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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴. ~Newton Women's History Month starts Sunday. #celebrate #WHM

A Women's History Month montage in a grid layoutof pioneering women across STEM, education, science advocacy, and related fields. The portraits are primarily black-and-white or vintage-style photographs, celebrating trailblazers whose work advanced scientific discovery, engineering, computing, astrophysics, civil rights through education, and more.

Top row (left to right): Gladys West, mathematician and educator whose modeling of Earth's shape contributed to the development of GPS technology; Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist who discovered pulsars; Eleanor Roosevelt, humanitarian, First Lady; Chien-Shiung Wu, experimental physicist who disproved parity conservation.

Middle row (left to right): Edith Clarke, pioneering electrical engineer, the first woman to earn an electrical engineering degree from MIT; Grace Hopper, computer scientist, mathematician, and U.S. Navy rear admiral who developed the first compiler; Marie Curie, two-time Nobel Prize winner in Physics and Chemistry for her groundbreaking work on radioactivity; Pearl Buck, Nobel Prize in Literature.

Bottom row (left to right): Rosalind Franklin, chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose Photo 51 was essential to understanding the double-helix structure of DNA; Septima Clark, educator and civil rights leader; Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Prize-winning neurologist who co-discovered nerve growth factor (NGF); Gabriela Mistral, poet, educator, diplomat, and Nobel Prize winner in Literature.

#WomenInSceince #WomenInSTEM

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 24/02/2026

#OtD 24 Feb 1909 anarchist Ethel Macdonald was born in Motherwell, Scotland. Her exploits during the Spanish Revolution caused the British press to dub her the Scots Scarlet Pimpernel stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9642...

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Alasdair Mckinlay @alimak66.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Music! Music!! Good grief. Rachmaninov's 2nd. I start to well up BEFORE the finale begins. Why? How does he do that? Then I actually cry. Every single time. Yes I'm a soppy date who greets just thinking about scenes from movies, but it's still astonishing.

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️ 1/2

Photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell in front of a radio telescope dish in the 1960s. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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Alasdair Mckinlay @alimak66.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

@ande91.bsky.social goldarn it!!! This was just too good not to share. And It's over here.

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Alasdair Mckinlay @alimak66.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

bsky.app/profile/doct... @ande91.bsky.social last one. Will leave you in peace to finish off your Monday in style.

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Alasdair Mckinlay @alimak66.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

@ande91.bsky.social some smiling corn in my beautiful local gift shop. And I reckon motivation on a Monday is overrated.

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Halloweeno @vimtotime.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

There is some new stuffe in my shoppe hellohalloweeno.etsy.com

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Alasdair Mckinlay @alimak66.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

@ande91.bsky.social what about your US hockey teams!! Hope you got to watch it!

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

International Mother Language Day at Royal Society of Edinburgh - mind expanding Language Taster sessions with New Scots - so much fun and poignancy

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Alasdair Mckinlay @alimak66.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

In further movie controversy, The Magnificent 7 is terrific. Especially from the start to the end of recruitment. And some great lines. A dollar bill always looks as big as a bedspread to me. Favourite of the 7? Probably Vinn for me.

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Alasdair Mckinlay @alimak66.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Great lyrics ctd, I feel like taking all my clothes off, dancing to the Rite of Spring. I love dancing and the Rite of Spring. But don't worry, clothes would stay on. No-one wants to see me dancing in the nude.

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Tom Duffin Photographer @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The delighted faces of some of the Leith Chooses projects awarded their funds by Willy Barr of Citadel Youth Centre - full story over here: tinyurl.com/TDLeithChooses

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Mary M @marym276.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

A pair of bearded reedlings at the Tay reedbeds #Scotland #blueskyartshow #two

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A plaque commemorating the life of the Scottish social reform campaigner and political activist Mary Barbour, who was born in Kilbrachan on this day in 1875, on a Hutton Drive tenement in the Linthouse area of Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #govan #marybarbour #glasgowhistory #scottishhistory

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Built Environment Forum Scotland @thebefs.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Bill has passed unanimously. New duties on public bodies to grow, retain and circulate wealth locally, from procurement to skills and community asset ownership. Read more in our latest BEFS Bulletin 👇

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BEFS Bulletin 391: Community Wealth Building, Draft Budget, and sector consultations

Get The Latest Built Environment News, Policy Developments, Publications & Consultations

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.co.uk · 20/02/2026

Silly season approacheth. I had a gentle word with someone on our local common on #Dartmoor this morning who was running their dog off the lead near sheep. The dog's interested in its ball, but the sheep don't know that and are panicking. Ewes can abort their lambs if worried, and ground-nesting

Sheep on grass on Dartmoor with a bright sky behind and a tor in the distance.

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Alasdair Mckinlay @alimak66.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Great lyrics continued; it's a truck load of bricks in the soft morning light, the shot of a gun in the dead of the night. And; a hawk, a quail, the promise of spring. Both the English version from Aguas de Marco.

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BBC Sport {bot} @bbcsport.xmirror.bot · 19/02/2026

Team GB curler Bruce Mouat speaks about coming out and being an LGBTQ+ role model in British sport.

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Alasdair Mckinlay @alimak66.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

In further controversial comment. Today I watched 1939 the 39 Steps, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, and The Blues Brothers. All absolutely excellent. Lucky boy to be able to do that. The last two though. Make me realise how much music means to me. I'm not an aficionado. But it makes me smile. And dance.

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Rena Stewart #Scottish #centenarian Studied German @ Uni of St Andrews. #WWII codebreaker @ Bletchley Park, translated Hitler’s will. Joined BBC Caversham Park, monitored Radio Moscow. Became journalist, 1st woman Senior Duty Editor #BBC World Service b. 17 Feb 1923 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rena_St...

Rena Stewart in uniform taken sometime before she was demobbed in 1947

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The City of Edinburgh Council @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Going on holiday or not available to vote in person on 7 May? You can still vote in the Scottish Parliament election. Apply for a postal vote by 21 April or a proxy vote by 28 April. Make sure your vote is counted, even if you're away. www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

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Edinburgh World Heritage @edinburghwh.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

You have until tomorrow to apply to be our new Head of Operations and Business Support! Head to Goodmoves to find out more: goodmoves.org/vacancy/a4sP...

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Vulcan Street, Leeds, 1975, by Peter Mitchell, one of the great 20th century photographers (he had various jobs including lorry driving while taking pictures). The man is Eric Massheder.

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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Lin Lanying was an engineer and physicist who developed semiconductor and aerospace materials, particularly monocrystalline silicon, a key semiconductor used as a component in virtually all modern electronic equipment. adalovelaceday.subst...

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Dr Lin Lanying, Materials Engineer

Dr Lin Lanying was an engineer and physicist who contributed to the development of semiconductor and aerospace materials, particularly silicon.

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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

This Beagle’s dramatic 'play dead' on command is the funniest thing I’ve seen today

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Constance Tipper metallurgist, crystallographer specialist in metal strength effect on engineering problems. #WWII solved brittle fracture in Liberty war ships. Reader in #mecheng 1st woman full-time faculty @eng.cam.ac.uk Cambridge U. b #OTD 16 Feb 1894 #WomeninSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constan...

Constance Tipper as young woman, short bobbed hair held with a large clip, dark top, white collar with patterned tie. young white woman in B&W head and shoulders photo looking photo right

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University of Stirling Archives @unistirarchives.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Love these photos from our #TeamScotland Archive showing examples of how some of the posters in our collection were used to promote the #CommonwealthGames in #Edinburgh in 1970 #SportingHeritage #Glasgow2026

Photograph showing promotional material for the 1970 Commonwealth Games (Douglas Brown Collection, Commonwealth Games Scotland Archive, University of Stirling Archives).

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

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CynInEmbra | she/her @cynderness.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

It's the sea!

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merman hellville @seafoamghost.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

INFORMATION REQUEST reposts appreciated!! does anyone have *definite info* regarding whether you can give Universal Credit “explicit consent” (their wording) for someone to speak on the phone on your behalf, without making that person your official appointee for all benefits matters?

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Nebo Peklo @nebopeklo.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

It’s the 60th anniversary of Glasgow Airport and I’ve illustrated the original design by Basil Spence. Completed in 1966 with distinctive concrete arches which can still be seen from the interior of the current airport. Have a look up at the roof the next time you’re checking in ✈️

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Seán Caldwell @lcfcsean.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

#Reverberations In no particular order 16th Feb: The Sundays - Here’s where the story ends. youtu.be/2HV5KfE4xMA?...

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The Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends (Official Music Video) [HD Upgrade]

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

The Ladybird Adventures in History books by Lawrence Du Garde Peach. For many of us they sparked a love of history

31 books laid out in a grid to show their front covers, ranging from Alfred the Great to Henry the eighth

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