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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 4h

My question exactly. This one photo captures my whole junior high / high school syllabus in the 70s-early 80s—in a conservative rural school district. ?????

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 1d

Saw them every day on Bute in early Sept. Such wonderful birds.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 1d

😚

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 1d

Truth here. Same for any software too I think. Indexing is a vital stage of presenting my own work that guard jealously; it’s too interpretative to leave to a program or an LLM.

Society of Indexers @indexers.bsky.social · 7d

Thinking that surely book indexing is something AI could do? Think again. @asindexing.bsky.social has released its statement on indexing using LLM-based AI tools - these tools simply don't do a good job of indexing. For a quality index, use a human indexer. buff.ly/X7Vuesc

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed! Weekly Wednesday ringers’ practice is a cherished part of acoustic life in college.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! Always fun.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Mark!

Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 1d

By some fluke of scheduling I ended up with the inaugural lecture in the Faculty’s new home this morning. (People did attend, but I was there paranoid-early of course.)

Empty lecture theatre stage in Oxford’s new Humanities Centre, with first slide on screen for my ‘Religion and Literature 1550-1660. Next pic looking out into the theatre.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 3d

One of my favourite episodes in Cantab history. The depositions from it are priceless.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 3d

Essay topic potential here.

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 3d

And captiues to redeeme with price of bras,

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 4d

@markkirby.bsky.social would know for certain but I don’t think so; the book presses (1738) are now in their 3rd library space; there’s a watercolour of them in the second (1920s).

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 4d

A touch of May in October.

Looking down on a bouquet of pink old fashioned roses, pastel zinnias, and pink snapdragons.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 4d

With outstanding curation and text from @markkirby.bsky.social @liber-ray.bsky.social and Lucy Matheson (alas, not here).

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 4d

Celebrating 50 years since the conversion of one of Oxford's most iconic buildings into one of its most beautiful libraries @lincoln.ox.ac.uk (Yours truly also in the slideshow getting very excited showing things from the historic collection.)
lincoln.ox.ac.uk/news/lincoln...

Lincoln Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Library | Lincoln College Oxford

Lincoln Library 50th Anniversary

lincoln.ox.ac.uk

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 4d

Odd to stumble on one's name in catalogue metadata. This was a copy of Andrewes' XCVI Sermons that I used almost every day during my JRF (post-doc)—I didn't damage it (!), but it seemed an obvious way to say thank you.

Screenshot of an online library catalogue entry with 'Conserved with the support of Peter McCullough (Adopt a Book sponsor), 2020.'

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 5d

The best thing about Oxford’s new Radcliffe Quarter development is the vista to the old OUP gate.

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 6d

The fact that the UK govt blocks a report on the impact of rainforest collapse in south America says so much:

1. They know climate change and the impacts are real and will be deadly

2. Instead of planning for solutions, their response is to:
- suppress the information
- block refugees
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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 6d

Officials in Downing Street have blocked publication of a report warning that the collapse of tropical rainforests could push up food prices in British supermarkets.

Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration

www.thetimes.com

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 6d

no I didn't--and thank you!

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 7d

It’s clean-out-the-greenhouse night. (Not the burrata, obviously),

Two white plates of caprese, with sliced tomatoes over a bed of basil leaves, topped with torn burrata.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7d

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations!

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 9d

Truth.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 9d

Ok, just had the leisure to enlarge. Engagement membrillo? 👀

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 9d

Good point. 👇

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 9d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 9d

We need to get over the fact that no one takes VHS cassettes on free cycle days.