I so should have pinned this but it got lost in Lockdown.

📢 Updated call for papers! I'm delighted that we have @FiddianQasmiyeh confirmed as a keynote for 'Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum' hosted by @IASH_Edinburgh 24th June 2025. CFP below and more details here: iash.ed.ac.uk/news/call-pape…

New article on narratives of asylum, uhygge, and the nordic cultural brand in Hassan Blasim's Nordic stories. Very pleased to be part of a brilliant special issue on cultural enclosure edited by @pencartwright. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

📢 Call for papers! I'm organising the symposium 'Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum' at @IASH_Edinburgh 24th June 2025 CFP below and more details here: iash.ed.ac.uk/news/call-pape… Please retweet!

RT @Feisty_Waters: I’m sad that Janey Godley died but happy this photo will be absolutely everywhere the week of the election. https://t.co…

This woman is a complete hero, as courageous as she is persistent and persuasive. In years to come, when a free Palestinian state sits alongside Israel and Netanyahu sits in a cell in the Hague, she will no doubt be awarded the Nobel Prize she so deserves.

Here's a great #PostDoc. Come & work with me, @PadraigKirwan & LeAnne Howe on our 'Sharing Lands' project, esp on the 'Indigenous Migrations and Mobilities' strand. Closing date 10 Oct #NativeAmerican #IndigenousPeoples #IrishFamine #Choctaw #Research jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/post…

Very happy to have a new article in the 40th anniversary issue of @WasafiriMag on #futurisms. Looking at the #paratextual infrastructures of the @commapress 100 series, I explore how these speculative anthologies work as formal experiments in futurity. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Study Humanities. Run the Country. In classrooms on Monday.

Not again! I have NOT given my permission to be used in political adverts. This is NOT an endorsement by me in any way. I maintain strict party neutrality and am unhappy at the weaponizing of my reputation in this way. While this isn't as bad as the first terrible representation – which said it this about tax - there's still a misdirection. As I’ve already stated, in that private conversation I was referring to Labour hoping to make a positive change I’ve been campaigning for, but it didn’t want to lock it in the manifesto as it can’t promise to deliver. NO party’s manifesto tells the full story. ALL parties have things they hope to do but that aren’t in manifestos – as they can’t guarantee to deliver. The idea that Labour is an outlier for that is preposterous.

please use this tactical voting website to find out how best to utilise your vote to push the Tories into third place on Thursday and change the balance of power in parliament for a generation. Spread the word! 8/8 stopthetories.vote/

Everyone knows Labour are going to win the election, but if you’re feeling like there’s no point in voting as the outcome is a foregone conclusion, I’d like to draw your attention to something really radical that is on offer tomorrow: 1/8

A harrowing read from @ElliotLivEcho ‘Typical' scouser had his life destroyed after deciding to go on holiday liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liv…

Since 2010, Liverpool has been battered by an austerity agenda that has had a shocking impact For months we’ve been working on a special visual investigation to show what this has meant for the city and its people This is Liverpool: Austerity City austeritycity.liverpoolecho.…

À strange week in which to be wrestling with a reflective piece on *Cencrastus*, Scottish small magazines and political cultures in the 1980s.

Pleased to be able to announce that the inaugural Nickianne Moody Memorial Lecture will take place next Wed, 1 May at 4pm. Hybrid event so all welcome in person or online - to help our planning, please book at ticketsource.co.uk/media-cul… & please share with those who knew Nickianne

I see the UK government has, under pressure finally had to reveal the cost of sending a refugee to Rwanda. £1.8 million per person. For that same cost of ONE individual an entire refugee processing centre could be built and staffed in France solving the boats problem overnight.

Special issue of Études écossaises ‘Recovering Imaginaries of Illness and Disability in Scottish Literature and Culture: Sources, Contexts, Theory’, ed. by @drgavinmiller and I, has just been published (open access) journals.openedition.org/etu…

Can someone explain to me why the new basic state pension amounts to about £12.5k a year and yet basic living wage amounts to £21.5k a year and yet pensioners are expected to pay tax if their income exceeds £12570 pa ?

Another Seminar around the corner! Dr Rosi Carr (Edinburgh) is presenting, ‘Scots, Settler Colonialism, and Slavery: Lachlan Macquarie (1761-1824) and the transoceanic empire.’ 2/4 at 16:00, This is a hybrid event. ed.ac.uk/profile/rosalind-ca…