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Claire Kotecki

@klarusu.bsky.social
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Writer, Scientist, Educator. History postgraduate student. You can always win me over with a cat. 🐈‍⬛ Here be dragons 🐉 www.clairekotecki.com

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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
A trade deal with Trump’s America is a lot like haemorrhoid cream … unpleasant but necessary, and nothing to publicly celebrate.
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Oh my … this is going to be a fantastic anthology in all categories 😍
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BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught @bookwormvaught.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
#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...
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Donate to Dr Anna Vaught: Curae Writing Bursaries for unpaid carers, organized by Anna Vaught
Hello everyone, I am Anna (aka Dr Anna Vaught - and you may kno… Anna Vaught needs your support for Dr Anna Vaught: Curae Writing Bursaries for unpaid carers
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
❤️❤️ 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 ❤️❤️
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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...
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Absolute Zero presents: NOTHING — Storyology
Join Absolute Zero at Morocco Bound on Tuesday 6th May for an evening of mingling and readings on the theme of our first zine, NOTHING.
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
🧵 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 …
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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.
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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.” 😂🤦‍♀️
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BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught @bookwormvaught.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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 💙📚
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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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.
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Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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.
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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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
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CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/02/2025
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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...
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Hope — Claire Kotecki
Hope is a thing with tufted wings, wrapped in cotton candy, sweet on the tongue as it melts. It is something intangible and unscientific. We have no empirical data. Hope exists in defiance of the logi...
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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.
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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?
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BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught @bookwormvaught.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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
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Freelance Writing Jobs — Sian Meades-Williams
Freelance Writing Jobs is the UK's leading media industry newsletter for freelance calls for pitches and paying freelance writing jobs. Subscribe here.
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Ekko is #NotMyCat but he comes round to visit and eat all the food and looks a lot like a movie star.
A particularly handsome grey cat with a green collar and bell lying in a windowsill and gazing into the distance like a professional model
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
My supper companion was looking very dapper tonight. She dressed for dinner.
A black and white tuxedo cat sitting at a wooden dining table.  She is on a wooden dining chair and just here head is visible above the table. The table has a place mat on it.
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Lots more videos with tips on how best to carry out demonstrations and practicals here alomshaha.com/project-type... and alomshaha.com/portfolio/vi...
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Demo films – Alom Shaha
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Current status: regretting my life choices 🤦‍♀️
Picture of a laptop screen with a whirring blue circle of doom that is superimposed over a dialogue box that says “Word will now convert your PDF to an editable Word document. This may take a while …”
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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
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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I needed ‘Songs of a Lost World’ so much more than I realised. Wonderful work from The Cure.
Album cover of Songs of a Lost World by The Cure. A black and white image of a stone sculpted head lying on its side with the top eroded.
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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.
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I am trying to read a paper. I have nearly snoozed twice. Trixie the Terrible isn’t helping.
A black and white tuxedo cat lying curled on a bed showing her magic toe beans and white belly in an attempt to catch the photographer. She has one eye open.
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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.
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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
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Why is science important? - A collection of thoughts from leading scientists, public figures, ...and you.
A collection of thoughts from leading scientists, public figures, ...and you.
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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.
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
@danielpaynechem.bsky.social there are a few Chemistry Starter Packs if you’re looking for science-kin blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I love the concept and the language of ‘daylighting’.
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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?...
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A History of African and Caribbean People in Britain: Hakim Adi with David Olusoga
YouTube video by British Library
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The Open University Library @oulibrary.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
We've just created our first Starter Pack for staff at The Open University (UK)... join us! go.bsky.app/UhqW8VR #OUfamily
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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.
A bright white moon in a dark foggy sky with tree branches in the foreground.
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I love StoryGraph - I use it for my on-the-go tracking alongside my LibraryThing main catalogue. The graph stats are great!
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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.
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
@danmjohnson.bsky.social Here’s a link to the starter pack directory … bsky.app/profile/jjl....
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
@danmjohnson.bsky.social The Cardio starter pack might be useful … go.bsky.app/562nfhZ
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
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
On a café table: a latte coffee in a tall glass, a rather luscious slice of lemon drizzle cake and a copy of China Miéville’s ‘The City and the City’ with reading glasses on top.
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
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 🌈
A woman (who is me) sitting in an office wearing a really big handknitted bright rainbow jumper. She has pink, purple and ash blonde hair and is looking at the camera with a smile.
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
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 🤦‍♀️
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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
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...
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Tips and Tricks for Bluesky Search - Bluesky
Let’s dive into all the tips and tricks for advanced Bluesky search!
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Parents! Carers! Be like this dad and give your children the gift of science this Christmas!
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Z.K.A. (she/her) @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
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...
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Submission Call - Silk and Foxglove
SUBMISSION CALL: “SILK AND FOXGLOVE” EDITED BY Z. K. ABRAHAM Z. K. Abraham (she/her) is a writer and psychiatrist. She has been published in Clarkesworld, The Rumpus, Fantasy Magazine, FIYAH Magazine,...
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Society of Dyers and Colorists Launches Digital Textile Archive 📜 sourcingjournal.com/topics/sourc...
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Society of Dyers and Colorists Launches Digital Textile Archive
The collection includes more than 50,000 artifacts, journals and books spanning hundreds of years of textile history.
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
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.
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
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...
Screenshot of the first page of Harry Smith and Emily Vine, ‘Material and Digital Archives: The Case of Wills’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2024, 1–30
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Claire Kotecki @klarusu.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
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 ❤️
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
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/...
A historic villa at dawn with a tower and crenellations The view into a cloistered courtyard with a tower right and tree centre
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