Clare Rainsford
@littlebonelady.bsky.social
Zooarchaeologist and Yorkshire import. Owned by a lurcher called Baz.
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Absolutely shocking.
We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases.
We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.
We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases.
We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.
December 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Absolutely shocking.
We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases.
We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.
We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases.
We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.
Something a bit different for #StandingStoneSunday... Back in 2011 my aunt, Di Cope, visited Rudston, E. Yorkshire, with my grandma and drew this from a photo she took. If you've not seen actual Rudston, it's a single monolith, the tallest in the UK, and looks a lot like this, minus the grin.
December 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Something a bit different for #StandingStoneSunday... Back in 2011 my aunt, Di Cope, visited Rudston, E. Yorkshire, with my grandma and drew this from a photo she took. If you've not seen actual Rudston, it's a single monolith, the tallest in the UK, and looks a lot like this, minus the grin.
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also just thinking as someone who's a STEM educator interested in communicating ideas, poetry is *super* important to learn about because a lot of the devices in it are basically "how do i make a set of words and ideas stick in your brain", which is important!
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
also just thinking as someone who's a STEM educator interested in communicating ideas, poetry is *super* important to learn about because a lot of the devices in it are basically "how do i make a set of words and ideas stick in your brain", which is important!
Someone put a hat and scarf on LongBoi!
December 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Someone put a hat and scarf on LongBoi!
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UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record
UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record
Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded
Record heat and drought cost Britain’s arable farmers more than £800m in lost production in 2025 in one of the worst harvests recorded, analysis has estimated.
Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020, leaving some farmers asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops. Farmers are already facing heavy financial pressure as the costs of fertilisers and other inputs have risen faster than prices. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record
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Today the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence begin.
People around the world are wearing a white ribbon to call on men to never commit, excuse or remain silent about gender-based violence.
Join me and support our work to build a London that's safe for everyone.
People around the world are wearing a white ribbon to call on men to never commit, excuse or remain silent about gender-based violence.
Join me and support our work to build a London that's safe for everyone.
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Today the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence begin.
People around the world are wearing a white ribbon to call on men to never commit, excuse or remain silent about gender-based violence.
Join me and support our work to build a London that's safe for everyone.
People around the world are wearing a white ribbon to call on men to never commit, excuse or remain silent about gender-based violence.
Join me and support our work to build a London that's safe for everyone.
Every so often it's worth getting out on a grotty winter's day. That's two egrets, a heron, a bunch of weird ducks (pochard?) and a kingfisher, an actual kingfisher, all on this stretch of campus lake.
November 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Every so often it's worth getting out on a grotty winter's day. That's two egrets, a heron, a bunch of weird ducks (pochard?) and a kingfisher, an actual kingfisher, all on this stretch of campus lake.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Every year I stop myself from posting “now look here you lot, my books would make an excellent Christmas present” in October because it’s way too early, and then I forget until it’s way too late.
Hope I’ve hit the sweet spot this time.
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Hope I’ve hit the sweet spot this time.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Every year I stop myself from posting “now look here you lot, my books would make an excellent Christmas present” in October because it’s way too early, and then I forget until it’s way too late.
Hope I’ve hit the sweet spot this time.
levparikian.com/index.php/sh...
Hope I’ve hit the sweet spot this time.
levparikian.com/index.php/sh...
Hm. So. This time last year I wrote an eight-part blog series, broadly on the topic of how to survive the winter. It's rather more personal than the writing I'd usually share here and less archaeological, and for anyone interested it starts here:
fromthebonesoftheland.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/t...
fromthebonesoftheland.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/t...
To Lighten The Dark: Part 1
“God damn this snow,” sings Tom Smith, of the duo Smith & Burrows, in the song which has been rolling around my head all week. God damn this snow indeed. The song is called When The Thames Froz…
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November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Hm. So. This time last year I wrote an eight-part blog series, broadly on the topic of how to survive the winter. It's rather more personal than the writing I'd usually share here and less archaeological, and for anyone interested it starts here:
fromthebonesoftheland.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/t...
fromthebonesoftheland.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/t...
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A few months ago, I went to Orkney with insufficient layers and was given a secondhand windproof fleece by a friend of mine there.
It turns out the fleece is also waterproof in even quite substantial rain.
I am taking this as evidence that my friend is one of the Fair Folk.
It turns out the fleece is also waterproof in even quite substantial rain.
I am taking this as evidence that my friend is one of the Fair Folk.
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A few months ago, I went to Orkney with insufficient layers and was given a secondhand windproof fleece by a friend of mine there.
It turns out the fleece is also waterproof in even quite substantial rain.
I am taking this as evidence that my friend is one of the Fair Folk.
It turns out the fleece is also waterproof in even quite substantial rain.
I am taking this as evidence that my friend is one of the Fair Folk.
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Happy Exploding Whale Carcass Day to all who celebrate.
It’s 12 November, so it’s time to mark the 55th anniversary of the exploding whale of Oregon, an attempt to clear a cetacean carcass from a beach which prompted one reporter to say “The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds”
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Happy Exploding Whale Carcass Day to all who celebrate.
Most years on Remembrance Day, I take a minute to think about the Chattri Memorial, just outside Brighton and near where I grew up. It's there to honour the Hindu and Sikh soldiers from India who fought in the WW1 trenches and who died of their wounds in Brighton.
www.chattri.org
www.chattri.org
Chattri Memorial Group
www.chattri.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Most years on Remembrance Day, I take a minute to think about the Chattri Memorial, just outside Brighton and near where I grew up. It's there to honour the Hindu and Sikh soldiers from India who fought in the WW1 trenches and who died of their wounds in Brighton.
www.chattri.org
www.chattri.org
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Let's play Bucks Name or Name Name
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Let's play Bucks Name or Name Name
You know what, it's actually nice to be asked to peer review an article which, based on the abstract, I'm really excited to read. Maybe that's spotting a rainbow in the howling thunderstorm of the academic publishing world, but, eh, it's a rainbow, I'll take it.
November 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
You know what, it's actually nice to be asked to peer review an article which, based on the abstract, I'm really excited to read. Maybe that's spotting a rainbow in the howling thunderstorm of the academic publishing world, but, eh, it's a rainbow, I'll take it.
Went to hang out with my local standing stones, the Devil's Arrows in Boroughbridge, for Samhain. The last remaining fragments of a much wider ritual landscape, now swallowed by farmland and settlement; standing in conversation with the local trees. #StandingStoneSunday
November 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Went to hang out with my local standing stones, the Devil's Arrows in Boroughbridge, for Samhain. The last remaining fragments of a much wider ritual landscape, now swallowed by farmland and settlement; standing in conversation with the local trees. #StandingStoneSunday
No idea why this has come up but yes, can confirm.
October 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
No idea why this has come up but yes, can confirm.
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
Whenever I do any work on oysters, I am reminded of the decidedly-nameless "specialists" I once inherited an assemblage from, who decided that the left valve of an oyster was a "marine oyster", and the right valve was a "river oyster". Pro tip: Don't do that.
October 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Whenever I do any work on oysters, I am reminded of the decidedly-nameless "specialists" I once inherited an assemblage from, who decided that the left valve of an oyster was a "marine oyster", and the right valve was a "river oyster". Pro tip: Don't do that.
Alas, it appears they were beheaded, not burnt to a... well, you know.
![An extract from the Anglican prayer book: red text on white background reads, "Saturday 25 October 2025, Crispin and Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.287 [Commemoration]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zga6ndicg7wrb7q6uu6n36uo/bafkreidfk7tzdf3ojquf3fq46x36zguquuang6hutedeppei7fqg6kk7mu@jpeg)
October 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Alas, it appears they were beheaded, not burnt to a... well, you know.
France: Mon dieu! Jewellery thieves have robbed the Louvre!
France: ....seriously, UK, why are you laughing?
France: ....seriously, UK, why are you laughing?
We hope they find those responsible for the Louvre robbery.
In the meantime we have got our own suspicions on who might be the culprit…
In the meantime we have got our own suspicions on who might be the culprit…
October 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
France: Mon dieu! Jewellery thieves have robbed the Louvre!
France: ....seriously, UK, why are you laughing?
France: ....seriously, UK, why are you laughing?
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Like birds?!
Like aquabirds!?
Like drawings of aquabirds!?
Like representations of aquabirds as processed through the mistletoe-addled imaginations of the Iron Age Britons!?
Then boy is this the PhD for you!
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Like aquabirds!?
Like drawings of aquabirds!?
Like representations of aquabirds as processed through the mistletoe-addled imaginations of the Iron Age Britons!?
Then boy is this the PhD for you!
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[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] Waterbirds: an interdisciplinary study of British wetland avians in art, ecology and the economy during the Iron Age and early Roman era at The University of Manchester on FindA...
PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] Waterbirds: an interdisciplinary study of British wetland avians in art, ecology and the economy during the Iron Age and early Roman era at The University of Manch...
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October 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Like birds?!
Like aquabirds!?
Like drawings of aquabirds!?
Like representations of aquabirds as processed through the mistletoe-addled imaginations of the Iron Age Britons!?
Then boy is this the PhD for you!
linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%...
Like aquabirds!?
Like drawings of aquabirds!?
Like representations of aquabirds as processed through the mistletoe-addled imaginations of the Iron Age Britons!?
Then boy is this the PhD for you!
linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%...