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Family or local history oriented Scotland stories at https://noisybrain.blog/
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Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
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September 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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30/05/2025 – The NEN – North Edinburgh News

https://www.europesays.com/uk/144922/

Queen Margaret University (QMU), Edinburgh has been crowned Higher Education Institute of the Year at the prestigious Herald Higher Education Awards…#uk #news #uknews
30/05/2025 – The NEN – North Edinburgh News - United Kingdom
Queen Margaret University (QMU), Edinburgh has been crowned Higher Education Institute of the Year at the prestigious Herald Higher Education Awards
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May 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Great British Sewing Bee judge installed as Chancellor and forensic scientist honoured at QMU graduation ceremony – The NEN – North Edinburgh News

https://www.europesays.com/uk/246766/

Today (7th July ’25), the designer, entrepreneur and TV judge, Patrick Grant, was officially …#uk #news #uknews
Great British Sewing Bee judge installed as Chancellor and forensic scientist honoured at QMU graduation ceremony – The NEN – North Edinburgh News - United Kingdom
Today (7th July ’25), the designer, entrepreneur and TV judge, Patrick Grant, was officially installed as the Chancellor of Queen Margaret University (QMU),
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July 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
jscobbie.bsky.social
Report from Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) - Scotland needs to increase its full-time equivalent SLT therapists by 370, from a current 530. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'I'm worried my child will never speak if he doesn't get support'
New figures show demand for speech and language therapists is increasing in Scotland.
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June 23, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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huwgroucutt.bsky.social
Ħaġar Qim and Mnajdra Neolithic 'temples' in Malta. These buildings are some 5000 years old, and after many many visits, never cease to amaze me.
April 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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One of the first photographs of Hagar Qim, 1890 Do you know what Malta looked like a hundred and twenty years ago❓ Richard Ellis' foto 📷 Spazju Kreativ 👀 shorturl.at/TeKnJ

#photography #nature #bluesky #photo #urban #travel
#landscapephotography #landscape #malta #valletta #history
#experience
Hagar Qim
December 29, 2024 at 9:17 AM
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FROM SCENES LIKE THESE
29 May, Toppings, Edinburgh
Gordon M Williams’ (1934–2017) novel FROM SCENES LIKE THESE was shortlisted for the first Booker Prize in 1969. James Robertson & Alan Taylor discuss this seminal piece of Scottish literature, now back in print
www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...
The Lost Scottish Cult-Classic: James Robertson & Alan Taylor on Gordon M Williams' From Scenes Like These at Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh
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May 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Edinburgh bombing raids remembered in new book

A captivating account of the almost-forgotten bombing raids on Edinburgh and Leith during World War 2 has hit bookshelves alongside an exhibition at the city’s Central Library.
Edinburgh bombing raids remembered in new book
A captivating account of the almost-forgotten bombing raids on Edinburgh and Leith during World War 2 has hit bookshelves alongside an exhibition at the city’s Central Library.
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May 14, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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brexitbin.bsky.social
In case you missed it ...
Here's the Nobel prize-winning economist Esther Duflo destroying the claim that foreign workers reduce domestic wages. In fact, they actually help UK workers by adding to the talent base and allowing the economy to grow. Getting rid of them just leads to more automation.
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May 13, 2025 at 9:13 AM
jscobbie.bsky.social
Taps Aff.
May 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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“The Greeks were wrong about the sun; she is definitely a woman. I know her well. She often visits me, but not often enough…”

—In Alasdair Gray’s short story “The Problem”, a man has an awkward relationship with the sun (from UNLIKELY STORIES, MOSTLY)
#BookWormSat 🌞
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First page of Alasdair Gray’s short story “The Problem”. Beneath the title is a large black-and-white illustration by Gray, of a radiant sun. The sun has the face of a handsome woman, with shoulder-length hair, contained within the sun's disk. Little spangles of sunspots are dotted across the disk; one is visible on the woman's forehead, another on her right cheek. Beneath the illustration is the text of the first paragraph of the story: The Greeks were wrong about the sun; she is definitely a woman. I know her well. She often visits me, but not often enough. She prefers spending her time on Mediterranean beaches with richer people, foreigners mostly. I never complain. She comes here often enough to keep me hopeful. Until today. Today, perhaps because it is Spring, she arrived unexpectedly in all her glory and made me perfectly happy.
May 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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It is VE Night, Tobermory.
Cottages blaze and shimmer in the mirror of the bay.
Light is necklaced everywhere…

—Hugh McMillan, “Old Photograph”
published in AFTER THE STORM (Smith/Doorstop Books, 2005)
A poem for #VEDay #VEDay80
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Old Photograph Hugh McMillan It is VE Night, Tobermory. Cottages blaze and shimmer in the mirror of the bay. Light is necklaced everywhere, on the cross-trees of destroyers, on the hulls of every cockleshell and scalloper afloat, even on the gutted snout of a U-Boat, but there are shadows, to imagine the black and frozen water and the land, lonely of men, from Sunart to Mers-El-Kebir. Daisy chained by sailors, three WAAFs pose for a photograph. Her friends are grinning, wide-eyed, but my mother’s smile is dying and she’s turned away to the sound of the waves, as if she could sense my father, whose war would never cease, limping inexorably back to her across the oil scarred sea.
May 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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📸 On the hottest UK May 1st since records began.

Let’s get fossil fuel ads banned– just 9 days left to force a Parliamentary debate govpetition.uk/700024
May 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores. This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.
April 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
jscobbie.bsky.social
The 5% of around 7,000 people who did not know whether the word “ate” (A.T.E.) sounds the same as number 8 or rhymes with the word “bet” might have provided the most useful information. #phonetics #linguistics #phonology (from i newspaper)
A pie chart of a yougov survey of 6748 adults responding to how they pronounce (A.T.E.), the past tense of “eat”. It shows 81% selected eight (E.I.G.H.T) and 9% et (E.T.). Also 5% some other way, and 5% dont’t know.
April 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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🆓 🔓 Alyssa Kuiack and @larchiba.bsky.social #DevLangDis in #PlainEnglish #easyEnglish 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

Kuiack, A. & Archibald, L (2019) Developmental Language Disorder: The Childhood Condition We Need to Start Talking About. Frontiers for Young Minds. kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Developmental Language Disorder: The Childhood Condition We Need to Start Talking About
Using language is a skill that allows us to share our ideas and feelings, to learn in school, and to understand the world around us. Unfortunately, using and understanding language is not easy for eve...
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April 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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What would it look like if research on using speech cues for the automatic detection of mental illness engaged with sociophonetics? 🗣️🧠 The poster by @lhlew.bsky.social and @tsunglunone.bsky.social has some fascinating thoughts—come check it out! #EMH2025
Photo of Prof Lauren Hall-Lew standing with her poster at EMH2025
April 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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gbosslet.bsky.social
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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lenniesaurus.bsky.social
Putting finishing touches on my new book, POYUMS ANNAW today, so excited for yous to read it. If you'd like a signed/dedicated copy, they're available from the Portobello bookshop website, they ship internationally and have a special dark blue option! Any questions please don't hesitate to ask. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙
Light blue book cover on royal blue background, hand drawn waves, moon and stars, text reads Len pennie, poyums annaw, the instant Sunday Times bestseller, a poet who redefines what poetry is and who it is for, Lemn sissay
April 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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The QMU Acting and Performance Showcase will consist of performances that promise a delight of two hander scenes, songs and snippets of the graduate digital showcase. 🤩

🗓️ Tue 29 - Wed 30 Apr
🎟️ www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/eve...
April 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
jscobbie.bsky.social
19th of June 2025 - a public research conference marking the 150th anniversary of Queen Margaret University. #Edinburgh #Edinburgh900 #Musselburgh #QMU
April 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
jscobbie.bsky.social
Exciting to see that the most important paper on tongue musculature for ... well, a long time... is sitting high in the readership charts at bsky.app/profile/asha...
see Alan A Wrench's "The Compartmental Tongue".
pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... - #JSLHR #phonetics
The Compartmental Tongue
Purpose: Tongue anatomy and function is widely described as consisting of four extrinsic muscles to control position and four intrinsic muscles t...
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April 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM