Reposted by Nicki ClarksonJay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Side note: a random priest was once like "You have friends who aren't Christians, what'd you say if they asked you "who is this Jesus guy?"" And I had to be like "dude, weird evangelism implications aside, nobody in twenty first century England has ever asked that question. What is wrong with you?" 131028127
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonCatherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I'll be at Blackwells, Oxford, on Tuesday 1 December - perfect timing for me to show you how to use A History of England in 25 Poems as a Time Travel Advent Calendar... I'll also share stories from the book, using poems as time machines into history... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/catherine-... 0144
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Any cis women who are disgusted by the Burnham government's transphobic policy of segregation can sign the @nionwomen.bsky.social petition, which is now closing in on 110,000 signatures. notinourname.org.uknotinourname.org.ukHome - Not in our nameNot In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community 2257158
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out. 114137692877
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 18/07/2026"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras 201578552
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonDr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Today in ‘we’re* completely fucked’ news… *A random subsection of arts, plus geography (?), computing (?!), and nursing (???!). 0156
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/07/2026🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?goodlaw.socialI stand with trans people | Good Law Project 131568984
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I am BEGGING people - think tanks, governments, random organisations - to DATE YOUR REPORTS WHEN YOU DO THE PDFS. It should not be THIS HARD to find a BLOODY PUBLICATION DATE. You might think everyone will remember the magical day you published it years later. But you are delusional. 421156156
Nicki Clarkson @nickiclarkson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I covet, and highly recommend, all of Jamie’s pins. My latest very retrained purchase is for my younger daughter 🏳️🌈 000
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonMicah @rincewind.run · 06/06/2026whenever people get into arguments about bluesky versus twitter I just come back to the fact that I don’t want to spend time on a platform where the biggest voices are the worst people on the planet 4848951103
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonDr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · 02/06/2026It’s Pride 🏳️🌈 Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺 My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521 New for Pride 2026: 🌈Scientist🌈 🏳️🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️🌈 🌈pronouns🌈 www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop 231097771
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonDraculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Shameless self-promotion! I wrote a game! It won an award! I genuinely think that it is very funny! You can play it for free! What else are you going to do? Melt into the floor?? #heatwave #horsestrangulation #spiderbumhead brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...brainmage.itch.ioi will strangle a horse by BRAINMAGEA comedy twine-based choose-your-own-adventure game where it's your first day on The Farm, and you have One Job 22712
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonHaunt Publishing @hauntpublishing.bsky.social · 23/05/2026It’s crunch time! There's just four days left until we close our creaking doors for good, so head to our website and grab yourself a scarily good 70% off all our books: audiobooks, ebooks and paperbacks. Use code at checkout: HAUNT70 www.hauntpublishing.com/books 11418
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonMicah @rincewind.run · 20/04/2026Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards! 7662111
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonEndless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 16/04/2026AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH 0233
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 31/03/2026Happy Trans Day of Visibility. I know trans people and I know fascists who are making life difficult for trans people. The trans people are pretty cool and I'm glad I know them. The fascists can go fall down a deep dark hole. 161853347
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonNightmareliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 25/03/2026“You can separate the art from the artist.” Not when the artist in question is alive and using the vast profits from their franchise to punch down on a vulnerable minority, you can’t. 27614
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonBuckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Due to popular demand, here's every Space Marine legion from Warhammer 40,000 as a document in our collection. I: Dark Angels Obviously, they're this photograph of a tree in Burnham. Why this photograph? The tree has Fallen. 3325129
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonThe Exploding Heads @explodingheads.bsky.social · 13/03/2026"The War in Iran was started by WOKES!" Colin from Portsmouth says that the war is a ruse by carbon neutral lobbyists to put up the price of oil so we all start investing in green energy. 16281126
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Please have a play. You are a raven. A creature of myth and legend... or just a big bird, your choice. Eat the gods! Dance with a Dracula! Take Edgar Allan Poe to Alton Towers! Ruin a Zumba class! Drive the M4 w a mythic princess! Get very lost & end up in the wrong game! j2gb9g9f.play.borogove.ioj2gb9g9f.play.borogove.ioOnce Upon A Midnight Dreary 229851
Nicki Clarkson @nickiclarkson.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Badge-making for the AI Arts Festival, supervised by my true overlords Snips (black & white), Tiger (tabby) and Sabine (calico) 020
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonSteve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 02/03/2026I’ve always wanted my TV to Tell me game situations in the Sports 823827
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonMatt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 01/03/2026Sometimes the metaphors are just a bit too on the nose 08215
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 22/02/2026What a life! Another brilliant interview by @shattenstone.bsky.socialtheguardian.com‘She did kill. There’s no grey area there’: Labour MP Naz Shah on the day she and her mother were arrested for murderThe politician was 18 when she and her mum were hauled off to a police station for the killing of the man she’d considered an uncle. What happened next would shape her future. She talks Labour’s woes,... 49038
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonKeanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 21/02/2026me when I get negative feedback on a draft 522727
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonKirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · 29/01/2026OOOOH Researchfish Is going extinct 🐡🐟🐠 help.researchfish.com/en_US/resear...help.researchfish.comResearchfish — Information for Researchers Regarding Researchfish SunsettingAfter careful consideration, Elsevier have made the difficult decision to sunset Researchfish on July 31st 2027, when the product will no longer be availab 138444
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonHenning @geohenning.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Happy 6th "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" anniversary to those who celebrate! #Geology ⚒️ 11626215
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21/01/2026The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con... 5527951108
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 28/12/2025I saw an academic unironically suggest that instead of assessing students’ understanding and competence through their writing of essays, arguments etc., we can assess the “quality” of their prompts, and I feel us slipping further and further into dystopia. 2139671
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonClaire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025This whole🧵 Reduce online noise by replacing the meaningless term 'artificial intelligence' w/ the actual analytical approach(s) used + any design,dev & application info needed for a useful conversation. Alternatively, rather than solutionising describe the task/activity/procedure to be automated. 0162
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonRyan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 19/12/2025I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite 321904548
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonBuckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Don't steal pies this Christmas. 28996363
Nicki Clarkson @nickiclarkson.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Final comedy gig of the year and the audience agreed with me that Die Hard IS a Christmas movie 🎄 030
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonCeleste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 06/12/2025You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird: 6333881510
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonRachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Oh joy, another helpful AI infographic via LinkedIn. Off I go to my job as a liberaian, maybe to run some critical evaligane workshops and of course use New! Boulean! Logic! 2817756
Nicki Clarkson @nickiclarkson.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Dressed very formally for a networking event 060
Nicki Clarkson @nickiclarkson.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Happy Gazpacho Soup Day to all who celebratemedia.tenor.coma man in a lab coat with a stethoscope around his neck is screaming .Alt: Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf putting his fist in his mouth in embarrassment 020
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21/11/2025It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it. 8755841573
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Every ad now 8271733085
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonOpen Research Leeds @openresleeds.bsky.social · 10/11/2025The UK Reproducibility Network: OER for Open Research oercommons.org/hubs/ukrn @ukrepro.bsky.social @oercommons.bsky.socialoercommons.orgThe UK Reproducibility Network 041
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 10/11/2025A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it. 4662201980
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonDavid William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 03/11/2025"If Grokipedia is getting things about me wrong, what else is it getting wrong in other articles, where I do not have the same level of domain knowledge?" - @scalzi.comwhatever.scalzi.comA Review of Grokipedia, Using Myself as Test SubjectWhat? You didn’t know that Grokipedia exists? Well, it does, and it’s Elon Musk’s attempt to run Wikipedia out of town on a rail: An “AI”-generated compendium of infor… 26423
Reposted by Nicki ClarksonMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/10/2025'New proposals by Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and Sage were sent to universities this week after their initial offers were decisively rejected by institutions in a sector-wide consultation run by Jisc,...negotiating jointly with Universities UK on behalf of universities.' 1/3timeshighereducation.comNew offers from big five ‘still too costly’ for UK universities‘Significant’ number of institutions predicted to drop deals with main scholarly imprints, leaving journal access much reduced 15836
Nicki Clarkson @nickiclarkson.bsky.social · 17/10/2025This is my favourite laptop sticker and I have no idea why I like it so much (I paid £1 for it at Southampton Pride) 050
Nicki Clarkson @nickiclarkson.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Where do I work? Oh, just a totally normal university library 0280
Nicki Clarkson @nickiclarkson.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Initial success in my quest for house plants that Snips won’t eat 2182