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Audrey D Stargazer
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Home librarian with gigantic 'waiting to be read' book pile. Enthusiastic and shamless reposter. Any of my own photos posted are taken with the little phone cam only, no effects added.
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A great blue heron catches the first of three fish he caught at Izaak Walton Nature Area in Longmont, Colorado, earlier this week.

#FlyDay #BirdOfTheDay #splashes#EastCoastKin #bird #birds #birdphotography #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #nature #greatblueheron #heron #herons
December 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Last night I had a good time capturing the Andromeda Galaxy despite floodlights and passing clouds. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #Astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
December 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Medieval landlords regularly collected eels as rent. But they didn't always eat them. Sometimes they bought things w/ their eels.

In the early 1200s the Ramsey monks rented a local causeway at the yearly rate of 1 pair of scarlet pants, 2 pounds of pepper & ginger, & 1,000 eels.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:

Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.

Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Face in the woods. ‘Silvanus’ sculpture, Croy, Central Scotland.
December 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Prospera is the cancer finding hosts from where to metastasize. They have locations along the equator around the Globe.

youtu.be/X9xmdRgHEj4
What Happens When American Billionaires Build A Private City In Your Country
YouTube video by AJ+
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Great take. We looked at the data a few weeks ago and concluded that other than starting early, this year's dynamics are comparable to previous bad seasons. Our scenario models suggest a peak in infections (not hospitalisations which lag 1/2 weeks) in early/mid December.

zenodo.org/records/1770...
December 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Great Atlantic Sargassum blooms are fueled by enhanced phosphate upwelling during the negative phase of the Atlantic Meridional Mode (AMM): 🌊🧪 ocean2climate.org/2025/12/08/s...
Solving the Mystery of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt: 5 Surprising Truths
This blog post and the “Deep Dive” podcast, created by NotebookLM, are based on “Equatorial upwelling of phosphorus drives Atlantic N2 fixation and Sargassum blooms” by Jung et al. (2025). De…
ocean2climate.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Merlin sitting tight with prey at Borve today. These fabulous little falcons are a daily feature on Barra at this time of year. #birdingscotland #birds
December 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found by archaeologists off Alexandria coast
#Egypt #archaeology #Egyptology
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found by archaeologists off Alexandria coast
First-century luxury vessel matches description by the Greek historian Strabo, who visited city around 29-25BC
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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The Farage Tax: What The UK Pays For One Man's Ego

GDP down, investment down, wages down - but Farage’s influence? Higher than ever

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-farage...
The Farage Tax: What The UK Pays For One Man's Ego
GDP down, investment down, wages down - but Farage’s influence? Higher than ever
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Hello Bluesky! Starting on December 6, we'll share the daily entry from the line-a-day diary kept by John Quincy Adams 200 years ago.

You can start exploring all 51 volumes of JQA's diaries here: www.primarysourcecoop.org/jqa/
John Quincy Adams Digital Diary
www.primarysourcecoop.org
December 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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In January 2025, R/V Falkor (too) carried the #AntarcticClimateConnections expedition team through the famed Drake Passage, into the Bellingshausen Sea. Here's a link to our recently released short film, "Crossing the Divide:" https://youtu.be/C4e3GZkGwxk?si=wccBT82dgY46Y-de
December 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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In case you're STILL confused about mafia enabler Merrick Garland, please read this article. I wrote it in 2023. It is not a response to current events. It explains why the these events would happen unless good people intervened -- which they did not. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...
Servants of the Mafia State
Merrick Garland, Jamie Gorelick, and the truth
sarahkendzior.substack.com
November 25, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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✨Inside the medieval roof timbers at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, one of the rafters has been dated (c. 921) and was a sapling during the reign of King Æthelstan, before England was an entity.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
December 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Norway hits the the pause button on #Deepsea Mining 🌊🦑🧪 www.wwf.no/nyheter/a-hi...
A historic victory: Norway halts plans for deep seabed mining in the Arctic - WWF
The decision establishes a four-year stop to any exploration or extraction activities in Norwegian waters.
www.wwf.no
December 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Waxing Gibbous Moon. 3 December 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
December 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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This piece really resonates with me and my exact story — I don’t come from a science background, but decided to chase my passion. It took a lot of hard work (basically restarting from scratch) but previous experience across industries gave me the right tools to persist through challenges.
"No one should be made to feel inferior or that they do not belong in science because of their origins." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/48JF6Pg
December 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Still just resting & coughing. Am excited to watch this webinar tho: Helen Wilson, "Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850." Will use the info for the Jane Austen Seminar next semester. #JaneAusten #BlackBritain #Skystorians #18thC
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December 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Delighted that my short piece on Jane Austen and dance has been published in The Conversation! theconversation.com/inside-the-r... #assemblyrooms #dancehistory #18thc
Inside the Regency ballroom: what you’d experience on a night out with Jane Austen
Ball-goers needed months to prepare for these events.
theconversation.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Bookish Holiday Fun and Games For... YOU!

Now in its sixth year, for this #NewberryLibrary Advent Calendar, we'll play around with the collection! Cards, Board Games, Puzzles, Gambling...

What's up first?
CHESS!

December 1 (1/24)

Here's last year's extra-shiny offering:
bsky.app/profile/drka...
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Offered seasonally with book selections by guest curators, this new collection highlights renowned and modern artists practicing within ... themes of poetry, visual art, critical thought, design and ... more. Works can be borrowed by readers for 45-days, free of costs to our U.S. based community.
December 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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The X Effect and the dangers of social media bias

Sky News' investigation The X Effect has exposed a right-wing bias in X's algorithm, which boosts extreme content over left-wing voices | Cliff Mitchell
@cliffmitchell.bsky.social @sdupp.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
The X Effect and the dangers of social media bias
Sky News' investigation The X Effect has exposed a right-wing bias in X's algorithm, which boosts extreme content over left-wing voices
centralbylines.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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These "property gurus" charge people a fortune for terrible advice. Here's Samuel Leeds selling a series of tax ideas that don't work. Clueless.

And here's an actual tax adviser explaining why they fail: buff.ly/2hyertH
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM