Christine Ferguson

yeah yeah yeah but Zionism is not racism

The scandal of an overpaid Principal at Edinburgh University setting in motion a "vampiric" programme of job cuts gets even worse. Investigative reporting from the journalists of The Ferret highlights Principal Peter Mathieson's murky second job: www.theferret.scot/peter-mathie...

The latest edition of OA 19th-c. Periodicals features such new crowdpleasers as The British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Harmsworth Magazine, the Theosophical Review, The Money Market Review, and The Child's Own Magazine. #victorian www.victorianresearch.org/openaccesspe...

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Hem hem. “A fine biography of James that combines deep insights with a light touch. It makes for thoughtful reading that goes down easily.” freebeacon.com/culture/a-te...

My friend Patrick Prominski and I are working on an edited volume on how now-discredited ideas involving biology (widely construed) were used in scientific fiction from c. 1825-1925. If you have any ideas for anything even broadly along those lines, please pitch them, we'd love to see them!

Signed this along with several others www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...

Being trans in UK since 2024 election: -Puberty blocker ban made permanent -U18 HRT ban -Gender Recognition Certificate now meaningless -Trans Section 28 -Welsh ADULT surgery withdrawn -Transphobic language & hate normalised -Civil service toilet ban -Hospital ward ban -Hear it's "dignity & respect"

Bodleian Library, Oxford, Visiting Fellowships are open for application. These include African Studies Visiting Fellowship, Visiting Fellowships in Music, in Women's History and in the History of Science, a Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History and more. Great schemes! #Skystorians

The Humanities at Risk: A Statement from the Scottish Society for Northern Studies The Society expresses deep concerns about ongoing university cuts to research, teaching, and engagement in Hums and Social Sciences - sounding the alarm about long-term consequences and losses to Scottish and UK HE

Ulster University spent £800,000 on a project that was then abandoned. They are now proposing up to 450 staff redundancies. We have to expose the hypocrisy and incompetence of many of those leading the higher education sector in 2026. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I was blown away by Naza, which I saw today as part of a sold out audience in Glasgow. I urge everyone to see it, and learn exactly what horrors Sally Rooney, among countless others, is being banned and policed for protesting. Do we want to be part of a state that protects and promotes genocide?

banning trans people from "mixed sex" spaces = *all public* spaces. this is where the debate in the UK is now & where the GOP wants to take it here in US

Join striking staff, and students from across Scotland on Monday 19th October at the from of the Tower Building from 10am. This is the first day for new Principal Angela Scott, and we are calling all members, colleagues, students and supporters to show their support and say “No more job cuts!”.

Why are the Nazis not rioting over this?

You can buy mein kampf and the boy wizard books though

To stretch out the #Halloween season, I'll be giving a public talk on 'Ghost Stories & Gothic Literature' 👻 for Seed Talks in Brighton (& livestreamed) on Weds 25th November at 7pm. Get tickets here and please share with Brighton friends: emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Interested in pursuing a funded PhD in Arts and Humanities at the University of Stirling? Our AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award competition is now live. Come study with us! www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

BREAKING Labour MP @ianbyrnemp.bsky.social also calls for the ban on Palestine Action to be lifted. This follows news that Irish author Sally Rooney cannot sell her chart-topping books in the UK due to her support for the group. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. wedonotcomply.org

Absurd. Unhinged. And breathtakingly dumb. All at the same time. It is moments like these where the UK declines to act like a serious country and falls headlong into self-parody. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Fascinating to witness countries like UK that have long lectured us colonised folk on free speech die on this hill! Sally Rooney’s principled stance should shame many writers on these isles. Brava! www.thebookseller.com/news/faber-t...

The Spectator has deleted all the articles written by Lola Salem, Michael Gove’s ex-girlfriend. Michael Gove is the editor of The Spectator.

So I assume all the Nicola Sturgeon accusations that 'she must have known, she was living with him' will now be levelled (with slight modification) at Gove, yes?

Join us on the picket line this morning for some traditional Scottish music. . #NoCompulsoryRedundancies

Day 9 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. Camaraderie on the picketlines continues to blossom. Our canine friends are also there in support:

21 years of Sensible, Moderate government lads. This is the common sense stuff, shunning extremist, magical unicorn nonsense. The triumph of the Grown Ups, whom are back In Charge.

Solidarity to our friends and colleagues at Glasgow Caledonian UCU! @ucuscotland.bsky.social

From the new Private Eye

Day 8 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh against the job cuts imposed by senior management and their burgeoning salaries. Yesterday, a victory: the Principal announced he is stepping down in 2028. We must, however, change the system that elects Principals ...

560 (!!!) FTE cuts approved & closure of music and languages courses. absolutely horrific proposals coming out of Nottingham. measuring ‘interest’ in languages in n of students on UG degrees is so disingenuous—language modules can be combined with anything! www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

From the Scottish Enlightenment to the Scottish Endarkenment Scotland’s universities are falling apart. Edinburgh is axing 90 degree courses in arts and humanities including single honours Scottish Literature. These are the courses that teach Scotland about Scotland In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

'The University of Nottingham has confirmed that it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students.' A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.

Day 7 of the UCU workers' strike against the job cuts and worsening conditions of staff under the current management regime. Our principal, Peter Mathieson, under whose leadership the cuts & a supposed financial black hole of £140 suddenly emerged, has announced his intention to step down in 2029.

Well done to our inspirational colleagues at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social for holding strong on their first week of strike! So much solidarity is with you across the whole sector ❤️

'Lecturers and support staff say the action by members of the UCU, the EIS and Unison on Thursday could effectively stop the university from operating. Management at the university plan to cut about 50 posts and say they have not ruled out compulsory redundancies.'

The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.

I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...

Our members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.

Dundee suffering from Schrodinger’s deficit- it’s there when management want to cut staff, but on SFC’s closer inspection not enough to qualify for SFC relief. Which is it?🤔 Solidarity with @ducuuo.bsky.social as they fight for their jobs and their institution

Dundee University is continuing with compulsory redundancies. It argues this is required for the financial survival. However, the University’s cash is so high they may not qualify for £27m of the £40m additional SFC funding. The SFC have asked PWC to investigate. www.theferret.scot/dundee-unive...