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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve got tickets for December. So looking forward to it.

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · Sep 11

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).

You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!

#sociology

More 👇

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

jobportal.ku.dk

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 16h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 20h

Cross posting this to alert colleagues in #scicomm #sts #envhums #scipol about alarming developments at the BBC Written Archive. So many fundamental studies in these areas have drawn on this resource; it would be disastrous to lose access to it.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23h

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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Paul Eggleston @pauleggleston.bsky.social · 14h

When I was forced to sell my drum kit and gig using kitchen pots and pans instead, that's when I knew I'd hit wok bottom.

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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 13h

I know I’m not team bovid, but it would take a heart of stone not to admire this 10,600 year old Aurochs from Vig in Denmark. #archaeology 🏺

Photo of a huge cattle skeleton - it’s easily 6ft at the shoulder and is stained dark brown after being buried in sediment. It’s standing on a low black shiny plinth and has large forward-curving horncores.

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Steve @chompmancobra.bsky.social · 16h

Nature plays a cruel trick on them. For much of their waspy lives they go out, get caterpillars and stuff, bring them back to feed to the larvae, which secrete sugary stuff for them to eat. Come autumn, no more larvae, no more sugary stuff, so they're blundering around trying to steal your Fanta

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 20h

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 21h

I'm hiring! 4 year post doc on my Wellcome Trust grant -- come be inventive about isotopes in teeth with me in PPN Turkiye :) www.lancashire.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...

please share!

Post Doctoral Research Assistant - 1160-25

Thinking of the next step in your career? Take a look at our exciting new role, Post Doctoral Research Assistant based at our Other. Find out more and apply he…

www.lancashire.ac.uk

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Prof Grant Stentiford @cefaschiefsci.bsky.social · 1d

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🦞#CefasScience

A high-quality reference genome and tissue expression atlas for the European lobster (Homarus gammarus)

The European lobster ( Homarus gammarus ) and its sister species, the American lobster ( Homarus americanus ), are notable for their remarkable immunity and longevity, with lifespans reaching up to 80...

www.biorxiv.org

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

I can still remember my late grandparents’ number from the 1990s.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Jeannine Baker @nenieb.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic piece by Kate Murphy responding to the devastating change of policy at the @BBC Written Archives Centre, which will make it impossible to undertake new independent research using the collection. cstonline.net/defending-th... #mediahistory

DEFENDING THE WAC: RECOVERING THE INVISIBLE WOMEN OF THE BBC by Kate Murphy

My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on Woman’s Hourand had applied for a three-month attachment to what was then the Diversity Centre…

cstonline.net

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Martyn Stonehouse @martynaudio.bsky.social · 1d

are there any brick experts here on Bluesky... asking for a friend (not really!) Maybe you know someone @derbyshirearch.bsky.social ? Please repost!

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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 1d

🧬 Microscopy Monday Challenge!

Our mixed zooplankton sample is full of tiny swimmers — can you spot and guess any of the species in this clip?

🔍 Hint: Look at the antennae, spinning cilia, or little claws — that can give you clues.
Drop your guesses below ⬇️

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XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social · 3d

Emperor Huizong of the Song (1082–1135) may have faltered as a ruler, but his artistry was unmatched. In his paintings, cats often stalk butterflies, a scene both tender and symbolic.
The word for cat (māo) echoes mào (耄), meaning old age, while butterfly (dié) sounds like dié (耋), 1/2

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 1d

Come and work with us! We have a two-year, half-time postdoctoral research associate position working on the @storymachine-ht.bsky.social project www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... If you’re interested in #DigitalHumanities and/or folklore, we’d love to hear from you. Closing date 27 October.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Project StoryMachine:London Senate House - Hybrid

The School of Advanced Study (SAS) comprises eight internationally renowned research institutes as well as centres in Digital Humanities and Public Engagement. It has four nationally and internationally recognised specialist research libraries. An important component of the humanities national infrastructure and part of the University of London, this is a really exciting time to join the School of Advanced Study as we are at the start of a new strategic plan.

www.jobs.london.ac.uk

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 1d

If you wondered why Nigel Farage turned up in US Congress in September speaking about "freedom of speech", this story has the answer

His appearance was orchestrated by a powerful American anti-abortion group that is trying to increase its influence in the UK by influencing the free speech debate

Jane Bradley @bradleyjane.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administration and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics

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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · 1d

4x4-year, fully-funded PhD opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary group at Trinity College Dublin 2026-2030.

One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods.

www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...

PhD Opportunity - Trinity East - Graduate Studies | Trinity College Dublin

Professor Timothy Stott and his team are inviting applications to doctoral research on the heritage of Trinity East in Grand Canal Dock, Dublin.

www.tcd.ie

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Jules Howard @juleshoward.bsky.social · 1d

MONEY (SPIDERS) MAKE THE WORLD GO AROUND. The dewdrops from this nice October mist we're having have brought out the little web-gardens of the money spider Lepthyphantes tenuis (mostly, l think).

Thousands. Ridiculously abundant. You probably past about a million on your commute today. Say hi!

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 2d

Yes (and if you’re looking for a thread that connects protests in the form of frog costumes, naked bike rides, and processions of the Blessed Sacrament, that’s probably it).

Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 2d

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 2d

Alas poor Bild Noin. They will be missed.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 2d

It’s the 150th anniversary of the birth of Aleister Crowley, the man who – among *many* other things – once put an acrostic in an “apparently innocuous book of devotional verse” which spelt out ‘The Virgin Mary I desire but arseholes set my prick on fire’ www.weiserantiquarian.com/pages/books/...

A young Crowley, with a silly bow tie on, looking at camera with self-conscious intensity

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 4d

DUTCH AUCTION in support of salivaryglandcancer.uk

In my shop, this piece is priced at £165. At noon every day (BST) the price drops by £10, until it sells.

First DM gets it. UK shipping only.

Half of what you pay will go to SGC UK.

Please repost for widest coverage. Thank you :)

Hand carved #lettering on Hopton Wood limestone. I AM WHAT I AM.

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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 2d

I think these two should do - must leave room for books as well😃

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