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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 17h

'Resilience' and 'wellbeing' training are victim blaming bullshit, thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Apr 15

We've made this article from @cash4questions.bsky.social free to read, as it is proving very popular.

University funding crisis: How to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered.

"Beware employers bearing yoga mats..."

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-funding-k...

Coping with the university funding crisis - Research Professional News

Positive steps in uncertain times, including how to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 13h

EXTREMELY COOL BAT STUFF: A study out in Science today found that the greater noctule bat, Europe's largest, hunts and catches *migrating birds* while in flight. In at least one case, a bat climbed to more than 1200 feet, then chased a robin downward FAST until it caught it near the ground.

Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight

Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...

www.science.org

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Melissa Summers @lisservel.bsky.social · 19h

Feelin’ crabby?

#bird #EastCoastKin #PicMagnets #photography

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 17h

just randomly told a colleague that the oxford comma was the only good thing to come out of oxford in case you were wondering what kind of energy I'm bringing today

a screenshot from Big Little Lies of Reese Witherspoon's daughter holding up a poster with two pictures called "opposites." On the left is a picture of a door on hinges. On the right is a picture of her mother -- the hilarious implication being that her mother is UNHINGED.

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 8h

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the Nobel Peace prize committee meeting."

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 10h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Water bills for England households to rise even higher.

Bills already up by 36%. Competition regulator permits another 1%-5%, £556m hike

No curbs on exec pay, dividends, sewage dumping as companies raise capital from customers, shareholders get returns.

End the Scam. Nationalise water

Five water firms provisionally allowed to raise bills by further 1% to 5%

An independent group appointed by the competition watchdog rejected nearly 80% of increases sought by companies.

www.independent.co.uk

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Tallulah Cunningham @yesthattallulah.bsky.social · 9h

Seventh of #fatbatweek with a Greater Bulldog bat carrying a crumbed prawn. These beautiful chunky bats are piscivorous & apparently quite loud. Bat researchers/rehabilitators please comment w your favourite bat & something about them on any fat bat post! @dailybats.bsky.social @batcon.org

A chonkie orange furred bat with a blocky face backwings while gripping a crumbed prawn as big as its body.

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Tallulah Cunningham @yesthattallulah.bsky.social · 1d

for #fatbatweek day 6: snack and species found in Ghana: Spurrell's Woolly bat and Kelewele - fried plantain.
With a shout out to @irorotanshi.bsky.social @africanbatcon.bsky.social @batresearch.bsky.social @dailybats.bsky.social

A fluffy tan Woolly bat sitting on a about 7 slices of golden fried plantain that, in turn, rest on a bright green banana leaf.

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Tallulah Cunningham @yesthattallulah.bsky.social · 2d

Fifth of #fatbatweek is the Spotted Bat Euderma maculatum with a fried chicken burger. Shout out to all the US bat rehabilitators, researchers and educators @azbatrescue.bsky.social @albertabats.bsky.social @batgirlsusan.bsky.social @batconreslab.bsky.social @batcon.org

A brown and white blotched bat with big long ears perched atop a lustrous and crispy looking burger with a hint of spanish onion, cheese, fried chicken, tomato, and lettuce.

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Tallulah Cunningham @yesthattallulah.bsky.social · 3d

For 4th of #fatbatweek - a rare Greater Noctule with Verguny, Nyctalus lasiopterus and a variety of Ukrainian fried treat.
#biodiversitymatters #microbats #chiroptera #batappreciationmonth # Shout out to batsukraine.org's conservation and education work.

A chunky brown vesper bat standing on a white bowl, ornamented with blue arabesques based on a Ukranian ceramic pattern, the bowl is filled with twisted golden fried pastries dusted with icing sugar.

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Tallulah Cunningham @yesthattallulah.bsky.social · 4d

Day 3 of #fatbatweek is a Australian Eastern tube-nosed bat, Nyctimene robinsoni on a pineapple fritter shout out to tolgabathospital.org, ausbats.org.au and pacbat.org

A grey bat with yellow on its shrek-ear like nostrils, ears and wings perches on a pineapple ring, sparsely battered, looking smug

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 16h

CFP: 'Poetry's Environments', University of Leeds, June 2026.

About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied.

Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December.

conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...

Call for Proposals | Poetry's Environments

conferences.leeds.ac.uk

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Kathleen Lubey @kathylubey.bsky.social · 17h

as the world burns, can I recommend having your students read "To His Coy Mistress" out loud to cleanse your soul

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Kerry L @kerrymlove.bsky.social · 19h

Florence Nightingale's pet owl Athena

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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 1d

Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 23h

Keats Shelley Prize entries are now open, for both the Poetry and Essay Prize.
Deadline is 10am (GMT) on Monday 2 February 2026
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6155

Keats-Shelley Prize 2025-26 – BARS Blog

www.bars.ac.uk

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 2d

Check out this year's program for 'Romanticism Across Borders' virtual speaker series. I'm on there along with some of my favorite people 👯✨

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 22h

New on the BARS Blog: Jordan Welsh's (@jordanwelshy.bsky.social) Copley Report on his research into Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Hyman Hurwitz's friendship. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6167

Stephen Copley Research Award Report: Jordan Welsh on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Hyman Hurwitz’s Friendship – BARS Blog

www.bars.ac.uk

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 22h

New on the BARS Blog: Christina Morin's Open Fellowship Report, "Hocquet Caritat, the Minerva Press, and the ‘Patronizers of Polite and Entertaining Literature in America’".
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6159

Open Fellowship Report: Hocquet Caritat, the Minerva Press, and the ‘Patronizers of Polite and Entertaining Literature in America’ – BARS Blog

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University of Sheffield Player @unishefplayer.bsky.social · 1d

Professor Angela Wright is editing Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe.

Discover how this groundbreaking Gothic novel shaped Radcliffe’s legacy and why it remains essential reading: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/editi...

#GothicFiction

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Arizona Bat Rescue 🦇 @azbatrescue.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly all grown up! Hard to believe those little naked chicken nuggets are almost adults! 🦇

#bats #arizona #wildanimals #cuteanimals #wildlife #babybats #babyanimals

2 photos. Top photo shows 3 furless, tiny bat pups in a hand with a blue glove on. Bottom photo shows 3 furred and larger pups in a hand with a blue glove on.

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 1d

Aimee Lou Wood’s Film Club is *fantastic* and fun and is perfectly formed to break your heart and make it anew - I cried at a line from Great Expectations, for goodness sake!

Aimee Lou Reed’s Evie inviting Nabhaan Rizwan’s Noa to break her little finger in a glittery decorated garage with a projector light shining between them

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's rather sweet that Muscovy duck and the cream-colored mallard have become quite close friends. They're two of the sweetest creatures who hang out here, and I'm happy they've found each other.

Here's a lovely pic of Muscovy duck and the cream-colored mallard snoozing side-by-side. They're resting on reddish brown dirt with a small pond in the background. They seem comfy as heck.

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