Mark Slater
@markjslater.bsky.social
Fennell funded PhD candidate @EdinburghUni | 20th century historian of American advertising, Black consumerism, and Big Tobacco | Tartan Army member 🏴
Another fantastic @hotcus.bsky.social conference presenting as part of the ‘Image Making’ panel with Eszter Kovacs, Maddie Hale, @benoitmes.bsky.social and @thomascryer.bsky.social (as chair). Thoroughly enjoyed talking about D. Parke Gibson and listening to the other papers. HOTCUS always delivers!
Fantastic Targeted Research Panel today on US magazine culture at the Glasgow @officialbaas.bsky.social 2026 conference with Katie Burke @benoitmes.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @emilybrady.bsky.social for chairing too. 🙏 Excellent papers all around, it was a blast! See you next all BAAS 🫡
Proud to have successfully defended my PhD thesis this morning! Many thanks to my examiners, Professor Bruce Schulman and Dr Fabian Hilfrich, for the lively discussion and their valuable suggestions. Looking forward to celebrating four years of hard work!
Join us for the 2026 Fennell Lecture by Prof. Greg Grandin from Yale, discussing 'Zombie Monroe: How America First's nationalism shifts towards Latin America.' Secure your free tickets at edin.ac/4qyeI0t. #History #AmericanHistory #Monroedoctrine #SouthAmerica #Edinburgh #Yale #Fennell
Pickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!
RALLY TOMORROW! Join the fightback against job cuts! Wednesday 19th November at 1pm at the Scottish parliament.
Question from @martinwhitfieldmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh University as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social take third day of strike action this week #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563152...
SNP minister told to intervene in Edinburgh University crisis to protect 1,800 jobs
SNP ministers have been warned they must intervene in the University of Edinburgh's dispute with staff amid fears 1,800 jobs could be lost.
heraldscotland.com
Today's @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social rally to defend jobs and oppose cuts at Edinburgh university #SaveHE #NoCompulsoryRedundancies #StopTheCuts
finally going through my finds from the US archive trip. here are some of the ads that amused me most on my visit to duke. big tobacco really did try their hardest to attract new smokers, i guess
excellent few days at the @hotcus.bsky.social conference in lancaster! got some excellent feedback on my chapter at the pgr/ecr workshop with andrew preston, met a series of very lovely people, and, most importantly, got this sweet mug. had a blast at my first hotcus and will be back!
hard at work on my research trip, as you can see by the photos. boston uni was great, but duke was better. gorgeous part of the country! definitely didn’t take a lot of time to explore both cities, only did archive work, of course. anyways, the states has been pretty good to me this trip 🫡
🚨Registration for Annual Conference is open!🚨 Taking place at the University of Lancaster from 18-20 June, we have now opened registration for the HOTCUS Annual Conference. Full details and links for registration and schedule are available on our website hotcus.org.uk/events/annua... Please share!
delighted to announce that i've won the BAAS research assistance award to supporting my upcoming archive trip to the US! incredibly thankful to @officialbaas.bsky.social for the generous award, particularly in such difficult circumstances. very excited to get into the archives soon!
Unions demand MSPs scrutinise Edinburgh Uni plans @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #StopTheCuts #SaveHE www.scotsman.com/education/un...
Unions demand Edinburgh University bosses grilled over 'irresponsible' £140m cuts plan
Unions claim there are ‘many parallels’ in the ‘failures’ at Edinburgh and Dundee universities
scotsman.com
Events 2026 Call for hosts!🚨 HOTCUS is seeking hosts for our 2026 events, including the Winter Symposium (February) and the Annual Conference (June). We can only run our events with member support and input, so please do consider if this is something that you can support at your institution!
The UK university sector is on fire. This is happening virtually everywhere -- job cuts, hiring freezes, department closures, PhD funding programmes... full blown crisis
Andy Brockman@andybrockman.bsky.social · last yr.Cardiff University confirms that in College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 699 jobs are “in scope” of redundancy with 86 in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion. At the leading Welsh university in the capital of (checks notes) Wales 13 are in the (checks notes) School of Welsh.
Quotes from me in THE. “Davison, who previously left her position at Goldsmiths, U. London after being handed a redundancy letter, said: “If you work in higher ed in the UK, it feels like you are running away from a wave… like a tsunami of job cuts...” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/edinbur...
Edinburgh staff fear ‘manufactured crisis’ in £140 million cuts
Academics ask why university needs to cut jobs when its income hit £1.4 billion last year
timeshighereducation.com
Read the REAL story of the 'financial crisis' at Edinburgh uni: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/3fzpaa5...
No Compulsory Redundancies at The University Of Edinburgh! — UCU Edinburgh
Financial mismanagement at the University of Edinburgh continues. On 11 February 2025, Peter Mathieson wrote to all staff threatening “restructuring, possible closures of programmes or even Schools, m...
ucuedinburgh.org.uk
We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians
More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach
26th February 2025
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i have stumbled upon a potential gap in the literature for my thesis. unsure how to feel about this. suspicious, i think. the only option is to spend my saturday evening in the office investigating 🫡
Feels like the right time to join here with the toxic PhD discourse on the hellhole that is Twitter. I’m ready to entertain with my witty takes here instead
