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A German version of “the early bird catches the worm” translates to “the morning hour has gold in its mouth.” A Czech version is “he who does not laze around, gets the greens.” But my favourite is the French “the first cow to the meadow licks up all the dew” (imo, a vache improvement on the others).
"You are helping to open those doors for families."
We visited The Bread and Butter Thing in Durham to find out how your donations are supporting children.
Can you share the #MagicOfBooks this festive season?
Read more of The Bread and Butter Thing's story here 👇
https://bit.ly/47SR4V7
The 23 new books out today include titles by Olivia Laing, Sarah Weinman, Alison Roman, and more!
Thanks to @thetimes.com for joining us, @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social & @profsamwass.bsky.social to explore the neuroscience of early shared reading.
This is why it’s key we #GetBritainReading & why our #ReadingRights report explores how to make that happen 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...
The new book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' explores the importance of creative printmaking to women's activism, including suffrage campaigns, early Japanese feminists, women's printmaking collectives and zine making in the Riot Grrrl era....
How can we create more inclusive learning environments for neurodivergent students in higher education? 🧠
The NESTL Toolkit offers practical guidance, case studies, and resources to foster inclusive teaching, co-created with neurodivergent voices.
Explore the toolkit: bit.ly/4lmJ4Rd
#Edusky
A full listing of this year's shortlists, for articles and first books published in 2024, is available here bit.ly/4jMFK0C.
Strawberry plant from "A Curious Herbal Antique Botanical Illustrations", 1737 by Scottish botanical illustrator/author and engraver Elizabeth Blackwell #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.
This is an excellent book. Treat yourself. Get a copy.
Happy International Workers' Day!
#MayDay
A University of Helsinki researcher has triumphed in Science’s annual Dance Your PhD competition for a Eurodance pop video explaining how individuals perceive the hotness of chilli sauce differently. @jgro-the.bsky.social gets in the groove
#AcademicSky #DanceYourPhD
One of the things I enjoy about my job is coming across words that are new to me and words that academic clients have created. This post from Pat Thomson on the patter blog has some interesting things to say about inventing new words. #academicsky #amediting
patthomson.net/2025/04/17/i...
Hey! #ResearchSky / #AcademicSky!
Book my disabled-majority team of transcribers and editors to support your research interviews, focus groups, workshops, events or author dictated manuscripts!
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Catching up on a backlog of grading before finals come in and discovering that my students are having some WILD autocorrects. Two favorites so far:
“mental health cervices”
“Parole and its guinness” (I really wanna know how much this dude says Guinness for this to be the autocorrect)
#AcademicSky
First photo this year of the beautiful and very tiny Red-banded Hairstreak butterfly. 🧡
I have also seen (but not photographed) a Monarch and an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail flying across our upper meadow. Maybe I will get lucky later.
#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋
From the 'Shared Sky' exhibition, 'Jupiter and Ten Moons' by Indigenous Australian artist Barbara Merritt #WomensArt
Let's sail away over the seas with Noah on his beautiful longship ark.
Bodleian Library MS. Junius 11; 'Cædmon Manuscript'; 1000 CE; England; p.66 @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Creatures in the margin......
#Passover
BL Add 14762; the 'Ashkenazi Haggadah', with commentary of Eleazar of Worms; 1460 CE; f.13v
I cannot overstate the importance of reading books, particularly novels by respected authors, for critical thinking skills and reading comprehension. If the big gun novelists don't interest you, start small and work your way up. Or read whatever interests you. Just read. Or listen. It's all books.
Su Blackwell, UK artist who creates paper artworks out of discarded books #WomensArt
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Our day-long event features presentations and panel discussions with experts from @ox.ac.uk and journalists from around the world
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Fellow authors! The @societyofauthors.bsky.social has issued a statement about Meta’s theft of copyrighted books to train its AI. societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
The weather may be patchy but plenty of flowers are in bloom to bring us joy. Which of these have you spotted recently? 🌼
From Q.13.32, Lessons from the Vegetable World (1857) by Charlotte M. Yonge.
Ten international words (in order of beauty) for a butterfly...
10. Pilipala (Welsh)
9. Borboleta (Portuguese)
8. Flutur (Albanian)
7. Lompalampi (Ngarrindjeri)
6. Sommerfugl (Danish)
5. Farfalla (Italian)
4. Mariposa (Spanish)
3. Kupu-kupu (Malay)
2. Papillon (French)
1. SCHMETTERLING (German)
What a dream!
Our submissions form will go live from 10am on Monday 17th February, and the Postmark submissions deadline is 11:45pm on Friday 7th March.
You can find the submission details for our Writers in Residence programme here: https://buff.ly/3WPTm2w
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Have you ever wondered how watermarks are created?
This is a watermark mould of the logo of William Sommerville and Son Ltd.
Historically paper was made by dipping moulds into water & linen pulp, then being left to dry.
Fewer fibres settle on the raised wire, creating a design.
📖 : HIL Q.4/32
