I am the latest person to receive this insta weirdness. Since no “activity“ has occured (to my knowledge), someone is either wild envious of my homegrown apples or the fact that I got the Buckingham Nicks album first.

Hi everyone! I'm currently looking for participants for interviews for my PhD research. I'm working on the history of the LGBT+ community in rural Ireland, the way being in rural Ireland impacted the community and how the community impacted rural Ireland, 1970-2000.

Just to be clear: - Paracetamol does not cause autism. - Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK - We do not have a massive free speech problem here. - Britain is not on the verge of civil war. These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.

Until recently, Buckingham Nicks (1973) was considered a lost album in the pre-history of the 1975 Fleetwood Mac 5 formation. I’ve got hold of one of the earliest re-issued copies on vinyl. Still mindful of the fact that Nicks hated the cover, though.

A changing of the guard at #RNLI boathouse at Tynemouth. We are looking for our new Coxswain to help lead the crew. jobs.rnli.org/vacancy/coxs...

“We are more balanced, more happy and more wholly human if we embrace equality of opportunity and celebrate diversity, whoever we are.” (Sanders, Frankland and Wilkins, 2009)

🤔 Where do Britain’s most influential people go to school and university? Which professions are the most socially excusive? Tomorrow, we will publish Elitist Britain 2025, a landmark report updating on our previous research on elitism in 2019. Keep your eyes peeled! 👀

Conference announcement: Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, 3-5 Oct. Maynooth University. Full programme and registration details👇

This was a job that I really wanted to complete BEFORE the start of term madness kicked off. Waiting for a dry weekend (ha ha) so that we can finish painting the fence and get these gorgeous plants potted up next to it. I may be waiting for some time… but indoor outdoor plants is a nice aesthetic

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

🎆It's out!🎆 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson is out NOW! Check out our blog post for more info about the publication, about our wonderful Glasgow launch on Wednesday and for the link to buy your own copy! robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/publication-...

Child’s first drawing of me. Apart from the bald spot, it’s a canny likeness

This is the Monday content that I need

Today going well so far. Getting up 15 mins earlier than usual isn’t enough time to get ready, it seems, and I still left my lunch, earrings and mascara behind so yay.

So much darkness in the world right now. Trying to stay grounded in our beautiful local scenery and family .

🎨 Apply by 29 Sept 2025 for a £10,000 Artist Residency at Mount Stewart, Co. Down! Part of the Historic Houses, Global Crossroads research, the 6-week residency (May–June 2026) invites artists to explore global plant networks & reimagine the site’s ecological legacy🌿See link in thread.

Our friends at VCH Herefordshire are pleased to advertise two consultant editorial and research roles which will contribute to the completion of existing work around Ledbury and the Malvern Hills. The roles combine editing & primary research. For more details, see below. #Skystorians #HistoryJob

📢 Just a few weeks left to submit your abstracts for our exciting conference at the University of Stirling in January! 🗓 Deadline: 22 Sept 📩 Email: [email protected]

I spoke to the Irish Times for this very good and rounded piece on the real-world effects of C***GPT in the humanities classroom: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

'The trouble is that such experiments will inevitably run up against universities’ interest in maximising measurable student satisfaction. The contemporary economics of higher education encourages strategies to attract as many students as possible and ensure they cannot fail.' Important point.

Fantastic keynote tomorrow from my Romantic Studies colleague Dr Joanna Neilly

The way Irish street signs work is that the first Stop sign is to be read light-heartedly as "Stop" and the second one means "Ok lads, settle down, you've had your little joke, now c'mon, all joking aside, yiz need to Stop."

Following @speakerconolly.bsky.social I've signed this open letter to show that I stand in solidarity with migrant workers in Northern Ireland and against racism. Will you sign too? my.actnowni.org/petitions/so...

Came across a quotation attributed to Epictetus which I'm hoping will inform some of my practice this year: "There’s a reason we have two ears and one mouth: so we can listen twice as much as we speak."

Two things that made me smile: stunning Rudbeckia on the campus, being lucky enough to live in this place and enjoy early mornings like this

It's almost like young people are interested in institutions facing up to their history in a frank and nuanced way www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

This event was such a joy. An array of brilliant poets responding to the poet’s poet, Robert Fergusson. More launches are on the way, so join us to hear some great new poetry and remember Fergusson. You can order a copy from Taproot Press by following the link 👇 #ScottishLiterature #18thC 📖

Beyond proud that @loudinlibraries.bsky.social has worked with Wolf Alice, Sam Fender and Fontaines DC in the library playgrounds of their careers. Good souls, one and all. Jacob Alon would be a deserving winner, but Wolf Alice have hit their pomp years right now - a very strong year for the Mercury

Handy guide here if you want to know who will be advancing a conservative 'anti-woke' agenda under the guise of 'restoring democracy': www.restoretrust.org.uk/agm-2025

There can be no greater articulation of the gulf between the child and the adult than when the wean says, "sleep is boring".

It's that time of year again, annual elections for election to Council of the National Trust. Lots of candidates to choose from. Read carefully and vote wisely if you don't want the direction of travel to be backward.

Pressing 'send' on an article draft which I've been working on for most of the summer. It will not be a REF piece due to length and scope but I think it speaks volumes that I enjoyed writing it so much more as a result.

Almost home from a fabulous few days in Cambridge for the in-person component of #BARS2025. Many thanks to all who came, and to friends old and new, for a great many wonderful panels and enriching conversations!

Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The run up to the lunar eclipse was almost as exciting as the event itself. Lovely crowd of people at Tynemouth/North Shields and a gorgeous sunset

Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend!✨ Don't forget, look up . . . 🌕🩸🧛🔭 'On September 7, the moon will turn a coppery red during an 82-minute eclipse, one of the most widely seen celestial shows of the decade.' www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... #sky #nightsky #eclipse #moon #bloodmoon

Worth the wait! The blood moon appears over North Shields #bloodmoon #northshields

Red Arrows overhead as the Great North Run gets underway #redarrows #GNR #GNR2025 #newcastle #jesmond

Can everyone please give my business linkedin page a follow (if you have it) and share with anyone who might be interested. It's a designated history website offering a platform to submit (completely free) blogs/articles that will be published and shared online. Open to any discipline. Thankyou 🤗

@rhonabrown.bsky.social and her team have done such exciting work on Fergusson over the past number of years and I'm excited to be pointing my incoming cohort to these resources.

I wonder if someone can/will do some analysis on the aftermath of UK HE's 'mini' implosion. It's almost unfathomably big and can't be captured beyond the stats of budgets and jobs. The wider losses around the arts/humanities, changed working practices, equity for students and staff, are colossal.

After a brilliant day of papers and a monograph workshop at our PGR & ECR conference, Trinity College let us see some of their collection in the Wren Library, including PB Shelley’s famous register entry from the Hotel de Villes de Londres!

Just hanging out in a bin

We're delighted to be welcoming you to Cambridge for the start of the PGR & ECR Conference! We hope you'll join us today at St John's College to view a selection of poetry highlights, with Romanticism at its heart, including treasures from Coleridge & Wordsworth. @bars.bsky.social #BARS2025

I used to link to this programme routinely on the Virtual Learning Environment but not taking all the credit here, honest.

Reading is indeed one of the most apt metaphors for the hypnotic "state"

School drop off comment: "Do I have to go in here AGAIN?" Oh kiddo, it's only just beginning.