I updated my Franklin expedition genealogy starter spreadsheet with the recent identifications! docs.google.com/spreadsheets... I'm actually not sure if I've linked this here before? I've been trying to keep track of which members of the expedition people online have talked about researching.

"We know that all of the dogs used in the 1857-59 McClintock Expedition to find the missing Franklin Expedition were acquired from Indigenous communities in the Arctic. They were mostly sourced from Greenland and parts of Northern Canada..." - Celina Lee niche-canada.org/2023/09/27/e...

The research paper about the identification of Harry Peglar is online now! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Last year I was able to assist in identifying 4 (FOUR?!?) members of the Franklin expedition! I'm the amateur genealogist who researched Bridgens, Young, Orren, and Peglar, and was able to find and contact living descendants of their families who agreed to do DNA tests!

Four more! Peglar, Bridgens, David Young, William Orren www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...

A new piece on sea ice, material agency in the Arctic and James Cook’s third voyage: www.bssi.org.uk/reetta-sippo...

4:50 from Paddington is delayed by approximately 9 minutes

Corridor wall tiles. 1897. Pierhead Building, Cardiff Docks Embossed, Enamelled & Plain Glazed Tiles by J C Edwards of Ruabon, Wales. #TilesOnTuesday

Sorry to ask what may be a strange question, but trans people, do you think the Labour government is actively or aggressively anti-trans?

Actor David Walmsley (whose work you might have enjoyed in The Terror or Slow Horses) is raising money for two mental health charities and one supporting people in the entertainment & events industry, by running 30 marathons in 30 days - with no rest days. www.givewheel.com/fundraising/...

smoking what kind of joint? yes

For anybody out there who just needs a little giggle.

A kindred spirit (down to the handwriting) with whoever annotated a beloved used copy of the Iliad in English. Why do I love it? For the note "Achilles is a hero", first put to paper in book 18/24, on the n-hundredth mention of his name, of a work whose first line tells you "Achilles is a hero"

Monday!

Seafarers were visiting remote Arctic islands over 4000 years ago www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

This account has long been a friend of the Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre, so I'm pleased to see this:

NEWS! My next book, TRANSLUNAR, about a closeted trans woman who's an astronaut in the sixties, is coming out in fall 2027! It'll be on Wildthorn, Tor's brand-new general fiction imprint -- a dream, as it lets me work with @englelaird.bsky.social on my literary and historical fiction as well as SFF.

Applications are open for our 23rd Summer School on British History and the History of the British Empire! This year's topic will be "City and Empire. Colonial and Postcolonial London". 🏛️ 📅 21-24 July 2026 📍German Historical Institute London ⏰ Apply by 6 March 2026 1/5

Artist! Quote with your most detailed art! My beloved Francis Crozier really gives off truck stop diner vibes

please I was just looking at stickers

Cornelius Hickey

Finally finished my contribution to #CorsetRevivalProject #upcycling contemporary corsets saved from landfill. I’ve highlighted the Arctic Whaling Trade where the whalebone/baleen came from. Working on a 3d base has been a real challenge!

Feeling like a real “screwed guy” on “BlueSky”!

Dave has a few more character playlists up his sleeve for this winter! 🤩❤️ Here's the first one, a playlist for Tommy Armitage: open.spotify.com/playlist/1JW...

CROZIERE DOSNOT KNOW THE JOJ OF TETRIES CHOCLAY ORNAGE

Bobadmiral Lord Nelson

✨An (incomplete) database of Terror Camp Resources✨ After the polar exploration high of Terror Camp is over I’ve sometimes found it difficult to find things again. So I’m compiling the resources shared this year into a little searchable database…

📣 Reminder: Share your feedback with our survey, and help us make Terror Camp better! If you attended Terror Camp this year, you should have received a link to the survey via email. It only take a minute or so to complete! 🙏❄️

Indigenous artifacts from the Vatican collection returning to Canada today

A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage. Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word. A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).

Only 3 days left until Terror Camp V! 🤩❄️ Which of our keynotes are you most excited about? ✨

Cowlitz comedian Joey Clift has a new animated short–Pow! follows a young Native kid at a bustling intertribal powwow. The short includes lessons in Native activism and even uses actual audio from the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Watch it here:

More Greenland photos, featuring some geology. Scoresbysund has some fantastic exposures of columnar basalts, which are ~55 million years old (young for Greenland rocks!) related to flood basalts when the Atlantic was opening up. Fantastical shapes and fall tundra colors

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

He IS a captain—a TEAM captain! We can't wait to welcome Christos Lawton (Hodgson) back to Terror Camp!

Who's that steward? It's.... Edward Ashley (Gibson), coming to Terror Camp for the first time to compete in our polar quiz show!!!!

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

the toe goblin has come to collect

Berger Victoria

Did you know you can support the Terror Pin-up Calendar RIGHT NOW? 👀 Our BigCartel will close ON HALLOWEEN, so make sure to grab your copy before the end of the month! 🎃 12 months of 🔥 HOT 🔥 cold lads await! #TheTerror theterrorpinup.bigcartel.com/product/cale...

Googly eyes make EVERYTHING better

check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby

Last year I set up four polar bear sampling stations in our study area at Alert (Nunavut, Canada). Goal: collect pictures and hairs to document the understudied Arctic Basin population. This one, from 8 August 2025, is our first good photo ! 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦑🦊 (barbed wire for genetic hair collection visible)

📣 TERROR CAMP V PROGRAM ANNOUNCED! Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam... We’re thrilled to bring you a fantastic line-up of presentations for Terror Camp V, from deep dives into Inuit texts and polar history to queer naval fiction & scurvy. Find out what we've got in store! 🤩

One summer, when I was seven, my parents sent me to live with two aunts in PARKLIFE. I did not want to go. The elderly have that effect on children. PARKLIFE! But they loved me. And I grew to love them. PARKLIFE! ... but I am hungry. I am hungry, and want to PARKLIVE