I was just reading AI ‘tells’ advice and, with the best will in the world, if you come for me because I refuse to give up the Oxford comma until it’s torn from me, we will have words. Ditto em dashes. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

A trade deal with Trump’s America is a lot like haemorrhoid cream … unpleasant but necessary, and nothing to publicly celebrate.

Oh my … this is going to be a fantastic anthology in all categories 😍

#Curae prize results announced at 12. The bursary fund will close at the end of the day. If you can help, please do. The prize - an unique initiative for unpaid #carers - receives no industry funding at all. www.gofundme.com/f/curae-2025...

❤️❤️ So proud of all the carer-writers for being brave and sharing their hard-won creativity. So excited to see what will be an amazing shortlist ❤️❤️

Our Absolute Zero writers’ collective is an amazing group of STEM-centred folk who are exploring the collisions between the creative and scientific. We have a zine launch event in a week’s time. Come hear us read! www.storyology.co.uk/shop/p/absol...

🧵 I want to tell you why I think this is one of the most important prizes running and I’m sorry that the book press and mainstream publishing hasn’t dived on it with bells on and support …

Creating a US government registry to track autistic people using private medical records is like a ‘How to Nazi in Easy Steps’ manual. It’s not science. Science has an ethical foundation based on consent. Science already studies autism, and many other neurotypes ethically.

In the true spirit of nature writers, I talk to the red kites that fly low over our garden every day. I love the proximity-but-distance. I wish it was something poignantly profound, but most often, I just say “Please don’t poo on my head.” 😂🤦‍♀️

Oooh it’s only a few weeks until we announce the #Curae 2025 shortlist I AM EXCITED ARE YOU EXCITED. Fundraiser for writers’ bursaries is still running, below. Do please help me if you can. This is the only opportunity of this kind for unpaid #carers 💙📚

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

CDC DATASETS on 1.28.2025 According to @altcdc.bsky.social The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. archive.org/details/2025... You need to know which data set you would like. Use CTRL+F to find a keyword from the list. 🧪🛟 #Episky #Statsky

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

Little short blog piece that came from a writing sprint at one of the Absolute Zero meetings. Love my writing people 🥰 www.clairekotecki.com/news/2024/12...

A day ahead of finalising exam papers. However much students dislike sitting them, it is equal in magnitude to how much I dislike the weeks that go into setting them … especially when our staffing has been cut to the bone and I’ve lost half my subject specialists. Sigh.

It’s bad enough the OU has banned children and young people from campus (we are clearly not an #OUFamily as we always used to be), but according to the latest email “Following some recent reports …” children have been seen. Can we all agree that none of us have or will ever ‘see’ children on site?

Thread on resources for #publishing for #writers. First of all, if you are thinking about broader freelance work, then you need the best newsletter about. Sian Meades Williams's Freelance Writing Jobs, www.sianmeadeswilliams.com/freelance-wr... Weekly or monthly round-ups. Comps, opps, jobs & more

Ekko is #NotMyCat but he comes round to visit and eat all the food and looks a lot like a movie star.

My supper companion was looking very dapper tonight. She dressed for dinner.

Lots more videos with tips on how best to carry out demonstrations and practicals here alomshaha.com/project-type... and alomshaha.com/portfolio/vi...

Current status: regretting my life choices 🤦‍♀️

A Sunday full of writing today. I have a piece for our upcoming zine edition that needs a serious final edit, I need to start putting in a daily word count on my WIP to get a full first draft and I have a history MA assignment to finish. Onwards! But first coffee … #writingcommunity #writing

Cementing the professional legitimacy of 🦋 We now have the journals on #MedSky & #IDSky @jamacurrent.bsky.social @bmj.com @cmicomms.bsky.social (first one?) @eurosurveillance.bsky.social @cidjournal.bsky.social @ofidjournal.bsky.social @thejhi.bsky.social @jclinical-invest.bsky.social

I needed ‘Songs of a Lost World’ so much more than I realised. Wonderful work from The Cure.

I’ve written about this before but science is inherently political. There is no choice in this. It absolutely shouldn’t be ideologically partisan but there is nothing about science, from the funding that shapes the landscape to the choices of which areas are ‘valuable’, that isn’t a political act.

I am trying to read a paper. I have nearly snoozed twice. Trixie the Terrible isn’t helping.

Physics teachers! I’m sure you know about these but in case you don’t, this is a cheap alternative to the standard “motor kits” so that each student can make their own. If you want a worksheet, drop me a line.

Good morning teachers! Reminded yesterday of the need to explain to our students why our subject is worth studying, and not take it for granted that it’s self-evident. Years ago, I attempted to answer this question for my subject, science, with the help of some much smarter people: whyscience.co.uk

Emma’s photos are a genuine bright point in so many gloomy days. I would recommend following if you feel that a small corner of the interwebs with natural beauty and calming things would make your days happier.

@danielpaynechem.bsky.social there are a few Chemistry Starter Packs if you’re looking for science-kin blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

I love the concept and the language of ‘daylighting’.

Deep in the works of Hakim Adi for my latest MA assignment and I can strongly recommend watching this video of his British Library talk if anyone has an hour and a half to devote to really challenging how we think of British History as a nation. Adi is a great speaker. youtu.be/jqe5TyD09Yk?...

We've just created our first Starter Pack for staff at The Open University (UK)... join us! go.bsky.app/UhqW8VR #OUfamily

Excellent misty moon last night. After two weeks of literally no sunlight, we’ve had proper autumn fog and blue-sky-days and finally I remember why I love this season.

I love StoryGraph - I use it for my on-the-go tracking alongside my LibraryThing main catalogue. The graph stats are great!

This is a work of staggering genius. I shall never look upon these snackish wonders in the same way again. It was meant to be.

@danmjohnson.bsky.social Here’s a link to the starter pack directory … bsky.app/profile/jjl....

@danmjohnson.bsky.social The Cardio starter pack might be useful … go.bsky.app/562nfhZ

Meeting tonight at Kings with the sci-comms writing collective that I’m a member of, Absolute Zero, so that means a quick coffee at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social members’ room. A bookish oasis in London’s hubub #writing #scicomms

Rainbow jumper day. It’s grey. I’m tired. I have a lot of the tedious part of work on my plate. The jumper works miracles. It’s a #glimmer It came from the Hemp Shop in Tofino nearly 30 yrs ago and it has magic powers 🌈

I don’t need to be a billionaire, but goodness I would love to have enough money to take a 6 month sabbatical to write and to genuinely exploratively study. I have had to drag myself back from JSTOR to write yet more exam questions today. Academics need time to do the academic side of academia 🤦‍♀️

Speaking of the utterly broken Twitter search (RIP), here are instructions for searching on Bluesky. It requires a little more from you, but once you know the prefixes, I've found the search works just fine. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Parents! Carers! Be like this dad and give your children the gift of science this Christmas!

SUBMISSION CALL FOR BIPOC FOLKS!!!! I am editing :) EROTIC ECO-HORROR!! From sexy to seductive, from creepy to horrifying!!! Submissions November 1st - December 31st 2024. 1500-4000 words. $0.01 word. MORE BELOW! www.hedonebooks.com/pages/submis...

Society of Dyers and Colorists Launches Digital Textile Archive 📜 sourcingjournal.com/topics/sourc...

Not kidding. I had it earlier this year (previously childhood-vaccinated but between waning immunity and COVID effects, I was caught out). If you have the opportunity to boost your vaccination at any point, I would definitely say go for it.

If you're a #skystorian who works on digitised archival material - and pretty much all of us do - you should read this new article on #EarlyModern wills by Harry Smith @bhamhistory.bsky.social and Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social, #OpenAccess in the TRHS 🗃️: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My whole life with my 17yo daughter has been punctuated by irreplaceable moments that only happened because of @virtualastro.bsky.social Memories crafted from the magic of things you just need to pause and look up to see. Cold nights staring skywards at things we only saw because of a post online ❤️

Funded PhDs! The call is open for PhDs at the European University Institute (pics) in Florence. 4 yrs full funding + generous research funds. History, Law, Pol+Soc Sci, & Econ. Most grants are limited to member states, do check. Some international grants. Due: 31 Jan 25 www.eui.eu/en/services/...