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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Or, you could book to come along to this separate event on Scottish First World War poetry on Monday 9 Nov: bsky.app/profile/afra...

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You could also come to our online launch a week on Monday: bsky.app/profile/afra...

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's National Poetry Day in the UK, so why not have a look at the essays in Beyond Modernism by Allan Pero (on Sacheverell Sitwell), Lauren Faro (on Jessica Dismorr), or Susan Reid (on Rachel Annand Taylor)? www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beyond-mo... @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I made a mistake on the sign-up form, which meant that anyone who's tried previously wasn't able to click through. Here's a link that should work: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Mjsn26ZMek

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Microsoft Forms

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thanks for pointing this out Katie - here's a revised link: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Mjsn26ZMek

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Microsoft Forms

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good afternoon especially to the man on this train who has now come through 4 times and been told every time that the door to the driver's cabin is not the toilet 🍻

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We wanted robots that would relieve us of menial tasks and free us up to be creative. Instead, we’ve ceded our creative selves to robots and ended up with all the washing and cleaning.

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Practically writes itself (pun intended)

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We're having an online launch event for Beyond Modernism: noncanonicity in early-twentieth-century British literature, at 6pm UK on Monday 12 October. Speakers will include the editors, @nicholasbirns.bsky.social, @rsazzad.bsky.social, Chris Hopkins, +... Sign up: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Mjsn26ZMek

The cover of Beyond Modernism: Noncanonicity and early-twentieth-century British literature. At the top, the title is in white on dark blue, with the subtitle below in dark yellow. The image is a hand taking a blank-spined book from a shelf; the other spines have the names of classic novels crossed out.

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ahhhh yes Andy, "it worked", and we are definitely not in year 19 of a subsequent recession (*winks and taps temple)

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think lots of people look to either or both Scottish Book Trust or Society of Authors rates and fees as a starting point.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Last night, an exhibition I've been working on was launched at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire to mark 250 years since building of 2nd mill (blue print for cotton factories worldwide) and early industrial housing. It's open all weekend, with lots of activities. Critique my graphic design efforts!

Exhibition panels printed on cotton fabric hanging in pairs down a mill building from wooden ceiling beams. On the front panels the date 1776 and 'Why did cotton come to Cromford' are legible.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We are recruiting new Associate Editors! First World War Studies, the interdisciplinary journal of the International Society for First World War Studies, published by Taylor & Francis, is seeking to expand its editorial team.

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New Work in Modernist Studies - the BAMS conference aimed at PGRs, and particularly first-time conference speakers, is always a lovely, welcoming event. Please consider submitting! And I always look forward to a trip to beautiful, ummm, TBC ;)

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This list of things the University of Brighton has de-recognised is insane 🤯🤯🤯

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/09/2026

I think we should have one day a week when no-one is allowed to talk about AI, so we can have a rest

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As a not yet binned member of staff who has been threatened with the bin within the last year, I'm genuinely curious about the feasibility of this and what it might look like.

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That's really disgraceful Vole - evil, even. I'm sorry, sympathies from Scotland.

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm really looking forward to this talk from the President of @asls.org.uk, Dr David Goldie, at Craiglockhart Campus @edinburghnapier.bsky.social , organised by the excellent @afrayn.bsky.social. Registration link below 👇

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You'll probably have seen this, but also from the Jim Henson universe, the Monsterpiece Theater "Waiting for Elmo" is a classic. youtu.be/LzHMxIuVs_Y?...

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Monsterpiece Theater: Waiting for Elmo (w / library intro)

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Out now: TOWARDS A NEW HISTORY OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY: TWO ESSAYS by Sarah Leith and Scott Lyall. Edited by Gerry Carruthers, the pamphlet is published in the University of South Carolina Scottish Literature Series. @asls.org.uk | @iassl.bsky.social | @scottishpen.bsky.social

The front cover of Towards a New History of the Saltire Society: Two Essays by Sarah Leith and Scott Lyall.

The cover image is a detail from 'The Community: A Festival of Time', painted by the artist James Cumming.

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Didn't know (tho had wondered) that Gt Junction St/Ferry Road corner had been a pub back in the day!

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I was recently in New Chapter Books in Wigtown, Scotland's Book Town, and they had this fantastic display of ephemera found in the pages of books!

A selection of ephemera found in books pinned to a bookshop wall. Items include an advert for a Waterman's fountain pen, a photo probably of someone's grandparents, a baby photo, a stick of gum, a Baltimore and Ohio railroad rocket, and many more.

A selection of ephemera pinned to a bookshop wall, including typewritten and handwritten letter, train and bus tickets, photos, and other items.

A selection of ephemera pinned to a bookshop wall, including a flyer for a 1980s performance of Brecht's Life of Galileo, very old rail seat reservations, a tear off calendar page, and many other sundries.

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm organising a Remembrance Lecture on Mon 9 November at Edinburgh Napier's Craiglockhart Campus- as a War Hospital, this was where Wilfred Owen & Siegfried Sassoon met. This year David Goldie will talk about Scottish Poetry of the First World War. Register: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/MTEHXf41Mf

The ubiquitous photo of the staff, nurses and patients of the Craiglockhart War Hospital on the lawn outside the historic front of the building, from 1917. The men are in their khaki uniforms, with hats, and the women are in their nurses's uniforms and headdresses, flowing white.

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We're looking for a fabulous person to join us @strathclydehass.bsky.social on a funded PhD with me & Prof Matt Smith. Are you a historian with an interest in activism who wants to design a cool project on unorthodox health movements in Britain after 1948? Apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...

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PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde

Apply for a PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948. Discover a wide range of PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 23/08/2026

📰 Today’s Sunday Times exposes just a fraction of the attacks on jobs in Universities. We know the true picture across the UK is even worse. With record student sign ups this situation is completely untenable. The government must intervene.

This table describes the level of job losses in several universities across the UK.

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you'd like me and/or Katie to come talk to your seminar/ reading group about it, please get in touch!

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The follow-up to The Wicker Man attracted some scrutiny from animal rights activists

A larger wicker model of a horse, head bowed, against a town square background of trees and grass

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Out today: to mark this year's centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid's 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle', AYONT THE THISTLE, edited by Jim Mackintosh, Alan Riach and James Robertson. 'Jean', my short story in Scots, is amongst the contributions. @asls.org.uk @iassl.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

The front cover of Ayont the Thistle: A gallimaufry of poetry and prose to mark the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid's A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

agree, I might go [p. 0] to indicate that it's implied but not printed.

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I now realise I should have gone meta and done me picking the book off the shelf

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

And to you - thanks for your excellent essay!

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Post today, believe it's already out online, publication date in print 20th Aug! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beyond-mo...

A man in a blue t-shirt with a grey beard holding a copy of the book Beyond Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2026). The book cover depicts a hand taking a book from a shelf on which the other books have classic titles crossed out on the spine.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A deeply destructive and inexpert management consultancy class has emerged whose sole purpose is to shrink Anglosphere universities and to undermine their future - all the better to secure more work. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

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Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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