Doc Sarah Lonsdale
@sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social
Books, history & nature. Politics, 48%. Writer, Lecturer, History of journalism City University. My book Wildly Different, about women and nature is now in paperback!
Financial Times "Best Books" Summer 2025
Feminist, of course 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
I Never use AI
Financial Times "Best Books" Summer 2025
Feminist, of course 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
I Never use AI
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Women's History Month - Evelyn Cheesman - Manchester University Press
To mark Women’s History Month and the publication of her new book Wildly different, we asked historian Sarah Lonsdale to profile the five pioneering women she focuses on, bringing their fascinating st...
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
Who wants to read about the first woman keeper of insects at London Zoo, and how she cut her way out of a giant spider's web with her nail file? Evelyn Cheesman, the second of the five women in my book:
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/03...
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/03...
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This is heartbreaking. A Nobel prize can’t save @novayagazeta.bsky.social . Can nothing stop Putin ?
⚡️'They killed us' – Pressure from Russian authorities forces closure of Novaya Gazeta.
"This is not just our personal story. This is the story of a country and a society that are being crushed in exactly the same way," the Novaya Gazeta staff wrote.
"This is not just our personal story. This is the story of a country and a society that are being crushed in exactly the same way," the Novaya Gazeta staff wrote.
'They killed us' – Pressure from Russian authorities forces closure of Novaya Gazeta
"This is not just our personal story. This is the story of a country and a society that are being crushed in exactly the same way," the Novaya Gazeta staff wrote.
kyivindependent.com
October 30, 2026 at 10:21 PM
This is heartbreaking. A Nobel prize can’t save @novayagazeta.bsky.social . Can nothing stop Putin ?
Love this time of year! Not yet cold but nature relaxing like at the end of a party...
October 29, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Love this time of year! Not yet cold but nature relaxing like at the end of a party...
Do yourselves a favour and spend some time in the woods this weekend. The colours are glorious. I've never seen so many shades of yellow, amber and tawny green.
October 29, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Do yourselves a favour and spend some time in the woods this weekend. The colours are glorious. I've never seen so many shades of yellow, amber and tawny green.
Today I came across a beech grove high on an escarpment. These great grey arboreal giants plaiting their sinuous roots together in a slow, woody embrace. The grove was dedicated to two brothers killed in WW1, by their surviving brother. The peace here was deep and quiet. I felt happy, and sad.
October 29, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Today I came across a beech grove high on an escarpment. These great grey arboreal giants plaiting their sinuous roots together in a slow, woody embrace. The grove was dedicated to two brothers killed in WW1, by their surviving brother. The peace here was deep and quiet. I felt happy, and sad.
The most senior members of academic staff and, therefore, the best paid and most experienced at my institution seem to do absolutely everything they can to avoid teaching. So they sit on endless soul sapping sub committees, where nothing ever gets achieved, instead. Weird kind of bargain.
October 29, 2026 at 9:50 AM
The most senior members of academic staff and, therefore, the best paid and most experienced at my institution seem to do absolutely everything they can to avoid teaching. So they sit on endless soul sapping sub committees, where nothing ever gets achieved, instead. Weird kind of bargain.
What could possibly go wrong...
October 29, 2026 at 9:45 AM
What could possibly go wrong...
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‘Lately, billionaires have begun referring to their political opponents as ‘elites’. It’s like panthers calling mice predators.’
My column on why in a world where politicians tell us resources are scarce, the only scarcity we need is a scarcity of billionaires
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
My column on why in a world where politicians tell us resources are scarce, the only scarcity we need is a scarcity of billionaires
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Why scarcity in the NHS, housing and jobs is making Britain angrier
Scarcity has become the defining characteristic of the 2020s. We cannot have a conversation about scarcity, though, Neil Mackay says, without taking on billionaires.
www.heraldscotland.com
October 29, 2026 at 9:03 AM
‘Lately, billionaires have begun referring to their political opponents as ‘elites’. It’s like panthers calling mice predators.’
My column on why in a world where politicians tell us resources are scarce, the only scarcity we need is a scarcity of billionaires
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
My column on why in a world where politicians tell us resources are scarce, the only scarcity we need is a scarcity of billionaires
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
So surprised and disappointed to see Reform still so popular. Why do people love grifters and bullies?
October 29, 2026 at 9:38 AM
So surprised and disappointed to see Reform still so popular. Why do people love grifters and bullies?
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The federal judge in Alaska presiding over Trump’s lawsuit challenging the state’s senate race election results has officially fast-tracked it for DISMISSAL.
The ruling opens the door for democrat Mary Peltola (Yupik) to become the first female Indigenous Senator in U.S. history.
The ruling opens the door for democrat Mary Peltola (Yupik) to become the first female Indigenous Senator in U.S. history.
October 28, 2026 at 3:06 PM
The federal judge in Alaska presiding over Trump’s lawsuit challenging the state’s senate race election results has officially fast-tracked it for DISMISSAL.
The ruling opens the door for democrat Mary Peltola (Yupik) to become the first female Indigenous Senator in U.S. history.
The ruling opens the door for democrat Mary Peltola (Yupik) to become the first female Indigenous Senator in U.S. history.
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I'm sorry but FUCK OFFFFF.
October 29, 2026 at 9:33 AM
I'm sorry but FUCK OFFFFF.
Good God Peston has the busted flushes Kwasi Kwarteng, Robert Jenrick and Liz Kendall on to discuss the budget. Poor, poor. D minus
October 28, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Good God Peston has the busted flushes Kwasi Kwarteng, Robert Jenrick and Liz Kendall on to discuss the budget. Poor, poor. D minus
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"My handwriting will endure in the book / When my hand is rotting in the dirt."
An excerpt of a poem Ibrāhīm ibn Khidr included in the colophon of some of the manuscripts he copied for the early Syriac Catholic Church in Mosul, Iraq. Read more in a story by Dr. Josh Mugler: https://bit.ly/4AQN5Gt
An excerpt of a poem Ibrāhīm ibn Khidr included in the colophon of some of the manuscripts he copied for the early Syriac Catholic Church in Mosul, Iraq. Read more in a story by Dr. Josh Mugler: https://bit.ly/4AQN5Gt
October 28, 2026 at 3:47 PM
"My handwriting will endure in the book / When my hand is rotting in the dirt."
An excerpt of a poem Ibrāhīm ibn Khidr included in the colophon of some of the manuscripts he copied for the early Syriac Catholic Church in Mosul, Iraq. Read more in a story by Dr. Josh Mugler: https://bit.ly/4AQN5Gt
An excerpt of a poem Ibrāhīm ibn Khidr included in the colophon of some of the manuscripts he copied for the early Syriac Catholic Church in Mosul, Iraq. Read more in a story by Dr. Josh Mugler: https://bit.ly/4AQN5Gt
Reposted by Doc Sarah Lonsdale
Happy Impressive
Open Access Day!
asu.pressbooks.pub/impressive-t...
Textiles! Prints! 30 authors! Nearly 350 pages!
A ridiculous number of pictures!
*9,000 words of alt text!
Open Access Day!
asu.pressbooks.pub/impressive-t...
Textiles! Prints! 30 authors! Nearly 350 pages!
A ridiculous number of pictures!
*9,000 words of alt text!
October 27, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Happy Impressive
Open Access Day!
asu.pressbooks.pub/impressive-t...
Textiles! Prints! 30 authors! Nearly 350 pages!
A ridiculous number of pictures!
*9,000 words of alt text!
Open Access Day!
asu.pressbooks.pub/impressive-t...
Textiles! Prints! 30 authors! Nearly 350 pages!
A ridiculous number of pictures!
*9,000 words of alt text!
The door in the hedge
October 27, 2026 at 4:02 PM
The door in the hedge
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Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us.
Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.
Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.
October 26, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us.
Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.
Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.
Not sure I'll be trusting Springer journal articles anymore...
October 26, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Not sure I'll be trusting Springer journal articles anymore...
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Gearing up for the Europe leg of my MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA book tour in a couple of weeks:
Oct. 30 — Brussels, BE (VUB)
Nov. 2 — Paris, FR (Université Paris Nanterre, Mediamérica)
Nov. 3 — Paris, FR (Sciences Po, médialab)
Nov. 4 — Geneva, CH (Graduate Institute)
Nov. 6 — Odense, DK (SDU)
Oct. 30 — Brussels, BE (VUB)
Nov. 2 — Paris, FR (Université Paris Nanterre, Mediamérica)
Nov. 3 — Paris, FR (Sciences Po, médialab)
Nov. 4 — Geneva, CH (Graduate Institute)
Nov. 6 — Odense, DK (SDU)
October 21, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Gearing up for the Europe leg of my MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA book tour in a couple of weeks:
Oct. 30 — Brussels, BE (VUB)
Nov. 2 — Paris, FR (Université Paris Nanterre, Mediamérica)
Nov. 3 — Paris, FR (Sciences Po, médialab)
Nov. 4 — Geneva, CH (Graduate Institute)
Nov. 6 — Odense, DK (SDU)
Oct. 30 — Brussels, BE (VUB)
Nov. 2 — Paris, FR (Université Paris Nanterre, Mediamérica)
Nov. 3 — Paris, FR (Sciences Po, médialab)
Nov. 4 — Geneva, CH (Graduate Institute)
Nov. 6 — Odense, DK (SDU)
That does suck. I'm so sorry. What a time to be alive. Good luck with the tribunal x
October 26, 2026 at 2:26 PM
That does suck. I'm so sorry. What a time to be alive. Good luck with the tribunal x
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I absolutely love the photos in this. www.londoncentric.media/p/oxford-str...
While you were asleep, Oxford Street was pedestrianised
Photo essay: We spent the night with the team making it happen • The last bus is packed • The taxi drivers don’t know • The pedicabs don’t care
www.londoncentric.media
October 26, 2026 at 8:04 AM
I absolutely love the photos in this. www.londoncentric.media/p/oxford-str...
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Hungary - ✅
Serbia - ✅
Brazil - ✅
Machado back in Venezuela - ✅
PLEASE - Israel on Tuesday
PLEASE - US midterms Nov 3
Boot all the corrupt, war-mongering, Trump-fawning, right-wingers out.
Serbia - ✅
Brazil - ✅
Machado back in Venezuela - ✅
PLEASE - Israel on Tuesday
PLEASE - US midterms Nov 3
Boot all the corrupt, war-mongering, Trump-fawning, right-wingers out.
October 26, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Hungary - ✅
Serbia - ✅
Brazil - ✅
Machado back in Venezuela - ✅
PLEASE - Israel on Tuesday
PLEASE - US midterms Nov 3
Boot all the corrupt, war-mongering, Trump-fawning, right-wingers out.
Serbia - ✅
Brazil - ✅
Machado back in Venezuela - ✅
PLEASE - Israel on Tuesday
PLEASE - US midterms Nov 3
Boot all the corrupt, war-mongering, Trump-fawning, right-wingers out.