Delighted to be part of this video with the National Galleries of Scotland (@nationalgalleries.bsky.social) discussing and dissecting the Monarch of the Glen, with an excerpt of a #gàidhlig poem I wrote about it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq_L...

#StainedGlass Once the Conservative Club in Princes Street, Edinburgh, then Debenhams and now site of a major fire overnight. Window in memory of Disraeli, by James Ballantine and Son. Probably now destroyed.

Just learned Amazon Prime in the UK is now showing the 'Pendragon Cycle' fantasy series, so in case anyone stumbles into watching it by mistake, know that it was made by far-right Trumpists at the Daily Wire, explicitly as violent right-wing Christian propaganda (this is a tweet by its creator)

I never want to hear a word about how it’s weird and socially alienating to wear a mask that could save someone’s life when tech bros are pushing wearables like this.

Qusay has been living in tents in Gaza for over eight months, facing hunger and uncertainty. He’s accepted to Glasgow University but needs help with living costs and tuition. Your support can change his life. Please consider donating: gofund.me/22780ee12

Pretty pleased to have just seen a nice Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in Lord Kelvin's natve Scotland! 🥰

New publications by our members: the essay 'Scottish Travellers, National Character, and Cross-border Storytelling' by Angela Esterhammer has been published in the latest issue of @litterariaprag.bsky.social. The essay is available in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2026-71-3/

New Scottish Government stats on Gaelic-medium secondary education in Scotland. A very useful overview and it's the 1st time the Govt rather than Bòrd na Gàidhlig has made such a report. Scottish Languages Act 2025 gives the Govt more responsibility for Gaelic education www.gov.scot/publications...

This is an absolutely astonishing and disgraceful situation, not just for the brilliant scholars and teachers involved, but for the young people of the region, now and on the future, and for the discipline nationally.

This cruel, authoritarian and unworkable guidance will hurt us all. It legitimises intrusive questioning, encourages suspicion, and makes everyday life less safe. The UK government must scrap it before any more damage is done.

I see so many posts on here highlighting & rightfully complaining about the cuts in HE but MPs don't see them & think everything is fine Liesbeth has done a brilliant job with this template that makes it quick & easy to let your MP know what's going on & what needs to be done

From the new @oecd-ocde.bsky.social report on Long Covid. Preventing new Covid cases isn't about living in the past. It's about protecting our future collective health, education, work & the economy

A real actual RA post on the history of Scottish literature: strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/...

‪ Any aspiring writers out there under 30 and living, working or studying in Scotland? Bella Caledonia may have an opportunity for you. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/07/05/o...

Hotter and hotter and hotter www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Also working-class autodidacts didn't just read alone - they read in groups, set up libraries and reading rooms, and battled for Mechanics' Institutes (many long ago merged into unis) to teach music, history, and politics. They built the public adult education infrastructure that's being destroyed

Jared Kushner wants Albania's protected wetlands. The government obliged. Protesters said no. 29 days later, they're still saying no — with flamingo cutouts and flags, in the streets, every single night. Europe is watching. Is anyone else?

Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Before I left Facebook, I did a survey asking my (liberal) friends why they had stopped masking. The number one response, by far, was "My doctors don't mask. If COVID was a big deal, my doctors would be wearing masks."

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

Sunshine on #Leith for all at home here. There is no place for racists in #Edinburgh and there never will be. A humbling moment: the silence at the spot of the attack. Everyone united in it for our communities, a little boy waving from a window above. We can make a difference. We have a duty to.

The choice to ignore COVID was airborne all along meant it spread everywhere and pretty much everyone on Earth has had it at least once, maybe 3 or more times. So 40M+ people died and easily a billion have Long COVID of some degree because women aerosol experts were dismissed by a non-expert man.

Wonderful to commemorate the centenary of Eva Gore-Booth’s death with Patrick Geoghegan on Talking History with an excellent panel @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social & Catherine Healy. Seems fitting to share during Pride month @manchesterup.bsky.social link.goloudplayer.com/s/pGyDrCbH7wIk

Over 150 Scottish businesses now boycotting Israel – see the interactive map www.thenational.scot/news/2623286... www.thenational.scot/subscribe/

This is amazing: The clean air revolution is upon us. One day we'll look back & wonder why we ever normalized casually spreading dangerous respiratory viruses (Pro tip - if you don't want to wait till this is implemented, wear an N95 respirator in public) interceptfund.substack.com/p/ending-res...

hey @nionwomen.bsky.social any chance you can share this out to all your supporters? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

"IL-6 also inhibits mitochondria, the parts of a cell that generate energy. Wallace thinks that this suppression of the cells’ powerhouses is actually what’s encouraging cancer growth. (Mitochondrial dysfunction is also a prime suspect in the cause of Long COVID.)" www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Vascular and still airborne.

If you are a writer who uses AI, you are dead to me. By trying to side-step the creative process with a plagiarism machine (trained on my writing), you are admitting that you have no interest in or respect for your own work. If you don’t respect your writing, why should I?

Almost 5,000 people have joined our call for a halt to new hyperscale data centres in Scotland. Have you? The 24 applications in so far would require 1.5 times as much energy as all of Scotland uses at peak demand. We can't let this free-for-all continue. greens.scot/datacentres

If you would like to help me embarrass the WHO into doing their jobs, please tune in to to the premiere of my feature-length clean air science history extravaganza this Sunday June 21st at 2pm NYC time, to find out what's gone so wrong with public health. youtu.be/yuXVu595DBI?...

Millie Schurch's article 'Paper Colonialism: Instructions and Institutions at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1770–1820', written as part of her postdoc in our ‘Early Citizen Science’ project is now published in Eighteenth-Century Studies ! muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.its.uu.se/article/993281 🧵

Burnham has refused to call the horrific war crimes in Gaza a genocide, and he has promised to build heinous Trump-style immigration detention camps. This is not a man who will deliver change, it's just more of the same from a failed Labour Party. It's time for real change.

Petition for a maximum working temperature www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/we...

there’s a woman on insta experiencing her sixth miscarriage and this time her body didn’t expel on its own so she’s live-blogging the three (3) ultrasounds over two (2) weeks that Florida is requiring her to have to see that her baby is really dead before she can have a D & C

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I just wrote a @stoprosebank letter to Ask my MSPs. New data reveals the Rosebank development would be even more catastrophic for Scotland. Ask your new MSPs to pledge to oppose plans. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...

A massive shift is taking place here. Well-organised far-right terrorism is being treated as ordinary criminality, while conscience-driven protests against genocide are treated as terrorism. A highly conservative (and deeply weird and fantastical) Court of Appeal ruling embeds this shift.

Sustaining Jobs and Securing the Future of Scotland's Universities. Members' Business Motion due to be taken in the Chamber of the Scottish Parliament Thu 18 June 2026. #HE #universities 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-...

New study: more evidence of alterations associated with Alzheimer’s disease in people with Long COVID NIH recently launched the second phase of their adult observational study within RECOVER Veteran Affairs is leading a potentially harmful trial of dieting and exercise for LC shorturl.at/d5mco

1. There are a lot of skilled people in this particular pickle. 2. The LLMs cannot do what we do, and they also cannot do what they promise. 3. Some clients and employers are figuring out item #2. Many are not. If you produce text for public consumption, you want to be part of that "some."

Right now, the only way to prevent Long COVID is to not get infected with or spread SARS-CoV-2, which our society seems to actively discourage. No KN95/N95s required anywhere, no mandatory improvements or indoor AQ 😷 no paid sick leave or universal health care to stop/slow the spread.

Mind-blowing stat from Lizzie Dearden. (Also, give it up for the progressive middle-aged white women!)

Literally there are conversion therapy manuals that start with isolating your child from all potential sources of safeguarding and supportive information and cutting them off from unmonitored internet access so they can find the number for ChildLine while you're not watching is right up there.

But that is exactly how the suffragettes operated. With a nationwide organisation of sleeper cells of arsonists and bombers. I’m gratefully people have reached out and referenced my work today. I remain (I believe) the only academic expert on the terrorism of the suffragettes. Links below:

hey friends, it's really easy to kickstart your #Irishlanguage journey. so easy in fact that I made two ebooks with a total of 200 resources. 200!!! 50% off using the code "freepalestine" payhip.com/unaminh #gaeilge #gaelic #irish

We lost Rosamond McKitterick, a great scholar, a great teacher, and a great human being, far too early. This has been hard to write, but thinking about her, who she was and the person she chose to be can never bring me anything but joy. #medievalsky salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/a...

For an in-depth recent study of the Stowe Missal, see the PhD (2021) done in the Dept of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie by my former student Lars Nooij. And: www.ria.ie/blog/bringin... Lars also recorded this video for @ria.ie: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V_P...

Russians have struck the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and are burning down one of Ukraine's oldest Orthodox churches‼️ The roof of the Dormition Cathedral is ablaze. The cathedral itself is a significant part of our history, it is older than Moscow.