Ella

Ella

@ellatasm.bsky.social

Wandering & wondering. Mostly Edinburgh.

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Ali Ball 🇬🇧🇺🇦
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It amazes me how gentle they are with them. This was Cruella struggling to get a raw egg in her mouth. She managed it, but it's a tight fit

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Leith Central Community Council
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1/ There was a lengthy discussion about the closure of St Mark’s Bridge at Monday’s LCCC meeting. The Council has produced a detailed briefing, almost 4 months after closure. We welcome that. It makes clear why officers believed the bridge had to be closed immediately on safety grounds. But ..

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Euronews
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"In the majority of the time, we don't have any teachers," Alice de Brito, vice president of France's main student union UNEF, tells #EuropeToday about the conditions for French students that are causing protests in the country.

Ella
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This weekend's Dussherra Celebrations moving indoors due to Storm Boelo: *New venue: Granton Campus, 350 W Granton Road, Edinburgh EH5 1QE* *Same Date & Time: Saturday 24th October, 2 pm*

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Deadline News
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Scotland’s cruise industry set for growth in 2027 CAPITAL Cruising has concluded its Scottish season with the arrival of the final ship at the deep-water anchorage in Newhaven....

deadlinenews.co.ukScotland’s cruise industry set for growth in 2027CAPITAL Cruising has concluded its Scottish season with the arrival of the final ship at the deep-water anchorage in Newhaven. The AIDAsol sailed into the Forth as part of a Scottish highlights tour, giving passengers the chance to visit Edinburgh, and was the seventh AIDA vessel to call in Scotland this year, with six more visits booked for 2027. Cruise teams and volunteers welcomed 155 vessels into the Forth and Tay during the 2026 season, bringing more than 238,000 passengers to Scotland.

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muirneag.bsky.social
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Wolves and red pandas and flamingos, oh my! The Omni Centre at the top of Leith Walk is showing a wee preview of the Holiday Lanterns, coming soon to Edinburgh Zoo!

Ella
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Slightly misleading paragraph re St Mark's Path bridge. The cost means they have to put in for 2027's budget (as expected) rather than just crack on. That's why the prospective date is 2028 (not new, not delayed, just not soon).

EdinburghMinute.com@edinburghminute.com

🌤️  Good morning Edinburgh. Tuesday’s 7am headlines: Schools to open as normal after bomb hoax, 800 holiday flats breaking rules, under-fire uni boss hits 'reply all' + EHFM is looking for new presenters ⏰ Read more in Edinburgh’s ad-free local newsletter: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...

Ella
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Well it wasn’t misty or foggy, though all the apps insisted it was. It was clear and frosty. Here’s Orion over Newhaven Harbour

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Apparently the £2.2 million @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social reckon they need for a St Mark's Path bridge, may be a bargain. This Oxford Bridge took 3 years and cost £237 million. It does carry the trains as well as people/bikes. And they lowered the road www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2656585...

oxfordmail.co.ukDisbelief among Oxford locals as £237m bridge reopens after over three yearsAs the Botley Road reopens, Oxford locals have shared their joy at the event as well as their anger at the cost and time involved.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest
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It feels incumbent on the council to explain at this point — with this public briefing note being out there especially — to explain not only footing these costs, but also to explain why there's no mention of a utilities bridge being proposed to avoid exactly this scenario and cost in the future...

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Chris Scott (he/him)
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This is too common an attitude. GenAI isn't inevitable, it's just being forced on us everywhere to support the insane, economy-melting edifice that's bene build on the dream of it ever being profitable.

Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com

I think the problem here is that this is the document you arrive at if you're starting from the position that AI is inexorable and needs to be bounded within the creative industries so that we can all draw breath and work out WTF is going on, and you're trying to be reasonable and responsible.

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Brian J. Phillips
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Come work with us! The Department of Government at the University of Essex has 2 fully-funded PhD positions (to write a PhD) on democracy and violence starting January 2027. Deadline 11 November. Our broader network has more positions🧵 vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

vacancies.essex.ac.ukJob profileApplicants must comply with the MSCA Doctoral Networks mobility requirements: must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the UK for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before their recruitment date; eligibility will be checked during recruitment.

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Ada Palmer
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Detailed study of the dissemination of the spinach decimal point error, which was repeated thousands of times, convincing millions that spinach was a great source of iron compared to other veggies, all faked but caused by citing citations of citations without checking.

Alfie Kohn@alfiekohn.bsky.social

Fascinating account showing how a false claim can become widely accepted (and propagated by multiple independent sources) as a result of a common academic shortcut: citing a source you haven't actually read after seeing it cited by another source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

is.gdAcademic urban legends - Ole Bjørn Rekdal, 2014Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific publications are, in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these rumors appear so frequently,...
Ella
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Looks like the update we were expecting re St Mark's Path Bridge this week has been put back a month to November's Transport and Environment Meeting -or the Business Bulletin which proceeds it. edinburgh.public-i.tv/core/portal/... Thanks to @edi.bike for info

edinburgh.public-i.tvCulture and Communities Committee - Thursday 8 October 2026, 10:00am - Start video at 0:36:40 - City of Edinburgh Council WebcastsCulture and Communities Committee - Thursday 8 October 2026, 10:00am - Start video at 0:36:40 - City of Edinburgh Council Webcasts