#OnThisDay 30 Nov 1872 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Scotland hosted England for the first official international match in Glasgow It finished goalless, but as a proof of concept, it pushed the game stratospheric More in this podcast open.spotify.com/episode/0TD4...

Torridonian spindrift.

'The University of Dundee has been told it cannot make any compulsory redundancies until it has a three-year recovery strategy in place as part of conditions placed on its bailout from the Scottish government.' 1/3

Himes: "This shows Steve Witkoff almost literally sitting side with the Russians on this ... it's unimaginable to consider the fact that you would propose a peace deal that the Ukrainians didn't even know about."

A social anthropology seminar….

Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...

Some history of science jobs to share. An assistant professorship in Environmental History at the Uni of Warwick, FT, open-ended/Permanent, £46-57k, deadline 5 Jan. I know some great people in that department, including historians of science. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...

New album cover after a lengthy hiatus….

Postdoctoral Fellow – University of Edinburgh, UK AHRC-funded Voices in Slavery’s Archive project experience in Caribbean/Atlantic slavery Deadline: 15 Dec 2025 🔗 higherjobz.com/postdoctoral... #CaribbeanHistory #UKJobs #AcademicJobs #FullTimeJobs #ResearchOpportunities @edinburghup.bsky.social

They think it’s all over. It is now.

If you care about the future of University of Edinburgh, call or email your local MSP on Monday: Monday, 17 November: Call your MSP. UCU has prepared a briefing here, but you can also simply call and tell your story. These cuts will affect the whole city. www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-m...

That’ll definitely help people integrate.

A blood moon. Blood will be spilt this night. Probably Parma’s. (Misquoting Legolas in the Lord of the Rings).

AI is not going to blow us up with nuclear weapons. It’s going to bankrupt us. Sneaky…..

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Torrential rain and punting it up the pitch. Eerily familiar…..

Bologna fans. Booo…

the Andrew formerly known as Prince

Percentages? Only 1.6% of people are fertile? Only 1.6% reproduce? The previous 3.1% were having a lot of kids each to attain the replacement rate? Oh wait, no, no, RFK Jr just is a gigantic moron who doesn’t understand ‘rates’……

Antifa.

Interested in fossils? Brains? Reptiles? Want to study how reptile (particularly squamate) brains and senses changed over time? Want to be part of an international team studying the evolution of cognition? Then apply for our Univ of Edinburgh PhD project! e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...

A really interesting research opportunity and a chance to contribute to broader work on Scotland, Empire and the slave trade www.scotland.anglican.org/vacancy-lega...

The University of Edinburgh MasterCard Foundation On-Campus Scholarships (Fully-funded) The Scholars Program will provide postgraduate scholarships to students from Africa with great academic and leadership potential Details: studyopportunities.online/university-o... | Deadline: Oct 14

Cramming Shakespeare and obtaining a ropey knowledge of English grammar. That’s a grand idea.

I LOLed

“In Spain, where the Socialist prime minister has insisted that migration is an opportunity, a surge in arrivals has helped to make the country a bright spot among Europe’s plodding economies.”

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

This sounds like a brilliant PhD project!

Former Tory MP Penny Mordaunt’s claims that trade unions are “openly antisemitic” are false, dangerous and deeply irresponsible. Trade unions have long stood against antisemitism and all forms of hate and continue to fight for equality, fairness and solidarity for all working people.

The moment when I thought it was going to go horribly wrong and the boy was going to take off with the ball, cackling.

See also "Signature winter jackets for £1000"

Hello. Nepal anyone?

I disagree with Zarah Sultana on many things but I do kinda feel sorry for her wandering into battle with a bunch of people who've been doing Bennite factionalism for the last 50 years.

A robot waiter. Parma. It just ignores you. It might have been on a ciggie break.

man. if Eric Schmitt's speech to NatCon isn't a sign of the times, i don't know what is

A long, incredibly detailed and obsessively precise list of stuff my child will lose in the first week. 15 glue sticks, thats very nearly an entire horse.....

Encountering a herd of ankole-watsui near Verona gives me fond memories of fieldwork in Uganda. And also reminds me of the long-overdue book manuscript…..

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A Parmesan cheese dispenser. In Parma.

Shit. I never thought to ask ChatGBT to babysit my unruly offspring.

Something that isn’t reported on very much is how the UK HE funding crisis is affecting countries where British unis form partnerships. See below for latest news from Prague City University, which operates in partnership with Teesside University: drive.google.com/file/d/1qGaQ...

Sabbatical cats. I think it’s world cat day or somesuch.

Anne Applebaum on the war everyone chooses to forget: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Apparently taking her job title a little too literally.

This smells a bit WMDsy…..

This article, which is great, reminded me of a quote from Red Dwarf that had a big impact on teenage me: RIMMER: It's just that I'm ill at ease with the opposite sex. LISTER: It's because you see them as some alien species that needs to be conquered with trickery. They're not - they're people.

The apex predator blended perfectly into her environment, patiently waiting for the perfect moment to push something out of the window to hit me on the head….

Lost? Game of Thrones?