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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 19h

I was wondering if Jet got turned into a vampire during the orphanage attack, as I think we see him being attacked in the flashback.

I assume Feratu was the one who organised the orphanage attack - might be why he was running the orphanage...?

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 21h

Today's classic TV viewing is Doctor Who - Ambassadors of Death.

Killing lots of UNIT extras off...

Penultimate story in the Season 7 blu ray box set.

With @signorfurioso.bsky.social

Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) & Liz Shaw (Caroline John) looking at the TARDIS console, which is in a room outside the TARDIS. Episode 1 of Ambassadors of Death.

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 😊 Hope you enjoy.

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 1d

And there's a Lulu link for a print version for those outside the UK

#luchalibre #novella #books

www.lulu.com/shop/stuart-...

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 1d

Do you like Lucha Libre films, like the Santo movies? Then you will very much enjoy these Señor 105 adventures!

Very excited for my novella Green Eyed and Grim to now be in print, in a collection alongside @signorfurioso.bsky.social & @stuartdouglas.com

obversebooks.co.uk/product/the-...

Book cover. Title: The Periodic Adventures of Senor 105. Faded background image of buildings and a lucha libre mask. Foreground image of a 1970s looking scientific gadget with a screen saying: Senor 105 and the Secret Santa, Green Eyed and Grim, The Five Faces of Fear.

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 1d

My second attempt at applying for a Blue Badge (first closed due to lack of evidence). Let's hope they at least consider it this time!

All the questions ask: Are you able to... then they suddenly change to "Are you unable to climb stairs?", which is very confusing!

#mecfs #asthma #disability

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 2d

I really enjoyed the first episode. Especially the way the characters are channelling different personas in different situations.

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 3d

My sister has appointed herself my Maid of Honour 🤣 (we're not really doing bridesmaids etc.) She's been over this afternoon for a wedding planning/organising brainstorm.

I really need to sort out some sort of timeline for getting stuff done by! Have a longer to-do list now...

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 3d

It's one of those weeks where you can tell it's Autumn Term - with on-campus teaching, online teaching, recording video tutorials.

Less 1to1 appointments, but they'll hit after the new PGRs have been to the training sessions...

#literaturesearching #academiclibraries #researchsupport 📚

Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 4d

I just mostly wondered who eats enough salad to need an electronic salad spinner, but that might just reflect the lack of salad in my life 🤣

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 5d

I need to catch-up on the last episode but similar thoughts on the trajectory of the series.

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 6d

I can't be at the launch, but I do have a story in the book! 💜

#folkhorror #books #worldfantasy #worldfantasycon #shortstories

The Slab Press @theslabpress.bsky.social · 7d

📖🚀🦡🦴🦴🍂 - Book rocket badger bones leaves... What could it mean?

What if I said it's at World Fantasycon on Friday at noon in the Balmoral panel room?
Why, it is only the launch of Hiding Under the Leaves!
Quite a few of the authors will be there. Readings, books, drinkies, nibbles. Come! 🍷

Book cover of Hiding Under the Leaves. Black Background, red leaves, and a white badger skeleton.
Reads: Hiding Under the Leaves, edited by Donna Scott, with stories by Tim Major, Emma Coleman, LJ McMenemy, Liam Hogan, Gary Couzens, Frazer Lee, Emma Levin and many more...

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 7d

Spoke slightly too soon, as I did get delayed chills/fever. Paracetamol for the win.

A few people I've spoken to have had a bit more of an immune response than normal to the vaccine strain this year.

Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 11d

Flu jab achieved.

Don't usually get much in the way of side-effects, but expect to be even more tired than usual & have a sore arm later.

#chronicillness

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 7d

Been making a lot of monochrome cards lately, like this one.

This uses Aall & Create stamps designed by Bipasha Bk

A card with a black & white image of a rabbit in a bow tie surrounded by flowers. Framed on a blue card with a background of b&w flowers.

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 9d

Is that one of your five a day up North?

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 9d

I think someone ticked an incorrect category for the fresh fruit & veg items on the Iceland website... One of these is not like the others 🤣

Screen shot of the Iceland website category for fruit and veg. Showing a packet of tomatoes and a packet of Beef Dripping Yorkshire Puddings!

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 10d

Spent half the morning reminding myself how to use video tutorial recording software, recapping on the new Ebscohost literature database interface & recording a tutorial.

Had to scrap the finished recording as it had a high pitched whine in the background.

Try again tomorrow 📚

#academiclibraries

elmo from sesame street standing in front of a wall

Alt: elmo from sesame street standing in front of a wall shrugging their shoulders

media.tenor.com

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Melinda Davies @melindadavies.bsky.social · 11d

Non-USA #medlibs might find this useful www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 11d

Flu jab achieved.

Don't usually get much in the way of side-effects, but expect to be even more tired than usual & have a sore arm later.

#chronicillness

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Ally Boo-art 👻 @allystewart.bsky.social · 12d

September 30 // October 1

Elsa Lanchester as the Bride of Frankenstein

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 13d

Haven't started latest Only Murders yet. Got a couple of stories left to watch of S7 DW box set & three eps of Blake's 7 S1 box set.

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 13d

Current TV watching with @signorfurioso.bsky.social

Black Doves, Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue, Upload, Gen V, Dark Winds, Resident Alien, Slow Horses, Taskmaster

Recently finished Squid Game, Alien Earth, ST Strange New Worlds, Wednesday

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 13d

Watching Pointless from a few days back. Q: Plant virus that causes a mottled effect?

Didn't remember it was mosaic, despite having sequenced Rice Necrosis Mosaic Virus for my UG dissertation. D'oh! 🤣

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A bymovirus PCR primer and partial nucleotide sequence provides further evidence for the recognition of rice necrosis mosaic virus as a bymovirus - European Journal of Plant Pathology

Rice necrosis mosaic virus (RNMV) has physico-chemical and biological properties typical of the Bymovirus genus. However, to date no sequence data has been reported for RNMV. In this paper we report the use of a PCR primer, designed from an area of high homology between bymoviruses and related macluraviruses within the NIb gene, which generated a 1.4kb fragment from the 3' terminal region of RNA 1 of RNMV. The sequence data generated from this region confirmed the classification of RNMV as a member of the Bymovirus genus.

link.springer.com

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Obverse Books @obversebooks.co.uk · 13d

Now available as part of a mega 9 book collected ebook bundle for less than £15 the lot!

obversebooks.co.uk/product/the-...

The Collected Periodic Adventures of Senor 105 – Obverse Books

obversebooks.co.uk

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 14d

Yes, thanks.

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