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Susanna Reece
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Law, knitting, botany, Italian in descending order of competence. Oxford, Shetland and Italy.
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · 17d
Around #LakeIseo #LagoIseo in #Pisogne #Lombardia #Italia
A view of boats on Lake Iseo in Pisogne, Italy with mountains and blue skies A view of Lake Iseo in Pisogne, Italy with a ferry port, blue and white posts and greenery in the water and a background of mountains and blue skies A sculpture of two fish skeletons hanging vertically on the lakeside in Pisogne, Italy with buildings and mountains in the background A statue of a white horse with its head looking down on the lakeside in Pisogne, Italy with buildings and mountains in the background
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d
Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758), Scottish botanical illustrator known for the book "A Curious Herbal" 1737. Blackwell published her hand drawn, engraved and coloured work in order to raise funds to free her husband from debtors prison. #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print of a purple poppy on a stem with leaves, with another stem having a bud about to flower from thd same plant, against a cream background
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OC Media @ocmedia.bsky.social · 2d
🎬 OC REVIEWS: Georgian director Anka Gujabidze’s debut film Temo Re is a visual treat for lovers of monochrome photography.

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Review | Temo Re — An artistic yet humorous commentary on Georgian society
Georgian director Anka Gujabidze’s debut film is a visual treat for lovers of monochrome photography.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d
'Constellations' by contemporary US artist illustrator Maggie Vandewalle #womensart
Illustration featuring a bear, a racoon, a mouse and a hare looking up from a grassy field to the starry night sky
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 3d
Coming next month: The 50th anniversary edition of The Wind's Twelve Quarters!

This design nods back to the original hardcover jacket, which was by Patricia Voehl. The new cover is designed by Jamie Lynn Kerner.

Harper Perennial publishes this edition on November 18th.
The 50th anniversary edition of The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin has a cream-colored cover with a central circular design. The circle is divided into quarters; the upper left is three arcs in pink, a divided green, and black; upper right is a dragon; lower right is the moon surrounded by clouds; and lower left is a wizard among knotted ropes.
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Ross Mackenzie @rossmackenzie.bsky.social · 4d
Looking down on Pertisau from the Karwendel Bergbahn #Achensee #Tirol
Cable cars High above an alpine lake Cable cars above an alpine lake Looking down on an alpine village beside a lake
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Ross Mackenzie @rossmackenzie.bsky.social · 6d
Falzthurntal - Naturpark Karwendel #Pertisau #Achensee #Austria
Autumn colours along a dried up river bed Autumn colours in an alpine valley Alpine valley Autumn colours in an alpine valley
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Ross Mackenzie @rossmackenzie.bsky.social · 10d
Evening light around the Montecchio bridge on the Oglio river #boarioterme
Oligo river at sunset Oligo river at sunset Oligo river at sunset Oligo river at sunset
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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 10d
Also set up W as your search shortcut for Wikipedia, so you only need to type e.g. “w Frances Oldham Kelsey” and you get straight to the Wikipedia page when you need to know something.
emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 11d
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13d
Rachel Ruysch (1664 – 1750), still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands who specialized in flowers, achieving international fame in her lifetime #WomensArt
Painting of a busy bouquet of flowers on a surface with different blossoms one above the other against a black background
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Shetland News @shetnews.co.uk · 14d
A public consultation into the next Northern Isles ferry contract has been extended after parts of Shetland were left with no access to the internet.
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Ferry consultation extended due to internet disruption
A PUBLIC consultation into the next Northern Isles ferry contract has been extended after parts of Shetland were left with no access to the internet. The...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14d
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
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 15d
“Over the last 70 years, the #ECHR has repeatedly stepped in when domestic courts were unable to provide the protection we now take for granted and cherish,” says the UK’s outgoing judge at the European Court of Human Rights👇

🔗 www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ecthr-m... via @lawsocietygazette.bsky.social
ECtHR 'more necessary and relevant' now, says outgoing UK judge
Leading silk says he 'hardly recognises' the good work of the ECHR from recent criticism of Strasbourg court.
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · 17d
Around #LakeIseo #LagoIseo in #Pisogne #Lombardia #Italia
A view of boats on Lake Iseo in Pisogne, Italy with mountains and blue skies A view of Lake Iseo in Pisogne, Italy with a ferry port, blue and white posts and greenery in the water and a background of mountains and blue skies A sculpture of two fish skeletons hanging vertically on the lakeside in Pisogne, Italy with buildings and mountains in the background A statue of a white horse with its head looking down on the lakeside in Pisogne, Italy with buildings and mountains in the background
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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 17d
Want to up your #WildFlowerID game this winter?
We just launched our Winter Webinar programme!
7-8pm, every Tuesday from 4 Nov - 10 Feb.
Thanks to funding from @daera-ni.gov.uk, these 10 great plant ID webinars are FREE for all of you to attend!
Programme & booking links: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
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Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 20d
This book means more to me than any other book I have written. I want to get copies into the hands of everyone who cares about opera or is interested in the broader cultural history of our country.

Please consider buying a copy. Thank you. 🙏

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 19d
Always look up, Rome edition (but not Sistine Chapel, questo è proibito!). This is the baroque ceiling fresco of Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola representing the life of Ignatius of Loyola, a founder of the Catholic order of the Society of Jesus. The late Francis was the first pope of this order.
A highly ornate ceiling depicting holy works of a saint executed in a trompe l'œil fashion. Large numbers of angels feature. Three windows are at the top and three windows are at the bottom of the image.
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Opera Rara @operarara.bsky.social · 19d
And to discover more women composers from both the past and present, join our colleagues from the Donne Foundation on Saturday @royalalberthall.bsky.social for their Fortissima concert - a femmage to the heroines of music: www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/even...
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 25d
We won! #Movers&Shakers won the Gold award for Impact at the #BritishPodcastAwards
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 26d
Jane Goodall, the trailblazing naturalist whose intimate observations of chimpanzees in the African wild produced powerful insights that transformed basic conceptions of humankind, has died. She was 91.

Read more about her legacy www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...
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Boris Giltburg @borisgiltburg.bsky.social · 27d
The last prelude of the Rachmaninov cycle – unknown, and undeservedly so!! Such a magnificent close to the entire cycle!

You can hear all 24 from @southbankcentre.bsky.social on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social at 19:30 UK time today (or at any point in the next 30 days): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · 27d
I was once asked by some tourists on the High Street in Oxford where the ‘comic book store’ was and I spotted that the map they had on their phone was of Oxford Mississippi. I don’t think they believed me!
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28d
‘For a sense of how much Moldova has mattered to Putin, one only has to look at how much Russia has spent to rig this election and the widespread bomb threats.’

Great piece on the significance of the Moldova election by @snellarthur.bsky.social. ~AA

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In their defiance of Putin the bravery of Moldovans cannot be overstated
By Arthur Snell
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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · Sep 26
A #Roman figurine of a lizard, carved from a single piece of hyaline quartz. It was found in a Gallo-Roman tomb in Belgium, where it was buried as part of an assortment of grave goods about 2000 years ago (📷 MFAH, Brussels) 🏺 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · Sep 27
Target now achieved 😍
susannareece.bsky.social Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · Sep 26
Museum still needs donations to keep Iron Age hoard - please support if you can
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Please help the Oxfordshire Museum acquire some local treasure! www.friendsoftom.org.uk/acquisitions...
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Ron McIntyre @ronmac11.bsky.social · Sep 26
Should have flown off Fair Isle this morning but flights cancelled, may be here a few more days but there are benefits!
#birds
Close shave with a fulmar. Barred warbler. Sparrow hawk trapped and ringed, about to be released.
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