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Writer of historical fiction, Associate Professor at University of Warwick. Website: https://www.tim-leach.co.uk/ Books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Tim-Leach/author/B07GRBS3VD.
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Me, every time I look at the news...

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

Amazing ego-deflating moment yesterday at lunch. Staff member comes over. ‘I think we have one of your books in the office.’ Me (smugly flattered): that’s entirely possible. He: yes, you left it here last time you visited.

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

“"We cannot get out. The end comes ...honks, honks in the deep ...they are coming"

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Have been greatly enjoying trying to improve my French with French comic books so far this year. Full of useful tips, like what to say when you punch someone...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The most important thread you'll read today. In brief: Europe has the power to save Ukraine and slip into the leadership position America has vacated. It must grasp it. And Europeans must pressure their governments to do so.

submitted 9 days ago • 45 comments

#medsky#pedsky#idsky#immunosky 🧪 In the midst of all of the scary headlines recently, I thought I could take a moment to share a bit of good news: for the first time in history, a malaria vaccine with >90% efficacy seems to be within reach! Here’s why that’s a really big deal for EVERYONE 🧵

submitted 10 days ago • 443 comments

Pressure is my go to term in teaching as well, it's a useful catch-all for the reasons this thread describes. "How does the world put pressure on the characters?" is the question we return to again and again (along with, of course "how do the characters respond to that pressure?").

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Werner Herzog should do a film based on the bitcoin skip man. Just two hours of him ploughing through rubbish; bare hands; screaming and gibbering. No speech. Like ‘Elephant’ by Alan Clarke. ‘A gruelling experience’ etc.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

The London Library Emerging Writers programme is such a brilliant scheme. If you’re trying to write in any medium/genre, are any age over 18, are in or near London, and aren’t yet professionally published, it’s well worth applying.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

submitted 16 days ago • 96 comments

On the other hand, all the fantasy books I've read have taught me that Rangers will always rebel and resist tyranny, Chaotic Good all the way.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The quiet beginning of the greatest thread yet to appear on this site. How this turned into an extended riff on Stephen Maturin smuggling a stegosaurus on board the HMS Sophie is a thing of beauty. Actually spat out my tea. Chapeau!!!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments