Dr Rachel McCloy
@fidgitpig.bsky.social
Behavioural Scientist and food obsessive. She/Her. Knits. Quite a lot. Views my own.
And I’m done - whew! Thanks all for the hints - might even manage to get dinner made at a reasonable hour 😂 #hiddenbooksgame
Booklovers, your favourite game is back! 📚🔎
Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).
Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR
Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).
Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR
November 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
And I’m done - whew! Thanks all for the hints - might even manage to get dinner made at a reasonable hour 😂 #hiddenbooksgame
#hiddenbooksgame - just one left to go! Mugs is driving me crackers!!!
November 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
#hiddenbooksgame - just one left to go! Mugs is driving me crackers!!!
The hair, the dog, the seas, the tree, the laptop - help! #hiddenbooksgame
Booklovers, your favourite game is back! 📚🔎
Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).
Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR
Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).
Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The hair, the dog, the seas, the tree, the laptop - help! #hiddenbooksgame
Reposted by Dr Rachel McCloy
Inspired by The Jase's video, I realised that the Mr Blobby song also works quite well with the John Lewis advert. But then it took a dark turn...
November 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Inspired by The Jase's video, I realised that the Mr Blobby song also works quite well with the John Lewis advert. But then it took a dark turn...
Could not agree more
*approaching cheese section in supermarket* oh I see. The fucking part timers have turned up because it's Christmas. Fuck you. Fuck YOU. I'm here getting stilton every damn day of the year and you useless fucks come along in November and want fucking APRICOTS in it. You SAVAGES. You SCUM.
November 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Could not agree more
Coffee break upgraded with food samples from our @foodsequal.bsky.social partners!
October 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Coffee break upgraded with food samples from our @foodsequal.bsky.social partners!
@foodsequal.bsky.social annual assembly fun at Cranflield! Supporting the Plymouth Fish Finger
October 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
@foodsequal.bsky.social annual assembly fun at Cranflield! Supporting the Plymouth Fish Finger
A second “Simply scrappy” cowl 🧶 using a @lottieknits.bsky.social set of l miniskeins from her fade club in “leaf fall”- more super-autumnal joy!
October 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A second “Simply scrappy” cowl 🧶 using a @lottieknits.bsky.social set of l miniskeins from her fade club in “leaf fall”- more super-autumnal joy!
Reposted by Dr Rachel McCloy
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
Simply scrappy cowl 🧶 using a @lottieknits.bsky.social set of Halloween miniskeins - lovely, cosy and autumnal!
October 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Simply scrappy cowl 🧶 using a @lottieknits.bsky.social set of Halloween miniskeins - lovely, cosy and autumnal!
Have just finished this year‘s Shetland Wool 🧶 Week hat - the Aal Ower Toorie using the Jamieson‘s yarn pack - better pictures when I can face weaving in the million ends!
October 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Have just finished this year‘s Shetland Wool 🧶 Week hat - the Aal Ower Toorie using the Jamieson‘s yarn pack - better pictures when I can face weaving in the million ends!
Catching up on weaving in ends on mindless dishcloths 🧶
September 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Catching up on weaving in ends on mindless dishcloths 🧶
Feeling autumnal 🧶
September 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Feeling autumnal 🧶
Hello @sentimentbot.bsky.social - how’s it going?
September 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Hello @sentimentbot.bsky.social - how’s it going?
Our latest paper from the FoodSEqual project has just been published - read more about our work on Food Systems Equality here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #AcademicSky
Addressing food system determinants of health inequalities in urban environments: learnings from the FoodSEqual and FoodSEqual-Health projects | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Diet is just one social determinant of health, with obesity and diet-related illness as leading causes of premature deaths and disability in the UK. People living in deprived areas of the UK are more likely to experience poor health outcomes, linked to ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
September 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Our latest paper from the FoodSEqual project has just been published - read more about our work on Food Systems Equality here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #AcademicSky
Might have missed out on going to Germany with my other half, but I did manage to get some souvenirs 😃 🧶🧶🧶
August 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Might have missed out on going to Germany with my other half, but I did manage to get some souvenirs 😃 🧶🧶🧶
Eugene‘s away presenting our work on FoodSEqual at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) in Mainz, Germany
August 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Eugene‘s away presenting our work on FoodSEqual at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) in Mainz, Germany
More holiday knitting! A second Sick Day shawl (Kate Atherley), this time in Wollmeise DK in Mitternacht 🧶
August 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
More holiday knitting! A second Sick Day shawl (Kate Atherley), this time in Wollmeise DK in Mitternacht 🧶
Sick day shawl by Kate Atherley - a simple pattern that lets pretty yarn 🧶 shine!
August 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Sick day shawl by Kate Atherley - a simple pattern that lets pretty yarn 🧶 shine!
Enjoying the whimsy of Doagh
August 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Enjoying the whimsy of Doagh
Last year I was lucky enough to join the frog rainbow yarn club from @mothy.and.the.squid - I saved up all of my skeins over the year and in January set myself the challenge of knitting up the full rainbow into matching socks („Monkey“ by Cookie A). Completed just in time for summer hols! 🧶
July 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Last year I was lucky enough to join the frog rainbow yarn club from @mothy.and.the.squid - I saved up all of my skeins over the year and in January set myself the challenge of knitting up the full rainbow into matching socks („Monkey“ by Cookie A). Completed just in time for summer hols! 🧶
Reposted by Dr Rachel McCloy
"I've actually played the whole tournament on a fractured tibia."
July 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"I've actually played the whole tournament on a fractured tibia."
You know you are in need of a holiday when you realise that your addled brain has had you add a second heel flap to your sock….time to tink and knit the toe! #knittingfail 🧶
July 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
You know you are in need of a holiday when you realise that your addled brain has had you add a second heel flap to your sock….time to tink and knit the toe! #knittingfail 🧶
OMG Robert Smith at Glasto!!! Wow!!!
June 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
OMG Robert Smith at Glasto!!! Wow!!!