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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 11h
Help with #palaeography please! What is the contraction here? It is from a court case involving a heated argument in a craft meeting: '...and did that lay in him to have movit tham to [cu[ ]t] upoun him for his invasion gif that thaj had nocht bene better myndit...'
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 4h
GRANTS ANNOUNCEMENT: Audrey Henshall Legacy Fund Reopens We are offering a grant of up to £10,000 for the successful applicant to develop and undertake a significant research project which supports research or fieldwork on pre-Roman antiquities in Scotland: www.socantscot.org/news/audrey-...
Woman sitting in a field with overlaid text that reads: Grants Announcement
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just saw folk who join the uncritical rush towards AI referred to as "LLMings", and I am stealing that.
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Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings
Alt: Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Scottish high school has paid tribute to one of its former pupils who has died whilst fighting for Ukraine
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Scottish high school pays tribute to former pupil killed while fighting for Ukraine
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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am not given to hyperbole when it comes to university industrial relations, but this feels like an existential event. The heart of the university is being torn out, with long-lasting consequences. These strikes are a last-ditch attempt to stop that. Will anyone listen?
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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This university has a 3% surplus, this is not a school in a funding crisis! Yet they're making £140 million in cuts with £90 million in staffing budget cuts. You wanna know what they have plenty of money for though?
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Kate Louise Mathis is on strike @drmaudbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As am I... Solidarity with all my gorgeous colleagues and our amazing, amazing students, today, tomorrow and (hopefully not), every day of the 25 we've notified. #StopTheCuts @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Covid everywhere again... high fevers, coughs, and I've heard already of two cases of vertigo (probably ear-related or brain-related). People are not being told, and they don't tell themselves either, that there is not such a thing as acquiring immunity to sars2.
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Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, staff @ University of #Edinburgh are striking to protest recently announced cuts - incl. the forced closure of >90 courses. Principal Prof Sir Peter Mathieson accused the union of "weaponising" students. I find this enraging, so: a short (quite personal) thread. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts
Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.
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Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Accusing striking staff of 'weaponising students' ignores the extent to which students have ALREADY become nothing but £££ signs for a University management depriving generations of future students of much more than 5 weeks of teaching.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Overwhelming response today from the protests and picket lines at the University of Edinburgh, on Day 1 of the UCU workers' strike. This includes at the university's Medical School ...
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Scottish Historical Review @scottishhistreview.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Registration is required: In-person: lnkd.in/dZQGpT9c Online: lnkd.in/deCyrYnm
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Karie Bookish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I can only second this. If you are in Glasgow, visit Category Is. It's much more than a bookshop. It's a community hub, a place of active resistance, and a big fucking hug.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Duille @duille.com · 26/09/2026
ITC Willow Typeface. Tony Forster. 1990. Possibly one of the most influential uses of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's letterforms; it adapted and standardised numerous hand-lettered sources for the digital age. NB: Mackintosh never actually designed a 'font'.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There are no words for how much this disgusts me #research #humanities #ukri
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Night all. ❤️😴 Episode 134 - Night waves rolling onto Coldingham Sands (34mins *sleep safe*) It's 3am on the path from St Abbs to the beach. Just the sound of gulls and the sea.
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134 Night waves rolling onto Coldingham Sands (sleep safe) | Radio Lento podcast
Up steep steps from the sandy beach, and a birds-ear view of ocean breakers from a thicket, perched half-way up the cliff. Several hours to go before low tide. Directly ahead slow rolling waves, break...
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: Train drivers have warned they will boycott vehicles manufactured by a company linked to illegal Israeli settlements www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Two Masks COVID-Informed People Wear: One for the airborne virus — one for the frustration of watching people repeatedly get sick while public health messaging continues to fail them. Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...
A screenshot of a social media post on X (formerly Twitter) by the user tern (@1goodtern).
The text of the post reads: "I wear two masks: a visible one to reduce my exposure to airborne pathogens, and an invisible one to hide the scream behind my eyes every time I encounter yet another person with long-term health problems caused by covid infection."
The post is dated 3:55 PM · Sep 20, 2026 and shows a metric of 11.2K Views.
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Kate Louise Mathis is on strike @drmaudbailey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Exhibit B: 'our most adventurous reimagination of our curriculum for a generation' llc.ed.ac.uk/understandin...
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Understanding our programme changes | Literatures, Languages & Cultures | Literatures Languages and Culture
In 2027, we are embarking on our most adventurous reimagination of our curriculum for a generation.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
AI is screwing up journal papers: Journal editor asks authors of 10 submitted papers to meet and discuss their paper. Of the 7 that showed up, 3 were unable to answer basic questions about the paper and 3 had difficulty when asked further questions on technical details… medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...
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Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
By Nihar B. Shah
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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A university founded in the Middle Ages in a city that centers itself around a Medieval castle does not see a need to study Medieval History
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tell your boss that I gave you the week off so you can explore this amazing interactive map showing the road network of the Roman Empire. This is so much fun to explore you can compare the Ancient and Modern road network for example. Great stuff. Your boss will understand... Source: itiner-e.org
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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why @ucu.org.uk is taking an unprecedented five weeks of strike action in the wake of 90 programme closures at Edinburgh University. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2656382...
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'Our last option': Why UCU is escalating jobs fight amid cuts at leading university
There is a war of attrition between the University and College Union (UCU) and senior managers at the ancient institution.
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M. J. Grant @campaignbear.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Some reassurance here on Scottish Stuidies & co. As another colleague pointed out, the way these closures have been announced (internally and externally) has the hallmarks of a PR disaster. (But then, they ARE gearing up to sack swathes of our PR staff, so mibbes get used to it).
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Kate Louise Mathis is on strike @drmaudbailey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's been a fun week...
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Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
These cuts disproportionately target the arts & humanities: the Business School loses only three courses; the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures loses 48 – many of these are joint degrees, removing the optional breadth of study which has always been one of the appeals of a Scottish degree
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bonnie Greer famously sat with her back to the BNP’s Nick Griffin when he appeared on Question Time in 2009. There was much criticism of the BBC platforming the far right, Now every episode of Question Time is wall to wall far right talking points with open arms and a seat kept warmfor Reform
Author and critic
Bonnie Greer dies aged 77
Culture
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GETTY IMAGES - picture of Bonnie Greer an elder Black woman with short red Afro hair wearing a black button up shirt 

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Culture reporter
British-American author and cultural commentator Bonnie Greer has died at the age of 77 after a brief illness, her husband has said.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Really wish our leaders wouldn't normalize working while actively sick with COVID.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anyone re/reading Brontë's "Jane Eyre", I HIGHLY RECOMMEND also reading "Salvage: Readings from the Wreck" by Dionne Brand. #Lit The 3rd chapter takes a critical look at it in relation to Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea". "It is, above all, a novel about submission. Confinement and submission."
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How the Western Literary Canon Made the World Worse
A talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction helped abet the crimes of capitalism, colonialism, and more.
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Having the reality of your illness denied “is almost as bad as the actual physical symptoms themselves.” Ed Yong, speaking about #LongCovid patients being disbelieved and dismissed, and how gender and racial bias affect their care.
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Ros Ballaster @ballasterros.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSX678/t... We are looking for a special scholar to lead our remarkable team in 18th century literature @engfac.bsky.social
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Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at University of Oxford
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Lee Randall @leerandall.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We love Winifred! She was Penelope Fitzgerald's auntie! Her crime novels set in Edinburgh fascinate me because so much about this city remains unchanged. Sociologically speaking, as well as physically.
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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Here’s an old #UrbanPrehistory blog post of mine from 8 years ago about a Neolithic chambered cairn in the shadow of a nuclear power station. theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2018/05/29/p...
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Post-atomic megalith
Dounreay nuclear power plant Cnoc na h-Uiseig chambered cairn Clachar megalith tripartite entangled                    powerless   an inventory of atomic performance splitting atoms transcendi…
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 13/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Scottish Greens will force a vote in Parliament this week on halting hyperscale data centres!
Daily Record article: John Swinney to face crunch Holyrood vote aiming to pause supersized AI data centres
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Birmingham UCU @birminghamucu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Please read and share this open letter from staff at risk of compulsory redundancy in Modern Languages at the Uni of Birmingham. It calls for the redundancies to be halted, for the equality impact assessment to be released, and for meaningful consideration of alternatives.
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“A national catastrophe” at home: open letter on redundancies
We write as Translation and Interpreting staff at risk of compulsory redundancy at the University of Birmingham, together with the Birmingham UCU Committee. In brief: a University whose Vice-Chance…
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Doing some housekeeping on the blog and I remembered this: new-cleckit.dominie.scot/blue-in-the-... If you want to know why Glasgow's early municipal clocks had to be regularly boiled, and which one had a chaplain to keep it company at night, this post might be for you.
A montage of five clocks with blue faces.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The most extraordinary book. "You reached Unthank on the 3rd day of the 10th month of the 1956th solar year of the Nazarene calendar. Calling yourself Lanark you attended the central social security office, were registered as a dragon and awarded 8 pounds, 19 shillings and 6 pence."
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Fiona Campbell-Howes @fortrenn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Superb article by Trevor, looking at animal and seabird bone assemblages to discern early medieval 'taskscapes' around the Firth of Forth. Wonderful use of evidence to 'fill in the gaps' and see what ordinary people were doing - but also to place that activity in context of wider changes. Excellent!
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026
Universities are subsidizing internal AI tools that are, from the perspective of the humanities, enabling cheating & cognitive outsourcing. The cost in resources is certainly an issue, but the fact that these tools undermine the work we ask students to do is ridiculous www.umass.edu/it/genai/pla...
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GenAI Platform : UMass Amherst Information Technology : UMass Amherst
The UMass GenAI platform is an intuitive and user-friendly platform designed to provide the UMass community with equitable access to leading generative AI models, including OpenAI (ChatGPT), Anthropic...
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Remembering John Martyn on his birthday. Here he is performing May You Never on the OGWT in 73
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
1/9 Father Mychal Judge — the first recorded death at Ground Zero on September 11 — could become the first known gay saint in Catholic history. www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/father-myc...
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Father Mychal Judge, Gay Franciscan Killed in the North Tower, Could Be 9/11’s First Saint
The first recorded death at Ground Zero would become the first known gay person canonized a saint in the Catholic Church’s history.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
To mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11, the Library has launched an online collection of nearly 500 first-hand accounts that document what responders witnessed, why they responded, what they endured, and how the experience affected their health, families and lives in the years that followed. 🧵
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Fabula Celtica Podcast @fabulaceltica.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Instead of responding to this wild shite, I'm going to rank the fictional invasions in Lebor Gabála Éirenn by sheer badassery (last to first place).🧵
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Irish in Britain @irishinbritain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Professor Mícheál Ó Mainnín will give a lecture on the portrayal of the Irish language by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and the motivations for some negative stereotypes which were to prove resilient & enduring in later centuries 6pm Thurs 1 Oct ow.ly/SoRF50ZKFZL
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Shakespearean England and Views of the Irish Language
The Irish language has been associated with politicisation and conflict, particularly in the context of contemporary Northern Ireland identity politics. However, debates around the language extend much further back in time and some key elements of the discourse may be traced to the sixteenth century in particular.This lecture looks at the portrayal of the Irish language by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and the motivations for some negative stereotypes which were to prove resilient and enduring in later centuries.
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