It's a flower not a weed and doesn't it look good. No need for chemicals to spray. Thanks for not spraying our #Edinburgh streets @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social . @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social

The limitations on violence established after World War II were not brought by pacifists or peaceniks but by literal old soldiers. They knew. They had seen.

R4 now Stoppard's In The Native State. 1991 production with Felicity Kendal and Peggy Ashcroft - her last performance. Dir John Tydeman. A beautiful production. The R3 dramas are a sad loss.

My granddaughter made her wee football-mad brother a birthday cake. That grass is butter icing.

“The English Channel is a pretty narrow strip of water, but it’s remarkable what an effective barrier it has been to the passage of ideas” —Edwin Morgan, in his 1968 essay “Concrete Poetry” – from IN TOUCH WITH LANGUAGE: A New Prose Collection (ASL, 2020) 3/3 asls.org.uk/publications...

On a grey & miserable w/end BBC R4 are doing a Stoppard weekend. Today Rozencranz & Guildenstern are Dead. First seen in the Lyceum première with TS in attendance. Still not sure what it's about. But it is marvellous. And there is Toby Jones. Dir Emma Harding. &Soc of Strange & Ancient Instruments

We are CLOSED on Monday 6th April for #EasterMonday. This year the staff are all heading across to Copinsay lighthouse in speedboats for our annual reenactment of The Rock. It's my turn to be Sean Connery. See you all when we've stopped Ed Harris and his men* *next week Happy Easter! 🐣

This BBC News Online piece will be the most effective publicity my new documentary about Flight into Danger gets. So if you have enjoyed the programme, think you may enjoy it, or are just a kind soul, if you could please share this anywhere you think it may be worth sharing, I'd be very grateful!

Wishing this was an April Fool. Hideous confluence of all the worst things.

A reminder of the only good newspaper April Fool ever. One that I sort of wish was true. Alexander McCall-Smith's Edinburgh Underground.

Had my bike robbed this evening in Mountcastle. Be grateful if folk could keep an eye out for it

100% agree

What’s been largest march in Scotland this year? Y’days Believe in Scotland Indy march in Edinburgh. But nowt on BBC Sunday Show today. Prog also missed the National from its newspaper review - would have been easy way to provide coverage. Poor.

What happened to this beautiful thing?

On Tuesday, MPs voted 379 - 137 to decriminalise women accused of ending their own pregnancies. This is a landmark moment for women’s rights and the most significant change to our abortion law since the 1967 Abortion Act was passed. Thank you to all who worked with us on this essential change.

How can this go on for another 3 years?

A wee homage, bought 1965 for 10 shillings and sixpence. Indispensable for the daughter of a terrible cook whose idea of haute cuisine was poaching an egg on top of grey mince. (She was very good at other things)

Just got page layouts back for my upcoming book, SLEUTH-HOUND: THE CASE OF THE REAL SHERLOCK HOLMES. Interestingly, my US publisher has added this cautionary note at the beginning re: AI. This has never appeared in my previous books. Good to see it, though one wonders how effective it will be.

Born #OnThisDay in 1866 was Antonia Maury, astronomer and one of the Harvard Computers. Maury worked on the classification of stellar spectra and binary stars, and was called "the single greatest mind that has ever engaged itself in the field of the morphology of stellar spectra." #WomenInSTEM

The Turner/ Constable exhibition at the Tate is well worth the journey. So is buying a membership which avoids booking and lets you in here for lunch - and Tate Modern for Tracey Emin and a bit of balance.

Next Wednesday artist Ilana Halperin will be in conversation with Fruitmarket Director, Fiona Bradley to celebrate her exhibition What Is Us and What Is Earth, and the publication of the book that accompanies it. www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/ilana-...

Before an excellent screening of Tracing Light at Kings Place last night. Coming to Glasgow at the ARC on 2nd April.

NEW: We often hear that Scotland’s more progressive income tax is “driving people out the country.” New HMRC data shows the opposite. Far more taxpayers are moving to Scotland than leaving it. Let’s look at the data 🧵

Listen to artist Ilana Halperin talk to Helen Needham on BBC Radio Scotland Outdoors on connecting with Deep Time, Edfell Volcano and mars. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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We didn't just find his videos - we also found Farage's outtakes, which show when his money-making sideline is interrupted by a text message or phone call, requiring him to re-record the video, he appears quick to anger.

This is really extraordinary. I've never seen anything like this from a government official.

Fantastic Llana Halperin exhibition on @fruitmarket.bsky.social

In January 2026 Paris' mayor Anne Hidalgo announced names of 72 women scientists proposed to be added to 72 male scientists already engraved on the Eiffel Tower. The Association Femmes & Sciences was tasked with preparing a list of 72 women scientists since 1789. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

I can't get exercised by what is on bank notes but this is very amusing. Apparently euros feature fictional bridges so they don't offend anyone (and they do, we checked!). So a Dutch town built the bridges that are on the notes and now all euros feature that town. 😂 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurobri...

The northern echo is big, about 300m and was not there 3 days ago, so possible a large tanker. The southern one i am unsure of, measures about 400m and has a deviant shape. Not even sure it is a ship.

🎥 Tracing Light Thurs 19 March - Award-winning director Thomas Riedelsheimer brings together art & science, in remote islands and hi-tech labs, to find the sweet spot between knowledge and beauty. Q&A With Leslie Hills, producer, Julie Brook, artist & Dr James Fox. 7.30pm | Kings Place,KX London

14 CALTON HILL (road) is where Agnes ‘Nancy’ Maclehose — Clarinda to Robert Burns’ Sylvander who gave her ‘Ae fond kiss’ — lived from 1810 to 1841. Her birthday is on Sunday 26 April which we will remember with a walk to her resting place in Canongate Kirkyard.

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Palantir isn’t anywhere near NHS Scotland thanks to our government in Edinburgh.

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

THIS by @naomialderman.bsky.social is the ‘Why Marty Supreme Should Win The Oscar’ essay the Guardian should have published (and sent to every Academy voter). Instead of giving it to a sports writer who - I repeat - neither liked nor can remember the film. naomialderman.substack.com/p/look-at-me...

Our latest film Tracing Light at the wonderful ARC ofGlasgow University my alma mater. We filmed there - and the outer Hebrides and the Max Planck Institute in Bavaria ... and.. and even London. Thomas Riedelsheimer's obsession with light brings together science and art. Stunning pictures. Apr 2 6pm

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Deep into the testosterone zone: the AI war This is a war being waged with a new generation of AI-guided missiles. Gaza was the laboratory, this is the next stage, writes @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cad...

With Alt text because it's important

On astronomical navigation as a fallback: "The image processing is very advanced," says Shaw. "Doing something like… star-mapping is very inexpensive." Though, he adds, "It's just not very accurate." As always, multiple methods need to be used together.

So whilst the self-reported big manly men are accidentally closing a narrow shipping channel by having a big manly war and shouting big manly war things, a reminder of that time a bunch of lads who were much secure in their gender did it deliberately.

Do you like excellence about his ex-excellency? Then this piece of brilliant writing is for you. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“In 2024 the UK’s creative industries contributed £145.8 billion to the economy while the entire AI sector contributed £11.8 billion.” www.thetimes.com/article/8561...

Strait of Hormuz, 2026-03-10 (14:16 UTC) AIS-data (+/-1h) overlayed to SAR satellite data and faintly, normal paths. Almost wholly void. A handful ships, moving or drifting. AIS-data, pointless for now. Data: marinetraffic, Sentinel 1. Code: @pa.nton.cx

As the Herald maligns its home city, here are TWELVE reasons why Glasgow is really getting better and is already better than most English cities but it’s being hidden from you by Labour-supporting media talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/03/10/a...