Presenting: the case for more bike parking on George Street #Edinburgh

Delighted our article 'Distilling the Past: Cataloguing the Records of Whyte & Mackay' has now been published in the Business & Industrial History journal, as part of a special issue celebrating the 200th anniversary of the 1823 Excise Act 🥃 More info: busarchscot.org.uk/journal/bih

#OTD in 1783, the first meeting of @royalsoced.bsky.social was convened.

📷 Founding RSE Royal Charter granted by King George III in 1783
(Photo: Stewart Attwood)

The views from the reading room at @natlibscot.bsky.social 👌

I had the pleasure of being on the panel for the annual RSE/SCRR Peter Wilson lecture, discussing the importance of natural history collections, and their role in identifying + predicting the impact of climate change on biodiversity 🌏

ICYMI, the recording is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=anH9...

Hot off the press! 📰 Interested in the newly acquired Charles Waterston Archive - a collection with over 7000 photographic slides? Read all about it in the @royalsoced.bsky.social's latest issue of ReSourcE: bitly.cx/Xo1q9

Some bonus favourites from digitisation so far ⬇️
#ExploreYourArchive

Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

Celebrate Earth Day by exploring the @araukie.bsky.social Environmental Sustainability Group Case Studies 🌍

Discover real-life stories of how the sector is helping fight climate change, sharing knowledge and securing collections for the future.

Access them here: www.archives.org.uk/environment-...

Happy #NationalUnicornDay 🦄 fun fact, in 1790, according to The Royal Society of Edinburgh's records, "Dr Gregory presented to the Society an Unicorn’s Horn (so called) from the Whalefishing Company of Aberdeen".

See the minutes entry 👇

📷The Royal Society of Edinburgh [archive ref: ACC10000/1]

The subject of Bentley's first clerihew was the famed chemist and inventor of the miner's safety lamp, Sir Humphry Davy:

Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.

[Portrait of Sir Humphry Davy held by @royalsoced.bsky.social] (2/2)

It's #WorldPoetryDay, so what better time to celebrate the silliest of poetry - the clerihew! Invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley, this whimsical format produces a short four-line biography of a person, usually summarising their achievements in silly or spurious ways. (1/2)

Also, shout out to these cats for doing the essential job of pest control in the Library's early days 🐾

Val McDermid and Damian Barr (as #NLS100 Centenary Champions) sum up the morning by illustrating how vital libraries have been to them both, noting that you never know what you will find in a library that might spark a new and exciting idea ✨

It was good to hear Amina Shah highlighting the important role partnerships play in bringing collections to new and previously unreached audiences. For more info what the NLS have in store this year, see: media.nls.uk/news/xxx

Delighted to be at the #NLS100 celebrations, celebrating 100 years of curation, cataloguing + making Scotland's precious collections accessible. From Byron to the Beano, from Mary Queen of Scots' final letter to football programmes, the @natlibscot.bsky.social collection has something for everyone

Hi Bluesky! My first post so a bit about what you can expect: interesting archive finds, snippets from cycle rides, a bit of film photography, and thoughts about slow travel and the planet 🌎