Dr Cathryn Pearce
@cathrynpearce.bsky.social
British historian. Author: Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 | Researching c18th-19th shipwrecks, the Royal Navy & coastal communities. #CoastalHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #SussexCoast
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For those who post on #CoastalHistory topics, please let me know if you'd like to be added to our starter pack. Coastal History involves the history of coastal communities, both urban and rural, or those who live between land and sea around the world. Coasts connect! go.bsky.app/Pfa95p7
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November 17, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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'Peacehaven mosque targeted by arson welcomes in the community'
This is the real 'public opinion'.
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2562492...
This is the real 'public opinion'.
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2562492...
'These people are angels': Mosque targeted by arson welcomes in the community
A mosque which was subject to an arson attack last month opened its doors to the community in a bid to “build bridges and demolish walls”
www.theargus.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
'Peacehaven mosque targeted by arson welcomes in the community'
This is the real 'public opinion'.
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2562492...
This is the real 'public opinion'.
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2562492...
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A glimpse through the topsoil of #Stonehenge for #StandingStoneSunday
Like an iceberg, there is more of these bluestone below the surface than above
Unlike icebergs, it's not because they're less dense than saltwater
📷 of the @buarchanth.bsky.social trench excavated April 2008
#WhatLiesBeneath
Like an iceberg, there is more of these bluestone below the surface than above
Unlike icebergs, it's not because they're less dense than saltwater
📷 of the @buarchanth.bsky.social trench excavated April 2008
#WhatLiesBeneath
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
A glimpse through the topsoil of #Stonehenge for #StandingStoneSunday
Like an iceberg, there is more of these bluestone below the surface than above
Unlike icebergs, it's not because they're less dense than saltwater
📷 of the @buarchanth.bsky.social trench excavated April 2008
#WhatLiesBeneath
Like an iceberg, there is more of these bluestone below the surface than above
Unlike icebergs, it's not because they're less dense than saltwater
📷 of the @buarchanth.bsky.social trench excavated April 2008
#WhatLiesBeneath
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This #MapMonday let us take you back in time ⌛
We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188
We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This #MapMonday let us take you back in time ⌛
We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188
We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188
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‘All hands on deck: securing the maritime future through diversity’ 👇
A new #report, published by Lloyd's Register Foundation, examines the role of women in #maritime, and the challenges and opportunities they face working in the industry today.
Download 🔗 www.lrfoundation.org.uk/publications...
A new #report, published by Lloyd's Register Foundation, examines the role of women in #maritime, and the challenges and opportunities they face working in the industry today.
Download 🔗 www.lrfoundation.org.uk/publications...
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
‘All hands on deck: securing the maritime future through diversity’ 👇
A new #report, published by Lloyd's Register Foundation, examines the role of women in #maritime, and the challenges and opportunities they face working in the industry today.
Download 🔗 www.lrfoundation.org.uk/publications...
A new #report, published by Lloyd's Register Foundation, examines the role of women in #maritime, and the challenges and opportunities they face working in the industry today.
Download 🔗 www.lrfoundation.org.uk/publications...
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Read our Maritime Matters newsletter! Featuring @lrfheritage.bsky.social funded scholar Carlos Ausejo,Royal Museums Greenwich, @bradbeaven.bsky.social on the myth of the Chinese opium den, & more. Email pcmc@port.ac.uk to sign up centreforportcitiesandmaritimecultures.createsend1.com/t/y-e-qdijil...
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Read our Maritime Matters newsletter! Featuring @lrfheritage.bsky.social funded scholar Carlos Ausejo,Royal Museums Greenwich, @bradbeaven.bsky.social on the myth of the Chinese opium den, & more. Email pcmc@port.ac.uk to sign up centreforportcitiesandmaritimecultures.createsend1.com/t/y-e-qdijil...
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just had a citation alert for an article I published 17 years ago, and it's making me think what a stupid, impoverished and short-termist view of impact and relevance is fostered by the REF.
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
just had a citation alert for an article I published 17 years ago, and it's making me think what a stupid, impoverished and short-termist view of impact and relevance is fostered by the REF.
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THREAD.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
THREAD.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
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'Fewer than half are even fully aware that universities conduct research.'
Real indictment of universities' strategies and comms this. An own goal that could and should be rectified. Engaging broad publics with research is not rocket science. And if it were, universities have rocket scientists. 3/3
Real indictment of universities' strategies and comms this. An own goal that could and should be rectified. Engaging broad publics with research is not rocket science. And if it were, universities have rocket scientists. 3/3
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
'Fewer than half are even fully aware that universities conduct research.'
Real indictment of universities' strategies and comms this. An own goal that could and should be rectified. Engaging broad publics with research is not rocket science. And if it were, universities have rocket scientists. 3/3
Real indictment of universities' strategies and comms this. An own goal that could and should be rectified. Engaging broad publics with research is not rocket science. And if it were, universities have rocket scientists. 3/3
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📢📢📢New book forthcoming in the 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea' book series! Material Culture in the Swedish Navy, c. 1450-1850, edited By Simon Ekström, Niklas Eriksson, Anna Maria Forssberg, Leos Müller will be published 28/4/26 ⚓️⚓️⚓️
routledge.com/Material-Cul...
routledge.com/Material-Cul...
November 17, 2025 at 7:33 AM
📢📢📢New book forthcoming in the 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea' book series! Material Culture in the Swedish Navy, c. 1450-1850, edited By Simon Ekström, Niklas Eriksson, Anna Maria Forssberg, Leos Müller will be published 28/4/26 ⚓️⚓️⚓️
routledge.com/Material-Cul...
routledge.com/Material-Cul...
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Shifting sands at Maroubra Beach have revealed the wreck of the HEREWARD once again — a 19th-century iron clipper driven ashore during a fierce storm in May 1898. Though the crew survived, the ship never sailed again, slowly pulled apart by waves and weather.
Object number 00002278
Object number 00002278
November 17, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Shifting sands at Maroubra Beach have revealed the wreck of the HEREWARD once again — a 19th-century iron clipper driven ashore during a fierce storm in May 1898. Though the crew survived, the ship never sailed again, slowly pulled apart by waves and weather.
Object number 00002278
Object number 00002278
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1898 stereograph card of female Gold Rush prospectors in Alaska. Note their skirt lengths, unfashionably short but a pragmatic accommodation to the terrain. My new article posting later today is a photo-essay of a stereograph photographer in gold rush Alaska. #alaska
November 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
1898 stereograph card of female Gold Rush prospectors in Alaska. Note their skirt lengths, unfashionably short but a pragmatic accommodation to the terrain. My new article posting later today is a photo-essay of a stereograph photographer in gold rush Alaska. #alaska
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This is what happened when AI acted as both author and reviewer - a study found AI peer-reviewers accepted fake AI-generated papers 4 out of 5 times. We need #PeerReview to be better, and human oversight is more vital than ever!
#ResearchIntegrity #AI #AcademicPublishing #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
#ResearchIntegrity #AI #AcademicPublishing #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
AI peer reviewers are fine with AI-fabricated papers
Study finds artificial intelligence reviewers accept AI-generated scientific studies 4 out of 5 times
cen.acs.org
November 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This is what happened when AI acted as both author and reviewer - a study found AI peer-reviewers accepted fake AI-generated papers 4 out of 5 times. We need #PeerReview to be better, and human oversight is more vital than ever!
#ResearchIntegrity #AI #AcademicPublishing #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
#ResearchIntegrity #AI #AcademicPublishing #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
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Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
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Sunday serenity.
The view towards Ashcombe Mill near Kingston.
📷 Lloyd Lane
The view towards Ashcombe Mill near Kingston.
📷 Lloyd Lane
November 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Sunday serenity.
The view towards Ashcombe Mill near Kingston.
📷 Lloyd Lane
The view towards Ashcombe Mill near Kingston.
📷 Lloyd Lane
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In the early hours of this morning, following 119.6mm of rainfall in 12hrs, the River Monnow burst its banks and flooded Monmouth. The usual river level is just under 2m, this morning it was 6.63m- even higher than the record-breaking level during the floods in 2020 (6.57m). Absolutely devastating.
November 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
In the early hours of this morning, following 119.6mm of rainfall in 12hrs, the River Monnow burst its banks and flooded Monmouth. The usual river level is just under 2m, this morning it was 6.63m- even higher than the record-breaking level during the floods in 2020 (6.57m). Absolutely devastating.
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We will also launch the field guide to historical rephotography and a set of cards that can be used to get started.
November 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
We will also launch the field guide to historical rephotography and a set of cards that can be used to get started.
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So pretty!
You get to drive around through dawn for hours, mid-day.
Which makes up in part for the fact that…the sun is not coming up until mid-day.
You get to drive around through dawn for hours, mid-day.
Which makes up in part for the fact that…the sun is not coming up until mid-day.
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
So pretty!
You get to drive around through dawn for hours, mid-day.
Which makes up in part for the fact that…the sun is not coming up until mid-day.
You get to drive around through dawn for hours, mid-day.
Which makes up in part for the fact that…the sun is not coming up until mid-day.
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Just updated my laptop, opened up Word, & to my horror discovered the multi-coloured Copilot wart in bottom right corner of doc. NO, I don't want a summary of this document that I am writing; I supplied the insights & questions and just fuck right off about "prepping" me to talk about my own work.
November 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Just updated my laptop, opened up Word, & to my horror discovered the multi-coloured Copilot wart in bottom right corner of doc. NO, I don't want a summary of this document that I am writing; I supplied the insights & questions and just fuck right off about "prepping" me to talk about my own work.
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Obtained a lithograph of my favourite Sir John Ross portrait, of him all cosy by a fire and no doubt scheming about something or other.
[By Daniel Maclise aka Alfred Croquis, first published in Fraser's Magazine 1834.] #NavalHistory
[By Daniel Maclise aka Alfred Croquis, first published in Fraser's Magazine 1834.] #NavalHistory
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Obtained a lithograph of my favourite Sir John Ross portrait, of him all cosy by a fire and no doubt scheming about something or other.
[By Daniel Maclise aka Alfred Croquis, first published in Fraser's Magazine 1834.] #NavalHistory
[By Daniel Maclise aka Alfred Croquis, first published in Fraser's Magazine 1834.] #NavalHistory
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Well, this is a first. I was notified by Spotify that Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs is #50 overall on the charts in the USA. Given the vast sea (😉) of podcasts out there, I'll take it! Thank you to all my listeners. I am sincerely grateful.
#podcast #history #maritimehistory
#podcast #history #maritimehistory
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Well, this is a first. I was notified by Spotify that Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs is #50 overall on the charts in the USA. Given the vast sea (😉) of podcasts out there, I'll take it! Thank you to all my listeners. I am sincerely grateful.
#podcast #history #maritimehistory
#podcast #history #maritimehistory
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A brilliant starter pack of Poets from @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social Please follow and repost if you can #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky
November 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
A brilliant starter pack of Poets from @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social Please follow and repost if you can #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky
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If you don’t know @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s writing and activism, honour her memory and reward yourself by seeking it out. A huge loss, a unique voice.
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
If you don’t know @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s writing and activism, honour her memory and reward yourself by seeking it out. A huge loss, a unique voice.
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I am bewildered that this labour of Sisyphus is being carried out by volunteers, while Southern Water, which has admitted responsibility for the catastrophe, is doing nothing to remediate it.
‘We feel we’re fighting a losing battle’: the race to remove millions of plastic beads from Camber Sands
A huge cleanup effort has seen volunteers working to remove beads by hand and machine. They can only wait and see the extent of damage to wildlife and dune habitat
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I am bewildered that this labour of Sisyphus is being carried out by volunteers, while Southern Water, which has admitted responsibility for the catastrophe, is doing nothing to remediate it.
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We're really looking forward to welcoming @rakshadigs.bsky.social to Sussex to deliver the 2026 Long Man Lecture.
We don't have enough opportunities to meet together to listen to, and celebrate, a single voice from the heritage world, but this is one.
Pls share and join us this March!
🏺
We don't have enough opportunities to meet together to listen to, and celebrate, a single voice from the heritage world, but this is one.
Pls share and join us this March!
🏺
We’re thrilled to announce our 2026 Long Man Lecture speaker: Raksha Dave! 🎉Raksha is an archaeologist, author, broadcaster, and current President of the Council for British Archaeology. Thurs 26th March 2026, ACCA, Brighton. Early Bird tickets now on sale, starting at £10: https://loom.ly/f0zNR6w
November 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
We're really looking forward to welcoming @rakshadigs.bsky.social to Sussex to deliver the 2026 Long Man Lecture.
We don't have enough opportunities to meet together to listen to, and celebrate, a single voice from the heritage world, but this is one.
Pls share and join us this March!
🏺
We don't have enough opportunities to meet together to listen to, and celebrate, a single voice from the heritage world, but this is one.
Pls share and join us this March!
🏺