Owen Garling

Campaign seeks 50 objects to ‘take the heat’ out of Englishness debate Billy Bragg, Sarah Lucas and Kojo Koram among those encouraging people to share cultural artefacts

Of course Billy Bragg has chosen The Lion and the Unicorn.

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We're currently working on something at the @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk covering the last decade or so (cc @drbethkitson.bsky.social)

A couple of questions:

1) Can anyone recommend any (critical, early) reviews of Pride in Place that I might not have found?

2) Is anyone familiar with examples of Pride in Place boards talking about or engaging with space for play? I have found a few but guess there are more.

Thank you!

Nice to see the @campaignforthearts.org drawing on our @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk work to position on the BBC as part of our shared social infrastructure.

"Until the nineteenth century, most stone was sourced from less than 100 kilometres from Cambridge, transported along the Fenland waterways."

👉🌿🗺️Our Lab for Interdisciplinary Spatial Analysis is hosting a public lecture from Professor Andrés Rodríguez-Pose on 'Green fault lines: Green discontent and Europe's dwindling capacity to combat climate change' on 10th March - 🔗more details here: www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/event/public...

What makes a city beautiful? Here’s what ratings of thousands of urban landscapes reveal Historic buildings are worth preserving not only for their architectural significance but their scenic quality.

What makes a city beautiful? Here’s what ratings of thousands of urban landscapes reveal

theconversation.com/what-makes-a...

Collections Lab: Building Stones: collections as resources for sustainable construction - Collections Connections Communities The John Watson Building Stones Collection at the Cambridge University Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences comprises of approximately 2,500 specimens of building stones, in extensive use throughout Brit...

There's lots of talk about the growth of Cambridge. But what materials will the buidings be made of?

This @camglamresearch.bsky.social roundtable is focusing on the potential of local stone and the university's collections of natural materials.

📆 27 March 2026. 12.00 - 2.00

Please share!

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First chiffchaff.

Nice to see the @campaignforthearts.org drawing on our @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk work to position on the BBC as part of our shared social infrastructure.

A Stage for the Nation | Campaign for the Arts The UK Government is reviewing the purposes and funding of the BBC. It's vital that they consider the arts and culture, and the unique role that the BBC plays

🚀 NEW REPORT 🚀

🔮 Decisions the Government is about to take will define the next decade of the UK's largest cultural organisation. If the arts are to remain central to the BBC’s future, we need to make the case – together, and now.

www.campaignforthearts.org/reports/a-st...

Collections Lab: Building Stones: collections as resources for sustainable construction - Collections Connections Communities The John Watson Building Stones Collection at the Cambridge University Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences comprises of approximately 2,500 specimens of building stones, in extensive use throughout Brit...

There's lots of talk about the growth of Cambridge. But what materials will the buidings be made of?

This @camglamresearch.bsky.social roundtable is focusing on the potential of local stone and the university's collections of natural materials.

📆 27 March 2026. 12.00 - 2.00

Please share!

👇👇👇👇👇

Badger my Badger?

man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence

Also, another important woman in the history of Cambridge.

Congratulations to @jenitennison.com on her appointment as Chair, and @antonioweiss.bsky.social on becoming a member of the Responsible AI Advisory Panel, established by the Government Digital Service (GDS). Hear them speaking at two of our forthcoming events ⬇️

On the herringbone.

A very good deep dive comparing area-based social policies under both Harold Wilson and Keir Starmer here from @historyandpolicy.bsky.social. Strong recommend.
historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Spent some time today using the Wayback machine to dig back and find the East of England Development Agency's Regional Economic Strategies of the mid-2000s. Feels like ancient history.

Exactly!

If made permanent, it could also really open up the 'back' of the Sidgwick site into more of a plaza or open space.

So much effort and care put into creating each letter, each word, each sentence.

And now we can just change font at the press of a button and don't think about all the digital work put into enabling this.

Alternatively:

Pat Healing
*** with cunning hands ***

So much effort and care put into creating each letter, each word, each sentence.

And now we can just change font at the press of a button and don't think about all the digital work put into enabling this.

The character Windy Miller from Trumpton.

Windy Mullah.

Beyond Forecasting: Using MRP (multi-level regression with post-stratification) to investigate minority political behaviour at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Beyond Forecasting: Using MRP (multi-level regression with post-stratification) to investigate minority political behaviour at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

*Academics of Bluesky:* Do you know a great UG/PG student with excellent quants skills?

@nspmartin.bsky.social and I are advertising a great fully-funded PhD on MRP and minority voting with our friends at Ipsos, so send them our way! ✌️

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A luminous full moon rises in the sky, prominently featured against the dusky blue of early night. In the foreground, a line of Eurasian cranes is silhouetted in mid-flight, their long legs and necks stretched out as they navigate by the moonlight.

Look to the sky tonight for March's full moon 🌕🍃

Also known as the Worm Moon, it marks the shift in seasons as the soil warms, earthworms re-emerge, and nature awakens.

It has many other names including: Lenten, Plough, Crow, & Sap Moon.

🕖 Moonrise: 18:09*

And if you're standing on grass shine a torch downwards, as there's a chance you'll see worms zooming back into the ground from their nighttime excursions.

Beats my usual attempt to try and explain it using apples and oranges.

‘It was surreal’: holidaymakers on first flight out of Abu Dhabi describe petrifying experience Hundreds of thousands of passengers have found themselves stranded in the middle of a conflict between Iran and its Gulf neighbours

"Black ash landing in the breakfast."

Such an inconvenience.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...