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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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UK Government promised voters they would “protect nature’ and ‘ensure…new towns and housebuilding include nature at their heart’. So why are new planning changes weakening environmental protections for developments? 😕🧵 (1/5)

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Thinking of every academic who has had to apply for grants to cover the cost of requesting and licensing images for their books with zero assistance from a publisher

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This is going to sound incredibly earnest and preachy but fuck it. Support creative people. Buy their stuff. Share it on here. Music, art, words, whatever. Things made by humans for humans.

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Bermudian Chesley Trott’s sculpture commemorating the 72 enslaved Americans who chose freedom in Bermuda in 1835 when summoned by writ of habeas corpus from off the ship Enterprise. I visit it every time since it was erected 2010. Significant it’s called We Arrive, not They Arrive. #SlaveryArchive

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People are confusing online only vs hybrid. I helped design and implement a hybrid meeting that I thought (& post surveys confirmed) went really well & could have been a template for other hybrid meetings, but resistance was too great. We host a "main" small meeting, invite only, in one location. 🧵

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Little reminder: Our #writingcompetition "Tell the Untold" is still looking forward to your contributions—fiction, non-fiction, or academic ✍️ Find out more: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... #future #envhum #rethinking #environmentalprotection #rcc #munich #lmu #writing

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This is absolutely terrible for researchers. And a sign of how fragile digital "preservation" is.

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I wanted to do something different with this print, since it’s something we all need to remind ourselves of sometimes! I will hand-write, address, and stamp this and post it to you, anywhere in the world, for the teeny tiny price of £10.

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Bede, the English monk & scholar, died #OTD in 735. We are privileged to look after the earliest known copy of his 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People', made in the middle of the 8th century & possibly as early as 737. Digitized in full! #bede cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-KK-0...

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We started with Aubrey and Maturin in Post Captain and ended up with Jane Austen and her two naval brothers. evanmwilson.substack.com/p/post-capta... #navalhistory

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“I see nothing the sun is in my eyes…”

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Today is #WorldDraculaDay because Bram Stoker's classic novel was first published #onthisday in 1897. It's also worth remembering that if Stoker hadn't come across the name Dracula in a book while researching in a LIBRARY the main character was going to be called Count Wampyr. 🧛‍♂️

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This should be good! I love Mandy's poetry. She's one of our #CoastalHistory writing group participants!

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Something I need to remember, or even to tattoo it onto my hand. #AmWriting #WritingWisdom

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Images from #Chipiona #fishweirs, Province of #Cádiz,#Spain. A fishing used used and rebuild by generations communities. Known as "Los Corrales de Pesca", octopus, cuttlefish and range of inshore fish are taken by this traditional fishing methods. 1/5 #coastalhistory

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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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It was Rogation-tide, when the land was blessed and the ancient bounds of the parish were beaten, every gospel oak and half-forgotten brook and fielden edge remembered and passed down the generations.

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Happy 10th birthday to our Bridie! She's not slowing down, and she'll take every opportunity she can to raid the table. She's NOT as innocent as she'd like you to believe! (If she jumps in her box and all you can see is her butt, she's stolen something).

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And this is one of the underestimated effects of increasing AI use. What ChatGPT spews out is mangled out of actual sources, but without any understanding or clarity. At the same time, it stuffs access to that material because the servers are overburdened.

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Happy 10th birthday to our Bridie! She's not slowing down, and she'll take every opportunity she can to raid the table. She's NOT as innocent as she'd like you to believe! (If she jumps in her box and all you can see is her butt, she's stolen something).

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Agreed! I was fortunate to visit Tarbat several years ago for the first #CoastalHistory conference. It really drove home the idea that the area was the CENTRE of Pictish activity and Christianity at that time. It was not a remote place at all.

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A little window into #maritime trade ireland during roman times. Archaeologists have found what is believed to be the first intact #Roman pot in #Ireland ever from an archaeological excavation at Drumanagh, near the village of Loughshinny, Co Dublin. #coastalhistory www.rte.ie/news/2025/05...

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Delighted that #Shipwrecks made it to BBC History Magazine's '25 things we've learnt over the past 25 years' article celebrating quarter-centenary of the mag! With shout-out to #gloucesterwreck

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and apologies to anyone getting a 502 on medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk as a result of the same scrapers

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25 May 1798 // 18-gun brig-sloop HMS Braak capsized and sank in a squall in Delaware Bay with the loss of 36 crew and 12 prisoners from a Spanish vessel Braak had captured. Rumours (entirely false) of treasure caused the wreck to be pillaged in the 1980s. #RoyalNavy #Shipwreck #NavalHistory

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Today, we remember and honor the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice defending our freedoms. Their courage and dedication will never be forgotten. Flags adorn each grave at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, in observance of Memorial Day, 1991. USN Photo by OS2 J. Bouvia

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This is phenomenal. Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment. It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.

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