Claire Boardman
@claireboardman.bsky.social
People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social (she/her)
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Another methodology for assigning Levelling up / towns fund / neighborhood fund / pride in place funding.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Pride in Place Programme phase 2: methodology note
www.gov.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Another methodology for assigning Levelling up / towns fund / neighborhood fund / pride in place funding.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Sign-up to take part in our Green Libraries Self-Assessment Framework pilot. This will enable libraries to audit their climate action, it has four levels and is mapped to the #GreenLibraries Manifesto: https://forms.office.com/e/y4Ga4xEUkp
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Sign-up to take part in our Green Libraries Self-Assessment Framework pilot. This will enable libraries to audit their climate action, it has four levels and is mapped to the #GreenLibraries Manifesto: https://forms.office.com/e/y4Ga4xEUkp
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We’re delighted to be co-hosting a side event at #COP30 today!
🌎 Bringing together experts from academia, NGOs and government, we’ll discuss how we can strengthen synergies between biodiversity and climate, with a strong focus on Brazil
With @greenpeace.org, WWF and @sosmataatlantica.bsky.social
🌎 Bringing together experts from academia, NGOs and government, we’ll discuss how we can strengthen synergies between biodiversity and climate, with a strong focus on Brazil
With @greenpeace.org, WWF and @sosmataatlantica.bsky.social
#COP30 Side Event Advisory: From Trade-offs to Synergies: Aligning Climate and Biodiversity Policies
📅: Tuesday, 11 November 2025
⏰: 13:00-14:45 Belem time
📍: Side Event Room 1, Blue Zone
@naturebasedsols.bsky.social @wwfbrasil.bsky.social @igarapeorg.bsky.social
📅: Tuesday, 11 November 2025
⏰: 13:00-14:45 Belem time
📍: Side Event Room 1, Blue Zone
@naturebasedsols.bsky.social @wwfbrasil.bsky.social @igarapeorg.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
We’re delighted to be co-hosting a side event at #COP30 today!
🌎 Bringing together experts from academia, NGOs and government, we’ll discuss how we can strengthen synergies between biodiversity and climate, with a strong focus on Brazil
With @greenpeace.org, WWF and @sosmataatlantica.bsky.social
🌎 Bringing together experts from academia, NGOs and government, we’ll discuss how we can strengthen synergies between biodiversity and climate, with a strong focus on Brazil
With @greenpeace.org, WWF and @sosmataatlantica.bsky.social
The need to incorporate seasonality into urban blue-green spaces to ensure year round benefits realisation of cultural ecosystem services.
Seasonal variation of cultural ecosystem services in urban blue-green spaces
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Seasonal variation of cultural ecosystem services in urban blue-green spaces based on the SoLVES model and social media data
Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) are an essential component of ecosystem services, playing a key role in enhancing human well-being. However, convent…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The need to incorporate seasonality into urban blue-green spaces to ensure year round benefits realisation of cultural ecosystem services.
Style over substance or style and substance? Cultural norms and expectations around (imho) concepts such as 'expertise' and 'trust'.
It would be interesting to see if/how this intersects with class in the UK.
It would be interesting to see if/how this intersects with class in the UK.
"Seriousness is a form of gatekeeping engaged in by elite, political entities – media, think tanks, lobbying groups and consultancies – which impose certain customs and behaviours as a prerequisite for entry"
Paulie Doyle
@wereontheditch.bsky.social
www.ontheditch.com/comment-taki...
Paulie Doyle
@wereontheditch.bsky.social
www.ontheditch.com/comment-taki...
Comment: Taking things Seriously
Seriousness’s function in the media: setting the boundaries of acceptable opinion
www.ontheditch.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Style over substance or style and substance? Cultural norms and expectations around (imho) concepts such as 'expertise' and 'trust'.
It would be interesting to see if/how this intersects with class in the UK.
It would be interesting to see if/how this intersects with class in the UK.
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Did you know that Huawei is owned by its workers? It's success can be attributed to continued investment in R&D, and to independence from and support from government. thetechylife.com/is-huawei-ow...
The Huawei Conundrum: Unraveling the Mystery of Ownership
The rise of Huawei as a global telecommunications giant has been nothing short of phenomenal. From its humble beginnings in the 1980s to its current status as
thetechylife.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Did you know that Huawei is owned by its workers? It's success can be attributed to continued investment in R&D, and to independence from and support from government. thetechylife.com/is-huawei-ow...
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For those who post on #CoastalHistory topics, please let me know if you'd like to be added to our starter pack. Coastal History involves the history of coastal communities, both urban and rural, or those who live between land and sea around the world. Coasts connect! go.bsky.app/Pfa95p7
November 20, 2024 at 12:47 PM
For those who post on #CoastalHistory topics, please let me know if you'd like to be added to our starter pack. Coastal History involves the history of coastal communities, both urban and rural, or those who live between land and sea around the world. Coasts connect! go.bsky.app/Pfa95p7
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Memories of plunging my hand deep into the very cold peat to uncover Iron Age wooden planks last seen over 2,000 years ago.
In 1986, I started work on my first archaeology dig at Corlea 1, dated to 148/147 BC. I didn’t know then it would be some of the most spectacular archaeology of my career.
In 1986, I started work on my first archaeology dig at Corlea 1, dated to 148/147 BC. I didn’t know then it would be some of the most spectacular archaeology of my career.
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Memories of plunging my hand deep into the very cold peat to uncover Iron Age wooden planks last seen over 2,000 years ago.
In 1986, I started work on my first archaeology dig at Corlea 1, dated to 148/147 BC. I didn’t know then it would be some of the most spectacular archaeology of my career.
In 1986, I started work on my first archaeology dig at Corlea 1, dated to 148/147 BC. I didn’t know then it would be some of the most spectacular archaeology of my career.
Fantastic PhD research in sustainable digital humanities. Bookmark this 🙌🙌🙌
Such vital research and I'm sure there are many more thesis/dissertations out there - how to find, synthesise and operationalise them? 🤔
Another DH PhD topic?
#digitalhumanities #sustainability
Such vital research and I'm sure there are many more thesis/dissertations out there - how to find, synthesise and operationalise them? 🤔
Another DH PhD topic?
#digitalhumanities #sustainability
We are featured in over 50 news outlets today: PhD student David Mahoney's research using web archives, @archive.org, to measure historic website emissions, offering a new method and open-source code for analysing & highlighting online environmental impact. www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/11/c...
COP websites emit 10 times more carbon than average webpages - Energy Live News
COP conference websites emit more carbon per page view than typical webpages
www.energylivenews.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Fantastic PhD research in sustainable digital humanities. Bookmark this 🙌🙌🙌
Such vital research and I'm sure there are many more thesis/dissertations out there - how to find, synthesise and operationalise them? 🤔
Another DH PhD topic?
#digitalhumanities #sustainability
Such vital research and I'm sure there are many more thesis/dissertations out there - how to find, synthesise and operationalise them? 🤔
Another DH PhD topic?
#digitalhumanities #sustainability
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Looking forward to speaking at this event next week on a more community based economy. Featuring @anooshc.bsky.social @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social @patrickhurley.bsky.social @jamestplunkett.bsky.social & more. Register here
www.powertochange.org.uk/event/event-...
www.powertochange.org.uk/event/event-...
November 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Looking forward to speaking at this event next week on a more community based economy. Featuring @anooshc.bsky.social @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social @patrickhurley.bsky.social @jamestplunkett.bsky.social & more. Register here
www.powertochange.org.uk/event/event-...
www.powertochange.org.uk/event/event-...
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That was fast. It’s still got that freshly copied smell to it.
apparently the unprecedented wealth and inflcuence big tech is amassing at the cost of the most marginalised is not enough. big tech ceos are not that different from drug cartels
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
EU set to water down landmark AI Act after pressure from big tech
European Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book amid concerns over implications for EU competitiveness
www.irishtimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
That was fast. It’s still got that freshly copied smell to it.
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Today we have "Translating the Arctic, ca. 1819" by Oliver Aas
This is the sixth post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/11/10/t...
#envhist #arctic #envhum
This is the sixth post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/11/10/t...
#envhist #arctic #envhum
Translating the Arctic, ca. 1819
Henry Aston Barker's 1819 Arctic panorama introduced immersive Arctic imagery to Britain, blending exploration, art, and translation to shape public understanding and imagination.
niche-canada.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Today we have "Translating the Arctic, ca. 1819" by Oliver Aas
This is the sixth post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/11/10/t...
#envhist #arctic #envhum
This is the sixth post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/11/10/t...
#envhist #arctic #envhum
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These posts are gold. They directly show how we already have massive documentation from REF impact case studies re: the value of disciplinary expertise in the real world. We can all dig up local examples and publicize them with political leaders & in communities.
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
These posts are gold. They directly show how we already have massive documentation from REF impact case studies re: the value of disciplinary expertise in the real world. We can all dig up local examples and publicize them with political leaders & in communities.
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Have you seen Landscape Research Vol. 50, Issue 5? This is a Special Issue: Emerging Voices in Landscape Research.
To celebrate its launch, we hosted an online event featuring:
Watch the full recording here:
youtu.be/30fuceLz_F0
Read the Special Issue:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/clar20/c...
To celebrate its launch, we hosted an online event featuring:
Watch the full recording here:
youtu.be/30fuceLz_F0
Read the Special Issue:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/clar20/c...
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Have you seen Landscape Research Vol. 50, Issue 5? This is a Special Issue: Emerging Voices in Landscape Research.
To celebrate its launch, we hosted an online event featuring:
Watch the full recording here:
youtu.be/30fuceLz_F0
Read the Special Issue:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/clar20/c...
To celebrate its launch, we hosted an online event featuring:
Watch the full recording here:
youtu.be/30fuceLz_F0
Read the Special Issue:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/clar20/c...
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I adore the Olympics, I take it as annual leave.
But they've been getting worse on gender. It's nonsense, some sports shouldn't even have a split but they force it & now they're going back to the disastrous sex testing policy. Let trans folks compete.
Looks like I'll be having to give it a miss 😭
But they've been getting worse on gender. It's nonsense, some sports shouldn't even have a split but they force it & now they're going back to the disastrous sex testing policy. Let trans folks compete.
Looks like I'll be having to give it a miss 😭
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
The International Olympic Committee is moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I adore the Olympics, I take it as annual leave.
But they've been getting worse on gender. It's nonsense, some sports shouldn't even have a split but they force it & now they're going back to the disastrous sex testing policy. Let trans folks compete.
Looks like I'll be having to give it a miss 😭
But they've been getting worse on gender. It's nonsense, some sports shouldn't even have a split but they force it & now they're going back to the disastrous sex testing policy. Let trans folks compete.
Looks like I'll be having to give it a miss 😭
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I was part of an OCLC RLP working group on 'artificial intelligence to support metadata workflows'.
Four posts summarise this work, looking at primary cataloguing, archives and special collections, institutional repositories, and overall pros and cons hangingtogether.org/tag/aiandmet...
Four posts summarise this work, looking at primary cataloguing, archives and special collections, institutional repositories, and overall pros and cons hangingtogether.org/tag/aiandmet...
AIandMetadataWorkflows Archives - Hanging Together
Hanging Together
hangingtogether.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I was part of an OCLC RLP working group on 'artificial intelligence to support metadata workflows'.
Four posts summarise this work, looking at primary cataloguing, archives and special collections, institutional repositories, and overall pros and cons hangingtogether.org/tag/aiandmet...
Four posts summarise this work, looking at primary cataloguing, archives and special collections, institutional repositories, and overall pros and cons hangingtogether.org/tag/aiandmet...
"Our floors are uneven and light levels are low with most of the illumination being provided by candles. However, we also have high-sided box pews which house seating that faces every which way and place the focus squarely on listening rather than seeing." tinyurl.com/4fbra9ke
Holy Trinity Goodramgate York is officially a 'Sight Loss Friendly Organisation' - Churches Conservation Trust
Helping visitors to 'live well with sight loss' thanks to MySight York.
tinyurl.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"Our floors are uneven and light levels are low with most of the illumination being provided by candles. However, we also have high-sided box pews which house seating that faces every which way and place the focus squarely on listening rather than seeing." tinyurl.com/4fbra9ke
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This Friday's lecture from Cristina Banks-Leite looks to be a thought-provoking one, so sign up to attend on-line, or in-person (followed by a drinks reception) oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com
@ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This Friday's lecture from Cristina Banks-Leite looks to be a thought-provoking one, so sign up to attend on-line, or in-person (followed by a drinks reception) oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com
@ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
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ISRF Newsletter – November 2025
This month's newsletter features a Director's Note from
@cnewf.bsky.social addressing the UK governments recent Post-16 Education & Skills white paper. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
mailinglist.isrf.org/p/isrf-newsl...
This month's newsletter features a Director's Note from
@cnewf.bsky.social addressing the UK governments recent Post-16 Education & Skills white paper. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
mailinglist.isrf.org/p/isrf-newsl...
ISRF Newsletter – November 2025
This month's newsletter features a Director's Note unpacking the UK government's latest White Paper on higher education. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
mailinglist.isrf.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
ISRF Newsletter – November 2025
This month's newsletter features a Director's Note from
@cnewf.bsky.social addressing the UK governments recent Post-16 Education & Skills white paper. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
mailinglist.isrf.org/p/isrf-newsl...
This month's newsletter features a Director's Note from
@cnewf.bsky.social addressing the UK governments recent Post-16 Education & Skills white paper. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
mailinglist.isrf.org/p/isrf-newsl...
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Absolutely the greatest thing to happen to a bookish teen with a sense of drama. '“I didn’t want to say immediately it was me,” he said. “With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last.”'
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Absolutely the greatest thing to happen to a bookish teen with a sense of drama. '“I didn’t want to say immediately it was me,” he said. “With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last.”'
"To the newcomer, the carefully mapped and cautiously negotiated lines which parcel out the North Sea to its many neighbours can be more than a little puzzling, so used are we to thinking of it as one great grey-blue whole."
This week's North Sea Nexus post on the invisible boundaries in the sea most of us rarely think about, and how they came to be.
Drawing the lines
Shifting boundaries and legal ambiguities in the North Sea
northseanexus.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"To the newcomer, the carefully mapped and cautiously negotiated lines which parcel out the North Sea to its many neighbours can be more than a little puzzling, so used are we to thinking of it as one great grey-blue whole."
In today’s public history column, a feel good story for the feel bad times we live in:
With Prof Chris Whatley, and his new book, I tell of popular protest and legal battles in Glasgow in the 1820s, in which a rich and selfish landowner was soundly defeated. www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
With Prof Chris Whatley, and his new book, I tell of popular protest and legal battles in Glasgow in the 1820s, in which a rich and selfish landowner was soundly defeated. www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
The Clyde uprising that paved the way for Scotland's right to roam
A NEW book published in the summer revives the memory of one of the more dramatic episodes in the history of Glasgow
www.thenational.scot
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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It’s really annoying that NT members have to keep remembering to do this, but I’m glad they do.
National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign.
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Voting results from the AGM
Read about the National Trust's 2025 Annual General Meeting and the results from the day.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
It’s really annoying that NT members have to keep remembering to do this, but I’m glad they do.
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I love this model. 7 people who know stuff sit in 7 different pubs, waiting for fools to join them. Folks wander between these pubs, certain of interesting conversation in each one.
Could be done with cafes too
Could be done with cafes too
If you’re anywhere near #chester after work on Tuesday, come and have a wander around our Experts Pub Trail. Seven of the ppl who know most about our history and archaeology waiting for you to join them for a cosy chat! #rowvember www.heritagechester.co.uk/event-detail...
The Heritage Experts Pub Trail | Heritage Chester
Embark on a self-guided heritage trail through the heart of Chester, with three special pub stops where you can meet local experts and discover the city's fascinating past.
www.heritagechester.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I love this model. 7 people who know stuff sit in 7 different pubs, waiting for fools to join them. Folks wander between these pubs, certain of interesting conversation in each one.
Could be done with cafes too
Could be done with cafes too