Bear and sloth are going to have a duvet day- wish I could too

Interested in partnering with Edinburgh Diamond for your book or journal and wondering if you're eligible? We just published new eligibility guidelines! Check them out: library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...

Researcher Rhiannon Bull from @uofgges.bsky.social is launching an appeal to gather short pieces of creative writing reflecting thoughts and feelings about climate change in Scotland. Interested in signing up? Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... @communitylandsc.bsky.social

✨New on the blog: How can poetry open up honest, empathetic conversations about contraception?✨ Marie Larsson explores how creative methods like poetry can support people to share experiences, challenge assumptions, & build inclusive dialogues around reproductive health. Read on 👉 edin.ac/3XJ2FBv

“Understanding inequalities is not just a passive endeavour but an active, creative practice.” Editors @juliettephd.bsky.social & Iris Pissaride on the worlds explored in our December magazine issue, including the urgent need for change in adoption, education, prisons and debt. buff.ly/UUIfDgo

Oh this looks fab

'Introducing a lottery before peer review in the research funding application process can boost women’s chance of success by almost a quarter, a new study has found, with its authors saying that the approach can also reduce costs and make applying for funding less labour-intensive.' 1/2

‘Poverty is a human rights violation. We cannot realise our own human rights until we address tax’ I talk to Scotland’s human rights chief who says poverty is trashing citizens rights to food, warmth, education and healthcare. ‘It robs people of dignity’. My Big Read @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Thinking about volunteering at a food bank but don't know where to start? This guide has everything you need to know.

Memorial To A Marriage, 2002, sculpture by New York based artist Patricia Cronin #WomensArt

Each time, the found world surprises - that is its nature. Jane Hirshfield

www.bbc.com/news/article... Recent research by @hspandler.bsky.social (Professor of Mental Health), a leading historian of Psychiatry and LGBT+ health, suggests that [aversion therapy through electroshock] was far more widespread than previously documented

'the thing that’s been really nagging at me since October is the cheek of proposing to fundamentally restructure quality assessment without looking at whether the National Student Survey (NSS) – which sits at its heart – is fit for the purpose OfS wants it to serve.'

This is a huge crisis and we need all press outlets to be drawing attention to it - when you add the social care workforce crisis into the mix it is truly terrifying (especially for care of older adults). The hateful obsession with immigration is doing so much damage in so many ways.

Researcher with specialist skills turns down post at an institute in the Oxford area. Cost of living too high - especially rents. Salary offered below European expectations. Extra charges post EU exit. UK loses out. This is personal (a relative). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Edith Cavell was born #OTD in 1865. A British #nurse & #WWI resistance leader, she ran escape lines that saved ~200 Allied soldiers from occupied Belgium. She was arrested, court-martialed, and shot by a German firing squad in 1915. Quote 👇 is from the eve of her execution. #WomenInHistory #history

Fantastic @thebinkshub.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social creative research workshop today on impractical repairs - we wrote poems and made sculptures and thought about futures in which healing and repair are more possible

As the great Gwendolyn Brooks said: ‘We are each other's harvest; we are each’s magnitude and bond.’

PhD studentships available in: Creative and Cultural Industries, Media, and Arts Practice (EDI in Practice); Identity, Representation, and Social Justice (EDI in Theory and Experience); Humanities, Philosophy, and Literature (EDI in Knowledge and Method). More details in link below.

Interesting job alert! 📣 We spotted this application call-out for an Artist Researcher for a very cool-looking project at @qmuniversity.bsky.social - do share! myjobscotland.gov.uk/education/qu... #AcademicSky #CreativeResearch

~50 million people are in modern slavery. Today is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. The focus is on eradicating modern forms of slavery including: -Trafficking in persons -Sexual exploitation -Worst forms of child labor -Domestic servitude www.un.org/en/observanc...

Rutger Bregman is on 🔥 - loving this years Reith Lectures www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

November was glorious in the Pentland Hills today #scotland #NatureIsNurture

The future is fungal www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

South Korean artist Jung Lee, from the neon series #WomensArt

Cooking our late Scottish thanksgiving meal and enjoying the wonderful Bjork open.spotify.com/track/6MYYN8...

'Blue Light' by contemporary, Brighton-based, UK painter Emma Brownjohn #WomensArt

Oh the branches

I do love ghosts

Trees embracing #NatureIsNurture

Biochemist Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn was born #OTD in 1948. She shared the 2009 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the enzyme telomerase & how chromosomes are protected by telomeres. This has 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 implications for the fields of #aging and #cancer research. #WomenInSTEM

On the trip to Modern One @nationalgalleries.bsky.social the kids described this sculpture by Anish Kapoor as a fear tornado- my takeaway: kids are smart and art is cool

It was an incredibly beautiful sunrise this morning, but a very busy day so finally posting this now. #natureisnurture #edinburgh

Friends are so import in our lives - they give care, love amd practical support. If you are care experienced you may face more barriers to friendship. Social workers amd carers need to be better at offering support. Here are resources we developed to help www.staf.scot/friendship-r...

I have been working with AFKA on these resources for kinship care - please share widely #kinship #digital #socialwork binks-hub.ed.ac.uk/research/kin...

Perfection - Rest in power Jimmy www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzS-...

The fourth episode of Jane Austen’s Paper Trail uses the novel Emma to explore the writer’s views on friendship.

Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study explains it: a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else. Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.

MSPs are starting to stand up and we appreciate it - this is for everyone in #Scotland - cuts @edinburghup.bsky.social will do untold harm to one of Scotland’s best universities and this will hurt the reputation of HE in Scotland + the economy @ucu.org.uk www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp

"I believe the world is beautiful and that poetry, like bread, is for everyone." #poetry #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all." My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away. Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

A total privilege to spend the afternoon learning about Ekphrastic poetry with the genius Nick Makoha - he shared a number of poems from his new collection which is fantastic. #PoetryHelps @ptbopoetry.bsky.social

I get a bit tired of some of the discourse around young men. This lovely poem by Hollie McNish highlights the wonderful care so many young men do for their female friends. I was lucky to have boy friends like this in my life and I still do!!

Important thread on fuel poverty and social justice

Finding news coverage Covid-19 Inquiry very upsetting - my mother-in-law died in first wave. She died alone on a Covid ward. We did not get to go to her funeral + her husband was left to grieve alone. His last years were lonely + bewildering. Sending ❤️to those w/complex grief + rage.

It was freezing 🥶 but we are standing strong together and saying NO TO CUTS at the University of Edinburgh @ucu.org.uk

I do love David Shringley

People support structures that support them. Who in your workplace is the biggest slopAI enthusiast? news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

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