The perfect opportunity to remind you that there's a big Gwen John exhibition coming up in the spring at Amgueddfa Cymru in Cardiff and then later in the year @nationalgalleries.bsky.social in Edinburgh.

'Narendra Modi, seventy-three, had a spherical aquatic helmet placed over his head. He was lowered into the waves.’ Raghu Karnad on Modi and an alleged underwater Hindu archaeological site. granta.com/under-the-ru...

Super to see a Lynette Roberts poem; huge thanks to @carcanet.bsky.social for championing this revival of her remarkable work www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Happy birthday Jane Austen from AHRC @ukri.org www.ukri.org/who-we-are/h...

What a phenomenal resource. Working as an independent historian has its positives. My research interests largely overlap with those of clients and, when they don't, I make enough to fund my own research, but I can't imagine undertaking something on this scale.

Applications are invited for three fully-funded Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Landscape Awards (DLA). Deadline is 9th February 2026. Proposed projects must be arts & humanities-led #PhD @findaphd.bsky.social @dcahf-met.bsky.social More details: #PhD www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Monumental Roman basin hidden for 2,000 years unearthed near Rome | ScienceDaily

'December, 1854. A hard winter in Lincolnshire. The lane-side trees, at the village edge, are caves of white above the dark figure, bundled in shawls. She has seen many things in her calls at cottages. But never before a woman on fire...' Alison Brackenbury, 'Village' What next? LINK IN COMMENTS!

The Turin Humanities Programme again offers two-year #postdocs, this time with a #CFA on the topic "After the Enlightenment: Histories, Debates, and Reinterpretations”. Sponsored by the fabulous Fondazione 1563, deadline 16 February. #skystorians www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.  Tom Stoppard 1937-2025

"words are brought together that have long been split apart, just as long-lost cousins at a family wedding might be surprised to see their own faces reflected everywhere they looked." @dharmabam.bsky.social on Heaney

essay on Heaney over at the northseapoets substack … open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

"In London #November isn't a month, it's a state of mind." Antal Szerb, Journey by Moonlight

One of the great satisfactions of #reading is "an ability to join together isolated fragments of knowledge into a meaningful whole" Robert Douglas-Fairhurst @thetimes.com #libraries www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Profoundly beautiful account of the history of snow studies, the fragility of snow and the impact of the anthropocene by Sverker Sörlin. Also an appeal for a different way of doing #science

'What We Need To Do Now' ... an agenda for universities in the new post-16 system ... set out by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

The St  Andrews Chronicles, one of the most important manuscript histories of Scotland, is going on public display for the first time in its 500-year history. The book will be on display at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social from 21 November to 7 December #BookHistory news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...

⭐Discount Spotlight: Citizen Poet by Eavan Boland, edited by Jody Allen Randolph📘 Carcanet's monthly discount has launched! This month, enjoy 20% off a selection of books from our Lives and Letters collection by using the code LETTERS20 at our website checkout:⬇️ www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017170...

Here is @richardaljones.bsky.social basically telling us how it is. I’ve been thinking about this since listening to him say this stuff out loud at the @royalsociety.org on Thursday. softmachines.org?p=3192

If you don't own any Longbarrow books you are definitely missing out. Please take a look at their website shop. Some outstanding books.

I’m very happy to announce that my fourth collection of poems is out in the autumn. Details here: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017513...

In which a New Zealander writes about a fire likely still burning. From Collected Poems of Bill Manhire, Carcanet Press, 2001. @carcanet.bsky.social @pacificraft.bsky.social

NEW REPORT – The Impact of Generative AI and the Novel 📚 Today we've published new research by @clemicollett.bsky.social examining how industry practitioners, from novelists to publishers, are experiencing AI’s significant impacts. Read now: www.mctd.ac.uk/impact-of-ge...

ICYMI: Early career research fellowships scheme coordination and cohort support (invite only) #ahrc #academicsky

👋 Hi Bluesky! The School of Advanced Study, University of London champions the arts and humanities. Working through our renowned specialist institutes and centres of excellence, we offer a rich interdisciplinary environment for researchers to collaborate. Let's connect: 🔗 sas.ac.uk/

The government has talked about organising R&D into three 'buckets' - discovery research, research aligned to government priorities, and business support. This is a good idea that could fail in the implementation. Here are my 10 tests for success: www.ersatzben.com/p/the-three-...

Margaret Heffernan is hosting our Festival of Economics event today on artists and AI. Here’s my recent interview with her on her new book on artists and how they can help us navigate uncertainty. Follow @margaretheffernan.bsky.social for more.

Completely agree with @richove.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social; we have woefully underinvested in the #digital #research infrastructure for Arts Humanities & Social Sciences. AHRC continues to work with #libraries & #archives but the funding model has to give greater weight to Digital Humanities

Achieving technological and economic growth sustainably is seen by many as key if we are to meet the needs of a growing global population. Professor Shadreck Chirikure explores whether the cosmologies of past advanced civilisations can help us address present challenges. https://bit.ly/43rMb40

Delighted to have been given the chance to review ‘Don’t burn anyone at the stake today’ the new and thought-provoking book from @naomialderman.bsky.social (published by Penguin/FigTree) in today’s @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Looking for an November read? Why not check out our monthly discount? Use code LETTERS20 at checkout for 20% of selected titles in our Lives and Letters collection:⬇️ www.carcanet.co.uk/

Important reflections from Jo Ritzen and Job Zomerplaag on next steps for Europe's universities www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile....

I tried to do something that was (for me) quite a challenge: describe precisely how the word "that", in the right place, can make "all the difference" to a poem someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/that-vase

Delighted to see Corinna Riva's outstandingly innovative essay on the 1st millennium BCE now published link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Such a good idea from @orkneylibrary.bsky.social #GreenLibraries #LoveLibraries #BrilliantLibraries

It's always sad to see a church sold, but maybe this piece will encourage a few new readers of A Scots Quair @asls.org.uk www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I don’t think it’s much of an exaggeration to say that societies are defined by their libraries — by what we hold, what we lend, what we borrow and return, the knowledge we create, the values we defend" placesjournal.org/article/extr...

amid fascinating work on 12th c. developments in Chinese & Japanese poetic exegesis, there's a really clever suggestion here on the future of #philology THE WIND THAT MELTS THE ICE: REFLECTIONS ON THE SCALE OF PHILOLOGY - Lurie - @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Nice little report on high performance research culture at an extremely productive chemistry lab churning out major discoveries. Mentions Hideki Yukawa - an underappreciated figure outside Japan Chemistry Nobel Prize winner Susumu Kitagawa research mindset | - share.google/MS39nXGW1vHS...

and something else was with me in the dark spirits were in the land, but no one's ghost for, had they been there, out behind the yards, I would have seen them in their gloves and scarves dusted with moonshine and frost for the Great Beyond John Burnside for #Halloween

I have been thinking a lot about what the future of libraries could be in an algorithmic economy. A real pleasure to share these thoughts and provocations through the fantastic Katina Magazine. Let me know what you think? katinamagazine.org/content/arti... #Libraries #FutureofWork #FutureLibrary

We're proud to officially launch ResearchPlus in Parliament today 🎉 ResearchPlus is a collaboration between 10 research focussed unis with a common goal – to advance economic growth, prosperity, and societal wellbeing. https://researchplus.ac.uk/new-collaborative-of-research-focused-universities/

We are proud to have officially launched ResearchPlus (@researchplusunis.bsky.social) in Parliament, today 🎉 ResearchPlus is a new collaboration between ten long established and highly regarded research focussed universities, of which we are one. Learn more: ow.ly/R9i050XjfgX

"Since the war [in Ukraine] started we are asking everyone to pull away from Russia, but we forget how may decades Russia has invested in their economy, education and society." @andihoxhaj.bsky.social on challenging Russian influence in the Western Balkans. Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0

Which is why, amid all this talk of economic growth, it is the TYPE of growth - its sustainability, its resilience, and above all its distribution - that matters.

R. S. Thomas, ‘The Bright Field’, from Laboratories of the Spirit (1975) #NationalPoetryDay

We are immensely saddened by news of the death of Tony Harrison, aged 88, who had been unwell for some years. A tribute has been published on our website. www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

💯right!!!!