Lorna M. Campbell
Open education technology, policy & practice at University of Edinburgh. Occasional historian, former Trustee of ALT & Wikimedia UK. Used to be an archaeologist. She/her.
I blog at lornamcampbell.org
#oer #openscot #femedtech #cmalt.
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellSuffragette Muriel Scott (1888-1963) led protests outside #Perth Prison as her sister Arabella was forcefed there. Muriel's article had no photo but Castle House Museum, Dunoon made her graduation photo available CC-BY so we could add it to #Wikimedia Commons 💪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellThe SNP have secured the first Commons debate on Gaza for two years
- Reposted by Lorna M. Campbell"This is a glaring issue that will be faced by every hyperscale data centre coming through the planning system..." aprs.scot/press-releas...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellWill be here in March: SCOTTISH LEFT REVIEW IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE WORKERS' OBSERVATORY PRESENTS Platform Power and Edinburgh's Gig Economy www.tickettailor.com/events/scotl...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellHaving bagged the UK Tree of the Year award, the elegant 170 year old Argyle St Ash is in the running for European Tree of the Year. You know what to do: www.treeoftheyear.org/vote #Glasgow
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellWe're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26
- In 1982, inspired by the work of MO the National Lesbian and Gay survey began, it sought to capture what everyday life was like for queer people living in the UK. For our latest open call we're continuing the work of NLGS and asking what does it mean to be queer every day? #lgbtqhistory
- Reposted by Lorna M. Campbell#OtD 2 Feb 1988 4 lesbians abseiled into the UK House of Lords in protest at the homophobic section 28. In 2017, 4 other lesbians climbed onto the Houses of Parliament in order to put up a blue plaque commemorating the 1988 action stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9181...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellThe Wigtown Poetry Prizes offer awards for poetry in all three of Scotland’s languages. The 2026 competitions are open for submission from today (2 Feb) until 6 May www.wigtownpoetryprize.com/poetry-compe...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellEverybody to Kenmure Street has won an international award at Sundance Film Festival. Well timed, cos it will remind doubters, haters & sceptics that neighbours will protect one another against an authoritarian state - in Glasgow 2021 or Minneapolis today. www.thenational.scot/news/2581367...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellReminder that we'll be having a Perth Women on Wikipedia meet up tomorrow at 10-12 @ Bramblers Café #Perth New and experienced editors of any gender welcome to this informal space - bring your laptop! #PerthScotland #WeCanEdit
- New year, new #Wikipedia Editing Club on the last Saturday of every month - starting 31 January at Bramblers Café, St John Street #Perth 10-12. All levels of experience welcome. Don't forget your laptop! Make it a resolution to change the world, one edit at a time 💪
- A great opportunity to contribute to open knowledge and work with some fabulous people :)
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellJUST TWO DAYS TO GO! 🔥✊ Burns Night meets suffragette resistance ✊🔥 Join us on Sat 31 Jan 3–4pm for our January P&S Patreon Gathering — exploring Burns Night, Perth Prison, and women’s histories of protest in Scotland. 👉 Join us on Patreon (for as little as £5 per month!) buff.ly/tAJOeO1
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellHappy International Puzzle Day! Wikipedia’s jigsaw globe reminds us that knowledge grows piece by piece, built by people around the world. The gap at the top means there’s always room for new information and voices. Piece together more knowledge ➡️ w.wiki/d6g
- Reposted by Lorna M. Campbell“These cuts are hitting the most vulnerable staff hardest.” Sophia Woodman, @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social branch president explaining the reality of the crisis in HE to the Scottish Education Committee.
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellGreat work by @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social on UoE's latest financial report. Depressing that a university doing pretty damn well financially (no deficit) compared to most of the sector choosing to destroy itself, and staff are all just sitting helplessly in the backseat of a slow motion car crash.
- Reposted by Lorna M. Campbellgot a shoutout on a techcrunch piece about europeans getting off US tech 🫡 article: techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/a... my guide: disconnect.blog/getting-off-...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellScots is often wrapped up in classism and labelled as 'weird' or 'uneducated', but by every standard it is its own language with its own grammar, syntax and words, and should be respected as such, writes Emma Grae ✍️ Read more: www.thenational.scot/commen...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellSave the date! Join us for an online archival workshop with @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social and @irrnews.bsky.social to explore the materials and histories of Black activist publishing in the UK from the 1970s: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellI signed up to the government's AI Skills Boost Hub to check its suite of courses and I am sad to report that the free AI training looks even worse than the thread below suggests aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellNEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellThe TRANSECTS project is seeking embedded artist(s) for three roles – Storylines workshops, walkshops and a mini-residency - to explore marine energy transitions and coastal community resilience in north-east Scotland.
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellWhile independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
- Reposted by Lorna M. Campbell“The French government announced that it will stop using American video conferencing platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom, and replace them with Visio, a French platform.”
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- Fabulous examples of creative remixing of open content. #OER #PublicDomain
- 🧵 Announcing the Winners of the 2026 Internet Archive Public Domain Film Remix Contest! 🎬 🥇 FIRST PLACE: “Rhapsody, Reimagined” by Andrea Hale A dazzling reimagining of King of Jazz (1930) set to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue – an aesthetic triumph. Watch it here ➡️ archive.org/details/rhap... 1️⃣/6️⃣
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellWhat do pirates in Madagascar, a red knitted jumper, the sunken warship Vasa, captivity and colonialism, and the Prize Papers have in common? They're all part of our new online lecture series "Ships & Seafaring 1500–1800". Join us weekly on Mondays, 1pm CET, on Zoom #earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellEven when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellThe events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.
- 🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellBurns knew it in 1785. “I’m truly sorry man’s dominion Has broken Nature’s social union”
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellCalling all archaeology students 🎓 The Scottish Student Archaeology Society Conference takes place from the 21st - 22nd of February. Organised by University of Aberdeen Archaeology Society, the conference is a fantastic opportunity to hear new research & connect with peers 👉 tinyurl.com/8bd4eu7w
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellCalling all UK archaeologists! I am conducting some reasearch on Stratigraphic literacy in the industry. If you work/have worked in archaeology in the UK I would really apprechiate if would fill in this survey! forms.gle/5jZKpcf78gZt...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellJoin our live stream today as we preview admin tranining for Wordpress Multisite and Domain of One's Own at 12 EST on Reclaim TV! events.reclaimhosting.com/event/spring...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellNice Neolithic class II henge you have there. Shame if anyone were to fill in parts of the ditch to construct golf bunkers, and place a putting green in its centre. Castle Hill Henge, now hole 13 of the Muir of Ord Golf Club, Highland, Scotland. * maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellNew research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢 This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID. doi.org/10.1080/0958...
- Reposted by Lorna M. Campbell"Guyan’s study argues that excluding gender identities from data collection 'presents a more chilling form of power where trans people in data are not possible – when they appear in data, their presence is "wrong" or "inaccurate”'." archive.is/202601211442...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellCatch up with everything that's happening at Reclaim this month in our mid month newsletter blog.reclaimhosting.com/mid-month-ne...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellSheffield merely the latest university to claim that legally withdrawing your labour should actually be postponing your labour, and punishing people further. Here’s how strikes work: 1. You legally stop working for a period of time. You don’t get paid. 2. Win or lose you go back to work.
- Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellThey let us be, here, in the cage of our ignorance.
- Reposted by Lorna M. Campbell“We have embedded a notorious US military surveillance company whose founder is a close ally of President Trump into the heart of our military at a moment in which the US is threatening to invade our NATO ally, Greenland.” – @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on Palantir bit.ly/4sHG9al
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellWe went each Sunday for the mass recited in my parent’s language that wasn’t mine. The Gaelic gospel that was just sound, pure sound, to me… —Niall Campbell, “Tongues of Water” from THE ISLAND IN THE SOUND, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2024 #poem #poetry www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellWe're chatting at #Wikipedia25 stream hosted by @www.reclaimhosting.com about this event in 2019, Open for a Cause, which featured @audreywatters.bsky.social and @lornamcampbell.bsky.social as well as @czernie.bsky.social in Berlin, Germany blog.wikimedia.de/2019/11/07/o...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellFor people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Reposted by Lorna M. Campbellwikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellDownload 435 High Resolution Images from John J. Audubon’s The Birds of America
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellMissing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellOn this day in 2001, Wikipedia was born 🎂 25 years of open, collaborative knowledge, written and cared for by people around the world, one edit at a time. What’s your favourite Wikipedia article, fact, or memory? #Wikipedia25 #OnThisDay #OpenKnowledge
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellI'm a STEM academic. All I really need to do my research, is a consumables budget of about £2k a year, some space, and some time. None of this I can have, without applying for multiple £500k projects a year, which consumes time which could actually be spent doing the research.
- Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals. What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellIlluminating piece on the ‘discoverability gap’: “Women make up only 20% of the biographies found on Wikipedia English.” womenshistory.si.edu/blog/where-a...
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellWe’re delighted to announce the appointment of Adam Harangozó as Wikimedian in Residence & Research Visibility Champion at LSE. This is our fourth residency active at a UK university, joining Edinburgh, Exeter, and Leeds - and the first to focus specifically on social science. tinyurl.com/yjxf77x5
- This #MapMonday we're taking you back in time ⌛ We've just added over 9,000 out of copyright Ordnance Survey maps published in 1975 to our Map Images website. What did your neighbourhood look like fifty years ago? 🗺️ 🔗: maps.nls.uk/additions/#191 #MoreMaps
- Reposted by Lorna M. CampbellAs people move away from the other place, here’s a starter pack of historians from @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social, who is also worth a follow. go.bsky.app/Fpw6Tvrat://did:plc:batsswaxvws26rr3gf7wvm7k/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lalmastnff2a
