Thought a talk I did this week at @EdinburghUni might be of interest to politics students and anyone else who, like me, still thinks the Tories are worth paying attention to. This is Part One of what'll be a mega thread.

#Schobozka 2026 pre-event dinner with this year’s distinguished guest Steven Spoel @SpoelLab @EdinburghUni

#NewSpeciesAlert! We discovered & described a new species of gall wasp, Belonocnema mesoamericana, on the central American live oak, Quercus oleoides. Great collaboration between Alejandro Zaldivar & lab at #UNAM, @ymilesz.bsky.social at #EdinburghUni, and my lab at #RiceUniversity. #biodiversity

Beautiful sunrise from the #ashworthlabs #edinburghuni this morning 😊🌅😊

Stunning sunrise this morning from the 4th floor of the Ashworth labs #edinburghuni #edinburghbiology ☺️🌅☺️

Bayes building roof terrace summer BBQ @EdinburghUni #bayesbuilding

Listening to @zephoria.bsky.social talk Responsible AI at #EdinburghUni. Talking machines in front of images of machines and a giant ye olde sound machine… 😻

The LEIGHEAS project @EarlyIrishMU had a great day yesterday at the Medical Manuscripts and Medical History workshop hosted by the Departments of History, Classics & Archaeology and Celtic & Scottish Studies @EdinburghUni where we got a chance to look at some Medical Manuscripts

We started the year with a great founding meeting of the Biomolecular Condensates UK Network! Thanks for support @RosFrankInst @IOPPublishing @durham_uni @EdinburghUni

Dr Michael Gallagher reflects on the University of Edinburgh contribution to the Connected Learning in Crisis Consortium buff.ly/47hSXsU @MorayHouse @EdinburghUni #digitaleducation

From haggis ("sehr gut!") to political talks, Deputy Ambassador Doktor's trip to Scotland saw him join a Burns Night supper, speak at @EdinburghUni and meet with @BenMacpherson, MSPs and the 🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 community.

The #KensingtonTreaty is boosting ties between 🇩🇪 and the 🇬🇧's nations.

🎃 ☠️ Our MSc Human Osteoarchaeology students have been #felting up a storm making vertebrae recently! A fun #mindful way of learning skeletal #anatomy led by Dr Linda Fibiger 🧶 #halloween #osteology #osteo #archaeology #EdinArch #Edinburgh #bones #EdinburghUni #craft @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

🥳 Luisa Leiss MSc Human Osteoarchaeology (2023-24) was recently awarded🥇 “Early Career Award” at the annual conference of the German Anthropological Society, where she recently presented her MSc research! Congrats Luisa! #EdinArch #osteology #archaeology #EdinburghUni @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.socialrofile/did:plc:qca6kbpwqx4idzv576w2ezqq" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Today Brian Tsz Ho Wong (@edinburghuni) completes his series on the NDLJP Full-Text Search System using the system to identify different locations visited by politicians in the 1940s.

Check out the latest installment, with links to part 1 &2
digitalorientalist.com/2025/09/30/u...

Adam Ferguson, Scottish Enlightenment historian & philosopher @EdinburghUni, born #OTD 1723; a pioneer of sociology, who contributed to our understanding of civil society, democracy, political partisanship & conflict.
@CRC_EdUni

Congratulations to all our brilliant students who graduated today! 🎉 🎓👏 #EdinArch #EdinburghUni #Edinburgh #graduation @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Interested in plant systematics, ecology, and taxonomy in the tropics? Looking for a PhD? The next round of UKRI funded PhDs @EdinburghUni are out, & include 3 with me, @xaxapezzini and David Harris at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Applications due 6 Jan. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super... #botany

‘Reduced portion sizes are the main driver of the decline in meat consumption in the UK, outpacing other behaviours such as meat-free days, a study shows.’ – edinburghuni-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/shrinki...

...what lies beneath? Recently our MSc Human #Osteoarchaeology students acquired excavation & recording skills during a mock excavation exercise with plastic replica skeletons ☠️ with the Scottish weather at its best! ☀️ #EdinArch #osteo #archaeology #Scotland #EdinburghUni @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.socialrofile/did:plc:qca6kbpwqx4idzv576w2ezqq" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Excellent visit to my alma mater - I started my PhD at EdinburghUni 41 years ago❗️

I particularly enjoyed meeting the next generation of bacteriologists/infection biologists working at Edinburgh University & Roslin Institute‼️

Thanks to Prerna Vohra for hosting my visit…

It was a true pleasure to give a seminar @EdinburghUni ! Thank you to Dr Jenna Cash @jcashlab for the invitation and for such a stimulating & enjoyable visit 😀! I very much look forward future interactions and collaborations with colleagues in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿!!

Ah, found it. User amaclullich.bsky.social

Save the date! 💚 Very excited to announce this upcoming December symposium @EdinburghUni organised by @LoisMBurke & @_SELCIE_🦉 funded by the British Academy! More details & registration link to follow! #scottishlit #womenswriting #irishlit #childrensliterature

Solidarity with colleagues from
@EdinburghUni
who are striking because they are threatened with compulsory redundancy despite the fact _There is NO Deficit_ Just a reduction in income curtailing vanity projects

Excellent kick off to the #FlemingFundFellowship symposium this morning in the Playfair Library #edinburghuni - Dr Sharon Pfleger from NHS Highland highlighting One Health challenges of #AMR

@bachmanntill.bsky.social