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9yr old has been working on her #worldbookday costume for ages and has finally finished - she’s going as a book! 📚

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On Sunday gawky and glaiket, For life no carin’ a preen; On Monday lookin’ forsaket, Wi’ a misty weet in her een; On Tuesday as prim as a daisy, And sweet as a maiden can be; On Wednesday cap’rin’ and crazy, Wi’ an eldritch glint in her e’e… —Andrew Dodds, “March” #Scots #poem #poetry

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I’m not really a fan of autobiographies, but this wonderful book joins a short list of ones I’ve loved (inc. Kay, Red Dust Road, and Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal)

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Yesterday’s papers all wearing the same wrapper

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Jewellery is one of those words that I will always struggle to spell

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Better advertising to come, but I’m excited to announce that registration is now live for our very heavily subsidised Teaching Indigenous Histories & Perspectives Conference on 28 June! Bursaries for travel are available plus free follow-up support. Please do share with all your teacher networks!

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I definitely block the majority of my new followers on here - nearly all of them clearly bots. So many surgeons!

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I think my 9 yr old is great at making up lil characters. She calls this one Professor Susie.

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Asked to share this. It's fixed-term unfortunately but a good opportunity. Deadline: 7 March. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU474/t...

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Saw a guy at the petrol station at 9pm on Valentine’s Day buying the last bunch of flowers. Good luck my friend! 🫡💐

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'“Even with the recent increase to fees [to £9,535], our modelling of ‘holding tariff’ v ‘maxing volume’ scenarios found that there is no longer financial benefit to taking more of this category of student. Put simply, higher volumes necessitate greater on-costs.”' 1/4

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I received the most beautiful bouquet of flowers 🌺

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Please help support our colleagues in languages at Cardiff by challenging the decision to exclude them from the category of ‘global humanities’ @ucflangs.bsky.social @artsandhums.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...

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Wasabi-flavoured Japanese Kitkat was everything you’d wish it to be 👌🏻

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Liverpool knows best on this one #thesun #princeharry

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I initiated a personal news blackout yesterday and today, but the news keeps seeping in…

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Hastily drawn matrix explaining to my kids the difference between wanting to give up pop choir & wanting to give up maths

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When autocracy looms, lock arms & fight together. Excellent op-ed by Princeton SPIA colleague @kimlanelaw.bsky.social & @brookings.edu's @normeisen.bsky.social.

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So torn by this mural. A: it’s celebrating a spacex launch; B: it has a tuxedo cat as an astronaut. 🚀 v 🐈‍⬛

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My 9 yr old walking past all the xmas trees on the street waiting for bin collection: 🫡 ‘thank you for your service’ 🌲

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I’m wondering how long it usually takes people to review a journal article? It honestly takes me the best part of a day - maybe 5 hours work. Am I just really slow? I try to be thorough & give constructive advice even (especially?) if it’s going to be a reject. But it means I can’t do lots.

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I’m still going to be finding these next December aren’t I? 🌲🌲🌲

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An enjoyable half hour spent blocking god-loving, truth-loving, America-loving great fathers, surgeons, army generals & Saudi princes 🤗

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"I’ve worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist. ... in all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now." anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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Great day for my boiler to break down 🥶

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I will be thinking about this Sophie Smith essay for some time. The way she brings her different angles and realizations to underscore what we need to face here — and especially men — is kinda staggering & unexpected. It underscores how little other reportage does this. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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This is a fabulous NYD resolution article from @slate.bsky.social -- to combat climate change we need to _radically_ do nothing. Opt out. You know you both want and need to. slate.com/technology/2...

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Looking out over the approaching new year

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New Year’s Eve sheep in Wytham Woods

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9 yr old handmade the Xmas crackers this year & I have to say - the saving of usual £10 spent on xmas tat was v satisfying

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My only complaint re Gavin and Stacey is they shouldn’t have explained the Byker Grove joke

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I know there are leftovers in there

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Thinking of my kid’s substitute teacher who told the class she has 2 degrees and a PhD and is getting a divorce and can’t believe she’s here in this year 7 class trying to teach geography to kids who won’t listen 😭😭

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When you are the gift 🐈‍⬛

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I love #ChristmasEve so much I’m not even mad that my cat woke me up at 6:30 by walking on my head Ok I’m a bit mad 🎄 🐈‍⬛

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