TAKE ACTION for international volunteers on board Kyriakos X and Tenaz, abducted by Israeli Occupation Forces state pirates : demand their immediate release & an end to our governments' complicity! Take action NOW! freedomflotilla.org/action/

Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Why weren’t we advised on respirators with COVID being airborne, known from day 1? Why aren’t we now being given better advice 4 weeks after the covid inquiry stated ‘covid is airborne’. CATA have done such important work here.

Reviving the Trinity Stones is a two-year project tracking down missing stones from one of Edinburgh's finest medieval buildings - Trinity Collegiate Church. Free exhibition, talks and walks. Museum of #Edinburgh. #skystorians #churches #Scotland www.revivingthetrinitystones.co.uk/exhibition

Edinburgh University’s supreme academic body has warned of a “lack of transparency” over a £140m cuts drive Across UK higher education, decisions are taken by a small, unrepresentative circle, with scrutiny sidelined & rewards flowing upward 😉 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2611129...

Jobs cuts and fears for the future: My morning on the picket line at Heriot Watt University. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/educati...

The UK and 45 other countries just agreed a deal to send people to camps, including in Rwanda, overturning the one thing less hostile than the Conservatives on asylum, where they are likely to be trapped indefinitely, or sent to countries they are at risk in. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I think the best way to enjoy this list, which contains lots of predictable choices (made as it was by committee), is to find a book you like, click to see who voted for it, and then look at the voters' other top 10 choices. You might find something else you like that you haven't read.

The situation at the University of Edinburgh is so grim right now. To deduct 100% salary for a marking boycott … is a likely illegal move from management.

I'm sure everyone's heard about the Bosnian tattoos by now. I explored the story for the @newlinesmag.bsky.social, and if you’re curious about Ottoman Bosnia, Catholic women, and the stakes of turning complicated histories into myths, take a look: newlinesmag.com/essays/the-o...

Do you know someone interested in the history of health and/or activism who might want to do a cool funded PhD in an even cooler city (Glasgow)? Tell them about this #studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

Good work from The Gaudie team. Proud of the kids.

"Hantavirus is a pathogen with documented person-to-person transmission and high case fatality. Therefore, the starting point should not be to downplay the risk of airborne transmission until it is definitively proven" The @who.int response is disappointing. Again.

And it just gets worse: it looks like there will be no modern language provision at all. No music, no languages. Can a silent university call itself a university at all? Help us resist! Please contribute to @uonucu.bsky.social hardship fund if you can: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

31 years ago I was sent on a computer programming course in Norway. The SSNE database went live online & open access 30 years ago this month. It records over 8000 British migrants (mostly #Scots) in northern Europe. Enjoy www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/ssne... #EarlyModern #WhatsHistory #History

We aren’t prepared for any airborne pandemic whether that’s Hantavirus or any other if we are still ignoring airborne transmission of COVID 6 years on!

Listen to the chants of 'stop the genocide' which were edited out of Israel's performance by Eurovision bosses 🚨 In the version published on the official Eurovision YouTube channel, the chant has been edited out completely

This matters. Please co-sign. Managers like to pretend that petitions don't move them, but in reality cannot but answer questions about the numbers, and suddenly things that were deemed inevitable appear to be more-evitably-than-previously-declared.

Fun fact: the magical child safety solution which Jess Philips cited in her resignation letter is a vendor-specific offering, which benefited from an intense PR and lobbying campaign, and was previously praised by ... Prince Andrew. I always keep the receipts. heatherburns.tech/2026/02/20/t...

Outsourcing staff comes at the expense of our public services and the workers who keep them going. If you want public services to work for people, not just profit, sign the Record of Support for Labour’s insourcing pledge. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/of...

The UHI Archaeology Institute and Glasgow School of Art, in collaboration with the National Trust for Scotland, are delighted to announce a new ARCS funded PhD opportunity investigating the heritage of Fair Isle.

I am absolutely here for @oliver.ie 's motion at tonight's Cork City Council meeting (referred to a relevant committee).

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

Your new record-breaking group of 15 Scottish Green MSPs!

Wes Streeting wants new laws to force your GP to share your medical records. The bill was not in Labour's Manifesto and Palantir has explicitly said, under a new Government, it would be happy to use medical data for other purposes. Be afraid.

JK Rowling now being represented by a non-binary South Asian MSP named ‘Q’ is like something out of a movie. I can’t stop cackling about it.

YES!!! Massive congratulations @katenevens.bsky.social @qmanivannan.bsky.social @lornaslater.bsky.social and Kayleigh Kinross-O'Neill 🎉 #GreenYes

An amazing result for Edinburgh and Lothians East! Not only Edinburgh's first constituency win but also the first time we've had 4 MSPs in the region. This is a massive tribute to our remarkable volunteers. A huge thanks to everyone who voted Green- now is the time to join! greens.scot/join

Absolutely gutted for the brilliant Mags Hall, who missed out by 0.1%, with IGV taking 0.9%. Meanwhile in Argyll and Bute, *voting staff* mixed up the IGV and SGP *during the count*. Very, very big questions for the Electoral Commission.

I believe the Real Greens have just been IGV'd out of a second seat in Mid Scotland and Fife. Huge questions for Electoral Commission to answer after two elections of this.

Every suspected hantavirus case took a commercial flight to get home. They were in crowded airports and on airplanes. They weren’t isolated. They weren’t instructed to mask. No precautions were taken. The lack of precautionary principle is maddening. If you’re traveling, wear an N95.

Scotland confirmed to have our first trans MSP! Congratulations @irisduane.bsky.social!

🟢 @lornaslater.bsky.social elected to represent Edinburgh Central! Lorna is the first Scottish Green MSP to be elected today, and the first Scottish Green constituency MSP to be elected ever!

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

BREAKING: Labour activists have been caught breaking electoral rules at multiple Scottish polling stations by putting party campaign material at voting booths

UK Supreme Court just screwed over thousands of victims and families of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Lives are still torn apart, truth and justice stilll denied. Concrete poured on the truth on the whim of a Westminster based minister. There is no such thing as British justice.

The horror in Gaza is not only the children being killed. It’s the children who vanish – separated from parents, buried unidentified, detained, orphaned, lost in the collapse of an entire society. A powerful and heartbreaking report.

Every Scottish Green vote on the peach-coloured regional ballot will help us to build the numbers needed to secure a clear pro-independence majority at Holyrood.

Over a year ago, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan hospital, was kidnapped by the Israeli military. Israeli forces disappeared him into Israeli prison without any charges and with a sentence that they continued extending.

The personal toll the slashing and burning of large parts of the Higher Education sector, especially in Arts and Humanities, in Britain and now the North of Ireland on our colleagues should not be underestimated. This is horrendous but grimly unsurprising.

The ever growing list of why we shouldn’t keep catching Covid.

So much is so very wrong with UK Humanities at this time, but here's a ray of haunting illumination. If you missed Professor Sasha Handley's Royal Historical Society lecture at the University of Warwick, you can now catch yourself (& your students, this or next year) up with the video. #Skystorians

Congratulations to everyone involved in the publication of the works of Agnes Owens. The first of the reissues, including Gentlemen Of The West, are out today - with introductions by Scottish writers and terrific use of Joan Eardley paintings. A beautiful set of books.

This is absolutely shocking. What’s happening to the UK’s arts and humanities sector is just criminal. Thinking of all our colleagues there. It feels unimaginable, but it really could be any of us.

Unfortunately the global acceptance of airborne transmission does not appear to include the IPC policy makers in the UK. Here there is still wholesale denial of airborne transmission and still widespread use of surgical masks as firstline "PPE"