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Lucy M

@lucyelm.bsky.social

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medievalist • MA • interested in: royal legitimation, historical narratives and legends in 13-14th cent. Wales, Scotland, and England • in a constant state of wanderlust • in Melbourne/Naarm • she/her

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · Feb 24

As we head into the new academic year in Australia, I'd like to reshare this document of #neurodivergent study tips that I compiled.

It's based entirely on tips by neurodivergent people, and I have had learning advisors tell me it was very helpful and had good info.

#historysky #academicsky

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Neurodivergent Study Tips.pdf

drive.google.com

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Fio Trethewey @fiotrethewey.bsky.social · 6h

This is SUPER COOL

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 6h

hey friends — if you haven't seen, The Verge is running a series on the future of being trans on the internet. it's got a bunch of very cool stories from talented writers! you should check it out www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

The future of being trans on the internet

The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?

www.theverge.com

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 17h

It felt like an extremely radical thing to say "you can just not teach them how to use this. i don't even know what it means to teach them AI skills but you can also just not. it might make your students more hireable, honestly."

But this idea that it's a tool whose existence justifies its use?

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 6h

You can just say no 💯

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 17h

I was with a panel of people who were all making good arguments about why AI will never replace this or that skill or job, so maybe we'll be okay, and I finally said to one teacher: "you can just say no. you don't have to use it. it steals from people and teaches no skills. it's not a good tool."

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 6h

Woah, how cool!

Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Scientists just found several fossil bumblebees covered in pollen that directly matches fossil flowers nearby.

The 24-million-year-old discovery reveals the oldest known evidence connecting pollinators to the pollinated.

#Paleontology #NationalFossilDay

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New at @sciencenews.bsky.social

These ancient bumblebees were found with their pollen source

Insects have long pollinated plants, but evidence of ancient pairing is rare. Fossils now show bees and linden trees goes back 24 million years.

www.sciencenews.org

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 9h

More about this report was published in Pulse www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinica...

Regular Covid vaccinations needed to reduce cardiac risks

Regular Covid vaccinations are needed to reduce associated cardiac risks, experts at the European Cardiology Society have concluded.

www.pulsetoday.co.uk

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 16h

Feels like an interrelated thing - making things 'easier' makes it easier to engage in this one thing, but when that one thing gets left behind or breaks - now what?

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 16h

Anecdotally, but something I've noticed of the current gen going through university is that they have a lot less tech literacy than my generation did. They've grown up with tech from the start but because a lot of it is so much simpler to use now its harder for them to troubleshoot?

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 22h

There is not a single reason to outsource your creativity to a computer.

Not one.

To do so removes the very point of being creative in the first place.

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 16h

Petition for UK universities to come to a consensus for how long they want a PhD proposal to be

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 20h

Universe is telling you it’s stop using the laptop time

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 20h

memo to self

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

Periodic reminder: if you get a generic that is less effective for you, of any medicine, filing a Form 3500 with the FDA's MedWatch if you're able contributes to getting non-bioequivalent generics pulled from the market: www.fda.gov/safety/medic...

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 22h

Me, currently drinking protein powder: gdi

(I need to eat with meds in the morning and drinks are easier than food 😅)

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me it’s a Melbourne Spring without telling me it’s a Melbourne Spring

Screenshot of a mobile weather app. The max temperature is bouncing around between 30 Celsius and 14 Celsius over the next week

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 1d

This is an excellent image

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 1d

Even trying to parse it as an adult to see what it could be saying if it wasn’t nonsense is difficult with how much it’s all nonsense

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 1d

I’d say that is covered under a mental health day so a health day tbh, they don’t need to know the details

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 1d

Oh it’s lovely!!!

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 1d

#HistoryEducation

Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Are you using #maps in research?

Want to learn about their history and use as sources?

In London in late January?

Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!

#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️

Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place

Discovery Course 1

www.sas.ac.uk

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 1d

Hope you feel better soon!

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 1d

If it’s cynical, I’m joining you in the cynical boat because Ooft

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 1d

This looks fantastic!

Kristen Haas Curtis @hellomizk.bsky.social · 7d

My buddy’s book is out now! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270096... Fantastic read for my medievalist friends and fellow @guildmedmak.bsky.social mates! E-book available open access!!

Public Engagement in the European Middle Ages - Arc Humanities Press

This manual uses the medieval past to teach modern scholars how to succeed in public engagement. Combining a careful study of public engagement in Europe bet...

www.arc-humanities.org

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Do not ever apologize for sharing your art, even when world events are awful.

I know I still feel badly about it, but think of what you’d tell a friend. You’d tell them to share their joy, right?

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 2d

To be fair, I am about to hit year 4 of a chronic neck injury that began while I was working on my laptop on the couch…

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 2d

How dare you use your cognitive function for anything that isn’t work…

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

“You don’t look sick”.

Chronic illness is often invisible

Many disabilities are invisible

People can look “fine” on the outside and have devastating disease processes inside their body

They can be living in constant pain, fatigue & exhaustion

Don’t judge a book by its cover

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