New interview: Alison Irvine shares the story of Glasgow's greatest venue - Barrowland @luathpress.bsky.social thestrangebrew.co.uk/barrowland-t...

Barrowland: The Inside Story - The Strange Brew

Alison Irvine on writing Barrowland: The Inside Story of Glasgow's Beloved Ballroom, in conversation with Jason Barnard.

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Yesterday it felt like 40+ C in Toronto. Today it's cooler... because smoke from the wildfire that has obliterated Collins First Nation in northern Ontario is blocking the sun. Seems like time to re-up my column from last year on the summertime blues. thenarwhal.ca/seasonal-dep...

I have seasonal depression in the summer now | The Narwhal

Extreme heat, wildfires and pests — fuelled by climate change — threaten to make summer the worst season in Canada. It’s time to talk about it

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RAIN is open @natlibscot.bsky.social ! Here's an insight into the moving image material on display: ⛈️ Raindrop (1975) a lyrical documentary from Eddie McConnell, pitched as "the journey of a raindrop from dripping leaf to rushing stream", with distinctive soundtrack by Iain McHaffie

Free drop-in today - come and have a chat about using advertising for reminiscence 😊 (2.30pm - 4pm Kelvin Hall, Glasgow) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/films-and-...

Films and adverts for reminiscence

Drop into the National Library of Scotland at Kelvin Hall to browse different films, objects and memory prompts.

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Irony is dead

Very cool way to visualise climate studies - you can see where methodologies and approaches overlap or diverge

Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · last mo.

🚨 Introducing Project Cosmos, the world’s largest database of climate change research. Carbon Brief has mapped the academic literature and evidence that underpins humanity's knowledge of climate change. The Cosmos database includes 1.8 million studies. Explore the database here ⬇️ bit.ly/4eXC4tK

50 years since the much-recalled heatwave of 1976.

Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · last mo.

When looking at the full global picture it becomes obvious that we are now living in a much changed climate. In summer 1976, north-west Europe was a lonely hot spot in a sea of cooler temperatures. In summer 2025, the world is bright red. The climate is unrecognisable compared to 50 years ago.

RAIN is open @natlibscot.bsky.social ! Here's an insight into the moving image material on display: ⛈️ Raindrop (1975) a lyrical documentary from Eddie McConnell, pitched as "the journey of a raindrop from dripping leaf to rushing stream", with distinctive soundtrack by Iain McHaffie

Rain is the focus of the @natlibscot.bsky.social’s forthcoming major exhibition. 🌧️ is deeply embedded in many facets of Scottish society – from agriculture & whisky to fashion & culture & identity – & the exhibition will showcase a sample of the Library’s wide holdings media.nls.uk/news/major-s...

Major summer exhibition focuses on rain | National Library of Scotland Newsroom

National Library of Scotland News and Media

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My teen told me today her new English teacher is encouraging his class to use AI to help them structure essays. She does not want to, understands value of the human mind. Now she's worried she will get poor marks. Whatever guardrails are in place, they are not addressing promotion of AI by teachers.

Now with added link www.waterstones.com/events/domin...

Dominic Hinde in conversation with Cal Flyn | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Dominic Hinde in conversation with Cal Flyn today.

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Dominic Hinde@dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Reminder that next weekend we're in Inverness, where I'll be speaking with @calflyn.bsky.social about climate, landscape, and what it means to try and write the environment at a time of immense importance for our shared future.

Paging Drs Gibbs and Hinde... @ewangibbs.bsky.social @dominicmhinde.bsky.social

Looking forward to the Vale TV 50th anniversary screening at Alexandria Library tomorrow. I'll be there with others to chat about community TV and power www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vale-tv-50...

Vale TV 50th Anniversary Screening

Join us for an exclusive screening of footage from a pioneering community TV channel that ran in 1976 in the Vale - an amazing time capsule!

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It is lovely to see some of my concrete poetry in print, thanks to AGORA magazine. Featured: Tipping Points (Rainforest and Antarctic) and The Sea Revealed by Emily Munro

It's been a joy to work on this forthcoming exhibition (RAIN at National Library of Scotland) as the moving image curator and coordinator of sound-art project 'Experiences of Rain'. Thanks to Jelena Sofronijevic and @sgsah.bsky.social for the preview: sgsahblog.com/2026/05/05/w...

‘When people think of Scotland, they often think of rain’

Dr Sarah Mackay and Dr Emily Munro, returning guest bloggers, share their forthcoming exhibition at the National Library of Scotland, researching the nation’s relationship with wet weather.

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Just turned on coverage to see a Green MSP elected to my constituency, let's go Glasgow Southside @hollybruce.bsky.social 💚

Biggest problem is, this isn't people voting for change or what they think is best for them and their families, it's sheer protest voting. They will support any mouthpiece that confirms whatever racist ideology they're being fed. That's not going to be any different at a General Election.

Dr Gibbs, calling out the politicians for their inadequacy, yet again using history to speak truth to power, and on an election day, too 😄 👌

Ewan Gibbs@ewangibbs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Neither the left or right are prepared to face Britain's grave energy crisis. I've written for @theguardian.com on how decades of complacency cannot be magicked away by drilling in the North Sea – or even by hoping that renewables will quickly power everything.

Anyone else want to do a creative writing workshop with me, focusing on writing scintillating historical fiction? #CreativeWriting #HistFic #BookSky #WritingWorkshop

Vicky MacKenzie@vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My workshop on Writing Historical Fiction is approaching! 10.00-16.00 Sat 16th May (on Zoom), £150. We'll be looking at how to seamlessly incorporate research into your story, creating convincing characters and dialogue, and how to be savvy about anachronism. Spaces still available! #CreativeWriting

Feminist Librarianship (Ed. Kirsten Macquarrie) launched last night! Wonderful collection of lived experience & inspiration. My bit is on AI ethics - why it is our shared responsibility to resist and how we could reshape the latest techdoom machine (or destroy it 😇) 📚 @facetpublishing.bsky.social

The books agencies are backing to fly at the #LondonBookFair 2026. Read our LBF 2026: Agents' Hotlists here 👇

London Book Fair 2026 Agents' Hotlists

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Anyone know what plan is for national cycle route during and after Glasgow Waters develop "Yorkhill quay"? Currently safe cycle / footpath cut off without warning for undetermined time. Plan for access in future also not clear. It is on my commute to work and well used #cycling #glasgow

The USA bombed Venezuela and our street's bin chat just reached psychotic levels on the whatspp.

Looking Back to Look Forward: Conversations on Living Proof: A Climate Story (2021) at the University of Edinburgh sgsahblog.com/2025/11/25/l...

Looking Back to Look Forward: Conversations on Living Proof: A Climate Story (2021) at the University of Edinburgh

In the first post of the ecologies strand, guest blogger Anna Stacey reflects on an Environmental Humanities Film Screening in partnership with Dr. Emily Munro and the National Library of Scotland.

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Delighted that my debut novel will be published by Polygon in 2027 💘

My film poem BLAME screens at Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival in Wellington on Friday night. There is a fantastic interview with the curators here: wp.me/p67VL0-1hY

The Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival: a Conversation on the Poetics of the Audiovisual

Interview curated by Dimitri Ruggeri – In recent years, poetry film has emerged as one of the most dynamic and hybrid forms of artistic expression, merging the evocative power of language wit…

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Two of my films are screening internationally this week and next, BLAME in Copenhagen at Huset's Biograf (11 Oct) and CHILDISH in Toronto at the Women's Art Institute (14 Oct). If you are there - thanks and enjoy! 💫

Living Proof with Q&A - screening this Thursday 7.30pm as part of DOD festival at Glasgow uni ARC 😀💖

Glasgow Building Preservation Trust@gbptrust.bsky.social · 12mo ago

⚡️Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival Programme & bookings are LIVE! Discover Glasgow for free this September! Scotland’s largest free heritage and community festival returns from 18 - 21 September. Full programme: glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk Check out our 2025 trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=52SX...

Over the moon to share I am a runner up winner in the 2025 Alpine Fellowship poetry prize ♥️ Huge congratulations to fellow runner up Caitlin Tina Jones and overall winner Victoria Spires. Thanks so much to esteemed judges Patrick Errington and Maya C. Popa 💫 truly an honour

Free tickets to our event on Cumbernauld Town Centre with National Library of Scotland, including presentations & film screenings are available here: 3rd Sept @chrislesliephoto.bsky.social @dialectographer.bsky.social @emilymunro.bsky.social www.concretedreams.org.uk www.nls.uk/whats-on/con...