Scotland’s unpaid carers save the country £15.9 billion every year – yet many live in poverty and poor health.
The Scottish Budget must deliver real support for unpaid carers and local carer organisations.
See our full statement here: www.carersuk.org/news/nationa...
#CarersCantWait
Capping off the year with some insane and impractical 6x17 photography using my recent obsession - a 3D printed medium format film camera.
Too many unpaid carers in Scotland are struggling to make ends meet.
We’re calling for a meaningful commitment from every political party for urgent action to ensure carers have financial security and recognition for the vital care they provide.
#CarersCantWait #CarersVotesCount
The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas was when I was 16 and I got my first ever job, working at M&S in Dundrum. As soon as I started I kept hearing these myths about the Christmas Eve Waste Sale, where all the food that wasn't sold on the 24th was marked down 90%.
Have you spoken to FIFA about this?
Mo each gaolach
Chan eil thu nad phònaidh tuilleadh
A’ ruith mun cuairt
Le fear air do dhruim
Mar thrèana san oidhche
Mar thrèana san oidhche...
- The Divine Comedy
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Tha mi airson do fhrasadh le cnapan siùcair
Agus do mharcachd thairis na feansaichean
Do crubhan a grinnneachadh a h-uile latha
Agus do thoirt chun fhiaclair each
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Mo each gaolach
A’ ruith tron achadh
Càit a bheil thu a’ dol
Le do crubhan-beaga a’ sèideadh
Anns a’ ghaoith?
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)
The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.
I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Excited to see my first book chapter is out with @suzannemadgwick.bsky.social 📖 edited by @binyammogessie.bsky.social
Ever wonder what that big weird nucleolus is up to in oocytes?🥚 No? Well. I think we make a good case for maybe you should! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-97173-0_6
I am listening to this slightly sweary album by Camille Schmidt a lot. It is great!
camillejschmidt.bandcamp.com/album/nude-9
A sheep in a bus shelter in the Highlands of Scotland. It looks a lot like the sheep in Alien: Earth which is the host of the T. Ocellus parasite.
Alien: Earth (N. Hawley and others, 2025)
I added another problem and solution to my dice collection. It's problem 77. https://www.madandmoonly.com/doctormatt/mathematics/dice1.pdf
Here's the problem statement: "Suppose we play a game with a die. We roll once, and this first roll is the score. We may continue to roll and add to the […]
Important to be sure about these things.
I want one but I don't want to give you a massive postage bill. Send .pdf to Scotland?
Text from an FAQ in Okbay et al 20222: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-022-01016-z a similar same statement is made in an FAQ in 2025: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.14.653986v1.supplementary-material Text reads: "The results of SSGAC studies have sometimes been used by online platforms, including some companies, to predict individual outcomes. We recognize that returning individual genomic “results” can be a fun way to engage people in research and other projects and to feed or stoke their interest in genomics. But it is important that participants/users understand that these individual results are not meaningful predictions and should be regarded essentially as entertainment. Failure to make this point clear risks sowing confusion and undermining trust in genetics research"
It is depressing, but all too predictable, how swiftly we’ve gone from the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium offering reassurances about the uses of behavioural polygenic scores to one of their lead authors marketing embryo selection for IQ
Can report that it was a bit too hot for clegs on same track at 10.30am. Unfortunately also too hot for humans. Abair teas!
It isn't possible to design a school system where everyone leaves with the skills needed for the workplace because *they're all going to do different jobs*.
Workplace training needs to be done by employers.
Those who are uncomfortable with this Labour immigration announcement, but think it's necessary to satisfy Reform voters, this is for you.
You will not satisfy. You will never satisfy.
this is such a good article
