Claire Boardman
@claireboardman.bsky.social
People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
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Yes, we bring this one out every 14 February. But how many historic Valentine's Day murders do you think there were in Kent! www.kent-maps.online//16c/16c-ard...
February 14, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Yes, we bring this one out every 14 February. But how many historic Valentine's Day murders do you think there were in Kent! www.kent-maps.online//16c/16c-ard...
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Beautiful day yesterday to go up Meall Mor, beside the NTS visitor centre in Glencoe, to inspect this millstone rough out up at 400m OD in Coire nan Cuilc. Thanks to @eddiecstewart.bsky.social for coming along.
February 13, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Beautiful day yesterday to go up Meall Mor, beside the NTS visitor centre in Glencoe, to inspect this millstone rough out up at 400m OD in Coire nan Cuilc. Thanks to @eddiecstewart.bsky.social for coming along.
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Attended, yesterday, the commemoration ceremony for the Glencoe Massacre which took place on 13th February 1692. Short walk from the bridge over the River Coe up to the monument at Carnock. In bright sunshine and blue sky, with snow on the mountain tops.
February 14, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Attended, yesterday, the commemoration ceremony for the Glencoe Massacre which took place on 13th February 1692. Short walk from the bridge over the River Coe up to the monument at Carnock. In bright sunshine and blue sky, with snow on the mountain tops.
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Such a wonderful thread
1804. Oceans are now Battlefields.
In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French.
It should be a massacre.
Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵
In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French.
It should be a massacre.
Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵
February 14, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Such a wonderful thread
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Looking forward to everyone's presentations and to chairing the panel on Communication and Information next weekend ☺️
Along the way, as well as lots of space for open-format discussion on key problems in medievalist game dev, we'll be hearing from @jubalbarca.bsky.social, @jfg.land, @gonzohistory.bsky.social, @robehoughton.bsky.social, and @vinicius-marino.bsky.social among other excellent speakers :)
February 14, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Looking forward to everyone's presentations and to chairing the panel on Communication and Information next weekend ☺️
If so, then this tells me much more about late 20thC/21stC job design - as dehumanising/mechanising - than it does the technology. I can see a resurgence of work study assessments and organisational design research in the near future.
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks.
Microsoft AI CEO predicts 'most, if not all' white-collar tasks will be automated by AI within 18 months
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks.
www.businessinsider.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:59 AM
If so, then this tells me much more about late 20thC/21stC job design - as dehumanising/mechanising - than it does the technology. I can see a resurgence of work study assessments and organisational design research in the near future.
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can you please make Word a bit more usable, Mustafa
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks.
Microsoft AI CEO predicts 'most, if not all' white-collar tasks will be automated by AI within 18 months
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks.
www.businessinsider.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:15 PM
can you please make Word a bit more usable, Mustafa
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We have a unique @niscifest.bsky.social event coming up on Fri 20 Feb - come along to our Human Library and hear someones story - with human books from Rathlin Island and @ulsteruni.bsky.social
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February 13, 2026 at 1:19 PM
We have a unique @niscifest.bsky.social event coming up on Fri 20 Feb - come along to our Human Library and hear someones story - with human books from Rathlin Island and @ulsteruni.bsky.social
nisciencefestival.com/event/ulster...
nisciencefestival.com/event/ulster...
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Great start to the @niscifest.bsky.social on #Rathlin, ‘Connecting Coastal Cultures’ with Dr Michael Pierre Johnson, Kirsten Millar, Jen Skinner. Great start to knowledge sharing, loved seeing their projects and the work they do. Will be exciting to work together @futureislandisland.bsky.social
February 13, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Great start to the @niscifest.bsky.social on #Rathlin, ‘Connecting Coastal Cultures’ with Dr Michael Pierre Johnson, Kirsten Millar, Jen Skinner. Great start to knowledge sharing, loved seeing their projects and the work they do. Will be exciting to work together @futureislandisland.bsky.social
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"Using Data for Good: A Crash Course", from @projectsaltbox.bsky.social - finding data from publicly available US sources (gvt contracts, FOIA libraries, local records), tracking federal procurement to bring transparency to ICE’s activities, including massive detention expansion. 🦾
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February 13, 2026 at 9:13 AM
"Using Data for Good: A Crash Course", from @projectsaltbox.bsky.social - finding data from publicly available US sources (gvt contracts, FOIA libraries, local records), tracking federal procurement to bring transparency to ICE’s activities, including massive detention expansion. 🦾
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At Dundreggan, explore ancient pinewoods, experience #rewilding in action, and discover centuries of #Gaelic culture. We’re passionate about helping people to deepen their connection with #nature. 🌳
Our Rewilding Centre is now open for the season ⬇️ Plan your visit 👉
Our Rewilding Centre is now open for the season ⬇️ Plan your visit 👉
Rewilding Dundreggan - Dundreggan Rewilding Centre
An initiative by rewilding charity, Trees for Life, the Dundreggan Rewilding Centre is the first visitor attraction of its kind in the world. Visit us to explore ancient pinewood, experience…
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February 13, 2026 at 5:21 PM
At Dundreggan, explore ancient pinewoods, experience #rewilding in action, and discover centuries of #Gaelic culture. We’re passionate about helping people to deepen their connection with #nature. 🌳
Our Rewilding Centre is now open for the season ⬇️ Plan your visit 👉
Our Rewilding Centre is now open for the season ⬇️ Plan your visit 👉
"Professor Rebecca Madgin at the University of Glasgow frames this as arriving “at a critical juncture as we search for ways to grow the economy whilst at the same time needing to nurture wellbeing”. Heritage, properly understood and utilised, offers a route to both."
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Heritage holds the key to better places - Arts Professional
New research from Historic England suggests emotional connection to historic places is fundamental to our wellbeing, as its chairman Lord Neil Mendoza explains.
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February 13, 2026 at 5:18 PM
"Professor Rebecca Madgin at the University of Glasgow frames this as arriving “at a critical juncture as we search for ways to grow the economy whilst at the same time needing to nurture wellbeing”. Heritage, properly understood and utilised, offers a route to both."
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February 13, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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'I would set off, with some sense of what I might be looking for, and see what I stumbled across...'
Is going for a walk a valid methodology for a historian? And if so, how much theory do you need to read before you start?
Some thoughts in my latest blog post:
manyheadedmonster.com/2026/02/10/i...
Is going for a walk a valid methodology for a historian? And if so, how much theory do you need to read before you start?
Some thoughts in my latest blog post:
manyheadedmonster.com/2026/02/10/i...
Is Walking Research? A Methodological Ramble
Mark HailwoodI needed to try something to get me writing again. Blessed with a period of research leave to resume work on my book – Everyday Life in the Seventeenth Century English Village &#…
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February 10, 2026 at 10:51 AM
'I would set off, with some sense of what I might be looking for, and see what I stumbled across...'
Is going for a walk a valid methodology for a historian? And if so, how much theory do you need to read before you start?
Some thoughts in my latest blog post:
manyheadedmonster.com/2026/02/10/i...
Is going for a walk a valid methodology for a historian? And if so, how much theory do you need to read before you start?
Some thoughts in my latest blog post:
manyheadedmonster.com/2026/02/10/i...
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“Planting suitable wetland species alongside rivers and roof tops helps delay surface water runoff by up to 90%…In the Netherlands, there are hundreds of green roofs on bus stops…Each square metre green of roof cover absorbs 20 litres of water, reducing how much water enters the drains.”
Now, a study from University of East London looks at ways to restore some of the "sponginess" the city has lost, protecting vulnerable homes & businesses.
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February 13, 2026 at 8:24 AM
“Planting suitable wetland species alongside rivers and roof tops helps delay surface water runoff by up to 90%…In the Netherlands, there are hundreds of green roofs on bus stops…Each square metre green of roof cover absorbs 20 litres of water, reducing how much water enters the drains.”
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Congrats to all the authors and publishers on the longlist! 🎺🎺🎺
The longlist for the 2025 Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd | Highland Book Prize has been announced. The Prize celebrates the talent, landscape, & cultural diversity of the Scottish Highlands & is open to works of fiction, non-fiction, & poetry
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www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/longlist/
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www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/longlist/
Longlist - The Highland Book Prize | Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd
Highland Book Prize 2025 Longlist Announced The longlist for the Highland Book Prize 2025 has been announced by the Highland Society of London and Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre. Thi...
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February 13, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Congrats to all the authors and publishers on the longlist! 🎺🎺🎺
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A UK court has just ruled that the ban on the Palestine Action Group is blatantly unlawful - EXCELLENT news
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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February 13, 2026 at 10:26 AM
A UK court has just ruled that the ban on the Palestine Action Group is blatantly unlawful - EXCELLENT news
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Public investments that expand access to enriching environments, like libraries and early education programs designed to spark a lifelong love of learning, may help reduce the incidence of dementia.”
@cilip.bsky.social #Dementia #Libraries
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@cilip.bsky.social #Dementia #Libraries
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Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds
Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers
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February 12, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Public investments that expand access to enriching environments, like libraries and early education programs designed to spark a lifelong love of learning, may help reduce the incidence of dementia.”
@cilip.bsky.social #Dementia #Libraries
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@cilip.bsky.social #Dementia #Libraries
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This is a great thread and some stunning landscapes. Link to paper at the end.
Discovery of 4,500-year-old Paleo-Inuit settlement on the Kitsissut Islands, north of Greenland, shows the first people in the High Arctic were skilled seafarers, deeply entangled with Arctic ecosystems from the beginning of glacial retreat.
#AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵
🏺 #Archaeology
#AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵
🏺 #Archaeology
February 12, 2026 at 5:57 PM
This is a great thread and some stunning landscapes. Link to paper at the end.
24 Feb 5pm, hybrid:
"In 2006 the Church of England issued a formal apology for its role in chattel slavery & then in 2023, the Church Commissioners for England published findings of its close links with the transatlantic slave trade & began formulating a long-term response."
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"In 2006 the Church of England issued a formal apology for its role in chattel slavery & then in 2023, the Church Commissioners for England published findings of its close links with the transatlantic slave trade & began formulating a long-term response."
tinyurl.com/5aujz4wm
The Church of England and the legacies of chattel slavery
Hear about Dr Bethany Elce's Leverhulme project on the Church's responsibility to reckon and respond to its difficult past.
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February 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
24 Feb 5pm, hybrid:
"In 2006 the Church of England issued a formal apology for its role in chattel slavery & then in 2023, the Church Commissioners for England published findings of its close links with the transatlantic slave trade & began formulating a long-term response."
tinyurl.com/5aujz4wm
"In 2006 the Church of England issued a formal apology for its role in chattel slavery & then in 2023, the Church Commissioners for England published findings of its close links with the transatlantic slave trade & began formulating a long-term response."
tinyurl.com/5aujz4wm
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Great opportunity for ECRs and people in non-traditional roles to get journal editorial experience 👇🏼
The Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies is looking to strengthen and extend the networks and scholarly expertise available to the journal by establishing an Emerging Editors Board. Read about it here: academic.oup.com/bics/pages/c...
Call for Emerging Editors Board Members
Closing date for expressions of interest: 2 March 2026
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February 12, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Great opportunity for ECRs and people in non-traditional roles to get journal editorial experience 👇🏼
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‘The normal should be darkness’: why one Belgian national park is turning off ‘pointless’ streetlights
The radical project is an attempt to preserve wildlife in one of Europe’s most light-polluted countries, but can they persuade local people they will still feel safe?
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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🚂 Joy on the Southbank, misery in the Square Mile. Here’s what the City of London’s much vaunted ‘retrofit-first’ policy looks like in reality, as planning permission was granted this week for the £1.2 billion demolition of Liverpool Street Station.
🧵 Scroll down for 8 damning before / after views
🧵 Scroll down for 8 damning before / after views
February 12, 2026 at 1:14 PM
🚂 Joy on the Southbank, misery in the Square Mile. Here’s what the City of London’s much vaunted ‘retrofit-first’ policy looks like in reality, as planning permission was granted this week for the £1.2 billion demolition of Liverpool Street Station.
🧵 Scroll down for 8 damning before / after views
🧵 Scroll down for 8 damning before / after views
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The Earth is flat, the Moon is made of cheese & looking after Nature harms the economy. Well put Ruth. Nature IS the economy.
“Nature is not in opposition to the economy, it is the economy”
Let’s take a look back at the inspiring words that the UK’s Special Representative for Nature, Ruth Davis OBE, shared with all attendees at #IPBES12 in the lead up to a successful deliberation for #BizBiodiversity
Let’s take a look back at the inspiring words that the UK’s Special Representative for Nature, Ruth Davis OBE, shared with all attendees at #IPBES12 in the lead up to a successful deliberation for #BizBiodiversity
February 12, 2026 at 1:15 PM
The Earth is flat, the Moon is made of cheese & looking after Nature harms the economy. Well put Ruth. Nature IS the economy.
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Congratulations to our former MSc student Luisa and my amazing colleagues Sophie and @drbutty.bsky.social on a very cool CT method paper with some interesting implications about osteoporosis in medieval Scotland #MedievalSky #edinarch
📣 Published #OpenAccess in AJBA @bioanth.org 📣 “The Use of Micro-CT Analysis of the Second Metacarpal to Assess Cortical Bone Loss in Archeological Human Skeletal Remains” by Luisa Less, @drbutty.bsky.social & Dr SL Newman onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🩻 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 1/3
February 12, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Congratulations to our former MSc student Luisa and my amazing colleagues Sophie and @drbutty.bsky.social on a very cool CT method paper with some interesting implications about osteoporosis in medieval Scotland #MedievalSky #edinarch