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Sheila Pinder

@sheilab01.bsky.social

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Personal account: publishing industry; Scottish creative industries; metadata & supply chain. Also following climate, biodiversity & nature writing conversations. Gardener; educator; recovering carer; parkrunner. Based in Scotland & Cumbria.

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Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks for forwarding.

Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 5h

The Anxious Generation share.google/9iLu6OeIwyET...
By Jonathat Haidt is an excellent read in context of this kind of discussion. The opening pages really focus attention on the perils of non-regulation

The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most difficult spaces – communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the m...

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Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 3d

This needs fixing.

Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 3d

Most data centre cooling systems, certainly in the UK where water is cheaper than electricity, are water-based, so the risk of TFA contamination of water is heightened.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How England’s outdated water tracking system leaves regulators in the dark

Experts warn accurately monitoring consumption by bulk users such as farmers, datacentres and businesses can be all but impossible

www.theguardian.com

Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 3d

Train reading (en route to a funeral). Given my mood and the state of the world, I needed something with a thread of hope.
Will report back.

Cover of AL Kennedy's Alive in the Merciful Country depicts a sunrise (or sunset) sky in apricot hues. Bottom left of the cover is a dome (possibly St Paul's?) And flying birds are silhouettes against the sky).

Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 4d

They are edible artworks!

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Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 5d

And it's worth it for the extraordinarily beautiful moments, like this one last summer.

Dappled white clouds making a variety of patterns over a blue sky. In the foreground is a rose garden with apricot coloured roses and a metal obelisk. In the mid distance towers a large ash tree.

Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks for asking, Don. No, although we're in an elevated and exposed position, the house is a converted stone-built, slate roofed barn. It's very sturdy, so so far, so good. It's the garden that suffers. I know I'm a bit mad to even attempt the gardening I do here. But I can't resist trying.

Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 5d

It was Doug Armato (who I think you would know) posting pictures of the amazing baking that goes on in their cabin that first switched me from Dutch Apple Cake to French. It's now my goto recipe!

Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 5d

Today, I will mostly be baking French apple cake.
#StormAmy
Had to pick fruit slightly before full ripeness: the wind took down one of the upright posts on the espalier frame. Thought we were going to lose three trees to being uprooted, so had to take the weight off.

A mixture of apples laid out on the counter tops. In the foreground is a browny-green russet variety. Others are a variety of shades of red and green.

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Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 6d

Take note

Vox @vox.com · 6d

Our current predicament is not unprecedented. We can learn from how past societies survived through, and ended, their crisis periods.

Hundreds of societies have been in crises like ours. An expert explains how they got out.

An analysis of historical crises over the past 2,000 years offers lessons for avoiding the end times.

www.vox.com

Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 7d

Blimey

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St Andrew’s Book Festival London @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social · 11d

TWO MONTHS TO GO 🎉

From household names to debut authors and spoken word artists we look forward to welcoming you to this celebration of Scotland’s writers in the heart of London.

📅 26th-30th November 2025
📖 See you there!
🎟️ Tickets: standrewsbookfestival.org/events

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Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 13d

100% identify with this

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Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing @bloomsburylit.bsky.social · 14d

Have an idea you would like to develop into an academic book?

Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship are open until Oct. 1st to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).

More info: https://bit.ly/4mHlgcn

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Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 21d

My best classroom day ever was when my Mum (age 12 in 1945 when play first performed) visited my class with photos of her Mum (age 12 when the play was written).
It was a magical afternoon with them asking her about her childhood in WWII and her Mum's in tge early 1900s

Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 21d

Of all the set texts, this is the one I hope doesn't leave the curriculum: the teenagers I taught were living in difficult circumstances... and the themes really resonated with them

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Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 21d

Try being called Sheila

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21d

Conference organizers: If you want people who work outside of academia (or financially secure company), to give a talk at your conference bc you value their expertise, it's unreasonable to make them pay for registration. Artists/Nonprofit folks do not have the funding to pay you to share expertise.

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Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 22d

Really interesting and thought-provoking, on ma y levels @kristiedegaris.bsky.social thank you for taking the time to write it, and for sharing it here.

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