You should totally take it.

Is that the dam from Andor?

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Want to boost the UK’s birthrate? Fix the housing crisis, research suggests Policymakers should address financial barriers that hinder young people from starting families, says thinktank

👶 Imagine getting THIS close to understanding the impact of extortionate housing costs then concluding that what's really needed is 'a system of “taxpayer-backed loans to help potential first-time buyers afford the deposit on a property".' Again: decent social housing anyone? proper rent controls?

striking staff holding placards and pink/black balloons representing hidden redundancies stand in front of the spire of Edinburgh Futures Institute. Pavement chalk reads 'no more cuts'

UCU Edinburgh STRIKE✊🩷

A call to join the campaign to save Glasgow's last remaining city centre art production spaces, under threat of eviction despite having a 25 year lease, terms of which are being summarily rewritten by the council.

The fate of Glasgow's last city centre arts production building is crucial to the city and to the role of art in it. Eviction could happen from this Friday. Please sign the petition www.change.org/p/save-trong...
Join the protest on Friday. Write to your MSP, MP, councillors. Resist!

The session will cover the ethics and theory of oral history, planning and interview, using recording equipment and more. Previous participants have now gone on to conduct their first interviews – you could be next!
Refreshments provided, free entry.

How can we record the narratives of displacement and resistance that mark the history (and present) of housing in Glasgow and beyond? How can we develop the skills and infrastructure that enable workers and tenants to tell their own stories?

poster for 'Oral History Training'. A woman holding a mic and a man sit at a table talking

Join the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive for a hands-on oral history training led by historian Kate Wilson.

Saturday 14th March, 10am – 2pm
The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale Road, Glasgow

DM me to book!

David Harding obituary Sculptor and educator who embedded art within the new town of Glenrothes and encouraged students at the Glasgow School of Art to move beyond the studio

Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social, was honoured to write the @theguardian.com obituary for sculptor and educator David Harding. As town artist in Glenrothes he embedded sculpture in everyday spaces, shaping a vision of public art that lives with the weather and the street.

LaBelle, Brandon, ed. The Invisible Seminar. Les presse du réel, 2017.

perhaps a giant?

A Mountainous Year, by Hoch Ma Toch 4 track album

Drew is singing again! And it's Bandcamp Friday. Treat yourself: hochmatoch.bandcamp.com/album/a-moun...

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

Hundreds of staff leave Edinburgh University amid cuts drive According to the university, 345 of these departures were the result of a targeted voluntary severance (VS) scheme run by the institution in 2025.

Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...

Happy Birthday! 🎈

man presenting a talk

people sitting around a long table in a small room with a screen showing documents

Good times at the Living Rent National Conference today - Joey Simons ran our Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive breakout group @living-rent.bsky.social

sending love and good wishes Emma xxxx🤞

‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.

The consultancy Nous takes hundreds of thousands of pounds from universities, leaves the exact same path of destruction everywhere, and keeps trying to avoid transparent contracts.

We’re urgently need control over consultancy spent in #UKHE, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social

please sign!

Clearly the title is 'Where's my mum?'

@benmacpherson.bsky.social is my MSP. I'm on strike and heading for the the picket then rally at the Scottish parliament later today. The government's education committee MUST act and intervene in the UoE's entirely unnecessary 'crisis'. Prevent further job losses & crazy sector vandalism! ✊

World Cup qualifying: 'Scotland cash in almost 30 years of glorious failure as dreams come true' A generation of Scotland fans witness the greatest game of their lives on an astonishing night at Hampden. Nick McPheat was among them.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... It's a tough one.

'It is a truth universally acknowledged that if Tom Holland’s Umbrella lip sync appears in your feed, you will watch it all the way through — every. single. time.' And repost. Currently unsure whether this is better for the soul or Kenny McLean's goal from the halfway line last night.

outrageous move by @waterstones.bsky.social

Elspeth King obituary Museum director and curator of the People’s Palace in Glasgow who reshaped it into a living record of the city’s social history

Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social has written an obituary for Elspeth King in The Guardian.
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elsp...

Rally to Save Jobs at UoE UCU, with the Joint Unions, EUSA and the SSSN, will rally at Parliament as the big finish to our upcoming 3 days of strike action.

Join the Rally at Parliament on Wednesday, if you're in Edinburgh:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rally-to-s...

Yep - Sending vibes! Good luck! 🤞

la commune is one of my favourite films ever & you can watch Universal Clock, a documentary about his methods with footage of la commune's making here www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS7v...