I was just reading AI ‘tells’ advice and, with the best will in the world, if you come for me because I refuse to give up the Oxford comma until it’s torn from me, we will have words. Ditto em dashes. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

A trade deal with Trump’s America is a lot like haemorrhoid cream … unpleasant but necessary, and nothing to publicly celebrate.

Oh my … this is going to be a fantastic anthology in all categories 😍

BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught@bookwormvaught.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thread. It is a great honour to announce the shortlist for the 2025 #Curae prize for unpaid carers POETRY CATEGORY Mistletoe. Sam Garvan Diagnosis. Elizabeth Loudon Sinkhole. Charlotte Ansell I Love Him (like salt and water). Emma Wilson The Shop at the End of a Wave. Ia Kozoboli. thecuraeprize.uk

#Curae prize results announced at 12. The bursary fund will close at the end of the day. If you can help, please do. The prize - an unique initiative for unpaid #carers - receives no industry funding at all. www.gofundme.com/f/curae-2025...

Donate to Dr Anna Vaught: Curae Writing Bursaries for unpaid carers, organized by Anna Vaught

Hello everyone, I am Anna (aka Dr Anna Vaught - and you may kno… Anna Vaught needs your support for Dr Anna Vaught: Curae Writing Bursaries for unpaid carers

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❤️❤️ So proud of all the carer-writers for being brave and sharing their hard-won creativity. So excited to see what will be an amazing shortlist ❤️❤️

BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught@bookwormvaught.bsky.social · 2y ago

#Curae prize results this morning!

Our Absolute Zero writers’ collective is an amazing group of STEM-centred folk who are exploring the collisions between the creative and scientific. We have a zine launch event in a week’s time. Come hear us read! www.storyology.co.uk/shop/p/absol...

Absolute Zero presents: NOTHING — Storyology

Join Absolute Zero at Morocco Bound on Tuesday 6th May for an evening of mingling and readings on the theme of our first zine, NOTHING.

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🧵 I want to tell you why I think this is one of the most important prizes running and I’m sorry that the book press and mainstream publishing hasn’t dived on it with bells on and support …

BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught@bookwormvaught.bsky.social · 2y ago

I confirmed the 2025 #Curae prize shortlist just now. Emotional? Me? Shortlist announced at 12 on 1st of May across socials and I will have let winners know just before. We can be in touch throughout the day. Life can be so hard; so sad, but community, love, creativity - those are golden.

Creating a US government registry to track autistic people using private medical records is like a ‘How to Nazi in Easy Steps’ manual. It’s not science. Science has an ethical foundation based on consent. Science already studies autism, and many other neurotypes ethically.

In the true spirit of nature writers, I talk to the red kites that fly low over our garden every day. I love the proximity-but-distance. I wish it was something poignantly profound, but most often, I just say “Please don’t poo on my head.” 😂🤦‍♀️

Oooh it’s only a few weeks until we announce the #Curae 2025 shortlist I AM EXCITED ARE YOU EXCITED. Fundraiser for writers’ bursaries is still running, below. Do please help me if you can. This is the only opportunity of this kind for unpaid #carers 💙📚

BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught@bookwormvaught.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today I launch a fundraiser to support the 2025 #Curae prize for unpaid carers who are also writers or would like to be. Anything you can add to the pot will go directly towards bursary funds for our three winners (announced 1st June). gofund.me/1d8c6564 All in, we can transform lives here x

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab

Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...

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Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

CDC DATASETS on 1.28.2025 According to @altcdc.bsky.social The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. archive.org/details/2025... You need to know which data set you would like. Use CTRL+F to find a keyword from the list. 🧪🛟 #Episky #Statsky

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

Little short blog piece that came from a writing sprint at one of the Absolute Zero meetings. Love my writing people 🥰 www.clairekotecki.com/news/2024/12...

Hope — Claire Kotecki

Hope is a thing with tufted wings, wrapped in cotton candy, sweet on the tongue as it melts. It is something intangible and unscientific. We have no empirical data. Hope exists in defiance of the logi...

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A day ahead of finalising exam papers. However much students dislike sitting them, it is equal in magnitude to how much I dislike the weeks that go into setting them … especially when our staffing has been cut to the bone and I’ve lost half my subject specialists. Sigh.

It’s bad enough the OU has banned children and young people from campus (we are clearly not an #OUFamily as we always used to be), but according to the latest email “Following some recent reports …” children have been seen. Can we all agree that none of us have or will ever ‘see’ children on site?

Thread on resources for #publishing for #writers. First of all, if you are thinking about broader freelance work, then you need the best newsletter about. Sian Meades Williams's Freelance Writing Jobs, www.sianmeadeswilliams.com/freelance-wr... Weekly or monthly round-ups. Comps, opps, jobs & more

Freelance Writing Jobs — Sian Meades-Williams

Freelance Writing Jobs is the UK's leading media industry newsletter for freelance calls for pitches and paying freelance writing jobs. Subscribe here.

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Ekko is #NotMyCat but he comes round to visit and eat all the food and looks a lot like a movie star.

My supper companion was looking very dapper tonight. She dressed for dinner.

Lots more videos with tips on how best to carry out demonstrations and practicals here alomshaha.com/project-type... and alomshaha.com/portfolio/vi...

Demo films – Alom Shaha

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Brett Handley@physicsmrh.bsky.social · 2y ago

Taking ideas from @alomshaha.bsky.social youtu.be/0p8jU3Wm91Y?... to improve our A level diffraction practicals. #ITeachPhysics #ChatPhysics #SciTeachUK

Current status: regretting my life choices 🤦‍♀️

A Sunday full of writing today. I have a piece for our upcoming zine edition that needs a serious final edit, I need to start putting in a daily word count on my WIP to get a full first draft and I have a history MA assignment to finish. Onwards! But first coffee … #writingcommunity #writing

Cementing the professional legitimacy of 🦋 We now have the journals on #MedSky & #IDSky @jamacurrent.bsky.social @bmj.com @cmicomms.bsky.social (first one?) @eurosurveillance.bsky.social @cidjournal.bsky.social @ofidjournal.bsky.social @thejhi.bsky.social @jclinical-invest.bsky.social

Ilan Schwartz@germhuntermd.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢 IDSky 📢 @cidjournal.bsky.social @ofidjournal.bsky.social @jidjournal.bsky.social are here!!!

I needed ‘Songs of a Lost World’ so much more than I realised. Wonderful work from The Cure.

I’ve written about this before but science is inherently political. There is no choice in this. It absolutely shouldn’t be ideologically partisan but there is nothing about science, from the funding that shapes the landscape to the choices of which areas are ‘valuable’, that isn’t a political act.

Maitreyi Das@daslabpombe.com · 2y ago

Not a fan of this. Science can't be apolitical if we want to keep doing science. What happens when politicians stop the science because our findings affect their politics? How can we educate people about our science when they are bombarded with rampant misinformation?1

I am trying to read a paper. I have nearly snoozed twice. Trixie the Terrible isn’t helping.

Physics teachers! I’m sure you know about these but in case you don’t, this is a cheap alternative to the standard “motor kits” so that each student can make their own. If you want a worksheet, drop me a line.

Good morning teachers! Reminded yesterday of the need to explain to our students why our subject is worth studying, and not take it for granted that it’s self-evident. Years ago, I attempted to answer this question for my subject, science, with the help of some much smarter people: whyscience.co.uk

Emma’s photos are a genuine bright point in so many gloomy days. I would recommend following if you feel that a small corner of the interwebs with natural beauty and calming things would make your days happier.