Wooooo that's nice, even without the neat painting connection

Fantastic creatures 🥰

Ash from historic steam railways used to seal leaky canal gates How ash from historic West Yorkshire steam railways is used to plug gaps in canal gates.

This is a great combination of transport modes!

Well done all involved! 👍👏😃

Ash from historic steam railways used to seal leaky canal gates - BBC News share.google/jzPnTjP6UzYj...

How do we find out if we're on the list?

Much like when I see a big beautiful bear, I just want to give them all one big (last) hug

Crime and Punishment in Early Modern London and the Home Counties Crime and punishment in early modern London and the home counties is a rich area of study. Students will encounter not only the changes in the law across the period, but also the very real human stori...

There's still space on my Summer course. I promise a week of highway robbery, pickpockets, pirates, burglary, murder, execution, & more. It'll be great fun!
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#worldcurlewday
... though the Bush Stone-Curlew isn't a proper Curlew, it's still one of my favourite birds.

Funded PhD Opportunities!

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Ideal: Applicants who can complement 1 or more of existing strengths: art in the USA post-1945; art-science relations and the medical humanities; socially engaged art practices; feminist and queer art histories; art and ecology

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Eight years comes and goes so fast

Anybody here fluent in Irish Gaelic? I need something translated.

Contemporary cartoon about the Cock Lane Ghost, a vivid court scene with credulity on trial

Etching of Cock Lane in Smithfields

I see Danny Robins is doing an episode about the Cock Lane ghost, which remains one of my favorite stories.

It's a story of mass drunkeness, class warfare and the machinations of the new gutter press.

It was the first chapter I wrote for A Natural History of Ghosts, and got the book commissioned.

Stamp art of the new logo, showing Irish language names on a signpost with Reclaim Your Placename.

Stamp doodle logo for the @cnagaeilge.bsky.social AthGhaelú campaign "to encourage people to use Irish placenames instead of English placenames in all aspects of life."
They've also created a Gealltanas Logainmneacha "to encourage individuals and groups to use Irish-only placenames" #SpéirGhorm

Oh you have questions about this house? I'll be taking questions at the reception desk.

We (in Australia) usually have a pokey little laundry room, the machines usually live next to a v. utilitarian sink. Or they go in the bathroom sometimes. We also have switches and plugs in bathrooms! Which is why all that is OK. The UK was quite the experience for me.

First time I really ever thought about how odd/colloquial the name Bottlebrush is

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Very happy to donate to the Muslim Sisters of Éire who feed the unhoused week in week out. Only takes a minute msoe.ie/donate/

"If you keep a few things in mind"...good LORD now even having a little micro-rest in the car is presenting an opportunity for improvement. Could I be slothing better? I dunno, someone please help me, oh look an article

Move slow and fix things

Oh it's gorse time 💛

Me encountering English marmalade (what I call it in my head and sometimes out loud) for the first time, was confronting. (I like it now, in a different way).

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

‘Fear is good’: my scary subterranean journey into Underland, the film of Robert Macfarlane’s dazzling book As the hit travelogue about the worlds beneath us becomes a film, its maker takes us on a voyage through Las Vegas storm drains and the caves of Yucatán – via Goatchurch Cavern in the bowels of Somers...

And for some background:
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Underland - Official UK Trailer YouTube video by Dogwoof

Our Film of the month for April '26 is Underland
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Yeah babe x

Strawberry Thief rug, nice 👌 (ignoring the rest at the moment)

We have the proof that logging makes Tasmania’s forests more flammable After almost 60 years, scientists have been able to prove an influential theory that wet eucalypt forest regrowth is more fire prone.

Source: The Conversation
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#Logging native forest results in massive ecological damage. They're then replaced by a simple even aged tree crop that is more #flamable than an old, complex, biodiverse and intact #nativeforest.

We need to end native forest logging asap

A Bittern is flying left to right against a sandy background.

A Bittern is flying left to right against a sandy background.

A wonderful fly-by Bittern in Birecik this morning. I can never quite believe my eyes when I see a Bittern. Such an extraordinary looking creature.
#Birds

Also oh yeah I used to do this sort of thing for the Smithsonian and wish I had loads more time for transcribing. It's deeply satisfying.