iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 15h

NEWS: New Impact Report Celebrates Recent Society Achievements Highlights include over 56,000 downloads of our open access e-books, over £30,000 of grant funding awarded to research projects, and over 1,500 total attendees at our public events programme: www.socantscot.org/news/new-imp...

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 13h

My friend @thneed.bsky.social has written a Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_th...

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Till the Bells Ring - Wikipedia

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 18h

“Glasgow is a magnificent city,” said McAlpin. “Why do we hardly ever notice that?” “Because nobody imagines living here,” said Thaw […] “if a city hasn’t been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.” —Alasdair Gray, 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘬 #Booksky 💙📚

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

From the Scottish Enlightenment to the Scottish Endarkenment Scotland’s universities are falling apart. Edinburgh is axing 90 degree courses in arts and humanities including single honours Scottish Literature. These are the courses that teach Scotland about Scotland In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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The Scottish Endarkenment has dawned in this dumbed-down nation

The mass closure of university courses is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the unravelling of Scottish culture today, says Neil Mackay

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Second week on strike with UCU Edinburgh. We will be on strike for five weeks - taking out the entire first half of term, up to the first assessments - but we could be back in the classroom tomorrow if management withdrew the threat of compulsory redundancies.

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Isabella Lewis @irvlewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On Saturday, 7 November, I will be running a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon around the theme of Byzantine women & genderqueer saints. I hope that this workshop will help to improve the coverage of women and LGBTQ+ history on Wikipedia. To attend, follow this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wiki-edit-...

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Wiki Edit-a-Thon: Byzantine Women & Genderqueer Saints

An in-person edit-a-thon that aims to improve the coverage of Byzantine women & genderqueer saints on Wikipedia. No prior experience needed.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Desperately sorry about this. Yet more HE sector vandalism.

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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

University of Nottingham confirms it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students www.timeshighereducation.com/news/notting... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

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Nottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affected

Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans

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Kate Molloy @kate-molloy.net · 24/09/2026

Join us starting on 12 October for our upcoming open course (with digital badge), Using OER and OEP: opencourses.ie/opencourse/o... The course is open to all and was developed by the loveliest group of open educators in Irish HE 😀 @catherinecronin.bsky.social @eam0.bsky.social

Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) open course. 25 hours starting 12 October. Earn a digital badge.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This presents a serious challenge to those of us in 'AI positive' institutions, where we have no choice but to engage with AI to some extent. (Tho' students here have an ethical opt-out, teachers do not.) We must educate our students about ALL aspects of AI, including the (un)ethical underpinning.

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Lorna M. Campbell @lornamcampbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a really inspiring conversation. Love the focus on student empowerment, equity and social justice.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Scenes from the Picket Lines: Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike against the University of Edinburgh's avaricious, exorbitantly paid senior management and their campaign of mass cuts against staff.

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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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Lorna M. Campbell @lornamcampbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are many terrible things about this story, but perhaps the worst is HE investing 6 figures in a spurious DRM wrapper. These images should have been in the public domain. National digital heritage belongs to all of us. This is why #OpenData & #OpenKnowledge matters.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026

Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable?

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Wikimedia UK @wikimediauk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today: the International Day for Universal Access to Information. This year's theme is information integrity in the digital age. AI writes a paragraph in seconds, checking it's true takes a person. Open, human-checked knowledge is the counterweight. What does reliable info mean to you?

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Christine Ferguson @cferguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Solidarity to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social as they fight what have clearly been proven to be unnecessary and disproportionate cuts within an institution that remains the wealthiest university in Scotland. Victory to the strikers! www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/five-we...

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Staff at the University of Edinburgh start five-week strike — UCU Edinburgh

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Edinburgh today (Monday) start five-weeks of strikes in a dispute over £140million cuts and compulsory redundancies. The strike f...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 26/09/2026

April, the last full fixture of the spring: “Feet, Scottish, feet!” – they rucked the fear of God Into Blackheath… —“London Scottish”, by Mick Imlah (1956–2009) – born #OTD, 26 September from THE LOST LEADER (Faber, 2008) #poem #poetry #rugby #WW1 www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/london-...

London Scottish
Mick Imlah

April, the last full fixture of the spring:
‘Feet, Scottish, feet!’ – they rucked the fear of God
Into Blackheath. Their club was everything:
And of the four sides playing that afternoon,
The stars, but also those from the back pitches,
All sixty volunteered for the touring squad,
And swapped their Richmond turf for Belgian ditches.
October: mad for a fight, they broke too soon
On the Ypres Salient, rushing the ridge between
‘Witshit’ and Messines. Three-quarters died.

Of that ill-balanced and fatigued fifteen
The ass selectors favoured to survive,
Just one, Brodie the prop, resumed his post.
The others sometimes drank to ‘The Forty-Five’:
Neither a humorous nor an idle toast.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

Still looking for librarians to complete our survey on how your library actually makes the decision to support OA initiatives - any country, any initiative. 📚

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For Edinburgh folk - free this Wednesday 1pm. Guided tour of the exhibition 'For the Safety of All: Scotland's Lighthouses' followed by Wikipedia edit-a-thon to improve articles on Scottish lighthouses www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/for-those-... #histSTM 🗃️ 📜

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For those in peril on the sea: Mapping Scotland's Lighthouses on Wikipedia

An engaging exhibition tour, Wikipedia editing tutorial and a writing workshop in a social and supportive environment

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Dr. Mollie Carlyle @molliecarlyle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finally got round to jotting down a few thoughts on the field of ‘maritime musicology’, which, as possibly the only self-proclaimed maritime musicologist, I’ve been meaning to do for some time. Hoping to expand this into a proper article at some point ⚓️🎶 www.molliecarlyle.com/post/maritim...

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‘Maritime Musicology’ – Tentatively Sowing the Seeds of a Discipline

Earlier this week, I was deeply honoured to be invited to present a paper on the nineteenth-century shanty tradition at the Royal College of Music Museum, as part of their ongoing exhibition on Shared...

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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...

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Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape

According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 17/09/2026

Glasgow UCU is demonstrating today after the university slashed its Graduate Teaching Assistant and Associate Tutor budget by 62% and withdrew contract extensions. No deficit. More precarity. More pressure on staff. 12 noon | University Main Gate. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1464...

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UCU Glasgow branch demonstration over withdrawal of contract extensions for Graduate Teaching Assistants and Associate Tutors

Postgraduate researchers at Glasgow University on Graduate Teaching Assistant and Associate Tutor contracts in the College of Social Sciences face financial precarity after contract extensions cancell...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

'The University and College Union (UCU)’s Edinburgh branch said staff had been called into “informal meetings at less than 24 hours' notice” and told not to bring union representatives.'

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Fear and anger as university set to announce 'massive course and programme closures'

Asked to respond, a university spokesperson said that staff and students were recently informed of changes to “our future academic offering across…

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Open Education at The University of Edinburgh @openededinburgh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Check out our article on Times Higher Education on the variety of ways that #OERs can be used to broaden the dissemination, reach, and impact of research output. 🔬🧪🧬 🥽 Written by @lornamcampbell.bsky.social and @sfarleycharlie.bsky.social. #OpenResearch #OpenPractice

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Open Education at The University of Edinburgh @openededinburgh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEXT WEEK!!! Join us for a nosey in the National Records of Scotland building at 2 Princes St as we lift the lid on how Wikipedia works AND have a guided tour of the latest exhibition on Scotland's lighthouses + look behind the scenes (over North Bridge). All welcome, free, fascinating, can't wait!

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Academic librarians - how does your institution actually decide whether to fund collective, fee-free open access? What finally ends up moving the internal discussions from yes, or maybe to no? We're running a short, anonymous survey (10–15 mins) to find out. 📚

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What made you say yes? OBC open access library support survey

About this survey This survey is run by the Open Book Collective - a charity registered in England and Wales (charity no. 1206287). For the purposes of data protection law, the Open Book Collective is...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 12/09/2026

THE CITY IS WILDER THAN YOU THINK AND KINDER THAN YOU THINK. IT IS A VALLEY AND YOU ARE A HORSE IN IT IT IS A HOUSE AND YOU ARE A CHILD IN IT SAFE AND WARM HERE IN THE FIRE OF EACH OTHER —Robert Montgomery, Light Poem (recycled sunlight) #BookWormSat #poetry www.robertmontgomery.org/recycledsunl...

A shop window in a city at night. The building is quite old, and there are drainpipes and cables coming down either side of the shop window. There's a flat above the shop, and there's a light on in one window. There are red, old-fashioned wrought-iron railings outside the shop window. The shop door says "WELCOME TO KK" and there's a sign reading "Sorry we're OPEN".

Above the shop window is a set of lights spelling out letters, set in front of a heart and under an arch of stars. The letters read

THE CITY IS WILDER THAN YOU THINK
AND KINDER THAN YOU THINK. IT IS A
VALLEY AND YOU ARE A HORSE IN IT
IT IS A HOUSE AND YOU ARE A
CHILD IN IT SAFE AND WARM HERE
IN THE FIRE OF EACH OTHER

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10/09/2026

He moves the way light moves: now sudden, racing up a field as sun clears cloud, now unnoticed, leaching from the world until you look up into dark… —Sheenagh Pugh, “Him Again” published in A Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening: New Writing Scotland 30 (ASL, 2012) #poem #poetry

HIM AGAIN
Sheenagh Pugh

He moves the way light moves: now sudden,
racing up a field as sun clears cloud,

now unnoticed, leaching from the world
until you look up into dark.

And he inhabits next door's peat stack,
waiting for winter, and the fat sheep

ready for the show, and the gap
in the window of what was a house

and is a shed, and soon will be out of use.
The berries that were once white blossom

on the brambles belong to him,
so they say, and lose all their taste

on a certain day, when he comes to harvest
what is alive, and ripe, and his own.

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Protests and Suffragettes @scotsuffragette.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🎨 WANT A MURAL FOR YOUR COMMUNITY? WE NEED YOUR WALL! ⭐️ In 2028, Scotland will mark the centenary of the Equal Franchise Act which gave women and men equal voting rights. We want to mark this important moment with something that communities can see, engage with and make their own.

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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Beloved local bookshop Category Is had their window smashed at the weekend; we are running a fundraiser with all ££ going to help them get shutters. One off mashup of two popular tours, Queer Glasgow and Radical Print Cultures. Tickets £20-£25-£30 if you fancy it! www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-glas...

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Queer Glasgow x Radical Print

Fundraiser for our pals at Category Is Books

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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ve been slowly writing the history of northern Iron Age studies in tandem with Ian Ralston (over 30 years). Ian’s new paper now shows that W.J. Varley was right on hillfort ramparts, and Wheeler (as ever) wrong. Regardless, the southerner went on to a glittering TV career, the northerner let go.

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Open Education at The University of Edinburgh @openededinburgh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'Persuasive Writing - Scottish Witch Trials' (ages 14-16). Learn about Scotland's witch #history (1563-1736), explore data in the University of Edinburgh’s Survey of Scottish Witchcraft & interactive map, and practise persuasive writing. #InternationalLiteracyDay #OER www.tes.com/teaching-res...

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Persuasive Writing - Scottish Witch Trials | Teaching Resources

Overview: This resource uses the history of the Scottish witch trials as a context for teaching persuasive writing in preparation for the National 5 English portfoli

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org

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RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea

The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 03/09/2026

oh, is that what we’re gonna do today, we’re gonna fight?

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

She looked where he was looking, into the dim gulf of air above the western sea. “If she comes, she'll come from there,” he said. “And if she doesn't come, she is there.” She nodded. “I know.” Her eyes were filled with tears.

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Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In partnership with Local Contexts, our September 1 webinar "Responsibilities, Ethics, and Access" will explore how cultural institutions can apply practical, community-centered approaches to Indigenous collections. This webinar will be presented in both English and Spanish. buff.ly/ieyp02B

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Protests and Suffragettes @scotsuffragette.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

👩‍🏫 The courage of women who came before us helped transform society.

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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A thread on the dispute at Exeter Uni. #ucu #defendexeteruni @ucu.org.uk On 15 June HR called Exeter UCU into a confidential meeting and informed us they would be putting over 500 colleagues at risk of redundancy and expected to loose around 200 staff. The number of c.150 you’ll have seen is FTE.

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Lorna M. Campbell @lornamcampbell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I hated the Suliven with a passion, but this almost made me nostalgic. You had to be there.

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