30/05/2025 – The NEN – North Edinburgh News https://www.europesays.com/uk/144922/ Queen Margaret University (QMU), Edinburgh has been crowned Higher Education Institute of the Year at the prestigious Herald Higher Education Awards…#uk #news #uknews

Great British Sewing Bee judge installed as Chancellor and forensic scientist honoured at QMU graduation ceremony – The NEN – North Edinburgh News https://www.europesays.com/uk/246766/ Today (7th July ’25), the designer, entrepreneur and TV judge, Patrick Grant, was officially …#uk #news #uknews

Report from Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) - Scotland needs to increase its full-time equivalent SLT therapists by 370, from a current 530. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ħaġar Qim and Mnajdra Neolithic 'temples' in Malta. These buildings are some 5000 years old, and after many many visits, never cease to amaze me.

One of the first photographs of Hagar Qim, 1890 Do you know what Malta looked like a hundred and twenty years ago❓ Richard Ellis' foto 📷 Spazju Kreativ 👀 shorturl.at/TeKnJ #photography #nature #bluesky #photo #urban #travel #landscapephotography #landscape #malta #valletta #history #experience

FROM SCENES LIKE THESE 29 May, Toppings, Edinburgh Gordon M Williams’ (1934–2017) novel FROM SCENES LIKE THESE was shortlisted for the first Booker Prize in 1969. James Robertson & Alan Taylor discuss this seminal piece of Scottish literature, now back in print www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...

Edinburgh bombing raids remembered in new book A captivating account of the almost-forgotten bombing raids on Edinburgh and Leith during World War 2 has hit bookshelves alongside an exhibition at the city’s Central Library.

In case you missed it ... Here's the Nobel prize-winning economist Esther Duflo destroying the claim that foreign workers reduce domestic wages. In fact, they actually help UK workers by adding to the talent base and allowing the economy to grow. Getting rid of them just leads to more automation. 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Taps Aff.

“The Greeks were wrong about the sun; she is definitely a woman. I know her well. She often visits me, but not often enough…” —In Alasdair Gray’s short story “The Problem”, a man has an awkward relationship with the sun (from UNLIKELY STORIES, MOSTLY) #BookWormSat 🌞 canongate.co.uk/books/100-un...

It is VE Night, Tobermory. Cottages blaze and shimmer in the mirror of the bay. Light is necklaced everywhere… —Hugh McMillan, “Old Photograph” published in AFTER THE STORM (Smith/Doorstop Books, 2005) A poem for #VEDay #VEDay80 www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/old-pho...

📸 On the hottest UK May 1st since records began. Let’s get fossil fuel ads banned– just 9 days left to force a Parliamentary debate govpetition.uk/700024

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

The 5% of around 7,000 people who did not know whether the word “ate” (A.T.E.) sounds the same as number 8 or rhymes with the word “bet” might have provided the most useful information. #phonetics #linguistics #phonology (from i newspaper)

🆓 🔓 Alyssa Kuiack and @larchiba.bsky.social #DevLangDis in #PlainEnglish #easyEnglish 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES Kuiack, A. & Archibald, L (2019) Developmental Language Disorder: The Childhood Condition We Need to Start Talking About. Frontiers for Young Minds. kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

What would it look like if research on using speech cues for the automatic detection of mental illness engaged with sociophonetics? 🗣️🧠 The poster by @lhlew.bsky.social and @tsunglunone.bsky.social has some fascinating thoughts—come check it out! #EMH2025

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

Putting finishing touches on my new book, POYUMS ANNAW today, so excited for yous to read it. If you'd like a signed/dedicated copy, they're available from the Portobello bookshop website, they ship internationally and have a special dark blue option! Any questions please don't hesitate to ask. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

The QMU Acting and Performance Showcase will consist of performances that promise a delight of two hander scenes, songs and snippets of the graduate digital showcase. 🤩 🗓️ Tue 29 - Wed 30 Apr 🎟️ www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/eve...

19th of June 2025 - a public research conference marking the 150th anniversary of Queen Margaret University. #Edinburgh #Edinburgh900 #Musselburgh #QMU

Exciting to see that the most important paper on tongue musculature for ... well, a long time... is sitting high in the readership charts at bsky.app/profile/asha... see Alan A Wrench's "The Compartmental Tongue". pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... - #JSLHR #phonetics