1/ We're delighted to be welcoming @profkarenboyle.bsky.social for our next SCS seminar, taking place on Wednesday, 5th November, from 3.30 to 5.00pm in Room 432, St Andrews Building. Please do join us if you can...

📣New research from Gender Studies colleagues! Melanie, @profkarenboyle.bsky.social and Melody discuss ‘safety work’ in HE classrooms and the need to move beyond the illusion of safety to instead create conducive learning spaces for all. Read open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Following on from mentoring session with @meccsawomensnet.bsky.social I thought it would be useful to share this 🧵 on academic job applications again.

The names of panel members for the criteria-setting phase of REF 2029 have now been announced on our panels pages. 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/expert-...

It’s arrived. The best theoretical text I’ve ever read on the figure and experience of the refugee. Congratulations @hyabyohannes.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social Order here for your library www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

For those attending the MeCCSA conference in September - you can now see further information on the schedule at screenacademyscotland.ac.uk/meccsa/confe... we look forward to welcoming you! #MeCCSA25 #MeCCSAConference

📢 Article Alert! "To warn or not to warn? Trigger warnings in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences in UK HE", by JMC researchers @profkarenboyle.bsky.social, Melanie McCarry & Melody House, has been selected for the Journal of Gender-Based Violence Editors’ Collection Choice! 👏 🆓 Free access here:

This may be of interest: on creative works about child sexual abuse & the cultural ramifications of creative works (& we'd appreciate a repost) @mike-salter.bsky.social @ruthbeecher.bsky.social @amybeddows.bsky.social @profkarenboyle.bsky.social @joannabourke.bsky.social @victoriabates.bsky.social

Delighted to learn that my book, Vichy's Double Bind: French Collaboration between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War, is now available in paperback. @strathhumanities.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Hello #AcademicSky! We are the team behind the Applied Gender Studies masters course @unistrathclyde.bsky.social. Follow for updates on our amazing students, faculty projects, groundbreaking research, events and more! 📣📚

📣 Upcoming Event with Strath's Feminist Network! 📣 Join us as we welcome Professor Emeritus Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths) for a discussion on 50 years of the feminist sociology of girlhood. Wednesday, 2 April | 1:00–2:30 PM 📍 Room TL 455, Strathclyde Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/angela-mcr...

Journalist Billy Sloan gave a lecture to Journalism students, he regaled the group with tales of celebrity interviews with The Who, Paul McCartney, David Bowie & Rod Stewart. Billy said: “It was a pleasure to meet & chat with the students. I enjoyed the experience, & I hope they found it useful.”

The following articles were published as a result of our Languages Symposium on 28th February: www.tes.com/magazine/ana... www.heraldscotland.com/news/2500934...

Come join @tanjabueltmann.net and I at Strathclyde for a funded PhD on built heritage and Glasgow’s slaving links, centred around Tobacco Merchant’s House. Excellent ops to engage with heritage industry via co-supervision by Scottish Civic Trust! Details below! Any questions - get in touch!

First Bus Glasgow app and bus stop displays are so far beyond useless they might as well not exist. So far this evening three promised buses have disappeared without trace. This is not a rare occurrence. Public transport here is a joke.

Today @womenslibrary.bsky.social launches its new Spring events programme, taking us all the way into June. What a lovely thought. There will also be things to do, to see, lovely people to chat to, a book sale, tea and cake - wall to wall joy, in fact. Join us! womenslibrary.org.uk/event/spring...

What’s happening in the US is starting to feel more like a hacking than an election, with Trump basically cast as the idiot who clicked on the phishing email that let the ransomware guys in. Struck by how crucial tech not politics reporters are to us understanding it

If you’re in St Andrews check out this exhibition co curated by Camila Cavacante-Pereira who is a SGSAH funded PhD student working with Catherine Spencer in Art History at St Andrews & me @strathjmc.bsky.social. Great supervision mtg today followed by exhibition tour. Heading back home energised.

What a shitshow of a decade this month was

This article underestimates the number of job losses (already reported elsewhere to have exceeded 10,000) and employs the misleading adjective 'leading' universities (meaning what, to whom?), but if you've been living under a rock and need a quick introduction to the topic, you could start here.

Sarah Cowan at the British Academy: “We have called and continue to call on the government to trigger an urgent review of higher education funding to deliver a sustainable model that delivers a wide breadth of subjects and is resilient to regional inequalities in provision."

January has been a hell of a year

Our JMC account has made it over to where the skies are blue 👇 give us a follow.

At The Gathering this year? I’ll be speaking on a panel on anti-racism and the third sector. With increasingly normalisation of far right politics the third sector needs to loudly stand against fascism + racism. But it is not happening enough. Join the discussion scvo.scot/the-gatherin... @scvo.scot

After 7826 days (approximately), it is very nearly the end of January 2025.

The world needs good journalists more than ever - if you want to know how to get into this under threat profession join me @cityjournalism for a free Zoom session tomorrow 5-7pm. Sign here (everyone welcome just fill in any box to sign up) www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

welcome to the 384th Monday in January.

'Researchers across all disciplines have until 3 March to express interest in the funding, with full applications due by 29 May and projects to start by 1 September. UKRI will fund 80 per cent of the full economic costs.' Awards of £100,000-250,000.

Are you a Humanities or Social Science postdoctoral researcher within c 10 years of the PhD and in the North East or Northern Ireland? The resources of this @britishacademy.bsky.social ECR Network are designed for you (whether or not you're currently employed as a researcher or at a university). 1/2

Claudia deserves a BAFTA for this moment alone #TheTraitors

This is absolutely chilling. He truly is a sociopath.

Thank the lord for Private Eye

Here, broken down into a thread, is a copy of my last post on X. 1. This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it.

Ok #booksky, let’s talk. 👎🏼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books. 👍🏼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!

I am reading a *lot* of job applications atm so here’s a thread of my dos and donts for academic job applications. My experience is Humanities in UKHE so may play out differently elsewhere. 🧵

The REF 2029 main and sub-panel recruitment is now open. ▶️ Sub-panel chair + deputy chair – deadline 6 February 2025 ▶️ Sub-panel member and other roles – deadline 28 April 2025 📝 One single form & self nomination. Full details and context on MeCCSA website: www.meccsa.org.uk/news/ref-202...

What hope for the world after a 3yo is pictured being dragged out of rubble after his family were killed by an Israeli attack just 24 hours after a “ceasefire” ?

There is already 25 minutes more daylight than the shortest day and by the end of this week it will be around 45 minutes.

1. Please read this thread. It could make a difference to your health. Before I went away, I had a strange, persistent tingling in the soles of my feet. When I looked it up, there were some benign explanations, and some alarming ones. I resolved to see the doctor when I returned. 🧵

New book alert! #MeToo & Feminism, second edition with three new chapters & updated/expanded throughout. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Doctor Who: Joy to the World review – a warm, moving Christmas special for the ages

If you have any queries about the roles Friday is my last day on email until the deadlines so please get in touch asap!

📣 final reminder from me about the 4 jobs we’ve got going in Humanities at Strathclyde (links in thread), closing date for the Lythe Lectureships is 5/1 and for the Teaching Associate 6/1. Last working day before then is Friday 20/12 so any queries about the posts please get in touch before then.

Reminder: We are looking for 3 new lecturers at Strathclyde! Join a truly fantastic department, enjoy excellent working conditions and be part of a growing Latin American + Atlantic World + Slavery Studies community of researchers. The only downside is that you’ll have to put up with me… 😅