Q: How can researchers & creative practitioners collaborate ethically & effectively? Answer: The Field Guide, made by artists, creatives, & researchers, identifies the main challenges of working together & provides guidance on how to navigate them. #AcademicSky #OER books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...

👹 Extinct monsters and creatures of other days London: Chapman & Hall, 1910. [Source]

Imagine thinking the references aren't the main character.

A wealth of Public Domain digitised British newspapers are available to view for free on the British Library's new Newspaper Archive platform! #OER #PublicDomain #History #BritishHistory

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Exciting news - the British Newspaper Archive's new platform is here Explore millions of digitised pages of newspapers and other publications from our British and Irish collections, dating as far back as the 1700s We can't wait to get exploring 🗞 link.bl.uk/7ci

'Re-wilding the environment: Art, Geography and Community' (ages 7-11) lessons use art, science, & geography to encourage inquisitive & expressive learning. Includes an art activity, exploring satellite imaging, & a field trip. #WorldNatureConservationDay #OER #EduSky open.ed.ac.uk/rewilding-th...

Rewilding the environment: Art, Geography and Community

This Geoscience Outreach project by Nula Langmuir explores the idea of rewilding - a conservation effort which aims to create an ecosystem which requires less human, active intervention. The project e...

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Wikimedia LGBT+ stands in solidarity with Berlin's LGBTQ+ community

‘Self Care and Wellbeing: A Practical Guide for Health and Social Care’ video & audio resources. Created for people working in health or social care to develop resourcefulness to deal with difficult and traumatic situations. #OER #InternationalSelfCareDay open.ed.ac.uk/self-care-an...

Self care and wellbeing

Twenty open licensed video and audio resources created for 'Self Care and Wellbeing: A Practical Guide for Health and Social Care' a massive open online course (MOOC), are now available for anyone to ...

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🪲 Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium.. Amsterdam: Voor den auteur, als ook by G. Valck, [1705]. [Source]

Learn about the early impact of brain diseases & ways to reduce the risk of these developing into dementia. These videos explore how we can predict and detect these brain diseases earlier by managing our own personal risk factors and more. #OER #InternationalBrainDay open.ed.ac.uk/understandin...

Understanding Brain Health: Preventing Dementia

20 videos created for the 'Understanding brain health: preventing dementia' massive open online course (MOOC) are now available for anyone to use and re-use on a CC BY-SA licence. 50 million people...

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thread of photos from wikimedia commons that i think are amazing

Understand the implications of brain damage, such as the case of Phineas Gage with 'Introduction to the Brain', a high school teaching pack (Scottish National 5 Psychology) with including an activity with printable materials. #OER #InternationalBrainDay #EduSky open.ed.ac.uk/introduction...

Introduction to the Brain

Workshop with activities about the structure and functions of the brain and what happens when it goes wrong. It also contains short biographies of the two co-authors and details of their academic invo...

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This recording is played by Sarah Bevan-Baker on a Bassano violin from our Musical Instrument Museum Collection. Anyone else craving ice-cream? Greensleeves is a traditional English folk song and tune, often used in the UK by ice-cream vans. #IcecreamDay #OER media.ed.ac.uk/id/1_k55wqep...

Greensleeves - Bassano

This piece was recorded at The Music Box Studio Edinburgh 22-07-2015. It is played by Sarah Bevan-Baker. The instrument is part of the Musical Instrument Museum Collection of the University of Edinbur...

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Dozens of volunteers gathered at the UN Headquarters for the second ever Wikipedia edit-a-thon. Together, they created 60 new articles and made nearly 700 edits to improve Wikipedia's coverage of UN and open source topics. ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/07...

This open seminar examines the collaborative adoption of shared border security infrastructures in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. #WorldDayForInternationalJustice #OER open.ed.ac.uk/the-border-a...

The border as a platform: Jamie Duncan in Discussion with Gavin Sullivan

An open licensed seminar hosted by the Controversies in the Data Society Seminar Series 2018-2022. This seminar examines the collaborative adoption of shared border security infrastructures in Austral...

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Gargoyles (ca. 1875) by Adolphe Giraudon. Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social https://pdimagearchive.org/images/abc258bd-ab3b-47c2-a69b-a5e607a51436 #fire #notre-dame #cityscape #gargoyles #architecture #sculpture #paris #art #publicdomain

Using sweets as an example of biodiversity, students use the keys to distinguish different types of snakes and develop their knowledge of and appreciation for biodiversity, where variety in the natural world allows for many species to exist. #WorldSnakeDay#EduSky #OER open.ed.ac.uk/using-biolog...

Using Biological Keys – Snake Island TES OER

'This place is infested with snakes! I don't know if they are dangerous, please help me!' Taking learners aged 9 to 12 on an interactive mission to help someone on an island full of snakes, this

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Have your teachers ever said you can't use Wikipedia in school? Well, that's nothing but a myth. In reality, Wikipedia is a great place to start learning. Take a Wiki minute to understand why ⬇️

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The internet's biggest group project is way more organized than you think.

Lovely to receive contact from education bodies who are implementing the NEurodivergent peer Support Toolkit (NEST). Could it be of benefit to your classrooms too? #EduSky #OER #Teaching open.ed.ac.uk/nest-neurodi...

NEST (NEurodivergent peer Support Toolkit)

NEST (NEurodivergent peer Support Toolkit) is a suite of materials to facilitate peer support for neurodivergent young people in mainstream secondary schools. The toolkit has been co-created by resear...

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What happens when 216 contributors from 29 countries come together to build the future of free knowledge? The Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 brought together community members in Milan to collaborate in the largest Wikimedia Foundation-organized Hackathon to date. Explore the full recap ➡️ w.wiki/S8Yo

From Zoo to Archive: preserving the past of The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS). These three videos explain how the archives were discovered, how they were conserved, and how they can be accessed today. #EdinburghZoo #OER #History #EduSky open.ed.ac.uk/rzss-online-...

RZSS Online Exhibition

This series of three open licensed videos are part of an online exhibition by The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) Edinburgh Zoo and Heritage Collections. The archives of RZSS are now ho...

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🐨 The mammals of Australia.. London, Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1863.. [Source]

Created by the University of Edinburgh’s MSc in Critical Care team along with colleagues from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh these resources refresh critical care knowledge and skills, for newly qualified doctors and those who are up-skilling. #NHSDay #OER open.ed.ac.uk/covid-19-cri...

Covid-19 Critical Care: Application and Understanding

These free educational resources from the University of Edinburgh's MSc in Critical Care team along with colleagues from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh will teach you how to effectively ...

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What gives you hope? For Anusha Alikhan, Chief Communications Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, it just might be the 260,000 people who actively edit Wikipedia: “Volunteer conversations, what motivates them to use their time to give free knowledge to the world, are stories that bring me hope”.

Radiolaria by Ernst Haeckel. These single-celled aquatic animals have spiny silica skeletons which accumulate as a slimy deposit on the seabed. More beautiful radiolaria illustrations here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ernst-haeckel-s-radiolaria-1862

Digitised from our St Cecilia's Museum of Music Instruments collections, enjoy this set of Highland bagpipes with ornate drone tops mounted, shaped and decorated as thistles, with a sheepskin bag in the Royal Stewart tartan cover. #OER #History #TartanDay www.europeana.eu/en/item/0910...

Set of Highland bagpipes.

Technical description: Laburnum chanter with silver sole and heavy ivory mount on the tenon. Laburnum drones, ornately turned with drone tops mounted and shaped and decorated as thistles. Sheepskin ba...

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Are you Fringe ready? Do you know its history? Would you like to? Would you like to help others around the world learn about the beginnings of one of the greatest celebrations of arts and culture in the world? All welcome to this free fun nosey in the archives www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/early-days...

Early Days of the Edinburgh Fringe: two Wikipedia workshops

Two Wikipedia workshops exploring the history of the Edinburgh Fringe with exclusive access to the National Library of Scotland archives.

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We might have found the perfect guest for "Sheldon Cooper Presents: Fun with Flags" during the ESEAP Conference, hosted by Wikimedia ESEAP Hub. 🎥 Matt Prebeg

'Re-thinking cultural heritage and #ClimateChange adaption' champions voices who live, rely & interact with physical heritage sites such as UNESCO World Heritage Sites & those who utilise their heritage practice and knowledge for adaptation and risk reduction. #OER open.ed.ac.uk/re-thinking-...

Re-thinking Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Adaptation

These videos form part of a free online course Re-thinking Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Adaptation. This short course provides an introduction to an evolving discussion on climate change and h...

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The winners of the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards are in! 🏆 Presented by @icfjorg.bsky.social in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation, the awards recognize excellence in journalism covering the African continent.

Develop climate graph-reading skills Learn the differences between weather and climate and the effects of climate change, such as extreme weather with this 'Weather, Climate and Global Warming' #OER (ages 11-14). #EduSky #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis open.ed.ac.uk/weather-clim...

Weather, Climate and Global Warming OER

We are delighted that we have published Weather, Climate and Global Warming OER, a teaching material for the third and fourth level students on TES.com. About This Resource: Background: This reso...

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