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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...
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
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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...
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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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
Pine martens may help red squirrels. www.welshwildlife.org/blog/alice-c...
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Call for Scottish Government to review foreign language provision

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
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@rorycj.bsky.social Certain illnesses including neurological ones to be considered as ‘brakes’ to obtaining visas for US. Unclear if this includes tourist visas.
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 6:25 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.
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
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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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....."
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Sternfunkelnde Nacht. ✨
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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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...
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
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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.
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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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
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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!
November 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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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.
October 30, 2025 at 10:52 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"
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...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 31, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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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
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Olga Kevelos, UK metallurgist. #WWII worked in Mills bomb labs & Royal Observatory. 1943-5 one of "Idle Women" working narrowboats on Grand Union Canal working 18 hours a day. 1950 motorcycle trial rider won Gold medal @ International 6-Day Trial. d. #OTD 28 Oct 2009 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Ke...
October 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Today's piece of #PointlessPedantry is that these are not cannon. Artillery pieces on ships are known as guns (unless they are C17 42 pounders, when gun calibres were identified by name, not weight of shot).

The fact that these fire roundshot, not cannon balls can wait for another day.
October 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Cnut. He's forgotten about Cnut, who went on pilgrimage to Rome in 1027. Oh, and Edward I, who spent 2 months at the court of Gregory X in 1273. Otherwise, all over the detail, as per.
October 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.
October 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Incredibly minor point in the grand scheme of the horror of this policy, but this would mean that many women with ILR would be unable to go on maternity leave unless they had a very high salary or an amazing employer package.
The Conservatives have drafted the legislation.

ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.

If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)

The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
October 22, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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For women, the problem is compounded by stupidly small pockets. Women now live in a world where phone manufacturers think we have hands the size of bears, while jeans manufacturers think we have hands the size of pixies. pudding.cool/2018/08/pock...
October 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM