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Charlie
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Open Education and Playful Engagement at University of Edinburgh.
📚 Open Librarian 🃏 Playful Learner 🎲 Educational gamer
Queer 🏳️‍🌈 | She/Her/Ms | Aussie Scot 🇦🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Board & RPGamer, #Endometriosis, #TransRights
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openededinburgh.bsky.social
Celebrate Women in Climate & Earth Sciences with us tonight! 5-7pm @ G.03, 50 George Square, Edinburgh

Hear about the remarkable contributions of women in climate and earth sciences from leading voices in research, policy and public engagement.
#AdaLovelaceDay

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ada-lovela...
Photographs of the panel speakers, Hermione Cockburn, Gabi Hegeri, Encarni Medina-Lopez, Elva Bannon.
October 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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uoestaffpride.bsky.social
The 8th October marks International Lesbian Day.

Celebrated in New Zealand since 1980 and Australia since 1990, it is now an International day designed to highlight the issues faced by lesbians and to recognise and celebrate their achievements and experiences.
October 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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openededinburgh.bsky.social
For UK Black History Month we’ve curated a selection of some excellent open educational resources created by our staff and students on Black History in the UK.
Go and check them out!
#OER #BHM #BHM25 #BlackHistoryMonth #ScottishHistory #BritishHistory #AcademicSky
open.ed.ac.uk/black-histor...
Black History Month UK 2025 – Resources
Black History Month UK is an annual event that celebrates the achievements of black Britons and people of colour throughout history. In order to highlight this history we've curated a selection of o...
open.ed.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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openededinburgh.bsky.social
Come celebrate achievements of Women in STEM with us this Ada Lovelace Day.
Learn about women in Archaeology, Engineering, Geoscience, Comp Sci & more!
edin.ac/ada2025

@morayhouse.bsky.social @edinburghchem.bsky.social @edinunimaths.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @stis-uoe.bsky.social
Ada Lovelace Day 2025: a celebration of women in STEM. Tuesday 14 Oct 2025. Talks, activities, training throughout the day! Find out more: http://edin.ac/ada2025
October 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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merriam-webster.com
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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blowdart.me Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · Sep 25
So you know how the only way to escape the matrix was via hard line pay phones?

And how it’s harder and harder to find a pay phone?

And as pay phones got rarer life started fucking us over more?
September 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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fergus.oolong.co.uk
I like it when people correct Einstein misquotes with actual quotes from Einstein being excellent.
whisperingsage.bsky.social WhisperingSage @whisperingsage.bsky.social · Sep 24
monthlyreview.org/articles/why...

Here are his original words from the article he wrote.
Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights - Albert Einstein, from Paragraph 16 of "Why Socialism?" Published in the first issue of Monthly Review, in May 1949
September 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
sfarleycharlie.bsky.social
So pretty.
openededinburgh.bsky.social Open Education at The University of Edinburgh @openededinburgh.bsky.social · Sep 23
Published in Tokyo the 'Moyo Hinagata Nanba no ume' (1886) is a Kimono pattern book or Hinagata-bon, literally meaning design prints.
Printed on double leaves and illustrated with coloured woodcuts.
#OER #History #Textiles #Japan
@edunilibraries.bsky.social
www.europeana.eu/en/item/9200...
Moyo Hinagata Nanba no ume, Vol.2, 1886
Call Number - 0012589
www.europeana.eu
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
sfarleycharlie.bsky.social
Yes. Good. This is what I love about the interwebs.
jenbanim.mastodo.neoliber.al.ap.brid.gy jenbanim @jenbanim.mastodo.neoliber.al.ap.brid.gy · Sep 20
If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men
September 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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ucuscotland.bsky.social
Teach outs this week by @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social Learn more about the branch and the strike to defend jobs and oppose cuts #SaveHE #NoCompulsoryRedundancies #StopTheCuts
September 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
“We don’t see how the university can continue to provide quality education to students with drastic reductions in staff. Management does not appear to be listening—students may [be] able to insist they do.” Sophia Woodman UCU Edinburgh President
Edinburgh University spends thousands on chancellors bills while staff fear redundancy
The UCU have called the chancellor's perks a 'slap in the face' to striking staff
thetab.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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ucuscotland.bsky.social
Pickets across @edinburghuni.bsky.social campus this morning opposing £140million cuts and up to 1,800 jobs going, including by compulsory redundancies #SaveHE #NoCompulsoryRedundancies #StopTheCuts
September 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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ucuscotland.bsky.social
Busy @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social picket lines this morning at Edinburgh University with staff striking to defend jobs and oppose the biggest cuts seen in Scottish higher education #SaveHE #NoCompulsoryRedundancies #StopTheCuts
September 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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theferret.scot
📢 We're launching a new training project to help young people spot and challenge disinformation online.

In partnership with @cilipscotland.bsky.social, @youngscot.bsky.social, thanks to support from @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk.

Find out more more: theferret.scot/the-ferret-h...
The Ferret helps young people to tackle disinformation in new training project
Young people in Scotland will be empowered to challenge disinformation thanks to a new project from The Ferret, CILIPS and Young Scot.
theferret.scot
September 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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yackee.bsky.social
You can Marie Kondo people too
August 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social
We can’t have an accurate conversation about trans identity
August 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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openededinburgh.bsky.social
Happy #InternationalDogDay!
They're all good dogs.
#OER
www.europeana.eu/en/item/9200...
Roslin Glass Slides
Shelf Mark - 53663
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August 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Star Trek Strange New Worlds scene kind of but also Star Trek Lower Decks scene but that's all I can say and if this confuses you just watch more Star trek. Anyhoo, we see a non-cartoon Bradward Boimler and Mariner standing in a corridor on the Strange New Worlds Enterprise outside a beautiful orange door and talking. Both are in Lower Decks era uniforms with red bottom/white crisp stripe across the chestal region and black shoulers. Boims looks distressed, as per usual. He also has slightly purple hair. Mariner is speaking, closed caption reads, "Oh, okay, don't act like the prospect of working with Spock doesn't tick off some weird box for you." Alt in pic 1, also BRING BACK LOWER DECKS BRING IT BACK SOMEBODY PICK IT UP AND DO 17 MORE SEASONS IM SURE MIKE WOULD BE FINE WITH THIS
August 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
sfarleycharlie.bsky.social
I do love a good dinosaur mystery. 🦕
Another fab #OER by one of our Geoscience Outreach students.
August 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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scalzi.com
People who are not good people frequently want to believe the artists and creators they idolize hold the same opinions and positions they do, and get very shirty when they are told by informed sources that they are in fact very wrong about that
rhi.bsky.social Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · Aug 19
He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...
August 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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drbeth.bsky.social
Why would you take a spreadsheet which can do hundreds of correct calculations near instantly and shove in some AI so now it can be slow and wrong?

Put down the shiny thing and back away slowly.
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 19
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions

www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
Microsoft Excel adds Copilot Al to help ... theverge.com The Verget-4.1-mini Al model | 5 successor to the LABS.GENERATIVEAI function Microsoft started experimenting with in 2023. Microsoft notes that you can combine its new Al function with other Excel functions, including IF, SWITCH, LAMBDA, or WRAPROWS. The company adds that information sent through Excel's COPILOT function is "never" used for AI training, as "the input remains confidential and is used solely to generate your requested output." The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can give incorrect responses." Copy Share Select all Web search Dictionary ...
August 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
sfarleycharlie.bsky.social
I've been living in Scotland for nearing two decades and these stories still knock me for six.

Paper is #OA and #OER on a #CClicence.
hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social HCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social · Aug 18
Medieval remains and the Blackfriars Monastery's foundations were uncovered near the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute construction site, near the School in 2020. Discover more: edin.ac/4lzsPQO

#History #Classics #Archaeology #Medievalmonday #MonasteryMonday #ExtraordinaryEdinburgh
August 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
sfarleycharlie.bsky.social
The awkward horror of being perceived. Especially by love.
leguinbot.bsky.social Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · Aug 18
“You told me to show you something worth seeing. I show you yourself.”
August 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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openededinburgh.bsky.social
It's #WorldElephantDay 🐘 so here's some faves from our CRC collections.
Photograph of the Bengal state elephant, "The Begum" with son, "Wee Macgregor" next to a barn in India in the early 20th century.
#OER
www.europeana.eu/item/9200272...
Roslin Glass Slides
Shelf Mark - 53430
www.europeana.eu
August 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM