Lucy

Leeds putting a show on early doors!

Spending morning nominating people for @wikimediauk.bsky.social's annual awards! Do get in touch if I don't know you yet and you'd like to be nominated!!! You can nominate folks here too: eu-west-1.protection.sophos.com?d=google.com...

Do you love mycelium like me? If so there's a really wonderful installation @lulgalleries.bsky.social where artist Laura Gooch collaborates with mycelium to create really thoughtful work. All the pieces are provoking though inc. meditations on family, nature & AI, visit soon!

This won’t be reported widely, but Jason Arday has been cleared of plagiarism for a second time. Still nobody has been held accountable for this man’s death.

Really great manifesto here 👏🏻

Top trumps, but make it coins & pXRF 🪙 From @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social 📊 from @uniofreading.bsky.social 🕵🏻‍♀️ Fellowship @hrcyork.bsky.social going well!

I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. Join me! donate.wikimedia.org

You know what is *not whang* being like Teresa & donating to @wikipedia.org 🌹🎁💐

Our position is clear: the #gendergap on #Wikipedia is unacceptable, and we’re determined to tackle it. Women now make up 20.4% of biographies on English Wikipedia, up from 15.5% in 2014. There’s still a long way to go: wikimedia.org.uk/2026/10/clos...

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

If the only way you get publicity is to dunk on @wikipedia.org then your project is probably whang Full rant here: vm.tiktok.com/ZGdCtryKg/

ICYMI: Hadley, D., Richards, J.D. et al. Inset Lead Weights: Trade and Identity in 9th- and 10th-century Viking armies in Britain and Ireland. doi.org/10.11141/ia.... #archaeology #weightsystems #coins #decoratedmetalwork #trade #identity #VikingGreatArmy #Britain #Ireland #Scandinavia #9thcentury

Both men were SCHOOLED

Can confirm: if you're tackling six hours of driving then The Meaning of Geese by @themarshtit.bsky.social is both perfect length & perfect company

Today was the first time in six weeks I've had the energy to sit down and get back to the draft of my planned book on #CastleSlighting. It's tricky to get back into the headspace, but I'm enjoying reading about Robert the Bruce and the castles he destroyed - like Turnberry.

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Our new exhibition, Quite Shameless, is opening on Tuesday 27 October. In anticipation, this week's #MuseumJigsaw is one of our exhibition items; a tiger skull! Play here: www.jigsawplanet.com?rc=play&pid=... 🧩 Be sure to come along to Treasures of the Brotherton to catch this eerie exhibition!

“The Cost of Knowledge” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (Oct 19-25) #OAWeek 🌍 🔓 Accessing and sharing knowledge is a human right, yet the costs to access and share knowledge continue to increase. Why? Who benefits? Learn more about this year's theme 👇

7 Things You Might Not Know About Medieval Algeria www.medievalists.net/2026/10/medi... #Algeria #medieval

Just published: special issue of Public Archaeology on 'The illegal trade in cultural objects from vulnerable countries', edited by Sam Hardy www.tandfonline.com/toc/ypua20/2...

Bus companies can't help the traffic, and I'm generally sympathetic, but I was at the stop at 7.55 and no bus rolled up til 8.25 ... In a massive city, on a significant bus route, at rush hour!

Lucy: prays for a reliable 24 bus service in Leeds at peak times First bus: best we can do is a half hour wait while services drop off the board

When I was a kid, I simply assumed they had named a car park after her because of her nursing prowess. Did not know about the spy/being shot part until I was an adult.

Elsie the scarfie bear says it’s a great day to take a photo of a student flat and enter it into the Wiki Loves Scarfie Flats photo competition! w.wiki/UYBq (she’d do it herself but she lives in the library and hasn’t got a camera)

There's a tonne of amazing volunteers in the UK! Drop a nomination!!!!

Nothing sweeter than having a couple of pints that you grew the hops for @nathbrudenell.bsky.social - love CoHoperative growing! Local hops, local brewery (Anthology), lush!

Cuneiform was invented in Iraq. A new open-access overview of the world's largest cuneiform catalogue, co-authored by @epp.cdli.network at @ads-update.bsky.social, is out in Arabic in an Iraqi journal, for the people whose heritage it is. Read more in our news story: www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/...

Many congratulations to Anne Carson for the well-deserved Nobel Prize! This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.

Are you carrying the burden of emotional labour for your family and your husband's family while simultaneously juggling work? Do you feel quite ratty and are sleeping badly? Must be hormones. Can't possibly be anything to do with the first point. Continue the emotional labour at all costs.

“While OpenAI admits to agents behaving ‘unpredictably’, they must also acknowledge their responsibility to monitor and prevent these risks,” Wikimedia said. “AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause.” arstechnica.com/security/202...

it blows my mind that these bizarre AI people think “the commons” is just sitting around for them to strip-mine for free

wikipedia has been ANNIHILATED with AI bot traffic for a while now (because LLMs can't get enough of it) which puts a huge burden on its tech and server costs. and now it looks like bots are making unauthorized edits to pages and trying to hack community tools diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/o...

It's encouraging to see this work. Documenting heritage destruction while using open licenses is difficult as many important resources are not open. diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/03/o...

Please don’t buy our books on Amazon. If you can’t afford to buy them from a real bookstore or from us directly, pirate them from Anna’s Archive like God intended.