The most Scottish weather forecast possible.

Am I the only one who has just worked out there's actually two types of ice skating pairs at the Olympics? The dancy one and the 'throw your partner in the air' one? Just couldn't work out why I'd watched one competition and then some more skaters appeared.

feels cruel for Bluesky to have a Popular With Friends tab, if any of us were popular with friends we wouldn't be on Bluesky

Indicative of a) how communities can come to rely on universities as provisioning community services b) how a prestige project can become a liability c) how positive heritage narratives don’t pay the bills d) abt what constitutes legit use of student fee income www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

A 1988 map that shows precisely what East Germany thought of West Berlin…

This isn't just about HE underfunding but about the additional expectations that are continually placed in Unis. Driving local economies, cultural provision, health provision and bursaries for students, spin out company support, visa checking. All important stuff but are we now expecting too much?

Speed skating relay. Particularly like how they shove the next person forward when they hand over. But otherwise, it looks completely mad.

The only thing more powerful than hate is love of chocolate❣️

Inevitably, their affair ended: Howard worried excessively about what the pack would think, and Agnes simply ate the flowers.

This is one of the most devastating stories we’ve heard on Guardian Money. I’m glad Anna could do something to help www.theguardian.com/money/2026/f...

And a Happy Half price chocolate and cut price meal deal Eve to those singletons who celebrate. 😂

Really? Because I used to watch Tomorrow's World and they promised they'd be machines to do all the housework by now and guess what? They lied. And whilst we're at it Space 1999 was clearly grossly optimistic and where's my jet pack?

Curling doesn't necessarily have to be just a winter sport.

Sigh. Maybe stop blaming REF and look at the toxic culture in BS where the ABS list is seen as the only marker of quality. It's a pressure that BS are putting on themselves as some sort of mad group think. Or to be blunt, (I'm having a very bad week), stop blaming REF for your own crap behaviour.

Business academics claim they are being denied promotions and sabbaticals if they are not publishing in highly rated journals in the run-up to the REF www.timeshighereducation.com/news/toxic-c... via @jgro-the.bsky.social

Don't worry, it's all in hand, I've added the latest major issue to the risk register. That's it sorted (said no sane person ever)

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Armstrong College, which became @newcastleuni.bsky.social There's less green space about it nowadays If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

I don't want to just like this, as I'm sorry to see Rebecca go. She had an incredibly difficult job to do, given all the changes that are being planned.

Ha ha ha

I can't make a promise that it will get better (sorry!) but at least you now have a picture of a dog impersonating the Emperor Palpatine

'“I’ve watched the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public. It’s painful to say, but I think the best way to proceed is to ignore it,” Chomsky wrote in a message signed “Noam” that Epstein shared in email with an associate.' That it is his wife apologising says everything.

If you're wondering why women and girls put up with abuse, it's not just that they won't be believed, it's also because they are not seen as important and get written out of the story. Here's the Guardian, yet again, pretending to be horrorified at Epstein but just to put the boot in on Starmer.

Don’t know who writes your headlines but if it’s not you then , heads up, they’re turning readers off your work . Starmer built an excellent career defending women and girls didn’t he or doesn’t that count on this occasion ? The contempt comes thick and fast from some Guardian writers rather.

Who thought putting down decking in Scotland would be a good idea? It's so slippy with all this rain I could probably practice curling on it. I really need to get it ripped up this summer.

Anyone want this baby? Printed for a craft fair but the audience were not my type of people!!

😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠 Funny how the media is baying for the blood of one man, but nods through this b’stard!

Saw this at the library, opened it, and read the first page, and straight away I heard Mr Berry’s voice reading - my Year 5 teacher. Oh! Wonderful memories of being read to at school.

Wales playing with thirteen so often they might as well be a rugby league team.

Startling fact I learned: as a person from the mid-late part of Generation X, I am older than ciabatta

This is Kinako. She is a phenomenally proportioned pup proving that bulbous is beautiful. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: nao77001048)

Hyde Park Picture House, Headingley, Leeds, painting by Allen Tortice (b.1948).

It is an absolute mystery to me why I can find no end of different forms of flat breads, waffles, pancakes but Staffordshire oat cakes outside of Staffordshire/Cheshire are as rare as hen's teeth.

The University of Dundee just announced 21 new senior manager roles at Grade 10 or above. These are designed for academics and not professional services staff. The roles will cost the university at least £2.3m a year and are being promoted as a cost saving!

On the plus side, I had a lovely bowl of soup for lunch. Very healthy and delicious. Downside, I'm still hungry, so about to raid my colleagues chocolate stash.

As a spreadsheet and data geek, this is a lovely story. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Saltaire, painting by Yorkshire watercolourist Simon Palmer (b.1956). Residents heading towards the church to pay tribute to Sir Titus Salt.

Rather than bringing Starmer down with the Mandelson/Epstein stuff, perhaps we should accentuate the Bannon/Epstein (and more) stuff which talks about supporting the European far right and breaking the world system. Via Brexit, Reform UK and the new model Badenoch party tagging along. #R4Today

Whenever there is organisational misbehaviour, there is someone who excused it. It’s banter. Or they grew up in a different era. Or people are just too sensitive. Or they really didn’t mean it like that. Or that’s just how they are and you should just ignore it. 1/

Anyone who thinks what's happening is the worst political scandal this century, in this country should take a stroll down to the Covid Memorial Wall.

Occasionally I see some post on here and think I've clearly missed some important bit of news. I'm guessing crypto has gone badly today?

You can absolutely tell someone's age by offering them a Cadbury fudge bar and see if they start singing 😂

How old is this post card, with the Iron Ore mines marked on it? Also, there is a monument to the Pilgrim Fathers? Why was that never on a school trip?

This is good, as far as it goes - but sometimes the only way to avoid burnout and stress is for there to be more staff to do the work. That does not seem something that is of interest to university SMTs at the moment.

There was a viewing platform! Why can't we have nice things like this anymore?

There's something deeply unedifying about what seems to be positive glee in the newspapers and by some politicians that the latest Epstein revelations about Mandelson might bring down Starmer but little focus on the other high profile names mentioned or even concern the girls and women injured.

Liking the bold, new marketing strategy from HESPA? @jackienjoroge09.bsky.social is this your doing? (I did have to check, but yes this is an actual film)

The difficulty with the Nolan principles is that if you are looking at them and thinking 'well ok, I might try and abide by them' then you are missing the point. They need to be at the core of people's behaviour, not a hurdle to get over. It shouldn't be that leaders must be told to behave ethical.

Impressed by the gentleman on the 08:09 Thameslink who is effortlessly pairing a laptop balanced on his knee on which he is typing furiously, with an open can of Old Speckled Hen. You do what you need to to hit that deadline, mate.

Slightly more excited than I should be at winning the village local history quiz.