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The Alpine Club @alpineclub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We have up to £3,000 in funding available for academics, writers and other creatives carrying out research into alpinism, mountaineering and the mountain environment in 2027. Applications close on 1 December, so you have just 8 weeks to submit your application. Details here ➡️ tinyurl.com/5cxa9hyc

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I feel personally attacked by this post. 🤣😅

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just added a note to the event info that “dogs are not permitted to attend caving or climbing sessions. Please make other arrangements for your pet if attending booked sessions”. If anyone reading it wonders if a specific incident led to this detail being included….yes, yes it did. 🤣😅

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The one day I’m offline and @oldenoughtosay totally calls out my village 🤣

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Obviously the buses in Switzerland are electric, free, and run precisely to time.

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Merci @ebcul.bsky.social! Super-helpful staff, a lovely building, and I can finally lay the 5-year-long quest to consult this book to rest. ❤️

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Fancy library. We know it’s a library because it says so on the outside! 🤣

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

And here it is! I provide my name and address and am led to a private study area. There is no one else here, so I am left alone with The Book.

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The library has ordered up the book for me! Their main concern is that I understand I can’t take it out on loan. I explain that I want to read it here. That is quite alright and I am told to wait for its arrival.

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Development: this -is- a museum. The sign says the library is on the third floor….

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

He has now crossed his arms and I cannot quite make out if he is asking if one has to cover one’s shoulders to enter or if he’s looking for an exhibit of Ancient Egyptian mummies. …I wish him well. I am going to go up a million steps and hope to find a library.

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

After nearly being hit by a football on the steps, a guy has accosted me to ask if it’s a museum. Sir, I do not know, I am looking for the library!

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Metro has taken us all to the city centre. I don’t know where anyone else is going, but I am going to try to establish whether this giant palace up many steps contains a library.

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thank goodness for buses that announce the names of the stops. Now to find the Metro stop…

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A nice grandmother has just arrived with her grandkids and after checking if I speak French is now consulting me about how to get to the city centre. I have noted that we are both working off the same tourist map and that I have no idea what I’m doing but at least we agree on the plan. 🤣

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Challenge 2: Find the bus stop. Thank goodness Swiss bus stops are well labelled. I believe I am on the correct side of the road.

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Today’s quest is to the library of the University of Lausanne. Challenge 1: getting a free public transport card from the campsite.

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

No one is ever as interested as you are 😂

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

…let nobody criticise my besetting tendency to footnotes ever again!!!

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Fantastic detective work from @michaeldpress.bsky.social - tracking down the forged letter used to fake an old provenance for recently looted cuneiform tablets! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

fascinatingly* the French news is translating "Count Binface" as « le Compte Tête-de-Poubelle » rather than « Visage-de-Poubelle) which is, in fairness, more accurate (his entire head is a bin, not just his face) typical British media not asking the important underlying questions * ta gueule

Screenshot from Le Parisien. A photo of Count Binface, a man in a sort of black Darth Vader suit but with a silvery grey cape and a bin on his head with eye slit and mouthhole.

Headline:

Législative partielle au Royaume-Uni : qui est le « Comte Tête-de-poubelle », principal adversaire de Nigel Farage ?

Subheader: Ce candidat fantaisiste devrait être l’un des seuls à disputer le siège de Clacton-on-Sea au leader de Reform UK, pris dans un scandale. Les autres partis boycottent le scrutin.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Can anyone help - Is it really not possible these days to request an inter-library loan without being a current student or staff at a university? I’m a published author, I have an Oxford DPhil, I’m doing some research and the book I need is in Switzerland. Do I really have to go to Switzerland?!

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Particularly enjoyed this display at the library…. #packinggoals

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Day trip to Glasgow today, for a productive afternoon at the archives. Thanks @unistrathclyde.bsky.social for letting me do some research in Special Collections for the book I’m working on.

An open book on an archival pillow with book snake

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Been hard at work indoors all weekend and all week… #freelancerproblems but finally got out in the sunshine today! 🥰 (just before the weather turns…. 😢)

A climber on a sunny rock arête with Lake District fells in the background

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Everyone: It’s hot! Me: It’s lunchtime! Time to go outside and warm up! 🤗☀️

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12/05/2026

this is an actual Bluesky Rule: if you have ever so much as exchanged a single like, you are required to hold up the book in the shop and say "hey my friend wrote this"

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Quick morning shout out to all the other freelancers who didn't even know it was the bank holiday, the whole concept having become utterly irrelevant to their lived experience.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Octavia E. Butler said, “Never let pride or laziness prevent you from learning, improving your work, changing its direction when necessary. Persistence is essential to any writer—the persistence to finish your work, to keep writing in spite of rejection, to keep reading, writing, submitting work.”

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Dear everyone, As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included. A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It’s the result of massive bot activity, downloading data at a scale which our infrastructure has found challenging. We have been finding this across all our metadata resources in recent months.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/03/2026

Basically, take the amount of money you think your favorite author gets, halve it, and then halve it again, and you have a number that's probably a lot closer to their actual earnings from writing. "But I don't think they make that much!" Halve that. Halve it again.

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Ferenk - JBM @ferenk.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Laz to Sébastien - 'Do you want to cross the creek one more time ?' Sébastien - 'No, it's enough thank you' Laz - 'But you'll get your feet clean.' #BM100

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Barkley time came early this year! My favourite. 🥳

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Very honoured to serve as Chair of the selection committee for this and do a tiny bit towards funding humanities research. Congrats to all the recipients!

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Well it’s been a while since I last did any silly catering! 😂😅 60 cranachan desserts ready for Burns supper tonight.

A fridge full of pots of cream and 30 punnets of raspberries

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

She was running the #spinerace for Afghan women and girls. She was pulled out because of death threats. I’ll put her fundraiser page in the next post. Let’s support if we can. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Woman pulled out of UK ultramarathon after death threats over Afghanistan fundraising

Sarah Porter was running 108-mile Montane Winter Spine Challenger South race when security team had to disable tracking device

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Scene straight out of Magician First Class by @kehealey.bsky.social

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Friends with free time! A thing to do!

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I know it’s pedantic but it really irritates me when people do “Twelve days of Christmas” challenges before Christmas. Like, do the 24 days on your Advent calendar or something! The Twelve Days starts on the 25th!

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Happy Barbórka, the Polish traditional celebration of workers in the mining & geological industries 🇵🇱⚒️ The celebration come with a traditional uniform, with feathered hat and sword.

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Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Power cut just as I was making dinner. Winter is really here now! (In this house, this means grabbing the headtorches and camping stove, lighting the fire and opening a bottle of wine). Conspiracy theorists may note that coincidentally village Xmas light switch-on is also tonight…🤣

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Prof Col Macpherson @colinmacpherson.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

How do you hide two Nobel Prize medals from invading Nazis? Dissolve them in acid of course (and reprecipitate them later). This is applied chemistry at its finest 🧪 www.npr.org/sections/kru...

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Dissolve My Nobel Prize! Fast! (A True Story)

It's 1940. The Nazis have taken Copenhagen, and physicist Niels Bohr has just hours, maybe minutes, to make two Nobel Prize medals disappear.

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