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Dr Rachel McCloy

@fidgitpig.bsky.social
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Behavioural Scientist and food obsessive. She/Her. Knits. Quite a lot. Views my own.

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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
@maraoliva.bsky.social I might be on leave but still thinking mills!
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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 10/08/2026
I still absolutely think that the English rugby team should learn how to morris dance properly and do it in response to the Haka against New Zealand.
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Glum Rock @jimblower.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Paredes congratulating the Spanish players. #SPAARG #ESPARG
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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 06/07/2026
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
These are turning out so well - using one of my @mothyandthesquid.bsky.social rainbow fish skeins from last year - love them! 🧶
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John Hudgens @johnhudgens.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If you've never heard it, you owe it to yourself to listen to BLEAK EXPECTATIONS, which has him in my favorite role of his, ever - Mister Gently Benevolent, the Evil Ex-Guardian and All Around Nasty Person - his scenery chewing in that show is legendary - and perfect!
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Sad loss - awesome in Buffy, in many fun radio comedies, and an excellent Frank-n-furter
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...
The Girl With The Cat Earring, featuring my mum and dad's cat Bridget.Bridget Hangs Out With The Hunters In The Snow
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Pretty wisteria at Greys Court today - nicely matched to my wisteria yarn! 🧶
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
🧶 yarn arrived all ready for this year’s Shetland Wool Week hat!
6 colourful balls of Shetland yarn
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
First pattern in this year’s curious knits handmade shawl society - serpentine shawl in Lottieknits Wisteria 2.0 🧶
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
#academicsky We’re currently recruiting for a Professor in Neuroscience in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences at the University of Reading - please pass on to anyone who might be interested: jobs.reading.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
We’re currently recruiting for a Professor in Neuroscience in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences at the University of Reading - please pass on to anyone who might be interested: jobs.reading.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Short, but fun visit to Newcastle for EPS - congrats to Louisa on her excellent talk!
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
🧶 finished socks (Monkey by Cookie A) knitted in lovely yarn themed on Icelandic landscapes by Wollmeise
A pair of blue and grey knitted socks with a lace pattern
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
@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)
A coffee mill - mills are everywhere
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Mosaic is fun! 🧶 #sockmadness
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Sock madness begins again. Qualifying round. #sockmadness #SM20 🧶
The beginning of a knitted sock in yellow and blues
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Finally onto the yoke of my winter sweater 🧶
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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Trump’s Greenland speech at the WEF except it’s the voice of Pingu
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
And I’m done - whew! Thanks all for the hints - might even manage to get dinner made at a reasonable hour 😂 #hiddenbooksgame
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
#hiddenbooksgame - just one left to go! Mugs is driving me crackers!!!
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The hair, the dog, the seas, the tree, the laptop - help! #hiddenbooksgame
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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 04/11/2025
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...
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Could not agree more
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Coffee break upgraded with food samples from our @foodsequal.bsky.social partners!
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
@foodsequal.bsky.social annual assembly fun at Cranflield! Supporting the Plymouth Fish Finger
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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!
A cowl knit in the colours of autumn leaves from green to deep red
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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 16/10/2025
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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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Simply scrappy cowl 🧶 using a @lottieknits.bsky.social set of Halloween miniskeins - lovely, cosy and autumnal!
A colourful knitted cowl, in the colours of autumn leaves
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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!
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Catching up on weaving in ends on mindless dishcloths 🧶
A stack of colourful knitted cotton dishcloths
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Feeling autumnal 🧶
Handknit socks using yarn the colour of autumn leaves
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Hello @sentimentbot.bsky.social - how’s it going?
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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 ...
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Might have missed out on going to Germany with my other half, but I did manage to get some souvenirs 😃 🧶🧶🧶
Three skeins of hand-dyed yarn
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Eugene‘s away presenting our work on FoodSEqual at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) in Mainz, Germany
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
More holiday knitting! A second Sick Day shawl (Kate Atherley), this time in Wollmeise DK in Mitternacht 🧶
Chunky knitted lace shawl in shades of lighter and darker blue
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Sick day shawl by Kate Atherley - a simple pattern that lets pretty yarn 🧶 shine!
A knitted semicircular shawl in grey with hints of purple and greenA knitted semicircular shawl in grey with hints of purple and green
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Enjoying the whimsy of Doagh
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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! 🧶
12 pairs of hand knit socks, each in a different colour of the rainbow
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
"I've actually played the whole tournament on a fractured tibia."
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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 🧶
Partially knitted sock, with a second heel flap in place of the toe
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
OMG Robert Smith at Glasto!!! Wow!!!
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Dr Rachel McCloy @fidgitpig.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
@philbeaman.bsky.social prepping for bunkfest!
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