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Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · 7h

Looking forward to chairing this event in just over a week!

#envhist #envhum

Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · Sep 9

I'll be hosting an online event on encountering extinction in the archives with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social as part of The National Archives' Research Routes series.

Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...

Extinction and hope: Navigating animal encounters in the archive

What hope can be found in encounters with animals in archival documents?

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 2h

Thomas Dugdale Cantrell's 'The Arrival of the Jarrow Marchers in London,' (1936) depicts the 200 unemployed men who completed a near 300 mile walk to London to protest against the poverty suffered in Jarrow following the closure of its shipyard; the juxtaposition of society.

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 2h

Tiny animals saved from the waves, along with a Playmobil zookeeper, also found on a beach. #beachcombing

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 5h

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

We found that the UK’s top scientific institutions, from the Met Office to the UK Health Security Agency, have inadequate institutional defences.

If an incoming government wanted to weaken the role of science and evidence in policy making, it could do so shockingly fast. 2/11

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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, that’s 1,000s more than I’ve managed. Go you!!

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 1d

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a hidden gem: the C12th Romanesque chancel at St. George in Hampnett, Gloucestershire. I’ll let the photograph do the talking… #thread

Interior of St George’s Church, Hampnett, Gloucestershire: richly painted Norman chancel with geometric wall patterns, arched ceiling, tiled floor, and an altar lit by stained glass.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 2d

If you want top musicians, you have to have students taking music degrees.

That includes the ones who didn't go to university, but took guitar lessons or were inspired by a school music teacher, rely on top producers or session musicians who acquired their skills on a music degree, etc etc etc.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 2d

-UK net economic benefits of international students starting in 21/22 =£37.4 billion.
-Net economic contribution per constituency during their studies=£58 million.
-That's £560 per member of the population.
So stop the hostile rhetoric & stupid policies!
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

International students in UK higher education

The government met its 2030 international student recruitment target of 600,000 ten years early and numbers have continued to increase since 2020. This briefing looks at student numbers, government po...

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 2d

There are now just 5 of my 2026 nature collection calendars left.
I create my photos using recent neuroscientific research so that looking at them dials down stress. Each calendar=12 v high quality frameable 28cm square prints of my botanical & nature collection photos:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 2d

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 2d

At least three of the participants in Outsiders have died since I began that project, Stephen, Billy and Peter. Wes from Robert Gumpert’s Division Street project in San Francisco, who is featured in the Outsiders exhibition, is also dead. It’s an avoidable tragedy in a country as wealthy as this.

Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 2d

With heavy hearts we release our findings of our annual investigation into the deaths of people experiencing homelessness in 2024.
Read more on our site here:

museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...

Our investigation finds that 1611 people experiencing homelessness died in 2024 - a 9% increase on the previous year. — Museum of Homelessness

We are devastated to share our latest research into the deaths of those who die. It has revealed the continued impact at the sharpest edge of the homelessness crisis, as the Labour Government has fail...

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 2d

when i started my phd in 2010 one thing i definitely underestimated was how much of my life 15 years later would be “making PowerPoints”

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

It's properly unconscionable that the Home Office has created this situation. It should never have been allowed to happen and once it did happen it should have been immediately reversed.

The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 2d

🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 2d

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, because they can. Govt favouritism and masses of investment definitely help.
My fear is for the many subjects that will once again be available only to those with A*s.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 2d

All I think about when reading this is how many jobs the money spent on that pile of brick and glass could have saved in smaller humanities departments - my own colleagues. It’s like building a monument of gold in a landscape of wrack and ruin.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

'The gleaming palace to the humanities – the single largest building project ever undertaken by the University of Oxford made possible by the largest philanthropic gift it has ever received – stands in stark contrast to the beleaguered, shrinking state of the rest of the sector.'

Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’

New building which brings together disciplines for the first time will also open its doors to the public to engage with big questions facing the world

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you @georgemonbiot.bsky.social for continuing to point out UK govt contempt for both science and ppl with ME/CFS

My reality: I gave a talk abroad 4 weeks ago, so now, after morning shower, I need to lie down for 1-2 hrs

20 minutes of dog walk? Lose 1/2 a day of work

We just want to be well.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 3d

RISQUE GALORE

Dozens of sex toys have been found washed up on a Scottish beach.

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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 3d

I’m really enjoying teaching. It’s a great reminder of why this job is worthwhile.

🎵 Archaeology, young and cool and wild and free 😃🎵

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 3d

I've been working on a book proposal and alternating between "this is meaningful" and "this is pointless," and a friend recently shared this quote that she stumble on in a Goodreads review: "Every book is a grand gesture of optimism on the part of both the reader and writer." Keep creating, friends.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 3d

A paean to privatised public transport.

Today I had to go from Stockport to Salisbury. So I bought a ticket

Stockport > Bristol > Salisbury

The drive to Stockport should have taken 35 minutes. Satnav said it would take 2 hours, and I'd miss my train.

So I went to Macclesfield, where I found...

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 3d

Take the 5 min. I access everything except slack, the public library, medical device monitor, and email from my browser these days

Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 3d

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day

You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.

www.pcmag.com

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