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John B

@johnbc74.bsky.social

Mainly modelling, history & archaeology.

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DrMaxPolitics@drmaxpolitics.bsky.social · 3h ago

Hi, I'm being made redundant by the University of Southampton at the end of this month. I'm desperately looking for work. I'll consider all offers but have particular skills in policy, strategy and research. I also have a consultancy service I offer. Please let me know if you hear of anything

Dr Laura Eastlake@victorianmasc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" Episode 2: Henry James, 'The Turn of the Screw' (1898) The novel is a #C19th gothic tale of a governess caring for 2 cherubic children who may or may not be in league with ghosts. Also...that's a nut.

Blue cover featuring two spanners (wrenches if you prefer) tussling oddly over a nut. There are no screws in this image. Not one.
Dr Laura Eastlake@victorianmasc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" Episode 1: Florence Marryat's Blood of the Vampire (1897). This book features a female vampire who doesn't know she's a vampire, who drains life not blood, and is enjoying a holiday in a Belgian seaside town. #BadBookCovers #C19th

Cover showing a male, dark-haired vampire scowling scowlily at us. His cape has multiple layers of shoulder details. His pecs are blood-spackled. Behind him hovers what may be either a bat or a chandelier (possibly AI could not decide).
Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 3d ago

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

New Channel 4 documentary, The Great ADHD Myth?, seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct
Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 3d ago

Looking forward to hearing @channel4tv.bsky.social justify this unfathomably reckless and damaging title, let alone anything else. The journalistic equivalent of throwing a hornet's nest into an A&E ward, to 'raise awareness of injuries'.

Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 3d ago

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

New Channel 4 documentary, The Great ADHD Myth?, seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct
John B@johnbc74.bsky.social · 3d ago

Just a thought from further down this thread, & thinking about @samfr.bsky.social note earlier- what is the purpose of a school in both normal and extraordinary circumstances.

Tony Yates@t0nyyates.bsky.social · 3d ago

Three thoughts on the pandemic discourse. 1) you can't reach a view on what to do next time because next time the infectiousness and mortality will be different from last time. 2) presumably we'd start out thinking a vaccine will arrive much faster, because of the new technologies and experience.

Peter Lucier@peterlucier.bsky.social · 5d ago

Why bother with a 30 post thread about Pelennor Fields? Because I love the movies, love them. But in the books the army of ghosts don’t come and sweep the field. They are done after Pelagir. Which means it isn’t a supernatural miracle. It’s a human victory. Not gods or magic. People

Peter Lucier@peterlucier.bsky.social · 5d ago

At the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, Mordor had crossed the Anduin, destroyed Gondor’s forward defenses, surrounded Minas Tirith, and breached its Great Gate. Two smaller relief forces were still separated and unable to coordinate. And yet Mordor lost. How? 🧵