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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A little Roman octopus to wish you a happy week! 🐙❤️ From a Roman villa mosaic at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, AD 100-200. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

My photo shows a mosaic fragment from the floor of a Roman villa in Spain, dated AD 100-200s. It depicts a stylised octopus using red, yellow, white, and black limestone tesserae, against an off-white background. The front-facing octopus appears almost cartoon-like, with a large red and white head and body outlined in black. Its yellow circular eyes are outlined in black with a central black dot which stare out at the viewer. Below the head and body are eight writhing arms.

This octopus and other fragmentary animal mosaics were discovered in the 19th century at the Hermitage of Santa Colomba, Villaquejida, León, which had been built on the site of a Roman villa.

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Marie-Claire B @m-cb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Really enjoyed this last night in Bantry and the discussion that followed - thank you!

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

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David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I see that it is officially "Im panicking, the summer can't be nearly over, what do you mean the semester begins again, I haven't finished what I had planned, I need a time machine" time of the year

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

An Irish Atlantic Rainforest will be screening in Cinemax Bantry from next Sunday the 2nd of August, with a Q&A after that first showing (film starts 7pm). If you live in counties Cork or Kerry, this is a chance to see a film so beautifully shot, so immersive, it will steal your breath away.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Good grief, this hits home.

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Marie-Claire B @m-cb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It was a magical early morning here in West Cork

Dawn View over farmland with grass in the foreground then a vegetable patch and tow sheds with a line of trees and then hills on the horizon as the sun rises above them with a cloud pattern above

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Marie-Claire B @m-cb.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Fabulous thank you for a delightfully entertaining morning

Smiling man (Sascha) in grey tshirt holding a mic and a mic stand in the foreground with a robin perched on it. Background has group people walking away through glass windows

Two men sitting on wooden chairs both holding mics and view of Bantry bay through the windows behind them

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John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I'm telling you: if you like someone's book or article, straight up email them that. It'll make their day. There are not enough compliments in academia.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 31/05/2026

Just some of the over 700.000 artefacts found during the building of the Amsterdam metro. This superb website has catalogued about 20.000 of them, such a delight to go through: belowthesurface.amsterdam You can also see some of them in person at Rokin station.

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Marie-Claire B @m-cb.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Definitely first week we all trooped down, adult kids included to register at the amazing Bantry library

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AlpenglowDreams @alpenglowdreams.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul” ― John Muir

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Golden Sun Rays Pierce Misty Forest

ALT: Golden Sun Rays Pierce Misty Forest

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

A poem and drawing for the evening. The poem is from today, and the drawing from several years ago. They feel to me like they go together.

A poem and a drawing of a bird. The poem is titled "Continuities." The first stanza is on the left of the page, and reads:

"I grew up
fifty years away from here,
almost three thousand miles in the past,
in an age and place
with different hopes and hurts,
deep inside a world that never feels
on fire
in my memories
the way my children’s future
feels on fire
in my fears."

There is a single line middle stanza, in the middle of the page, which reads:
"I struggle to connect my thens and nows."

The third stanza is still left-justified, but it begins in the middle of the page. The text reads:
"But just today I heard
the joy
of children in the courtyard,
and I marveled that,
even all the way across
a continent of miles
and a half a century of time,
the kids
still cover up their eyes
and count in questionable darkness,
down from
ten
to
one,
then charge into a land
of quickly hidden friends
with bellows of:
“Ready or not! Here I come!”

-- John Wyatt Greenlee

The drawing of the bird is to the left of the final stanza. It is a black and white drawing made of abstract shapes and lines, and it looks very much like a bird standing on one leg, with it's left foot/claw held up, with its knee bent. The bird had very showy tail feathers, and seems to be looking out of the corner of it's eye back behind it and to its left. The best was I can describe it is to tell you that it looks very much like a strange ostrich or emu that is playing pitcher in a baseball game and is looking to pick off a leading runner at 1st.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

As the year draws to a close, I’m signing off 2025 with a magical find! An ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement in the North Sea. ✨ Happy New Year all! ✨ National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

On the first quarter of the 21st century's last day, a flowering epiphytic goldenrod from a few years back. Let's make the next quarter the one in which our rainforests and other nature start recovering from terminal decline.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 25/12/2025

Bringing out the special plates for Christmas Dinner? 🍗 Prehistoric people had crockery for special occasions too! In Neolithic Arabia, imported Mesopotamian Ubaid Ware was an item of prestige, whereas locally-produced Coarse Red Ware more commonplace 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Ubaid period bowl from Eridu, southern Mesopotamia. A pale grey, shallow bowl painted with a cross-hatched design in a darker shade of grey. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain

Several fragmented pieces of Coarse Red Ware from Bahra 1, Kuwait. Hand-formed pottery vessels with coarse surfaces, ranging in colour from pale red to reddish brown (credit: Adam Oleksiak).

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 24/12/2025

bell hooks on educator burnout and overwork (from “Teaching to Transgress”), www.hampshire.edu/sites/defaul...

Screenshot from “Building a Teaching Community,” in bell hooks, “Teaching to Transgress” (1994)

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Holiday gathering reminder 🎁 If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%! This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍

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Study Examines Performance of Serial COVID Testing - News Center

Testing performance of rapid antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2 improved for both asymptomatic and symptomatic patients after testing multiple times in 48-hour intervals, according to findings published in ...

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

How cool ist that – and absolutely up to date: the #Playmobil Advent Calendar “Museum Theft” 😀

A picture of the Playmobil Advent Calendar “Museum Theft”

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 01/11/2025

This week we also announced plans for a new Applied History Fellowship for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians

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New programme of 'Applied History Fellowships': launch and introductory event - RHS

In 2025-26 the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Royal Historical Society and DC Thomson will launch a new Applied History Fellowship partnership. Join us at this online session -- 2.30pm on Wed...

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Ciaránavirus @sarklor.eurosky.social · 25/10/2025

Once again delighted that the Irish people went with the option that was cool af

Michael D Higgins in front of a ramp on a stunt bike

Catherine Connolly doing keepy uppies with a football

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

You want to watch this short interview w/ the last fez maker in Cairo. Absolutely incredible story - he’s using the exact same tools used by the ottoman era founders of the business because they can’t find replacements. Also learn the very politicized history of the fez. youtu.be/KYPXGqtacpw?...

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How One Of The Last Fez Makers In Cairo Keeps A 600-Year-Old Tradition Alive | Still Standing

YouTube video by Business Insider

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Marie-Claire B @m-cb.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

My grandfather died building that railway

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

New series from @EmpirePodUK THE HISTORY OF GAZA 291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines Empire – Apple Podcasts share.google/7fne19kFfVLw...

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Exactly!

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West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

All roads lead to #Bantry at the moment. @westcorkmusic.bsky.social runs until Sunday & then WCLF 11-18 July. Such a thrill seeing our billboards in Innishannon and Dunmanway 😍 Chamber Festival image is from a painting by @tomcliment.bsky.social & WCLF image is from a drawing by Bernadette Cotter

West Cork Chamber Music Festival and West Cork Literary Festival billboard on the way into the town of Innishannon in West Cork

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West Cork Music @westcorkmusic.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Across West Cork's islands and peninsulas, towns and villages, you'll find free chamber music events during our 30th anniversary West Cork Chamber Music Festival this summer. 🎶 They give you a wonderful way to dip your toe into chamber music! bit.ly/4krK0mX #WildAtlanticWay #Speirgorm

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Chamber Music Festival - Fringe Events - West Cork Music

Welcome to the West Cork Chamber Music Fringe Festival, bringing world class classical music into the community for non-festival goers to enjoy for free!

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Vanished by @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social is such an exceptional book. It traces the history of how Western scientists have understood #extinction, and the political and social implications of that thinking, including on colonial fantasies of replacing Indigenous peoples. I can't recommend it enough! 👏

The cover of Sadiah Qureshi's Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction. It shows a historical image of an elaborated Mastodon skeleton towering above an elephant being ridden by a man, while a Native American man and a colonist in a suit and top-hat look on.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

"Refugees," a stunning early lithograph by African-American artist Robert Blackburn, one of most accomplished printmakers of the 20th century

B&W lithograph of a group of people huddled in a boat, one using oars, one guiding with a long staff, one plunging his hands into the water below

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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 11/06/2025

In case anyone doesn’t know this: if you get a parcel with a lot of packing peanuts and you don’t know whether they’re compostable, test one with boiling water. If compostable, it INSTANTLY wilts like spinach (plastic is unaffected).

Sinkful of blue packing peanuts just before I pour boiling water over them.

Seconds after getting the boiling water treatment: the peanuts have shrunk to nearly nothing

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Valorie 🐈‍⬛️✨️ @meadowdays.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

"And then, one fairy night, May became June." -F. Scott Fitzgerald

A picture of a large, hot pink peony flower in full bloom

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magpie @magpieuae.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Open Call: NYU Abu Dhabi Project Space Exhibition – submit proposal for a fully supported 2-4 week exhibition at the NYUAD Project Space in a slot in the 2025-2026 academic year. Apply by 9 June ... tinyurl.com/4evjsdzs

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Poetry Gal @poetrygal.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

And then …

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 16/05/2025

Pharmacies will start providing free hormone replacement therapy for women from 1 June after an agreement with Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

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Pharmacies to provide free HRT for women from 1 June

Pharmacies will start providing free hormone replacement therapy for women from 1 June after an agreement with Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill.

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

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Palestinian Scholarship

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Marie-Claire B @m-cb.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This will make you feel better - I make several batches a week with lactose free feta and batter keeps in the fridge for a few days and you can also freeze in mini muffin trays www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/easy...

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Pão de Queijo Is a Snackable, Naturally Gluten-Free Cheese Bread

Make simple and gluten-free Brazilian pão de queijo with tapioca flour, milk, eggs, olive oil, and cheese. This easy recipe comes together in the blender and is great to make ahead.

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Marie-Claire B @m-cb.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A glorious West Cork Spring sunrise

Spring Sunrise behind trees looking out over garden with daffodil leaves in the foreground

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 25/03/2025

Got my ALCS statement and spotted an AuthorShare payment from World of Books who pay authors a royalty for second hand sales. My new favourite bookstore! Check it out. #booksky www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

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AuthorSHARE: The World’s First Reuse Royalty | World Of Books Blog

AuthorSHARE, the groundbreaking initiative that allows writers to earn royalties from the resale of their books.

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BertaB.bsky.social @bertababy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I've been working on a "banned words" project. This is the small version of a much larger one I'm working on now. Each word is one that has been banned from U.S. federal websites, programs, and funding. Yes, really.

Neurographic painting showing colored blobs interjected by swirling black l8ne. Each blob contains word banned from federal websites, programs, and funding. Words include discrimination, gender, privilege, sexual preference, racial, justice, and cultural heritage.

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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Reda Abdel Rahman (Egyptian, b. 1966).

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Simply stunning ancient artistry! Some 3,400 years ago, an Egyptian artisan captured a sense of speed and elegance in this beautifully carved whip handle in the shape of a horse. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, c. 1390–1352 BC. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Don’t allow anyone to tell you that your dream of going off the grid and becoming a bookstore owner with a mysterious backstory who has a quaint shop on a cobblestone side street in Edinburgh is “unrealistic.”

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