Hannah O’Regan

Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm looking at a London student guide from 1966 and it's interesting how, at a time we now look back on as being the height of the Beatles, jazz and folk clubs are more prominent than 'discoteques, pop and rythm & blues'. "I found myself dancing to Acker Bilk, Kenny Ball, Alex Welsh...no pop."

CEO of scandal-ridden Deloitte gets 45% pay rise to £7.1m, 1,360 jobs cut. CEO pay = 93 times median employee pay. Firm doesn't pay employer NIC on profits shared by partners, worth £150,000 for £1m profit shared. £899m shared. 108 govt contracts in 2026, worth £650m. Friends in high places.

Prince Maurice's grave is interesting, because it was a good example of the conflicting thoughts families had. Princess Beatrice refused repatriation of the body. She felt he belonged with his men. But she fought for years for the right to spend her own money on a custom headstone. This was blocked

From the pond excavations @megwildflowers.bsky.social a flint with [algal] biogenic structures. I've not seen this before, posing questions about #Cretaceous seabed biota and chalk & flint forming processes. Any thoughts? #Chalk #palaeontology #FossilFriday #fossils @geolsocnorfolk.bsky.social

*** Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) *** Keele University Salary: £41,885 to £48,337 #English #literature #HigherEd www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTG724/l...

Don't forget to sign up for "The many faces of Sans Souci: Black watchmakers in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Caribbean" if you're keen to join the friendly & welcoming London Group of Historical Geographers in person or online for this Tuesday's Institute of Historical Research seminar.

This was published in the Beaumont Journal (Texas) on 27 October 1978, reporting on an incident which had taken place the day before, so happy impolite cat causes death day to all who celebrate

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

Reading about the Blue Qur'an today, and...just...wow. Gold Kufic script (likely gold leaf, not shell!) on indigo-dyed parchment (technique uncertain! Brushed? Dipped? Pressed? No one knows!). Written in the early ʿAbbāsid period (ca. 800), place uncertain. 2024 research suggests Cairo or Baghdad.

@swbiodtp.bsky.social will soon be advertising a competitively funded PhD with myself, @jameswclark.bsky.social & Davide Pisani @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social on the 'evolutionary assembly of plant genomes, development and phenotype', application deadline of Dec 2 - please contact me if interested

In light of the fact I'm presently conducting bird surveys in the pissing rain on the industrial Humber all day today, here's a reminder of how beautiful it was pre-sunrise from our place in York just as I hit the road. #livingthedream

This means thousands of B2s are written but never read. A true two-stage submission - submit B1 first, and invite only successful B1 applicants to submit B2 - could save scientists (and the tax payer) thousands of hours spent on unsuccessful ERCs. 7/9

ERC’s are made of two parts: a project pitch called B1 and a methodology/feasibility part called B2. Both are comparable in size. However, selection of grants is a two-stage process, where first, only B1 is reviewed, slashing the pool by ~60% - with the new numbers closer to 80%. 6/9

Hogweed’s last hurrah. #wildflowerhour #nature #Eryri

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Wittenham Clumps today. Pictured; Round Hill from Castle Hill's ramparts.

I’ve always seen this as similar to academic publishing/ projects.

My PhD is likely to focus on the pedagogical value of Wikipedia as a teaching and learning tool, since that’s what the majority of my publications have focused on, so if anyone has any suggestions for unis/research departments that might be a good fit, I’d be very grateful!

Currently spending my extra hour today researching potential PhD by publication options. It‘s proving more challenging than I thought - many places either don’t offer it, or only for internal applicants, or do offer it but don’t publicise that fact!

Real post from the mountain rescue Facebook page

Was trying to work out why the dog is so excited. Just realised it’s 11.30 as far as she’s concerned so it’s time for the grand build-up to the lunchtime walk. How disappointed she will be.

Alice Perry 1st woman in #Ireland to graduate w' engineering degree. Only woman to have been Irish County Surveyor (Engineer), not allowed to do job permanently Factory inspector, later published poet. Uni of Galway named building for her. b. #OTD 24 Oct 1885 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_P...

The West Window in Bradford Cathedral, installed in the 19th century and devoted to the stories of women in the Bible. #StainedGlassSunday

My friend Patrick Prominski and I are working on an edited volume on how now-discredited ideas involving biology (widely construed) were used in scientific fiction from c. 1825-1925. If you have any ideas for anything even broadly along those lines, please pitch them, we'd love to see them!

Looking for a journalist who covers UK Government tech, ideally with a health slant - any suggestions? I have once again accidentally found a juicy story while poking at data. Sill not certain, but want to get my waterfowl assembled linearly.

AI probably is going to kill us all, one way or another.

Westminster Hall @ukparliament.parliament.uk yesterday. Built more than 900 years ago for William II in 1097-99. The largest medieval timber roof in n Europe. In 1393 it was refurbished for Richard II by master carpenter Hugh Herland & master mason Henry Yevele. 🧵👇 1/

I do believe it’s one of @danherb10.bsky.social favourite nights of year (they do come round quickly nowadays) when Obelix visits every stone circle to correct the time. Busy night! #ClocksGoBack #TheTimesTheyAreAChangin #PlaymobilInfestation

Due to Ed getting annoyed with me I have renamed this to Walkipedia: www.neil-scott.com/walkipedia/ As suggeted to me by @robbiegordon.bsky.social, the legend from @wonderfools.org

At a meeting for pleasure, not work. Hurrah for history, ceramics, collecting and glazes.

Seasonal ponds here remain dry. Water beetles will be hunkered in tussocks or secreted in their pupal cells. They breathe atmospheric air, they can wait. Some aquatic snails will survive buried in mud. Long-lived adults of some caddis sit quietly in the trees, waiting to breed when water returns.

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

New report on our current efforts to integrate the #GlobalPaleofireDatabase into @neotomadb.bsky.social! 🔥 Hundreds of sedimentary #charcoal records will soon be uploaded in a standardized format. Find out more in the new @pages-ipo.bsky.social magazine: doi.org/10.22498/pag... #OpenData #FAIR

This lot appeared in the last couple of days lining the canal towpath.

I FOUND THE ONYCHOPHORANS THOUGH 🎉🎉🎉

This is a The Lost World: Jurassic Park squishy Pachycephalosaurus egg. God only knows what fluids have been festering in this sac for the last 19 years.

#fungi

BIG JET TV IS LIVE, PEOPLE. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THE STORM HAS HIT LONDON.

a certain bank (with a horse logo) is advertising a product as ‘the gift horse of bank accounts’ and, uh, isn’t the thing about gift horses that they look great but might have a catch?

New large Pleistocene megapode from Indonesia, Megapodius rokusi: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🪶🧪 (📷Meijer et al.)

English Heritage are looking for a sports historian for their Blue Plaque panel. I have the same role on the Historic England National Blue Plaque Panel, and I encourage anyone with a bit of spare time and a passion for heritage to take a look at the post. Details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/english...

This is a great idea

📢 Journo request! Looking to speak to Sysadmins etc who have been - or are still - dealing with the PHP mayhem. Are you personally on the coalface of this? Have you been patching/ taking sites offline/ handling calls from customers? Can be anonymous if needs be. Please DM/ Signal me!

Next Monday, 26th of October, we have the fantastic taxidermist Sarah Burhouse demonstrating her craft at Birmingham Museum and Gallery www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/taxid...