Bluesky Collective Do I know someone in South Africa on here? Thanks for your help in advance

So why can't we do this with detecting? Why not a license required to own a detector and an online test (to check knowledge of the law and Code of Practice) to be completed before license granted...? #Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Born in Bristol in 1821 Elizabeth Blackwell first showed an interest in medicine when a friend almost died after being too shy to visit a male doctor. As an adult in America she became the first woman to graduate with a medical degree in the USA and their first female physician.

“The problem largely stems from how tipping points are communicated to politicians – using a scientific framing that can downplay risks & allow worst case scenarios to be brushed aside.” I have 15 years climate comms experience, but left the field 5 years ago because there are few jobs left

NEW Jane Austen as a writer about law Some notes on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, by me (And also why there is only one good adaptation of her works.) emptycity.substack.com/p/jane-auste...

Might be a day late, but this just came up. The 'Classic' Steeleye line-up from the late 70s. Maddie's voice just gives me the chills, in a good way. Also, the first UK Singles Chart hit fully in Latin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEPm...

Oh, I really like this interpretation. Of course it relies on the historic western misinterpretation of Palestinian houses and their construction and what the words ‘inn’ and ‘barn’ mean in that context, but. The point holds and I like it

Don't think I've seen this in previous years - an annual round up of #archaeology on the BBC website! Good to see ' #treasure ' not being centre stage for once. ...also interesting to note that cash value is only mentioned in relation to the #detecting finds. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy Christmas to bollard fans across the world! #WorldBollardAssociation

The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground. Wonderful!

If you're looking to do a little bit of Christmas-flavoured science with the kids then you could do worse than read this little article. Can't wait to try @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Fro-Co recipe. PS The weird symbol in my piece (ϖ) is supposed to be π.

Also, if you'd like to learn more about Japan and Korea, some of my most trusted English-language accounts to follow here are @sarahjeong.bsky.social @tobiasharris.bsky.social @myhlee.bsky.social @nithincoca.com!!

What would really be the implications of taking Santa Claus seriously? It's the time of the year to review the current state of the physics of Santa Claus 1/12

Just one week left until the Triskele Heritage Christmas Lecture - Historic Buildings in the Landscape. We'll be live online at 7pmGMT on Tue 30 December. For booking & more info, please follow this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-... 📸 Castell Dolbadarn & Bwlch Llanberis

‘We’ve seen it decimate areas’: Somerset town’s traders oppose parking charges

The Virtual School Model pilot programme has helped to address the needs of children looked after in Wales and support their educational progress, an independent evaluation has found

Children who lived in overcrowded or damp homes missed three weeks more school than other pupils over the course of their education, a study has found

This paper was retracted in May for being too saucy (or because it was published early by mistake). Finally, it's out (again)! asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... A parody of AI-infused healthcare education that feels less farcical each day. With @insideoutanatomy.bsky.social

Awful for these families & folks nearby. Also thinking the Canals & Rivers Trust may have a bigger bill than they can pay. They were a model for the creation of English Heritage as a charity, so it also reminds us of how exposed such charities can be. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Take time to read this. The extraordinary, disturbing story of a woman who died alone & anonymous in an institution where she never belonged, & a journalist who identified her after being assigned what he thought was a bullshit obit - thartribune.com/the-haunting... @elongreen.bsky.social

For Jesus’ birthday this year, he’s asking for affordable housing, universal healthcare, and for people to stop using his name to explain why they’re being cruel to strangers.

“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books

Regulator’s latest stats on fire safety remediation in social housing (England) — proper, official numbers, not vibes. www.gov.uk/government/s... #SocialHousing #UKhousing Link on www.linkedin.com/in/tonysmith...

A blog for the season 🎄 #Archaeology 🏺 bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/12/21/d...

It’s Nutcracker season for the lucky few – but why isn’t dance part of every child’s life? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

This cracked clay tablet from the 1800s BCE preserves the moment a baby named Ili-awīli was adopted from his mother Ayartum and her husband by another couple. People adopted for many reasons in ancient Mesopotamia — desire for a baby, need for an heir, adopting child from a previous marriage, etc.

1920s Emily Dunn ran quarry in #Yorkshire ”I'm my own engineer & technical adviser". Invented "Heath Robinson attempts @ washing plants” for business success. Found human skeletons & 160 #Pleistocene fossils in gravel gave 2 Hull Museum. d #OTD 20 Dec 1967 www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/engineer-of-...

#SolsticeBlessings #WinterSolstice #WhenBeastsSpoke

Very much agree with this. And planners as market shapers should be enabled to deliver high quality development that enhances places and nature

Engineers working on the HS2 project have slid a 4,600t viaduct section across the M6 without a full carriageway closure, in what contractors say is a UK first that will reduce disruption for drivers Full story:

This week on Wonkhe: Behind the fanfare of rejoining Erasmus+, Jim Dickinson finds gaps in policy, a lack of strategy, and a looming risk that mobility will remain an option only for the well-off.

It's our favourite time of the year: Guess the Geological Hammer time! Today, the hammer is hidden at our Eskdalemuir meteorological station where we undertake research on space weather, which we study to extend our knowledge of geomagnetic hazards and their effects.

My new post celebrates the life and work of Sidney Colwyn Foulkes, an important regional architect and designer of some of the finest council housing in the land. There's a free access article that you can download and a new book by Adam Voelker: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/s...

slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums

People see carbon reduction. Watersheds see concentrated runoff, compacted soils, erosion, and broken headwaters. Solar panels on steep ridges rewire hydrology. Calling this “low impact” only works if you don’t look downhill. 🧵

Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.

Don't suppose I have any Cambridge ancient history/archaeology aficionados who follow me here? I have made an odd discovery in the layout of the city and I need someone to tell me if its stupid.

“Climate action” is just another way to say “we want our beautiful complex planet to continue to be a good place to live, and to continue to be both beautiful and complex”. So much climate damage comes from assuming that Earth is simple, that it is easy to control and that it will bend to our will.

Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence

It's official. The UK and the EU have agreed for the UK to associate to the Erasmus+ programme from 2027. www.gov.uk/guidance/the...

It's more and more blatantly obvious that Reform is not a serious party and should never be in government. Surely even their supporters must eventually realise that? www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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Racing driver Winifred Pink #WWI VAD, won 1927 Brooklands high speed trials. Once patched a faulty engine with a sandwich (filling unknown). Member @wes1919.bsky.social wrote article on 'Motor Racing for Women'. Ran WVS garage for mobile canteen vehicles in #WWI d. #OTD 16 Dec 1957 bit.ly/3jjBXwj

hey I dunno who needs to hear this but: if your structural engineer says something is necessary and your builder says it isn’t necessary listen to the engineer

www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/de... "Bayeux Tapestry could have been originally designed as mealtime reading for medieval monks" Link to paper at bottom of the article

This is such a good idea. I hope it happens, esp given next year is the National Year of Reading. But also, there need to be libraries for those babies to go to. Increased library funding now! observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Imagine if this was a motorway. The race would be on to get it opened.

If our cities are shaped by stories, then great books form the foundation of knowledge and inspiration needed to build more liveable, inclusive and prosperous places. These are 24 titles we read this year that informed our approach to changing hearts, minds and streets. An #UrbanismBookClub thread.