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Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social · 7d

Devastated about Jane Goodall. What a giant of science communication and such a champion of empathy, love and understanding for every living being on this planet. If I manage to live my life with a tenth of the integrity and compassion she had, I'll be proud.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

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Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social · 7d

So great to finally see this in print! My piece about Arthur C. Clarke's typewriter which is held in the Science Fiction Special Collections in Liverpool. It appears in "Collecting Stories", a volume by @livunipress.bsky.social about objects held in the cultural collections at the university.

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 8d

Happy Darmok Day to all who celebrate

Bill Joseph @authorbilljoseph.com · 8d

34 years ago. One of the greats! #startrek

An image from Trek News. On this day, September 30, 1991, Star Trek: TNG “Darmok” aired for the first time. The image shows Jean-Luc Picard and the Tamarian Dathon standing side by side, armed with knives, ready to fight the beast.

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 16d

In which I talk with @comicbookyeti.com about comics, science communication, and my new book Pets Tell Tales!
www.comicbookyeti.com/post/jordan-...

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 12d

We need an associate lecturer in history of modern science @stsucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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🦇🤘 Rigg-or mortis 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 13d

Labour: vote for us or you'll get RefUK! RefUK are ahead in the polls! WE MIGHT END UP WITH A REFUK GOVERNMENT NEXT TIME!! BEWARE!!!

Also Labour: let's make a handy database of brown, black and queer people for when RefUK get in and want to persecute them!

Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme

The prime minister believes a new scheme would help crack down on illegal working in the UK.

www.bbc.com

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Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social · 13d

Since we're repeating history, here's the sort of thing we can look forward to: www.theguardian.com/politics/200...

Data fiasco forces ministers into ID cards review

· Gordon Brown apologises unreservedly for blunders · Labour MPs call for scheme to be put on hold

www.theguardian.com

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Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social · 13d

Just taking a trip down memory lane when Blair tried to do this. Here's a photo of some protesters from 2003 when all photographs were taken with potatoes.

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Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social · 13d

No thank you!

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Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you to all that contributed to our Voyager exhibit today and created golden records at the British Science Festival! Some of my favourites are here, but I know I missed many so I'll be going through them once I've recovered a bit! @britsciassoc.bsky.social

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Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social · 25d

We've got materials from the Science Fiction Collections at the University of Liverpool relevant to first contact in the Black-E (in Liverpool) today for the British Science Festival! Come and take a look! @britsciassoc.bsky.social

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Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social · 26d

I'm a serious adult academic, so of course I've spent the last few days making Voyager 1 out of papier mache and bottle tops... See you tomorrow, British Science Festival @britsciassoc.bsky.social!!!

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Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social · 26d

Complete acknowledgement and thank you to @jonathanthornton.bsky.social, a PhD student in the English department at The University of Liverpool, who led the curation of this project, spent a long time digging up absolute gems in the archive, and wrote the texts!

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Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social · 26d

We have an exhibition accompanying our events at the British Science Festival this weekend about the voyager space probes! It explores the ideas and legacy of the Voyager space probes. You can read more context (and view the exhibition!) here: digitalheritagelab.liverpool.ac.uk/voyager

Voyager

digitalheritagelab.liverpool.ac.uk

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Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social · 29d

I'll be on BBC Radio Wales at 6.30pm tonight talking about the British Science Festival and (of course) aliens! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio Wales - Science Cafe, British Science Festival 2025

Adam Walton explores this years British Science Festival.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social · Sep 2

Had so much fun at the weekend at Destination (an unofficial Star Trek convention) talking about the linguistics of First contact! Thanks so much to @jamiebgall.co.uk for organising! So exciting to see so many people engaging in science through fiction and culture!

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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · Aug 30

The wonderful @hanachronism.bsky.social diving into the exolinguistics of Star Trek at the Destination convention.

Hannah little on stage in front of a busy audience who are in colourful cosplay.

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Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social · Aug 28

My British Science Festival events featured here! www.britishscienceassociation.org/blog/explori...

Exploring the wonders of space: five unmissable British Science Festival events

With more than 100 free events on offer, the British Science Festival programme is packed with opportunities to explore science in all its forms. We’ve picked out five highlights under one stellar the...

www.britishscienceassociation.org

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 21

Claudio Maccone, Italian SETI astronomer and mathematician, passed away this week at the age of 77. Claudio was an early proponent of SETI research and was globally known for his work in the field. 🧪 🔭

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Page One @ukpageone.bsky.social · Aug 15

A really fun episode today as we chat with the brilliant Catriona Silvey about writing a time-travelling romcom, why Cambridge is ridiculous, and why she wants to write many different types of stories

Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/5aCdv-UFpes
Or listen on your favourite app: linktr.ee/ukpageone

Cover image for episode 240 of Page One - The Writer's Podcast featuring Catriona Silvey and her book, Love & Other Paradoxes, with the caption "Time Travelling Rom Coms with Catriona Silvey"

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Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social · Aug 18

I'll be speaking about the linguistics of Star Trek at the Science and Community stage at Destination this year in Blackpool! Details here: destinationfanevents.com/Activity/sci...

Science and Community - Destination

We are very pleased to be introducing our Science & Community stage which includes talks from a selection of guests from the world of STEM and invited members of the Sci-Fi Community.

destinationfanevents.com

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Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social · Aug 6

I have written a piece in this book about Arthur C. Clarke's typewriter held in the Science Fiction Special Collections here at Liverpool. This will be a super cool volume with all sorts of unexpected treasures!

Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Aug 6

Collecting Stories is the first book to present the entire range of the @liverpooluni.bsky.social's cultural collections.

Find out more here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · Jul 31

If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal.

If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.

Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · Jul 31

“We’re seeing teens being prevented from accessing content about sexual health, politics and news.

If adults want to see this content, they are forced to prove how old they are with unregulated age verification companies.”

🗣️ ORG's James Baker #OnlineSafetyAct

www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

The UK’s new online safety laws are already a disaster

Since the Online Safety Act was implemented earlier this week, people have been blocked from accessing vital information about Palestine, sexual health, transitioning, self-harm... and labubus

www.dazeddigital.com

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