3 #postdoctoral positions @exeter.ac.uk on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project on history of #smallpox and #measles (PI: Rebecca Flemming). Deadline for applications: May 20, 2026. Links to each advert below #histmed #sts #menastorians Please share widely. 1/4

also why I'm selling a bunch of my good 🎨 prints for $5 this week—series w/only a couple left in their print runs, to make room for more printing (store.wolfproofpress.com/product/prin...) stuff narrow enough to fit on a bookshelf has already pushed my books out of the way. i print too often?? (no)

It's been a long month or so but today we opened an exhibition about a local West Lothian guy who became major film director and it's just very cool to have this photo of us in front of the graphics I made 😁

To celebrate the reveal of the 5th book in @derekkunsken.bsky.social 's QUANTUM EVOLUTION SERIES - THE QUANTUM DAWN, releasing October 2026 - we've made all of Derek's books in the Quantum Universe 0.99 for a limited time only! Website exclusive https://geni.us/Solarissale

gender failure gonzo

🎉30K giveaway book bundle! #💙📚 Inc @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @kerstinhall.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social @neuvel.net @csecooney.bsky.social @authortrmoore.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social & more! UK/IE only. Like, repost, follow & drop a🌟in the comments! Ends 24/4

As @fosis.bsky.social says, this print is very bright in person! (True dayglo ink is a bit challenging to photo, brightest in daylight given extra UV response)

Oh yeah definitely the one thing sci fi and fantasy has been missing is the male gaze

May I interest you in £10k for humanities or social science research? Our small grants scheme is open. Apply by 3rd June. We allocate through partial randomisation - awarding randomly between all applications that meet our quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

#Skystorians it is not too late to book for this in person summer school course, in London 8-12 June, where we cover the basics of working with medieval manuscripts. Ideal for graduate students, #librarians, or anyone with an interest in medieval books.

It's 10pm on a Saturday night and I have just finished writing an archive catalogue for an imaginary photography club for uni.

The time has come for us, as an organisation, to boycott @pinknews.bsky.social. Despite reservations about the company, we have sometimes worked with queer and trans reporters there to tell stories we thought were important for our community - the same as other outlets. That ends today. Why?

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

🔦 Today's LRBS course spotlight is The New Trade in Old Books, led by antiquarian booksellers Angus O'Neill and Leo Cadogan. 🎟️ Book your ticket here by 31st May 👉️ buff.ly/dBXo2UY 💸 Bursaries are available - apply by 7th April #rarebooks #LRBS26

We’re funding research into #palaeography teaching in Scotland! See the job spec here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA145/s...

Fun Saturday night applying for a project archivist job... Fingers crossed for me please 🤞

Trying to catch up on archives masters study on a Sunday night because I've been too busy with overtime in the archive & slow surgery recovery and may have written an annoyed rant about local authority archivists being overworked and over capacity on a discussion board, oops

‘Racist’, ‘offensive’, ‘useless’, ‘pathetic’: Reform UK and the Tory defectors, in their own words Braverman, Jenrick, Zahawi, and Farage tell us how the Tories’ moral bankruptcy has led to Reform UK @deanconway.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

A magazine wrote an article about my F1 art and have been kinda crappy about sharing anything with me so I've been super anxious about whether they wrote something that I feel actually represents me, I'm finally getting my copy of the magazine tomorrow so I can find out what it says 😂

And as promised... it wasn't a 100% Honse. But Ferrari still could have done better. Enjoy! #F1 hayleymulch.com/products/scu... #BSNM

Start of a new quilting project - I have 7 colourways, each with 3 variations, and making 3 blocks of each variation. Adding sashing as well to make a full king size 100 inch quilt with double layered batting, no idea where I'll lay it out to make the sandwich or how I'll fit it through my machine 😂

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Workshop on genetics, eugenics and scientific racism next week! #Philsci #Philosophy #Ethics #HPS #Sociology #AcademicSky We will be conducting hybrid sessions, you can find the zoom link at www.imseam.uni-heidelberg.de/en/heinzelma...

Someone has compiled a list of cultural spaces in Glasgow that have closed this year. It's embarrasing and really highlights how badly the city is failing arts & culture. eblknd.leaflet.pub/3mg6akzx3n22l

Me: I have so many hobbies and things I like to do that I can't fit it all in which makes me sad! Also me: oh look a full weekend course covering using a film SLR all the way to darkroom development, I've never done proper photography before, maybe I should do that

🚨 NEW POLL! Poll after poll has the Green vote surging ahead of May's Scottish Parliament election. Together we can build a fairer, greener, independent Scotland. 👉 www.greens.scot/join

The Greens have polled higher than Labour in the latest poll by YouGov, which puts them only two points off Reform UK and five ahead of the governing party news.sky.com/story/greens...

How are you spending your day off, Francis? Oh, just cataloguing my piano music and setting up a QR system to make it easy to log when I play different pieces...

I keep seeing this and I can’t really process it. FIFTY universities. Could close.

📚️ ✍️ Don't miss out on submitting a piece for Fonds 3! buff.ly/AAJSq4Y #LibraryLoversMonth Categories: Prose | Poetry & Script | Word & Image Deadline: 10 Apr 2026 More info: buff.ly/aXyhUG6 @dmuforlife @librarydmu @dmu_film_studies @dmutextiles @dmuwriters

This is a mental war that we have to win. It's not about being a luddite, it's about destroying or retaining the ability to think. It's about how insidious this becomes in a situation where generative AI is adopted and then subverted intentionally. www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/a-new-whar...

This is a huge victory for the local community and for the historic campaign @ross-greer.bsky.social has built over the last decade. It’s not hard to understand why this became one of the biggest environmental campaigns in Scottish history. Loch Lomond means so much to many people!! 💚

🎺Herkens nu mi freindes🎺 The Guild are delighted to host @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social for her workshop 'Jokewriting for Medievalists'! ⌚5:30pm-7:00pm (GMT) 📆Thursday 12 March 📍Online Spaces for this special event are limited, so make sure that you sign up using the link in the next post👇

We're: Promoting wellbeing through Local Studies at #CILIPMembersFest26. Evidence shows the positive impact of libraries for wellbeing. This session includes a keynote & opportunities to discuss & share examples with other practitioners. Book now: https://ow.ly/8wmF50YkaRO

Posted a nice video on our council archive's Facebook page of me doing some minor conservation cleaning a historic letter and got this comment 😂

Finally finished this up! It's done in watercolor, gouache, and color pencils. I know I should try to render it in more detail but I'm not sure I want to. I like the texture being able to be textures. Maybe that will change in the future. For now, though, I like it 😅

This is brilliant. I used to think of the dinosaur of disconnection as a bad thing, but anymore, it can feel like relief. A crochet version is pure joy. #DHmakes 🦖

Some of my neatest ever stitched writing 😮‍💨

Desperately looking for anyone in Scotland to foster a 2 year old female cat named Bambi. Incredibly affectionate and friendly. Indoor-only. Whether temporary (a few weeks) or longer term. She's going to be put to sleep otherwise -- due to a heart issue that won't affect her for another 12 months

Top surgery recovery going well enough that I'm finally able to embroider/sew again, woo! I definitely need a balance of creating/consuming media in my life, it feels so bland when I'm only taking things in...

👀 Vacancy: "Based within Neighbourhoods, Regeneration and Sustainability and reporting to the Principal Planning Officer ... providing expert advice and guidance to development management colleagues and others in relation to heritage and urban design." myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/gla...

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

This is almost certainly an undercount. Inquests into deaths can often take years. Even obvious suicides are often ruled as accidents due to cultural and religious norms. Further, many families may not be supportive and their trans identity may not have been known outside of friends.

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

Get this occult action thriller ttRPG for 1-7 people. Perfect if you enjoy playing powerful undead revenants embroiled in breakneck action, interpersonal drama, and occult investigation. Soundtrack by @mollynoise.bsky.social and human-made art by @stregawolf.art. Jump in now for early bird deals!

so Heated Rivalry-pilled, I had to find the local angle about it 🏒🌈 New York’s queer hockey club is seeing a LOT more interest these days! (and so are leagues like it around the country.) new story from me:

New project+page started: "Home for Broken Wood Type". Celebrating: collecting, mending+understanding, preserving, printing w/broken wood letterpress type. Part of my printing+research during my Jan. artist residency+fellowship. Better+more photos+info to come. enthusiastictype.com/brokenwoodty...

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Announcing the Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminars for 2026 Regular registration is open until 26 April 2026. Numbers are limited so please register early to guarantee a place. EXCUSE CROSS-POSTINGS – PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY