colinmacpherson.bsky.social
Head full of rock. 🧪⚒️ Geochemist @durhamearthsci.bsky.social
scot, hibee, husband, dad, reader, dog walker, typographical errer
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Agree this is a risk but depends on the actual trustees involved and their trust in their executive team. My own experience (7 years to last summer) was trustees allowing space for exec to do the work but stepped up their own scrutiny of that.
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… oooh, nice pottery studio
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While the SGE took care of the havering.
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The Chief and the team both supplying sunshine today 💚
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‘mon the cabbage! 💚
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Saw them a few times including this, their last ever UK show. Incomparable live act.
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A Farewell to Kings for me 🤘
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Although the way I heard it your first earthquake since moving was in Boston last night. 🇨🇦🏒
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That’s exactly how it’s been all day here!
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bsky.app/profile/book...
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Another Carcassonne vote. We played this almost daily during the pandemic shutdowns when my son was 13-14 then continued adding more of the packs. Still a favourite in our house now (when he's back from college). Labyrinth was our gateway drug to get to Carcassonne.
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Try this. Not new - 1977 but achingly relevant to current developments. Don't be fooled by the gently Medieval opening 68 seconds.
youtu.be/tvcFV8aeCsQ
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🎵🎵🎵 🥁-Bruce ... 🎵🎵🎵 🥁Shei 🥁-la
One of my very favourite bass lines to play
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Well, except outside North America, where you would be an aluminii.
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Couldn't agree more @markbrandriss.bsky.social!
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Never has "Self preservation society" been a more apt anthem.
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=eV-5...
Scheming demons
Dressed in kingly guise
Beating down the multitude
And scoffing at the wise
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Recent Guardian opinion piece prompted, in part, by my own HEI announcing 200, mainly non-academic, job losses over next two years.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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So far, new government has done little to help. They did announce inflationary rate increase to home fees for next academic year. But this has been more than obliterated by changes to employee tax (national Insurance).
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Most HEIs have upped international student numbers since there were no caps on fee increases. But last government changed visa conditions allowing dependents to accompany those students. This is impacting numbers there.
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Simultaneously we have seen failure to grow government research funding across sector. Some areas have done ok, most haven’t. There has been outright hostility to arts and humanities.
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Plus, much of that inflation driven by energy/utility costs which adversely affects HEIs with large estate footprint.
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UK government have frozen the fees we can charge home undergraduates for past 8 years. Think how far that has put us behind even without the inflation bulge of past few years.
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My son is in only his second semester of a History degree. Come back to me in summer of ‘28.
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🤣 touché! As geologists we benefit from a less subjective record than our humanitarian siblings.
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This would require an objectively “true” history.
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I was held up and shown the moon while Apollo 17 footage was on the TV. “They’re up there right now.”
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Filling in the blind alleys with stairs so everyone can get a better view of the maze ahead.
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Snap! Bought last week for when the current read is done.
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😍
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Arial if it’s going to be read on screen, TNR if it’s going to be printed hard copy.
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🎵 I am the very model of a Pseudolomaanth' gen. nova 🎵
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... and the glory seen around observer's shadows cast onto condensed water. Still NOT rainbows. 🧪
www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/50...
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I was thinking more of the progression of colours, which occur in a variety of ways. The parallel reply on soapy water is an example. Others that would have been accessible to Sowerby include lunar coronas (which are NOT rainbows).
www.istockphoto.com/photo/phenom...
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Totally this. I do same then buy in person or from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social which sources from independent book stores.
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Col’s colourful colander. 🧪
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... but also (fromMen At Arms by Terry Pratchett):
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=sP9l...
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Prayers, but little thought
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O there, beyond expression blest,
I'd feast on beauty a' the night