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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An ancient and magical amber bear 🐻 ✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 16/09/2026

ELECTRIFICATION: Really striking chart showing that three-quarters of final energy demand can now be electrified "economically" (ie at lower lifetime cost) – and 90% electrification is technically possible From the latest @ember-energy.org slidedeck by @kingsmillbond.bsky.social and colleagues

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/09/2026

thinking about this tweet again, and the fact that it's got such a hold on me that I genuinely think about it whenever I write a feature because I don't want to do "the hot dog thing"

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🧵Situated on the River Aire, between Baildon and Shipley Hirst Mill dates to the 1740s and began as a a water-powered corn mill before later becoming a paper mill. In 1872, the mill was purchased by the prominent industrialist Sir Titus Salt. Rather than operating it himself, Salt leased the

Hirst Mill and Hirst Weir on the River Aire between Shipley and Baildon. Image: Tim Green CC BY 4.0

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

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Tom Di Liberto @tdiliberto.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Emily is the best El Nino communicator out there.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

From NASA: It happened again! Here's Phobos passing in front of the Sun as seen by the Perseverance rover from the surface of Mars on Aug. 12. science.nasa.gov/photojournal...

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🧵On 24 August 1921, the R.38 airship, later designated ZR-2 by the US Navy, was carrying out its final test flights from its base at Howden Airship Station, East Riding of Yorkshire. While returning towards Howden along the Humber, the huge airship suffered a structural

British airship R-38 (U.S. Navy ZR-2) Makes its first trial flight, at Cardington, England, 23 June 1921. Note that the airship already wears U.S. markings. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Saltaire Treasures @saltairetreasures.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Time for an upgrade? Ad from the 1987 Glasgow Garden Festival brochure

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Marsanges @marsanges.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

o good you remind me, record chaser. I have one from my home sea, out my front door, which is the North Sea. We just hit an alltime record sea temperature here. we have a maritime heat wave. All our marginal seas have it. oh by the way the kokkels (mussel beds in the wadden seas) are dying wide

Image shows sea water temperatures at the Dutch North Sea Coast, station Goeree. It hit an alltime record on 17 August this year (2026). 21.5 C.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Roman stone altar with a horned god believed to have been a fertility god native to the North East of ‘Britannia’ Durham University Museum of Archaeology 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

My photo shows a weathered stone relief depicting a human-like figure, standing looking back at the viewer, with a round face, with rudimentary eyes, nose, and mouth. There are what seem to be two straight horns on top of the head. On the upper body the nipples are marked by engraved circles. The carved details of the lower body are indistinct, possibly a very large phallus?

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Crockett Houghton @crocketthoughton.com · 18/08/2026

My wife wanted me to try her gluten-free ramen so she extended a fork full of them towards me. I put my hand under them, as one does, so they didn't drip on the table and she dumped the pile of noodles onto my palm, like that's what I wanted, with complete confidence. I love my wife.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🧵Born at Skipton Castle, Lady Anne Clifford (1590–1676) left an extraordinary legacy as a fierce defender of female inheritance, prolific architectural patron, and diarist. Disinherited by her father’s will in favour of her uncle, Anne spent 38 years defying legal custom, two husbands, and

An elevated, wide-angle photochrom print of Skipton Castle in North Yorkshire, England, showing the medieval fortress grounds nestled among lush green trees and lawns under a pale sky. In the foreground, a stone building with a pitched roof sits next to a larger, fortified stone structure featuring prominent cylindrical towers and battlements. In the background, across a grassy courtyard, another large wing of the castle with multiple towers and stone facades stretches across the hillside. Image 1890 -1900, US Library of Congress.

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 25-year-old Argentinian biologist Pilar Ferrer has developed an injectable gel that helps repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack

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Devilishly Clever. @devilishlyclever.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I saw my 16 year old daughter on her hands and knees in the back yard this morning. "What are you building." "A Scale model of The Hadron Collider 1:20000 scale." "Oh. Ok. Do not make any black holes, or anything like that." "THEN WHAT IS THE POINT!"

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ahead of tomorrow. My favourite political corruption story! This wonderful former Wakefield shop was at the centre of alleged political corruption worthy of the present day. In 1883, Albert Gosnay sent 24lbs of pork pies to a local polling station where the returning officer served it to

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A new model in Nature shows that it's entirely possible that Neanderthals disappeared simply by interbreding with successive waves of "modern" Homo sapiens moving from Africa to Eurasia. In my view, Neanderthals and modern humans are the same species. whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/08/06/n...

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 05/08/2026

Breaking News! Code: Bonkers! El Nino continues to spike towards an all-time record high anomaly, with the Nino 3.4 sea surface temperature more than 2.6°C above the 1991-2020 baseline as of August 4th, and more than 1.0C° above the previous August 4th record set in 1997.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Yesterday I visited Corbridge #Roman Town (Coria). Just south of Hadrian’s Wall, it was the most northerly town in the Empire. The smooth flagged floor of the town’s west granary is still looking good after 1,800 years! 🤩 #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology

My photo shows the excavated stone floor of the west granary at Corbridge Roman Town (Roman Coria) stretching away into the distance like a broad, paved walkway. Huge, flat stone slabs rest on short stone walls, creating dark hollow spaces beneath where air once circulated in the ventilated basement to keep the grain which was stored on the floor dry. On either side are the now low, rough stone outer walls and on the left the remains of the outer wall of the east granary. Beyond the Roman ruins, the landscape opens to green trees, rolling hills, and a blue sky, dotted with fluffy white clouds. The east and west granaries were built under emperor Septimius Severus (AD 198-209).

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Sophie Hall @sophlouisehall.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Finally, someone asking the important questions

YouGov poll asking if you think you could throw a baguette further than a naan bread

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Saltaire Treasures @saltairetreasures.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

An interesting that LLMs currently miss... 2+2 only equals 4 to the nearest decimal place. Unrounded, 2+2=4.14159265359

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#RecipeOfTheDay is Summer Pudding! It’s the only dessert my mother ever made, but its appeal goes beyond mere nostalgia: it is the very essence of British summertime. And thick cream is an essental accompaniment, I feel. www.nigella.com/recipes/summ...

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Summer Pudding

It's true, I admit, that a dessert of compacted berries encased in bread is not an appealing proposition for those who haven't grown up on this seasonal treat, but all it takes is a mouthful to convin...

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Clyde House Arran Holiday Home @clydehouse.arranlets.com · 08/07/2026

We're delighted to have been awarded Airbnb Superhost status today 🥳 Thank you to everyone who has left us lovely reviews! We're fully booked until mid August, but have late summer availability w/c 21 Aug, 28 Aug, 18 Sep and 25 Sep. #Arran #Scotland #Travel www.airbnb.com/rooms/104839...

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Bungalow in Whiting Bay · ★5.0 · 3 bedrooms · 4 beds · 2 private baths

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tgblue.bsky.social @tgblue.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Yep.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The strangest thing happened today. We went to the uninhabited island of Lunga, west of Mull, to look at the puffins nesting there. I was just taking photos when I felt a thump as something landed quite heavily in my head. It was a puffin! It stayed for about a minute before flying off.

A man with his back to the camera, wearing a blue jacket and a grey woolen hat. A puffin is sitting on top of his head. On the left, an arm holding a mobile phone can be seen. In the background, a green slope and the sea beyond.

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#onthisday, 6 July 1863, the #TurkishBaths at #Saltaire opened in Caroline Street. Designed by Lockwood & Mawson, architects of much of Titus Salt's company town. Not over-used & opening hrs progressively reduced. Closed & demol. late 1880s www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/... +ALT 🗃️ #C19th

Seemingly the only contemporary image of any part of the Turkish baths building, this partial view of the town shows the baths' chimney at the far right.

Three-quarter length portrait of Titus Salt, seated, facing slightly left. Wood engraving. 1872. (Harper's Monthly, vol. 44, public domain)

Cross section of the baths building showing the hot air duct under the caldarium, and the double-door hot-air lock. Room X may have been the cooling-room. (Courtesy Shipley College, Saltaire Archives—my labelling)

Basement plan of the baths building. (Courtesy Shipley College, Saltaire Archives)

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Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Titus Salt is one of our 1832-68 MPs, representing Bradford, 1859-61.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Born into a large working-class Saltaire family in 1863, Frederick (Fred) Stead overcame adversity to become one of Bradford's finest portrait and landscape artists. The youngest of ten children, his mother died six months after his birth, leaving his textile-worker family to

This detail is from the painting Poppies by British artist Frederick Stead (1863–1940), exhibited in 1908.The artist, known as Fred Stead, was born in Saltaire, Yorkshire, and often painted idealized scenes of childhood. This figurative genre scene features young girls in white dresses lounging amidst vibrant poppies. The original artwork is currently held in the collection of the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford

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John @johnoh.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Woodpecker and chick in Hirstwood #saltaire #shipley #hirstwood

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 07/06/2026

friends! any suggestions for a lunch place in Manchester somewhere between St Anne's Square and Piccadilly? a succulent lunch place in Manchester? thinking proper sit down but not ££ either?

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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

From today’s Russian papers: “The number of Russian regions with restrictions on the sale of fuel is multiplying.” The reason given? “Unscheduled repairs at oil refineries.” #ReadingRussia

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“Unscheduled repairs at oil refineries” causing "restrictions on fuel sales" in some Russian regions

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 29/05/2026

We are stronger, and better historians, together. Historical societies abound in the UK, and we've listed 150 with BlueSky accounts in this updated Starter Pack. go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd Other societies appear on a new listing of subject societies on the RHS website bit.ly/4ebwP9r #Skystorians

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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Farage "I can't be bought" Also Farage -

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

"Heat pumps just shift gas burning to the power station." Wrong. Even if 100% of electricity came from gas, a heat pump at SCOP 3.8 uses 51% less gas than a boiler. At a terrible SCOP 2.5, still 25% less. David MacKay made this point in 2008. The maths hasn't changed.

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Morgan Scare-ett @morganjarrett.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

A neighbor called and asked me to pick up a package for her. “I hate to bother you,” she said. “I don’t like asking for help.” Ladies. No. Stop. Asking for help is healthy. We are not meant to be hyper-independent. And “bother” implies you’re being a pest. You aren’t. Ask for the help you need.

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Banning speed cameras causes more speeding, which causes more deaths and injuries on the roads.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A tale of two Scarboroughs! from 1897. The Herring Fleet operated out of Scarborough for about 2 weeks each year with the boats following the fish south. The bathing machines meanwhile for the use of the affluent summer visitors. Herbert Rawling operated about 50 of the them. #socialhistory

The herring fleet anchored offshore with sails set, taken from the beach. Bathing machines are in the water and parked on the beach with small group of people walking close the waterline.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12/05/2026

I'm not saying this because I particularly think he should stand for leader but it does feel Quite Interesting that Labour actually has this other mayor who's been successfully running a much bigger city for a longer period of time but for some reason no one's waiting for him to save the party

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 12/05/2026

This is simply wonderful

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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Starmer appoints Labour veteran the ghost of Harold Wilson as adviser after election losses.

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Ross @rossmparry.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

TikTok: Horoscopes Facebook: What is your superhero name based on your birthday and month? LinkedIn: Myers-Briggs

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Norway sold 12 petrol cars in February 2026. Out of 7,272 new passenger car registrations, 98% were fully electric. Just 67 diesel & 12 petrol cars were registered. Hybrids? Only 66 in total mostly plug ins. More in my new Substack newsletter coming out every 7 days. Sign up here: t.co/In5lBaF2ox

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

1850s image of the village of Bolton Abbey by Roger Fenton (1819-1864). The Rochdale born photographer is considered one of the first war photographers with his images of the Crimean War.

This photograph is titled Bolton Abbey and was taken by Roger Fenton during the mid-1850s. Fenton (1819–1869) was a pioneering British photographer known for his landscape, architectural, and war photography.

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