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One of our aims is the promotion of English Studies from Poland. You can find out what Poland has to offer in this respect from Wydawnictwa UW - University of Warsaw Presses as they have quite an impressive offer, partly available in Open Access. Check them out! www.wuw.pl/pol_m_Nauki-...

And in the UK Higher Education sector as a whole? Easily double that possibly treble.

NB: ‘Russell Group’ is a completely arbitrary marketing label. It means next to nothing.

Bumper Crop of Post Office Worker Stories After a marathon uploading session, we bring you fifteen stories of women who worked for the post office. Here is the place to meet Blanche Edith Cheetham, Alice A Fish, Louisa Heath. Harriet Ann Elsi...

15 new stories of women who worked for the Post Office thanks to the hard work of our volunteers #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #WomensHistory #PostOfficeHistory www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/bumper-...

We reach the final episode of 1962's The Monsters who finally make an appearance - but how many are there, and why have they become killers? Link in post below⬇️. Next time: Even'all in Thamesford.

Sumatran tiger refuge loses over half its forest, study finds Across Sumatra, satellite images and field surveys traced two decades of clearing from park edges toward its core, tied to expanding oil palm plantations.

Sumatran tiger refuge loses over half its forest, study finds:

www.earth.com/news/sumatra...

Babies weren't supposed to be mourned in the Roman Empire. These rare liquid-gypsum burials prove otherwise. Despite historical records saying otherwise, Roman babies were mourned at death, research into unique plaster burials from York reveals.

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

It’s nearly March, spring is springing, and the Rare Breeding Birds Panel has emerged from hibernation again to encourage you to get out recording rare breeding birds #UKbirding #ornithology

6/ The release of the National Soil Map as open data could help with better land use planning. It could also really help with better understanding climate impacts on food production, as soils degrade in higher temperatures & wetter winters.

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself" - FDR

5/ This is the only map I've been able to find that splits 3a vs 3b land nationally across England. It's obviously too low-resolution to be used for planning, and the detailed GIS data *cannot be released* owing to licensing conditions... because it uses data from the National Soil Map.

4/ So, when assessing an agricultural site for development, developers usually pay for surveyors, who *miraculously* often determine that the land is 3b, not 3a - so can be more easily built on.

If planning authorities had an independent map of 3a vs 3b land, far better decisions could be made.

3/ The Agricultural Land Classification system is crucial for planning. Within the planning system, land grades 1-3a are meant to be protected from development, since they're best for growing food. Land graded 3b more readily gets built on. But guess what: there are no public maps of 3a vs 3b land!

2/ One key benefit of finally releasing the National Soil Map will be that it also unlocks more detailed maps of how land is graded by agricultural quality. This is known as the Agricultural Land Classification (ALC) system. This ALC map shows land grades 1 (best, in blue), to 5 (worst, brown):

Great to see that the National Soil Map will finally be made open data! www.cranfield.ac.uk/press/news-2...

This is a crucial dataset that was generated under public contract, but remained proprietary for far too long. I've called for its release since 2016! - www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-so...

Number of plays attributed to 16th-century playwright Thomas Kyd double in new edition Exclusive: Canon now includes domestic tragedy Arden of Faversham, which is attributed solely to Kyd and ‘not at all’ to Shakespeare

Publishing in April, The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd Volume Two, edited by Brian Vickers, suggests more plays should be attributed to the playwright. Read the article ➡️

Historic Floodplain Meadows in the Landscape: Investigating Anthropogenic Habitats Important for Nature Conservation, Carbon Sequestration and Flood Attenuation - Environmental Management In contemporary river valley floors, floodplain meadows are associated with rare grassland plant communities that are important for their conservation value. This article outlines a desk-based method ...

It is freshwater Friday, so a good time to flag our recent open access article with @floodplainmead.bsky.social on using a historic landscape approach to identify former meadow habitats with origins in the early medieval period: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Wikimedia Foundation at the United Nations: Remarks on Multistakeholderism, Digital Public Goods… December 2025: Milestone moment for the Wikimedia Foundation, invited to speak at the UN about Wikipedia’s role in global digital…

Watch a milestone moment for the Wikimedia Foundation: Advocating to place digital public goods at the heart of global digital governance.

The Marsh Tit and The Willow Tit 'A superb account of the ecology and behaviour of two declining bird species whose lives are intimately shaped by their woodland habitats.' – Rob Fuller'There c…

That's why feeders are bad idea in Willow Tit/Marsh Tit habitat, in addition to attracting & boosting survival of their competitors: Blue Tits and Great Tits, which are individually at lower risk as they don't obsessively collect seeds. More in the book: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marsh-tit...
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Arguably the most audible sound of #ClimateChange in the UK

Curlew (83 counted) over Swineshaw Reservoir Old Glossop @derbyshirebirds.bsky.social

One of these images is AI slop and one is a real species...

Seen on FB at a popular birding spot, feeder presumably last cleaned many moons ago... but the rule than than the exception. Not sure how much longer WT will persist at this site @richardkbroughton.bsky.social

Willow Tits live in pairs on sparse territories. Mortality only gets replaced after summer dispersal, rarely now at end of winter. There's too few spare birds left in the population to replace losses now. So losing a Willow Tit now means no replacement, no pair, no nest. Feeders increase that risk.

Problem with feeders is they lure birds to a predictable fixed point that never runs out of food, unlike natural dispersed food, so all a Sparrowhawk has to do is find it, wait, and ambush, with endless opportunity; familiar behaviour to anyone with garden feeders. More >>

Worst possible time to be luring Willow Tits predictably into the open hundreds of times a day, at end of winter. If a Sparrowhawk gets lucky just once, taking a Willow Tit on those hundreds of daily rolls of the dice, then that territory is finished for the whole year - no replacement, no breeding.

Black and white front page of journal, Opportunity dated 1921 - contents table and text.

Image of journal The Townswoman cover with black, red, green border

NEW on our Digital Library: 'Opportunity', journal of the Federation of Women Civil Servants, and 'Townswoman', journal of the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds are now available to search and research women's activism.
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...
#thewomenslibraryat100

EU declines full ban on lead ammunition despite 60,000 public submissions BirdLife says decision-makers ignored strong citizen backing for a complete phase-out of toxic shot

EU declines full ban on lead ammunition despite 60,000 public submissions www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/E...

While not universally true, it is generally true that the tighter the control on production & distribution you place on an intellectual work, the less likely it will survive into posterity.

If you want something to last, make it good, make lots of it, and make it easy for others to make more of it.

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library

blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...

Books about motion pictures at PG:

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...

#film

A heading for a collection of legal cases written in brownish-black ink in abbreviated Latin.

Justice Mettingham's clerk kicked of the crown pleas at the 1287 Gloucestershire eyre by forgetting to include "of the crown (corone)" in the standard heading (pleas of the crown), so he had to add it superscript.

“We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library.”

— Carl Sagan