Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚
@vrling.bsky.social
Recovering academic (archaeology/evolution).
Author of King Street Run, a fantasy-satire set in Cambridge: https://books2read.com/King-Street-Run
No DMs.
Classic ghost story writers, Old buildings, Old books, Gothic everything, Vegans, Classic Who
Author of King Street Run, a fantasy-satire set in Cambridge: https://books2read.com/King-Street-Run
No DMs.
Classic ghost story writers, Old buildings, Old books, Gothic everything, Vegans, Classic Who
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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚
@vrling.bsky.social
· Nov 21
📚💙 For those who like their sci-fi laced with satire and dark humour, my new novel "Paradox Lost" will be unleashed by @elsewhen.press in 2026. Please form an orderly queue at your nearest book shop and always remember to heed the crush barriers 😜
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All early career researchers know the ending : years of precarious labour, followed by joblessness & expectation that they should be grateful for the experience
Pipeline isn’t leaking. It’s being deliberately drained
People pushed out are the future
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Pipeline isn’t leaking. It’s being deliberately drained
People pushed out are the future
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
UK ‘could lose generation of scientists’ with cuts to projects and research facilities
UK’s research funding body says best scientists are taking posts overseas due to lack of job stability at home
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:45 AM
All early career researchers know the ending : years of precarious labour, followed by joblessness & expectation that they should be grateful for the experience
Pipeline isn’t leaking. It’s being deliberately drained
People pushed out are the future
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Pipeline isn’t leaking. It’s being deliberately drained
People pushed out are the future
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now.
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We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world
The most disturbing revelation so far
open.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:26 AM
We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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The genocide in Gaza never ended — and Britain is still complicit.
February 6, 2026 at 12:50 PM
The genocide in Gaza never ended — and Britain is still complicit.
Seeing authors' photos of their desks filled with complex plot notes and diagrams.
Me: I've no idea what the spaceship looks like until I get in it. Not the foggiest where they're going until we get there. Don't even mention plot holes; I'm letting the characters figure them out.
#Booksky
Me: I've no idea what the spaceship looks like until I get in it. Not the foggiest where they're going until we get there. Don't even mention plot holes; I'm letting the characters figure them out.
#Booksky
February 6, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Seeing authors' photos of their desks filled with complex plot notes and diagrams.
Me: I've no idea what the spaceship looks like until I get in it. Not the foggiest where they're going until we get there. Don't even mention plot holes; I'm letting the characters figure them out.
#Booksky
Me: I've no idea what the spaceship looks like until I get in it. Not the foggiest where they're going until we get there. Don't even mention plot holes; I'm letting the characters figure them out.
#Booksky
“Perhaps the reason why second-class men attain the highest, most coveted world positions is, that the greatest are commonly unmoved by ambition or love of applause.”
- The Curse of Intellect, Colin Clout (Frank Challice Constable), 1895
- The Curse of Intellect, Colin Clout (Frank Challice Constable), 1895
February 5, 2026 at 6:02 PM
“Perhaps the reason why second-class men attain the highest, most coveted world positions is, that the greatest are commonly unmoved by ambition or love of applause.”
- The Curse of Intellect, Colin Clout (Frank Challice Constable), 1895
- The Curse of Intellect, Colin Clout (Frank Challice Constable), 1895
The Red Spider nebula is estimated to be about 4,000 light years away; about the distance of Farage from Clacton.
#ReformFascists
#ReformFascists
🔭 Red Spider Planetary Nebula from Webb
Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (RIT)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26020...
Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (RIT)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26020...
February 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
The Red Spider nebula is estimated to be about 4,000 light years away; about the distance of Farage from Clacton.
#ReformFascists
#ReformFascists
“As for Montrésor - it was the simplest and happiest of things. It shared its quiet, eighteenth century charm with its every door-plate and moulding. One fell in love with it at first sight, as with an open, charming face.”
- Walter De La Mare "The Recluse" (1927)
#ClassicGhostStories #Booksky
- Walter De La Mare "The Recluse" (1927)
#ClassicGhostStories #Booksky
February 3, 2026 at 2:51 PM
“As for Montrésor - it was the simplest and happiest of things. It shared its quiet, eighteenth century charm with its every door-plate and moulding. One fell in love with it at first sight, as with an open, charming face.”
- Walter De La Mare "The Recluse" (1927)
#ClassicGhostStories #Booksky
- Walter De La Mare "The Recluse" (1927)
#ClassicGhostStories #Booksky
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Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
January 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
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January 23, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Can quantum measurements change the past?
Daniel and Kelly talk about the problem of time in quantum mechanics and how the past might depend on the future.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Daniel and Kelly talk about the problem of time in quantum mechanics and how the past might depend on the future.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
January 20, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Can quantum measurements change the past?
Daniel and Kelly talk about the problem of time in quantum mechanics and how the past might depend on the future.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Daniel and Kelly talk about the problem of time in quantum mechanics and how the past might depend on the future.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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No offense but I think we underestimate how many of our current problems, both cultural and political, are downstream of the decline in reading, the decline in learning and the loss of interest in the humanities.
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
No offense but I think we underestimate how many of our current problems, both cultural and political, are downstream of the decline in reading, the decline in learning and the loss of interest in the humanities.
I’m not an expert but I think it’s what happens when the demon outgrows its human host.
Lips riddled with needle marks in an attempt to achieve "Mar-a-Lago face" in order to please her pedophile führer, this is the face of evil Nazi propagandist Karoline Leavitt. 😳👇
January 16, 2026 at 6:23 PM
I’m not an expert but I think it’s what happens when the demon outgrows its human host.
“Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.”
- Algernon Blackwood, The Man Whom The Trees Loved (1912)
- Algernon Blackwood, The Man Whom The Trees Loved (1912)
January 13, 2026 at 6:44 PM
“Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.”
- Algernon Blackwood, The Man Whom The Trees Loved (1912)
- Algernon Blackwood, The Man Whom The Trees Loved (1912)
“We stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies as they bomb us.”
January 9, 2026 at 6:34 PM
“We stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies as they bomb us.”
"Promises were of no use to him; his bank account couldn’t use ‘em. A business man he called himself, but most folk called him something else.”
- H.A. Manhood "Death of a Balloon" (1935)
- H.A. Manhood "Death of a Balloon" (1935)
"There have obviously been financial mistakes, they couldn't keep up with the upkeep - it was falling apart"
What happened to Vice Chancellor & Chief Financial Officer who pushed University of Nottingham over the cliff?
They moved onwards & upwards🤮
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
What happened to Vice Chancellor & Chief Financial Officer who pushed University of Nottingham over the cliff?
They moved onwards & upwards🤮
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
'University's cuts will stop geniuses like my Nobel Prize-winning grandad'
His grandchild has said he would be concerned by the direction of the university
www.nottinghampost.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:17 PM
"Promises were of no use to him; his bank account couldn’t use ‘em. A business man he called himself, but most folk called him something else.”
- H.A. Manhood "Death of a Balloon" (1935)
- H.A. Manhood "Death of a Balloon" (1935)
“His voice had little more body that the tearing of a cobweb.”
- C. L. Ray (Cynthia Asquith), The Corner Shop (1926)
- C. L. Ray (Cynthia Asquith), The Corner Shop (1926)
January 7, 2026 at 3:12 PM
“His voice had little more body that the tearing of a cobweb.”
- C. L. Ray (Cynthia Asquith), The Corner Shop (1926)
- C. L. Ray (Cynthia Asquith), The Corner Shop (1926)
I second this. If you enjoy short stories that look at the world through a different, often other-worldly lens, then "An Orchid in My Belly Button" by @sylphsea.bsky.social will see you through the current cold snap admirably.
#Booksky
#Booksky
"An Orchid in my Belly Button" is a collection of short stories by Katy Whimhurst @sylphsea.bsky.social
suffused with magical realism, these stories are often dark and reflective of modern life, while also infusing kindness, wonder, and an offbeat sense of humor
suffused with magical realism, these stories are often dark and reflective of modern life, while also infusing kindness, wonder, and an offbeat sense of humor
January 5, 2026 at 1:32 PM
I second this. If you enjoy short stories that look at the world through a different, often other-worldly lens, then "An Orchid in My Belly Button" by @sylphsea.bsky.social will see you through the current cold snap admirably.
#Booksky
#Booksky
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January 1, 2026 at 8:00 AM
January 3, 2026 at 9:22 PM
“Dishonest men concurred in making honest laws, each recognising that while it was for his own benefit he should be latently dishonest, it was equally for his own benefit that others should be honest.”
- The Curse of Intellect by Machiavelli Colin Clout (Frank Challice Constable) (1895)
- The Curse of Intellect by Machiavelli Colin Clout (Frank Challice Constable) (1895)
January 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM
“Dishonest men concurred in making honest laws, each recognising that while it was for his own benefit he should be latently dishonest, it was equally for his own benefit that others should be honest.”
- The Curse of Intellect by Machiavelli Colin Clout (Frank Challice Constable) (1895)
- The Curse of Intellect by Machiavelli Colin Clout (Frank Challice Constable) (1895)
“… a cold heart brought contentment with a useless life…”
- Colin Clout, The Curse of Intellect (1895)
- Colin Clout, The Curse of Intellect (1895)
Presumably, a list is maintained of the most dislikable & undeserving people in UK Higher Education ...
... and forwarded to the Honours Committee
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-yea...
... and forwarded to the Honours Committee
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-yea...
New Year Honours 2026: knighthood for Leicester vice-chancellor
Professors from UCL and Plymouth Marjon University receive damehoods, while four vice-chancellors commended
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:42 AM
“… a cold heart brought contentment with a useless life…”
- Colin Clout, The Curse of Intellect (1895)
- Colin Clout, The Curse of Intellect (1895)
“The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.”
- George Bernard Shaw (letter to Edward Rose, 1899)
- George Bernard Shaw (letter to Edward Rose, 1899)
January 2, 2026 at 5:50 PM
“The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.”
- George Bernard Shaw (letter to Edward Rose, 1899)
- George Bernard Shaw (letter to Edward Rose, 1899)