Claire Kotecki
@klarusu.bsky.social
Writer, Scientist, Educator. History postgraduate student. You can always win me over with a cat. 🐈⬛ Here be dragons 🐉
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Claire Kotecki
@klarusu.bsky.social
· Dec 17
Hope — Claire Kotecki
Hope is a thing with tufted wings, wrapped in cotton candy, sweet on the tongue as it melts. It is something intangible and unscientific. We have no empirical data. Hope exists in defiance of the logi...
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Little short blog piece that came from a writing sprint at one of the Absolute Zero meetings. Love my writing people 🥰
www.clairekotecki.com/news/2024/12...
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I was just reading AI ‘tells’ advice and, with the best will in the world, if you come for me because I refuse to give up the Oxford comma until it’s torn from me, we will have words. Ditto em dashes. 🤦♀️🤦♀️
May 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I was just reading AI ‘tells’ advice and, with the best will in the world, if you come for me because I refuse to give up the Oxford comma until it’s torn from me, we will have words. Ditto em dashes. 🤦♀️🤦♀️
A trade deal with Trump’s America is a lot like haemorrhoid cream … unpleasant but necessary, and nothing to publicly celebrate.
May 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
A trade deal with Trump’s America is a lot like haemorrhoid cream … unpleasant but necessary, and nothing to publicly celebrate.
Oh my … this is going to be a fantastic anthology in all categories 😍
Thread. It is a great honour to announce the shortlist for the 2025 #Curae prize for unpaid carers
POETRY CATEGORY
Mistletoe. Sam Garvan
Diagnosis. Elizabeth Loudon
Sinkhole. Charlotte Ansell
I Love Him (like salt and water). Emma Wilson
The Shop at the End of a Wave. Ia Kozoboli.
thecuraeprize.uk
POETRY CATEGORY
Mistletoe. Sam Garvan
Diagnosis. Elizabeth Loudon
Sinkhole. Charlotte Ansell
I Love Him (like salt and water). Emma Wilson
The Shop at the End of a Wave. Ia Kozoboli.
thecuraeprize.uk
May 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Oh my … this is going to be a fantastic anthology in all categories 😍
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#Curae prize results announced at 12. The bursary fund will close at the end of the day. If you can help, please do. The prize - an unique initiative for unpaid #carers - receives no industry funding at all. www.gofundme.com/f/curae-2025...
Donate to Dr Anna Vaught: Curae Writing Bursaries for unpaid carers, organized by Anna Vaught
Hello everyone,
I am Anna (aka Dr Anna Vaught - and you may kno… Anna Vaught needs your support for Dr Anna Vaught: Curae Writing Bursaries for unpaid carers
www.gofundme.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
#Curae prize results announced at 12. The bursary fund will close at the end of the day. If you can help, please do. The prize - an unique initiative for unpaid #carers - receives no industry funding at all. www.gofundme.com/f/curae-2025...
❤️❤️ So proud of all the carer-writers for being brave and sharing their hard-won creativity. So excited to see what will be an amazing shortlist ❤️❤️
#Curae prize results this morning!
May 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
❤️❤️ So proud of all the carer-writers for being brave and sharing their hard-won creativity. So excited to see what will be an amazing shortlist ❤️❤️
Our Absolute Zero writers’ collective is an amazing group of STEM-centred folk who are exploring the collisions between the creative and scientific. We have a zine launch event in a week’s time. Come hear us read! www.storyology.co.uk/shop/p/absol...
Absolute Zero presents: NOTHING — Storyology
Join Absolute Zero at Morocco Bound on Tuesday 6th May for an evening of mingling and readings on the theme of our first zine, NOTHING.
www.storyology.co.uk
April 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Our Absolute Zero writers’ collective is an amazing group of STEM-centred folk who are exploring the collisions between the creative and scientific. We have a zine launch event in a week’s time. Come hear us read! www.storyology.co.uk/shop/p/absol...
🧵 I want to tell you why I think this is one of the most important prizes running and I’m sorry that the book press and mainstream publishing hasn’t dived on it with bells on and support …
I confirmed the 2025 #Curae prize shortlist just now. Emotional? Me?
Shortlist announced at 12 on 1st of May across socials and I will have let winners know just before. We can be in touch throughout the day.
Life can be so hard; so sad, but community, love, creativity - those are golden.
Shortlist announced at 12 on 1st of May across socials and I will have let winners know just before. We can be in touch throughout the day.
Life can be so hard; so sad, but community, love, creativity - those are golden.
April 27, 2025 at 6:52 AM
🧵 I want to tell you why I think this is one of the most important prizes running and I’m sorry that the book press and mainstream publishing hasn’t dived on it with bells on and support …
Creating a US government registry to track autistic people using private medical records is like a ‘How to Nazi in Easy Steps’ manual. It’s not science. Science has an ethical foundation based on consent. Science already studies autism, and many other neurotypes ethically.
April 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Creating a US government registry to track autistic people using private medical records is like a ‘How to Nazi in Easy Steps’ manual. It’s not science. Science has an ethical foundation based on consent. Science already studies autism, and many other neurotypes ethically.
In the true spirit of nature writers, I talk to the red kites that fly low over our garden every day. I love the proximity-but-distance. I wish it was something poignantly profound, but most often, I just say “Please don’t poo on my head.” 😂🤦♀️
April 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
In the true spirit of nature writers, I talk to the red kites that fly low over our garden every day. I love the proximity-but-distance. I wish it was something poignantly profound, but most often, I just say “Please don’t poo on my head.” 😂🤦♀️
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Oooh it’s only a few weeks until we announce the #Curae 2025 shortlist I AM EXCITED ARE YOU EXCITED.
Fundraiser for writers’ bursaries is still running, below. Do please help me if you can. This is the only opportunity of this kind for unpaid #carers 💙📚
Fundraiser for writers’ bursaries is still running, below. Do please help me if you can. This is the only opportunity of this kind for unpaid #carers 💙📚
Today I launch a fundraiser to support the 2025 #Curae prize for unpaid carers who are also writers or would like to be. Anything you can add to the pot will go directly towards bursary funds for our three winners (announced 1st June).
gofund.me/1d8c6564
All in, we can transform lives here x
gofund.me/1d8c6564
All in, we can transform lives here x
Donate to Dr Anna Vaught: Curae Writing Bursaries for unpaid carers, organised by Anna Vaught
Hello everyone,
I am Anna (aka Dr Anna Vaught - and you may kno… Anna Vaught needs your support for Dr Anna Vaught: Curae Writing Bursaries for unpaid carers
gofund.me
April 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
lil.law.harvard.edu
February 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Reposted by Claire Kotecki
Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
February 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
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CDC DATASETS on 1.28.2025
According to @altcdc.bsky.social
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. archive.org/details/2025...
You need to know which data set you would like. Use CTRL+F to find a keyword from the list.
🧪🛟 #Episky #Statsky
According to @altcdc.bsky.social
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. archive.org/details/2025...
You need to know which data set you would like. Use CTRL+F to find a keyword from the list.
🧪🛟 #Episky #Statsky
CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.
archive.org
February 2, 2025 at 5:58 AM
CDC DATASETS on 1.28.2025
According to @altcdc.bsky.social
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. archive.org/details/2025...
You need to know which data set you would like. Use CTRL+F to find a keyword from the list.
🧪🛟 #Episky #Statsky
According to @altcdc.bsky.social
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. archive.org/details/2025...
You need to know which data set you would like. Use CTRL+F to find a keyword from the list.
🧪🛟 #Episky #Statsky
Reposted by Claire Kotecki
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
Little short blog piece that came from a writing sprint at one of the Absolute Zero meetings. Love my writing people 🥰
www.clairekotecki.com/news/2024/12...
www.clairekotecki.com/news/2024/12...
Hope — Claire Kotecki
Hope is a thing with tufted wings, wrapped in cotton candy, sweet on the tongue as it melts. It is something intangible and unscientific. We have no empirical data. Hope exists in defiance of the logi...
www.clairekotecki.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Little short blog piece that came from a writing sprint at one of the Absolute Zero meetings. Love my writing people 🥰
www.clairekotecki.com/news/2024/12...
www.clairekotecki.com/news/2024/12...
A day ahead of finalising exam papers. However much students dislike sitting them, it is equal in magnitude to how much I dislike the weeks that go into setting them … especially when our staffing has been cut to the bone and I’ve lost half my subject specialists. Sigh.
December 3, 2024 at 6:34 AM
A day ahead of finalising exam papers. However much students dislike sitting them, it is equal in magnitude to how much I dislike the weeks that go into setting them … especially when our staffing has been cut to the bone and I’ve lost half my subject specialists. Sigh.
It’s bad enough the OU has banned children and young people from campus (we are clearly not an #OUFamily as we always used to be), but according to the latest email “Following some recent reports …” children have been seen. Can we all agree that none of us have or will ever ‘see’ children on site?
December 2, 2024 at 1:01 PM
It’s bad enough the OU has banned children and young people from campus (we are clearly not an #OUFamily as we always used to be), but according to the latest email “Following some recent reports …” children have been seen. Can we all agree that none of us have or will ever ‘see’ children on site?
Reposted by Claire Kotecki
Thread on resources for #publishing for #writers. First of all, if you are thinking about broader freelance work, then you need the best newsletter about. Sian Meades Williams's Freelance Writing Jobs, www.sianmeadeswilliams.com/freelance-wr... Weekly or monthly round-ups. Comps, opps, jobs & more
Freelance Writing Jobs — Sian Meades-Williams
Freelance Writing Jobs is the UK's leading media industry newsletter for freelance calls for pitches and paying freelance writing jobs. Subscribe here.
www.sianmeadeswilliams.com
November 24, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Thread on resources for #publishing for #writers. First of all, if you are thinking about broader freelance work, then you need the best newsletter about. Sian Meades Williams's Freelance Writing Jobs, www.sianmeadeswilliams.com/freelance-wr... Weekly or monthly round-ups. Comps, opps, jobs & more
My supper companion was looking very dapper tonight. She dressed for dinner.
November 18, 2024 at 8:52 PM
My supper companion was looking very dapper tonight. She dressed for dinner.
Reposted by Claire Kotecki
Lots more videos with tips on how best to carry out demonstrations and practicals here alomshaha.com/project-type... and alomshaha.com/portfolio/vi...
November 18, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Lots more videos with tips on how best to carry out demonstrations and practicals here alomshaha.com/project-type... and alomshaha.com/portfolio/vi...
Current status: regretting my life choices 🤦♀️
November 17, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Current status: regretting my life choices 🤦♀️
A Sunday full of writing today. I have a piece for our upcoming zine edition that needs a serious final edit, I need to start putting in a daily word count on my WIP to get a full first draft and I have a history MA assignment to finish. Onwards! But first coffee … #writingcommunity #writing
November 17, 2024 at 8:34 AM
A Sunday full of writing today. I have a piece for our upcoming zine edition that needs a serious final edit, I need to start putting in a daily word count on my WIP to get a full first draft and I have a history MA assignment to finish. Onwards! But first coffee … #writingcommunity #writing
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Cementing the professional legitimacy of 🦋
We now have the journals on #MedSky & #IDSky
@jamacurrent.bsky.social
@bmj.com
@cmicomms.bsky.social (first one?)
@eurosurveillance.bsky.social
@cidjournal.bsky.social
@ofidjournal.bsky.social
@thejhi.bsky.social
@jclinical-invest.bsky.social
We now have the journals on #MedSky & #IDSky
@jamacurrent.bsky.social
@bmj.com
@cmicomms.bsky.social (first one?)
@eurosurveillance.bsky.social
@cidjournal.bsky.social
@ofidjournal.bsky.social
@thejhi.bsky.social
@jclinical-invest.bsky.social
November 16, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Cementing the professional legitimacy of 🦋
We now have the journals on #MedSky & #IDSky
@jamacurrent.bsky.social
@bmj.com
@cmicomms.bsky.social (first one?)
@eurosurveillance.bsky.social
@cidjournal.bsky.social
@ofidjournal.bsky.social
@thejhi.bsky.social
@jclinical-invest.bsky.social
We now have the journals on #MedSky & #IDSky
@jamacurrent.bsky.social
@bmj.com
@cmicomms.bsky.social (first one?)
@eurosurveillance.bsky.social
@cidjournal.bsky.social
@ofidjournal.bsky.social
@thejhi.bsky.social
@jclinical-invest.bsky.social
I needed ‘Songs of a Lost World’ so much more than I realised. Wonderful work from The Cure.
November 16, 2024 at 3:22 PM
I needed ‘Songs of a Lost World’ so much more than I realised. Wonderful work from The Cure.