Helen J

Are you stuck inside due to Storm Amy? Why not buy a last-minute ticket to attend our online conference this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon?

Side by side photos of a person looking at a picture of lichen on an app and comparing it to lichen on a tree trunk

Many lichen species are sensitive to nitrogen pollution, making them natural indicators of air quality.

📱LicheN is a new app enabling people to help monitor air quality using lichens. Data gathered will improve understanding of N pollution and its impacts on ecosystems.

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Saving the boat sheds on Lindisfarne.

We are seeking a new Editor for the Archaeological Journal to succeed @nannonstevens.bsky.social.
#archaeology #editor #journal

@royalarchinst.bsky.social

Please share to your networks! ✍️

This pleased me ✅

A blurry photo of a large long haired black cat on his back. He's chewing on a rainbow coloured ribbon attached to a stick that someone is waving off camera.

A shrot haired black cat lying on a sofa. She has a rainbow ribbon that she's playing with wrapped around her front paws

Two large black kittens, 8 months old, playing with a long rainbow coloured ribbon on a stick.

Happy birthday to the Trip Hazard Twins, they were 1 yesterday! And it was their 4 month moving anniversary. In that time, Dipper has come out from under the bed and learnt that belly rubs are the best thing ever. Raven has discovered moths and catnip mice. And they are now both huge. #proofofcat

The Florence Mine once produced haematite for the steel industry as the red puddles proclaim. Egremont Castlecis also worth a visit.

If you can get to the exhibition ‘Wrestle’ at the Florence Arts Centre near Egremont, Cumbria, it’s definitely worth visiting. Jan Moss & @chrisroutledge.bsky.social have paintings & photos (& I have a small embroidery). And a fascinating place too.

“The tide has again receded over the sand-flats. The remaining framework of a wooden ship is half-sunken in the sand. On one of the ribs a cormorant stands with wings lifted”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

It's still a big issue though, and hugely underestimated. I booked a ryanair flight for the first time in years and their site is so obviously designed to confuse, especially if numbers and following processes are a struggle. And that's just one thing amongst so many you have to deal with nowadays

When I started in community work 20 years ago, there was a big push on improving adult basic skills in numeracy, literacy and English as a second language, and for a while digital skills. And that's all gone, just some bits of ESOL and digital.

26 August is #InternationalDogDay, which feels like a good day to come back to after the long weekend.

Please enjoy these good boys and/or girls from across the collection.

1. Bronze Roman dog figurine 100-200 AD

Filled in slalom run at the KG \ Kelvin Wheelies 1970s skatepark in Glasgow

Concrete remains of the KG \ Kelvin Wheelies 1970s skatepark in Glasgow

You can follow our excavations at the KG \ Kelvin Wheelies 1970s skatepark in Glasgow all week by following #KelvinWheelies! Thanks in advance to our funders @socantscot.bsky.social
& partners @archscot.bsky.social
+ Archaeology at @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Oh, I had forgotten about these. We used nix (nicks on the map) and I had no idea it was so local!

A Viking longship will row up the River Thames next week A 1,000-year replica boat is heading into central London.

In case you’re in the area… www.timeout.com/london/news/...

A coastal view on a sunny August evening of sand dunes at Mawbray Banks, Solway Coast National Landscape. The dune grasslands merge into an area of dune heath. There are coastal wildflowers of yellow, orange and white. There is a shallow pool just visible behind the flowers and in front of the sand dunes which are in the background. The sky is blue with streams of white clouds. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. These dunes are unique habitats and home to rare animals like the natterjack toad. It breeds in shallow pools, which often dry out in the summer. The dunes are also important for breeding and roosting birds such as oystercatcher, curlew, stonechat, the rare little tern, bartailed godwit and ringed plover.

#scape
Mawbray Banks, Solway Coast National Landscape, Cumbria (13/08/2025)
Wildflowers amongst the sand dunes. These dunes are unique habitats and home to rare animals like the natterjack toad which breeds in shallow pools.
#solway #mawbray #cumbria #coastal #nature #photography #eastcoastkin

A row of preserved human footprints in a sandy, muddy beach, with red flags marking their locations

As part of our theme #OutintheField, we’re sharing recent discoveries made by National Trust archaeologists and partners alongside current fieldwork.

Did you know that the Sefton Coast at Formby in Lancashire contains tantalising glimpses into the lives of our hunter-gather ancestors? 🧵

So delighted to announce the official launch of The Armitt’s new digital trail through Roman Ambleside! The trail was developed by our fabulous @arcdurham.bsky.social 2nd-years Rowan Colley and Isla Mustin, with initial work by LU student Bastien Hamilton… 🧵

#RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain 🏺

Three members of Upping the Shanty, an all female shanty choir, discuss climate change on the banks of Faversham Creek. Harry, the Coasts in Mind's Project Officer listens attentively.

We're looking for a Senior Community Archaeologist to join us in the Swale Estuary. If you fancy working on a ground breaking project, looking at the impact of climate change on heritage, then join us! Deadline for applications is Friday 15th. Check it out mola.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

“We'd rather spend our time creating a space for people to come together than looking at funding applications.”

Our report uncovers the barriers preventing community centres from reaching their full potential – and how to overcome them.

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🎵 that's a moray 🎶

I made a linocut zine/minicomic! About morays!

(Now to assemble the remaining 97 copies...)

The objects arrayed against a white background.

The West Coast Cumbria Hoard was discovered by detectorists Justin Bell and Daniel Boakes on farmland at Beckermet #OTD in 2014. It comprises 20 silver Viking objects dating from 850-950. 📸Portable Antiquities Scheme #medievalsky

In the Maryport area of Cumbria tomorrow? Sun 3rd August, get yourself to Senhouse Museum, I'll be there 11am to 4pm, talking about and demonstrating the making of Roman Pottery, with lots of pots you can handle, including some original sherds. Senhouse Roman Museum share.google/4dmpCDuAVSWt...

Yorkshire moors, 1968-70, painting by Sheila Fell (1931-79). #WomensArt #NorthernArt

If you're in the UK and want decent, free basic training in safeguarding then:

1) register an FA account
2) do all their online free courses for coaches/volunteers/committee members.

Hell, last time i checked the full Welfare Officer course was only 20 quid.

All certainlu better than nothing.

Everyone who gets over 20k followers or subscribers on ANY social media platform should have to do a compulsory e-learning safeguarding and parasociality course. I'm not even joking.

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It's the @vaginamuseum.bsky.social! They were set up in response to the penis museum.

‘Long-lived and lucky’ ship wrecked off Orkney was at siege of Quebec, experts find Archaeologists and volunteers identify Sanday timbers as from 18th-century Royal Navy frigate turned whaler

A lovely bit of work between Sanday volunteers, Coastal and Marine Wessex, and Historic Scotland to identify and trace the many lives of the Sanday wreck. I love that people had pieces of the ship built into their homes - becoming part of the treeless island landscape share.google/zaBSyyTSeuBH...

A hand embroidered male blackbird head to mid chest on an autumnal floral and vine patterned fabric background. Set in a white mount and black frame, seen on a light grey wall

A hand embroidered male blackbird head to mid chest on an autumnal floral and vine patterned fabric background

This Blackbird artwork was rejected from an open call yesterday, so good news is today it is available to buy from my website; www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p213/b...

#birds #HandEmbroidery #WildlifeArt #ContemporaryArt