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Looking for a fully-funded three year PhD, starting in April 2026?
The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities
Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities
Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
Jobs and volunteering - Mary Rose
Jobs, academic placements and volunteering opportunities at the Mary Rose Trust.
maryrose.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Looking for a fully-funded three year PhD, starting in April 2026?
The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities
Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities
Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
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My little girls (now big girls!), adopted from foster care, arrived with few possessions - but each had been given a box of books by @booktrust.org.uk. These books, read together, became our first shared memories.
Spread the joy of reading with a donation:
donate.booktrust.org.uk/Xmas3/~my-do...
Spread the joy of reading with a donation:
donate.booktrust.org.uk/Xmas3/~my-do...
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My little girls (now big girls!), adopted from foster care, arrived with few possessions - but each had been given a box of books by @booktrust.org.uk. These books, read together, became our first shared memories.
Spread the joy of reading with a donation:
donate.booktrust.org.uk/Xmas3/~my-do...
Spread the joy of reading with a donation:
donate.booktrust.org.uk/Xmas3/~my-do...
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Ordered a Durian cheesecake at a Japanese restaurant in Bristol. I had a vague sense of the Durian’s mixed reputation, and thought it worth a try. My advice is DON’T MAKE MY MISTAKE.
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Ordered a Durian cheesecake at a Japanese restaurant in Bristol. I had a vague sense of the Durian’s mixed reputation, and thought it worth a try. My advice is DON’T MAKE MY MISTAKE.
Ever felt you're being watched?
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Ever felt you're being watched?
Pedantic curmudgeons ftw!
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Pedantic curmudgeons ftw!
Pine martens may help red squirrels. www.welshwildlife.org/blog/alice-c...
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Pine martens may help red squirrels. www.welshwildlife.org/blog/alice-c...
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Call for Scottish Government to review foreign language provision
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2559839...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2559839...
Call for Scottish Government to review foreign language provision
Key Scottish companies and young Scots are losing out due to the spiralling decline in school leavers with language qualifications, a leading…
www.heraldscotland.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Call for Scottish Government to review foreign language provision
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2559839...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2559839...
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The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
@rorycj.bsky.social Certain illnesses including neurological ones to be considered as ‘brakes’ to obtaining visas for US. Unclear if this includes tourist visas.
Une note de l’administration Trump liste plusieurs pathologies comme des freins à l’obtention d’un visa pour les Etats-Unis
Une note de l’administration Trump liste plusieurs pathologies comme des freins à l’obtention d’un visa pour les Etats-Unis
La nouvelle directive américaine impose aux ambassades d’examiner de près les antécédents médicaux des candidats à l’immigration, y compris ceux de leurs proches.
www.lemonde.fr
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
@rorycj.bsky.social Certain illnesses including neurological ones to be considered as ‘brakes’ to obtaining visas for US. Unclear if this includes tourist visas.
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You think cheese is safe? Big mistake. It can kill you.
A slingshot of hardened cheese felled Medb, *phenomenal* warrior queen and goddess in Celtic mythology.
Norwegian cheese brunost is as flammable as petrol. It took 6 whole days to put out the fire in a lorry carrying 27 tonnes of the stuff.
A slingshot of hardened cheese felled Medb, *phenomenal* warrior queen and goddess in Celtic mythology.
Norwegian cheese brunost is as flammable as petrol. It took 6 whole days to put out the fire in a lorry carrying 27 tonnes of the stuff.
Le saviez-vous ? Selon la mythologie celtique irlandaise, Medb, reine guerrière majeure du cycle d’Ulster, est tuée par un tir de fronde dont le projectile est du fromage durci 🧐.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medb
#LeSaviezVous #DidYouKnow
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medb
#LeSaviezVous #DidYouKnow
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
You think cheese is safe? Big mistake. It can kill you.
A slingshot of hardened cheese felled Medb, *phenomenal* warrior queen and goddess in Celtic mythology.
Norwegian cheese brunost is as flammable as petrol. It took 6 whole days to put out the fire in a lorry carrying 27 tonnes of the stuff.
A slingshot of hardened cheese felled Medb, *phenomenal* warrior queen and goddess in Celtic mythology.
Norwegian cheese brunost is as flammable as petrol. It took 6 whole days to put out the fire in a lorry carrying 27 tonnes of the stuff.
So interesting. I saw this too and wondered
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
So interesting. I saw this too and wondered
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this is brilliant satire:
“Given what I took to be the anti-Trump nature of the Sketch, I of course assumed there would be a similar, balancing Sketch discussing the possibility that the Capitol building had attacked the rioters....."
“Given what I took to be the anti-Trump nature of the Sketch, I of course assumed there would be a similar, balancing Sketch discussing the possibility that the Capitol building had attacked the rioters....."
Crisis at the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation!
Crisis at the CSC | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
From the desk of Lord Kronsteen, founder and proprietor of the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation. To all staff, It is with a heavy heart that I take pen in hand to inform you of the resignation of both…
thecritic.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
this is brilliant satire:
“Given what I took to be the anti-Trump nature of the Sketch, I of course assumed there would be a similar, balancing Sketch discussing the possibility that the Capitol building had attacked the rioters....."
“Given what I took to be the anti-Trump nature of the Sketch, I of course assumed there would be a similar, balancing Sketch discussing the possibility that the Capitol building had attacked the rioters....."
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Sternfunkelnde Nacht. ✨
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Sternfunkelnde Nacht. ✨
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... and Leicester... Languages, History...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Leicester to consult on redundancies
University bosses are also planning to stop a number of courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
... and Leicester... Languages, History...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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And that's important, because she was a working scientist with agency of her own and she collaborated willingly with so much more of that work than is usually mentioned.
Both by Watson AND his critics.
Franklin was a great scientist. Don't sell her short.
Both by Watson AND his critics.
Franklin was a great scientist. Don't sell her short.
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
And that's important, because she was a working scientist with agency of her own and she collaborated willingly with so much more of that work than is usually mentioned.
Both by Watson AND his critics.
Franklin was a great scientist. Don't sell her short.
Both by Watson AND his critics.
Franklin was a great scientist. Don't sell her short.
This is grim. Very sorry to hear this.
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This is grim. Very sorry to hear this.
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Nigel Farage says this summer’s Raise the Colours movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. Our reporters in five cities had a look and that’s not what we found.
November 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Nigel Farage says this summer’s Raise the Colours movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. Our reporters in five cities had a look and that’s not what we found.
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URGENT CRUISE SPEAKER NEEDED! 🚨
Past Preservers has an immediate opening for an expert lecturer on a 25-day Oceania Amazon & Caribbean Voyage (departs Nov 12th).
www.oceaniacruises.com/cruises/INS2...
Includes Plus One & Double Airfare!
Contact us NOW with 8 proposed lecture titles!
Past Preservers has an immediate opening for an expert lecturer on a 25-day Oceania Amazon & Caribbean Voyage (departs Nov 12th).
www.oceaniacruises.com/cruises/INS2...
Includes Plus One & Double Airfare!
Contact us NOW with 8 proposed lecture titles!
November 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
URGENT CRUISE SPEAKER NEEDED! 🚨
Past Preservers has an immediate opening for an expert lecturer on a 25-day Oceania Amazon & Caribbean Voyage (departs Nov 12th).
www.oceaniacruises.com/cruises/INS2...
Includes Plus One & Double Airfare!
Contact us NOW with 8 proposed lecture titles!
Past Preservers has an immediate opening for an expert lecturer on a 25-day Oceania Amazon & Caribbean Voyage (departs Nov 12th).
www.oceaniacruises.com/cruises/INS2...
Includes Plus One & Double Airfare!
Contact us NOW with 8 proposed lecture titles!
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Long shot (mainly due to how little engagement I get on here), but I'm looking for freelance writers with an interest, or specialism in, classical music.
If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.
If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.
October 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Long shot (mainly due to how little engagement I get on here), but I'm looking for freelance writers with an interest, or specialism in, classical music.
If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.
If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.
And "a lot of the wider benefits of research in humanities/social sciences/arts which stretch far beyond economic returns to support law, education, culture, inclusion & health"
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 31, 2025 at 5:54 AM
And "a lot of the wider benefits of research in humanities/social sciences/arts which stretch far beyond economic returns to support law, education, culture, inclusion & health"
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ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...