Claire McDade

@ClaireM
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Glasgow based, #Comedy #Dogs #Films #Theatre #Gardening #Museums #Heritage #Communities #Art #Industrialheritage #Costume #Textiles #Scotland Community and cultural engagement. More recently, traditional boat building.

Left wing but mostly trying to avoid politics and negativity on this platform

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Milder weather equals lots of happy runs #DogsOfMastodon #Glasgow #JackRussells
A perfect illustration of why one shouldn’t clean the garden in autumn. A flock of goldfinches has feasted on last summer’s rudbeckia seed pods every morning. #climatechange is melting all the snow. #Birds #Gardening #nature
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A feeble and possibly short-lived attempt to start a new hashtag, here's my first #MidweekMuseum recommendation. This is the #StateHermitage #Museum in #SaintPetersburg, #Russia. We spent several hours here in 2017 and like all the big #museums in all the big cities, it both wasn't enough time and probably too much as you eventually reach an #art and #history saturation and fatigue point. Fabulous place.

#TravelPhotography #Travel #Photography #StPetersburg #Hermitage #ArtGallery

It was clear from the jump Musk didn’t understand the site he’d bought, but I’m still a bit surprised he doesn’t grasp that journalists are the main reason Twitter was more relevant than any number of other similar platforms. Can easily imagine looking back on this as a tipping point.

Woah. Watching Twitter misuse our research by putting warnings on links to Mastodon.

Here for example is the warning that @georgetakei "may be unsafe."

In a study led by Ben Kaiser at Princeton, we tested the effect of interstitial warnings on user behavior.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/warnings-work-combating-misinformation-without-deplatforming

Warnings That Work: Combating Misinformation Without Deplatforming

Both President Biden and Facebook have taken steps to dial down the temperature since last week’s dustup, but the fundamental problem remains: How can platforms effectively combat misinformation with steps short of takedowns?

Lawfare

Solidarity to the nurses on strike today.

Nurses deserve to be properly paid and not overworked, not because that will make healthcare better and safer for the rest of us (although it will), or because we owe it to them for all their work during the pandemic (although we do), but because they're human beings and therefore should have decent working conditions. Their job is one of the hardest in existence, and their treatment is disgraceful.

#NursesStrike #HumanRightsNotPolitics

I bet you’ve heard of Galileo & Hubble, but what about Henrietta Swan Leavitt?

Leavitt changed astronomy. She figured out new ways to measure a star’s distance from Earth & her work helped determine the universe is expanding.

Her boss, Edward Pickering, published her findings UNDER HIS NAME. Later, Shapley used her findings to determine distances around the Milky Way w/o credit.

Leavitt’s work is still used today. Next time you hear about famous men in #science share her story. #HistoryRemix

Beautiful morning walking the dog just south of Glasgow

#DogsOfMastodon #Scotland #Glasgow

Beautiful Inchmahone Priory on its island in the Lake of Menteith in the Trossachs. It was founded by Augustinian canons who came here from Cambuskenneth Abbey near Stirling in 1238. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/aberfoyle/inchmahomepriory/index.html

#Scotland #InchmahonePriory #LakeOfMenteith #Trossachs #UndiscoveredScotland

Inchmahome Priory Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland

Information about and images of Inchmahome Priory in the Trossachs on Undiscovered Scotland.