Important if unnerving article finding that 10s of 1000s of archaeological human remains excavated in Britain over the last c.150 years are unaccounted for. Shouldn’t be used as a stick to beat current curators - this is an inherited problem caused by a complexity of historic systematic issues.

Margaret Medcalf ensured that some of Western Australia's most important documents were preserved. #archives #GLAMS

"We are living through a period in which the scaffolding underpinning entire bodies of knowledge is no longer secure..." Brilliant article on how environmental science needs to pivot it's research tactics and learn from humanities - where money has been scare for a long time.

It is giving strongly competitive Easter hat parade energy.

"These were just women like me and you..." - @annacaig.bsky.social Talking witchcraft trials and the women persecuted in Scotland. Ironically Topping's event is in a kirk.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

First submission to Scotland's Treasure Trove. A beautiful little flint I found washed up on a beach in Charlestown, Fife.

Hello Saturday!

Things are afoot #StonehengeEverything

Reason #47 to live in a Scottish village... The excellent Niel Gow Festival is on again celebrating the music of a man born in 1727 in Dunkeld. We might currently have more fiddlers per head of population then anywhere in Scotland rn 🎻

Panel discussion (free and online) hosted by the Royal Historical Society 12:30 pm Thursday 26 March on 'Historical Context: Modern Iran', featuring Professor Maziyar Ghiabi, Dr Louise Kettle and Dr Jonathan Franzen. #Skystorians

A small but excellent exhibition looking at the history of birth @wellcomecollection.bsky.social. The best bit was...

On this day in 1815, computer programmer Ada Lovelace was born in England. She believed computers might compose pieces of music but also that the "Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform."

You know what ys the coolest thinge? Libraryes.

Just an afternoon at the local archive. This character is from Inverness and is over 600 years old.

Dig day! Out with Perth & Kinross Heritage Trust excavating around huge boulders that have Pictish cup marks on them

We are busy getting ready for the new academic year, but our Dr Nicola Martin had a great afternoon out with students, visiting Abertarff House, the oldest house in Inverness. The students also had the opportunity to view short film 1745: An Untold Story of Slavery. @thinkuhi.bsky.social