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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 2h

Because their ignorance shows when confronted with it.

Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 2h

I might. Nail polish does sometimes smear on materials.

Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 2h

She liked the link but couldn’t access anything? How bonkers.

Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 2h

I just can’t anymore🤯

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 2h

Ugh.

Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 2h

You have such lovely places to walk!

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 5h

"...the majority of the country’s museums (~1500) do not receive funding from the federal government even though there is public support for them to do so."

The same applies to archives in Canada.

ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 3d

Cara Tremain discusses the future of Canadian museums and the need for continued support and policy change.

The Continuing Relevance of Museums in Canada

This summer, the Government of Canada helped to promote visits to museums through the Canada Strong pass. While initially focused on seven of the country’s nine national museums, other provinces an…

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 4h

This is such a fabulous program. I feel saddened to think how many ancient buildings and how many artifacts, libraries, and archives have been destroyed by wars in Syria, Yemen, and Palestine. These are rich cultures that have endured through milennia.

Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · 20d

🎺 The 2025 Participatory Research Projects we funded via @ukri.org #ResearchEngland have come to a close.
First up: Botanical Wisdom: art, medicine and nature in Muslim societies

Read the blog ⤵️

#participation#research#GLAM#botanicalart #muslimmedicine

www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/botanic...

Botanical Wisdom: Art, Medicine, and Nature in Muslim Societies - Collections Connections Communities

Botanical Wisdom: Art, Medicine, and Nature in Muslim Societies Dr Zahra Kazani, Research and Outreach Associate - Islamic art and material culture Centre of Islamic Studies This participatory researc...

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 2h

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 2h

How fun!

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 3h

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 3h

How awful. They missed so many enriching experiences.

Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 3h

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 13h

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1d

This is important and everyone working in a gallery, library, archives, or museum should participate.

#library #archives 📚

Michael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social · 7d

Government launches consultation on new AI strategy. This one has a tight timeline - responses due by the end of the month. Can respond to a survey or offer comments. Says it expects the new strategy to be developed by the end of the year.
ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 4h

So bizarre and kind of hilarious.

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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · 2d

The majority of the world wants peace. Damn the people who bring us into war.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 1d

In memory of every life lost to Israeli military aggression, we will continue to take action to honor the dead and fight for a world free from genocide, an end to the oppression of Jewish supremacy and Palestinian dehumanization. We will not rest until Palestine is free.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 7h

Humanity’s goal is clear - we must stop this cycle of suffering and atrocities, and finally bring an end to the unlawful occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory and to dismantle Israel’s system of apartheid on the Palestinian people.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 7h

It is up to the international community, including the UK government, to make sure this is an end to Israel’s genocide and the complete lifting of the illegal blockade.

An effective ceasefire can only be rooted in respect for human rights and international law.

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 4h

I hope peace comes to Gaza, but the leaders of Hamas and Israel must still stand trial at the ICC for crimes against humanity. And Israel must end its blockade of Gaza and stop the demolition of Palestinian homes and theft of Palestinian lands.

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 4h

Have you completed your research?

Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 4h

This is such a fabulous program. I feel saddened to think how many ancient buildings and how many artifacts, libraries, and archives have been destroyed by wars in Syria, Yemen, and Palestine. These are rich cultures that have endured through milennia.

Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · 20d

🎺 The 2025 Participatory Research Projects we funded via @ukri.org #ResearchEngland have come to a close.
First up: Botanical Wisdom: art, medicine and nature in Muslim societies

Read the blog ⤵️

#participation#research#GLAM#botanicalart #muslimmedicine

www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/botanic...

Botanical Wisdom: Art, Medicine, and Nature in Muslim Societies - Collections Connections Communities

Botanical Wisdom: Art, Medicine, and Nature in Muslim Societies Dr Zahra Kazani, Research and Outreach Associate - Islamic art and material culture Centre of Islamic Studies This participatory researc...

www.ccc.cam.ac.uk

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 4d

The driveway garden escape Harebells are flourishing. #WildflowerHour

A blue Harebell surrounded by a blue blur of other Harebells.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · Sep 7

Chicory flowering by the roadside in Ely. #WildflowerHour

Close-up of a pale blue flower, against a blurred green and yellow background.

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