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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Literally just this evening! I'm intrigued by the concept and rather excited

Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1. I didn't know this 2. It's very cool 3. I love how it parallels things we say in English like "there's nothing new under the sun"

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just now paying attention to your photo and realising it's an omnibus of the sequence and not just the book of the same title, but still: deeply beautiful series of books! I reread OS,US just before Christmas, read TDiR during the Christmas period (intentional timing), and then the rest from there

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I read The Dark is Rising for the first time last Christmas/NY! I'd loved Over Sea, Under Stone as a child, but for a few reasons I sadly never gave The Dark is Rising a chance. That is now remedied. Deeply beautiful book

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As long as it wasn't Turkish Delight!

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Let's just say "if you know you know" (and please forgive my reference to The Magician Nephew instead of The Magician's Nephew. It's past 10pm. Or maybe scary Gerwig's Wokeness™ is so utterly Ruining™ the story that she's even done away with the beloved apostrophe-S!)

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Regardless of any mixed feelings and trepidation evoked by much of what we've seen of Greta Gerwig's The Magician Nephew, this promo image in particular is just exquisite

A promotional image for Greta Gerwig's adaptation of The Magician's Nephew, showing Diggory and a horse. A wing design on the van behind the horse is positioned as though the horse has wings

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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A commission piece I did of the White-throated Needletail that was on the east coast last year. A3 watercolour and graphite #UKbirding #birds #birdart #sciart

Set of illustrations in watercolour and graphite of a White-throated Needletail Swift. They show various poses.

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A website where you can put in a Bluesky handle (no login required) and it tells you all the publicly available information like who they're blocking, who's blocking them, what lists and starter packs they're part of, etc. For me it's mainly just to see what lists I've been added to

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

FALL FASHION TIPPE - Disappear ynto the woodes of an eveninge, when the skye ys lavender and blue. Call unto the powers that dwell ther, and lo! thei appear yn their glamour and their panoplye, radiant. Aske of them what thei have seen and thei will tell thee: 'woe & hope' Accessorize wyth a scarf.

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every now and then I have a look at ClearSky to see what Bluesky lists people have added me to, and most of the time it's incredibly, incredibly sweet

A list of Bluesky lists I feature on, including: Happy-Making, Interesting people, Cool People

More of the list, including: Less Politics More Fun, Friends & stuff, Little joys

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you for reminding me of the existence of the word 'persiflage'. I had to look it up to remind myself what it means

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Weirdly I just happened across my fridge magnet souvenir from Lannercost Priory (from a visit there a year or two ago) while doing a tidy-up yesterday. Nice to see it on the timeline today!

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I smiled broadly upon seeing this notification, both at the reminder of an upcoming Clarke and at your thoughtfulness in thinking of me! I'd heard that this was on the way, but had completely forgotten, so I appreciate the heads-up. The Durham connection makes it especially exciting

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zeobun @zeobun.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Healing my burnout one squirrel at a time (wip)

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For my fellow Britons: the National Trust has created a petition calling on the government to better protect our natural environment against the impacts of climate change. No pressure, but I've signed it and thought I'd share!

campaigns.nationaltrust.org.uk

I've signed. Will you? Add your name to help make wildfire prevention and climate resilience a national priority, and stand with the communities affected by wildfires.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🖼️ Dick Twinney

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The moon is watching me again

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Mike Prince @mplandscapes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Northumberland serendipity. On a wave washed platform there are many scattered pebbles. For me there would be no joy at all in finding one and placing it. However there is huge pleasure in finding a pebble that already sits well where it has stopped. #capturewithconfidence #kingjoy #nikon

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Another sunny Sunday, and I am now a good chunk into my reread of A Game of Thrones

A copy of George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones next to a cup of tea on a metal garden chair, with glimpses of sunlit grass

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Had a bit of that here too!

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This extraordinary helmet is a lavish example of a Celtic style worn primarily during the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. Its dome and neck guard were forged from a single thin sheet of iron, then embellished with ornamental bronze bands worked into flowing vegetal motifs. Inlays of reddish ...🧵1/3 📷 me

A dome-shaped helmet displayed in a glass museum case, richly decorated with ornamental bronze bands worked into flowing vegetal motifs. Inlays of reddish coral or sea-snail shell once added striking flashes of colour. Two curved side tubes and a vertical finial on top.

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The British English sense of 'prat' allows for a humorous reading of the caption underneath

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Blackberries - Kittatinny, Deborah Griscom Passmore, 1904.

Illustration of blackberries and thorny foliage.

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Look whom I met in the garden

The black-spotted back of a yellow-green frog amid the grass

The same frog from a front angle, its eye black and beady like a gemstone

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

'Pit' feels so natively English/Germanic that I never would've known it was once a loanword. But, then again, that often seems to be the case with the ones that get loaned early enough (i.e. pre-OE) to end up feeling fully nativised

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Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is just to say I have solved the open questions that were in your paper and which you were probably saving for your phd students Forgive me they were delicious so incentive-laden and followed so readily once your postdoc's drafts mysteriously found their way into my training data

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Any of my Bluesky pals looking for accommodation for Bangor University? Or does anyone know anyone who is?

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The mesmerizing white horses of Camargue dancing in a golden light beautifully shaped by the dust in the air… #photography #wildlife #art #horse

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sunny Sunday, and I'm enjoying the third and (as yet) last of the Dunk & Egg novellas

George R R Martin's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms with a mug of tea on a garden chair

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So demure and contemplative!

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anyone who suggests otherwise is a ... well ...

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Morning. 🖼️ Edith Holden

September, house sparrows in oats, illustration.

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In all fairness, it is a very cool helmet

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This time I kept only the core ideas and a few choice phrases, and otherwise completely rewrote it as a fresh new poem. Scrapped the structure and everything else that was holding it back; fully revamped it. And it is now SO! MUCH! BETTER! (2/2)

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Took a poem of mine that I've long found a bit clunky and lifeless, and – after various past attempts to reshuffle it into something more interesting – finally understood what needed doing. (1/2)

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Went and checked, and it's exactly the waterfall I was thinking of when I said it looked very Twin Peaks! Appears in the title sequence of every episode – youtu.be/yFMaEIHIrGw – and in lots of establishing shots in the show. Your downward pan in your video was very reminiscent of the titles

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I did wonder! That's so cool. I literally watched Twin Peaks for the first time (all the way through the original TV run, but intending on watching the film and recent additions soon) a few months ago!

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Goodnight from Frank Smith, worried he’s snagged something much bigger than an eel while night fishing the River Restal. Goodnight from Northmoor Camp, where the Special Escort Group is readying to protect a convoy carrying things that don’t officially exist. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Once at uni some course friends were discussing their Myers-Briggs personality types (that four-letter crap like INTJ, ESFP, etc.) and when asked mine I mumbled something about it being nonsense. One of them said "omg, so salty" and without missing a beat I said "sorry, my personality is NaCl"

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And somehow it’s time for the first page of ‘What to Look for in Autumn’. Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

“In front of the farmhouse the oats have been bound in stooks waiting to be threshed. The Wood pigeons are here together what seeds they can. A stoat is on the hunt for fieldmice”

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

• A Word for Lead / Poisoning • Matador • The Mosaics of Ostia Antica • Here is the Isle of the Dead (2/2)

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