Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social

Cold War Historian | Research Associate at the University of Oxford | views and cat pictures my own

My new article on early incidences of disputed disease among Britain’s nuclear test veterans has just been published OA in Contemporary British History doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2025.2485894
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I have a new article in @historyworkshop.org.uk that explores the resourcing of feminist activism in the 1970s. Come for the rants about typing, stay for the study of jumble sales as feminist praxis! 🗃️

academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hwj/dbag005/8607748
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I cannot overstate the number of cat beds there are in this house. And yet…
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Who’s got no thumbs and eats plastic? This lady!
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Can anyone recommend scholarship on Irish nuclear history/culture 🙏
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Also Reg has the most intense zoomies I’ve ever seen. I literally cannot get a photo of him he’s too FAST
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Friend bought me some breakup flowers, Margo Leadbetter knocked them off the desk. Please ML it’s been a hard week 😭
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She’s a very strange creature
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It’s just me and the Howls Moving Castle audiobook against the world
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com
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Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.
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al mac @almac.bsky.social
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We’re heading into scarce Lime bike season, winter troopers
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Happy gotcha day to my best boy. Two years ago he was sad, sick, and scared. Now he’s a round, happy, and chaotic tiny criminal. It’s the redemption arc we all deserve.
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I just want to have one conversation with the architect please
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Say what you will about the new £185m Schwarzman Centre in Oxford, but my office is essentially the Severance set
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I’ve got to say I’m not all that impressed with these chimney sweeps
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info
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I see the University of York is offering a fixed-term post in public history for the same salary (£37k) I earned for a fixed-term post in public history, also in Yorkshire, in 2012. Had the rate risen with inflation it would now be £53k.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social
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She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.

She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.

Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.
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Detained at his own brother’s pleasure
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She’s figured out that if she sticks her paw into the auto feeder she can get a few biscuits out
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Rate the loaf
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact
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A small purple boy
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this is a thing that has happened organically among readers of the book and I feel so blessed to have listeners who engage with what I do in such creative ways. thank you all, I work hard at what I do and you make it deeply worth it
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Goblin mode
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This House will now vote on staying in bed until spring. All in favour raise a paw.
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I think this is an all-time high (low?) for #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
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Being kept company tonight by an umbrella stand full of swords. Very festive (and handy for getting into presents in the morning) #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz
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Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know-its-christmas-2025
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We found a churchyard cat. He had things to say.
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org
4mo
“Newly declassified British documents expose how radioactive clouds from nuclear tests in Australia took days—not hours—to clear, contaminating vast areas in the lead-up to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.”

www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/uk-government-begins-to-release-australias-nuclear-tests-documents-after-75-years/
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