Another Oxford college is converting its lawn to a wildflower meadow. Jesus College says that watering the lawn is no longer sustainable given the increased frequency of summer heatwaves and droughts. Seeds will be sown this month in order to bloom next summer. www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/second-quad-...

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Spent the day wandering the Cornish coast totally in thrall of Choughs. Such joyous birds! I think I would like to come back as a Chough #birds #UKbirding

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For those who would like to know more about the thousands prisoners of war from the Caribbean at Portchester Castle in 1796, Dr Abigail Coppins and I have a guided tour on YouTube (link via the research pages below) and lots of background research outlined too: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...

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Man in a gilet stood on platform 12 gives up on reading the display and asks ChatGPT out loud if he is on the right platform for his train. I don’t want to be dramatic about it but Eratosthenes figured out the circumference of the Earth using a stick and knowledge of a distant well.

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Several more UK universities are considering whether to continue paying for Turnitin after another institution announced it will not be renewing its deal with the edtech giant. Georgia Louise Luckhurst reports #highered #Turnitin #edusky https://ow.ly/Aahp50ZVWLJ

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