Dr J. M. Wall
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Cemetery Researcher. Proud Brummie. Never clocking out of Coffin Works, usually found in the JQ Cemeteries. #BLM🖤 🏳️🌈 🩷💜💙she/her
OFF TOPIC : 🇬🇧🌧️ London records its first rainless month in 155 years. A weather station at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, recorded no rainfall throughout July, marking the first time in recorded history that the city has experienced a completely dry month since observations began in 1871.
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
La maison d'Ursula Le Guin, classée monument historique, accueillera des résidences d'écrivains. locusmag.com/2026/08/ursu...
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Home Recognized as National Historic Landmark, to host Writers’ Residency
Ursula K. Le Guin’s longtime residence at 3321 NW Thurman St. in Portland, Oregon has been added to the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its “significance to Ameri…
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I've got myself into a bit of a pickle- used the library to reserve loads of books because I had been waiting ages for some reservations. And then suddenly everything arrived in 2 weeks, so now I have 8 library books, the most urgent of which (it has a waiting list) is The Way of Kings- 1200 pages.
'Its outsourced guards are barred from the building’s high-quality “hub” – bright and airy recreation rooms that are available to the institution’s mainly white employees. They are not allowed to take their breaks there, or even sit in that area.' 1/2
National Gallery security staff segregated like ‘second-class citizens’, curator claims
Exclusive: Outsourced guards, largely from minority ethnic backgrounds, barred from staff hub for mainly white employees
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
Medieval bat in stained glass at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.
Join iNaturalist on August 4th at 5pm for a free webinar where you will learn how to approach and photograph insects effectively, capture the key features needed to identify plants, get clear shots of the underside of mushrooms, and quickly upload multiple photos to iNaturalist in one go.
I bumped into my A Level Biology teacher on the train today and it was wonderful to update him on where I went in life and thank him for his teaching. He met the bub too. I asked him if he was enjoying retirement & he said 'It seems to be going on a long time' 🤣 he hasn't changed a bit in 20 years.
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My breakfast- supermarket own brand cheerios Baby's breakfast- homemade flatbreads made with 2 kinds of organic flour and organic sunflower oil, spread with smashed organic avocado. My body, not a temple, but his definitely is
I can't reply to Alex, but if you still need someone, let me know. I work in the Jewellery Quarter so...
Over 150,000 came out in full force for London Trans+ Pride to say loud and clear: Trans rights are human rights 💖
Birmingham TreePeople are hiring a part-time Tree Care Coordinator (14.8hrs/week) to coordinate volunteers caring for trees across the city. Deadline: midnight 2nd August. Interviews from 10th August. Full details & job pack: www.birminghamtreepe...
I've had the curtain in my office shut for weeks because of the weather but the boiler repair guys came yesterday so we opened it. A small bird has clearly flown into the window at some point. I feel terrible but also this is like something out of a cartoon.
Did you know that the smallest cemetery in Dublin is located inside the walls of Trinity College? #RSVP26
Ask an Archaeologist Day is here! 🏺 Today, archaeologists from across the UK are here to answer your questions about the past, the profession and everything in between. Follow along throughout the day and send us your questions. #AskAnArchaeologist #FestivalOfArchaeology
I didn't do A Level Eng Lit but at GCSE we studied The Crucible (loved), Jekyll and Hyde (not a huge fan), Midsummer Night's Dream (loved), Romeo and Juliet (not my fav, so I turned in an essay on The Tempest) and a poetry anthology (I didn't get Carol Ann Duffy but liked a lot of the rest).
Tenebrous Press@tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 2y agoUS and UK friends, I'm curious: What books were part of your required reading for highschool literature class? Which of them do you remember loving, and which did you loathe?
Got my kiddo a library card today and am unreasonably excited about doing the summer reading challenge with him- going to the launch event on Friday! Thank you @animalarchaeology.com for reminding me that this is a thing.
🚨 #MUSEUMJOBS KLAXON🚨 We're looking for a Senior Digitiser and two Digitisers to work across @zoologymuseum.bsky.social & @camplantsci.bsky.social to help create biodiversity data for the researchers who need it, through #DiSSCoUK. 1. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/senior-... 2. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/digitis...
