Flitcraft
@flitcraft.bsky.social
Scottish history generalist with early modern tendencies. She/her. AuDHD
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Very pleased to share my latest article, which features in Sage Journals, Crime Media Culture: An International Journal, as part of the 2026 Special Issue: 50th Anniversary of Resistance Through Rituals.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Very pleased to share my latest article, which features in Sage Journals, Crime Media Culture: An International Journal, as part of the 2026 Special Issue: 50th Anniversary of Resistance Through Rituals.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Kentigern's Well is back. See in particular the video at the foot showing clear water running at last. I initially thought the artwork was rather tacky, but now I know the materials, and that it's suspended, I'm rather less apprehensive.
#Glasgow
karinepolwart.substack.com/p/the-well-w...
#Glasgow
karinepolwart.substack.com/p/the-well-w...
The Well Within
Lessons in health, healing and enough-ness via an abandoned medieval well at Glasgow Cathedral
karinepolwart.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Kentigern's Well is back. See in particular the video at the foot showing clear water running at last. I initially thought the artwork was rather tacky, but now I know the materials, and that it's suspended, I'm rather less apprehensive.
#Glasgow
karinepolwart.substack.com/p/the-well-w...
#Glasgow
karinepolwart.substack.com/p/the-well-w...
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(have deleted my quote tweet of the catastrophising university lecturer as, happily, tons of other academics said they didn't recognise their experience at all)
November 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
(have deleted my quote tweet of the catastrophising university lecturer as, happily, tons of other academics said they didn't recognise their experience at all)
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Steam Locomotive the Blue Peter crossing the Forth Bridge today.
November 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Steam Locomotive the Blue Peter crossing the Forth Bridge today.
Some folk just can't walk past a moral panic about 'young people today' while the vast majority imbibing ghastly toxic stuff that shows they've poor reading comprehension & are easily manipulated by the media, social media and crap AI are definitely not the young people they're complaining about
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Some folk just can't walk past a moral panic about 'young people today' while the vast majority imbibing ghastly toxic stuff that shows they've poor reading comprehension & are easily manipulated by the media, social media and crap AI are definitely not the young people they're complaining about
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“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
‘Doing the Readings’
Dr Will Pooley (Associate Professor in Modern History), University of Bristol The students, we often grumble, don’t read the secondary readings we set for class. Every year, we find ourselves press…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
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Useful ideas for teaching students how to read history.
“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
‘Doing the Readings’
Dr Will Pooley (Associate Professor in Modern History), University of Bristol The students, we often grumble, don’t read the secondary readings we set for class. Every year, we find ourselves press…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Useful ideas for teaching students how to read history.
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Was a privilege to be invited to attend yesterday to the opening/reveal of the new mosaic installation in the well at Glasgow Cathedral. The project highlights the oft overlooked feature which is integral to the story of St Ketigern and Glasgow itself
More info etc www.aproxima.co.uk/the-well
More info etc www.aproxima.co.uk/the-well
November 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Was a privilege to be invited to attend yesterday to the opening/reveal of the new mosaic installation in the well at Glasgow Cathedral. The project highlights the oft overlooked feature which is integral to the story of St Ketigern and Glasgow itself
More info etc www.aproxima.co.uk/the-well
More info etc www.aproxima.co.uk/the-well
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It's just one small example among a sea of them in which Facebook is driving traffic and making revenues from scams, disinformation and illegality. And their "But we have robust reporting tools in place" retort is a nonsense when those reporting tools simply can't be used against this sort of scam.
November 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
It's just one small example among a sea of them in which Facebook is driving traffic and making revenues from scams, disinformation and illegality. And their "But we have robust reporting tools in place" retort is a nonsense when those reporting tools simply can't be used against this sort of scam.
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“These Siths or Fairies… are said to be of middle nature between Man & Angel… somewhat of the nature of a condensed cloud”
Robert Kirk’s SECRET COMMONWEALTH OF ELVES, FAUNS & FAIRIES (c.1691) sought to unify the natural & supernatural worlds
#BookWormSat #C17
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/the-...
Robert Kirk’s SECRET COMMONWEALTH OF ELVES, FAUNS & FAIRIES (c.1691) sought to unify the natural & supernatural worlds
#BookWormSat #C17
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/the-...
The (super)natural worlds of Robert Kirk: Fairies, Beasts, Landscapes and Lychnobious Liminalities - The Bottle Imp
On 14 May 1692 Rev. Robert Kirk (1644–1692), an accomplished Gaelic scholar and Episcopalian minister of Aberfoyle, set off for an evening stroll on the Doon Hill behind the manse. When he did not ret...
www.thebottleimp.org.uk
November 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
“These Siths or Fairies… are said to be of middle nature between Man & Angel… somewhat of the nature of a condensed cloud”
Robert Kirk’s SECRET COMMONWEALTH OF ELVES, FAUNS & FAIRIES (c.1691) sought to unify the natural & supernatural worlds
#BookWormSat #C17
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/the-...
Robert Kirk’s SECRET COMMONWEALTH OF ELVES, FAUNS & FAIRIES (c.1691) sought to unify the natural & supernatural worlds
#BookWormSat #C17
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/the-...
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Winter Lecture Series RESCHEDULED!
Please note that our third event with Dr Claire McNulty has been rescheduled to Wednesday 7 January 2026. We hope you can still join us online from 17:30 (UK) to hear more about 'Edinburgh's Unruly Women'!
Register here: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Please note that our third event with Dr Claire McNulty has been rescheduled to Wednesday 7 January 2026. We hope you can still join us online from 17:30 (UK) to hear more about 'Edinburgh's Unruly Women'!
Register here: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SHS Winter Lecture Series 3. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SHS Winter Lecture Series 3. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
uofglasgow.zoom.us
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Winter Lecture Series RESCHEDULED!
Please note that our third event with Dr Claire McNulty has been rescheduled to Wednesday 7 January 2026. We hope you can still join us online from 17:30 (UK) to hear more about 'Edinburgh's Unruly Women'!
Register here: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Please note that our third event with Dr Claire McNulty has been rescheduled to Wednesday 7 January 2026. We hope you can still join us online from 17:30 (UK) to hear more about 'Edinburgh's Unruly Women'!
Register here: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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High above a storm, a mysterious red ring appeared for a split second. Here's how one photographer captured the elusive "elve," Daisy Dobrijevic. www.space.com/stargazing/p...
Photographer captures eerie red halo hovering over the Italian Alps in rare 'elve' sighting (photo)
High above a storm, a mysterious red ring appeared for a split second. Here's how one photographer captured the elusive "elve."
www.space.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
High above a storm, a mysterious red ring appeared for a split second. Here's how one photographer captured the elusive "elve," Daisy Dobrijevic. www.space.com/stargazing/p...
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My hotel in Hong Kong, where people understand airborne transmission of respiratory viruses, has HEPA filters everywhere
November 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
My hotel in Hong Kong, where people understand airborne transmission of respiratory viruses, has HEPA filters everywhere
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This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".
Net migration has fallen again to 204,000, the lowest level since 2021 and is forecast to continue falling over the coming years.
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".
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Also, as I like to bring everything back to #UKHE, exactly this sort of conversation also happens with some academics when they encounter an autistic student. Especially colleagues in Medicine, Healthcare, Psychology, Education etc. Please don't do that. Please don't doubt a person's diagnosis.
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Also, as I like to bring everything back to #UKHE, exactly this sort of conversation also happens with some academics when they encounter an autistic student. Especially colleagues in Medicine, Healthcare, Psychology, Education etc. Please don't do that. Please don't doubt a person's diagnosis.
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Ooh, this is very, very good.
I wrote about systemic medical bias, chocolate medals and Eamonn Holmes
Diagnosed but not believed: Autistic women and the medical gaze
A GP I met for the first time three minutes ago is glancing over my electronic health record, trying to match it with the woman before him…
medium.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Ooh, this is very, very good.
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
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Pointlessly evil.
Disabled people choose these brands bc they come with a guaranteed replacement vehicle WHICH IS ESSENTIAL IF YOU'RE DISABLED.
They pay the difference themselves.
So all you've done is tell disabled CEOs/working disabled people that they have to drive a Kia.
#budget #reeves
Disabled people choose these brands bc they come with a guaranteed replacement vehicle WHICH IS ESSENTIAL IF YOU'RE DISABLED.
They pay the difference themselves.
So all you've done is tell disabled CEOs/working disabled people that they have to drive a Kia.
#budget #reeves
Luxury cars removed from Motability scheme ahead of budget
The programme has been criticised for allowing people with non-visible disabilities to get luxury vehicles as part of their welfare. The chancellor wants to support the British car market with the new...
news.sky.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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imagine having to hear shit like "study confirms giving diabetic children insulin reduces their death rates by 100%" as if that hasn't been known for like a hunred years. that's what being trans is like
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
imagine having to hear shit like "study confirms giving diabetic children insulin reduces their death rates by 100%" as if that hasn't been known for like a hunred years. that's what being trans is like
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Excitingly, this programme includes an IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship, inviting applications from people working on one of the following:
1) Cultures of Natural History
2) Collecting Video Game Heritage
More details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #histSTM📜
1) Cultures of Natural History
2) Collecting Video Game Heritage
More details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #histSTM📜
Webinar: IASH Fellowship applicants for 2026-27, on Monday 15 December at 13:00 GMT. Find out about our programmes, and ask any questions you may have.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
events.teams.microsoft.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Excitingly, this programme includes an IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship, inviting applications from people working on one of the following:
1) Cultures of Natural History
2) Collecting Video Game Heritage
More details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #histSTM📜
1) Cultures of Natural History
2) Collecting Video Game Heritage
More details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #histSTM📜
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FFS. This is how I got my electric wheelchair. Not a Mercedes.
But so what if people get a good car on it, anyway? There's an assumption that disabled people and others with benefits must suffer and not have any nice things in life.
But so what if people get a good car on it, anyway? There's an assumption that disabled people and others with benefits must suffer and not have any nice things in life.
“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
FFS. This is how I got my electric wheelchair. Not a Mercedes.
But so what if people get a good car on it, anyway? There's an assumption that disabled people and others with benefits must suffer and not have any nice things in life.
But so what if people get a good car on it, anyway? There's an assumption that disabled people and others with benefits must suffer and not have any nice things in life.
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My latest blog on some of the best/ most debate-worthy new research on autism and wider neurodiversity & intersectionality.
Inc. hearing in noisy places, what do we use assistance dogs for, ADHD lived experience, & does ABA enforcement link to mental health crises?
ndconnection.co.uk/blog/autism-...
Inc. hearing in noisy places, what do we use assistance dogs for, ADHD lived experience, & does ABA enforcement link to mental health crises?
ndconnection.co.uk/blog/autism-...
Autism, ADHD, Lived Experience and Inclusion—What’s New in November — Neurodiverse Connection
In this month’s research roundup, Ann Memmott brings together new work exploring Autism, ADHD, first‑person perspectives and inclusion. Ann reflects on sensory and communication challenges, access b...
ndconnection.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
My latest blog on some of the best/ most debate-worthy new research on autism and wider neurodiversity & intersectionality.
Inc. hearing in noisy places, what do we use assistance dogs for, ADHD lived experience, & does ABA enforcement link to mental health crises?
ndconnection.co.uk/blog/autism-...
Inc. hearing in noisy places, what do we use assistance dogs for, ADHD lived experience, & does ABA enforcement link to mental health crises?
ndconnection.co.uk/blog/autism-...
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Real Simple Syndication.
Think of it as kinda like a Bluesky feed - websites have an RSS feed you can add to a feed reader; when the website updates, a new post is added to the feed, so when you check the reader, you can see if anything new had posted.
No accounts needed; no third party interference
Think of it as kinda like a Bluesky feed - websites have an RSS feed you can add to a feed reader; when the website updates, a new post is added to the feed, so when you check the reader, you can see if anything new had posted.
No accounts needed; no third party interference
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Real Simple Syndication.
Think of it as kinda like a Bluesky feed - websites have an RSS feed you can add to a feed reader; when the website updates, a new post is added to the feed, so when you check the reader, you can see if anything new had posted.
No accounts needed; no third party interference
Think of it as kinda like a Bluesky feed - websites have an RSS feed you can add to a feed reader; when the website updates, a new post is added to the feed, so when you check the reader, you can see if anything new had posted.
No accounts needed; no third party interference
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RSS feed readers feel like a forgotten magic - people kinda forgot that we had a tool for tracking updates to websites with no algorithms, just what you want to see, as it goes up.
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
RSS feed readers feel like a forgotten magic - people kinda forgot that we had a tool for tracking updates to websites with no algorithms, just what you want to see, as it goes up.