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Robert Proctor
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Architectural historian of the twentieth century.

Robert Neel Proctor is an American historian of science and Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, where he is also Professor by courtesy of Pulmonary Medicine. While a professor of the history of science at Pennsylvania State University in 1999, he became the first historian to testify against the tobacco industry. .. more

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Engineering 18%
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My book is finally published! Percy Thomas: Modern Architecture as a National Service. www.uwp.co.uk/book/percy-t...
Percy Thomas | UWP
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These YouTube channels are a good complement to it to improve comprehension though. youtube.com/@easyitalian...
Easy Italian
Easy Italian is a project to help you learn Italian in an authentic and fun way. Our team currently consists of Katie and Matteo, based in Milan. We interview people in the streets of Milan and other ...
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I did the entire Spanish course on Duolingo and while it's nice to be able to understand it, I still have absolutely no ability to speak it. Makes a good starting point, potentially, no more than that.

No substitute for evening classes, really.

Honestly prefer my stapler not to have anything remotely resembling consciousness.

My suggestions might include equally good teaching at all universities, and abolishing all league tables.

5 and 11 are in conflict; what's the utopian solution for demand exceeding capacity?

'27 November was your most productive writing day with 8,000 words' (marking essays)

Isn't it? Highlight of a recent daytrip.

Somebody at one of our staff meetings said universities that promise no AI and advertise personal teaching will soon be able to command a premium for a craft product.

This looks interesting. ⬇️
📣Publication day🎉 ⚒️
‘Through its engagement with the groundbreaking work of the architect and theorist Sérgio Ferro, who developed a history of architecture ‘seen from the building site’, the book sets out a programme for a new field of Production Studies for architecture and other disciplines.’

Whoever said history is written by the winners had never seen a room full of historians.

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📣Publication day🎉 ⚒️
‘Through its engagement with the groundbreaking work of the architect and theorist Sérgio Ferro, who developed a history of architecture ‘seen from the building site’, the book sets out a programme for a new field of Production Studies for architecture and other disciplines.’

I'm considering changing my approach from v careful lengthy massaging of proposal to make it the best possible, to hammer it out quickly and get it in, given it probably makes no difference to the outcome.
Absolutely delighted to see that my article on Catholic chapels in Ireland from the 1790s to the 1820s is now available in Architectural History, the journal of the SAHGB - a real career dream come true to have an article in this journal, I must say! #skystorians www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Development of Catholic Chapels in Ireland Prior to Catholic Emancipation, 1778–1829 | Architectural History | Cambridge Core
The Development of Catholic Chapels in Ireland Prior to Catholic Emancipation, 1778–1829 - Volume 68
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I've just seen an enthusiastic post on LinkedIn written with AI, a heartwarming comment underneath also written with AI, and a grateful response to the comment by the author. What even is the point?

Yay, good isn't it?

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You wouldn't think I would go to the Duomo for Mass did you? Thanks to @rproctor.bsky.social I went to Parrocchia Santi Giovanni Battista e Paolo Apostolo.
Sorry about the bad photos; the first Communion kids were practising a thing when I got there early so I had to be discrete.

Ah yes, support act Rhythm Analysis, more jazz funk electronica.

Henri Lefebvre's conceptual triad is not the most salient aspect of the Production of Space, it's just the easiest to quote. Discuss.

It doesn't take very much sunshine for Glaswegians to go to the seaside, it's part of the city's culture!

Several overseas students have now told me they're not going to continue studies in the UK because it's too expensive. Free marketing insight there if anyone wants it?

Speak for yourself, I do!

3* at most.

Reading a harsh book review that says "most of the ideas and
insights are not particularly new or earth-shattering" and feeling seen.

Percy Thomas's Swansea Guildhall appropriately standing in for bureaucratic fictional "Imperial Buildings" in London in latest BBC silly sci fi drama.

Genius.

Wonderful, but we've hijacked and diverted @katrinanavickas.bsky.social 's thread, sorry!

Modern churches in Italy - two book recommendations.

Also recommend a visit to the cathedral to cars (Fiat Lingotto factory).

Later ones more low key in line with theology but now embellished, a good one being Maria Regina Delle Missione. maps.app.goo.gl/N385zQCB2KLs...
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