Clare King
@clareking.bsky.social
I am an archaeologist, fencer and martial artist. I probably won't post much, but will lurk a lot.
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Clare King
@clareking.bsky.social
· Nov 14
I am an archaeologist, fencer and martial artist. I probably won't post much, but will lurk a lot.
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Nope. The headline should actually read “Astronomers using ML discover quasars acting as lenses”
November 18, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Nope. The headline should actually read “Astronomers using ML discover quasars acting as lenses”
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If you are a member of the National Trust and also despise the Reform tendency, please vote in the AGM to keep the astroturf candidates of Restore Trust out of power.
You can find the names to avoid here, at this deliberately broken link: https:// www. restoretrust. org. uk / agm-2025
You can find the names to avoid here, at this deliberately broken link: https:// www. restoretrust. org. uk / agm-2025
It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out.
Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October
Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out.
Then share. Thank you.
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Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October
Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out.
Then share. Thank you.
secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...
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Welcome to the National Trust 2025 voting website, hosted by independent voting service provider Civica Election Services.
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October 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
If you are a member of the National Trust and also despise the Reform tendency, please vote in the AGM to keep the astroturf candidates of Restore Trust out of power.
You can find the names to avoid here, at this deliberately broken link: https:// www. restoretrust. org. uk / agm-2025
You can find the names to avoid here, at this deliberately broken link: https:// www. restoretrust. org. uk / agm-2025
Also, the Science Museum in London has a 'Maths' area that has things like theodolites, but doesn't explain the trigonometry that actually allows them to work.
Never mind ‘Night at the Museum’, we’re talking MATHS in Museums 🔦
Did you know a key factor in building number confidence is seeing the value of numeracy in everyday life? Educator Tommaths (he/him) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ shares 5 things museums don’t tell us about maths!
https://ow.ly/SECu50XhoUw
Did you know a key factor in building number confidence is seeing the value of numeracy in everyday life? Educator Tommaths (he/him) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ shares 5 things museums don’t tell us about maths!
https://ow.ly/SECu50XhoUw
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Also, the Science Museum in London has a 'Maths' area that has things like theodolites, but doesn't explain the trigonometry that actually allows them to work.
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Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
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Maybe this is simply a difference in the expected 'rate' of knew knowledge, but this take puzzles me, because there's quite a bit of new data and studies needing to be done that I can see pretty easily in Roman history.
Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.
Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.
October 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Maybe this is simply a difference in the expected 'rate' of knew knowledge, but this take puzzles me, because there's quite a bit of new data and studies needing to be done that I can see pretty easily in Roman history.
Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.
Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.
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One of the fundamental truths we need to acknowledge in this moment is that domestic violence is where fascists learned how to get away with their violence.
“What did you do to provoke him?” is exactly what victims hear when they try to seek help in an abusive relationship.
“What did you do to provoke him?” is exactly what victims hear when they try to seek help in an abusive relationship.
Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.
October 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
One of the fundamental truths we need to acknowledge in this moment is that domestic violence is where fascists learned how to get away with their violence.
“What did you do to provoke him?” is exactly what victims hear when they try to seek help in an abusive relationship.
“What did you do to provoke him?” is exactly what victims hear when they try to seek help in an abusive relationship.
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day 3 of #archink2025: residue. what's left inside a pot can say a lot. grains, fats, traces of meals long gone.
drew that chain in a kind of comic style: pot in use, pot buried/excavated, pot in the lab.
Small remains lead to past recipes.
#archInk #archaeology
drew that chain in a kind of comic style: pot in use, pot buried/excavated, pot in the lab.
Small remains lead to past recipes.
#archInk #archaeology
October 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
day 3 of #archink2025: residue. what's left inside a pot can say a lot. grains, fats, traces of meals long gone.
drew that chain in a kind of comic style: pot in use, pot buried/excavated, pot in the lab.
Small remains lead to past recipes.
#archInk #archaeology
drew that chain in a kind of comic style: pot in use, pot buried/excavated, pot in the lab.
Small remains lead to past recipes.
#archInk #archaeology
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When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?"
So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵
So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵
September 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?"
So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵
So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵
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Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.
September 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.
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When I was growing up, my Uncle Noel would come to stay every Christmas. He was a solitary character, quiet but droll. Quite a hard character to read or get to know. Certainly not a cuddly, fun uncle who played games.
He grew up very poor, became a builder/labourer like many Irish immigrants...
When I was growing up, my Uncle Noel would come to stay every Christmas. He was a solitary character, quiet but droll. Quite a hard character to read or get to know. Certainly not a cuddly, fun uncle who played games.
He grew up very poor, became a builder/labourer like many Irish immigrants...
A little bit of a moment for me -- appearing in an @johnyorkestory.bsky.social radio programme, to talk about Charles Darwin and On the Origin of Species.
I love Into the Woods, and use it for teaching.
And Origin is really important to me.
Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I love Into the Woods, and use it for teaching.
And Origin is really important to me.
Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Opening Lines - On the Origin of Species - BBC Sounds
John Yorke investigates Charles Darwin’s world-changing book On The Origin of Species.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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When I was growing up, my Uncle Noel would come to stay every Christmas. He was a solitary character, quiet but droll. Quite a hard character to read or get to know. Certainly not a cuddly, fun uncle who played games.
He grew up very poor, became a builder/labourer like many Irish immigrants...
When I was growing up, my Uncle Noel would come to stay every Christmas. He was a solitary character, quiet but droll. Quite a hard character to read or get to know. Certainly not a cuddly, fun uncle who played games.
He grew up very poor, became a builder/labourer like many Irish immigrants...
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The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.
September 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.
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Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09...
LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert.
Pls share
LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert.
Pls share
September 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09...
LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert.
Pls share
LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert.
Pls share
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If you’d like to support or learn more:
- tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
- Coverage in The Observer: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
- tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
- Coverage in The Observer: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025
Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...
tinyurl.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
If you’d like to support or learn more:
- tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
- Coverage in The Observer: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
- tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
- Coverage in The Observer: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
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Word of the Day is ‘theic’ (19th century), defined as ‘one given to immoderate tea-drinking; a tea drunkard’.
August 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Word of the Day is ‘theic’ (19th century), defined as ‘one given to immoderate tea-drinking; a tea drunkard’.
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"Some black cats are witches in disguise. Some witches are black cats in disguise." 🐈⬛
Folklore of Wales (1909)
🎨Maggie Vandewalle
#InternationalCatDay
Folklore of Wales (1909)
🎨Maggie Vandewalle
#InternationalCatDay
August 8, 2025 at 6:44 AM
"Some black cats are witches in disguise. Some witches are black cats in disguise." 🐈⬛
Folklore of Wales (1909)
🎨Maggie Vandewalle
#InternationalCatDay
Folklore of Wales (1909)
🎨Maggie Vandewalle
#InternationalCatDay
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This is quite beautiful. All hail Dmitry Lamonov
August 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
This is quite beautiful. All hail Dmitry Lamonov
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I see the first articles in the UK press giving space to the claim that 3I/ATLAS is an alien spacecraft. Briefly:
It’s a comet that formed billions of years ago, passing through our Solar System.
It’s behaving like a comet.
There is no evidence it’s artificial.
It’s a comet that formed billions of years ago, passing through our Solar System.
It’s behaving like a comet.
There is no evidence it’s artificial.
August 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I see the first articles in the UK press giving space to the claim that 3I/ATLAS is an alien spacecraft. Briefly:
It’s a comet that formed billions of years ago, passing through our Solar System.
It’s behaving like a comet.
There is no evidence it’s artificial.
It’s a comet that formed billions of years ago, passing through our Solar System.
It’s behaving like a comet.
There is no evidence it’s artificial.
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Attacks on women’s rights in Portugal are continuous since recent elections. This week they have reduced the allowance for working women to breastfeed and have removed the right that women had to 3 days of grief for miscarriages. Recently they have also removed sex education from school curriculum
July 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Attacks on women’s rights in Portugal are continuous since recent elections. This week they have reduced the allowance for working women to breastfeed and have removed the right that women had to 3 days of grief for miscarriages. Recently they have also removed sex education from school curriculum
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National Weather Service Grand Forks explaining there’s no threat for tsunami impacts in North Dakota, a landlocked state
July 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM
National Weather Service Grand Forks explaining there’s no threat for tsunami impacts in North Dakota, a landlocked state
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WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days?
cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
July 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days?
cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
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Big day for the matriarchy! 🥳 Huge congrats to the awesome Prof. Doughtery, lead on the Jupiter-bound ESA JUICE mission & STFC Exec Chair.
If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴Holyrood 🤗
ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩🔬🔭🧪
If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴Holyrood 🤗
ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩🔬🔭🧪
UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years
Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Big day for the matriarchy! 🥳 Huge congrats to the awesome Prof. Doughtery, lead on the Jupiter-bound ESA JUICE mission & STFC Exec Chair.
If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴Holyrood 🤗
ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩🔬🔭🧪
If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴Holyrood 🤗
ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩🔬🔭🧪
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Let me take this moment to also congratulate & thank the amazing Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal for 30 years! Esteemed theoretical astrophysicist, pop-sci author, tireless campaigner for the protection of dark skies, a genuine gentleman. Retired from astro-royal duties, but still sciencing! 🔭🧪
July 30, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Let me take this moment to also congratulate & thank the amazing Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal for 30 years! Esteemed theoretical astrophysicist, pop-sci author, tireless campaigner for the protection of dark skies, a genuine gentleman. Retired from astro-royal duties, but still sciencing! 🔭🧪
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If you want to download an image from the British Library website for use in a publication with a print-run of 30,000, they want to charge you £100,000 (+£2,000 VAT).
That's £4 per copy. For a single image.
I can't tell if that's for real, or if their new brand website is already broken.
That's £4 per copy. For a single image.
I can't tell if that's for real, or if their new brand website is already broken.
July 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
If you want to download an image from the British Library website for use in a publication with a print-run of 30,000, they want to charge you £100,000 (+£2,000 VAT).
That's £4 per copy. For a single image.
I can't tell if that's for real, or if their new brand website is already broken.
That's £4 per copy. For a single image.
I can't tell if that's for real, or if their new brand website is already broken.
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Good morning BlueSky
It's Monday so...
It's Monday so...
July 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Good morning BlueSky
It's Monday so...
It's Monday so...