Clare Qualmann
@cqualmann.bsky.social
Artist, walker, lecturer, library-lover, urban forager, drawing every day. Co-editor Lines of Desire at Living Maps, co-founder walking artists network
Had a beautiful walk around UEL's Stratford campus yesterday, exploring plants and chalking their names. Strong animal the coming through with bristly oxtongue, horse weed, chick weed, colts foot and sow thistle. #CreativeWalking #UrbanNature
November 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Had a beautiful walk around UEL's Stratford campus yesterday, exploring plants and chalking their names. Strong animal the coming through with bristly oxtongue, horse weed, chick weed, colts foot and sow thistle. #CreativeWalking #UrbanNature
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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PrEP is a pill you can take to stop yourself contracting HIV if you come into contact with the virus. It's free on the NHS, and we can refer you!
Find us across the region for HIV testing or to find out more about PrEP
#PrEPAwarenessWeek #PrEP #HIVTesting #GetTested #EndTheStigma #UEqualsU
Find us across the region for HIV testing or to find out more about PrEP
#PrEPAwarenessWeek #PrEP #HIVTesting #GetTested #EndTheStigma #UEqualsU
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
PrEP is a pill you can take to stop yourself contracting HIV if you come into contact with the virus. It's free on the NHS, and we can refer you!
Find us across the region for HIV testing or to find out more about PrEP
#PrEPAwarenessWeek #PrEP #HIVTesting #GetTested #EndTheStigma #UEqualsU
Find us across the region for HIV testing or to find out more about PrEP
#PrEPAwarenessWeek #PrEP #HIVTesting #GetTested #EndTheStigma #UEqualsU
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One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
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Fascist Reform leader Richard Tice would get REALLY upset if you shared this widely on all forms of social media so lots of people can keep it and bring it out before the next election to show that he is as big a liar as Keir Starmer.
So please don't, he would be *very* upset.
So please don't, he would be *very* upset.
November 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Fascist Reform leader Richard Tice would get REALLY upset if you shared this widely on all forms of social media so lots of people can keep it and bring it out before the next election to show that he is as big a liar as Keir Starmer.
So please don't, he would be *very* upset.
So please don't, he would be *very* upset.
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Are you a community group with a passion for heritage? Or a museum, library, gallery or archive with a bold idea for community-led research?
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Are you a community group with a passion for heritage? Or a museum, library, gallery or archive with a bold idea for community-led research?
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
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If you didn't get your ballot, if your dog ate your ballot, if an overzealous manager snuck your ballot into the recycling, if you've realised you should vote after all as it's fairly obvious that managers aren't going to act in the interest of staff (or unis for that matter): REQUEST A REPLACEMENT!
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
If you didn't get your ballot, if your dog ate your ballot, if an overzealous manager snuck your ballot into the recycling, if you've realised you should vote after all as it's fairly obvious that managers aren't going to act in the interest of staff (or unis for that matter): REQUEST A REPLACEMENT!
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Sloe gin done, but the sloes are getting a second go making sloe port. Just add a bottle of red wine and 100g sugar, shake and leave for a couple of months, drain, add 200ml brandy and bottle. Lush. www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/how...
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Sloe gin done, but the sloes are getting a second go making sloe port. Just add a bottle of red wine and 100g sugar, shake and leave for a couple of months, drain, add 200ml brandy and bottle. Lush. www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/how...
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In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change
December 31, 2024 at 2:41 PM
In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change
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⚫ Cofondateur de Médecins sans frontières et créateur du Samu social, Xavier Emmanuelli est mort à 87 ans.
Une "personnalité exceptionnelle pour son engagement sans faille", qui "a marqué l’histoire de la solidarité en France et dans le monde".
Une "personnalité exceptionnelle pour son engagement sans faille", qui "a marqué l’histoire de la solidarité en France et dans le monde".
Xavier Emmanuelli, cofondateur de Médecins sans frontières et créateur du Samu social, est mort à 87 ans - Le Parisien
Également cofondateur de Médecins sans frontières, organisation qui a reçu le prix Nobel de la paix, Xavier Emmanuelli avait créé en 1993 le
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November 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
⚫ Cofondateur de Médecins sans frontières et créateur du Samu social, Xavier Emmanuelli est mort à 87 ans.
Une "personnalité exceptionnelle pour son engagement sans faille", qui "a marqué l’histoire de la solidarité en France et dans le monde".
Une "personnalité exceptionnelle pour son engagement sans faille", qui "a marqué l’histoire de la solidarité en France et dans le monde".
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“She explained how much Covid could hurt her & how vulnerable it felt to be unable to wear a mask to protect herself.
She was a perfect example of why other people need to wear masks even if they don’t personally think Covid will hurt them”
If you want to honour Alice Wong’s memory, please mask up
She was a perfect example of why other people need to wear masks even if they don’t personally think Covid will hurt them”
If you want to honour Alice Wong’s memory, please mask up
Thank You Alice Wong
Alice Wong has passed away and the disability community has lost a leader. I lost a mentor and a friend. The Disabled Ginger wouldn't exist without Alice and everything she taught me.
www.disabledginger.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
“She explained how much Covid could hurt her & how vulnerable it felt to be unable to wear a mask to protect herself.
She was a perfect example of why other people need to wear masks even if they don’t personally think Covid will hurt them”
If you want to honour Alice Wong’s memory, please mask up
She was a perfect example of why other people need to wear masks even if they don’t personally think Covid will hurt them”
If you want to honour Alice Wong’s memory, please mask up
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I’m reading with Elfie Shiosaki and Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal in this water-themed poetry evening in London 6-9pm 26 November. Free, with food after: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-river-w...
my river will carve a starward path
Join us for an evening of poetry & performance on water with Elfie Shiosaki, Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal, & J. R. Carpenter
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I’m reading with Elfie Shiosaki and Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal in this water-themed poetry evening in London 6-9pm 26 November. Free, with food after: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-river-w...
Next up with @livingmaps.bsky.social online seminars, 21st November 10am UK online Tracey Benson will speak on
Mapping resilience: Supporting water knowledge networks across geographies tinyurl.com/yjjddmfb #mapping #water #floodmanagement
Mapping resilience: Supporting water knowledge networks across geographies tinyurl.com/yjjddmfb #mapping #water #floodmanagement
Mapping resilience: Supporting water knowledge networks - Tracey Benson
Join us to explore local understandings of water and flood management in south east Queensland and beyond
tinyurl.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Next up with @livingmaps.bsky.social online seminars, 21st November 10am UK online Tracey Benson will speak on
Mapping resilience: Supporting water knowledge networks across geographies tinyurl.com/yjjddmfb #mapping #water #floodmanagement
Mapping resilience: Supporting water knowledge networks across geographies tinyurl.com/yjjddmfb #mapping #water #floodmanagement
Dug a hole, planted a little tree in it. So warm for November, but hoping it settles in well over the winter (it's a mulberry, will prune to keep it bushy)
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Dug a hole, planted a little tree in it. So warm for November, but hoping it settles in well over the winter (it's a mulberry, will prune to keep it bushy)
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Can anyone recommend any academic essays (that are publicly available online or that you could send me) exploring the parallels between Loki and Ulysses expanding on Snorri's slightly throwaway lines on the topic. Or failing that, general explorations of Troy-as-Asgard? #MedievalSky #ClassicsSky
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Can anyone recommend any academic essays (that are publicly available online or that you could send me) exploring the parallels between Loki and Ulysses expanding on Snorri's slightly throwaway lines on the topic. Or failing that, general explorations of Troy-as-Asgard? #MedievalSky #ClassicsSky
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One thing about academic life I've never reconciled is the contradiction between (a) please use your research and platform to challenge powerful autocracies, influence policy, shape the world etc (b) please don't speak up within your own institution to injustices, your expertise isn't relevant here.
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
One thing about academic life I've never reconciled is the contradiction between (a) please use your research and platform to challenge powerful autocracies, influence policy, shape the world etc (b) please don't speak up within your own institution to injustices, your expertise isn't relevant here.
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Join us fo this exciting workshop with writer, performance artist, and literary scholar Ofir Ashery, and explore different modes of nonlinear writing: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_....
#writing #workshop #rhizomes #creativewriting #fiction #nonfiction
#writing #workshop #rhizomes #creativewriting #fiction #nonfiction
November 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Join us fo this exciting workshop with writer, performance artist, and literary scholar Ofir Ashery, and explore different modes of nonlinear writing: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_....
#writing #workshop #rhizomes #creativewriting #fiction #nonfiction
#writing #workshop #rhizomes #creativewriting #fiction #nonfiction
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Come along to see Livingmapper @mikeduggan4.bsky.social chair a panel discussion on the question of 'who controls the map' at @britishlibrary.bsky.social events.bl.uk/events/onlin...
The Lie of the Land: Who Controls the Map? | British Library
Technologist Ed Parsons, Dr Ollie Ballinger and Dr Pragya Agarwal join cultural geographer Mike Duggan in this panel conversation to explore how maps and c
events.bl.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Come along to see Livingmapper @mikeduggan4.bsky.social chair a panel discussion on the question of 'who controls the map' at @britishlibrary.bsky.social events.bl.uk/events/onlin...
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If you are interested in Anthropology and the work of David Graeber, our live stream with Prof Tim Ingold starts now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJc2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJc2...
November 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If you are interested in Anthropology and the work of David Graeber, our live stream with Prof Tim Ingold starts now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJc2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJc2...
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I work in a drama school. We do loads of really great knowledge exchange which makes a massive difference. Almost none of it contributes to ‘economic growth‘ in narrow Research England terms. We can’t even meet the HEIF threshold now.
What do we do with this?
UURRRGGGHHH
What do we do with this?
UURRRGGGHHH
'On 29 October, Research England revealed that a shake-up in the purpose of HEIF will see the programme—which distributes £280 million annually towards knowledge exchange activities in universities—narrow its funding focus towards activities that can be proven to drive economic growth.' 1/3
HEIF funding ‘refreshed’ to drive government’s growth mission.
Funding formula to be changed as part of shake-up, while institutions will demonstrate EDI commitments.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Funding formula to be changed as part of shake-up, while institutions will demonstrate EDI commitments.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
October 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I work in a drama school. We do loads of really great knowledge exchange which makes a massive difference. Almost none of it contributes to ‘economic growth‘ in narrow Research England terms. We can’t even meet the HEIF threshold now.
What do we do with this?
UURRRGGGHHH
What do we do with this?
UURRRGGGHHH
Love my borough, #hackney and it's flag waving response. Celebrating black history season, and standing against racism, hate and division. #UnityinDiversity #BlackHistoryMonth @hackneycvs.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Love my borough, #hackney and it's flag waving response. Celebrating black history season, and standing against racism, hate and division. #UnityinDiversity #BlackHistoryMonth @hackneycvs.bsky.social
@livingmaps.bsky.social seminar series 'Mapping Fluid Worlds' starts Weds Oct 29th 6-7pm with a talk on 'The Flood Necklace' by Anne-Laure Fréant, a data-object of all recorded flood events of the Loire River in the city Orléans, spanning 1800-2003. Tix here: shorturl.at/mZh8A #rivers #maps #data
The Flood Necklace - Anne-Laure Fréant
Join us in the first event of our Mapping Fluid Worlds Series to explore how data-sculpture can carry a river’s history
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October 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
@livingmaps.bsky.social seminar series 'Mapping Fluid Worlds' starts Weds Oct 29th 6-7pm with a talk on 'The Flood Necklace' by Anne-Laure Fréant, a data-object of all recorded flood events of the Loire River in the city Orléans, spanning 1800-2003. Tix here: shorturl.at/mZh8A #rivers #maps #data
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Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
August 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.