Every year since the 1400s the Worshipful Company of Butchers pays peppercorn rent to the City of London, represented by a boar's head which they process through the streets from Smithfield to Bank.

Fred Moten to speak at Conway Hall in London for the Stuart Hall Foundation Keynote, 23 May 2026. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/a...

Please sign and please share. c.org/XQgYzZVWG5

Today I have added a section for venues at risk. The Flying Duck are seeking a new operator in town and Adrian's Bar on Victoria Road have opened up a membership scheme to try to stay open. eblknd.leaflet.pub/3mg6akzx3n22l

Apologies but I have been at it again - it being, walking about, having thoughts about the walking about. sillylittlewalk.substack.com/p/i-go-on-a-...

Water like liquid metal in the afternoon sun, and what's that making the ripples? An Otter in the River Clyde, east of Glasgow Green, yesterday.

Someone has compiled a list of cultural spaces in Glasgow that have closed this year. It's embarrasing and really highlights how badly the city is failing arts & culture. eblknd.leaflet.pub/3mg6akzx3n22l

Today I want to talk about Jess’ Rule and Martha’s Rule, two new initiatives across NHS England that I think are really important and you should know about. Tl;dr: if your symptoms are not improving or getting worse, at home or in hospital, you have the right and Drs the responsibility to review.

I am concerned about the recent closures to many arts organisations in Glasgow and have tried to detail them in this post. If you have any more relevant information please let me know!

❗Upcoming application deadline: 6th March 🎓 Leverhulme Programme for Doctoral Training in Ecological Data Science 🏦5 fully funded 4-year PhDs, and a 5-year MSc + PhD option ❓Machine learning, statistical modelling, spatial analysis 🌏University of Glasgow ➡️ ecological-data-science.github.io

Our Critical Data Studies group at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social has a few talks this semester: March 27th: Jonathan Gray: Public Data Cultures April 1st: Amelia Acker: Archiving Machines: A Material History of Data Storage April 29th: Sophie Bishop: Influencer Creep See eventbrites below

The extractive nature of LLMs can be seen in their exploitation of not only open content, but also in their damage to open infrastructures.

I'm at the intersection of Philosophy Scholars Summit, Contemporary Art Studios and the Digital Humanities Laboratory, amongst other things. bsky.app/profile/theo...

🔴 Glasgow's CCA, which folded in January, is to be investigated by the Scottish charity regulator over its financial governance. The Ferret has spoken to several former CCA staff members about financial concerns: https://www.theferret.scot/cca-to-be-investigated-over-financial-governance-concerns/

New active travel project delay tracker live. - not sure how maintainable this will be but I will try! www.city-scope.co.uk/active-travel @spokes.org.uk @edi.bike

Drew is singing again! And it's Bandcamp Friday. Treat yourself: hochmatoch.bandcamp.com/album/a-moun...

🚨 BREAKING: The CCA is "No longer able to continue operating and is entering liquidation." Tomorrow we're publishing the inside story of how it all went wrong for the arts organisation - read our first report and sign up below 👇 www.glasgowbell.co.uk/cca-liquidat...

Genuary Day 26: Recursive Grids. Split the canvas into a grid of some kind and recurse on each cell again and again. #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary26 #RStats

The local OpenStreetMap editors are meeting up tomorrow night for folks who were interested by the previous post about mapping cycling infrastructure.

One tiny footnote in all this is being old enough to remember when we had a socialist mayor of London who did a deal with Chavez for oil for TfL buses in exchange for urban planning consultancy (apparently geographers from Open University inc Doreen Massey went) 🚌 ⚡️

Happy new year! I bought an electric guitar and my husband stayed out of hospital after a one-in-a-million health event. This year I am expecting to have to make only moveable plans but I will try to continue making a bit of progress with my studies. I hope 2026 is a good year for all of you!

So, yesterdays Bluetooth hacking talk showed that an attacker can pretend to be your headphones and get a WhatsApp code via voice remotely to connect to your WhatsApp on there device, then login to your Amazon account with your phone number and WhatsApp account. #39c3

Today's #UnexpectedEbayFind in this button badge featuring "Peter Puddock", the one-time mascot of Edinburgh's Royal Commonwealth Pool (aka The Commie) 🐸🎀🏊, created as a result of a 1987 competition by Edinburgh District Council...

*It's too bright in here* a memoir

Husband is in hospital with sight loss tonight and my heart has hurt in ways I do not think I have prior experience in. Please think good thoughts for him 🙏🏼

Watery Commons: The Tweed River Festival, 2025. By Maria Howard. Curated by Connecting Threads, the inaugural edition of the Tweed River Festival took place in Peebles, in the Scottish Borders, from 31 October to 2 November.

🗺️ Back with another map-making blog post! 🗺️ Learn how to make your own custom GPS route map entirely in #RStats 📊 Perfect timing whether you're looking for a #30DayMapChallenge idea, or planning a Christmas gift for your running friend 🎅 Link in comments 👇👇 #ggplot2 #DataViz #RSpatial

Looks like there are no data analysis courses mooted for the relaunch of Code Clan. The offerings are Applied Agentic AI or Software Engineering. codeclan.com/register-int...

NEW: Learning Disabilities Some 2,025 people with a learning disability, autism or both were "detained" in hospitals across England at the end of September @autisticsociety.bsky.social said "change is urgently needed", calling the current situation a "human rights scandal" 🔗: app.radarai.com

Sofia Corradi, founder of the Erasmus program, passes away at 91. Known as 'Mamma Erasmus,' she viewed the program, which has sent approximately 16 million students to study abroad through Europe, as her 'personal pacifist mission.' Bless her - an inspirational lady.

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

The situation with Blackboard - now its owner is bankrupt and it's coming under new private equity ownership and control - is serious enough the UK agency for HE tech is advising all affected universities to seek assurances regarding data security inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/s...

At the OU we call this BA (Hons) Open but you'd have to finish next year too as it's 16 years maximum duration! bsky.app/profile/xkcd...

"I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why." - Nina Simone

Jared Kushner and the Saudi PIF buying EA wasn’t on my bingo card

No kisses for sisters down avenues No loose lips and no good nights Be forever in the bed But not in my bones If I have to trace for you every line Then angles lose their urgency Trickle down my skeleton like hunks of honeycomb music.youtube.com/watch?v=WSNt...

Mushrooms I saw today: trooping funnel, shaggy scalycap, the goblet, clustered toughshank, ghost bolete, and various puffballs 🍄‍🟫 🍄

Honestly, I just keep coming back to something @ibogost.bsky.social said years ago: “We were not meant to talk to each other this much.”

Trying out putting my recent projects up on @leaflet.pub at eblknd.leaflet.pub

Throwback to that time (1987) when the good folk of Whitehall thought that Jura would be the perfect location to dump nuclear waste and my grandad wrote a booklet about why this was a bad idea. Kinda puts those offshore windfarms into perspective. #Jura #IsleOfJura #NuclearWaste #LocalHistory

"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Made a little social bike ride events map for inclusive, free, just-turn-up meets in Scotland. Let me know if there's something to add. public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

Postcodes in Polygon: an #opendata tool from my Datadaptive side project – draw a shape on a map, get a list of postcodes www.datadaptive.com/pip/ (Great Britain only) Now updated with postcode data from the latest release of the ONS Postcode Directory (August 2025).

A new Data Visualisation created with Art Workers for Palestine Scotland showing the currently 218 supporters and a selection of non-supporters of PACBI in Scotland. Please give it a try and see the vast spread of solidarity across the arts! public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

My husband Joe is fundraising for Gaza Sunbirds. All profits from this Bandcamp EP will be donated! My fav is WHISTLE fruitboone.bandcamp.com/album/domo-c...

If you were born between 1970-1990 you may not have full MMR protection, even if you had parents who took you for all your jabs. The NHS will give you a free booster. With cases surging, this is a great way to protect yourself & your community. I’m getting mine tomorrow www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

Our survey is still open for autistic adults in the UK ⬇️ 😀 Thanks to everyone who has taken part already. 🙏

Very cool! Leverhulme ‘Space for Nature’ MSc Scholarship - fully funded - particularly targeted towards individuals from under-served backgrounds. Deadline 21 July 2025.