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The Lifeboat, Eric Ravilious, 1938. Painted at Aldeburgh in #Suffolk it features a lifeboat named the Abdy Beauclerk, which in #WW2 took part in the Dunkirk evacuation. The original artwork is in the collection of the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne. #Ravilious

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Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

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Transcribing documents and being mentally transported back in time, feeling a flutter of fear as the Sea Fencibles are given plans to prepare for French invasion of the #SussexCoast during the French Revolutionary Wars. They didn't know that invasion would not happen. #NavalHistory #CoastalHistory

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Google, do you know one thing that is definitely, seriously, completely slowing down my productivity? Constantly having to tell you that I do not want to install/use AI to improve my productivity.

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Newcastle University staff invited to a ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’ session (‘Let your pen dance across the page' in 'a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle'. Invites sent on same day 153 academics were informed of their location in 'redundancy pools', with 38 redundancies planned. 1/2

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Also, in cities like Sheffield, which were built upon the steel industry, the two local universities became some of the largest employers after deindustrialisation (alongside health and social care) and still are, last time I checked!

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On 29 May 1914 the passenger liner Empress of Ireland was on voyage from Quebec to Liverpool. Just hours into the voyage on the St. Lawrence River the Norwegian steamer Storstad rammed her amidships in dense fog, opening a large hole in her hull. (1/2) #maritimehistory #history #skystorians #otd

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Are you a neurodivergent researcher who uses archives? We want to hear from you! We will be running our 1st Divergent Minds in the Archive workshop at Imperial War Museum on 4th July, 10-4.15. More info👇🏻. Sign up here lnkd.in/eUFBQg3p. Closing date for applications June 4th #skyhistorians

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#PirateHistory

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In the art of the ancient world, fish and the underwater world are sometimes depicted as a different reality, abstract and distant from our world. Showing the way in which they both saw the underwater world and way they made art. 1/5 #coastalhistory #romanart #fishing #marinelife

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News | @nationaltrust.org.uk calls for more investment in historic environment – demand follows research that shows how public value their local heritage

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It’s all about birds for #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social today, to celebrate the new exhibition at Panlee House Gallery 🐦 we’re keeping it coastal with this study of a gull 🖼️White-Winged Silvery Gull 👨‍🎨John James Audubon (1785–1851) 📸Sheffield Museums

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Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain needs a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily need universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

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The next event in our summer events series will take place 11.06.25, 5.30-7pm (BST), online only. Tre Ventour-Griffiths will explore female absentee enslavers in #JaneAusten ‘s novels. Everyone is welcome. Use the link below to sign up 👇

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A permanent job here at @archsoton50.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social in #Palaeolithic Archaeology and/or #Palaeoanthropology 🏺🧪 Please share widely! jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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The #LibreOffice project is active on many social media platforms – and we have blogs in various languages too. Learn what we did in 2024: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/05...

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Writing just a bit about the images that make up the cover of _Lineage_ and the many contexts in which genealogy pervaded early Americans' social lives and political practices. Here's another, about the ever-presence of genealogy in the law. 1/

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I think again of the strike I participated in (in solidarity) at my uni in Canada. The whole community turned out in support & local news covered it daily, because there was an implicit understanding that the university was of & for the community. That's true here too. You just wouldn't know it.

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As ever, the loudest voices calling for the collapse of universities, presumably in the post-92 sector, benefitted from privileged educations.

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“If universities start to fail, it will be disastrous for Labour MPs and their constituents. It would be the modern equivalent of the factory closure, or the end of the pit. “And despite how some Labour MPs seem to imagine their voters, it would be Labour’s core supporters who were most affected.”

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Join us on the 26 June to celebrate the online publication of Interviews with Historians and a new podcast: A Historian’s Life. The event will be followed by the opening of the Interviews exhibition in the IHR Common Room. www.history.ac.uk/events/speak...

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Day 147: Back at my desk today in Leiden – this wonderful stack of new books for review in @journalmaritime.bsky.social will keep me busy!

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INCREDIBLE !! Here we are... 😱😱😱 After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river... Devastating! 😭 www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...

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Join us on the 12th June for our Engagement and Inclusion training! 🌟 Led by public engagement and involvement specialist Dr Charlotte Thorley, this session will discuss the importance of inclusive engagement, and how to engage diverse audiences. Book onto the session here: bit.ly/45ukWHH

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A #fishweir fit for a lady! the ‘Lady Annesley’s traps,’ located at #Newcastle Beach Co. Down #NorthernIreland. Located on the southern end of Newcastle Bay on the shores of the Irish Sea, two large stone fish traps are visible from the shore and aerial photography. 1/8 #coastalhistory

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Good morning #Portsmouth #WednesdayMotivation

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New from PGR @louisekenward.bsky.social @theconversation.com 'While a view of trees may soothe, they do not cure. Disability highlights that nature cure is a fallacy...a greater regard for disabled people and the natural world are two sides of the same coin.' theconversation.com/nature-writi...

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It's looking like a better day than yesterday, which was pretty bleak. Hope you have a good Wednesday.

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Find out about the marine life of Sussex this Friday lunchtime at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, with our fantastic Marine Conservation Officer Sarah Ward. Includes a fun quiz and Q&A time. 🦀 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-susse... 📷 Grey Seal (c) Alexander Mustard-2020 Vision

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🚨 Saturday night: Our lifeboat launched to a 32ft yacht in distress off #Brighton Marina. Fouled anchor. Rope around prop. 4 people onboard. We placed a crew member aboard in rough seas before requesting help from Shoreham and Newhaven. Vessel freed & towed after 3+ hours.

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This is an important thread 👇 (& it make me sad to read it)

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From the backend of our website, based on referrals, there is no indication that BlueSky is dying, the opposite, actually. It is often the highest social media referrer weekly (though Facebook still takes that crown sometimes). The only referrer that has absolutely died this year is X.

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Underneath every archival document there's an ocean of information beyond the text on the page: how it was created; copied; recopied; moved; stored; conserved; microfilmed; digitized; put online, and myriad other processes. To tell the whole story, it matters how and why we access information.

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"You must enjoy the long holidays ... " #HigherEd #school #teaching #PhdChat #science #medicine #health #research #AcWri #PeerReview #university #humour

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Our Seahaven Heritage Walks will be offering a free walking tour of Central Newhaven on Sat 31 May, 11am, led by our Heritage Walks co-leader, Chris. If you're interested, please come along! (But register first as numbers are limited!). walkhaven.co.uk/category/her... #SussexCoast

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Open AI’s valuation is at $400 billion. They used about 190,000 books to train their plagiarism bot. Randomly saying 25% of their value comes from that stolen dataset, I think they owe the authors about $526,000 per stolen book.

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Working through the copy edits and proofs of my book, I am forever thankful for the hidden labour of real copyeditors and proof setters.

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#CoastalHistory

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I'm doing that thing where I'm outlining the next book project instead of working on my current article. I have this idea that I'm going to write snippets that will eventually become a book. I dearly want to write a volume of essays about the Sussex coast. What are the chances? #AcWri #AmWriting

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Developing a READING practice: 4 reasons and 5 tips www.raulpacheco.org/2025/04/deve... #RPVSky

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'London Rivers Week, external is an annual campaign encouraging the public to celebrate all the city's rivers - and the many projects taking place to protect them. Now in its ninth year, it runs from 30 May to 8 June and has a range of free guided walks, talks and cultural events.' 1/2

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Saxicola rubicola (Eurasian Stonechat) family (male, female, juvenile) at @sussexwildlife.bsky.social #OldLodgeNR on 23/5/25 (not sure of the number of offspring as I continued along the track to avoid disturbance. @sussexornitholo.bsky.social #sussexbirding #ukbirding

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