The Argyle Street Ash, UK Tree of the Year 2025, is a cultural landmark in Glasgow which is over 170 years old. It has survived significant changes to the city including the blitz. My Painting will be showing at Arteries Gallery Glasgow

Happy #MoleDay! Right now, it's 6:02am on 23 October, aka 6:02 10/23 in the US date format. Chemists out there will notice this date and time resembles Avogadro's number, a basic measuring unit, which defines the number of particles in one mole of substance.

A fourth-century homeowner commissioned this simple mosaic, listing inside a laurel wreath all that mattered to them: ‘Health, Life, Joy, Peace, Good Cheer, Hope!’ (Υγεία, Ζωή, Χαρά, Ειρήνη, Ευθυμία, Ελπίδα!) From Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum), Turkey

In honour of #OXIDay “For some people, there comes a day when they have to say the great Yes or the great No.” – C.P. Cavafy, “Che Fece … Il Gran Rifiuto”, translated by Evangelos Sachperoglou.

Eight years on from the damage caused by Storm Ophelia, the Suffrage Oak appears to be recovering nicely.

Our new report with UCL Policy Lab, Shared Institutions, is a deep dive of public opinion on universities. At a top level Britons feel positively about our universities impact on the UK & their local area. But emerging divides show the sector can’t take public opinion for granted

Every year on #Halloween we carve a #Pumpkin from our collection of Penguin Books. 🎃 We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃

Japanese Maple and Autumn Plants, by Sakai Oho, early 19th century

Today's mood.

Today is #RLSDay which marks the birthday of the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson who would have been 175 today. It's also a good day to remember that it is NOT actually his birthday because in 1891 he gave it away to a young girl because she didn't like her birthday. 🧵

The TRANSFORM trial, aiming to identify effective prostate cancer screening tools, is now starting to recruit. The best way towards better screening is to encourage people who receive an invitation letter to take part. x.com/BBCFergusWalsh…

Here’s what happened at The Ocean Cleanup in November: 💠 This year, we’ve been collecting an average of 53 kilos of trash every minute. 💠 We just finished recycling our last plastic batch from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Now, we have over 118,000 kg of plastic granulate

Letters Out Of Nowhere (Scotland) 📷 Martin Parr, R. I. P. thanks to ⁦Enza Altieri⁩

A completely free concert. In the completely free Kelvingrove Museum. There’s something old-fashioned about things just being done for the public good, at no charge.