“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.”
― Jane Yolen
#WritingSky
Admin complicity has been kind of heartbreaking
> Many universities’ administrations are embracing AI for instruction, research, and evaluation. In some cases, AI has guided decisions about which programs to cut at times of austerity in the education sector.
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
Coyote went up the river; bottom, Letting out the salmon. From Curtis 1914: 84-85, illustrated by F. N. Wilson. Ritchie, M. and Angelbeck, B., 2020. “Coyote broke the dams”: Power, reciprocity, and conflict in fish weir narratives and implications for traditional and contemporary fisheries. Ethnohistory, 67(2), pp.191-220.
![” House belonging to survivor of the Puget Sound Indian War, Yelm Jim [Wa-he-lut or Wahoolit], seen from across the water. Two men, three women pose in front of fenced house; in foreground is a large fish trap .” Source: http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/ref/collection/loc/id/2092](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dtve42vcmqvajazlxrkjwfpx/bafkreiawvlvfehno6d4ip4d26q7lzxyp27mg4lr5ynjgldfspknjyhc3g4)
” House belonging to survivor of the Puget Sound Indian War, Yelm Jim [Wa-he-lut or Wahoolit], seen from across the water. Two men, three women pose in front of fenced house; in foreground is a large fish trap .” Source: http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/ref/collection/loc/id/2092
Yelm Jim’s fish weir on the Puyallup River ca. 1885. Click for high resolution. Source: http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Record/View/7DE71DBBEDCF71DCADF61AEFB20FFBA6
Yelm Jim's salmon weir, Puyallup River, Washington State, ca. 1885. Courtesy of the Washington State Archives.
#Indigenoustraditions, #fishweirs and #folklore of #Puyallup peoples of western #Washingtonstate, one #CoastSalish peoples. Historically, people who were moved to the region in the 1880s, and have utilised fisheries for the #salmon run in the area. #Coastalhistory #tcdtceh #4oceans
crucial coverage from The Guardian that features our collaborative, movement-building website
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“Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash — but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”
Tiny extract from a railway employment register, with a column headed 'Cause of leaving' and underneath the single word 'dead'. The next column, 'time-keeping', has the entry 'Good.'
A stark reminder of the bureaucratic logic of work & how we're all just so much productive efficiency ... until we're not.
Nice to know that he was good on his time-keeping though.
Presumably until he was dead.
From an LNWR employment record, 1920s.
A sandbar splitting the reflective lake at sunset.
A dozen mute swans against a backdrop of mountains and lakes refracting the sun.
Sunset over a peninsula riding into Great Prespa Lake.
An expansive view of wetland, lake and mountains at dusk.
Sunlight sliding from the mountains and lakes of Prespa, a dozen mute swans floating out into deeper water and Dalmatian pelicans rowing through the cold, dimming air towards their reed-island nests. As I turn to leave a marsh glides past, its wings as still as the surface of the lake.
You can learn more about the various Arctic Sports, all based on traditional Inuit games practiced from Greenland to Alaska, here. And I'll hope to share more pics and video soon!
A pony who is displaying anger towards me because I have had the temerity to suggest its love of being emo is "just a phase" rather than an authentic commitment for life.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent horses and ponies I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
Photo from the cliff top showing the sea with rain and fog in the distance, but patches of blue sky above.
The clouds and sun off the #SussexCoast did not disappoint today! After two days of being socked in, the fog lifted enough for us to actually see bits of the sky. It also gave us an inkling of what is to come tonight from the southwest. #RainRainRain
Image of the life raft, showing the triangular shape. It is a light brown colour.
Image showing the information printed on the raft: It says C2176, then D.R.Co. Jul 1940, and Mid/30.
#NavalHistory people! Help! Our local museum has a life raft we're trying to research. Does anyone know anything about it? It is triangular, and is stamped with a 1940 date.
#18c
Just walked by a colleague's classroom after my class finished and he was talking about Elvis, getting blank stares and so he had to ask "Does anyone know who Elvis Presley is?"
It's rough out here on these teaching streets.
Hey look, some real journalism about AI datacentres
"But a Guardian investigation has shown the money isn’t necessarily real, the datacentres may not be new, the jobs are unaccounted for – and the supercomputer site 12 miles north of London is still a scaffolding yard."
Listen to the writing teachers.
Thanks, Andy. It isn't for sure yet. The spector is hanging over all of us in UK HE, sadly.
Artist Timothy Yufit’s In Place project uses Layers of London to document displaced headstones embedded within London’s parks and public spaces. These fragmented historical traces remain present within the contemporary urban landscape. www.layersoflondon.org/map/collecti...
Awful news about Glasgow Central, I'm still hoping the station itself escaped serious damage.
But while we're here, can anyone spot the problem with the news photo below, from thetraveler.org/glasgow-cent...?
We've really got to STOP using AI to fake things.
Thanks, Mar. That'll be me. I'm 3 years from retirement, and also looking at possible redundancy before I can get there. It's terrifying.
Writing tip #7: When, during the course of research, you come across a story that is central to the theme of your book, go ahead and write 2-3 pages about it. If you do this consistently, you’ll accumulate building blocks for the book. You’ll eventually find a place for each one.
Do head down to #Portsmouth Central Library & the Portsmouth History Centre to check out this exhibition!
On until 25 April!
#Portsmouth100 #Hampshire
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Lloyd's Register Foundation is #hiring!
We are looking for an Evidence Reviewer to join our growing Global Safety Evidence Centre, to ensure that the Centre can provide clear and robust evidence to inform policy and practice across safety-critical sectors.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/azZOo1I
Final week to apply to our History Competition 📢
If you’re a school group or student researching #Hampshire #LocalHistory #Archives we’d love to hear from you
Projects can take different forms from posters to websites 🎨💻
Info here: hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/news/launch-...
Deadline Friday
This is the building we're currently losing
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
A new fireside tale - traversing the 17th century - from the Glencoe Archaeology Project.
I love how these evidence based stories build a world around and animate the archaeological finds.
Reddit screenshot from Glasgow thread. Bright flames rising out the side of a Victorian building.
Video screenshot from Reddit. Building is now a shell with flames visible in every window.
The roof has collapsed embers rise into the night sky.
The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out.
I am amazed by the limited news coverage.
Alaska landscape woodblock print by Sumio Kawakami (1895-1972). Born in Yokohama, he spent part of 1917 to 1918 working in America and Canada, including at an Alaska cannery, before returning to Japan. From a reprint of his Alaska Story collection. #alaskahistory #alaska
Tell us about St Piran, said Wolf, who loved the well-worn tales. "Well," said Old Fox, as if telling for the first time, "he was tied to a mill-stone by jealous fellows in Ireland, and thrown over the top of a cliff as high as our White Nothe. The sea below was dark and stormy and heaving, but the moment that worn old stone broke the water, it calmed, calmed to the glassy still of a mill pond itself! He floated day and night like a calm, spinning otter, gazing up at the passing summer clouds and the bright stars, until he reached the coast of Cornwall. He washed up at first light, and was found and untied and blanketed and fed and watered by his very first disciples - a Fox, a Badger & a Bear. A very scholarly trio from the nearby village. Good and sensible companions. Kind as could be. Noble Cornish folk. And he taught them there on the long, curved beach of Perranzabuloe, where we went that time on our holiday, where the Atlantic roars day and night. Their seminary was in a sheltered hollow full of flowers - shepherd's needle and sea thrift and weasel's-snout - and butterflies, so many butterflies, their wings as silvery and bright as a mermaid's scales.
Happy St Piran's Day, one and all!
Riffing as a strategy for academic writing, good for clarifying ideas patthomson.net/2026/02/21/r...
