#Edinburgh

J.K. Rowling

jk_rowling

I was thinking of putting a section on my website about all the alleged inspirations and birthplaces of Potter. I’d been writing Potter for several years before I ever set

James Sumner

JamesBSumner

ANTI-HE HIT PIECE ALERTThere are over 200 000 academic staff currently employed at UK universities. This diligent investigation has uncovered *ONE* serving academic in the UK who has done what's

Delly Ramadon

dellyramd

Something that I never regret while doing PhD is being myself. Why? Because, I just wanna do my study happily. And, in this thread, I just wanna talk about

Andrew Micieli

MicieliA_MD

The tPA recommendation on the NNT website changed to "the net benefit & harms are unclear due to uncertainty of data" authored by @TheSGEMI believe it's helpful to clarify a

Simon Cooke

SimonMagus

So a set of thoughts about urban transport - partly in light of people's preferences, partly a "post-corona" take and partly a continuation of my view that transport planning isn't

Sara Sheridan

sarasheridan

Today: a new THREADof sheroes: women who disappeared into their menfolk. 1st Dorothy Livesey Reynolds, a key geologist who worked w/ her husband at Edinburgh Uni but wasn't paid as

Just (Dr) Rena

justrena

Home, and I've a mud splattered Juicy Couture backpack, brown spots on the shiny pink patent leather. Splattered because of adventures in Edinburgh and Haddington, veering between Leith's properous industrial

Lulu Popplewell

lulu_popplewell

Hardeep Singh Kohli:last Edinburgh he approached me and my friend/tech in assembly bar claiming he knew us. He didn’t. He sat down next to us anyway & asked when my

Peter Foster

pmdfoster

NEW: Edinburgh/SNP says it will fight London/Tories is they legislate to force Scotland to accept whatever food standards emerge from post #brexit trade deals. This is only start of how

Guy Stallard

Guy_Stallard

@gavinantonyrice @iainmartin1 WFH is for knowledge/service workers not a negative for productivity (in fact losing commute improves it) and good for levelling up agenda as expenditure moved from city to

East Lothian Voices - a different person each week

EL_Voices

One of the things that's been most tricky over the past six months has been - very unsurprisingly - maintaining any kind of sense of perspective. So here's a wee

ChelseaChick

Ndi_Sandra

30 countries by thirty. Let’s see how this goes Country #1- Namibia . I love love how Windhoek is so clean and everyone is so friendly. Went to the museum

Sara Sheridan

sarasheridan

Time for a THREAD of amazing Scottish island women to brighten #ThursdayMorning. 1st, Bessie Williamson, the only woman to own & manage a whisky distillery in the 20th century: Laphroaig

Sara Sheridan

sarasheridan

Need inspiration? Today a THREAD of our ordinary foremothers who shone in a crisis. This lass, Jane Whyte, saved 15 ppl's lives by diving into the sea to secure a

Old Ireland in Colour

irelandincolour

This Limerick-born woman was one of the most famed stage actresses in the world by the end of the 19th centuryShaw, Twain and Wilde ("a brilliant and fascinating genius") were

Kate's Rangers

KatesRangers

*Thread* Today we continue our series on Strong Women of the Monarchy. Today is about our current reigning monarch Queen Elizabeth II. Born Princess Elizabeth on April 21, 1926 to