Jonathan Foyle
@jonathanfoyle.bsky.social
Lecturer at the University of Bath. Researcher of historic buildings, uses, design solutions: https://soloist.ai/jonathanfoyle Immersed in the arts of the late Middle Ages.
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Greenland
January 10, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Greenland
Model by Bath Uni Architecture students. No prizes for sussing where.
January 13, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Model by Bath Uni Architecture students. No prizes for sussing where.
Welcome to BlueSky if you’re new and ex-X - I recall it was quiet here but it’s a much healthier place. Look out for ‘Starter packs’.
January 13, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Welcome to BlueSky if you’re new and ex-X - I recall it was quiet here but it’s a much healthier place. Look out for ‘Starter packs’.
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Booking closes today!
Join @antiquaries.bsky.social on 16 January 2026 for a free in-person early career event!
For more information and sign-up, follow the link here: www.sal.org.uk/event/early-...
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January 12, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Booking closes today!
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Let us all stand with Chairman Powell.
January 12, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Let us all stand with Chairman Powell.
Serious castle. It’s well known that the department store magnate had a cohort of shop staff and accountants to defend against the 1922 siege by a cadet line of the Drewes before a bout of flu weakened them and the gates were breached by a Model T Ford though that was sorted by his insurance
January 12, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Serious castle. It’s well known that the department store magnate had a cohort of shop staff and accountants to defend against the 1922 siege by a cadet line of the Drewes before a bout of flu weakened them and the gates were breached by a Model T Ford though that was sorted by his insurance
Plaster nave ceiling of 1636 by George Drayton at Axbridge, Somerset.
January 11, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Plaster nave ceiling of 1636 by George Drayton at Axbridge, Somerset.
"How do you do, fellow kids?"
January 11, 2026 at 4:29 PM
"How do you do, fellow kids?"
A banger, as the kids say.
January 11, 2026 at 4:21 PM
A banger, as the kids say.
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This is a really good piece, and the mismatches snd gradually changing behaviours it describes seem spot on to me
Three short paragraphs, and you've got the whole mind-bending mess that is #UKHE finance & governance neatly laid out.
This is why it's all so exhausting: our managers declare there's only one static frame, while we know their framing is part of the issue.
💡 www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/10/w...
This is why it's all so exhausting: our managers declare there's only one static frame, while we know their framing is part of the issue.
💡 www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/10/w...
January 10, 2026 at 12:37 PM
This is a really good piece, and the mismatches snd gradually changing behaviours it describes seem spot on to me
Thanks- good suggestion.
January 10, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Thanks- good suggestion.
Sicilian lemons, one of winter’s great compensations.
January 10, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Sicilian lemons, one of winter’s great compensations.
Frost and fire this morning.
January 10, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Frost and fire this morning.
So there's this to consider www.declassifieduk.org/us-air-force...
US Air Force deployment in Britain is third largest in world
Only Japan and Germany, countries occupied by the US military after World War 2, host more US airmen than Britain. Nuclear-capable American B-52 bombers were recently deployed in Gloucestershire amid ...
www.declassifieduk.org
January 10, 2026 at 12:32 AM
So there's this to consider www.declassifieduk.org/us-air-force...
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According to the White House, two international groups working on cultural heritage preservation and arts policy are “contrary to the interests of the United States” and “waste taxpayer dollars.”
Trump Withdraws From Major Culture Preservation Groups
Two entities focused on global heritage and arts policy are among dozens the White House deemed “contrary to the interests” of the United States.
hyperallergic.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:44 PM
According to the White House, two international groups working on cultural heritage preservation and arts policy are “contrary to the interests of the United States” and “waste taxpayer dollars.”
Blimey, Hamnet is a TOUGH and GRAND film. Decompression may take hours.
January 9, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Blimey, Hamnet is a TOUGH and GRAND film. Decompression may take hours.
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After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up.
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
January 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up.
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Well I haven’t!
January 8, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Well I haven’t!
One of those odd relics- part of a frieze, about 1530, the motif likely a marine guild, possibly from a Bristol guildhall.
January 8, 2026 at 8:48 PM
One of those odd relics- part of a frieze, about 1530, the motif likely a marine guild, possibly from a Bristol guildhall.
Looks like a runic inscription.
January 8, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Looks like a runic inscription.
Ouch- the Spanish Forger strikes again... onlineonly.christies.com/s/professor-...
January 8, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Ouch- the Spanish Forger strikes again... onlineonly.christies.com/s/professor-...
How the AI you didn't ask for translates 'Salve, felix Anglia' ('Hail, Happy England').
January 8, 2026 at 9:05 AM
How the AI you didn't ask for translates 'Salve, felix Anglia' ('Hail, Happy England').
Delightful corner of Corsham St Bartholomew
January 8, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Delightful corner of Corsham St Bartholomew