Former journo now in comms, covering innovation and tech. Father, husband, dog guardian and optimist (sort of). Glasgow, Scotland.
Ian Marland
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With £50,000 available, local organisations across can apply for grants of up to £5,000 (or smaller awards up to £850) to support impactful community projects.
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Headwinds are getting stronger for news media.
And then there were 53 left.
I’ve taken another look to see which UK universities remain on X/Twitter out of 141 original accounts. When I last checked earlier in the year there were 64 universities still actively posting on the platform.
Who's gone?
Who will be last one Tweeting?
1/8
Knowledge Exchange & Innovation Awards 2026 winners were announced at an event @uofgarc.bsky.social last week.
See our 🔗🌳 in profile for full list.
#Innovation #TeamUofG
This is incredibly petty by @manchestermill.bsky.social - it was obviously done without my knowledge
manchestermill.co.uk/why-the-mill...
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
Bluesky fires shots at Twitter (X)’s Grok
“Sad Epstein isn’t alive to use Grok. He would have loved it”
Meanwhile , in Auroral news , …. Over Greenland this evening , as the northern hemisphere experiences a bumper event ,
“If you met him, you weren’t likely to forget him.”
Great article in @glasgowbell.bsky.social about the extraordinary story of 'tour de force' Alec Nove, leading Soviet expert and former head of the Institute for Soviet and East Europe Studies @glasgow.ac.uk
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/alec-nove-so...
‘Managers were targeted more than players, with 82% of abusive posts made on X, formerly known as Twitter’
No regrets about deleting my account. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
University of Glasgow, Innovation & Economic Development
Ian Marland
More than 2,000 extremely abusive social media posts were sent about managers and players in the Premier League and Women's Super League in a single weekend, a BBC investigation finds.
University of Glasgow, Innovation & Economic Development
Joshi Herrmann
Brian Bilston
𝕃𝕒𝕦𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕄
UofG School of Social & Political Sciences
Culture Crave 🍿
Ian Marland
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
