Dr Sandra Austin
@sandracaustin.bsky.social
Educator. Scientist. Gardener. Cyclist.
Sustainability Lead @MIE
Sustainability Lead @MIE
Have to agree.
December 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Have to agree.
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Took the #Fjellheisen cable car for Stunning views atop #Storsteinen in #Tromsø #Norway
Incredibly beautiful ! 🥶 @visitnorway.bsky.social
Incredibly beautiful ! 🥶 @visitnorway.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Took the #Fjellheisen cable car for Stunning views atop #Storsteinen in #Tromsø #Norway
Incredibly beautiful ! 🥶 @visitnorway.bsky.social
Incredibly beautiful ! 🥶 @visitnorway.bsky.social
Nice timeline collision between imagination and reality
December 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Nice timeline collision between imagination and reality
#ZeroStretch!!!
Today is 2025-12-13, the sun sets at 16:05:43 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 00 secs. #GrandStretch #ZeroStretch
December 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
#ZeroStretch!!!
May be of interest @geolug.bsky.social ?
This week we also published its latest article in the Society's journal 'Transactions'.
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social
explores what it means to be a historian, and why historical skills and craft need to defended and understood bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social
explores what it means to be a historian, and why historical skills and craft need to defended and understood bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
December 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
May be of interest @geolug.bsky.social ?
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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My academic hot take is that any service task faculty are asked to do should be accompanied by a clear and simple description of what good that labor does for the institution or students or faculty.
December 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My academic hot take is that any service task faculty are asked to do should be accompanied by a clear and simple description of what good that labor does for the institution or students or faculty.
Head still filled with music after last night’s Ultan Conlon gig @dubunitarianchurch.bsky.social Beautiful songs in a beautiful space.
December 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Head still filled with music after last night’s Ultan Conlon gig @dubunitarianchurch.bsky.social Beautiful songs in a beautiful space.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
This resonates
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
December 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This resonates
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This is happening tonight at 7pm! Still tickets available so if you fancy seeing my tour show live on Zoom grab yours here: ko-fi.com/s/3c9776c027
December 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
This is happening tonight at 7pm! Still tickets available so if you fancy seeing my tour show live on Zoom grab yours here: ko-fi.com/s/3c9776c027
Always an excellent read.
December 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Always an excellent read.
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First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
December 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
😍I would be very happy to find something like this under my Christmas tree.
This Jacobean travelling library was commissioned for a gentleman to carry his own collection of miniature vellum-bound books inside a wooden case ~ contents are listed on the inside cover (1617). Possibly, the first of its kind (University of Leeds) www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
😍I would be very happy to find something like this under my Christmas tree.
@dannagal.bsky.social Happy Thanksgiving 😘
Miss you guys. Happy memories ❤️
Miss you guys. Happy memories ❤️
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
@dannagal.bsky.social Happy Thanksgiving 😘
Miss you guys. Happy memories ❤️
Miss you guys. Happy memories ❤️
A wonderful teacher and an inspiring champion for social justice
#DIBNewLives
A fearless champion of equality, fairness & justice, Ann Louise Gilligan is remembered as ‘the spark that lit the marriage equality movement’. The court case to recognise her marriage to Katherine Zappone sparked the decade-long fight for marriage equality.
www.dib.ie/biography/gi...
A fearless champion of equality, fairness & justice, Ann Louise Gilligan is remembered as ‘the spark that lit the marriage equality movement’. The court case to recognise her marriage to Katherine Zappone sparked the decade-long fight for marriage equality.
www.dib.ie/biography/gi...
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
A wonderful teacher and an inspiring champion for social justice
This makes me very happy.
The ultimate mobile library ~ the Camelback library in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, run by translator/publisher Dashdondog Jamba
www.tourismontheedge.com/camelback-li...
www.tourismontheedge.com/camelback-li...
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM
This makes me very happy.
Chapeau, Mace.
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Chapeau, Mace.
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Libraries are SO important 🥹
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Libraries are SO important 🥹
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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Prashant Singh in the lab of Tina Iverson at Vanderbilt published this image of the bacterial 🦠flagellar motor, a detailed molecular model made possibly by CryoEM 🔬.
The similarity to mechanical motors are strong enough we can use terms like stator, rotor, rod & gearing to describe it.
The similarity to mechanical motors are strong enough we can use terms like stator, rotor, rod & gearing to describe it.
November 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Prashant Singh in the lab of Tina Iverson at Vanderbilt published this image of the bacterial 🦠flagellar motor, a detailed molecular model made possibly by CryoEM 🔬.
The similarity to mechanical motors are strong enough we can use terms like stator, rotor, rod & gearing to describe it.
The similarity to mechanical motors are strong enough we can use terms like stator, rotor, rod & gearing to describe it.
Age yourself with gaming
November 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Age yourself with gaming
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There is always money for the consultants. No matter how much “austerity.” Always always always.
"Outsourcing our flagship state university’s future to drop-in budget consultants is not the way forward" -- Jeffrey Dudas, President of UConn AAUP @uconnaaup.bsky.social
Opinion: UConn's administration should consult its own experts
Genuine collaboration and shared governance - not outside consultants - should guide the decisions of a major university.
ctmirror.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
There is always money for the consultants. No matter how much “austerity.” Always always always.
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If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.