It's the annual agricultural show!! Delighted to report that after last year's 'raspberry jam' disqualification debacle, the locals continue to troll and the committee continue their controversial tough line

Look at the order in which you do things #ObliqueStrategies

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Pro tip: regardless of the field you want to major in or do graduate work in, favor universities with good humanities and arts. I can give you the long explanation, but you can think of them as hard to fake signals of many things that are important in unis that are hard to evaluate from the outside.

Oh this is lovely

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 16h ago

small, single corridor shopping centre in Stevenage Old Town. Called the 'Magnet centre' after the family that owned the land. odd nik-nak and dress shops... ...and in the mid-90s briefly, hidden at the back, the town's first comic shop. we discovered it as teens. it was like finding heaven /1

Here a compilation of stupid things library consultants have said to me in solidarity with library pals at Lambeth Libraries where genius consultants has decided that a qualified head of library service post isn't really essential.

New Yorker cartoon feels about right

Our new theory article may be of interest to those studying technological complexity in archaeology and human evolution. It gives a historical perspective & introduces heterarchy as a 'new' perspective under which this phenomenon may be studied. Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Blowing Leaves in Archaeology—The Multidimensionality of Technological Complexity in Human Origins Research - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Technological complexity has been a continuous trope in archaeological research from its beginnings in the nineteenth century. Based on a concept of unidirectional cultural evolution, archaeological m...

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Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!

This year I am co-organizing session #18 at @tag26exeter.bsky.social with colleagues Sofia Figueiredo-Persson and Trond Lødøen with title "Life, Death and Transformation with Deer through the European Holocene". We are aiming to explore human-animal relations with a particular focus on deer. 1/

This was posted today by the Ukrainian publishers of Bunny Vs Monkey, Dogman, and many others. Just heartbreaking.

"I just realized that most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as, 'One day a bridge collapsed, and no one came to fix it.' "

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · last wk.

A canal bridge in Banbury has been earmarked for demolition. Neithorpe Bridge, just off Southam Road, is no longer used by vehicles but provides a pedestrian link from Hanwell Fields to the towpath. The Canal & River Trust says it is heavily corroded and “no longer fit for purpose”.

⚠️ Want to see more Durotriges Big Dig Iron Age #archaeology? ⚠️ Of course you do !! Catch *Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders* with @rakshadigs.bsky.social and us on Channel 4 this Saturday 8 August 7pm 👍 Salamanda Media Bournemouth University 👇👇👇👇

New opportunity: fully funded PhD position within the Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS Investigate experimentally the evolutionary significance of transformative Stone Age techniques in this project on cognitive demands, and explore the probability of their success. Deadline: 15 September 2026.

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

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30 hours of sewing so far... lots and lots of French knots but some of the grass areas are now being filled too! If you didn't see the first post, this is an aerial embroidery inspired by moorlands. At this point I still can't estimate how long it'll take in full but I'm not half way yet 😊🌱

Jarvis Cocker, New Order, Elbow, Dr Who (v. Eccleston), @daraobriain.bsky.social, Kraftwerk, Mogwai, Brian May, 2 astronauts (Peake & Hadfield), the Poet Laureate, the Lovell family & many more. Heartwarming to see how much the UK loves Jodrell Bank & astronomy🔭🙏 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Artists, writers and scientists urge UK government to save Jodrell Bank Observatory

New Order and Simon Armitage among more than 100 signatories to criticise ‘foolish and shortsighted’ cuts

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@livingmaps.bsky.social The first in a series of snapshots from Livingmaps Review Issue 19, Drew Mackie provides an accessible introduction to network mapping as a tool for social systems analysis, the basic principles of netmap methodologies and practical guidance. 👇 www.livingmaps.org/new-page

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

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To help relieve work stress, don't answer emails on the weekend. Also on weekdays after 5 PM turn off your email. On Mondays, don't log into your email until after noon. Before logging in on Tuesday burn your computer and erase your identity. By Wednesday morning gather supplies and escape into the

"Drawing on an analysis of over 100000 articles in ecology-related disciplines [...], we show that the shift to pay-to-publish OA has already reduced participation by researchers from many middle-income countries." nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Payment‐based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology

Opening access to the products of scientific research is widely considered a key step toward both fairness and better science worldwide. Since the 1990s, different forms of open access (OA) to journa...

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