Are you interested in the history of rivers? Do you wonder how historians and environmental scientists can work together? Join the EDHS seminar to hear from the ARTEMIS team about their amazing project exploring the histories and ecologies of the Scheldt. #envhist #histsci #skystorians #dh

A petition against the mass redundancies proposed at my university: www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

Did a little bit of baking for the NCDR Science Area Meeting at work today. Was fun to get creative again. @ukceh.bsky.social

Ah, that time of year when North America has put their clocks ahead but the UK has not yet switched to British Summer Time so everyone is perpetually confused about what time their trans-Atlantic meetings are. The best solution is that we should just have no meetings for the next three weeks.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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🟥 We are happy to announce that the SSI has received £4.8m from @ukri.org to launch the Research Software Maintenance Fund.
Find out more about this exciting opportunity at www.software.ac.uk/news/ukri-aw...

Continuing the @hiddenref.bsky.social movement with my amazing partners James Baker and @simonhettrick.bsky.social !

Buzz us to find out how to join us!

bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...

"Unfunded research" = basic research motivated by disciplinary importance, which forms the basis for funded research and the international reputation of universities that drives student recruitment.

Without it, a university is not a research university and is not financial viable.

emojis vary across platform/provider, studies have shown that somr are more agressive depending on the phone OS. As if writing messages wasn't stressful enough with anxiety.

youtube.com/shorts/i4VEt...

1. As Zuckerberg abandons fact checking in the name of “free speech”, let’s take a moment to examine this concept. 🧵

I was never happy with most explanations I was given for how rainbows are formed. This wonderful video from @veritasium-science.bsky.social explains it, an any questions I had about rainbows.

Neurotypicals and also me so I'm in no position to judge, but yes, I hope you all enjoy your restricted and repetitive behaviours in the coming week

from datetime import date
def greeting():
d = date.today()
if d.month > 1 and d.month < 12: print('Too early!')
elif d.month == 12 and d.day == 25: print("Merry Christmas!")
elif d.month == 12 and d.day < 25: print("Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!")
else: print("Happy New Year!")

🎁 Steve is trying his best this Christmas...