Dr Cathryn Pearce

More of this please

Very interesting! This will make my aunts very happy! And I'm eligible too, finally! I was always so bummed Canadian citizenship was limited to first generation.

A poster for the walk titled ‘Geology & building stones in the city of London’. It shows a montage of photos which depicts London’s Guildhall, a fossil ammonite and some pink granite. It also includes the time of the walk - 2.30 pm - and the meeting place for this particular walk which is bank station exit 1. Full details are at the link in the main post.

I’ve added four more walks to my London Walks schedule this year. You can find them all at this link www.walks.com/guides/ruth-1/

Butterfly Conservation's butterflies and moths to see in March: Red Admiral, Orange Underwing, Peacock, Oak Beauty, Brimstone, Dotted Border, Comma, Early Thorn, Small Tortoiseshell

Spring is on its way! Look out for these butterflies and moths in your gardens and local green spaces 🦋🌷

What have you seen recently?

2 Mar 1811 // 10-gun cutter HMS Olympia was captured off Dieppe after a large number of armed luggers surrounded her and overwhelmed her with fire, piercing her hull and wrecking her masts and rigging. When her commander, Lt Henry Taylor, was wounded, she surrendered. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

I always loved March in Fairbanks. Yes, it's crispy cold, but the blue of the sky against the white snow is so gorgeous! It's beautiful before for the muck of break-up.

Text on an academic article about "Moving Things: Moving Cartloads of Treasures from Venice to Ethiopia, ca. 1400" pasted into Grammarly in a Browser. It offers to invoke the digital ghosts of David Abulafia, Barry Flood and Chris Wickham to give me "expert feedback".

Using Grammarly for the first time in forever ... WHAT?

As a non-native speaker writing primarily in English, I used to use it to check prepositions, point out too long/convoluted sentences etc.

It now offers to summon colleagues both living and dead to "expert review" the piece???

What?

I've repeatedly said this in the past: the end goal of all AI is surveillance, specifically to influence and control

Brits: Please scream. This is a Labour govt proposing to hand the property of individual British workers to largely US corporations.

@davidpintod.bsky.social

This is incredibly shit but also completely unsurprising. Every single large corporate in the UK is dropping everything useful or sustainable they might have been doing in favour of miraculous snake oil sold by grifters

The Guardian has a strategic partnership with OpenAI so nothing it says about AI can be trusted

🗃️ Using #AI LLMs for "quick answers" in your research is a truth roulette: you risk not just inaccurate text but also fake images...

This #MapMonday we have even #MoreMaps for you! 🗺️✨

We've georeferenced the 1,329 first edition Six-inch maps of England and Wales we added in November. Now you can use a special toggle button in our viewers to compare these maps side-by-side.

Explore the new tool > maps.nls.uk/additions/#194

Circa 1944 unidentified Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) in Bell P-63 Kingcobra she was flying to Alaska to hand off to Soviet pilots, part of the Lend-Lease Program. More on WASPs here (airandspace.si.edu/s...). Via National Air and Space Museum. #alaska #alaskahistory

Silhouette of a woman with an enormous updo hairdo, long 18th century gown, and an absurd hat perched atop.

How can you be talking about HISTORY with everything that's going on. 18th century history? Women's history? Waves hands.

Friends, it is precisely because of everything that's going on that we need to talk about history much, much more.

Absolutely already in reality even if few dare to change the contract.

Add to that: our teaching becoming more & more generic (so we’re replaceable), so it is completely separate from our research. You used to get some of your research reading & thinking in your modules, but they’re now far away.

Nottingham move to cut academics' protected research time to 25%, as staff-student ratios rise, brings strong warning from the UCU branch - this "threatens Nottingham's status as a research-intensive institution".

Spring Talk: Dr Cathryn Pearce - Salvaging Stories of Shipwreck: The Loss of HMS Brazen, 1800, and the Coastal Communities of Brighton and Newhaven - Sussex Past Caught in a winter gale on her maiden voyage for the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary War, HMS Brazen met an untimely end in January - a dramatic story explored in an online evening talk wit...

Looking forward to this! @sussexpast.bsky.social #SussexCoast sussexpast.co.uk/event/spring...

YouTube video by Curiosity Hull CuriosityCast Ep.39 - Hull History with Dr Robb Robinson

If you want a take on global maritime history and especially the maritime history of Hull then have a listen to the latest Hull Curiositycast which I have made with Burnsy. We manage to get the energy, plague and all sorts into the mix as well: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpPj...

A large diamond shape stone 5m tall standing in wet short grass with a misty moorland beyond. A female figure stands, braced against the elements, to the left of the stone

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!
Here's the great Maen Llia menhir, waiting out the millennia high in the Brecon Beacons since the late Neolithic. With a windswept and rainswept human for scale.
#StandingStoneSunday

Women Archives - Railway Work, Life & Death Railway Work, Life & Death

March is #WomensHistoryMonth!

Many railwaywomen feature in our project's free database of accidents to British & Irish railway workers before 1939, available from our website.

You can find out about a few of them in our blog posts:

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/tag/women

#RailwayHistory

March has arrived! Here's what to look out for this month:

• Sand martin arrivals
• Blackthorn, cherry plum and ramsons (wild garlic)
• Early butterflies and moths: brimstones, small tortoiseshells, peacocks
• Frog and toad spawn

...and (if we're lucky) some sunshine 🤭

📸: Chris Hall

Robyn, our three legged dog who is brown and black, asleep on a blue sofa

Oh, to be a dog, sleeping in a world of peace, not knowing hate and evil

9,600 redundancies at research intensive unis in 2 yrs.

9,400 staff paid £100,000+ a yr at Russell Group institutions.

'Uni of Nottingham, which recorded a loss of over £85 million, increased its number of top earners significantly from 207 to 294.'

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/top-ear...

I'm now recruiting for a crucial post in my team - Curator: Parliamentary Art Collection. A rare chance to work with a wonderful collection in a unique setting.

Please do share, and feel free to get in touch with any questions

I know I keep pointing this out but: if you want immigrants to contribute to British society, integrate across community lines, become engaged civic actors, you actually *want* them to get citizenship, and as soon as possible in fact!

Thanks, Jane!

Spring Talk: Dr Cathryn Pearce - Salvaging Stories of Shipwreck: The Loss of HMS Brazen, 1800, and the Coastal Communities of Brighton and Newhaven - Sussex Past Caught in a winter gale on her maiden voyage for the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary War, HMS Brazen met an untimely end in January - a dramatic story explored in an online evening talk wit...

Looking forward to this! @sussexpast.bsky.social #SussexCoast sussexpast.co.uk/event/spring...

We always enjoy our Open Days and meeting prospective students and their guests. We hope you enjoy your time at the university and in #OurIslandCity

The National Year of Reading celebrates the ‘joy’ of books. But let’s not forget they can also be deeply troubling, too | Charlotte Higgins Encounters with great art can be absorbing, unsettling and even painful. How has this been tamed into ‘reading for pleasure’, asks Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... my friend Charlotte here on why reading for “pleasure” is NOT the be all and end all of reading. With a shout out for non fiction too which hasn’t got too much of a look in during this year of reading.