Where there's hardly any difference between sea and sky; and when the gannets dive they cut through the water with the sound of a sharp stone.
Julia Laite@julialaite.bsky.social · 3d agoNot a bad spot to spend the night.
Julia Laite
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Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to five ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
Julia Laite@julialaite.bsky.social · 3d agoFind someone who looks at you the way I look at this porcini.
If soccer should never be for sale, why do we allow land, food, healthcare, housing, education, and everything else we need to be sold?
I'm home in time for the lupins this year and they are glorious.
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History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.
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Appropriate reading for my journey home, and highly recommend!
Having a tough day? Feel as though your swear repertoire needs an update? Like whales? Watch this.
Julia Laite@julialaite.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is my new favourite whale sighting video. I'm not sure if anything will ever top it. I also know that this is almost verbatim what I'd be saying if my small fishing boat was surrounded by a pod of orcas. Filmed in bonavista Bay, Newfoundland, a few days ago. www.facebook.com/share/v/1E29...
This is my new favourite whale sighting video. I'm not sure if anything will ever top it. I also know that this is almost verbatim what I'd be saying if my small fishing boat was surrounded by a pod of orcas. Filmed in bonavista Bay, Newfoundland, a few days ago. www.facebook.com/share/v/1E29...
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This is my new favourite whale sighting video. I'm not sure if anything will ever top it. I also know that this is almost verbatim what I'd be saying if my small fishing boat was surrounded by a pod of orcas. Filmed in bonavista Bay, Newfoundland, a few days ago. www.facebook.com/share/v/1E29...
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This guidance really is a bullies' charter and I don't see how schools can possibly implement it and claim to be inclusive. I'd like to see #EduSky calling @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social out about this. Do colleagues not remember the damage done by Section 28? Does the Labour party not remember ffs?
Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 3w agoReposting this; Labour’s new schools’ “Section 28” for trans kids should really be called Labour’s “Ambient Conversion Therapy”. It is way, way worse than Section 28 ever was. We must never allow anyone to forget Starmer’s & Philippson’s culpability (& Burnham’s if he fails to change it).
Congratulations to my PhD student @loladickinson.bsky.social on passing with no corrections! Her PhD, 'Sex work, public health & activism at the height of Britain's HIV/AIDS crisis' is an immensely important intervention in the history of sex work & of HIV/AIDS & is an absolute tour de force. 🎉
Kid the Younger, watching Chris Packham hold a strange breathing land-fish on Evolution: I want a pet. I want that.
the colonial urge to possess what belongs to nobody and belongs to everybody
Kate Wong@katewong.bsky.social · 3w agoToday at 10 AM EDT Sotheby's will start the live bidding on its natural history auction featuring one of the largest, most complete skeletons of T. rex ever found. It could fetch $30M+ and go to a private collector. Here's what science--and the public--stand to lose. My story for @wired.com 🧪
Do non-migrants have any idea how *utterly terrifying* it is for those who have IDL in the UK; have built a life here, have British kids & forged a sense of love & belonging to be bombarded with news that a sizeable % of the population & government want to be able to take that away & deport us?
No matter what happens today, this week, this year... A kingfisher still landed on my head.
Julia Laite@julialaite.bsky.social · 3w agoI'm wondering what it means when a kingfisher lands on your head. Because I was just sitting eating breakfast with the patio door open. AND A KINGFISHER FLEW IN AND LANDED ON MY HEAD.
I'm wondering what it means when a kingfisher lands on your head. Because I was just sitting eating breakfast with the patio door open. AND A KINGFISHER FLEW IN AND LANDED ON MY HEAD.
The correct term for attempting to get the stench of Axe Body Spray out of your teenager's possessions is 'de-axescentioning'.
Someone bought an old shoreside property in my parent's town in Newfoundland. They rebuilt it three stories high & painted it a hideous shade of purple, blocking the view of everyone in the cove. Now it's on Air BnB for £2300 a week. As we say back home: May the Lord God spoil all their fish.
The victim in this horrendous case is not calling for it, but honestly I’d just like to see dockless electric hire bikes banned. They’re a menace and extremely dangerous. Casual cyclists can get by fine with standard hire bikes. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘I felt my spine and body split’: the woman who was hit by a child on a Lime bike – and denied compensation
The collision was catastrophic. Jane Ouartsi suffered a fractured collarbone, two spinal fractures, a broken femur that took three operations to fix, and she had to learn to walk again like a baby. Wh...
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They don't deserve the F. Let the government know.
Julia Laite@julialaite.bsky.social · last mo.We've known for a while that trans exclusionary radicals (I've decided they don't deserve the F) don't speak for the majority of women; and that the majority of people see these policies as cruel, unworkable, and against human rights. So let's prove it. Sign and support: goodlawproject.org/s/d23a8a
We've known for a while that trans exclusionary radicals (I've decided they don't deserve the F) don't speak for the majority of women; and that the majority of people see these policies as cruel, unworkable, and against human rights. So let's prove it. Sign and support: goodlawproject.org/s/d23a8a
I stand with trans people | Good Law Project
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A colourful day at the allotment, with wild plums, white currants, beetroot, broccoli and pointed cabbage in my end-of-work bouquet.
