One of this evening’s moth visitors is this rather eye-catching Thudaca haplonota #teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidopteta #inaturalist
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Scottish history generalist with early modern tendencies. She/her. AuDHD
Two-spotted scoliid wasp on mountain mint. Very skittish species, but the mint has tamed them! Such beautiful animals #bugsky
From Scotland, Bowes reports that James is purging his household further, removing pro-English servants. Bowes doesn't know, but today (or tonight) the earl of Arran, formerly Lennox's right-hand-man, returns to court and is accepted by James; we'll hear much more about him. It's now been ... 8/
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The above extract is from Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland, Collected Entirely from Oral Sources, by John Gregorson Campbell, Minister of Tiree (1900). You can read it online or download it as a free ebook from @gutenberg.org www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61730
Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland by John Gregorson Campbell
Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.
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On the one hand, people in the UK are lamenting the loss of wetlands and ponds over the last 200 years. On the other hand, Kent had a malaria outbreak in 1917-1921 and it was combatted in part by draining wetlands and ponds
We too easily skipped over the part of the Ceuta story where thousands of young people were manipulated into risking or losing their lives for a lie; to orchestrate images that then led the news agenda for the weekend, and kneejerk reactions from EU Govs And the Irish failures that let this happen
Deirdre O'Shaughnessy@deshocks.bsky.social · 14h agoIf you were confused about what happened in Ceuta last week read this piece by @lizcarolan.com who's looking at how it blew up online and who's behind it... www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
BBC: Scotland-wide testing to be offered for Orkney and Shetland genes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2r0g9kx7yo #scothinews
BBC: Scotland-wide testing to be offered for Orkney and Shetland genes
The BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants are associated with certain cancers.
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A 🧵with an update on the wills project: #EarlyModern 🗃️
The Material Culture of Wills Project@materialwills.bsky.social · 14h ago📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/
Futile reminder: there is still no literature at all on autistics experiencing human rights violations & challenging this legally (autism & the human rights law "system"), there are no papers much less a special issue
Autism: The International Journal of Research & Practice.@journalautism.bsky.social · 2d agoCall for papers for our special issue on Autism and the Criminal Justice System: Research, Practice, and Policy Perspectives. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 November 2026 Intended SI Publication: 2027 For more information: journals.sagepub.com/page/aut/cal...
Eighty years ago, Ann Frank was found and imprisoned by the Nazis. Today her equivalent would likely be posting online rather than writing a diary, and people would be telling her that there were no pogroms and that the German government was trying to help Jewish people.
James Ormiston of that ilk, said to have given instructions on lighting the fuse at the murder of Lord Darnley: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O...
James Ormiston (conspirator) - Wikipedia
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In Scotland, James VI, now in Perth, is continuing his counter-revolution. He issued a proclamation a few days ago against criticism of his actions by 'unnatural and disordered subjects', and claiming that his actions in ousting the Ruthvenite lords was intended merely to introduce a balanced ... 3/
I've met so much lack of understanding and prejudice as an autistic person and then see airtime given to outdated cranks who're treated as experts when they're wildly out of kilter with current research We cant get a tiny bit forward but the cranks are given a megaphone to set everything backwards.
(blowing up my own replies here rather than other people’s) OK she has a new paper out. It does not appear to have undergone rigorous peer review
I think that unless it's essential life-saving treatment, if you reject treatment from a non-white practitioner, then the NHS should be under no obligation to see you and you can go private news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...
Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism
Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."
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There can't be many churches in Scotland with a stained glass window dedicated to Joan of Arc. Newington Trinity Church, Edinburgh
My friend is moving house soon, and her husband had me print a load of these for everyone who's helping them, so when it gets a bit much, we can just hand one to her, and honestly? To be loved is to be known.
The same media that attacked trans people are now attacking autism and ADHD. It's a similar playbook of bigoted columnists and the credentialled cranks who give them cover Watch out for generalists with no specialist knowledge and dinosaurs who their field left behind but the journos still call.
Gorgeous gorgeous special issue on queer bibliography... www.euppublishing.com/toc/lih/42/2
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - lih: Vol 42, No 2
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Today I discovered that a letter attributed to a man was actually written by Ann Bathurst, the 17th-century visionary woman I’m researching. 🤩 Archival work might be slow and painstaking but it’s totally thrilling to be going in search of lost voices from the past and finding them! 📚
Some the colour that’s brightening our local Perth Hills bush as we move into the Noongar season of Djilba 🌿🌸🌺 Chamaescilla corymbosa Acacia nervosa Leucopogon capitellatus Philotheca spicata #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling #winter
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An excellent piece demonstrating why 'every one of those people is a problem for a sane society' demonstrates that Helen Joyce is a classic totalitarian. blog.beagmcd.net/why-helens-w...
Why Helen's Wrong
... and why her position is definitively totalitarian in nature.
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The rocket bodies from Apollo 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 were all deliberately crashed on the Moon, so the seismometers left by the astronauts could measure what happened. From this data we learnt that the Moon had a crust, mantle and core. 🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci
Moon Composition - NASA Science
The Moon is a differentiated world. This means that it is made of layers with different compositions. The Moon has a core, mantle, and crust.
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A stoplight parrotfish juvenile and its cleaner goby buddy. It looks so different from the adult version! With this coloring it blends in nicely with the coral. #MarineLife #scuba #photography
