We had such a wonderful day yesterday at the Glasgow University College of Arts and Humanities PG Conference. Huge thank you to all the speakers and our keynote for their brilliant papers, and to my fellow organising committee members for making the process of arranging the conference so much fun!

Tickets are now available for 'Bodies', the University of Glasgow College of Arts and Humanities PG Conference 2026. If you'll be in Glasgow on June 3rd, please do join us - we have lots of wonderful papers lined up, and there will be a very tasty free lunch... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-col...

Full programme details for Fantasy's Present Pasts, the first European Conference on the Fantastic (23rd-25th June, @glasgow.ac.uk), are now up on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/crit.... Registration through Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fantasys-p.... Non-presenting delegates welcome!

Tickets are now available for 'Bodies', the University of Glasgow College of Arts and Humanities PG Conference 2026. If you'll be in Glasgow on June 3rd, please do join us - we have lots of wonderful papers lined up, and there will be a very tasty free lunch... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-col...

just one day left to submit abstracts for the Glasgow University CoAH PG Conference in June! link to submission form: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/YzbADsQhqu

WE NEED YOU! Would you like to write an article for the BARS Blog? We've got some ideas for April below! If you'd like to write a blog on one of these subjects, please do get in touch! Alternatively, if you'd like to pitch your own idea, don't be afraid to drop us a message!!

Just over one week left to submit abstracts for the CoAH PG Conference! Link to submission form: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/YzbADsQhqu

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland. Deadline April 21st - please circulate! www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

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Announcing our final keynote speaker for GIFCon 2026: Jeff VanderMeer! #FantasyConference #KeyNoteSpeaker #GIFCon #GIFCon2026 #JeffVanderMeer

📣Please share!📣 The call for papers for the Glasgow University CoAH PG Conference is now open! We're pleased to invite abstracts relating to the theme of 'Bodies' - please see the full cfp below. The conference is organised by PGRs for PGRs, and we'd love to see some of you in Glasgow on June 3rd!

WE NEED YOU! Would anyone like to do a review of Series 4 of Bridgerton for the BARS Blog? Does the current series tie into any tropes of the Romantic-era novel? How often do masquerade balls happen in Romantic-period works? Drop us a message or email us!

📢 RRR Journal is on the hunt for new reviewers! If you'd like to express interest in writing a review of a monograph, conference, exhibition, theatre production, or film to be considered for next year's issue, please fill out the 'call for reviewers' form at www.rrrjournal.com/contact or email us!

Our brilliant PhD students have organised a conference - Placing the Nineteenth Century - and you’re all invited! Friday 26th June CFP deadline: Friday 1st May We’re all excited for our keynote speaker, @drclaireocall.bsky.social 🤩 Please share - and send us an abstract!

ICE is a terror organization and must be dismantled, abolished and its members prosecuted. Full stop.

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

It’s #CfP time for the Association of Welsh Writing in English: this year’s themes are Sites of Memory: Making, Remembering, Forgetting. 15th-17th May, hybrid and Prifysgol Aberystwyth University. www.awwe.org/conference.h...

playing divinity original sin 2 for the first time and I’m sad I waited so long to play it - its so much fun and holds up so well, it’s a shame it didn’t achieve the same popularity BG3 did, because the story is easily as good!

⏰ You have one week left to submit an abstract for GIFCon 2026! ⏰ Our theme is Technologies of the Fantastic, and the deadline for submission is January 18th The full CfP and all information can be found via the link in our bio #Fantasy #FantasyConference #CallForPapers #GIFCon #GIFCon2026

New Year, New-ish Call for Papers Calling all #Bronte scholars, #poetry specialists, #Romantic & #Victorian -ists: please consider submitting to our Brontës and Poetry special issue of Brontë Studies - #creative approaches encouraged 🖤 Abstracts: 1 April Manuscripts: 15 December Please RT

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

✨GIFCon is back for 2026! ✨ We’re very excited to launch the Call for Papers for GIFCon 2026, with the theme “Technologies of the Fantastic” You can find out more here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...

Registration for @rrrjournal.bsky.social's annual conference is now open! Please join us for what will be an intellectually stimulating and rewarding day for PGRs, ECRs, and academics to connect and discuss 'Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century'! www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-in-the...

Getting increasingly frustrated with the amount of misinformation being spread on social media surrounding the creation of Frankenstein atm - if I see one more TikTok about how Mary Shelley hated Lord Byron, or that he and/or PERCY tried to steal credit for writing Frankenstein, I think I might cry😭

My new series - Empire With David Olusoga - starts 9pm on BBC Two. Whole series on @bbciplayer.bsky.social from tonight.

The arts and humanities funding landscape in the UK

Our @cncsi.bsky.social C19 Gothic Afterlives programme! 🌴Sonja Lawrenson on Melmoth in Latin America 📖 @romgothsam.bsky.social Adapting Heathcliff 📻 Richard Hand haunted airwaves 🎮 @marijkevalk.bsky.social occult gaming 📺 @drdjohnston.bsky.social Gothic TV Register ➡️ cn-csi.com/event/hallow...

Today’s not guilty verdict for Soldier F isn’t justice; it’s another betrayal of the victims and their families. I’ll always stand with the Bloody Sunday families until justice is delivered. Dlúthpháirtíocht.

Come join us at @nhm-london.bsky.social on November 7th for a day conference on the connections between natural history collections and enlightenment travel writing. For more information, programme and registration details, follow the link! curioustravellers.ac.uk/curious-coll...

⭐️ Our 2026 internship opportunities are live! ⭐️ Check out 30+ paid internships & artist residencies for Arts & Humanities PhD researchers in Scotland. Gain real-world experience, build skills & grow your networks with diverse partners. 🕔 Apply by 31 Oct 2025 👉 www.sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/i_ar/

If you’re working on any area of fantasy and the fantastic, come and join us at Glasgow in June 2026 and do consider presenting or running a workshop! All the info you need and the full CFP is here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20... @uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social

Join us next Wednesday (8-10) in person at the IHR or online from 5:30pm to Dr Richard Ansell’s paper ‘Travel Journals and Other Traces of Servants on the Grand Tour’. Register with the following link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... Richard outlines the paper here: www.tiktok.com/@long18thcen...

In case anyone hasn't already seen: 34 of the Gaza students with scholarships at UK institutions arrived this week, including a student who is due to start a PhD with me at Edinburgh. I'm so grateful to everyone who helped with this - thousands of people. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Still don't understand why they made the Hobbit movies when what the world really needs is a trilogy of films about Gandalf's 17-year archive trip to Minas Tirith.

Very excited and grateful to have been given the chance to present at the ‘Journeys of Curiosity’ symposium, where I’ll be chatting a bit about curiosity, the sublime, and imperial anxieties in Romantic travel accounts of the Himalayas. Really looking forward to hearing all the other papers as well!

We're very excited to announce that our wonderful exhibition 'Celebrating the Scottish Poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)' with the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, has been turned into an online exhibition! Check it out at the link below: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/online-exhib...

John Swinney criticises UK government's refusal to help Gaza students with offers at Scottish universities. Students have places at Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews and Dundee. 'Scotland is ready to welcome these students': www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

Hi friends! I just wanted to share this fundraiser for Project Play, a charity supporting and advocating for refugee children living on the UK-France border. All donations for the next two months will be doubled, please consider sparing a few pounds if you can ❤️ www.justgiving.com/page/project...

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

I'm looking for participants for my oral history on space and feminism! Please share with anybody you feel may have contacts and email me if you have any questions or would like to get involved: [email protected]

Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...

Children crossing Channel from France exposed to teargas, report says

Project Play’s new report highlights the “devastating impact of record child fatalities and increasing violence against children on the UK-France border”. Please give the report a read and see their website for more information on their work and ways to help. www.project-play.org/we-want-to-b...

we welcome anyone affected by the 28 Days Later rage virus to come and enjoy a relaxing visitor experience at The Museum of English Rural Life. however we politely request all infected to avoid running in the galleries, use indoor voices, and refrain from being so completely uncontrollable

David Cameron — and every UK minister complicit in arming and enabling Israel’s genocide in Gaza — must be investigated for war crimes.

“Oxford and Cambridge will come through this OK because they have other sources of funding...But we may well see a serious contraction of humanities postgraduate research training…That would be devastating for the vibrant national system that we’ve built in recent decades.” @mcraeandrew.bsky.social

Antarctic expeditions were clearly part of the colonial project, not least in the framing as conquering the last unclaimed land, and in the way that they were used to demonstrate specific qualities of colonial masculinity. Historians don’t say that to denigrate Scott. They say it because it’s true.

This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...