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John Bevis explores the various feats of cunning and subterfuge undertaken by the Kearton brothers — among the very first professional wildlife photographers — in their pioneering attempts to get ever closer to their subjects: publicdomainreview.org/essay…
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Wikimedia Foundation@Wikimedia24 Nov 2024
🎉 Happy birthday, Wikisource! What started as a historical archive is now a multilingual library hosting texts of all kinds – knowledge, literature, and culture for everyone in the world. Read on for some examples 🧵⬇️ (1/7)
Vast library with many shelves filled with books. Text says: Happy 21st birthday, Wikisource!

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Europeana@Europeanaeu18 Nov 2024
Explore our new gallery featuring stunning photographs, posters and portraits depicting iconic women who shaped the performing arts in the early 20th century, including Sarah Bernhardt, Gabrielle Réjane, and Carolina Otero➡️ bit.ly/3AK6u1u
An Art Nouveau poster for Gismonda depicting Sarah Bernhardt

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Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over Niagara Falls on the night of November 12th, 1833, pictured in E. Weiß's Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt (1892). ⠀ One of 15 new prints just up in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/shop/… #otd #onthisday
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EdUni23Things@EdUni23Things12 Nov 2024
🎉 This week is Digital Skills and Training MEDIA AND CREATIVITY WEEK! 🎞️💻🎨 Edinburgh University provides a wealth of digital tools and services to broaden your creative skills. ➡️ Start learning and blogging today: 23things.ed.ac.uk/
23 Things for Digital Knowledge. Learn about the many digital tools available for students, how to present yourself in digital spaces, and practice good digital citizenship!

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Europeana@Europeanaeu7 Nov 2024
#MarieCurie was born #OnThisDay in 1867. Visit our online exhibition and learn how she rose from humble beginnings to become the 1st woman to win a #NobelPrize, the 1st person to win it twice & the only person to win it in two different sciences➡️bit.ly/2DtaYca
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EdUni23Things@EdUni23Things28 Oct 2024
How are your critical digital skills? When finding information on the internet, it is important to be able to judge its accuracy and to establish that the information comes from a reliable and trusted source. Learn more with #EdUni23things 23things.ed.ac.uk/week-9/#cr…
Illustration of a woman in a long detective coat holding a magnifying glass looking at the 23 Things laptop.

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Pages from a beautiful hand-written and illustrated treatise on firework design and manufacture published in 1785, including ‘blue-prints’ for the devices and explosive recipes. See the full book here: buff.ly/2JSimRl #Fireworks
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"Picturing Pyrotechnics" — @simon_werrett on how artists through the ages have responded to the challenge of representing firework displays: publicdomainreview.org/2014/… #bonfirenight #FireworksNight #fireworks
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Learn about how @edinburghuni and other education institutions are enabling learners to develop critical information literacy skills by engaging with Wikimedia in Education. open.ed.ac.uk/wikimedia-in-e…

Wikimedia in Education

This booklet has been produced by Wikimedia UK and the University of Edinburgh, bringing together a collection of case studies from across the UK in order to provide insight into the use of the...

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@UN24 Oct 2024
It’s Global Media and Information Literacy Week. What we share online can have consequences in the real world, and misinformation can result in people being left uninformed & at risk. Pause to verify facts by asking basic questions before sharing content online.
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UoE Digital Skills@UoEDigiSkills4 Nov 2024
It's Week 2 of Digital Skills for Staff Fortnight! Learn how to be more efficient (and have more fun) in your role, get to know new tools and advance in your career with our Digital Skills courses tailored to you. Book your free place: ed.ac.uk/information-service…
Digital Skills for Staff Fortnight, (28th October – 8th November 2024). Digital skills programme logo. People moving colourful puzzle pieces. A QR code to the digital skills programme labelled "Scan the QR code to book your place."

ALT Digital Skills for Staff Fortnight, (28th October – 8th November 2024). Digital skills programme logo. People moving colourful puzzle pieces. A QR code to the digital skills programme labelled "Scan the QR code to book your place."

Courses - Week 2: Learn: Analytics in Learn Ultra (Mon 04 Nov) Developing your digital skills (Mon 04 Nov) Basic data visualisations (Tue 05 Nov) Office 365 Essentials: Managing your emails and calendar with Outlook on the web Excel: Introduction to Excel (Tue 05 Nov) OER: Transforming the Curriculum with OER and Open Education (Tue 05 Nov) Excel: Basic charts in Excel (Tue 05 Nov) OER: Open Textbooks Quick Start: A short introduction to Open Textbooks (Wed 06 Nov) Introduction to Wikidata and Histropedia Staff and Student booking in Event Booking (Wed 06 Nov) Introduction to LinkedIn Learning (Wed 06 Nov) Learn: Analytics in Learn Ultra (Thu 07 Nov) BusinessObjects: Introduction to BusinessObjects (Thu 07 Nov) Office 365 Essentials: Notetaking made easy with Microsoft OneNote Online (Thu 07 Nov) SharePoint: Planning and designing a SharePoint site (Fri 08 Nov) Excel: Selected Excel functions (Tue 12 Nov) Excel: Further functions (Tue 12 Nov)

ALT Courses - Week 2: Learn: Analytics in Learn Ultra (Mon 04 Nov) Developing your digital skills (Mon 04 Nov) Basic data visualisations (Tue 05 Nov) Office 365 Essentials: Managing your emails and calendar with Outlook on the web Excel: Introduction to Excel (Tue 05 Nov) OER: Transforming the Curriculum with OER and Open Education (Tue 05 Nov) Excel: Basic charts in Excel (Tue 05 Nov) OER: Open Textbooks Quick Start: A short introduction to Open Textbooks (Wed 06 Nov) Introduction to Wikidata and Histropedia Staff and Student booking in Event Booking (Wed 06 Nov) Introduction to LinkedIn Learning (Wed 06 Nov) Learn: Analytics in Learn Ultra (Thu 07 Nov) BusinessObjects: Introduction to BusinessObjects (Thu 07 Nov) Office 365 Essentials: Notetaking made easy with Microsoft OneNote Online (Thu 07 Nov) SharePoint: Planning and designing a SharePoint site (Fri 08 Nov) Excel: Selected Excel functions (Tue 12 Nov) Excel: Further functions (Tue 12 Nov)

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Today Mexico celebrates the #DayOfTheDead. Skeletal imagery features heavily, influenced in no small part by the work of José Guadalupe Posada, known for his satirical and politically acute broadside prints called "calaveras" (skulls) — buff.ly/2tua8tS #diademuertos
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New Tartan Tartigrade podcast episode! Mia Belle Frothingham chats with Professor David Deamer from the University of California Santa Cruz on his exciting career path, what to consider when becoming a scientist, & future missions in the search for life! media.ed.ac.uk/media/The+Tar…
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Curious Edinburgh@curiousedi29 Oct 2024
Our newest tour, History of Witchcraft in Edinburgh, guides you along the Royal Mile to learn the real histories of the city’s accused witches. Download our app or check out the trail here: curiousedinburgh.org/history… Tour developed by @ellie1whitehead #Edinburgh #Scotland
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Book from 1911 showing that taking photos of cats and furnishing them with an amusing caption is far from being a phenomenon born with the internet. More here: buff.ly/2ZzSC76 #NationalCatDay
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UoE Digital Skills@UoEDigiSkills28 Oct 2024
Come along to 'OER: Creative Commons Quickstart: A short introduction to using Creative Commons Licenses'! Wednesday 30.10.2024 at 12:30-13:00 Learn about key concepts, benefits, attribution and adding open licenses.
Free Digital Skills Course: Creative Commons quick start Wednesday 30 Oct 2024, 12:30-13:00. The Creative commons symbol, a book with the copyright symbol and the digital skills programme logo. @UoEDigiSkills

ALT Free Digital Skills Course: Creative Commons quick start Wednesday 30 Oct 2024, 12:30-13:00. The Creative commons symbol, a book with the copyright symbol and the digital skills programme logo. @UoEDigiSkills

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Europeana@Europeanaeu28 Oct 2024
"It began with a few modified photos, and after a while, I had enough photographic material to create a whole new book" - Etienne Milette uses heritage material from europeana.eu in his work exploring fantasy and the paranormal. Learn more➡️bit.ly/40mRXDs
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Wikimedia UK@wikimediauk24 Oct 2024
It's Global Media and Information Literacy Week and we're revisiting our Wikipedia+Democracy research, that showed engaging with Wikipedia editing made people more likely to take civil action in other areas of their life. Read the full report: bit.ly/42vOCQn
Image of a man holding a placard at a protest reading "guys. c'mon." beside a quote from the report reading: "Access to unbiased, reliable and verified information is a fundamental requirement for creating trust and ensuring that citizens can meaningfully engage with content."

ALT Image of a man holding a placard at a protest reading "guys. c'mon." beside a quote from the report reading: "Access to unbiased, reliable and verified information is a fundamental requirement for creating trust and ensuring that citizens can meaningfully engage with content."

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Ewan McAndrew@emcandre23 Oct 2024
Another powerful new feature is our @Histropedia timeline search (shout out to @NavinoEvans) where you can do a name search, click pm an accused and read their Wikipedia entry, Survey entry, Privy Council record etc AND filter & colour code by multiple aspects (e.g. white magic)
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Ewan McAndrew@emcandre23 Oct 2024
Last time we launched the site in Sept 2019 we did so with little fanfare or contextual info. This time we have gone overboard with an Introduction to the Witch Trials, the Interrogation Process, a Glossary of Terms (what even is a 'henwife?'), Further Reading section and more!
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