbels, the persistence of Cicero and chocolate for Britian. Listen, listen, listen!
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Strong Message Here

Comedy Podcast · Updated weekly · Armando Iannucci hosts the programme that gives you a cast-iron guarantee to be laser-focused on decoding the baffling world of political language. Each week he'll be...

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All On The Board @allontheboard.bsky.social · 1d

Today is World Mental Health Day. It’s a day that should be every day of the year. You are worthwhile, and you deserve to be here.

#WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD25 #MentalHealth

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Nick Ray @nicklifeafloat.bsky.social · 1d

10th October and it’s World Mental Health Day. Keep talking. Keep listening. Keep being kind (to yourself and others). We are Nature and I’ve found this is where I heal best. Love to you all.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 1d

And even when I am struggling, something incredible still happens. What appears on the page is often not what I expected, characters come alive in ways I didn't anticipate, scenes play out differently than I had planned, and it all becomes something both from me and beyond me.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

I write because I love writing. I love writing even when I'm struggling with a writing problem that is killing me. Finding a way through that problem is both intensely rewarding and also helps me become a better writer. There is no reason for me to ever outsource that.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 2d

The humanist meaning of life with A C Grayling 🔍

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 2d

Reform councillor Francesca O’Brien chaired a meeting at which a Welsh far-right hate group spread ‘untrue’ claims about religious education, a Swansea primary school has claimed. The meeting centred on entirely unsubstantiated allegations that pupils had been forced to recite Islamic prayers.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Please let this peace plan work. At last there is hope.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Almost 55,000 preschool children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates

Study shows clear link between Israeli aid restrictions and malnutrition among children aged between six months and five years

www.theguardian.com

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Under the stage in the Tyne theatre, hunting demons…

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Behind the scenes at Sheffield Octagon! Newcastle Tyne Theatre last night - fabulous historic theatre and AMAZING crowd! Onwards to Hull today… #DominationTour

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Jacob Grier @jacobgrier.bsky.social · 2d

Reading this post from a recently opened coffeeshop enclosed by surprisingly transparent plywood.

View from a coffeeshop with wall-length windows

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Heartbreaking.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 3d

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! We have made a beautiful series on the Roman Empire - by Train - for your delectation!

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 3d

@richardosman1.bsky.social Hey! I’m on tour too!

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Grievous Angel @grievousangel.net · 3d

Went to see @profaliceroberts.bsky.social last night. Very entertaining and I learned a lot. Recommended.

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 5d

I’m back on tour with my new book DOMINATION this week - travelling to Bradford, Sheffield, Newcastle, Hull & Northampton. Expect plenty of monasteries, basilicas, hypocausts as I explore the end of the western Roman Empire and why it’s still relevant today!

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for coming!

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 3d

Bit niche I think, but apparently this parking spot is reserved for female rock climbers.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 3d

Oh congratulations! On parenthood - and getting out!

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Jeremy @jeremycarter42.bsky.social · 3d

This was great, do go and see it if you have the chance. Fascinating parts woven together into a compelling narrative that's surprisingly relevant 1500 years later.

Plus a photo of a dig dog. What more do you need?

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 5d

I’m back on tour with my new book DOMINATION this week - travelling to Bradford, Sheffield, Newcastle, Hull & Northampton. Expect plenty of monasteries, basilicas, hypocausts as I explore the end of the western Roman Empire and why it’s still relevant today!

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Jeremy! Glad you enjoyed it.

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