"there's a new serif in town"

Blue Tit caught in the act! 😁😍 Taken last weekend at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset. 🐦 #birds 🪶 My 2026 Birds calendars make lovely Christmas presents! 🌲😀 You can buy them here; www.carlbovis.com/2026-birds-c...

Pre Storm Bram skies in Marchmont, Edinburgh

We used to have lots of stalls of beautiful toys at our 'German' market here in Edinburgh. I don't think there is even one left. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

How getting home from work felt tonight #Edinburgh

Born #OnThisDay in 1906 was American computer scientist Grace Hopper. She was a pioneer of computer programming, developing programming languages like COBOL. She was one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer and is credited with writing the first computer manual. #WomenInSTEM

Xmas dinner on the run! For #NationalChristmasCardDay, a favourite @dmu.ac.uk staff-designed #Christmas card by Hugh Richard Hosking, who taught at the Leicester College of Arts and Crafts in the 1930s. @librarydmu.bsky.social #Christmas2025 #art #illustration

True in all tourist cities. "...platforms now quietly structure survival in everyday urban markets. London’s restaurant scene is no longer organised by taste alone. It is organised by visibility... and algorithms..." #Edinburgh #York #Oxford laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google...

157 years ago, on the 9th of December 1868, the world's first traffic lights were installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. It used semaphore arms during the day and green/red gas lamps at night. It had to be operated by a constable. It exploded on January 2nd 1869. #otd #history 🗃️

@scottishindexes.bsky.social @emmajolly.bsky.social @chrismpaton.bsky.social #Scotland #archives #consultation #LocalHistory

Join us this Thursday for our final National Archives & Records Strategy for Scotland Online Consultation of the year. These sessions are designed to gather views on the need, priorities, and potential outcomes of a national strategy. Book your space here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-a...

I just received my first junk email peddling algorithmic marking tools. Students, I promise always to use judgement and experience to mark your work, not parlour tricks, no matter how much worse higher education gets.

Munition Worker Christina Caldow died 18th December 1915, of 'dope' poisoning. I will be laying a yellow poppy wreath to mark 110th anniversary of her death, 18th December 2025, 1045-1115 at Maxwelltown war memorial, Dumfries. All welcome.

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 9 ‘Evening Snow’ Artist: SR Badmin

“Fuel poverty doesn’t exist in Faroes. Imagine that for Orkney." theorkneynews.scot/2025/12/09/f...

At some point we need to take a stand. AI should not be integrated into HE. It is the antithesis of what academia should be about.

I have a new theory about smaller diameter torcs... #CatWhoIsNotMyCat #Archaeology 🏺 #Bruce #Gold #Torcs

Coronation Street began on this day 1960, Tony Warren originally wanted to call it Florizel Street. That was dropped allegedly because a Granada tea lady said it sounded like toilet cleaner. Producers were torn between Jubilee Street and Coronation Street. Chose the latter.

"Designed in-house at the DfT" yeah... you can tell. Still think there needs to be some variation by speed and regionally - bring back the INTERCITY word mark, and make local people proud of their local/regional trains !

The Court, South Petherton: posted in 1907 to Miss Partridge, Swindon, Wiltshire – Dear Ruth, at last I am sending you a PC. It's the best I can get around here. We are having grand times and will be sorry to return home. #PostedInThePast

Blackford Glen in Liberton has changed a lot over the years. Amazing pic.

Morning! Gave Mrs B a lift to her bus. Abbeyhill to Easter Road is almost a river. If the rain keeps up Edinburgh will be known as the Venice Of The North. Wear your waders and take your brolly. That is your local community weather report. #Edinburgh #Leith

#AdventAngels In the style of Herbert Hendrie, in Biggar Kirk, South Lanarkshire.

Could Scotland be forced to make university students pay towards their education as the rest of the UK does? bit.ly/4aCzTtO

All the text slop that is generated by AI will, in time, become part of the corpus of the LLM and errors will repeat recursively… and like “clinical experience “ in our colleagues be a reason for justifying repeating the same errors with increasing degrees of certainty…

Sharp surge in housebuilding needed to meet Govt target of 1.5m new homes in England. Due to deindustrialization UK is the world's biggest importer of bricks, imports 30-40% of cement, lacks skilled labour. Corporations buying new homes for renting. People can't afford them. Lack of social housing

Yet more purpose built student accommodation for Edinburgh. These are usually large hostels with individual bedsits. The council can acquire blocks before completion and turn them into homeless accommodation. www.edinburgh.gov.uk/homeless-ris... theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2025/12/coun...

Are you Team Yule Log or Team Christmas Pudding? It is a tough decision! Perhaps this photo of a prize winning yule log in the records of Reading Co-operative Society will sway you [c.1960s]. #FestiveFood #ArchiveAdventCalendar

We’ve reached day 8 of #ArchiveAdventCalendar and it’s all about #FestiveFood. Thinking of making your own preserves as Christmas gifts this year? Here are a couple of recipes for "Marmlit" and "Jille" from our 18th century herbal notebook

Argyll Chambers on Buchanan Street in Glasgow. Designed by Colin Menzies in a Edwardian Baroque style, it was built in 1904. #glasgow #buchananstreet #architecture #glasgowbuildings #glasgowtearooms #nightphotography #glasgowatnight

To be clear: the new, near-exclusive emphasis on natural causes of climate change on the U.S. EPA's website is now completely out of synch with all available evidence demonstrating overwhelming human influence on contemporary warming trends.

I've had lots of requests to rerun my adaptive teaching webinar, so I'm hosting another one on 20th January. See the link below for details. Lots of practical advice on strategies for an inclusive classroom. Pay what you can to attend. Please share. Thank you! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...

Across Uig bay

We don’t talk enough about how the English are a people of the Baltic - the Angeln region from which they originated borders the Baltic Sea

Thinking of studying for a PhD? I'd be happy to hear from anyone considering research into British or Irish prehistory, monuments, radiocarbon dating, heritage. Part-time, distance options. There are funding schemes here at @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social - but be quick, deadlines are in Jan/Feb!

"...generative AI tools always produce an answer, even when the historical sources are incomplete or silent. ...they cannot indicate that no information exists; instead, they will invent details that appear plausible but have no basis in the archival record." www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

Martin Parr and @bodleian.ox.ac.uk - a brief tribute from me .... www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/...

And for the #birdoftheday theme of #smallbirdsbigpersonality, this Goldfinch was doing a great Robert Deniro impersonation on the feeder. ‘You looking’ at me? Are you looking’ at me?’ #bird #birds

Traffic Scotland's gritter tracker. #ice 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #traffic www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...

Dazzle Ships in Drydock, Liverpool, 1919, painting by Edward Wadsworth. Dazzle camouflage was created in WW1 to protect British ships from German artillery, making it difficult to estimate speed and direction. Wadsworth supervised design of camouflage patterns. #NorthernArt

An appeal to safeguard and transform the National Mining Museum Scotland, home to a recognised collection of national significance. Scotland’s first super pit and the country’s last surviving colliery built in 1895. #Newtongrange #coal #mining 🗃️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 nationalminingmuseum.com/be-part-of-o...

Midlothian Council’s £25 million Passivhaus development. 90 new affordable homes built on the site of the former Newbattle High School in Easthouses. #housing #Midlothian www.midlothian.gov.uk/news/article...

'Stone thieves are stealing our street's history' This is a problem in other West Yorkshire locations too #Ossett #Yorkshire #YorkshireStone #LocalHistory www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Advent #8 Double glory and Brocken Spectre

Three tower blocks in #Motherwell demolished. Danny Devine, a former resident caretaker for 25 years, was chosen to push the button, joined by Joseph Carroll (9) who has documented the demolition as part of a school project. #NorthLanarkshire #housing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Scottish Brewing Archive Association’s project, funded by an OEC Jean Guild Grant, aims to publish a new book, Capital Brewing, to ensure that the brewing industry in Edinburgh is not forgotten. Read all about it on our website. #edinburghbrewing #canongatebreweries #brewingarchives

Join us at 8pm tonight, Sun 7th Dec 2025, for a joyous evening of music streamed from Live at Sam's straight to your device. Tonight's guests are Miranda Sykes and Jim Causley Grab your tickets here: events.livetoyourlivingroom.com/.../livet...... Miranda Sykes & Jim Causley #LiveToYourLivingRoom

Mary Queen of Scots, spent almost a third of her relatively short life in Yorkshire. Born on 8th December in 1542 she was primarily held in two locations in the region during her 19 years of captivity in England: Bolton Castle and the complex of Sheffield Castle and

Sad news; one of the last survivors of old Pollokshaws... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sad to hear that the Pollokshaws Parish Church on Shawbridge St has suffered a major fire overnight. One of the last remaining fragments of old Pollokshaws, it was built in 1843 as Pollokshaws Original Secession Church. #Glasgow