A distinguished & engaging panel: Jerry O’Donavan, consul general of Ireland in Edinburgh; Katy McNeil, Head of Scottish Gov in Ireland; Triona McCormack, VP strategy & engagement UCD; & Ciarán Walsh associate director Culture Ireland. Chaired by Prof. Catherine O’Leary @sahavoice.bsky.social

A strong start to our Irish Scottish Cultural and Diplomatic Relations event @ria.ie with Prof @murrayp.bsky.social of @sahavoice.bsky.social

Register your in-person or online ticket here www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

⏳ Don't miss out - the closing date is this Friday 26th September! ⬇️

This pilot project is part of the ongoing @thinkuhi.bsky.social Tourism Knowledge Exchange Program, which links research and scholarship with businesses, public agencies, and communities.

Join SAHA and the @irishhumanities.bsky.social for a half-day event on Irish-Scottish cultural diplomacy and relations. The hybrid event will take place on Friday, September 26th, from 14:30 until 17:30 at the Royal Irish Academy (@ria.ie)

⭐ 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/

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

John Buchan was born on 26 August 1875 #OTD in Perth. To mark the anniversary, @uofglasgow.bsky.social hosted earlier this year a lecture by IASSL trustee @murrayp.bsky.social, who has also written on Buchan for our latest newsletter. Lecture: tinyurl.com/4dhnta72 Newsletter: tinyurl.com/6sf56zxx

"In a turbulent time for the academic sector, media engagement offers ECRs a chance to gain exposure, learn transferable communication skills, and even provides a glimpse into alternative career paths" Dr @kelseygranger.bsky.social ( @iashedinburgh.bsky.social )wrote about her experience

Happy 100th birthday @natlibscot.bsky.social 🎂 This morning, we asked National Librarian and Chief Executive Amina Shah FRSE how NLS celebrated the big birthday

Join SAHA and the @irishhumanities.bsky.social for a half-day event on Irish-Scottish cultural diplomacy and relations. The hybrid event will take place on Friday, September 26th, from 14:30 until 17:30 at the Royal Irish Academy (@ria.ie )

#RobertBurns Poems, Chiefly In The Scottish Dialect was published #OTD, 31 July 1786. The printer was John Wilson, from Kilmarnock, and the book is often referred to as the ‘Kilmarnock Edition’. The volume sold out its run of 612 copies within a month. 🧵 1/3 📷 @natlibscot.bsky.social

The RSE’s Research Awards Programme runs twice a year in spring & autumn. It aims to support Scotland’s research sector by nurturing promising talent, stimulating research in Scotland, and promoting international collaboration. Congratulations to the latest research awardees 👏 Read the full list

The #ScottishConnections Fund 2025-26 is now open for applications. The Scottish Government is looking for innovative ideas from individuals and organisations that promote Scotland and bring together its diaspora around the world.

"2025 is the centenary of the staging in Paris of the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes – a great exhibition of the decorative arts which subsequently lent its name to what became known as the Art Deco style." ✍️ Prof Bruce Peter (@glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social)

Clubs, schools & day centres could help to make #health and #care more accessible, finds new research with ‘seldom-listened-to’ people, led by @heriotwattuni.bsky.social The report is part of research funded by the @ukri.org Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Read more on saha.scot 👇

In 2022 UHI Archaeology Institute and UHI Institute for Northern Studies were awarded grant funding from the University of the Highlands and Islands to undertake a cultural heritage assessment for the Cateran Ecomuseum institutefornorthernstudies.com/2025/05/28/c...

Over 90% of the world's museum collections are locked away in storage. Not anymore. UofG’s Museums in the Metaverse is bringing hidden treasures to life through 3D technology. Sign up to be first to hear about the beta launch www.gla.ac.uk/mim

#didyouknow former Fellows and friends of @iashedinburgh.bsky.social will grace the stages of the @edfringe.bsky.social, Edinburgh Art Festival and International Book Festival ✨ @david-farrier.bsky.social @kevinguyan.bsky.social @francespoet.bsky.social @alycia.bsky.social Read more 👇

The @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social has secured major AHRC funding to drive Scotland’s rural creative economy, with new PhDs for twenty doctoral researchers from rural and island communities: Read the full story on our website saha.scot: @ukri.org

🎭 SGSAH Research Showcase 2025 ⭐ Creative exhibits & performances from arts & humanities researchers across Scotland! 🗓️ Visit the showcase: 24–25 June 🎉 Launch event & reception: 25 June, 5pm 📍 The ARC, UofG 🔗 Meet the researchers & explore more: tockify.com/sgsah/detail...

#OTD in 1783, the first meeting of @royalsoced.bsky.social was convened. 📷 Founding RSE Royal Charter granted by King George III in 1783 (Photo: Stewart Attwood)

To mark #WorldMusicDay, we interviewed Dr @emilydoolittle.bsky.social , a composer, zoomusicologist, and Athenaeum Research Fellow and Lecturer in Composition at @rcsofficial.bsky.social 🎧👇

📢 SGSAH Summer School 2025 – Programme & Registration Live! 🌻 A mix of online (19–20 June) & in person (24–25 June) sessions for arts & humanities PhD students in Scotland. 🔗 Browse sessions & book via Eventbrite: padlet.com/sgsah/summer... #SGSAHSummer25 #PhDTraining

Don't miss the @theskinnymag.bsky.social free student-led supplement on @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social's Degree Show ✨️ GSA's annual exhibition of graduating student work is open to the public until Sunday. Visit our website saha.scot to discover more

Coming up today- a pleasure to be speaking with two such distinguished colleagues at the Adam Smith Festival of ideas @sahavoice.bsky.social @ahallardyce.bsky.social @uofgpe.bsky.social

Seillean dian, dùrachdach a’ siubhal nam blàth… —Ruaraidh MacThòmais, “A’ Siubhal nam Blàth” from Sùil air fàire: dain ùra le Ruaraidh MacThòmais / Surveying the horizon: recent poems by Derick Thomson, @acairbooks.bsky.social 2007 A #Gaelic #poem for #WorldBeeDay 🐝

✍️Museums have long faced a fundamental challenge: globally less than 10% of museum collections are typically on public display. Through our Extended Reality (XR) platform, we are hoping to address this by creating digital twins of rare & precious objects that can be experienced in entirely new ways

📣 @insuhi.bsky.social researchers Prof Sanmark & Dr McLeod have recently returned from fieldwork at Loch Lomond, the Kintyre peninsula and Islay. Read more about the next phase of the important ‘The Norse and the Sea’ research project on our website saha.scot 👇

It's #Eurovision week! Ahead of the second semi-final this evening and final on Saturday, Dr Bárbara Barreiro León ( @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social ) talks about the endurance of the European Song Contest and its place in the hearts of so many countries www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwJF...

📣What does good advocacy look like? On Friday 9 May, SAHA ran a joint event with the School of Advanced Study, University of London at the Royal Society of Edinburgh to explore how the #arts and #humanities can more effectively advocate for their importance to our society, economy and culture.

This afternoon at Royal Society of Edinburgh, @sahavoice.bsky.social are collaborating with U. London on an Advocacy Day for the Arts & Humanities. At this challenging time, how can they be heard and how can they persuade others their interests matter ? @eassh.bsky.social @scga.bsky.social

Join the Centre for Poetic Innovation’s Annual Lecture Wed 21 May, 2pm, KEN:104 Lawson Lecture Room: 'The Return of Biography: Leopoldo María Panero’s Letter-Poem to his Father (amid Lessons from Lorca)' with Prof Federico Bonaddio (Kings College London): poeticinnovation.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

The conclave has officially begun, and the eyes of the world are on the chimney of the Sistine Chapel. This morning, we had the pleasure of having a SAHA Conversation with @profmarioaguilar.bsky.social about the Conclave & the smoke we will soon see from one of the most famous chimneys in the world

Tha a’ chiad eadar-theangachadh Gàidhlig (Albannach) de shàr nobhail J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, air a chrìochnachadh le àrd-ollamh aig Oilthigh Obar Dheathain. Tha Moray Watson, Àrd-ollamh na Gàidhlig agus Eadar-theangachaidh air a bhith fìor mheasail air sgrìobhaidhean Tolkien fad a bheatha.

⚽Uncover the stories of women and girls who have played the beautiful game in Scotland for over a century with @fionaskillen.bsky.social Karen Fraser & Julie McNeil as they discuss their book, 'A most unsuitable game' 📍 @natlibscot.bsky.social 📅Thursday 22 May 2025 | 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM 🎫Free entry

🎉Congratulations to @heriotwattuni.bsky.social textile design students, whose new design ideas for Shetland wool won prizes and commendations from Shetland wool broker Jamieson & Smith Read the story on our website saha.scot 👇 @heriotwattnews.bsky.social saha.scot/heriot-watt-...

✍️"How do you imagine the earth?" asks Professor Jason König (@uniofstandrews.bsky.social) in a new article on our website saha.scot Read more 👇 #EarthDay

Big news 🎓 The IASSL PhD Award is open! For theses on Scottish literature completed outside the UK (June 2024–26). Encourage your colleagues to submit! The first award will be delivered in June 2027 at our Philadelphia Conference. More details here: scotlit-iassl.org/awards/iassl...

The battle of #Culloden was fought #OTD, 16 April 1746. #didyouknow Culloden was the last pitched battle on British soil and lasted for less than an hour. @murrayp.bsky.social

History of the National Library of Scotland 29 May, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh – free 2025 marks the 100th birthday of the @natlibscot.bsky.social as it currently is. Robbie Mitchell & Ralph McLean explore the 500 years of history that made it what it is today. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of...

What's on this week at ECA! Hutting Culture: Encountering Access to Nature with @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social, Anna Stacey and Lili Carr. Part of the Prokalo seminar series 17/04/25, 17:00 Book now - our events are free and open to all: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/events We look forward to seeing you!

A superb gathering with @sahavoice.bsky.social at @royalsoced.bsky.social to discuss the Declaration of Arbroath & Tartan Day. A pleasure to hear @leoniebell.bsky.social & @murrayp.bsky.social Catherine 0’Leary & Kathryn Porter in such good form & to meet @angusrobertson.bsky.social once again.

Great evening last night @sahavoice.bsky.social Tartan Day @royalsoced.bsky.social, co-sponsored with US Consulate-General. Brilliantly chaired by Catherine O'Leary, @leoniebell.bsky.social @billykayscot.bsky.social & myself spoke on history & future of Tartan Day: www.youtube.com/live/t16JrcH...

Happening now ✨️ Watch it live on youtube 👇

We're delighted to announce that IASH has won the 2025 Public Humanities Network Award for Leadership in Practice and Community for our Institute Project on Decoloniality! 🏆 Find out more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/iash-w...

Happy #NationalUnicornDay 🦄 fun fact, in 1790, according to The Royal Society of Edinburgh's records, "Dr Gregory presented to the Society an Unicorn’s Horn (so called) from the Whalefishing Company of Aberdeen". See the minutes entry 👇 📷The Royal Society of Edinburgh [archive ref: ACC10000/1]

Editing Robert Fergusson 22 May @uofglasgow.bsky.social Free, ticketed Prof @rhonabrown.bsky.social & Dr @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social will discuss the complexities of editing Robert Fergusson (1750–74) & how we handle his tragic biography & his publication history www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/editing-ro...

Happy Tartan Day- begun in Canada & continued in US from 1998 under Senator Lott's Resolution 155.We at @sahavoice.bsky.social will be celebrating it @royalsoced.bsky.social on 10 April with the US Consulate. Tartan Day marks the role of the Declaration of Arbroath in western constitutional thought.