Emma Balkind
@emmabalkind.bsky.social
Recent projects at https://eblknd.leaflet.pub
As far as I can tell, if it works, ER-100 could be the treatment to restore my husband's one in a million sight loss. I hope the trials are successful and that the many and varied causes of optic nerve damage can be reversed in future! bsky.app/profile/tech...
MIT Technology Review@technologyreview.com · 5d agoYuancheng (Ryan) Lu is behind one of the buzziest results in rejuvenation science.
Our fishbone plant flowered and the living room smells so strongly of jasmine and vanilla!
After 20 years of independent cultural journalism and with a very heavy heart, September’s edition of The Skinny is our final issue 💔 www.theskinny.co.uk/music/news/t...
The Skinny is closing
After 20 years of independent cultural journalism and with a very heavy heart, September’s edition of The Skinny is our final issue.
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Colleagues at Ghent have written an informative letter on the suspension of #Cofnas. #Reproduction researchers note how race science/scientific racism drives de Vries “research” on embryo selection, poverty and #fertilitycrisis. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University
***Version française en dessous*** We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decisio...
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A brief post with updates on what I've been up to recently and how some of the arts and cultural closures in Glasgow are going.
Getting on with things
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Had to go to the QEUH today and I genuinely don't understand how the walking route from Cardonald station to the hospital campus has avoided the avenues treatment. I know not everyone can walk for 20 min but it would improve access so much for workers and day patients.
Enjoying this Stewart Lee programme on the history and beginnings of Resonance FM. Particularly liked the 90s saxophone psychogeography recorded with a Nokia phone while strolling with baby. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Resonance FM: The Art of Listening
Comedian Stewart Lee tells the story of Resonance FM, the UK’s greatest radio art station.
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Weather has cooled here and the wildlife is making itself apparent. A new(?) pair of tawnies flew past a couple of nights ago, then today we finally saw a kingfisher again, both after months of absence. Also got to see and hear the pair of very loud branching buzzard siblings in the park.
Today's slap on the face. Tasteless Herald ad on Instagram offering up the 50 year archive of the CCA for sale. Tonight Save Our CCA meets at the Garnethill Multicultural Centre at 7pm. See @save.our.cca on Insta.
A great piece on the disturbing way that ALEOs are being used to gouge charitable organisations in Glasgow in the name of servicing old council debts. bsky.app/profile/mari...
Marissa MacWhirter@marissamacwhirter.bsky.social · 2mo agoEvery receipt for selling off a building or chunk of surplus land, every rent review, every dilapidations claim, all serve a debt created by previous council administrations. Read via @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2642...
'while we sell ourselves in fractions. they don't want us all at once, but hour by hour, piece by piece.' Karen Brodine bsky.app/profile/tath...
Joanne Tatham@tathamjoanne.bsky.social · 2mo agoA good choice of fractions on offer from RCA today. Associate Lecturer - Studio MA Architecture (0.2, 0.134 & 0.048 FTE available, Fixed term) School of Architecture.
It has been over 10 years since the BearsWay cycle lane phase 1 was completed. Due to angry, ignorant voices none of the following phases were built That was and still is a tragedy. With nearby Glasgow investing in active travel it is time for East Dunbartonshire to finish the #bearsway!
Tom Quinn@geologiser.bsky.social · 2mo agoRequesting that ED Council finishes a vital cycle link: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fi... @bearswayfriends.bsky.social
Today is the launch of PAMphlet, a new arts magazine in Scotland. I wrote a piece documenting the arts and leisure closures in Glasgow in the first 6 months of 2026. pamphlet.scot/reflecting-o...
Reflecting on Cultural Vulnerability in Glasgow—Emma Balkind—Summer 2026 — PAMphlet
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Today is the launch of PAMphlet, a new arts magazine in Scotland. I wrote a piece documenting the arts and leisure closures in Glasgow in the first 6 months of 2026. pamphlet.scot/reflecting-o...
Reflecting on Cultural Vulnerability in Glasgow—Emma Balkind—Summer 2026 — PAMphlet
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Horrible idea. If some music biz veterans want to set up a Glasgow rock museum/mausoleum, fine, but not in the CCA, which is about creating new work, nurturing the local cultural community and bringing the world to Scotland.
The Herald@heraldscotland.bsky.social · 3mo agoScotsRock, an 'ambitious' new cultural destination celebrating the country's 'extraordinary' contribution to global music has launched www.heraldscotland.com/news...
Still friends with quite a few people I met on social media in my teens. First people I met were in Glasgow and then once I went to uni I met others in London and in the Welsh Valleys by overnight National Express coach. They are therapists, teachers, artists, gardeners and musicians.
Rails to Trails: the thread about how North Edinburgh got its cycle paths On this day, 40 years ago, a councillor cut the ceremonial ribbon and opened a section of cycle path in north Edinburgh. This was a rather special bit of cycle path however as it hadn't been built by the council. It was…
Rails to Trails: the thread about how North Edinburgh got its cycle paths
On this day, 40 years ago, a councillor cut the ceremonial ribbon and opened a section of cycle path in north Edinburgh. This was a rather special bit of cycle path however as it hadn't been built by the council. It was built by direct citizen action: over the course of a single week it had been reclaimed from the trackbed of an old railway a group of volunteers. Wind the clock forward four decades and from these humble beginnings has grown a network of almost 20km (12 miles) of such paths in this part of the city. There's a good chance that you've cycled, walked, jogged or otherwise explored them. The credit for this their creation sits almost entirely with the relentless (and often thankless) hard work of a single, slightly anarchic organisation. This thread is the story of how the North Edinburgh Path Network came to be.
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Brilliant news that the city's taken this view in the consultation 👏 A really important step towards a proper examination of the (many) options around the M8 city centre corridor, rather than speeding ahead with like-for-like replacement. @replacethem8.bsky.social
Council response favours demolition stretch of M8 motorway in Glasgow
Glasgow City Council is in favour of demolishing a section of the M8 motorway through the city centre.
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I went to check in on Gulliver’s foot and ankle this afternoon – one of the most interesting listed ruins in Edinburgh. c20society.org.uk/news/remnant...
Sun setting tonight over the loch on the Isle of May with Drake Eider Ducks displaying (you can hear them calling)
The other thing is that in a gig economy there is no degree that promises a good career anymore, not because you should have studied computer science or social media management instead of history or Russian literature, but because there are no careers
Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · 6mo agoIn general, (re)orienting education wholly or chiefly to specific perceived market needs is always going to produce disaster once the near term passes. It also eviscerates institutions that might otherwise help people weather change, intellectually and in other ways
Don’t offer a genius a prize with conditions unless you want them to interrogate those conditions. (The demands aren’t onerous if you’re the kind of person who knocks out a promo video before lunch and never thinks of it again but most writers aren’t like that and HdW more than most.)
Vajra Chandrasekera@vajra.me · 6mo agoHelen DeWitt on turning down a $175k Windham-Campbell Prize because she wasn't able to handle the prize's mandatory publicity requirements. Imo a moving, deeply relatable, and darkly funny story about money, obligation, mental health, & executive dysfunction paperpools.blogspot.com/2026/04/we-l...
