Greg Michaelson
@gjmichaelson.bsky.social
An idle singer of an empty day
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Have you e-signed @sciencecentres.bsky.social's letter to the UKGov? Today is your last chance before it goes to Downing St! Join 1000s of us in calling for fairer funding for the UK's science centres currently excluded from UKGov infrastructure funding.🧪🔭
✍️ www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter20...
✍️ www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter20...
The fantastic UK network of science and discovery centres needs your help to survive and thrive! Sign this letter urging the UKGov to stop excluding science from the financial support that is available for other museums, art galleries & theatres 🙏🧪🔭👩🔬🎢
👉✉️: www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter20...
👉✉️: www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter20...
November 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Have you e-signed @sciencecentres.bsky.social's letter to the UKGov? Today is your last chance before it goes to Downing St! Join 1000s of us in calling for fairer funding for the UK's science centres currently excluded from UKGov infrastructure funding.🧪🔭
✍️ www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter20...
✍️ www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter20...
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...
1962: What Was Britain Like Before the Apocalypse? | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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November 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
Religious education: Supreme Court rules the Christian-focused RE taught in NI schools is unlawful - BBC News
Religious education: Supreme Court rules the Christian-focused RE taught in NI schools is unlawful - BBC News
Religious education: Supreme Court rules the Christian-focused RE taught in NI schools is unlawful
In a unanimous judgement the Supreme Court allowed an appeal by an unnamed father and daughter from Northern Ireland.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Religious education: Supreme Court rules the Christian-focused RE taught in NI schools is unlawful - BBC News
Religious education: Supreme Court rules the Christian-focused RE taught in NI schools is unlawful - BBC News
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We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop
UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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@prehistoricsociety.bsky.social The state of the art, 100 years ago: Arthur Keith, The Antiquity of Man, Volume II, Williams and Norgate , Ltd. 1925
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
@prehistoricsociety.bsky.social The state of the art, 100 years ago: Arthur Keith, The Antiquity of Man, Volume II, Williams and Norgate , Ltd. 1925
Do come to the Glasgow launch of my and @ruthaylett.bsky.social's novel Solstice, from @stairwellbooks.bsky.social, on Sun 7th December, 2pm to 4pm, Garnethill Multi-Cultural Centre. With Carol McKay, Olga Wojtas and Sally Evans. Plus mulled wine and mince pies! www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../solstice....
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November 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Do come to the Glasgow launch of my and @ruthaylett.bsky.social's novel Solstice, from @stairwellbooks.bsky.social, on Sun 7th December, 2pm to 4pm, Garnethill Multi-Cultural Centre. With Carol McKay, Olga Wojtas and Sally Evans. Plus mulled wine and mince pies! www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../solstice....
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November 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Do come to the Glasgow launch of my and @ruthaylett.bsky.social's novel Solstice, from @stairwellbooks.bsky.social, on Sun 7th December, 2pm to 4pm, Garnethill Multi-Cultural Centre. With Carol McKay, Olga Wojtas and Sally Evans. Plus mulled wine and mince pies! www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../solstice....
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BBC News - Game designers bring to life to Scotland's mysterious Picts - BBC News
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BBC News - Game designers bring to life to Scotland's mysterious Picts - BBC News
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Game designers bring to life to Scotland's mysterious Picts
Writers and archaeologists also worked on a new guide to a lost early medieval Scottish society.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
@stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social
BBC News - Game designers bring to life to Scotland's mysterious Picts - BBC News
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BBC News - Game designers bring to life to Scotland's mysterious Picts - BBC News
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BBC News - Tutoring a baby to make him an 'English gentleman' - Is it worth the money?
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Tutor sought for £180k job to teach baby to become a 'gentleman'
The advert seeks "an extraordinary tutor" required "to support child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."
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November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
BBC News - Tutoring a baby to make him an 'English gentleman' - Is it worth the money?
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A new paper [2023] based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix.
www.livescience.com/health/genet...
www.livescience.com/health/genet...
Rosalind Franklin knew DNA was a helix before Watson and Crick, unpublished material reveals
A new paper based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
A new paper [2023] based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix.
www.livescience.com/health/genet...
www.livescience.com/health/genet...
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What a great @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social !! Take a peek inside Solstice (and Equinox, Book 1) via Look Inside! on our website: www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/sols...
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
What a great @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social !! Take a peek inside Solstice (and Equinox, Book 1) via Look Inside! on our website: www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/sols...
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And do come to the workshop I am running with @gjmichaelson.bsky.social at 3.15 on the Saturday, on how to write a novel collaboratively!
November 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
And do come to the workshop I am running with @gjmichaelson.bsky.social at 3.15 on the Saturday, on how to write a novel collaboratively!
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Here’s Karine Polwart singing Hamish Henderson’s “Freedom Come-All-Ye” in the Italian Chapel, Orkney. The chapel was built & decorated by Italian POWs during WW2 using scraps & reclaimed materials, & is still in use today
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“Freedom Come All Ye” performed by Karine Polwart in The Italian Chapel, Orkney, August 2013.
YouTube video by Alan Ferrier
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November 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Here’s Karine Polwart singing Hamish Henderson’s “Freedom Come-All-Ye” in the Italian Chapel, Orkney. The chapel was built & decorated by Italian POWs during WW2 using scraps & reclaimed materials, & is still in use today
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Phu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Phu...
“We’re born with a bit of creosote in our blood.”
The Burning of the Clavie is a Scottish New Year fire festival. The “Clavie Crew” carry a flaming barrel of tar through Burghead
Clip from BBC Scotland’s HIDDEN LIVES, with @peteralanross.bsky.social
#WyrdWednesday
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The Burning of the Clavie is a Scottish New Year fire festival. The “Clavie Crew” carry a flaming barrel of tar through Burghead
Clip from BBC Scotland’s HIDDEN LIVES, with @peteralanross.bsky.social
#WyrdWednesday
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Scotland - Hidden Lives, Series 1, The Clavie, The Burning of the Clavie
At the Clavie fire festival the explosive force of the flames delights the crowd.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
BBC News - Trader who inspired The Big Short and now bets against AI sends tech shares lower
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Trader who inspired The Big Short sets off AI tech share sell-off
Shares of major tech companies have fallen in the US and Japan over fears about AI bubble
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November 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
BBC News - Trader who inspired The Big Short and now bets against AI sends tech shares lower
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
@prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
BBC News - Bronze Age coracle recreated 50 years after its discovery
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BBC News - Bronze Age coracle recreated 50 years after its discovery
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Bronze Age Fife coracle recreated 50 years after its discovery
The boat was found buried in a prehistoric cemetery and recreated by a Highland based coracle-maker.
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November 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
@prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
BBC News - Bronze Age coracle recreated 50 years after its discovery
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Bronze Age coracle recreated 50 years after its discovery
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For Naomi Mitchison fans: the annual Scottish PEN Naomi Mitchison lecture is on Dec 11th in Glasgow University with Professor Alison Phipps
November 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
For Naomi Mitchison fans: the annual Scottish PEN Naomi Mitchison lecture is on Dec 11th in Glasgow University with Professor Alison Phipps
I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history.
This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
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This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
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November 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
BBC News - Just Stop Oil activists cleared over Stonehenge protest - BBC News
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Just Stop Oil activists cleared over Stonehenge protest
The trio are cleared of all charges after citing human rights law in their defence.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
BBC News - Just Stop Oil activists cleared over Stonehenge protest - BBC News
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@theduncanmackay.bsky.social Was Boudica thought of as an Ancient Britain in popular lore?
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
@theduncanmackay.bsky.social Was Boudica thought of as an Ancient Britain in popular lore?
BBC News - OpenAI completes shift to becoming for-profit
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OpenAI completes shift to becoming for-profit entity
The deal will see long term investor Microsoft retain a 27% stake in the ChatGPT-maker.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
BBC News - OpenAI completes shift to becoming for-profit
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