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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s more on the quarrying. Were the ponds an intended or unintended outcome?
www.wirralvikings.org.uk/docs/promoti...

www.wirralvikings.org.uk

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · 4d

'Thor's stone' rising above Thurstaton [=Thorstein+tūn] Heath (Wirral), the latter used for common grazing since time began. The stone’s encircled by a broken ring of peaty ponds, the result of quarrying - but I can't help thinking of other monuments where the juxtaposition was deliberate

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · 19d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22d

People are constantly asking me — what can I do? Here are five, practical next steps you can take to make a difference. https://youtu.be/8W-lVRQQGtI?feature=shared

Five Ways to Fight Trump's Fascism

Robert Reich

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Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks to the excellent work by Annemarie Franz and Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeology, producing and editing the latest Govan Early Medieval podcast was an absolute breeze, and what an exciting early medieval discovery in Govan Old's 1,500-year-old churchyard!

open.spotify.com/episode/06EP...

Breaking News: Early Medieval Gateway Found at Govan Old?

open.spotify.com

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · 23d

I can't be sure, but I think so. Alison Taylor, a geologist who researched pingos in the S. Cambs. landscape certainly thought so, as did Christopher Taylor, the great landscape historian.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 23d

Resurrecting ponds and lakes would add biodiversity and possibly also provide more freshwater fish for our diets (presumably there's a whole possible thread about historic fishponds). And we just need to make ponds where the landscape tells us they should be!

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · 23d

I like this so much.

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · 23d

That's an interesting question! Well worth asking Essex Wildlife Trust? www.essexwt.org.uk

Home | Essex Wildlife Trust

We are the county's leading conservation charity, committed to protecting wildlife and inspiring a lifelong love of nature.

www.essexwt.org.uk

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 23d

PS I wrote a very short piece some years ago about the 'Flood and Flow' project to map ancient place names and their relation to water: www.tim-waterman.co.uk?p=376

Tim Waterman | Flows off the Tongue: Charting climate change futures in ancient place names

www.tim-waterman.co.uk

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · 23d

Are spring- and rain-fed lakes of water that appear in parts of Cambridgeshire in winter also the remains of similar ponds? bsky.app/profile/drsu...

Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · Jan 1

THREAD. So much rain has the fields floating in water. Not quite the conditions yet of 2021 - the images in this thread - but, in the east of England, still a practical lesson explaining so much about land use before under-field drainage began in the 17thC.

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · 23d

Inspiring #research in action from @carlsayer.bsky.social, restoring #ice-age ponds in Norfolk. The resurrected ponds include rare species lost from other, surviving ponds, such as various-leaved pondweed, which is only found on one other site in Norfolk.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds

An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’

www.theguardian.com

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 25d

One of the highlights of Words on the Wave at @NMIreland is Cod. Sang. 51—an 8th-c. Irish Gospel book with rare depictions of the Crucifixion & Second Coming. On display until 24 Oct. 🕊️
More: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

Depiction of the Second Coming in the ‘Irish Gospels of St Gall’; St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang 51, p. 267. © Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 26d

Benedict Cumberbatch reciting powerful words by the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish at the Together for Palestine concert at Wembley, London. Happening right now and live streamed (link below).

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · Sep 13

A quick reminder: if you read something you love, don't forget to write to the author to thank them for it, and tell them why you loved it.

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Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society @sanhs.org · Sep 13

*EVENT*

Brean Down Guided Walk

Sunday 28th September
11am - 1pm

Places are limited - please book via email [email protected] or call 01823 272429
Families welcome - we kindly ask for a £5 donation per adult

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[email protected] @philolithia.bsky.social · Sep 8

The thick time mountain clapper bridge forever crossing the black waters of the Afon Arthog stream and leading to the enigmatic ancient hut remains of Llys Bradwen #Meirionnydd

Photo of roughly hewn giant grey stones forming a bridge over a black stream dappled in sunlight. The surrounding grass is bright lime green and there is a jumble of more grey rocks on the opposite stream bank and a few small leafy summer trees. In the distance a large grey craggy mountain looms up to a grey cloudy sky - but the pervasive light by the bridge is bright and clear. The sort of place you always want to return to and will always be there.

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · Sep 8

The fabulous wall paintings of Pickering church, which cover both sides of the nave. Done c1460, they were whitewashed over 100yrs later at the Reformation. Uncovered again in 1852, they were restored in the 1870s.
Here’s the martyrdom of St Edmund (below) & St Thomas Becket (above).

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · Sep 7

At the other end of the conveyor belt publishers promise just those things to get us to sign our rights in our work away - but the contract they want us to sign does nothing to protect us. If you have time take a look at
bsky.app/profile/drsu...

Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · Aug 21

AI & authors' rights... (short thread)

I had an email on 10 August from the publisher of one of my books.

It said I'd shortly be receiving another email from them inviting me to opt in to licensing them to use my work for AI.

And they listed the principles underpinning that usage .....

Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · Sep 4

And here's the link to the paper - just published www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Chinese identity of St Mark’s bronze ‘Lion’ and its place in the history of medieval Venice | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

The Chinese identity of St Mark’s bronze ‘Lion’ and its place in the history of medieval Venice

www.cambridge.org

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · Sep 4

What research! What a story! It seems the statue of the winged lion in Venice may have been a tomb guardian brought from China by Niccolò & Maffeo Polo - &, once in Venice, it was modified to resemble the Republic’s emblem – the winged lion of St Mark ...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Venice’s Lion of St Mark’s Square was at least part made in China, study suggests

Isotope analysis finds copper ore came from Yangtze River basin while statue could be a repurposed Tang Dynasty tomb guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · Sep 3

WHAT?!

I just can't .....

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Frisia Coast Trail @frisiacoasttrail.bsky.social · Aug 22

With all the current commotion of a new landscape sculpture to come 'Dijk van een Wijf' (dyke of a woman) of artist Nienke Brokke, read our short blog post earlier:

The Mother of all Dykes

Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to get down and dirty. Nope, this article is not about lesbians. This dyke is not made of flesh and bones, but it is made of dirt, dung and, ok probably ‘bone…

frisiacoasttrail.blog

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