Marie-Claire B
@m-cb.bsky.social
Researcher, Educator, Consultant: Arabian Ethnography; Material Culture/Arts/Design; Cross-Cultural Communication; Higher Education. TCK (was@ArabiaMBC on X) Abu Dhabi/Cork
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Holiday gathering reminder 🎁
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
Study Examines Performance of Serial COVID Testing - News Center
Testing performance of rapid antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2 improved for both asymptomatic and symptomatic patients after testing multiple times in 48-hour intervals, according to findings published in ...
news.feinberg.northwestern.edu
December 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Holiday gathering reminder 🎁
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
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November 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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This week we also announced plans for a new Applied History Fellowship for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians
New programme of 'Applied History Fellowships': launch and introductory event - RHS
In 2025-26 the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Royal Historical Society and DC Thomson will launch a new Applied History Fellowship partnership. Join us at this online session -- 2.30pm on Wed...
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November 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This week we also announced plans for a new Applied History Fellowship for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians
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Once again delighted that the Irish people went with the option that was cool af
October 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Once again delighted that the Irish people went with the option that was cool af
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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You want to watch this short interview w/ the last fez maker in Cairo. Absolutely incredible story - he’s using the exact same tools used by the ottoman era founders of the business because they can’t find replacements. Also learn the very politicized history of the fez.
youtu.be/KYPXGqtacpw?...
youtu.be/KYPXGqtacpw?...
How One Of The Last Fez Makers In Cairo Keeps A 600-Year-Old Tradition Alive | Still Standing
YouTube video by Business Insider
youtu.be
September 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
You want to watch this short interview w/ the last fez maker in Cairo. Absolutely incredible story - he’s using the exact same tools used by the ottoman era founders of the business because they can’t find replacements. Also learn the very politicized history of the fez.
youtu.be/KYPXGqtacpw?...
youtu.be/KYPXGqtacpw?...
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New series from @EmpirePodUK
THE HISTORY OF GAZA
291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines
Empire – Apple Podcasts share.google/7fne19kFfVLw...
THE HISTORY OF GAZA
291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines
Empire – Apple Podcasts share.google/7fne19kFfVLw...
September 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
New series from @EmpirePodUK
THE HISTORY OF GAZA
291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines
Empire – Apple Podcasts share.google/7fne19kFfVLw...
THE HISTORY OF GAZA
291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines
Empire – Apple Podcasts share.google/7fne19kFfVLw...
Stunning sunset
July 10, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Stunning sunset
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Exactly!
Burning the biosphere is not renewable.
Any bio materials that can be composted should urgently be composted to replenish the extreme degradation of soils. There is simply no space left in the atmosphere to keep burning anything.
Any bio materials that can be composted should urgently be composted to replenish the extreme degradation of soils. There is simply no space left in the atmosphere to keep burning anything.
July 10, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Exactly!
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All roads lead to #Bantry at the moment. @westcorkmusic.bsky.social runs until Sunday & then WCLF 11-18 July. Such a thrill seeing our billboards in Innishannon and Dunmanway 😍 Chamber Festival image is from a painting by @tomcliment.bsky.social & WCLF image is from a drawing by Bernadette Cotter
July 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
All roads lead to #Bantry at the moment. @westcorkmusic.bsky.social runs until Sunday & then WCLF 11-18 July. Such a thrill seeing our billboards in Innishannon and Dunmanway 😍 Chamber Festival image is from a painting by @tomcliment.bsky.social & WCLF image is from a drawing by Bernadette Cotter
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Across West Cork's islands and peninsulas, towns and villages, you'll find free chamber music events during our 30th anniversary West Cork Chamber Music Festival this summer. 🎶
They give you a wonderful way to dip your toe into chamber music! bit.ly/4krK0mX
#WildAtlanticWay #Speirgorm
They give you a wonderful way to dip your toe into chamber music! bit.ly/4krK0mX
#WildAtlanticWay #Speirgorm
Chamber Music Festival - Fringe Events - West Cork Music
Welcome to the West Cork Chamber Music Fringe Festival, bringing world class classical music into the community for non-festival goers to enjoy for free!
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May 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Across West Cork's islands and peninsulas, towns and villages, you'll find free chamber music events during our 30th anniversary West Cork Chamber Music Festival this summer. 🎶
They give you a wonderful way to dip your toe into chamber music! bit.ly/4krK0mX
#WildAtlanticWay #Speirgorm
They give you a wonderful way to dip your toe into chamber music! bit.ly/4krK0mX
#WildAtlanticWay #Speirgorm
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Vanished by @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social is such an exceptional book. It traces the history of how Western scientists have understood #extinction, and the political and social implications of that thinking, including on colonial fantasies of replacing Indigenous peoples. I can't recommend it enough! 👏
June 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Vanished by @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social is such an exceptional book. It traces the history of how Western scientists have understood #extinction, and the political and social implications of that thinking, including on colonial fantasies of replacing Indigenous peoples. I can't recommend it enough! 👏
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"Refugees," a stunning early lithograph by African-American artist Robert Blackburn, one of most accomplished printmakers of the 20th century
June 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"Refugees," a stunning early lithograph by African-American artist Robert Blackburn, one of most accomplished printmakers of the 20th century
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In case anyone doesn’t know this: if you get a parcel with a lot of packing peanuts and you don’t know whether they’re compostable, test one with boiling water. If compostable, it INSTANTLY wilts like spinach (plastic is unaffected).
June 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In case anyone doesn’t know this: if you get a parcel with a lot of packing peanuts and you don’t know whether they’re compostable, test one with boiling water. If compostable, it INSTANTLY wilts like spinach (plastic is unaffected).
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"And then, one fairy night, May became June." -F. Scott Fitzgerald
June 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"And then, one fairy night, May became June." -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Open Call: NYU Abu Dhabi Project Space Exhibition – submit proposal for a fully supported 2-4 week exhibition at the NYUAD Project Space in a slot in the 2025-2026 academic year. Apply by 9 June ... tinyurl.com/4evjsdzs
June 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Open Call: NYU Abu Dhabi Project Space Exhibition – submit proposal for a fully supported 2-4 week exhibition at the NYUAD Project Space in a slot in the 2025-2026 academic year. Apply by 9 June ... tinyurl.com/4evjsdzs
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Pharmacies will start providing free hormone replacement therapy for women from 1 June after an agreement with Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
Pharmacies to provide free HRT for women from 1 June
Pharmacies will start providing free hormone replacement therapy for women from 1 June after an agreement with Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill.
www.rte.ie
May 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Pharmacies will start providing free hormone replacement therapy for women from 1 June after an agreement with Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
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This is very cool. grist.org/science/brea...
Scientists just found a way to break through climate apathy
In a field of muddy results, it's among the clearest findings that one cognitive scientist has seen in his career.
grist.org
May 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This is very cool. grist.org/science/brea...
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Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Palestinian Scholarship
www.gold.ac.uk
April 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
A glorious West Cork Spring sunrise
April 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A glorious West Cork Spring sunrise
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Got my ALCS statement and spotted an AuthorShare payment from World of Books who pay authors a royalty for second hand sales. My new favourite bookstore! Check it out. #booksky www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
AuthorSHARE: The World’s First Reuse Royalty | World Of Books Blog
AuthorSHARE, the groundbreaking initiative that allows writers to earn royalties from the resale of their books.
www.worldofbooks.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Got my ALCS statement and spotted an AuthorShare payment from World of Books who pay authors a royalty for second hand sales. My new favourite bookstore! Check it out. #booksky www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
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I've been working on a "banned words" project. This is the small version of a much larger one I'm working on now. Each word is one that has been banned from U.S. federal websites, programs, and funding. Yes, really.
March 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I've been working on a "banned words" project. This is the small version of a much larger one I'm working on now. Each word is one that has been banned from U.S. federal websites, programs, and funding. Yes, really.
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Reda Abdel Rahman (Egyptian, b. 1966).
March 26, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Reda Abdel Rahman (Egyptian, b. 1966).