Are you a passionate leader with a love for reading @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social are recruiting a Head of Reading Communities to lead a team of six to deliver impactful programmes across Scotland
πEdinburgh/hybrid
π· Β£40,400
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Full time, permanent
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πWe're hiring!π
We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers to join our exciting, interdisciplinary team. Both are full-time, fixed-term (almost 4 years), based in Edinburgh's @uoe-cahss.bsky.social / @uoe-llc.bsky.social w/ links to @schoolofppls.bsky.social & @morayhouse.bsky.social
Pls share!
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Weβre excited to share Literacy Labβs new Future of Books and Reading report π
The paper combines research insights, professional expertise, and readers' voices to highlight the enjoyable, engaging, empowering and enriching effects of reading at every age.
Read more here β¬οΈ
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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Literacy)
We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (Literacy) to be a core member of a new research project βRewriting wor(l)ds: A transdisciplinary and participatory investigation of how po...
New job opportunity for literacy researchers interested in participatory methods/young people/poetry/wellbeing. Brilliant research team, led by @pat-err.bsky.social. Advert: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... Project website: rewriting-worlds.ed.ac.uk. Please share! @uoe-cahss.bsky.social
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& thanks also to our host school @uoe-llc.bsky.social (@uoe-cahss.bsky.social) & affiliated @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social schools/depts @schoolofppls.bsky.social @morayhouse.bsky.social @edinnovations.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social
Cannot wait to get started!
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endless thanks to my brilliant co-leads @profsarahmcg.bsky.social & @danmirman.bsky.social, to all our partner orgs (incl. @literacy-trust.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social @byleaveswelive.bsky.social @ptbopoetry.bsky.social @cilipscotland.bsky.social)
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Rewriting Wor(l)ds
Rewriting Worlds is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project researching young people's creative engagement with poetry at the University of Edinburgh.
π Thrilled to share that I've received a @ukri.org #FutureLeadersFellowship for our transdisciplinary, participatory, & practice-partnered project #RewritingWor(l)ds @re-writer.bsky.social/ rewriting-worlds.ed.ac.uk researching #poetry, creative engagement, & #wellbeing for young people
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Poetry Lit Online Reading Series
Poetry Lit Online Reading Series. 484 likes Β· 27 talking about this. Poetry Lit! is a monthly online reading series for poets from all over the world.
Last minute reading alert! β¨ Will be reading with some of my favourite poets at the Poetry in Session in the Poetry Lit! Festival! TODAY in *THIRTY* MINS!
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September 13th π 13.30 pm BST
π₯ Watch @ www.facebook.com/PoetryLit / www.instagram.com/poetrylitonl... / www.youtube.com/@poetrylit22...
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On a related note: does anyone know of any public lists or databases of small or indie presses? With contact details would be amazing, but I'd just take names for now. Our mailing list needs updating and I want to check our reach, this would be a great help, but not sure where to look.
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Cioran quotation (July 1968): 'To create a work that is of interest to no one. I have almost done it...'
...felt this entry when translating it today... (from Cioran's Notebooks, July 1968)
#DailyCioran #notevenalittlebitDailyCioran
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here's 1
#notevenalittlebitDailyCioran #DailyCioran
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had a few lovely emails recently from folks asking about my Cioran translation, which have inspired me to restart my old (not-at-all-)Daily Cioran excerpts of translation-in-progress.
so for all you threes of people wanting more nihilistic French-Romanian philosophy in your life: youβre welcome
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PhD Student @ MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge π§
Sharing Sensory Stories Project manager @scottishbooktrust.bsky.socialβ¬ Love and live Edinburgh π
#ReadingForPleasure I read everything from picture books to YA! Interested in Additional Support Needs, education, language/s, literacy, &pugs
PhD Student @UoE_Psychology funded by the @studienstiftung. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. π§
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We were an AHRC-funded project (Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025), based at the University of Edinburgh. Our main output was a digital edition of the books of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
Mum and higher education lifer in Edinburgh, UK
associate professor in communication and cognition - la science pour la science
Psychology prof at Durham + interdisciplinary stuff (usually psychosis, inner speech, a bit of neurodiversity). Author of "Presence: The Strange Science of the Unseen Other" (MUP).
Chair of @theichr.bsky.social
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social and Deputy Director Professor Paula Reavey, the Centre is a dynamic, collaborative, interdisciplinary research project advancing knowledge in relations between place and memory - placememory.net
Writer, reader, gamer. Still mostly bogling to Aswad. https://wouldyouliketochangethedifficultysetting.wordpress.com/
Any pronouns.
No alt text? No follow, no matter how cool & interesting you are.
There will be swears.
Scottish Romanticism; Novels; Improvement. Also keen on Intertextuality, Canonicity & Reading History. BARS ECR Officer. AFHEA. She/her.
We are one of three academic Colleges at the University of Edinburgh, supporting 11 academic Schools, the cross-University Centre for Open Learning, the Edinburgh Futures Institute and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.
We are @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 's commercialisation service. We benefit society and the economy by helping researchers, students and industry drive innovation. Discover more β‘οΈ https://linktr.ee/edinburghinnovations_
Edinburgh's International Poetry Festival 21-23 November 2025
Festival, open mic, workshops, podcasts, and more.
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Scotlandβs living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it.
The UKβs largest public funder of research
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Also autoposting to @news.ukri.org, @funding.ukri.org, @blogs.ukri.org and @events.ukri.org. Topic specific feeds coming soon!
Professor of Literacy, University of Edinburgh. Connecting research and practice. Website: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/literacylab/
A transdisciplinary, community co-produced, research-practice partnered research project based at the University of Edinburgh, dedicated to exploring poetry, creative engagement, & the links to promoting lifelong wellbeing.
Chancellor's Fellow, University of Edinburgh / Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network / Lead Judge, James Tait Black Prize (Fiction)
Senior Lecturer @staenglish, TU Rep @ucustandrews, EDI Lead @sgsah, @ahrcpress/@BBCRadio3 New Gen Thinker, Author @OUPAcademic + @RowmanInternat
Critical Theory, Marxism, empire, medical humanities.
University of St Andrews - Scotland's first university
Top in the UK - The Times and Guardian University Guides 2024
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