…I made this?? I made this!! (I also conducted the peal!) Ian (organizer of the peal and ringer of the treble) commissioned it and requested that it include a representation of the cathedral

Yorkshire Surprise Major 🔔

I’ve known some about the Shackleton Endurance expedition for a while, but listening to @emmasouthon.bsky.social and @j9andif.bsky.social talk about it on the History Is Sexy podcast was a fantastic reminder that failing to achieve your goal may be very far away from the worst case scenario, heh

York Surprise Royal 🔔

I have lately been doing silly projects that have caused me to encounter some fabulous lists on wikipedia. Just now I found this one!

Rook Surprise Major 🔔

@gretchenmcc.bsky.social I have only just started reading this book but it seems great and I think it might appeal to linguists with some interest in music???

Nasty Treble Bob Major 🔔

Bristol Surprise Royal 🔔

Stedman Triples 🔔

Completely and Utterly Insane Bob Minor 🔔

I thought this photo from last year of a pair of Carrion Crows might look nice in mono! Almost makes it look like a painting 🪶

Grandsire Minor 🔔

Stedman Doubles 🔔

Sturt's Desert Pea Surprise Major 🔔

We're Still Single and It's a Delight Minor 🔔

I saw these extremely cute flycatcher babies and at least one parent in Colorado back in July! 🪶

Double Stromboli Bob Minor 🔔

What You Please Doubles 🔔

Big Scrub Rainforest Singles 🔔

I made an animation of Plain Bob Doubles, going from line to grid and back again 🔔

I made an animation of Plain Bob Doubles, going from line to grid and back again 🔔

Derg Surprise Major 🔔

"Nature writing has long had a problem with the way it presents illness. Nature writing only wants to admit illness into its pages if it is to show nature performing a miraculous cure."

bird method!!

I should be asleep but instead I have finally done a thing I have considered for years: a bot that just posts bellringing method titles!

I think even when it comes to knowledge/skills we do have, we tend to underestimate how complex our knowledge is and forget how long it took to learn it. People who never write books still read them, and that is a complex skill itself!

THIS. Nuance isn’t valuable in itself, it’s valuable because reality is usually complicated and nuanced! The point is to be accurate, which means acknowledging relevant nuance AND recognizing when things are simple

@gretchenmcc.bsky.social I don’t know if anyone has continued to use the emoji cheese bar I built for your gathertown parties but I was fond of it and moved it to www.alisonnicole.com/emoji-bar/ when Glitch hosting recently ended. Just heard the free tier on gathertown will be ending too ☹️

Violet-green swallow photographed yesterday over a lake near the Maroon Bells in Colorado. This whole part of Colorado is full of these swallows! They are so pretty! #birds

One thing from the US that I miss living in the UK is the enormous variety of ice cream flavors in grocery stores. All the little shops in Edinburgh are so boring when it comes to ice cream. Sure stores are farther apart in the US but there is SO MUCH ice cream!!

BIRDS ringing a BELL???? Crows working together??? This is a perfect intersection of my interests haha

I took lots of photos of gannets at Bempton Cliffs in May but I also got this fabulous view of a goldfinch in the town of Bempton 🪶

A real string of words I just typed: “how the sameness manifests is different.” I don’t know how I feel about it but I’m not deleting it. Yet.

while I’m annoyed at myself for not having updated the readme on all of my @glitch.com projects (would be nice if I could tell what my own dang projects are!!!) it was kinda nice to see a bit of how the starting readme evolved over time

Kittiwake! From RSPB Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire last month 🪶

Last night, I had the privilege of delivering a keynote speech at the Locus awards. You can view the speech and read the full text here. stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/

Lately when a bit of bellringing goes wrong I have been trying to cultivate a reaction of “oh yeah, this is actually a really complicated thing we’re trying to do and it’s pretty impressive we manage as well as we do.” 1/2

Here, have some more puffin photos 🪶

This might be the best photo I’ve ever taken! At RSPB Bempton Cliffs two weeks ago 🪶

Saw these cuties in Paris last month 🪶

Got these photos of a tern in Warsaw last month. I think I took them but it could have been @purble.bsky.social! 🪶

I know about the possibility of prolapse because of @tkingfisher.com (I think I learned from the KUEC podcast but the (very funny) story is also in the linked blog post). The quoted piece adds extra medical-misogyny horror to the body horror! read free: archive.is/hk4Ei

I’m in a hotel in Paris and just noticed the lobby television showing news including a sign language interpreter the whole time!

I am probably going to be writing some in my thesis about how learning most activities involves learning how to evaluate your work, like, within a tradition of what is good and bad. A common barrier to doing art as an adult is that ppl have some eval skills so judge themselves harsher

The personal motto I adopted in 2020 was “all blanket statements are bad” also I saved this and added it to an album for easy reference because I knew it would be super useful!!

This is so cool. I researched temporal orientation for my master’s thesis (about 18thC French contredanses) and I remember encountering a mention of traffic signals and a need to understand aspects of how we perceive time to manage traffic more safely.

A pair of wood pigeons for #Twosday 🪶

I hear it is World Curlew Day, so here are a couple curlew photos I took in Musselburgh, Scotland in February. Digging out these photos just now has me questioning some of the other #birds I saw on that outing…

these are so pretty!!