Excitingly, this programme includes an IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship, inviting applications from people working on one of the following: 1) Cultures of Natural History 2) Collecting Video Game Heritage More details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #histSTM📜

FFS. This is how I got my electric wheelchair. Not a Mercedes. But so what if people get a good car on it, anyway? There's an assumption that disabled people and others with benefits must suffer and not have any nice things in life.

My latest blog on some of the best/ most debate-worthy new research on autism and wider neurodiversity & intersectionality. Inc. hearing in noisy places, what do we use assistance dogs for, ADHD lived experience, & does ABA enforcement link to mental health crises? ndconnection.co.uk/blog/autism-...

Real Simple Syndication. Think of it as kinda like a Bluesky feed - websites have an RSS feed you can add to a feed reader; when the website updates, a new post is added to the feed, so when you check the reader, you can see if anything new had posted. No accounts needed; no third party interference

RSS feed readers feel like a forgotten magic - people kinda forgot that we had a tool for tracking updates to websites with no algorithms, just what you want to see, as it goes up.

How is this allowed? We are being failed and failed again by regulators.

Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising. Meta probably made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024 pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...

Pleased for this church. But do we really want to be in a position where we rely on diaspora to decide which elements of our heritage matter? The heritage sector plays an important role in our society, the more we rely philanthropy to fund it, the less it represents us

Evidence has now emerged of the adverse consequences of the laws banning GAHT for trans youth in both the US and UK. This includes sharp declines in mental health and increased suicide attempts among transgender young people. t.co/YZaiSgdDAl

Scrapping luxury cars from motability just drives more anger towards those claiming motability. They're fixing a problem that only exists because they made it one. These cars make up 5% of motorbility cars. The government pays no extra for them. www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of...

"Clan descendants in US and Canada save historic church in two days" Some very welcome news from the world of Scotland's religious built heritage to start the day as the members of the global Scottish diaspora step up to save Applegarth Church in Dumfries & Galloway 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

kleine geschiedenis van de tatoeage: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

On the whole, I'm all in favour of showing how knowing about the early modern period is superrelevant. It's just that whenever it is *politically* relevant it's always for the absolute worst reason.

Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough. Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months. kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...

Glad to see this @wired.com guide on high quality masks! A KN95 can help protect you and your loved ones from COVID-19 and other airborne viruses, especially during this busy travel season. I only wish Wired wrote about the pandemic in the present tense 🙏😷 www.wired.com/story/best-d...

The fact that the people who share your name & DNA or who happened to attend the same church you did growing up don't understand who you are, what's important to you, or what you need, can be painful. And, it has exactly zero to do w/ your worth, value-- or future.

A very, very important peer-reviewed empirical study published in the academic journal Pediatrics shows that hormone treatment of young trans people decreases suicidality very significantly. Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.

Stepping outside the UK, and into a European prehistory. This evidence has been building for decades now. Its a great example of an evolving narrative and how more evidence from a number of sites can slowly and carefully change the understanding. www.science.org/content/arti...

A Compostela pilgrim's badge sewn onto a Book of Hours. Fol. 045v-046r from Bodleian Library Oxford MS. Douce 51 Master of Edward IV, Flanders, 1490. This is just wonderful to see.

Oooh this looks good! “Key concepts in the development of a neurodiversity-affirming practice” by autism research specialist Dr. Damian Milton, on 16th December 13:00-14:00 GMT. This event is free! events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e80ea6...

A brass "Stolperstein" or "stumbling stone" memorial commemorating the life and sacrifice of Nazi Holocaust victim Jane Haining was installed yesterday outside St Stephen's Church in Edinburgh. The BBC reports on the unveiling and her family's reaction here 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And another absolute corker edited by @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social @gavinmacgregor.bsky.social and Ian Ralston 🙂

Robert Bowes reports to Walsingham from Scotland. He is still browbeating the earl of Gowry to recover the casket letters, but Gowry is still fobbing him off, clearly not entirely trusting Elizabeth will protect him effectually (and why would he? I would have the same reaction). Lennox ... 3/

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

In 1932 Jane Haining took on the role of matron at the Scottish Mission School in Budapest, which had about 400 pupils, a mixture of Jews and Christians. She helped keep the children safe until she was betrayed and arrested by German officers in April 1944. #Edinburgh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons, tomorrow at 8pm on BBC Four. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Right. Erm. The sky is on fire.

Why were heads hunted in the Enlightenment? Who hunted heads, and where did they 'acquire' them? It’s a complicated history. @lindaaburnett.bsky.social and I tell some of it in our new book. We'll tell more of it in our next! You can read a little about it here: yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/11/20/h...

Inaccessible public transport is a “growing barrier” for disabled sports fans, according to the results of an annual survey by a disabled-led charity. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/inaccessible...

there’s an interesting thing we’ve done in our social circle as a result of Covid which is: now we let people know before social activities if anyone has any symptoms of anything potentially contagious, so everyone can make their own risk assessment

Eyelash fungus! 👁 Duddingston #Edinburgh #FungiFriends

This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth. theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...

You can now preview the book, which means you can look and search inside, and I think read the acknowledgements (the most personal part of it by far) and the preface - there's a 'preview book' button below the cover:

Autism: I stick with my favorite foods ADHD: I eat whatever looks interesting AuDHD: I crave the same three meals until suddenly I do not, and now I am confused (Dr. Kojo Sarfo)

Still thinking about this, that all the trauma & abuse shaped bits of our brain light up hundreds of times a day, our fight or flight tiggers being hammered & activated repeatedly, about analogues of people we personally have been abused by holding power over us & how eroding & deranging it all is

Delighted to announce that vol 30 of 'Review of Scottish Culture' is now available online. It's another super issue, ranging through Scotland and across genres, from senior scholars and emerging voices. All free to download. Now open, for new submissions! journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc

It shows clear intent that they believe anti-trans campaigning should be rewarded and celebrated. We will not stand for this. As such, we will not work with The Herald or Scottish Power. Any requests for their attendance at Stirling Pride events will be refused including participation in marches.

For Women Scotland, have been at the core of the anti-trans lobby for a number of years and their actions are causing enormous harm to trans and non-binary people across the UK. The decision by The Herald to present them with this award is not a neutral decision.

🏳️‍⚧️ Last night, as vigils marking Trans Day Of Remembrance were held across Scotland, The Herald gave an award to For Women Scotland naming them Campaigners of the Year. These awards were sponsored by ScottishPower, a company who regularly champions diversity.

What many politicians don't realise - or want to understand - is that many of the "highly-skilled" immigrants whose labour they crave were raised by the same asylum seekers and refugees they openly despise. They take the racist political rhetoric personally, and act accordingly. Why wouldn't they?

Meanwhile... we could have seen this coming: Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures that imperils NHS > Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...

Those who embrace scapegoating of minorities are not just telling you they're fine with hate campaigns, but that they're ignorant and gullible & their judgement can't be trusted on anything. Imagine a newspaper wanting to advertise that it's that stupid and nasty by handing a bigot group an award!

I hadn't known this

A grassroots campaign led by women across the UK in support of the trans community has passed 60,000 signatures, with organisers aiming to reach 100,000 by Christmas. High-profile supporters include campaigner Yasmin Benoit, soul legend Beverley Knight and Carla Denyer MP.

If you value my work and appreciate the fact that I put basic human decency and respect for human rights over my potential income, I'd really appreciate if you chipped into said crowdfunder here: gofund.me/55e3a6cf4

A reminder: there is nothing feminist about enforcing a static biological definition of sex and insisting on gender policing based on how “manly” or “womanly” a person appears. These are logics of fascism. Just saying.