Today @thesicktimes.org: Writer Corina Maller examines transauricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS), an intervention many people with Long COVID and ME are trying with mixed results. thesicktimes.org/2026/04/21/a...
71% of our planet is ocean, but you wouldn’t know it from traditional maps.
Shift your land-based perspective this Earth Week with a story about the Spilhaus Projection map and the WHOI oceanographer who created it: go.whoi.edu/spilhausmap
Anne Bodenham could transform into a cat, a lion, a dog, or a bear. She was hanged at Salisbury in 1653. But John Aubrey wasn't sure the trial was sound. Part 8 of my series on Aubrey's Natural History — witchcraft, evidence, and an open verdict.
www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/john-au...
This. Every time you see a "successful" trans person, know we are just one transphobe away from losing everything. This is one reason why it is important for allies to actually ally when we're not around -- transphobes should know their views aren't acceptable to anyone.
Today in the Scottish public history column: Recording the voices of the last generation of lighthouse keepers and their families with Dr Erin Farley and the Northern Lighthouse Heritage Trust’s oral history project. www.thenational.scot/culture/2603...
On 10 May I'll be one of the speakers at this event at the Barbican, talking about the persecution of London's medieval Jews and their defence of the Tower of London from siege in 1267: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202... #medievalsky
Yes I gave it up for various reasons but it is the only way short of a full sub to get at least some of their stuff
Try their cheaper app the FT edit it's about £5 a month
Covenanters & women crime writers will be two of the themes woven into this year’s Wigtown Spring Book Weekend, 2–4 May. With dozens of events from author talks to guided walks, writing, photography & music workshops, the programme is now available online:
www.wigtownbookfestival.com/blog/wigtown...
i got a reply!!
a good apology, imo
have emailed back asking if it will be published in the national/on social media, and about the charity donation
got a reply back immediately saying she’s working with the team on how to resolve it all, and she’s aware there’s a lot of work to be done
‘The Wayfarer’ by Hieronymus Bosch
Registration is open for our conference 'Folklore on the Move' in collaboration with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen! Hybrid conference: 5 - 7 June, King's College Quad, University of Aberdeen. Online day: 10 June. Programme & booking form: www.folklore-society.com/event/folklo...
Exhibition - Red Easterhouse: Building a people's archive. Stories of collective struggle in greater Easterhouse. The Easterhouse Living Archive is an ongoing community project to unearth, preserve and engage with the working class histories and struggles of Easterhouse..
Stained glass of St Brendan arriving by boat to see the ‘unhappy Judas’ (who is consumed by fire)
‘A Meeting’ (1918) - a dancing mermaid and merman
Richard Mulcahy in IFS uniform in a blue and white stained glass surround - made for his family in 1925
The ‘unhappy Judas’ in stained glass about to make a grisly end thanks to an angel suspending a noose
Some stunning Harry Clarkes on display at the NMI
Yes, alas unfortunately the weight of the metal ones is a far more comfortable feeling for me personally from a sensory point of view - so I'm basically stuffed by their design philosophy.
this uk press increased its coverage of trans people 100 fold (60 articles/yr to 7,500, almost uniformly hostile)
they then say lgbtq+ people provoked that by advocating for themselves
19 April 1583: Quite a lot going on today, but to start with some solemn piety, the city council of Edinburgh orders a proclamation to be made 'discharging all Sonday Mercatis within this burgh', and more importantly prohibiting 'all catchpulling, rolling, playing, drinking ... 1/
#earlymodern
New display room for Aberlemno Pictish stone to open this weekend www.anguscountyworld.co.uk/heritage-and...
Beinn Dhubh, Isle of Harris
A panel in York’s St. William window (1405–08) by John Thornton - shows a man healed after being hit by a falling stone. This stone, found in a ditch near the deanery in 1867, reads: “Which fell on the head of Roger of Ripon.” It might once have been displayed at St. William's shrine.
Caitlyn Jenner, a trans woman who supported Trump for years, being left unable to travel internationally or vote due to Trump's anti-trans policies should be a stark warning to any of the anti-trans gay people out there.
The leopards will make a meal of your face too. Just wait.
Happy 1926 Irish census day! This is an amazing resource, huge undertaking by the NAI. Managed to find all eight of my great-grandparents. Interestingly, my great-grandmother’s father had filled their form in Irish so took a bit longer to locate them. nationalarchives.ie/collections/...
Newspapers will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism...
Warsaw, National library, Akc. 24000 is a lovely eighth-century gospel book which was at the Abbey of Saint Maximin in Trier. Interestingly it seems someone added a text for telling the future based on thunder to it. It's on display at the Pałac Rzeczypospolitej.
A rosemary beetle on a rosemary stalk
Rosemary beetle. Savaging our rosemary in the most beautiful way
Liberton #Edinburgh #beetles
Some really instructive (& fun) ink making experiments with @jillburke.bsky.social this afternoon in prep for a forthcoming ink & quills workshop. Scottish, English or Aleppo oak galls: which makes the best ink? we will tell you after the workshop! 😉
Many experimental ideas in the pipeline ✍️📜🍃
I’ll be in Edinburgh next Thursday talking about THE ASSET CLASS at @lighthousebks.bsky.social - get your ticket here: lighthousebookshop.com/events/the-a...
Please share this advert for the Dr David Summers Master of Research (MRes) Studentship in Scottish Literature @edinburghnapier.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 May 2026.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
I see it. It could be dropping off a J of something like 'Jhohnesoune'. Sometimes people just write the wrong letter or mispell though.
