Clare Qualmann

Letter below is by surgical oncologist and professor Dr. Michael Baum about how a character explaining chaos theory in a Tom Stoppard play sparked an expansion in his understanding of breast cancer, leading to exploration of adjuvant therapy that protects distant organs.

This is what art can do.

Horse weed growing out of a wall with it's name chalked below it

Bristly oxtongue

A group of people holding up red copies of the walk book with a fern and yellow corydalis in the background

A groundsel plant growing in the crack between a tiled wall and hard pavement

Had a beautiful walk around UEL's Stratford campus yesterday, exploring plants and chalking their names. Strong animal the coming through with bristly oxtongue, horse weed, chick weed, colts foot and sow thistle. #CreativeWalking #UrbanNature

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

PrEP Awareness Week 2025. Bradford, Hull, Leeds, ROtherham. Thursday 27th

PrEP Awareness Week Thursday 27th November. Free HIV tests. Bradford. Mesmac 28 Chapel St 9am-7pm. Bradford. Deaf Centre 12pm-3pm. Hull. Craven Park. 12pm-1pm. Leeds. Leeds Uni Union. 11am-3pm. Leeds. Queens Court. 5:30pm-8pm. Rotherham. 11 Mansfield Road, 3pm-7pm. Info. Fast, free, confidential HIV testing. Mesmac.Co.UK

PrEP is a pill you can take to stop yourself contracting HIV if you come into contact with the virus. It's free on the NHS, and we can refer you!

Find us across the region for HIV testing or to find out more about PrEP

#PrEPAwarenessWeek #PrEP #HIVTesting #GetTested #EndTheStigma #UEqualsU

Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book

One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

I loved that book so much as a kid, though the treasure had already been found when I was reading it... The illustrations are still etched in my memory.

I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).

I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.

Tice: "I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform" Richard Tice 13 April 2021 Great to be with Nathan Gill, leader of REFORM UK Wales, campaigning today...

Fascist Reform leader Richard Tice would get REALLY upset if you shared this widely on all forms of social media so lots of people can keep it and bring it out before the next election to show that he is as big a liar as Keir Starmer.

So please don't, he would be *very* upset.

A person holds a large, tanned map (with a red outline) in both hands.

Are you a community group with a passion for heritage? Or a museum, library, gallery or archive with a bold idea for community-led research?

The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)

If you didn't get your ballot, if your dog ate your ballot, if an overzealous manager snuck your ballot into the recycling, if you've realised you should vote after all as it's fairly obvious that managers aren't going to act in the interest of staff (or unis for that matter): REQUEST A REPLACEMENT!

Glossy sloes in the bottom of a jar.

Sloe gin done, but the sloes are getting a second go making sloe port. Just add a bottle of red wine and 100g sugar, shake and leave for a couple of months, drain, add 200ml brandy and bottle. Lush. www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/how...

Screencap showing the jump from Oct 4 to 15

In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change

Xavier Emmanuelli, cofondateur de Médecins sans frontières et créateur du Samu social, est mort à 87 ans - Le Parisien Également cofondateur de Médecins sans frontières, organisation qui a reçu le prix Nobel de la paix, Xavier Emmanuelli avait créé en 1993 le

⚫ Cofondateur de Médecins sans frontières et créateur du Samu social, Xavier Emmanuelli est mort à 87 ans.

Une "personnalité exceptionnelle pour son engagement sans faille", qui "a marqué l’histoire de la solidarité en France et dans le monde".

Thank You Alice Wong Alice Wong has passed away and the disability community has lost a leader. I lost a mentor and a friend. The Disabled Ginger wouldn't exist without Alice and everything she taught me.

“She explained how much Covid could hurt her & how vulnerable it felt to be unable to wear a mask to protect herself.

She was a perfect example of why other people need to wear masks even if they don’t personally think Covid will hurt them”

If you want to honour Alice Wong’s memory, please mask up

my river will carve a starward path Join us for an evening of poetry & performance on water with Elfie Shiosaki, Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal, & J. R. Carpenter

I’m reading with Elfie Shiosaki and Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal in this water-themed poetry evening in London 6-9pm 26 November. Free, with food after: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-river-w...

Mapping resilience: Supporting water knowledge networks - Tracey Benson Join us to explore local understandings of water and flood management in south east Queensland and beyond

Next up with @livingmaps.bsky.social online seminars, 21st November 10am UK online Tracey Benson will speak on
Mapping resilience: Supporting water knowledge networks across geographies tinyurl.com/yjjddmfb #mapping #water #floodmanagement

A large hole in a small garden with a hedge of jasmine and honeysuckle behind it. A spade with a blue handle is stuck in a heap of soil

Dug a hole, planted a little tree in it. So warm for November, but hoping it settles in well over the winter (it's a mulberry, will prune to keep it bushy)

Can anyone recommend any academic essays (that are publicly available online or that you could send me) exploring the parallels between Loki and Ulysses expanding on Snorri's slightly throwaway lines on the topic. Or failing that, general explorations of Troy-as-Asgard? #MedievalSky #ClassicsSky

One thing about academic life I've never reconciled is the contradiction between (a) please use your research and platform to challenge powerful autocracies, influence policy, shape the world etc (b) please don't speak up within your own institution to injustices, your expertise isn't relevant here.

Join us fo this exciting workshop with writer, performance artist, and literary scholar Ofir Ashery, and explore different modes of nonlinear writing: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_....

#writing #workshop #rhizomes #creativewriting #fiction #nonfiction

The Lie of the Land: Who Controls the Map? | British Library Technologist Ed Parsons, Dr Ollie Ballinger and Dr Pragya Agarwal join cultural geographer Mike Duggan in this panel conversation to explore how maps and c

Come along to see Livingmapper @mikeduggan4.bsky.social chair a panel discussion on the question of 'who controls the map' at @britishlibrary.bsky.social events.bl.uk/events/onlin...

If you are interested in Anthropology and the work of David Graeber, our live stream with Prof Tim Ingold starts now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJc2...

I work in a drama school. We do loads of really great knowledge exchange which makes a massive difference. Almost none of it contributes to ‘economic growth‘ in narrow Research England terms. We can’t even meet the HEIF threshold now.

What do we do with this?

UURRRGGGHHH

A tree full of the flags of African and Caribbean nations

Love my borough, #hackney and it's flag waving response. Celebrating black history season, and standing against racism, hate and division. #UnityinDiversity #BlackHistoryMonth @hackneycvs.bsky.social

The Flood Necklace - Anne-Laure Fréant Join us in the first event of our Mapping Fluid Worlds Series to explore how data-sculpture can carry a river’s history

@livingmaps.bsky.social seminar series 'Mapping Fluid Worlds' starts Weds Oct 29th 6-7pm with a talk on 'The Flood Necklace' by Anne-Laure Fréant, a data-object of all recorded flood events of the Loire River in the city Orléans, spanning 1800-2003. Tix here: shorturl.at/mZh8A #rivers #maps #data

Diagram titled 'Possible causes of your problems'. On the left hand side, subtitled 'Yes': Funding removed from local councils, growing gap between rich and poor, multinational companies not paying their taxes, lack of new affordable housing, government not investing sufficiently in schools and healthcare. On the right hand side, subtitled 'No': Picture of small boat, with arrow; 'People fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine'.

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

“UNSPOKEN” – A MENTAL HEALTH FILM FESTIVAL by TONGUES ON FIRE A bold new platform using cinema to challenge stigma, and amplify voices around emotional wellbeing, because Every Mind Has A Voice!

London folks! Come and see Mogul Mowgli, starring Riz Ahmed, screening as part of the 'unspoken' mental health film festival THIS FRIDAY 10th October at the Source in Stratford www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unspoken-a...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A rectangular white sink full of peaches floating in water.

Beautiful haul of peaches from the free shop* yesterday. #LoveFoodHateWaste #Hackney #UrbanGleaning #BinDipping #DumpsterDiving *bin