PHOTO OF THE DAY. The head of Statue of Liberty, displayed in Paris (1878). 📷 Albert Fernique.

Walking the Weirdstone ( Online talk ) Archaeology and the Works of Alan Garner - an online lecture plus Q&A presented by Dr James Wright

Starting in 50 mins ... a few tickets left.

Walking the Weirdstone - Online Talk (Fundraiser)

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For me, holiday time=reading time. I don’t remember where I saw the signpost this marvellous book, but it feels a bit more likely that it was @bsky.app than @linkedin.com!

Thank you @mikecollins.bsky.social and @markchilds.bsky.social for firing up so many synapses!

'Cychwyn heddyw i France. Cewch lythyr yn fuan. Gwelwch fy llun tu ol i'r dot. Cofion oll Tom.' Translation and more at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/9...

The only type of close encounter

I know Appalachian horror is apparently a thing in the US, so I suppose Withered Hill is Pennine horror?

A cartoon featuring four penguins attending a video conference. Two are 'breaking the fourth wall' by passing a cake to one another despite supposedly being in disparate locations.

Final call for registrations for the (free) Research and Scholarship in Digital Education conference featuring student presentations & keynotes from Professors Allison Littlejohn, Sukaina Walji and Tim Coughlan. 9:00 April 10th, 13:00 11th, 18:00 13th.
Registration & programme:
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Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.

The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.

Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Orkney banana bonanza after Tesco store orders 38,000 by mistake An ordering glitch has left Tesco in Kirkwall giving away boxes of the fruit for free to schools and community groups.

Books on baking banana bread available now 🍌

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fairly sure our guinea pigs eat salad with intent and verve and without mercy.

@kballestrini.bsky.social Thought this might be of interest classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...

"Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo.

"Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context. It's such an unpleasant place that I spend almost all my time out of it.”

Instead of keep remaking adaptations of Lord of the Rings, adapt Withered Hill, you cowards.

25 March 1916 The Blackburn Weekly Telegraph included its second report from a member of the newspaper’s staff serving in France with the Liverpool Scottish. In his first letter, published on 22 January, h…

We prayed in silence for the friends at home and the officers present each in turn saluted the grave. If ever I was really, deeply profoundly, sincerely impressed it was at this funeral service within the boom of the guns. I shall never forget it georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/2...

Duckling season has begun, and DucklingWatch is back for another year! Please submit your mallard brood sightings in GB to citsci.org/projects/ducklingwatch and share this post to spread the word 🦆

Cherrim (Sunshine Form) | Pokémon GO - PokéBase Cherrim (Sunshine Form) best moveset, CP stats, and more!

It looks very like the sunshine from of the Cherrim Pok´mon pokebase.app/pokemon-go/p...

"But if all the roads arrive at the same place at the same time, then aren't they all the right way?" asked Milo.

"Certainly not!" he shouted, glaring from his most upset face. "They're all the wrong way. Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them has to be right."

DR NELSON'S INHALER - Colne Valley Museum Unveiled at the conclusion of a meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1861, ‘Dr Nelson’s Improved Inhaler’...

www.colnevalleymuseum.org.uk/collections/...

Malevolent: Threshold Trailer YouTube video by INVICTUS Stream

Series 2 of Malevolent, subtitled "Threshold" begins April 1st for Public and February 2nd for Patrons...

youtu.be/vPTri2Vihh0

Trailer by:
@jametc.bsky.social @thirdchildart.bsky.social @shnikkles.bsky.social

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

Tribute to Liam Green-Hughes, 1974 - 2026 In loving memory of Liam Green-Hughes

Thinking of Liam Green Hughes and his wife on the day of his funeral liamgreen-hughes.muchloved.com

The discovery of a Phantom Tollbooth Bluesky account may be the best thing in my world today. #SEVENTEEN!

A tomahawk missile costs the taxpayers the same amount of money as one five-year major NIH research grant. Remember that every time they tell us one of those missed the target, blew up paintings of enemy aircraft or tanks, or was the fifth and unnecessary hit on the same target.

The Teachers Guide to Famous Poetry Plagiarized by Undergrads Using Word’s Right-Click Synonym Finder Will I associate thee to a solstice diurnal? — See Shakespeare A thingamajig of gorgeousness is a buzz incessantly. — See John Keats Since I could ...

'Footfall melodiously because you trample on my hallucinations.' From www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

- The Pericles Group Foundation The Pericles Group is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, including the development and support of curricular materials for the learning of Latin and other languages, as wel...

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT

15 years ago, a group of us started The Pericles Group (periclesgroup.org) in order to formally work on our games & learning endeavors. It has been an amazingly fulfilling ride creating Operation LAPIS, successful Kickstarters (CARD-tamen, VERBA, Underlings of Underwing), (1/7)

An open landscape with mountains in the background. In the foreground are power lines. There is one conventional pylon and one pylon shaped like a giant stag

@hookland.bsky.social The power of the Hum seems to be shaping the Austrian Power grid www.apg.at/en/projects/...

Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.

STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

SCRATCH MOSS by David Barnett with a miner's lamp and a magpie linocut

It is publication day for SCRATCH MOSS. Please be buying it from your vendor of choice, or ask your local library to get it in. Available in paperback, ebook and audiobook.

www.canelo.co/books/scratc...

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.

All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Data, analytics, research, strategy, making sense of complex situations and empowering people to do their best: that's what I like to do.

If you want some help from me in understanding things and changing them using data - get in touch! Or if you know someone who might, do bring us together.
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