Rhiannon Grant
@rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social
I research, write, and teach about the Quaker tradition. I also write fiction (mainly sapphic romance novels set in prehistory) and poetry. She/her.
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There are several versions of this going round, and this is something I'd considered posting anyway (sometimes I've made a pinned thread or similar which covers it). So let's play this evening: one like, one piece of my writing. Could be nonfiction, academic, fiction, poetry.
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An idea for your Christmas tree this year - stacks of Celtic gold torcs! Known as the Ipswitch Torcs after the location where their hoard was found, the terminals are decorated in the swirly La Tène style (Tène II), save the top one which is unadorned. 🎄🏺 1/
150-50 BCE. 📸 me
#BritishMuseum
150-50 BCE. 📸 me
#BritishMuseum
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
An idea for your Christmas tree this year - stacks of Celtic gold torcs! Known as the Ipswitch Torcs after the location where their hoard was found, the terminals are decorated in the swirly La Tène style (Tène II), save the top one which is unadorned. 🎄🏺 1/
150-50 BCE. 📸 me
#BritishMuseum
150-50 BCE. 📸 me
#BritishMuseum
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It's #StandingStoneSunday 🥳 The triple stone alignment of Harold's Stones, Trellech, is depicted as a relief carving on Lady Probert's sundial of 1689, now in the local church
This shows the stones have barely changed in 3 centuries 😮
@stoneclub.bsky.social
👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/221159
This shows the stones have barely changed in 3 centuries 😮
@stoneclub.bsky.social
👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/221159
November 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
It's #StandingStoneSunday 🥳 The triple stone alignment of Harold's Stones, Trellech, is depicted as a relief carving on Lady Probert's sundial of 1689, now in the local church
This shows the stones have barely changed in 3 centuries 😮
@stoneclub.bsky.social
👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/221159
This shows the stones have barely changed in 3 centuries 😮
@stoneclub.bsky.social
👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/221159
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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A new study shows the impact of Neanderthals and later hunter-gatherer peoples on nature turns out to have had a far greater influence on shaping the landscape of what we now know as Europe.
www.bajr.org/neanderthals...
www.bajr.org/neanderthals...
Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers shaped European landscapes long before agriculture - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
New research shows that humans left their mark on the landscape through hunting and the use of fire tens of thousands of years before the advent of agriculture. The research paints a new picture of th...
www.bajr.org
October 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
A new study shows the impact of Neanderthals and later hunter-gatherer peoples on nature turns out to have had a far greater influence on shaping the landscape of what we now know as Europe.
www.bajr.org/neanderthals...
www.bajr.org/neanderthals...
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Mên-an-Tol is probably from the Bronze Age, making it around 3,500 years old (little evidence has been found). It consists of four stones, the most unusual being the circular and pierced upright stone. The other three stones are more regular granite pillars. #StandingStoneSunday
October 26, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Mên-an-Tol is probably from the Bronze Age, making it around 3,500 years old (little evidence has been found). It consists of four stones, the most unusual being the circular and pierced upright stone. The other three stones are more regular granite pillars. #StandingStoneSunday
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Proposition: You become a writer the moment you write, a musician the moment you make music, a painter the moment you paint, etc. You become an artist the moment you find your own voice as a writer/musician/painter/etc.
Yes? No?
Yes? No?
October 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Proposition: You become a writer the moment you write, a musician the moment you make music, a painter the moment you paint, etc. You become an artist the moment you find your own voice as a writer/musician/painter/etc.
Yes? No?
Yes? No?
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Tackling the cost of living crisis goes hand in hand with tackling the climate crisis.
We need food security, insulated homes, and cheap renewable energy.
We need food security, insulated homes, and cheap renewable energy.
UK food inflation is being driven by climate change-induced extreme weather, driving up price of butter, milk, beef, chocolate & coffee
The price rises in those staples is contributing 40% of overall food inflation
Climate change is hitting peoples' pockets, right now
www.ft.com/content/ced8...
The price rises in those staples is contributing 40% of overall food inflation
Climate change is hitting peoples' pockets, right now
www.ft.com/content/ced8...
Five staples fuelling UK food inflation as climate risks rise, study finds
Findings challenge narrative that food price growth is being driven by higher taxes and wage costs
www.ft.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Tackling the cost of living crisis goes hand in hand with tackling the climate crisis.
We need food security, insulated homes, and cheap renewable energy.
We need food security, insulated homes, and cheap renewable energy.
We saw Barrier(s) last night - highly recommended. A play about falling in love, about learning another culture, about equality and dignity, about being Deaf and lesbian and needing benefits and the NHS and adaptive technology, and ultimately about justified anger and protecting what we cherish.
October 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
We saw Barrier(s) last night - highly recommended. A play about falling in love, about learning another culture, about equality and dignity, about being Deaf and lesbian and needing benefits and the NHS and adaptive technology, and ultimately about justified anger and protecting what we cherish.
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A Weddell seal mom wearing a hat* and taking a snooze next to her wonderfully-fed pup. They will continue to chill here together until mid-December when the pups wean and mom heads to the ocean to forage and regain mass.
*satellite tracking device
AMLR permit to LaRue 2024
🧪🌎🦑🦊
*satellite tracking device
AMLR permit to LaRue 2024
🧪🌎🦑🦊
October 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A Weddell seal mom wearing a hat* and taking a snooze next to her wonderfully-fed pup. They will continue to chill here together until mid-December when the pups wean and mom heads to the ocean to forage and regain mass.
*satellite tracking device
AMLR permit to LaRue 2024
🧪🌎🦑🦊
*satellite tracking device
AMLR permit to LaRue 2024
🧪🌎🦑🦊
Good morning to everyone especially academics who have just had a journal article rejected and journal editors who have to write rejection letters. But I withhold my greetings from anyone who used AI to generate parts of a paper then ticked a box on the submission page to say they didn't use AI.
October 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Good morning to everyone especially academics who have just had a journal article rejected and journal editors who have to write rejection letters. But I withhold my greetings from anyone who used AI to generate parts of a paper then ticked a box on the submission page to say they didn't use AI.
I do something like this with emails - every time I get an email that's neither interesting nor useful, I take two minutes to check if I can unsubscribe, and in the long run it probably saves me hours and hours.
trying a new thing where every time an app sends me a notification I disable its notifications
October 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I do something like this with emails - every time I get an email that's neither interesting nor useful, I take two minutes to check if I can unsubscribe, and in the long run it probably saves me hours and hours.
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By the pricking of my thumbs something Woodbrooke this way comes.
Quakers and the Supernatural - Woodbrooke
The Liberal theologian Rudolf Bultmann once observed: ‘We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern
www.woodbrooke.org.uk
October 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
By the pricking of my thumbs something Woodbrooke this way comes.
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Today is the International Day of the Girl Child!!
Celebrating the little Black girl I once was, and all the little Black girls moving through the world today. We aren't always allowed to remain children. Our childhoods aren't always cherished. So today I remind us that we are worthy of both 🌸🌸🌸
Celebrating the little Black girl I once was, and all the little Black girls moving through the world today. We aren't always allowed to remain children. Our childhoods aren't always cherished. So today I remind us that we are worthy of both 🌸🌸🌸
October 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Today is the International Day of the Girl Child!!
Celebrating the little Black girl I once was, and all the little Black girls moving through the world today. We aren't always allowed to remain children. Our childhoods aren't always cherished. So today I remind us that we are worthy of both 🌸🌸🌸
Celebrating the little Black girl I once was, and all the little Black girls moving through the world today. We aren't always allowed to remain children. Our childhoods aren't always cherished. So today I remind us that we are worthy of both 🌸🌸🌸
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I see we have a likeable populist attacking the elites and addressing popular concerns, and his party is soaring in the polls, so we'll see a lot more of @zackpolanski.bsky.social on the BBC et al, won't we?
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I see we have a likeable populist attacking the elites and addressing popular concerns, and his party is soaring in the polls, so we'll see a lot more of @zackpolanski.bsky.social on the BBC et al, won't we?
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The huge sarsen stones guarding the entrance to West Kennet Long Barrow, with a glimpse of Silbury Hill beyond. Pic from a couple of years ago. #StandingStoneSunday
October 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
The huge sarsen stones guarding the entrance to West Kennet Long Barrow, with a glimpse of Silbury Hill beyond. Pic from a couple of years ago. #StandingStoneSunday
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@classicstober.bsky.social Day 4 of #ClassicsTober25: shroud. Greek women weaving a cloth. Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), black-figured pottery, Amasis Painter, c. 550–530 BC. #ClassicsTober
October 4, 2025 at 3:45 AM
@classicstober.bsky.social Day 4 of #ClassicsTober25: shroud. Greek women weaving a cloth. Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), black-figured pottery, Amasis Painter, c. 550–530 BC. #ClassicsTober
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Please use alt text when posting illustrations or photos or other images. I realize it feels like an inconvenience if you didn't ever do it at the other place, but folks who need it are a zillion times more inconvenienced every single day.
October 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Please use alt text when posting illustrations or photos or other images. I realize it feels like an inconvenience if you didn't ever do it at the other place, but folks who need it are a zillion times more inconvenienced every single day.
OcTBR update: finished this. I think I've been returning to it periodically for about a year, stalled by several changes to the project I thought it might help with and in life in general, but today I was off sick but awake enough to amble through the last sixty pages. @octbrchallenge.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
OcTBR update: finished this. I think I've been returning to it periodically for about a year, stalled by several changes to the project I thought it might help with and in life in general, but today I was off sick but awake enough to amble through the last sixty pages. @octbrchallenge.bsky.social
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In our new blog, Rhiannon discusses the meanings behind this year's Quaker Week theme and explores how different Quakers might think about its Biblical origins.
Love Your Neighbour, but struggle with Scripture?
Within the Quaker community in Britain, there are a wide range of perspectives on the Bible.
www.quaker.org.uk
October 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
In our new blog, Rhiannon discusses the meanings behind this year's Quaker Week theme and explores how different Quakers might think about its Biblical origins.
Here's my complete TBR pile at the moment (including several items on the Kindle). I think there are two reservations at the library which I will also count! Stone Lands is no longer on the shelf because I finished it today - very good. #OcTBR
October 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Here's my complete TBR pile at the moment (including several items on the Kindle). I think there are two reservations at the library which I will also count! Stone Lands is no longer on the shelf because I finished it today - very good. #OcTBR
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On #Halloween night I'm offering a session exploring #Quaker attitudes to the supernatural, then and now. You can sign up here. 🎃
Quakers and the Supernatural - Woodbrooke
The Liberal theologian Rudolf Bultmann once observed: ‘We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern
www.woodbrooke.org.uk
October 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
On #Halloween night I'm offering a session exploring #Quaker attitudes to the supernatural, then and now. You can sign up here. 🎃
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🌈 Hi #QueerWriters! #QueerPrompts is your chance to talk about your WIP/story/book, meet other queer authors, and have fun! 🏳️🌈
📚 While focussed on queer fiction, any writers are welcome to use these prompts! Include the tag #QueerPrompts and join at any time and on any days you want. 🎃
📚 While focussed on queer fiction, any writers are welcome to use these prompts! Include the tag #QueerPrompts and join at any time and on any days you want. 🎃
September 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
🌈 Hi #QueerWriters! #QueerPrompts is your chance to talk about your WIP/story/book, meet other queer authors, and have fun! 🏳️🌈
📚 While focussed on queer fiction, any writers are welcome to use these prompts! Include the tag #QueerPrompts and join at any time and on any days you want. 🎃
📚 While focussed on queer fiction, any writers are welcome to use these prompts! Include the tag #QueerPrompts and join at any time and on any days you want. 🎃
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep
1. Quaker theology
2. British prehistory
3. Religious feminism
4. Multiple religious belonging
5. Fictionalism regarding mathematics (and time)
1. Quaker theology
2. British prehistory
3. Religious feminism
4. Multiple religious belonging
5. Fictionalism regarding mathematics (and time)
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep
1. The history of the Tanakh/Hebrew Bible
2. Copyright law
3. Neurodiversity
1. The history of the Tanakh/Hebrew Bible
2. Copyright law
3. Neurodiversity
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep
1. Pokémon games
2. Kant's epistemology's relevance to neuroscience today
3. Catholic doctrine being incoherent without an understanding of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, and how tradcaths are lying to you about Catholic tradition
1. Pokémon games
2. Kant's epistemology's relevance to neuroscience today
3. Catholic doctrine being incoherent without an understanding of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, and how tradcaths are lying to you about Catholic tradition
September 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep
1. Quaker theology
2. British prehistory
3. Religious feminism
4. Multiple religious belonging
5. Fictionalism regarding mathematics (and time)
1. Quaker theology
2. British prehistory
3. Religious feminism
4. Multiple religious belonging
5. Fictionalism regarding mathematics (and time)
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🚨BREAKING: Last night the Global Sumud Flotilla was attacked by drones - again.
British-Palestinian journalist Kieran Andrieu was aboard one of the ships.
Despite these attacks the flotilla sails on, because the mission is too important.
British-Palestinian journalist Kieran Andrieu was aboard one of the ships.
Despite these attacks the flotilla sails on, because the mission is too important.
September 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🚨BREAKING: Last night the Global Sumud Flotilla was attacked by drones - again.
British-Palestinian journalist Kieran Andrieu was aboard one of the ships.
Despite these attacks the flotilla sails on, because the mission is too important.
British-Palestinian journalist Kieran Andrieu was aboard one of the ships.
Despite these attacks the flotilla sails on, because the mission is too important.