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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 31m

There are spätis. There are good spätis. Then there’s Choriner Straße späti which is, well, next level 💗 #berlin #prenzlauerberg

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 18m

That would be an exoplanetary matter.

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 28m

aka Robert the Frisian
(the caption)

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 2h

This ad about the importance of using the best lightning solutions for your workspace is brought to you from 1530 Wittenberg. The desk user M.L. recommends the illuminating dove to help you stay on task. #skystorians #academicchatter

Martin Luther sits at a writing desk, writing, and a heavenly sent dove is illuminating the room. This is a hand coloured part of a bible print from 1530. You may access a digital copy here: https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0011/bsb00113027/images/index.html

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 10h

Top funny thing from @adapalmer.bsky.social ‘s INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE: “Filippino Lippi’s Saint Thomas Aquinas Interrupts the Annunciation to Introduce the Virgin Mary to Cardinal Carafa who paid for the painting, while patient Archangel Gabriel just has to wait.”

www.wga.hu/support/view...

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 12h

The book actually says that when interest rates are at the zero lower bound, you absolutely should not do fiscal
consolidation. They thought they knew better than the book, we are all living with the consequences.

Yuriy Akopov @yakopov.me · 13h

I sometimes think how frustrating it probably was for Cameron and Osborne. They did everything by the book, and the book says that when you cut the fat and weather the immediate storm, you then get growth and dynamism in response... and that part simply never happened!

Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 14h

For the past 40 days reactionary assaults on the welfare state have been part premised on the idea that welfare is a corrupting force that erodes values and then they cut it, everything gets a bit worse and values don't change.

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 17h

Virtual Learning Environment upgrade.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 17h

slightly shocked and ashamed to learn I spent my entire career working in indoctrination camps.

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Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social · 22h

Clear Blue Skies. 9°C after a slight frost. Sheep in the valley.

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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · 22h

Deadline coming up tomorrow! Join us in Heidelberg.

Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · 17d

We have an opening for a professorship in Heidelberg in labor economics, political economy, or more generally in applied micro. Please share!

Full Professorship (W3) in “Labor Markets / New Political Economy” (f/m/d) | INOMICS

The position is to be filled by the Winter Semester 2026/27 at the Alfred-Weber-Institute for Economics of Heidelberg University.The successful candidate will have an outstanding and internationally v...

inomics.com

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 1d

Brera Madonna: early Renaissance altarpiece 1472, of faultless architectural proportion, with symbolic suspended egg; for donor Federico da Montefeltro,Duke of Urbino (kneeling) by Piero della Francesca, whose mastery of perspective drew on mathematics & geometry; died #OTD 1492.
Pinacoteca di Brera

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 1d

Good piece here, although too kind to Reeves who has played a poor hand extremely badly.

Ben Zaranko @benzaranko.bsky.social · 4d

I've written about the UK's productivity problem for @theobserveruk.bsky.social. Come for the comparison of the UK economy to a hedgehog, stay for the comparison of Rachel Reeves to a Dickens character.

observer.co.uk/news/busines...

In Britain’s ‘hedgehog economy’, growth is wild, spiky – ...

The spines on the OBR’s charts are a signal to the chancellor to pull all the levers to improve our growth prospects

observer.co.uk

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 1d

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 1d

We can be herons,
Just for one day.

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Ian Lance Richardson @ricojosh.bsky.social · 1d

Yorkshire Photo of the Day - The road to Lincolnshire!

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 1d

A sighting tower is a tall structure built by surveyors to give a fixed, elevated point for precise alignment during major engineering works such as tunnels or pipelines. They were vital for projects like the three towers built for Rivelin Tunnel and those associated with the

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

I always loved this picture.

the Annie Liebovitz Vanity Fair fashion shoot 'Hollywood 2016', with a load of A list actresses dressed in black sitting or lying draped around, looking moody, not smiling, a lot of skin on show, primped and sultry. Diane Keaton stands on the right at the back, grinning straight into the camera, also wearing black but in a long sleeved black coat, high neck and black wide brimmed hat. They were her own clothes. She looks like she was enjoying herself enormously.

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited [sic] pic

photo of the chocolate bar from last week’s Conservative Party conference, with ‘Britain’ misspelled as ‘Britian’ on the wrapper.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 1d

"I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it. Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don't you. Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment."

Elmore Leonard, born 11 October 1925.

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 1d

Joachim Frank, who shared the 2017 Chemistry Nobel, calls for universities to resist
#academicsky #Columbia
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/i-wi...

“I will not be bookended by two fascist regimes.” writes Joachim Frank of Columbia University

marketdesigner.blogspot.com

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 1d

nevertheless…

Donald Szlosek @dszlosek.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent advice on paper review:

1. Peer reviewers are volunteers.

2. Map all comments to actions.

3. Address all comments.

4. Focus on improving your paper, instead of arguing.

5. Rarely, and only with strong defense, say no.

6. Don’t take things personally.

7. Avoid recreational revisions.

john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 1d

The key test for coherence, obviously, is whether it distinguishes between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 2d

Gazing in awe & wonder 😮

Inside the spectacular Little Woodbury house at @butserancientfarm.co.uk where the great soot-blackened roof stands without central posts

An incredible family house from Late Iron Age Britain

With @durotrigesdig.bsky.social
@theduncanmackay.bsky.social

📷 My own, Sept

Duncan & Miles inside a roundhouse gazing up at the roof

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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 2d

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 3d

Gorgeous 14th century ogee arched doorway, with elaborate finial 😍, set in roughly built walls covered with lime render (now very patchy, but once fully coated!) 🤩
St. Mary’s Church, Barton Bendish, Norfolk.

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