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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

September sunshine is so nice if you can get it. Enjoying the last few days before we head into autumn. #Mdina (the silent city) #Malta #Photography #Stone #Limestone #Gateway

Main gate, Mdina, Malta. Honey-coloured limestone, arched entrance, flanked by two stone lions atop limestone pillars.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Amazing archeological museums in Istanbul - if you get the chance to visit this beautiful city then they’re a must do. The Basilica Cistern is very impressive too.

The Basilica Cistern in Istanbul, arches, columns, water, reflections.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For learning to mean something as a term it needs to be defined. For me the definition provided by the APA fits the bill because it's based on robust evidence, i.e., not just someone sitting there thinking about it, which may or not be valid depending on the thinker; Aristotle being a case in point.

A definition of learning and memory from the APA website, Sept 2026
https://www.apa.org/topics/learning-memory

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

... just read your blog, so I guess I'm asking you: where is this "snowball" and what is it made from?

A blog screenshot. It reads:

It's the same for language-learning. To change metaphors again, we are helping pupils acquire their own snowball of French. With slow accretion, where more French sticks to what they already have, rolling from one topic to another getting bigger and bigger. We are not aiming for an even coverage, with everything

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just added this paper to my reading list - you might enjoy too

Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition - new research paper snap shot of title and abstract by Stephen Fleming

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I love #England in the #Summer time, it can’t be beaten. All I need is a bowl of strawberries and a glass of Pimms and I’m set ☀️ #BlueSkyArtShow #River #Boat #Church #Green (photo taken a few summers ago, not sure it would be this verdant right now) #Photography

Rowing boat on a river with three young people in it, on the far bank in the distance is a church tower and spire, trees and shrubs - mid and foreground - are framing the scene (Stratford-upon-Avon)

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Amazingly talented artist. I saw some of Yayoi Kusama’s work just over a couple of weeks ago at the National Gallery of Victoria - her influence lives on #Ripples @ngvmelbourne.bsky.social

Yayoi Kusama ❤️ Polka dot - black on yellow - sculpture at NGV, Melbourne, Australia

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

First visit to #Australia 🇦🇺 has given me the chance to see #koalas and #kangaroos in the wild 🐨 🦘 Feeling very fortunate right now. Currently in #Melbourne and working my way #East up the coast #GreatOceanRoad #12Apostles #Wildlife #Photography #Nature #EastCoastKin

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

You now need a chocolate brown cushion cover with orange and yellow flowers for your chair, and a Murano glass fish 🐟 for your windowsill #70s

A sample of 70s fabric - chocolate brown with orange and yellow flowers

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The Lotus Temple in New Delhi offers all visitors a moment of #Quiet contemplation in the rush 🇮🇳 #BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #Temple #Bharat #India #Peace 🪷 @blueskyartshow.bsky.social

The Lotus Temple and brick pathway in New Delhi 🪷

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Love #DavidHockney – a visit to Salt’s Mill is now on the cards this weekend. Bradford is so very different to California, but the loneliness is still a central feature of his work.

David is Hockney (1962) B&W illustration from Grimm’s Fairy Tales: A black cat leaping (The Boy Who Left Home to Learn Fear)

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

First pint in #Glasgow and, for me, a first view of the #RiverClyde Really looking forward to exploring this great city. Cheers! 🍻 #Cityscape #Industrial #Scotland #Photography

A view of the River Clyde from the Sky Bar in the Radisson Red Hotel, Glasgow.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I ❤️ #MayDay Bank Holiday Partly because it sometimes falls on my birthday but really it’s because it’s just such a beautiful time of year in England. The #beach yesterday and #NorthCave #wetlands today - where I saw a #Bittern in flight - glorious! #EastRiding #Yorkshire #Nature #Photography

Sand dunes, beach, sea, and sky at Bridlington South. Sunny day, light clouds.

North Cave Wetlands - small water filled former gravel pit surrounded by trees and shrubs

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Beautiful day here; May is just around the corner #EastRiding 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

A view of St Peter’s church (which sits in the ruins of Howden Minster), trees and the green (with a couple of picnickers) in the foreground. Blue cloudless sky, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 flag flying on the church tower in the 🌞

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It wouldn’t matter what we did now with the billionaires or the systems we use and maintain to create them—even if we could change it, which we can’t (won’t). Our spp is not going to last for ever. The five mass extinctions that have preceded our own existence should tell us this.

Typical bacterial growth curve: lag, log, stationary, and death phases labelled.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

England wouldn’t be England without a pub 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 This one is 524 years old this year. Cheers! 🍻 #York

The Golden Fleece pub York, sandwiched between a Greggs and a very wonky timber building

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Visited *the* #IronBridge cast by Abraham Darby III today and 🤩 If you haven’t been yet make sure to add it to your ‘must do’ list #Bridges #Photography #IndustrialRevolution 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #Telford

A view of the River Severn and Ironbridge Gorge through the Iron Bridge railings - the sign says: “erected in 1779”

The River Severn on a showery spring day, Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site

The Iron Bridge spanning the River Severn, Telford

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Glorious day in #Bridlington - perfect #Spring weather for a walk. #Coast #Blue #photography #Easter (The calm before storm Dave* hits *There’s always a Dave)

Bridlington South Beach looking towards Fraisethorpe. An empty sandy beach, sea to the left, clouds hanging in a blue sky.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Spring is springing in #Seville the smell of the orange blossom in the air 🍊 – heavenly #Azahar #BlueSkyArtShow #Stone #Architecture @blueskyartshow.bsky.social

Orange blossom and green glossy leaves on an orange 🍊 tree on a street in Seville

A #stone doorway and door (presuming brass), arches, and windows (external view) in the mosque-cathedral in Córdoba, ‘Mesquita de Córdoba’, Spain 🇪🇸

Next to the sculpture representing Becquer’s poem "El amor que pasa" in the Parque de María Luisa, Seville, is a #stone shelf for people to leave their own poem, note or letter.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Spotted a scarlet elf cup on my stroll through the marsh the other day, no #hedgehogs 🦔 though 🦔 🦔 Beautiful work #Spring #Fungi

A scarlet elf cup on a decaying log next to some stinging nettles

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

‘Tis the season in #Yorkshire #Rhubarb looked far too good to miss yesterday. Crumble all prepped and ready for the oven this evening (will post a pic later if I remember). Custard, cream or ice cream - how do you eat yours? #Pudding

Lovely Yorkshire rhubarb - beautiful and delicious!

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

For me, one glaring omission: our humanness; we are humans, e.g., where is the affective in all of this? As an aside, what exactly does this figure mean? “DD” a lone “B” … smells like genAI to me 😶

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Every time I visit #London, I always aim to visit at least one place I’ve never been to before, to experience something new. Yesterday I thought I’d walk the iconic spiral staircase at Russell Sq. I mean, how hard can 175(?) steps be? I did it but … 😭 <lactic acid> 😭 My advice? Take the lift.

The spiral staircase at Russell Square tube station in London. It’s roughly 175 steps (I didn’t count them), which is the equivalent of 15 stories up. Take the lift!

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

There’s only #One of these @blueskyartshow.bsky.social The ‘viking’ door (850 yrs old), St Helen’s church, Stillingfleet #Yorkshire #Photography #Church #BlueskyArtShow See: www.nationalchurchestrust.org/church/st-he...

The ‘viking’ door in St Helen’s church, Stillingfleet, Yorkshire

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The #WolfMoon 2026 #SuperMoon as seen from a very cold #EastYorkshire 🥶 Jupiter is v bright tonight. iPhone camera user? By switching to video mode first you can use your phone camera to capture what your eyes can see.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Library fan here too 👋 I visited some absolutely amazing #libraries while completing my DPhil - a v. small selection included with this post for fellow bibliophiles 📚

The Tate Library at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.

Bates Hall - a reading room in Boston Central Library where I completed my final edits before submitting my thesis 🤘🥳

Stuttgart Central Library from the top floor looking down—a modernist architectural wonder. It needs to be experienced in situ to fully appreciate the cleanness of the lines.

A Gladstone Library reading room - this library is a residential library that provided me with a quiet space away from it all to think and write.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Post a book you love from the 1980s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Heroes And Ogres - Simon Goodenough #BookSky

Cover image: Heroes And Ogres a Hardback Book (1980) by Simon Goodenough

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Happy Grismouse! As Santa is already well on his way there’s nothing to worry about 🎄 (NORAD tells me he’s 30s away from Luanda in Angola)

A Christmas card featuring a brown tabby cat with attitude in a Santa hat. The caption reads: I’m the reason the mouse isn’t stirring.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

It is time #Christmas2025 I don’t think there has been a better children’s TV series #TheBoxOfDelights #WhenTheWolvesWereRunning

Episode selection screen for The Box of Delights, a 1984 BBC adaptation of John Masefield’s children’s novel. A Christmas staple for 🇬🇧s of a certain age.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

First time in #Boston and I love it 😍 🇺🇸 Catching the end of the #fall / #autumn colour is a real privilege. #Photography #Cityscape #Trees #Colour

A beautiful ginkgo tree, resplendent in its full yellow-gold crown, in #Boston Public Gardens. Statue in silhouette in the foreground (can’t remember who). All against a gorgeous blue sky.

Skyscrapers and trees bearing reds and golds in #Boston Public Gardens.

Looking down Commonwealth Avenue towards the statue of Alexander Hamilton #Boston Archway of trees showing greens and golds #autumn

A spiky piece of rainbow city art sprouting from a pavement in #Boston. Surrounded by trees - russet and gold - and skyscrapers, two people walking towards it across a busy road.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Needed some sea air and the chance to stretch my legs. Gorgeous day at #Bridlington but far too warm for the 5th November 🎆

Bridlington South Beach looking towards the town. Blue sky and clouds.

Bridlington South Beach looking towards Wilsthorpe. Sun partially obscured by clouds, crows 🐦‍⬛ foraging at the shoreline.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Coffee time spent with the legend that is Beatriz Ferreyra 💿🛸 is time well spent. She’s 88 years old and still, I believe, going strong. #Vinyl

Album cover and record on turntable - UFO+ by Beatriz Ferreyra.

Treated myself to some new vinyl last weekend courtesy of Jumbo records in Leeds - some real bargains to be had.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

This is a place in Yorkshire Sculpture Park where you can sit and listen to Longplayer by Jem Finer, a 1,000 year long musical composition (there’s a speaker on the tree and a wooden bench nearby). #Relax #RelaxingMusic #Nature #Photography #Time #BlueSkyArtShow @blueskyartshow.bsky.social

A tree, a speaker, and a space; to listen*, to relax and to be.

*Jem Finer’s Longplayer at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Just the thought of this has made me feel nauseous 🤢 I can’t image what it must have felt like to have seen it in situ. It’s bad enough when people feed pigeons. The pigeon feeding stations in Mumbai need to be experienced to be be believed.

Pigeon feeding station in Mumbai. Pigeons are assembling ready for the bags of grain to be spilt open; many more pigeons are on their way in.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The rise of the UberMATs in England. Inevitable given the model successive governments have chosen to run with. How this will change our society is, as yet, unknown but there’s some fertile ground here for some meaningful #EducationalResearch to happen. #EduSky #TeacherEducation

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Perhaps followed by a glass or two of this?

A wine bottle label: Cat’s Pee on a Gooseberry Bush

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Chasing the end of summer with a short break in #Paris has been reinvigorating. It's definitely a city I need to visit more. #Photography #Cityscape #City #Travel #Time

A night time view of the Eiffel Tower from a side street.

Wildflower planting in front of the Grand Palais in Paris.

Some Parisian street art: St Ralph of The Simpsons.

The old station clock in the Musée d'Orsay Paris.

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