Courier coverage of UCU Stirling ballot opening today incl UCU branch quote: "...not seen any justification for further jobs losses at Stirling..." #StopTheCuts #NoCompulsoryRedundancies www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/education...

Join us in July for the SHARPIES (a global, book history festival!). The program is now live and features interviews, conversations, social events, author talks, book clubs, and more! sharpweb.org/conferences/...

What does it mean to lead with care, complexity, and voice in the Arts & Humanities? In our latest SGSAH blog, Jelena Sofronijevic sits down with our new Director, Maria Fusco, to explore these questions —and more. Read here: sgsahblog.com/2026/01/13/i...

Denis Robertson Sullivan was my neighbour, a great friend and ally. He’ll be so much missed…. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/257...

2026 we are celebrating 225 years of the Burns Supper. Now @glasgowburns.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social wants your help to contribute to our global map of Burns celebrations. Send us your videos, photos and details of how you celebrate Burns Night: gla.ac/BurnsSupper225 #BurnsSupper225

To celebrate the imminent exhibition of Mary Queen of Scots' last letter at Perth Museum, I wrote an article for @uk.theconversation.com about my PhD research into Mary's writing - have a read for my top 5 things you should know! ⬇️ theconversation.com/mary-queen-o...

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!! Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People 11-13 February, over three afternoons (2-7pm CET / 2-7pm CET / 12-5pm CET) Free, online, all welcome. Please share with interested colleagues and students! indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/

Re-sharing this great blog from our former Director, @clairesquires.bsky.social, published on @sahavoice.bsky.social — well worth a read if you missed it ⤵️

Made a not very competent/somewhat explosive galette des rois for Twelfth Night (too tightly packed/not sufficiently sealed) … but it does contain these king and queen ‘fèves’ - according to my mum from ‘at least’ her Bonnemaman Jullien ie early 20c

If you happen to be in Thailand in the last two weeks of January, come and hear @bethdriscoll.bsky.social & I give the lectures 'The Influence of Readers on the Global Publishing Industry' and 'Publishing Controversies: When Book Cultures Go Bad' - full details (inc QR code for sign-up) in the image

To be honest word of my life bsky.app/profile/merr...

A huge thanks to @bookyvikki.bsky.social for including The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance on this list of 2026 Scottish debuts to look out for! ♥️ and what incredible company!! www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

To celebrate the new year A THREAD of successful female Scottish writers. Here's too us. Let's start here 👇 Hugely popular Mary Brunton's second novel, Self Discipline inspired Jane Austen's Emma. She sold TONS of books. I 💕 her /1

Israeli police arrest Palestinian man dressed as Santa Claus at Christmas party

Seasonal stuffing (with bay leaf & kumquat topping)

Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.

How do you celebrate Burns Night? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 UofG's @glasgowburns.bsky.social has launched The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention. Help us build a crowdsourced archive of Burns Suppers worldwide for the 225th anniversary next July. Learn more: gla.ac/44Veysf

We are delighted to be working with @creativeaccess.bsky.social to recruit for our new marketing, data and events assistant trainee! If you are from an under-represented background and want to join our team, we’d love to hear from you: opportunities.creativeaccess.org.uk/job/marketin...

💥 Seventy thousand women have now signed our letter. Seventy thousand women saying clearly that exclusion is not in our name and that trans people deserve dignity, safety and belonging. 🙏 Sign and share: notinourname.org.uk #NotInOurName #Love #Inclusion #WomenUnite

Have you ever wanted to plan an event and make sure it’s accessible for everyone? Then sign up for tomorrow’s Disabled Leaders Network session, 'Producing Accessible Events', which will highlight real experiences and showcase the DLN’s new Accessible Events Toolkit: www.linkedin.com/events/webin...

What's the Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research? I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...

What's the Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research? I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...

I'm very soon stepping down (after a 6-year secondment) from my role as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social aka the Best Job in Scotland possibly The World. If you get the SGSAH newsletter, you'll already have received my seasonal message... Please give it a read! 1/ mailchi.mp/sgsah/newsle...

📚 New SGSAH Blog Post 📚 Dr @smgthomson.bsky.social looks back on her path from SGSAH-funded PhD to Curator at @natlibscot.bsky.social — a candid, inspiring journey through post-PhD possibilities and heritage careers. Read it here: sgsahblog.com/2025/12/09/l...

Books are like children in one important way - both take a village to raise. Thank you to my village, all over the world, who have helped me along the way. None of this could have happened without you. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...

We’re sharing our festive card a little early this year — thank you to our wonderful community for all you’ve brought to 2025, and extra special thanks to @clairesquires.bsky.social for her leadership in her final year as Director. Wishing you all rest, joy and a bright start to the year ahead. 💫

Please behold my @sgsah.bsky.social leaving cake! 🎂 😍 🥂

Another platform reminded me it was 4 years ago today that my article on my Covid reading with books called 'Highland Fling' was published by @asls.org.uk - a genre (largely) having the same plot as the film A Castle for Christmas. You can check it out here 1/ muse.jhu.edu/article/840121

🎣 New SGSAH Blog Post 🎣 Guest blogger Marie-Chantal Hamrock shares their research-based artistic practice, exploring maritime cultures in Aberdeen, Peterhead and Fraserburgh. Read it here ➡️ sgsahblog.com/2025/12/02/s...

Nominations are open for the newly-founded Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize, administered by the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature and awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. £300 prize. ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...

(EN) To know more about my PhD research, you can now visit my research profile on the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) website! @sgsah.bsky.social #zooarchaeology #academia #phd #archaeology sgsahresearch.com/portfolio/ka...

I’ll be editing a special issue of Publishing Research Quarterly on environmental sustainability and book publishing. The call for papers is out now. Please share if you have relevant networks!

🌿 New on the SGSAH Blog! Guest writer Anna Stacey reflects on an Environmental Humanities film screening of Living Proof: A Climate Story (2021)— exploring nostalgia, climate storytelling, and the power of art in imagining sustainable futures. Read it here ➡️ sgsahblog.com/2025/11/25/l...

🚀 Calling all Arts & Humanities PhDs in Scotland – join our Transkribathon! Learn the basics of Transkribus with experts Dario Kampkaspar & Kevin Kuck. Demos, hands-on practice + space to work on your own project. 📅 3 Dec 2025 🎟️ Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transkriba...

'What if the protagonist of a novel was not a single person but a couple?' A gay working-class couple of genius artists (who also happen to be Very Handsome). Grateful to Lara Feigel for this thoughtful review of the Two Roberts. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

PALESTINE - 1: @britishlibrary.bsky.social TOMORROW! 🎟️ tickets.bl.uk/3914/3915 📅 25 Nov 7-8:30pm 📍 Pigott Theatre, London Writers Selma Dabbagh & Anwar Hamed, & editor Basma Ghalayini explore the themes & voices within this ambitious anthology of Palestinian fiction.

Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Waterstones often articulates itself as an antidote to Amazon; but this behaviour would suggest they’re far from the side of angels bsky.app/profile/argo...

What a privilege to be among the final contributing authors for @sapiens.org. This piece grows out of my Earth fellowship in Orkney, Scotland, exploring deep-time human–seal relations. Grateful for the chance to share it and keen to hear what you think. www.sapiens.org/culture/seal...

Very much enjoyed reading @isanchezprado.bsky.social’s TACO during a very cold week in Scotland - took me straight back to these ones* from Villa’s Tacos in Grand Central Market on a hot summer’s day in LA *no idea where they sit on the authentic/inauthentic continuum but they were very colourful!

It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❄️🧊 www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...

Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies. This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.

ORDERED! (You should too...) @404ink.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/404i...

ANNOUNCING: PUBLISHER NOT FOUND - our final book and the 404 Ink Bursary, coming 2026. We will be launching the bursary with an initial £3,000 pledged from us towards small press projects. We are also publishing PUBLISHER NOT FOUND, a behind the scenes look at 404. www.404ink.com/blog/publish...

Ginger just turned up the sound on the radio - time for the weekend, she thinks?

Delighted to celebrate Tim Craven, SGSAH alum (2020), recipient of Debut Poetry Book of the Year at the #SaltireBookAwards — a brilliant achievement! 👏

🎭✨ Join us for 'Engaging Audiences: Policy, Practice & Beyond' on Wed 10th December — a deep dive into creative, cross-sector approaches to audience engagement in #PhD research and beyond! 🎟️ 💻 Only online tickets left — sign up here: events.bookitbee.com/the-scottish... #SGSAH #KEHub #HybridEvent

Wonderful to see @sgsah.bsky.social alum Tim Craven winning the debut Poetry Book of the Year at the #SaltireBookAwards tonight for Good Sons - congrats Tim!