william shakespeare was born on this day in 1564. if, every april the 23rd after his birth, you had purchased a single bee, you would still be 39538 bees away from creating a normal-size hive

I sent a perfectly normal email today with some suggestions about what the law says you can/can't do with a body. The list so far is: • Steal it • Sell it • Ransom it • Donate it • Dissect it • Bury it • Exhume it • Eat it

Archives & Special Collections Assistant (Graduate Trainee) @glasgow.ac.uk 🗃️🎓 3 posts full time, expected start date 3rd August 2026. #JobFairy www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives...

A snazzy Edinburgh city crest on a book cover.

Wondered who this Alma woman was who was emailing me, then realised it's the @natlibscot.bsky.social notifying me of my item being available to consult 😂

It's April 2. You made it through another month, & even made it through April Fools Day. You deserve a treat, right? Of course you do! So here. Pease enjoy this lesson in the biology of the electric eel (which isn't really an eel (but that's ok 'cause the diagram doesn't show an electric eel)). 🗃️🧪

The Law Society backs US law firms against President Trump Four US law firms are being supported in the US Court of Appeal in Washington DC by the Law Society of Scotland in a court action involving executive orders by President Donald J Trump. An appeal has been lodged by the firms - Perkins…

The Jaffa Cake controversy for a new century. This is why we have VAT lawyers, jamming up our courts

One month left to apply for grants in Scottish History from the Strathmartine Trust #history #scotland

Ha ha April Fool. You've actually been having a bizarre dream and it is in fact 1996 right now. We are all going to go watch the new Coen Brothers movie 'Fargo' later. I will call you on your phone that is attached to a wall and can't make you insane later.

dogs can’t LOOKUP, in fact many of them lack even a basic understanding of Excel or other spreadsheets

Someone put a lot of effort into their snazzy bookplate. No idea who though!

The two types of librarian conflict management as illustrated by Richard Scarry. Which are you?

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

The whole world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will smash you with a hammer. But first they must catch you.

NEW: Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided personal data for ICE tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target.

We’re welcoming applicants for a fully funded history PhD project researching the first 100 years of the UK's Public Record Office, ahead of its bicentenary in 2038. Find out more and apply here by Friday 8 May: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... (1/2)

The @iassl.bsky.social PhD Award is aimed at outstanding PhD dissertations on Scottish literature submitted outside of the UK (written in English or other languages). 🏆🎓 The first round is open for submissions!

Cutting-edge designs of 'unsinkable' Titanic to be made public for first time. The designs and drawings are included in the Harland & Wolff ship plans archive.It is stored at the Ulster Folk Museum and is being made available by National Museums Northern Ireland (NMNI) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We’re funding research into #palaeography teaching in Scotland! See the job spec here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA145/s...

I put together a list of potential resources we could put in our display case. Based on the current list of materials/topics, and a switching schedule of every three months, we have enough materials to do a new display every quarter for...um....nine years. LETS DO THIS!

Important news: National Library of Scotland's Access team named collection trolleys: Trolly Parton, George Orwheel, Wheeliam Shakespeare, Daphne du Trollier, Rene Descart, Cart Cobain, JRR Trollkein, Cart Vader, and Mary Wheelstonecraft. Via @cawston.bsky.social's cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-12...

Fame! Next...fortune?

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

The pole position turns this into an accidentally legal-themed shop.

…There I’ll come when I’m a man With a camel caravan; Light a fire in the gloom Of some dusty dining-room; See the pictures on the walls, Heroes, fights and festivals; And in a corner find the toys Of the old Egyptian boys. —Robert Louis Stevenson, “Travel” #poem #poetry #kidlit #archaeology

It me! Also, I had to cut the essay down to only 2k words, I've got another 1k+ plus in the full document 😂 talesofonecity.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/w...

We therefore learn from this learned commentary made by a Babylonian scribe over 2000 years ago, that in the Akkadian language, the word shitti means "shit"

The latest edition of the Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, our annual journal for members, is out now. Check out what this edition has to offer on our website. #edinburghhistory #annualjournal #oldedinburgh #joinus #localhistory

Ireland: Court of Appeal criticises citation of fake cases by party in defamation case. Gemma O'Doherty appeal fails. AI hallucinations identified. www2.courts.ie/acc/alfresco...

Went to the smallest bookshop in the world, in a horsebox in Trentham Gardens. They emboss your book buys with it.

I enjoy how this book scan starts with absolute chaos. The hyperlinked front page is not the front page, its about 30 pages in. The first few pages of scan are mad. It's all quite fun. www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

Intriguing! www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Most environmental concern is profoundly self/human-centred. We want to preserve what allows us to exist in relative comfort. It's not surprising, and is laudable when considering potential human suffering, but it tends not to be acknowledged.

Interview with the vampire. Induction day with the vampire. Group bonding exercise with the vampire. Christmas office do with the vampire.

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

📣 BSHS Outreach & Engagement Project Grants Have an idea for sharing #HistSci with wider audiences? We offer grants of up to £500 to support creative engagement projects — from events to collaborations with museums or heritage sites. Next deadline is May 15, 2026! bshs.org.uk/oec/#project...

My copy of Feminist Librarianship by the amazing @cilipscotland.bsky.social team: arriving tomorrow daytime Me: in the office tomorrow daytime, before going to the launch in the evening. The delivery timing sucks! 😭

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

I hate AI so much. So. Much. Please stop trying to make me use AI. I will never use your ChatGPT, your Copilot, your Grok 🤮 I will die on this hill. It is unethical. It is error prone. It is predatory. It is destroying us. I hate it. I hate it all. I will hate it forever.

Ooooh, an interesting Burke and Hare-related talk coming up! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anatomy-bu...

It was in the early hours of this morning in 1857 that Emile L'Angelier staggered home, already dying from arsenic poisoning. Four months later, his lover, Madeleine Smith, stood trial for his murder. But did she do it?

📣 Applications open! Women’s History Scotland Research Bursary Up to £500 is available for Masters students, doctoral researchers, ECRs, and independent historians researching women’s and gender history 🗓 Deadline 31 May 2026 Details on how to apply 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

I’m appalled to see that we are following the US in their puritanical obsession with book banning. This has to stop: support your local school librarian, folks, and push back against this nonsense wherever you can.

My excellent colleague @katiedd.bsky.social has just published this remarkable investigation into rampant book banning in a Greater Manchester secondary school library. 193 books including The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, White Teeth and 1984 Graphic Novel www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

AI generated citations are such a waste of a court's valuable and limited time. futurism.com/artificial-i...

I have an AI joke but you wouldn’t get the reference

Maybe they just had the munchies? www.scottishlegal.com/articles/and...

Happy Evacuation Day! While Boston celebrates the retreat of the British in 1776, let's also remember the Black Bostonians who found their freedom by leaving Massachusetts with the British. Pompey Fleet was a skilled printer enslaved by the Fleet family (printers/booksellers/auctioneers) in Boston