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Claire Boardman

@claireboardman.bsky.social
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People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)

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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 2h
Is your ivy flowering? Please don't cut it back if you can avoid it! At this time of year in the UK, ivy flowers are a brilliant late season pit-stop for hard-pressed pollinators like bees, butterflies, hoverflies and moths 🐝 #gardening #wildlife #nature
Butterfly perched on ivy flower
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 1h
Bursaries available ...
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 4h
Landscapes of Care: Very much looking forward to joining the evening (UK) session tomorrow 🙌 So timely as I sit here listening to @kateraworth.bsky.social and Robin Wall Kimmerer in conversation.
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Richard Nevell @richardnevell.bsky.social · 5h
The recording should be on the CSG YouTube channel in a few days. In the meantime, there are other recordings available: www.youtube.com/@castlestudi...
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Castle Studies Group
Established in 1987 by the then Secretary Robert Higham, the Castle Studies Group includes members both professional and amateur from a wide and varied range of historical and archaeological backgroun...
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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 6h
It’s a long time since I have visited the rather hidden Roman bath house at Prestatyn. It is tucked away on a residential estate down Melyd Avenue. Built in 120 CE & expanded 150 CE it formed part of a 1st-3rd c. industrial settlement where iron, lead and bronze metal working took place.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 7h
The new case everyone’s talking about isn't an isolated incident. From Cornell to the London School of Economics, universities are failing women and protecting predators. We need to break the silence. Add your name👇 👇 👇 goodlaw.social/u6dj
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7h
Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 8h
🚨 DEADLINE EXTENDED🚨 We've extended the deadline to apply for our Campaigns and Communications Manager to Sunday 4th! Apply here 👇 hr.moorepay.co.uk/hr/recruitment/ro…
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 7h
Looking for a post doc? Come join us at the Machine Visual Culture Research Group, which “combines digital and computational art history, critical AI studies, and the history of art and visual culture.” www.biblhertz.it/3815269/2909...
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Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellows in Digital Art History
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 10h
Such a cool project and collaboration www.bu.edu/articles/202...
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Fragile Manuscripts Hold Hundreds of Years of African and Islamic History
Boston University researchers have digitally preserved more than 52,000 pages of Arabic and Ajami West African literature
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Ecological Continuity Trust (ECT) @ect-uk.bsky.social · 14h
LAST CHANCE to submit your abstract for the #RLASSymposium 2027! You have until 23:00 TODAY to submit your abstract to present at this symposium on #LandscapeScale projects. Submit ASAP: bit.ly/488EYcd 🍁🌏 & share this with someone. @britishecologicalsociety.org #RLASPartnership
Designing Landscape Projects for Impact: Developing, monitoring and defining outcomes at scale. King’s House, Manchester. 3-4 February 2027. Call for submissions closes today at 23:00. Photo showing a small bird taking flight.
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Gavin MacGregor @gavinmacgregor.bsky.social · 14h
And pause, wrapped, cool sea mist. Hear feint, whispered Saints. Grasp sword and stake, step with care, through telling time. #Whitby #archaeology #history #heritage
Yellow sandstone gravestone surface pitted through erosion, names removed. In distance Whiby Abbey towers and Gothic arched windows, silhouetted against misty skyWhiby Abbey roofless ruin silhouetted against grey misty sky. Pierced with arched windows, like skeletal remains of vast behemoth
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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org · 12h
How can body mapping be used as a meaningful and politically powerful tool to make the impacts of climate change more visible? Andi Misbahul Pratiwi unpacks the answers in this new Geography Directions post 👇 ow.ly/7chn50ZQ4Fj
Three individuals collaborate on a colorful drawing featuring a purple dress and a brown circular object on white paper.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 16h
Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins eds. Reading the Coastline in Shakespeare's Britain - @edinburghup.bsky.social, October 2026 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-reading...
cover of book - green background, with white text and inset map from 16th century showing some of the North Sea and the English coastline
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Dr Hannah Fluck @hannahfluck.bsky.social · 15h
Quite so. You wouldn't write the next chapter of a book without having read the previous chapters. Archaeology is the toolbox that helps us read those previous chapters to help make sense of now and the future.
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 15h
Upcoming conference from the Society for Church Archaeology. Why not join the society? I'm chair of this society, and we're always looking for new members. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/society-fo...
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Society for Church Archaeology Annual Conference and AGM 2026
Join us as we celebrate the latest developments in church archaeology in the city of Chester
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here is why getting "bogged down" is actually a superpower: They are climate heroes: Peatlands cover only 3% of the earth's land but store more carbon than all the world's forest biomass combined. Keeping them intact is one of our best defenses against climate change. 2/
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Karla @karlabakes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This!! Share and get in touch!
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Ness of Brodgar @nessofbrodgar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A new Current Archaeology article, by Carly Hilts, is now available online.
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Link: Statements in stone: Investigating Neolithic architecture at the Ness of Brodgar
A new Current Archaeology article, by Carly Hilts, is now available online.
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do not like these dark evenings? 🥺
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Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The low pressure system is passing us by to the west and the worst of the wind is out beyond those islands. Even so is a bit breezy here this afternoon, with some strong gusts, and the light is moody. Argyll, Scotland.
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The “used future” trap ... "Sometimes it’s not enough to design for a new future; we also have to design the conditions and new thinking that make shaping nascent paradigms possible, reorienting how we define progress, value, and success." www.ideo.com/journal/the-...
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The “used future” trap
5 techniques for avoiding outdated visions of tomorrow.
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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dubious that copyright law can meaningfully mitigate AI safety risks. But also: this seems to be an admission from the UK's AI minister that the approach favoured by lobbyists for the creative industries – that AI companies can just pay to license the IP they need to train models – also isn't viable
He addressed calls from lawmakers to ban development of so-called 'superintelligence,' a hypothetical future form of AI with more advanced thinking skills than any human. Narayan said that superintelligence is already impossible to build in the U.K., as the country's copyright laws mean it's already "illegal" to build cutting-edge AI large language models.

"What further law would you need, given that it is currently illegal to develop a frontier large language model … given the copyright position that we have in this country and, frankly, given the overall compute situation that we have in this country?"
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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Had a great time in Reading today meeting the brilliant team at the Digital Humanities Centre there research.reading.ac.uk/digitalhuman.... Thanks to @maraoliva.bsky.social and all 😊
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Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Digital Humanities - University of Reading Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Digital Humanities
The Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Digital Humanities is a cross-service team, which drives research innovation by providing sustainable support for DH projects.
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ScARF @scarf-scot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's still time to book your place for this weekend's events at the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock and Dumfries Museum with the SW Scotland Archaeological Research Framework team! Head to bit.ly/3SrJgpJ for more information and to register today.
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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An interesting interview with Welsh landscape & documentary photographer Pete Davis on his collaboration with the Strata Florida archaeological team looking at the past woodland management by the Cistercian monks. His exhibition at MOMA Machynlleth finished 2 weeks back youtu.be/dcrxsgrCyBI?...
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Pete Davis - Strata Florida photographs and exhibition, 2026.
YouTube video by Offline Journal
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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Falmouth University's Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society welcomes PhD applications for 2027 that take creative, critical approaches to heritage www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/cen... #research #phd #heritage #ICH
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Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society
The Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society addresses people’s relationships with past, present and future cultural places and landscapes.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The tool can be used to estimate the impact of CO2 emissions fr any project, company or state–or for any known amount of emissions–across 8 different factors including the loss of labour hours due to excess heat, the loss of glaciers, the death of corals or lost food production." Hear fr the team👇
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Webinar | Launch of the Carbon Impacts Tracer
From emissions to consequences
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Women in AI Ethics official account @womeninaiethics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In July 2025, Aix-Marseille University welcomed the first group of U.S.-based researchers under its “Safe Place for Science” initiative. Join us for a conversation with program participants as they share their hopes & dreams for the future of science. 📅 October 26-27 🔗 luma.com/AISummitMarseille
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frankrennie @frankrennie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Your window on the world is always critical…
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
CfP: Restorative Justice. Heritage Practices, Narratives, & Futures of Conservation (Vienna Oct 2027). 'How can practices of care advance justice in museums and beyond? And how can museums, archives, universities, and other sites of heritage contribute to more just futures?" tinyurl.com/mtexpbwj
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Call for Papers: Restorative Justice. Heritage Practices, Narratives, and Futures of Conservation — Cultural Heritage Studies Vienna
How can practices of care advance justice in museums and beyond? And how can museums, archives, universities, and other sites of heritage contribute to more just futures? The Global Conservation: Hi...
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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
After the storm.
Leaves from different trees and some pale yellow rose petals strewn on a wet grey wooden deck.
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The Hidden Cost is an independent study of the invisible labour that keeps digital running: the unrecognised work that never appears in a plan." hiddencost.ashmann.co/introduction
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The Hidden Cost
187 digital practitioners on the work that keeps cultural organisations running – and never appears on a job plan. An interactive research report by Ash Mann.
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Inequality gets built in" Our Parks Too - a new campaign shaped by the voices and experiences of teenage girls from across the UK. @makespaceforgirls.bsky.social youtu.be/6LjAo_3YOLM?...
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Our Parks Too
YouTube video by Make Space for Girls
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Oxford Archaeology @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How can archaeology play a part in our natural environment?🌳 In next week's talk, Nick will explain how the past can power a wilder future: from ancient environments that guide today’s habitats, to wildlife at historic sites & stories that inspire new ways to care for our world
Poster titled "Archaeology and Nature Recovery" advertising a talk by Nick Overton, showing two workers in orange high-visibility jackets restoring peatland on moorland beside a small pool under a cloudy sky.
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"our systems & approaches lean more into the frictionless state, when this is the last thing we need ... Our mental models for this have gone backwards, as the world has accelerated in the other direction. Because quick answers don't really solve things." (Tom Watson 🙌) tomcw.xyz/finding-fric...
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Finding friction
In a world of easy answers what we really need is space and time to work reflect, adapt evolve. Maybe we need friction.
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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As the new academic year gets underway, here's a reminder of Colin Burrow's important essay for @lrb.co.uk (10/9/26) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... and a link to the accompanying podcast (18/9/2026) www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
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Colin Burrow · Good Weird or Bad Weird: Uses of Criticism
Literary criticism is a supremely occasional skill, where you have to be bold enough to operate where there aren’t any...
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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yesterday, #Sheffield streets witnessed a great day. Once again we said clear and loud that Sheffield is an antifascist, tolerant and welcoming city. @sheffielducu.bsky.social @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social @ucuhallam.bsky.social @sheffieldsutr.bsky.social
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I remember those days ... just about.
Stil taken from the short in the quote post displaying the text; 'Pause to reveal your medieval creature' above an image extracted from a medieval manuscript showing a satyr against a green background and within a red circle. The image caption reads: 'satyr' and underneath this 'You're wild and lively'.
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Helsbels @helenus3.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Loving the beautiful @petroc.bsky.social sea-themed programme now drawing to a close on Radio3, Where the Light Sings. Broadcast from the lighthouse on St Agnes, Isles of Scilly. Islands very close to my heart after several idyllic holidays there My 📷, Higher Town Bay, St. Martin's, Isles of Scilly
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
'What did people living in this landscape eat thousands of years ago? It’s a question that brings together archaeology and the natural landscape around us, and one that forager and wild-food specialist Lucy Cooke has explored through her work with Kilmartin Museum.' www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/fo...
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‘It makes you more attune to what’s going on around you’ - Lucy Cooke on autumn foraging in Scotland
Lucy Cooke, known as the wild cook, has returned to our screens on BBC Alba’s Rùrachd programme. She talks to Rosalind Erskine about autumn’s abundance, foraging on the west coast and how we can look ...
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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fascinating lecture by @gsoh31.bsky.social hosted by @royalhistsoc.org at @ihr.bsky.social. Loved that Glen highlighted importance of voluntarism re work of the Central Rights of Way Ctte (CROW) & acknowledged participation of @womensinstitute.bsky.social in this work. #EnvironmentalHistory
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
👀 AEONS Training and Guidance Workshop (Hybrid) "... join our discussion on guidance and training relating to environmental archaeology in Scotland." www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aeons-trai...
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AEONS Training and Guidance Workshop
AEONS Training and Guidance Workshop— join our discussion on guidance and training relating to environmental archaeology in Scotland
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It was so hugely moving and interesting on consent, framing and what a good life is - Apted saying he realised how much power and strength participants got from their relationships and how it made him feel he has possibly focused too much on his career to neglect of family Going to rewatch
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Very interesting talk (as expected!) - 'a post war Labour government faced with middle class recreation'. Opened with acknowledgement of the role now being played by accessible, critical spatial data analysis and visualisation including maps by @watershed-i.bsky.social and @slowwaysuk.bsky.social.
Zoom screenshot from Glen O'Hara's 25 September 2026 RHS lecture displaying activist journalists: Watershed Investigation's map of UK water pollution: levels and sources, focused on the lower Thames catchment area. The image caption reads: "Source: https://watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-whats-polluting-your-local-rivers-lakes-and-coast/Zoom screenshot from Glen O'Hara's 25 September 2026 RHS lecture displaying a 'slow ways' journey planner focused on London and the southern home counties. The image caption reads: "Source: https://beta.slowways.org/Allroutes"
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 26/09/2026
Imagine being sent to prison because the criminal justice system messed up 😳 That happened to 79 year old Gaie Delap. Now we're helping her to make sure it never happens again 👇 goodlaw.social/9np5
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Help Gaie Delap take on the failing justice system that put her in prison | Good Law Project
We helped get Gaie released from jail last year. Now we’re helping her sue the Ministry of Justice for discrimination for not finding a tag that fitted.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 26/09/2026
Glen's lecture opened the Society's autumn programme of lectures taking place in London, Glasgow and Bristol, and online. Further details of upcoming events, including lectures by Meleisa Ono-George, Sathnam Sanghera, Hanna Diamond and Amy Froide bit.ly/3VQUTYs 2/2
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Autumn lecture programme from the Royal Historical Society - RHS
The Society's autumn lecture programme offers lectures by six leading historians working in British, European and world history. The autumn lecture programme begins on Friday 25 September and runs to ...
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The @scottishbeacon.bsky.social are launching a new network to help boost environmental journalism in Scotland, inviting researchers, campaigners, writers and organisers to come collaborate. Sharing Stories | Skills | Ideas | Knowledge www.scottishbeacon.com?p=8275
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Launching the Scottish Environmental Journalism Network - The Scottish Beacon
After more than a year exploring the complex relationship between rural Scottish communities, renewable energy and the need for a dramatic response to climate breakdown through The Power Shift: Invest...
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Mairéad Nic Craith @maireadnc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A bilingual lecture on Irish language and ecology @cumannachasgaelach.bsky.social @olaoghaire.bsky.social @lillis.bsky.social @tusaite.bsky.social @gaelphobal.bsky.social @norbut.bsky.social @ria.ie @tg4.bsky.social @bellacaledonia.bsky.social youtu.be/rfxSTWuRk9M?...
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Language & Ecology by UHI Institute for Northern Studies Professor Mairead Nic Craith
YouTube video by UHI Institute for Northern Studies
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