🌍 We’re hiring! 🌍 SGSAH seeks a doctoral researcher in the Arts & Humanities to coordinate impact activities from the EARTH Scholarships (2023–25), incl. a 2026 symposium + report. Apply by 16 Oct 👉 www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/sgsah-ea... @britishcouncil.bsky.social

In case anyone hasn't already seen: 34 of the Gaza students with scholarships at UK institutions arrived this week, including a student who is due to start a PhD with me at Edinburgh. I'm so grateful to everyone who helped with this - thousands of people. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

We've got a chunky @britishacademy.bsky.social report out looking at the emergence of 'cold spots' where you can't study arts, humanities or social science subjects close to home. We call for an urgent review of HE funding & monitoring of at risk subjects www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...

A great evening at @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social hearing about The Two Roberts as fabulously told by @damianbarr.bsky.social - here signing with their portrait @canongate.co.uk

📢 We’re delighted to announce Professor Maria Fusco as the next Director of SGSAH An award-winning writer & interdisciplinary leader @dundee.ac.uk, she joins us in January 2026 👉 More in our press release: www.sgsah.ac.uk/about/news/h... #ArtsandHumanities #PhDTraining @uofgartshums.bsky.social

I’m delighted that Prof Maria Fusco will be the next Director of @sgsah.bsky.social - she’ll take over in January 26 - wish her well everyone, she’ll be brilliant! bsky.app/profile/sgsa...

⭐ Host a PhD Researcher in 2026 ⭐ We support paid internships & artist residencies, enabling Arts & Humanities researchers to spend up to 3 months with an organisation. Benefit from expertise, creativity & fresh perspectives – while supporting future research leaders! 👉 www.sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/i_ar/

My time as Glasgow Zine Library's funding intern has come to an end! I am so grateful to @sgsah.bsky.social for offering paid internships for PGRs. The team at GZL were so welcoming and attentive to my development needs (I leave the role with a PVG, 420+ hours of experience, and SO MANY ZINES)

Great to see several SGSAH researchers presenting their work at this conference—including @eilidhfinlayson.bsky.social & @ebbastrutzenbladh.bsky.social. Wishing everyone a fantastic event!

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

'AN ENORMOUS BLOW' screams the headline. then the article immediately concedes that ticket sales are 'booming'. and the festivals they told us Fossil Free Books was KILLING are in fact...doing fine? www.thebookseller.com/news/an-enor...

Deeply saddened to hear of the death of book historian, librarian and bibliographile (is that a word?) extraordinaire Ian Willison, as circulated today by Simon Eliot via @sharpweb.org list serv (see list.iu.edu/sympa/arc/sh...) 1/

Deeply saddened to hear of the death of book historian, librarian and bibliographile (is that a word?) extraordinaire Ian Willison, as circulated today by Simon Eliot via @sharpweb.org list serv (see list.iu.edu/sympa/arc/sh...) 1/

Um how is one to verify @blairesquiscoll.bsky.social’s age? Asking for a friend…

Ibrahim has a scholarship to study at Glasgow Uni - but he's trapped in Gaza and needs UK Government help to get out. This week Labour told the media they would bring 40 Gaza students here. Ibrahim heard the news ... then learned he wasn't one of them. www.thenational.scot/news/2542399...

We had a stunning photo comp during last week’s SGSAH 2nd Year Residential on Great Cumbrae! 🥇 @cyhchristie.bsky.social 🥈 Esther Meeks 🥉 Camila Cavalcante Pereira Congrats to the winners + thanks to all our PhDs who shared their eye for beauty and detail 📸 #SGSAHmillport25

Explore 50 years of Scottish film & TV in this free exhibition From Film Bang to Filming Boom 🎞️ Audiovisual works from 1970s—present curated by SGSAH researcher @correiadigital.bsky.social w/ @edinburghnapier.bsky.social & @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 📍 @natlibscot.bsky.social Edinburgh & Glasgow

The government will now help 40 students in Gaza to come to the UK to take up funded university scholarships. Promising news, but many details still to be resolved: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the first article in our series telling positive stories of refugees in Scotland. Meet Motaz Amer. His family fled war in Yemen when he was 9. 10 years later he is advising the Scottish Government, supporting its refugee integration strategy. www.thenational.scot/news/2540848...

The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!! Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

These are my @sgsah.bsky.social photo competition submissions, despite not being anything close to a photographer. Gorgeous ride from Cumbrae to Arran yesterday aboard the Waverly; after a huge dolphin pod sighting we arrived back at Millport to a pipe band 🥹

Kicking off another SGSAH residential with some beachcombing ❤️ @sgsah.bsky.social

Day two @sgsah.bsky.social second year residential. A trip on the incredible #pswaverley and a wander round beautiful #brodick #isleofarran

🚨 Call for contributions: Black History Month 2025 🚨 We’re excited to invite proposals from PhDs for short (10–15 min) presentations as part of the SGSAH x @sgsss.bsky.social BHM Programme. 📅 Deadline: 15 Sept 🖥️ Online: 17 & 24 Oct Details 👉 www.sgsah.ac.uk/about/news/h... #BHM2025

Just over a week to go! Get those abstracts in 📚

When the @sgsah.bsky.social #SGSAHmillport25 cohort get piped off the Waverley ⛴️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 😍

We have over 80 who are entirely eligible to come to U.K. We need Home Office to treat students equitably. The horror and devastation from those with scholarships but not under FCDO selection but under Home Office is overwhelming for everyone involved. We need consistent, equitable decision making

On the way to Great Cumbrae for the @sgsah.bsky.social residential! Boats will feature heavily…

Route to the best beach

A lot of good publicity for The Women Who Wouldn't Wheest today - all of it based on misleading claims about book "banning". The truth is it was one of over 200 books nominated for one exhibition at the library that didn't get selected www.thenational.scot/news/2538737...

NEW BLOG OUT NOW ON SUBSTACK: Catch up with our @sgsah.bsky.social funded PhD researcher doing a Collaborative Doctoral Award with us & The University of Strathclyde. Lauren was awarded SGSAH’s engagement funding to take part in a short documentary film course at Met Film School, Berlin.

⭐️ New Featured Researcher: Lewis Wood ⭐️ PhD @uniofstandrews.bsky.social & @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. His thesis, "Precarious queers and queer precarity", explores how literature reframes our understanding of vulnerability, interconnection & activism. 🔗 Read more: sgsahresearch.com/featured-res...

Comma Press and Out-Spoken Press have spoken out about two Gazan writers who are currently unable to take up full-scholarship awards at the University of Edinburgh and Goldsmiths, University of London due to government red tape 👇 #BookSky

Journalist Anas Al-Sharif reporting from Gaza, shortly before Israel killed him tonight: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social staff in particular, please keep writing to your MPs: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Local Glasgow Event klaxon! Join us on October 18th to hear about Madeleine and her incriminating letters!! www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/love...

🎪 The mayhem begins! Celebrate with us! Doors open at 10am at George IV Bridge (Edinburgh) and Kelvin Hall (Glasgow). Be among the first 500 at each site to get your special edition centenary comic, created by Beano! #NLS100 #Beano

So pleased to see this letter from MPs in support of students in Gaza with offers at UK universities. It's been signed by over 100 MPs and is a real cross-party effort. I hope now that Starmer will respond to our requests.

If you want to write to your MP about this but aren't sure where to start, there is a template letter in the replies that you can adapt and personalise. All letters help to increase pressure on the government.

St Andrews calls for Home Office to urgently provide safe passage for Gazan students with UK university places. 'Facilitating their entry is a moral imperative and an investment in the transformative power of higher education' www.heraldscotland.com/news/2536987...

Please write to your MP and demand that the Home Office act to help these students make it out of Gaza to study in the UK this September. Time is running out to get the government to move on this; they absolutely could take action and are — so far — choosing not to.

💥 Final Post of this @sgsah.bsky.social Blog Series! 💥 For the last article in this #EARTHScholar series, we have international scholars David Ogoru and Zahra Tootonsab writing on ethics & care in interdisciplinary research... Read their post here➡️ sgsahblog.com/2025/07/31/t...

JOB ALERT! Canongate is looking for both a Publicity Assistant and a Deputy Publicity Director (maternity) to join our team, in Edinburgh or London. Full details for both roles are on our website, so if you or someone you know might be interested, please do take a look: canongate.co.uk/about/jobs

Be bold & submit your short stories & poems to our annual writing competition. We’re following #BookWeekScotland’s theme – FRIENDSHIP. Feel free to interpret the theme in any way you like. We can’t wait to be enthralled by your entries! Find out more: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/08/01/b...

Inklings submissions are now open via @saraband-books.bsky.social If you've been sitting on an Inkling pitch for a while, now is your time! Submission info: saraband.net/2025/07/11/i...

Delighted to be part of this publication that rewrites notions of academic writing. The workshop was a transformative experience thanks to the supportive guidance of Dr Iain Taylor, and the meaningful insights generously shared by the participants.

Oh wow - according to Allan Massie in @scotsman.com LOVE AND OTHER POISONS is 'an enthralling novel, a beautifully organised tale' ❤️❤️❤️❤️ @wildfirebooks.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

Shaimaa has a funded place at Edinburgh to study for a PhD with me, but is stuck in Gaza due to Home Office restrictions. I'm proud of her for speaking about her situation on TV and grateful to reporter Paris Gourtsoyannis for covering her story. news.stv.tv/east-central...

Colleagues based at UK universities: please sign and repost this letter to support Gazan students coming to study in the UK, in order to request Governmental deferral of the biometric data requirement and safe evacuation docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...