Lily Crowther

Honourable mention for The Vourdalak!

I did a batch of pumpkin spice cinnamon rolls last week, subbing pumpkin purée for the eggs in the dough. Highly recommend.

Would be interested to know whether those who do this don’t usually hear an inner voice when they read. I don’t think I could bear it, because I can’t read without ‘hearing’ the words in my head, and the two voices would inevitably clash.

Exciting things are starting to happen @thebrooking.bsky.social (where I am a trustee). If you’re interested in buildings and their history you should be following! @constructionhist.bsky.social one for your followers maybe?

Fab conference on 19th-century museums coming up in Birmingham next month. Taking the focus away from the big names to think about the regions, the empire and the working classes. Hope to see you there!

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts

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Two young people in dressed in homemade ghost costumes and sunglasses, walking through long grass on the edge of autumn woodland. Photo by Lisett Kruusimäe.

As Halloween creeps closer, I'm chuffed to have been invited to share spooky tales with the young folk of the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.

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Agreed - and will be important to see what this means for Museum Development Midlands too.

It doesn’t and can’t ‘look things up.’ The gen in genAI means that it generates the most likely token in any given context. So if texts that talk about tide times usually give a time in the format 00:00, it’ll generate a plausible-looking time in that format.

Yes, and ‘Always money for the temporary exhibition, not the permanent collection.’

Apply for this free PhD course on Energy Humanities in Stavanger, Norway!

Please pass the opportunity on to students you know. Students from anywhere are welcome.

#envhum #envhist

Read this as mice. Not sure which is worse.

Walking and writing also.

A carrot with little protruding roots and a crack across it. It looks like it is holding up its hands and has its mouth open in shock.

My carrot is shocked by your carrot.

Americans paint fences, over which they can chat with their neighbours. Brits plant Leylandii so we never have to see our neighbours again.

Do you use Citymapper? I find it generally reliable across cities and modes.

Particularly relevant question here in Matt Western’s constituency, where the two largest employers are JLR and Warwick University.

Right. And plenty of us would rather give up the convenience of their various potential uses in favour of the govt not having a list of who we all are. My ancestors escaped the pogroms to come here; we became an invisible minority and we’d like to stay invisible thank you very much.

This is a problem.

Alt text: a journal submission form with a mandatory tickbox. Text alongside the box reads: I agree that Wiley can utilize the submission to improve Al services for submission, screening, and peer review whether the manuscript is accepted or rejected for publication.

A sleepy beige cat snuggled on my chest

Likelihood of getting any work done this afternoon: severely limited.

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An orange background with the cover of my book The Place I'm in and my photo and this information: Noticing Noticing workshop for ages 5 - 9 with Miranda Keeling at Caper Books in Oxford! Sept 28th 11:30am Caper Books 74-77 Magdalen Road, Oxford, OX4 1RE

Are you free next Sunday? Do you live in Oxford? I'm running a noticing workshop at Caper Books for children ages 5 to 9. We'll be finding joyous, tiny stories in ordinary things to help with overwhelm and discover magic in the everyday! And tickets are only £3! To book: tinyurl.com/4tutvvfm #oxford

Not sure if this is a cannibalism taboo or an incest taboo but either way I’m with you.

You’re right. Sent.

It has come as a shock to everyone I know in Oxford. Absolutely dismaying, enraging and mortifying. I have wasted the whole afternoon composing a reply to the email (which I almost certainly will not send).

I’m a year older than you, and same same. I may have Bride of Frankenstein streaks but I don’t look like an animated corpse.

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’

Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

As someone a few months off submitting my DPhil, this is utterly dismaying - clearly the senior admin have no concept of what actual research and writing might involve. Glad I’ll be out soon; just hope this news doesn’t devalue my degree completely.