Dr Rachel McCloy
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Behavioural Scientist and food obsessive. She/Her. Knits. Quite a lot. Views my own.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
1 day ago
Local character KLAXON and also this is why we are sometimes allowed nice things KLAXON.
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Meet the man who walks around town dressed as a tin of baked beans
You're likely to have seen him rattling his tin across South Derbyshire in recent years
https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-news/meet-man-who-walks-around-10878194
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🧶 finished socks (Monkey by Cookie A) knitted in lovely yarn themed on Icelandic landscapes by Wollmeise
3 days ago
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@maraoliva.bsky.social
very successful talk about our Mills project in Groningen today - the conference have taken “Mills are everywhere” to heart, and started pointing out mill sightings in the restaurant during dinner (see pic)
9 days ago
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Starting the morning on BBC Berkshire talking about choice paralysis and AI recommendations (at around 8.45am)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Radio Berkshire - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to Radio Berkshire on BBC Sounds
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbc_radio_berkshire?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
15 days ago
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Mosaic is fun! 🧶
#sockmadness
about 1 month ago
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Sock madness begins again. Qualifying round.
#sockmadness
#SM20
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about 1 month ago
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Finally onto the yoke of my winter sweater 🧶
2 months ago
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Olaf Falafel
2 months ago
Trump’s Greenland speech at the WEF except it’s the voice of Pingu
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We're recruiting for several Lectureships in Psychology at the University of Reading - please pass on to anyone you think might be interested:
jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- we're a nice bunch to work with!
#academicsky
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Lectureship in Psychology:Whiteknights Reading UK
The closing date for applications is 23.59 on 27th February 2026
https://jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=25104
2 months ago
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And I’m done - whew! Thanks all for the hints - might even manage to get dinner made at a reasonable hour 😂
#hiddenbooksgame
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
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#hiddenbooksgame
- just one left to go! Mugs is driving me crackers!!!
4 months ago
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The hair, the dog, the seas, the tree, the laptop - help!
#hiddenbooksgame
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺
5 months ago
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...
add a skeleton here at some point
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Could not agree more
add a skeleton here at some point
5 months ago
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Coffee break upgraded with food samples from our
@foodsequal.bsky.social
partners!
5 months ago
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@foodsequal.bsky.social
annual assembly fun at Cranflield! Supporting the Plymouth Fish Finger
5 months ago
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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!
5 months ago
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Peter Chilvers
5 months ago
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.
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Simply scrappy cowl 🧶 using a
@lottieknits.bsky.social
set of Halloween miniskeins - lovely, cosy and autumnal!
5 months ago
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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!
6 months ago
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Catching up on weaving in ends on mindless dishcloths 🧶
6 months ago
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Feeling autumnal 🧶
6 months ago
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Hello
@sentimentbot.bsky.social
- how’s it going?
6 months ago
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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
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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 ...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2024.0150
6 months ago
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Might have missed out on going to Germany with my other half, but I did manage to get some souvenirs 😃 🧶🧶🧶
7 months ago
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Eugene‘s away presenting our work on FoodSEqual at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) in Mainz, Germany
7 months ago
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More holiday knitting! A second Sick Day shawl (Kate Atherley), this time in Wollmeise DK in Mitternacht 🧶
7 months ago
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Sick day shawl by Kate Atherley - a simple pattern that lets pretty yarn 🧶 shine!
7 months ago
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Enjoying the whimsy of Doagh
8 months ago
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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! 🧶
8 months ago
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Small Robots
8 months ago
"I've actually played the whole tournament on a fractured tibia."
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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
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8 months ago
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OMG Robert Smith at Glasto!!! Wow!!!
9 months ago
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@philbeaman.bsky.social
prepping for bunkfest!
9 months ago
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showyourstripes.info/s/europe/uni...
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Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
https://showyourstripes.info/s/europe/unitedkingdom/berkshire
9 months ago
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Some of our work on how people look at art that’s just been accepted to PLOS one
link.growkudos.com/1etg449dds0
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People look at abstract art by first getting a quick overall impression, then slowly exploring it.
When people view artworks, especially abstract ones, very simple extra information about the type of artwork (e.g., portrait or landscape) doesn’t affect how they look at the piece in the first few se...
https://link.growkudos.com/1etg449dds0
9 months ago
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Have made a start on this year‘s Shetland Wool 🧶 Week hat - the Aal Ower Toorie. Using the Jamieson‘s yarn pack this year.
11 months ago
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My Shetland wool week hat kit has arrived (a pay day treat!) 🧶 - pretty yarn from Jamieson‘s of Shetland
11 months ago
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Fishbourne Roman Palace
11 months ago
We need EVERYONE to see this advert for a Head of Operations at the Palace (£40-45k). Otherwise we might get some kind of numpty in charge. Please share. If we get 50 shares we'll post a video of
#CuratorRob
playing a hoover like a didgeridoo.
hr.breathehr.com/recruitment/...
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Breathe
Effortless people admin
https://hr.breathehr.com/recruitment/vacancies/40545
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Carol Feller
11 months ago
#knitsky
what was the first project you ever completed? Do you still have it? While I have some unfinished fingerless mitts from when I was 8 I do have photos of a red and white stripe garter vest I knit at 11! I love hearing about everyone’s knitting journeys!
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Four more gorgeous British birds yarns 🧶 from
@mothyandthesquid.bsky.social
- crested tit, kingfisher, capercaillie and chaffinch
11 months ago
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Great morning collecting data with the community in Brighton and Hove for @foodsequal - lots of fun figuring out how to get multiple trackers up and running at the same time and getting the community researchers involved
11 months ago
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Excellent day of interdisciplinary perspectives on
#Utopias
- from communes to video games, historical and literary utopias to language and insects (and the annoyance of flying cars from me)
11 months ago
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A late night photo - finished my
#sockmadness
socks for this round, but not quickly nor mistake-free enough to qualify for the next round. Still, will enjoy knitting along as a cheerleader 🧶
11 months ago
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More beautiful British birds yarn from
@mothyandthesquid.bsky.social
12 months ago
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#sockmadness
Round 2 finally complete! 🧶
12 months ago
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Sock progress! 🧶
#sockmadness
Just one more sole/toe combo to go!
12 months ago
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#sockmadness
progress - it‘s beginnt to look a lot more sock-like!
about 1 year ago
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