O.k., one more attempt to upload pictures of Sitka spruce, the bane of the Scottish countryside, with, occasionally, their own strange beauty.

Abandoned slate boat shed in Ballachulish, Lochaber.

I remember an excellent talk by César Domínguez about this very topic.

Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 7d ago

AI companies scanning and shredding old and rare books is bad, but you should be aware that shredding new, old, and used books is an established practice of selling and marketing books. In fact, hundreds of millions of books are shredded every year discretly, and legally, in Europe alone. #booksky

I loved that book!

Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · last wk.

“She used to be all right, Una, when we were kids. I liked that she wasn’t fussed about her antlers.” In Kirsty Logan’s story “Una & Coll are not Friends”, Una has antlers & Coll has a tiger’s tail. But does that mean they have to be friends? #WyrdWednesday 💙📚 www.saltpublishing.com/products/the...

That sounds like something @womenslibrary.bsky.social might be interested in!

Dr Marina Cano@drmarinacano.bsky.social · 2w ago

✨Suffragettes in Scotland turned to Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford 🏰In December 1909, members of the radical Women’s Freedom League staged a Cranford scene at the Oak Hall Edinburgh Café

"Science Fiction in Translation from Around the World gives readers a comprehensive look at the speculative fiction that has been translated into English from over forty languages over the past half century." #SFinTranslation

University of Wales Press@uniwalespress.bsky.social · 2w ago

📚️ New Catalogue! 📚️ We are so excited to share our Autumn Winter 2026 catalogue! Follow the link below to browse our fascinating upcoming titles 📚️ www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/... Including titles by @rachelcordasco.bsky.social, @knick666.bsky.social, @bodhisattvac.bsky.social ... (1/2)

The "piano keys" black and white plumage of a sub-adult Gannet, probably 3 or 4 years old. At Bempton Cliffs last week. #birds

Green lace.

My heart is heavy that we are making a collective miscalculation in undervaluing the humanities - from my FT piece www.ft.com/content/fbde...

I’ll be force feeding my piece down your throats bit by bit for the next few days. This is about why loss of research capability in universities isn’t just a linear bit of market forces but a messy process of universities sometimes doing panicky short term cuts

See also this new research which shows the vital role universities play in supporting place-based growth and innovation around the creative industries pec.ac.uk/state_of_the...

Creative Clusters, Geography and University-Industry Links - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre

This new report provides updated estimates on the spatial distribution of creative industries activity at the regional and cluster level.

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Researching sites of reading: what works by which women writers were available in which languages, where and when, and to which readers? brill.com/display/titl... #BookHistory #WomenWriters

Redrawing Europe's Literary Map

"Redrawing Europe's Literary Map" published on 14 Jul 2026 by Brill.

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This jumpling (razorbill chick) got a little too adventurous for its parents' liking on the Isle of May recently😳 By now, many of these chicks will have lived up to their name and plunged off their cliffside nests into the sea! Good luck out there little jumplings🫡

Who is your favourite woman writer from the 1800s? Today, many readers are likely to name Jane Austen, but in the 1880s, a common answer across Europe might well have been E. Marlitt. Find out which female authors reached historical readers ca 1850-1920: brill.com/display/titl... #BookHistory

Redrawing Europe's Literary Map

"Redrawing Europe's Literary Map" published on 25 Jun 2026 by Brill.

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Romanticism across Borders is out open access. I enjoyed this Parisian invitation to think transnationally about how #Turner inflected #Exodus through #Poussin in the wake of #Napoleon's #Egyptian #Campaign 2026 (36) 71 | LITTERARIA PRAGENSIA share.google/BDKvR8Bm5w3o...

Happening this week! 🤩🥳

Dr Marina Cano@drmarinacano.bsky.social · last mo.

9 July 2026, 4-5.15pm (CET): Special Guest Lecture by Dr Marina Cano “Adapting Violence, Violence in Adaptation: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Behind Bars.” Free. Zoom. All welcome! For the link, contact: womenwritingviolence@gmail.com global.oup.com/academic/pro... #C19th #Adaptation

Summer (not sure if it's jasmine).

Now in Paperback! A Social History of Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity: Scotland's Printed Music, 1880-1951 karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2026/06/29/n...

Now in Paperback! A Social History of Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity: Scotland’s Printed Music, 1880-1951

Forgive me for boasting, but this is exciting! I’ve just discovered that my second monograph came out in paperback on 21 May 2026, just over 18 months after the hardback and digital versions.…

karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog

What emotional labour takes it to bring a text to a new audience, or treason and translation hyenas...

Modern Languages Open@modlangopen.bsky.social · last mo.

'Moving Texts, Moving Communities: Emotions, E. Marlitt’s Fiction and the Circulation of Controversial Texts in Periodicals across Linguistic & Cultural Borders in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe' by @hpartzsch.bsky.social. ➡️bit.ly/MLO-RRIT-Partzsch @saraharens.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social

The crisis in UK higher education is worsening week by week — Exeter University is one of the best in the UK, with superb lecturers (and several You’re Dead To Me guests), but it’s planning massive job cuts in History, Archaeology, Classics — see the petition below to lend your voice in support

Dr Susan Greaney@suegreaney.bsky.social · last mo.

Petition against the job losses here: c.org/ddjtYXzdQQ

How the text of a best-selling nineteenth-century author were re-signified by the communities of different periodicals.

Modern Languages Open@modlangopen.bsky.social · last mo.

'Moving Texts, Moving Communities: Emotions, E. Marlitt’s Fiction and the Circulation of Controversial Texts in Periodicals across Linguistic & Cultural Borders in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe' by @hpartzsch.bsky.social. ➡️bit.ly/MLO-RRIT-Partzsch @saraharens.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social

One of my favourite funding schemes! We are offering up to £300k for international interdisciplinary research on the theme of mobilities - the movement of people, things and ideas. Apply by 7 October. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Midsummer meadow

Midsummer woods

More than 2000 years ago the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote in a letter to a friend, 'Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil' which means: 'If you have a garden in your library, everything will be complete.'

Orkney Library & Archive@orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Look at our lovely raised bed this morning! ❤️ This is our Moorland bed and it's one of five raised beds, each one representing a different habitat found here in #Orkney. 🌼 Find out more at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/interactive-...

The story of Scottish knitting and knitwear with loads of illustrations. We loved researching it - hope you love reading it

Marina Moskowitz@profmoskowitz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hello Bluesky! Very pleased to say this is in the world, either in this fetching hardback or available for open access digital download! @lynncabrams.bsky.social @sallytuckett.bsky.social @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social

Si alguna vez has traducido para una editorial española, te consideres o no traductor profesional, responde a esta encuesta de @acetraductores.bsky.social y participa en el sorteo de un vale de 100 EUR para comprar en la librería (de proximidad 🙏) que tú elijas. ace-traductores.org/encuesta-par...

Encuesta para el nuevo Libro Blanco de la traducción editorial en España - ACE Traductores

ACE Traductores lleva ya años realizando estudios sobre la situación laboral de los traductores que trabajan para la industria editorial española. Desde su origen, estos análisis se han concebido como...

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Truly honoured to feature in the latest episode of @adaptationtoday.bsky.social. Thanks to my wonderful hosts @drgbain.bsky.social & @reraddatz.bsky.social adaptationtoday.com/resources/po... Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Adaptation Today: The Podcast

Never miss an episode Join the listserv for updates on this new resource! Join the listserv! Adaptation Today: The Podcast is edited and produced by Adaptation Today editors Gracie Bain and Rebecca…

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Adaptation Today@adaptationtoday.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New podcast episode available with @drmarinacano.bsky.social !! Gracie, Rebecca, and Marina talk about Marina's new book: Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women's Novels on the Stage (2026)

Our #TeamUofG community is invited to Refugee Week 2026. Join us from 15 to 19 June to celebrate the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary, and take part in events across UofG. View the programme: gla.ac.uk/explore/sanctuary/events/refugee-week/

🧵✨Heathcliff before Jacob Elordi ☘️ There have been numerous Irish Heathcliffs since 1934 🎭 Heathcliff has spoken Irish onstage and been presented as the “stranger in the house” typical of modern Irish drama