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This book is fantastic- really helping me think about the experience I try to enable for learners and how I can do this better!!!

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Education is a vital part of the prison rehabilitation system @ucuprisoned But poor pay, outsourcing & unsafe working environments has left the sector in crisis Ask your MP to sign this parliamentary motion & call for more government support👇 www.ucu.org.uk/prison-educa...

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I am so happy!!! Best cinema in #edinburgh is back

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The WOMENSART blog... womensartblog.wordpress.com

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Sea and boat,1988 by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham #womensart

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So into this - need it ao much open.spotify.com/track/1iapXE...

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I’m on @todayinfocus.bsky.social podcast talking about my new book, Who Wants Normal?, the “million inequalities” still facing disabled people in the U.K. and why Labour’s cuts mean a positive narrative around disability is more important than ever. Listen here: www.theguardian.com/p/x2t9a6?CMP...

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The BASW England Adult Thematic Group features in the latest edition of @publicsectorfocus.bsky.social with a though-provoking article considering what would improve the lives of people needing social care, from a social work perspective. Read here 🔗 flk.bz/5Cc3

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💡 Reminder: The SPCR Public Involvement, Engagement & Dissemination Enablement Fund is open to applications. 💷 Up to £2K for projects | £5K for dept-wide activities 📅 First deadline: Thurs 24 July 2025, 5pm 🔗 Learn more & apply: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/spcr-pp...

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A chance to critically examine DEI in universities: book now for @bsaecr.bsky.social ‘Workshop on Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education’ - an event for early career and postgraduate scholars, 28 July, University of Edinburgh - bursaries available tinyurl.com/bdfxrxje

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‘O dirt, help us find ways to serve your life, you who have brought us forth, and fed us, and who at the end will take us in and rotate with us, and wobble, and orbit.’ - Sharon Olds #NatureIsNurture #PoetryHelps

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🧪 New #Scicomm opportunity! 📅 Places now open for 4-week online course on science communication through poetry with @edinburghnapier.bsky.social. 💰 £50 & full bursaries available for those on low incomes. 🔗 Register here: napier.ac.uk/study-with-u... #SciArt #CPD #HigherEd #Poetry

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Ah yes the genius of Shel Silverstein- he got me hooked on poetry - thanks to my Grandma Bev who bought me Where The Sidewalk Ends. Been reading poetry ever since #PoetryHelps

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Wise spirit of the garden- do not mess with her

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So pleased we put in wild privet in our garden - full of flowers, bees and butterflies this time of year #gardenfornature #NatureIsNurture #bloomscrolling

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“This ruthless pursuit of disabled people has damaged Labour – no matter what happens next” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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This afternoon, the Planning Bill enters the House of Lords. Within it is a proposal that would make it easier to destroy the woods, rivers and wildlife we all love - by weakening the laws that keep them safe. If Part 3 isn’t changed or scrapped, nature will pay the price. ⚠️

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🚨 Milestone alert! 🚨 We are celebrating having published 125 books, collaborating with @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social academics, staff & students in Diamond Open Access publishing while highlighting research from authors around the world. Go Team Edinburgh Diamond! books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...

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"People need a little bit of land to dig and just do their own thing on" For the second issue of GNAW, Lauren Cameron looks at how Leith Community Croft – and the people growing on it – are rethinking food, community and what it means to belong ☀️

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In this feature story, read about how a new relational, child-centred approach to adoption in Aberdeenshire, including the introduction of a Therapeutic Transition Social Worker, is supporting children, families, and their carers: buff.ly/b2LjfVG

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The latest house building stats for Scotland paints a damning picture - that the Scottish Government is CHOOSING to allow homelessness to get worse. Building more social housing is the only way to end the #HousingEmergency, and yet, new social home approvals and starts have hit a decade low. 🤯

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Just ordered mine ❤️

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If your MP is vocal on women’s rights but less so on disability, send them today’s Guardian story. Tell them charities have warned the disability cuts will have a “devastating” impact on women and could even breach the Equality Act.

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‘I needed respite from the story, then as now.’ Joy Harjo speaking truth #PoetryHelps

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Three Research Schools' Online Seminar | Women’s prisons: how can we engage lived experience to improve primary care for women with severe mental illness, 24 September 2025, 12 - 1pm: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/events/women... #MentalHealth #Research @ashmore1973.bsky.social @georginaspcr.bsky.social

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Karen Newman's bust portrait in honor of the bravery of Noor Inayat Khan (2016), British-Indian WW2 agent who aided the French Resistance against the Nazis, and was later shot in Dachau #WomensArt

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Joy ❤️❤️❤️

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Last week we were delighted to collaborate with the Ripple on an exhibition at @scotparl.bsky.social titled ‘The Ripple Project: Manifesting the Future of Lochend, Restalrig and Craigentinny’ ✨

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An independent report finds serious leadership failings at the top. Now over 600 staff face the axe. @ducuuo.bsky.social £35 million black hole at Dundee University. Senior mismanagement created this crisis. Staff shouldn’t be paying the price. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

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More than ever 💔

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Essential reading

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The wildflowers were in fine form at Aberlady nature reserve this weekend #NatureIsNurture #Scotland

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Incredible support for our staff at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social on picket lines today in their fight against management's plans to slash budgets and jobs ✊

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🚨IT'S A WIN 🚨 Well done to every single @newcastleucu.bsky.social member 44 days on the picket line ZERO compulsory redundancies University bosses need to look at what our members have achieved in Newcastle & heed the warning: work with us or face disruption www.ucu.org.uk/article/1406...

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Solidarity to our members at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social striking today against cuts

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Great atmosphere and turnout #ucustrikes @ucu.org.uk @edinburghup.bsky.social These cuts are not necessary, there is no deficit Staff are the ❤️ UoE - NO STAFF CUTS

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Liza Adamczewski (aka the Accidental Ecologist), artist and creator of the 1000 postcards project; mini paintings of natural life inspired by her ‘re-wilding’ of a Welsh farm #WomensArt

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Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting opens at National Portrait Gallery on Friday. We're celebrating with contemporary art that depicts the female form for the #OnlineArtExchange tomorrow! 💗 'Female Form' by Ronald Pope (1920–1997) © the artist's estate. 📷 Derby Museums

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We are honoured to be exhibiting our co-created artworks with the Ripple Project at the Scottish Parliament this week! #CreativeMethods #AcademicSky #CreativeResearch #Community

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Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes about the Minneapolis shootings and the dangers of a political environment in which it’s unclear who represents what area of law enforcement—and where the limits of their mission lie. nyer.cm/sn7MBGV

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"One person comes in... a lot of times they haven't read the books. And they just object and it gets banned. And that's madness," James Patterson tells Whoopi Goldberg on The View. #BannedBooks #FreedomToRead

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Worried about qualitative sampling? Read this karenoreilly.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/i...

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‘My dad says I can do anything’ Lucky I have had one of those dads. Far from perfect but full of faith and love. What a difference it has made to me. #FathersDay

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Wild roses #bloomscrolling #NatureIsNurture

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Bit of Saturday night self-care, more and more drawn to collage as a practice with limits that force new inspiration #ArtHeals

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Happy #caterday - chilling with my fur babies is the best kind of self-care

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#ReframingWomenPrintmakers 🧡 'Night Clocks' by contemporary printmaker Lisa Benson #WomensArt

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Laughing and crying - a deadly farce

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