Rebecca Tickell

@rebeccatickell

"It's all grist to the mill." Education for the win. Questioner. Educational researcher and consultant. Alum of HMC, University of Oxford. Also tooting (rarely) on Mastodon rebeccatickell@qoto.org

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Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· 3d

A Giant Strangler Fig in Tamborine National Park #Australia Breathe in that #RainForest air #ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #Photography #Nature #Tree

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· 23d

It may be that the #Big Blue Bear in #Denver is looking for picnic baskets #BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #Cityscape #Sculpture @blueskyartshow.bsky.social

The Big Blue Bear in Denver peering into the windows of the Conference Centre; trees in foreground

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· 28d

You now need a chocolate brown cushion cover with orange and yellow flowers for your chair, and a Murano glass fish 🐟 for your windowsill #70s

A sample of 70s fabric - chocolate brown with orange and yellow flowers

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Jul 11

The Lotus Temple in New Delhi offers all visitors a moment of #Quiet contemplation in the rush 🇮🇳 #BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #Temple #Bharat #India #Peace 🪷 @blueskyartshow.bsky.social

The Lotus Temple and brick pathway in New Delhi 🪷

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Jun 14

Reminds me of this

Text reads:

Me: I’m afraid of the Backstreet Boys
Therapist: Tell me why
Me: the image - a blurred and fuzzy hamster full of nervous energy (arrgghhh!)

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Jun 12

Love #DavidHockney – a visit to Salt’s Mill is now on the cards this weekend. Bradford is so very different to California, but the loneliness is still a central feature of his work.

David is Hockney (1962) B&W illustration from Grimm’s Fairy Tales: A black cat leaping (The Boy Who Left Home to Learn Fear)

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· May 30

A place I’ll never forget visiting; #Growth has many faces. #Thailand 🇹🇭 #Photography #Growth #Buddha #Roots #BhodiTree #Ayutthaya #Time #BlueSkyArtShow @blueskyartshow.bsky.social

Sandstone Buddha head wrapped inside holy Bodhi tree roots at the ancient site of Ayutthaya #Growth #BlueSkyArtShow

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· May 6

First pint in #Glasgow and, for me, a first view of the #RiverClyde Really looking forward to exploring this great city. Cheers! 🍻 #Cityscape #Industrial #Scotland #Photography

A view of the River Clyde from the Sky Bar in the Radisson Red Hotel, Glasgow.

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· May 3

I ❤️ #MayDay Bank Holiday Partly because it sometimes falls on my birthday but really it’s because it’s just such a beautiful time of year in England. The #beach yesterday and #NorthCave #wetlands today - where I saw a #Bittern in flight - glorious! #EastRiding #Yorkshire #Nature #Photography

Sand dunes, beach, sea, and sky at Bridlington South. Sunny day, light clouds.

North Cave Wetlands - small water filled former gravel pit surrounded by trees and shrubs

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Apr 30

Beautiful day here; May is just around the corner #EastRiding 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

A view of St Peter’s church (which sits in the ruins of Howden Minster), trees and the green (with a couple of picnickers) in the foreground. Blue cloudless sky, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 flag flying on the church tower in the 🌞

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Apr 23

It wouldn’t matter what we did now with the billionaires or the systems we use and maintain to create them—even if we could change it, which we can’t (won’t). Our spp is not going to last for ever. The five mass extinctions that have preceded our own existence should tell us this.

Typical bacterial growth curve: lag, log, stationary, and death phases labelled.

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Apr 19

England wouldn’t be England without a pub 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 This one is 524 years old this year. Cheers! 🍻 #York

The Golden Fleece pub York, sandwiched between a Greggs and a very wonky timber building

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Apr 12

Visited *the* #IronBridge cast by Abraham Darby III today and 🤩 If you haven’t been yet make sure to add it to your ‘must do’ list #Bridges #Photography #IndustrialRevolution 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #Telford

A view of the River Severn and Ironbridge Gorge through the Iron Bridge railings - the sign says: “erected in 1779”

The River Severn on a showery spring day, Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site

The Iron Bridge spanning the River Severn, Telford

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Apr 2

Glorious day in #Bridlington - perfect #Spring weather for a walk. #Coast #Blue #photography #Easter (The calm before storm Dave* hits *There’s always a Dave)

Bridlington South Beach looking towards Fraisethorpe. An empty sandy beach, sea to the left, clouds hanging in a blue sky.

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Mar 21

Spring is springing in #Seville the smell of the orange blossom in the air 🍊 – heavenly #Azahar #BlueSkyArtShow #Stone #Architecture @blueskyartshow.bsky.social

Orange blossom and green glossy leaves on an orange 🍊 tree on a street in Seville

A #stone doorway and door (presuming brass), arches, and windows (external view) in the mosque-cathedral in Córdoba, ‘Mesquita de Córdoba’, Spain 🇪🇸

Next to the sculpture representing Becquer’s poem "El amor que pasa" in the Parque de María Luisa, Seville, is a #stone shelf for people to leave their own poem, note or letter.

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Mar 12

Hartley Hare from Pipkins gets my vote (Image from: https://www.nostrings.org.uk/blog/hartley-hare)

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Mar 5

Spotted a scarlet elf cup on my stroll through the marsh the other day, no #hedgehogs 🦔 though 🦔 🦔 Beautiful work #Spring #Fungi

A scarlet elf cup on a decaying log next to some stinging nettles

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Feb 28

The keystone from Abbot William’s shrine at Rievaulx Abbey, #NorthYorkshire #BlueSkyArtShow #Round #AgnusDei #Photography

The keystone depicting the Lamb of God from Abbot William’s shrine at Rievaulx Abbey, #NorthYorkshire

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Feb 23

‘Tis the season in #Yorkshire #Rhubarb looked far too good to miss yesterday. Crumble all prepped and ready for the oven this evening (will post a pic later if I remember). Custard, cream or ice cream - how do you eat yours? #Pudding

Lovely Yorkshire rhubarb - beautiful and delicious!

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Feb 8

For me, one glaring omission: our humanness; we are humans, e.g., where is the affective in all of this? As an aside, what exactly does this figure mean? “DD” a lone “B” … smells like genAI to me 😶

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Feb 6

I think you’d like this:

Book cover: What Is It Like to Be a Bat? By Thomas Nagel

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Jan 21

Every time I visit #London, I always aim to visit at least one place I’ve never been to before, to experience something new. Yesterday I thought I’d walk the iconic spiral staircase at Russell Sq. I mean, how hard can 175(?) steps be? I did it but … 😭 <lactic acid> 😭 My advice? Take the lift.

The spiral staircase at Russell Square tube station in London. It’s roughly 175 steps (I didn’t count them), which is the equivalent of 15 stories up. Take the lift!

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Jan 17

There’s only #One of these @blueskyartshow.bsky.social The ‘viking’ door (850 yrs old), St Helen’s church, Stillingfleet #Yorkshire #Photography #Church #BlueskyArtShow See: www.nationalchurchestrust.org/church/st-he...

The ‘viking’ door in St Helen’s church, Stillingfleet, Yorkshire

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Jan 3

January Wolf Moon and Jupiter (tiny dot with a iPhone camera) - v. bright, and easy to spot with the naked eye but a pair of bins makes things more interesting.

A screenshot of what’s in the night sky from my vantage point using the Sky Walk app.

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Jan 3

The #WolfMoon 2026 #SuperMoon as seen from a very cold #EastYorkshire 🥶 Jupiter is v bright tonight. iPhone camera user? By switching to video mode first you can use your phone camera to capture what your eyes can see.

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Jan 3

Library fan here too 👋 I visited some absolutely amazing #libraries while completing my DPhil - a v. small selection included with this post for fellow bibliophiles 📚

The Tate Library at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.

Bates Hall - a reading room in Boston Central Library where I completed my final edits before submitting my thesis 🤘🥳

Stuttgart Central Library from the top floor looking down—a modernist architectural wonder. It needs to be experienced in situ to fully appreciate the cleanness of the lines.

A Gladstone Library reading room - this library is a residential library that provided me with a quiet space away from it all to think and write.

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Dec 31

Post a book you love from the 1980s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Heroes And Ogres - Simon Goodenough #BookSky

Cover image: Heroes And Ogres a Hardback Book (1980) by Simon Goodenough

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Dec 25

The North Sea for a bracing walk on #Christmas day has to be done. #Photography #Landscapes #Coast #Bluesky

Bridlington - An electric blue winter sky with clouds, reflected by the standing water on the beach; the town and cliffs can be seen in the distance.

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Dec 24

Happy Grismouse! As Santa is already well on his way there’s nothing to worry about 🎄 (NORAD tells me he’s 30s away from Luanda in Angola)

A Christmas card featuring a brown tabby cat with attitude in a Santa hat. The caption reads: I’m the reason the mouse isn’t stirring.

Rebecca Tickell@rebeccatickell· Dec 22

It is time #Christmas2025 I don’t think there has been a better children’s TV series #TheBoxOfDelights #WhenTheWolvesWereRunning