Today a THREAD👇 of Scottish WWII sheroes who shone in adversity. 1st resistance fighter & nurse Mary Helen Young helped prisoners escape Nazi-occuped France. Killed in Ravensbruck, novelist, Simone St Clair, incarcerated with her said 'she kept her chin up' Mary we salute you./1

1 of the few statues in Scotland dedicated to a named woman is of Dolores Ibarruri, the Passionara who said 'Better to die on your feet than live forever on your knees.' It is dedicated to the memory of Scots who fought the fascists in Spain & is on the riverfront in Glasgow. /7

Add to this worrying list “Library Washing” - persuading very prestigious university institutions to contribute their digital library collections to OpenAI’s model, to lend legitimacy, in exchange for a handful of (reduced cost!) magic AI beans.

I graduated in 1990 and left archaeology in 1995. As a typical example of the "leaky pipeline" of women leaving professional archaeology, I suspect this will make sobering reading. Some of the abuses of power I saw and experienced at the time were appalling.

We're *definitely* not trying to emotionally blackmail you into donating some of your well-earned paycheck this Friday, but just *think* of the poor hogbacks feeling unloved... tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard... Thanks to Switch Digital and our own @bexphotos.bsky.social for the video!

Come drop by & join the Wikiverse! On Tues 30 Sept, Dr Kirsty Ross will be visiting Edinburgh to photo researchers (PhD students & up) and upload to WikiCommons. This is part of an EXPLORATHON grant to diversify the faces you see when you Google ‘researcher’ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/welcome-to...

We’re delighted to welcome Lucy Yu as the new Chair of Wikimedia UK’s Board of Trustees, following her appointment on 18 September 2025. Lucy succeeds Monisha Shah, who stepped down in June after four years of dedicated service Read more here: tinyurl.com/4yfmsjta #leadership #charity

'Animating the Dead: An #Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in #Orkney' by Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards follows decades of research and incorporates new excavation results and radiocarbon dates from sites across the county. Available to pre-order now. #BronzeAge #Prehistory

For context, the natural sciences are already at a low baseline, e.g. the Guardian lists 44 institutions offering physics degrees, vs 95 for history and 108 for English. I'm not sure most humanities folk realise how much science has already been squeezed. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Hence, the profound relevance of the history of emotions.

📢 Upcoming event from The National Archives 📅 Tuesday 23 Sept, 13:00 (UK time) Queer places: Feelings, emotions & ways of rebuilding intangible heritage 🌈 With Luke Fawcett (Queer Places), Vicky Iglikowski-Broad & Giorgia Tolfo (TNA). 🔗 Sign up via The National Archives website 👇🏻

George Sutherland Fraser (1915–1980) “S.S. City of Benares” (Drowned refugee children, 1940) On 18 September, 1940, at one minute past midnight, the SS CITY OF BENARES was torpedoed in the Atlantic. Of 134 passengers, 90 were child refugees bound for Canada. Only 13 children survived. #poem #poetry

We're looking to appoint a new administrator for our Social Sciences Impact Acceleration Account. This would be a great role for a graduate with good administrative skills who wants to learn a lot more about the non-academic impact of research www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

Learn about the 'History of Witchcraft in Edinburgh' with this walking tour. The tour can be accessed through the Witches website and the Curious Edinburgh app. #OER #History #Scotland #VisitEdinburgh #Witchcraft open.ed.ac.uk/history-of-w...

'Using Library & University Collections' videos created by Library staff at the University of Edinburgh on information literacy topics and skills. Many of the videos have been open licensed with Creative Commons licences. #OER #StudySkills open.ed.ac.uk/using-librar...

#WritingCommunity! Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct! Submit free via Submittable 👇 nws.submittable.com/submit

This evening! ✨ Don't miss our free event on 'The Future of Glasgow's Public Transport' at @uofglasgow.bsky.social as part of #GlasgowDoorsOpenDaysFestival 👇 🗓️ Thurs 18 Sept 2025, 7:30pm 📍 ARC, 11 Chapel Lane, G11 6EW 🎟️ Register at: futuretransport.eventbrite.co.uk #TheVisionaryCity #GDODF25

Happy Bisexual Awareness Week and #BiWeek 🩷💜💙 This week is a celebration of the bi+ community, recognising its diversity, strength and resilience. 1/2

Looking forward to hosting this session. If you are in or around #Aberdeen, and interested in #Wikipedia, #wikidata, #openknowledge, #creativecommons etc please join us!

📣 Job opportunity for a talented developer to join our Digital Library team at the University of Edinburgh. You'll be working on the open journal and monograph systems we host at the university. This is an exciting role, working closely with colleagues who are passionate about open access. 📣

Nelson Cummins, curator for legacies of slavery and empire at Glasgow Museums, now talking about “reinterpreting the past to explain the present and reimagine the future” #museumideas

@nlisn.bsky.social is attempting to assess the proportion/spread of neurodiversity across across all UK library sectors. If you identify as neurodivergent, with or without a formal diagnosis, or suspect you may be - please fill in our short survey! Reblogging/signal-boosting much appreciated!

A historic monument in the Isle of Lewis has been named as a finalist in a prestigious UK-wide public sculpture award 👇

Are you a newly certified CMALT holder looking to become an assessor? Join us on 25 September for our next 'Becoming a CMALT Assessor Webinar', mandatory for all new CMALT assessors and is your first step into the world of CMALT assessment. Register now: buff.ly/7ef5rE8 #altc #CMALT

Isolde https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.651

In the 1840s the Galson estate on Lewis was cleared for sheep. Most people were put onto emigration ships to Canada. Finally in 2007 - a community buyout. This commemorative sculpture by Will Maclean & Marian Leven is shortlisted for Marsh Award. If it moves you pls vote. pssauk.org/2025-pssa-ma...

if youd like to get a bit more background on how young men get radicalized online but don't want to dive into hell facefirst alone i have a book about it (it's five years old, but speaks to methods & human motivations that are still current, i think) www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...

🔴 NEW: The boss of the University of Edinburgh is facing calls to “come clean” over earnings from a second job, amid staff strikes and mounting redundancies theferret.scot/mathi...

Old College picket at @edinburghuni.bsky.social this morning @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk @ucuscotland.bsky.social #NoRedundancies #StopTheCuts #DefendEveryJob

Great to see Hamza Yousaf keeping the ancient Scottish art of flyting alive and well. Dunbar would be proud! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly...

Royal Historical Society vacancy: Events and Academic Engagement Officer bit.ly/3V8q5PC We look to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata. Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians

Bidh an t-oileanach PhD againn Ceit Langhorne a' bruidhinn aig an Leabharlann Nàiseanta a-màireach. Our PhD student Ceit Langhorne is speaking at @natlibscot.bsky.social tomorrow. 'Sgeulachdan Ghaisgeil: Scottish Gaelic heroic stories in the Scottish landscape'. https://nls.pulse.ly/qdusiaygei

We have had a number of requests to allow more time to accommodate those who were unavailable over the summer, so we have decided to extend the submission deadline for the St Magnus Conference to September 30th. institutefornorthernstudies.com/2025/09/04/t...

'The British Academy has warned that students in parts of the North, South West & East of England, as well as large areas of Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland, are losing access to social sciences, humanities & arts courses.' www.timeshighereducation.com/news/humanit... @timeshighered.bsky.social

“This isn’t a merger; it is a takeover. Kent is an institution under severe financial stress and Greenwich is seizing control,” says @ucu.org.uk's @drjogrady.bsky.social of 'super university', calling for "urgent reassurance" that jobs will be protected www.timeshighereducation.com/news/kent-an...

Open Education, AI, and Populism – Revisited: Join us online on 16 Sept for a full day of live sessions, workshops & discussions exploring equity, social justice, and the politics of openness in the age of AI. Register now: buff.ly/NdN6ccP #OpenEd #AI #EdTech #altc #OER25 #OER

My profile of the one and only Vaginal Davis. “People are getting all messed up over goddamned pronouns…It’s like, please! My mother didn’t even blink. She just said, ‘OK, Ms. Davis.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/a...

Sir Launcelot and the Witch Hellawes https://www.wikiart.org/en/aubrey-beardsley/sir-launcelot-and-the-witch-hellawes

Thanks to all the @ucu.org.uk branches supporting us today and this week! Here's a link to our hardship fund -- solidarity donations appreciated! www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/hff-fundrais...

The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?

Lecturers and other staff at the University of Edinburgh are set to begin a five-day walkout in a dispute over plans to cut £140 million from the university’s budget. www.scotsman.com/education/ed...

📢 Staff at the University of Edinburgh are on strike against £140m cuts. Show your support to colleagues at Edinburgh university ✊

VENUS a mini comic about girls night uniting us all 1/2

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

Can highly recommend becoming an ALT trustee. It's a really rewarding experience.

Please help spread the word about our CFP? Id love to get a wide variety of posts for this series

Aye Write 2025 6–16 November, Glasgow Tickets are now on sale for Aye Write, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year with a packed programme featuring 180 writers from Scotland & around the world 💙📚 www.glasgowlife.org.uk/whats-on/aye...

We're very excited to announce that our wonderful exhibition 'Celebrating the Scottish Poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)' with the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, has been turned into an online exhibition! Check it out at the link below: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/online-exhib...

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