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Pauline Mackay @paulinemackay.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Thank you @murrayp.bsky.social for your support/input to the project and for representing. We’re seeing incredible participation worldwide, the Burns Supper is now submitted to the UK’s Inventory of Living Heritage, and we’re looking forward to sharing findings/ new resources this summer!

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University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk · 12/01/2026

2026 we are celebrating 225 years of the Burns Supper. Now @glasgowburns.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social wants your help to contribute to our global map of Burns celebrations. Send us your videos, photos and details of how you celebrate Burns Night: gla.ac/BurnsSupper225 #BurnsSupper225

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Murray Pittock : @murrayp.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Pleased to begin role of ambassador for Ellisland, 'The Home of Auld Lang Syne' from Hogmanay- interviews with BBC, ITV and Fox today. Read Joan McAlpine on the Ellisland appeal in www.scotsman.com/news/opinion... @glasgowburns.bsky.social @iassl.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social @asls.org.uk

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University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk · 18/12/2025

How do you celebrate Burns Night? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 UofG's @glasgowburns.bsky.social has launched The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention. Help us build a crowdsourced archive of Burns Suppers worldwide for the 225th anniversary next July. Learn more: gla.ac/44Veysf

Professor Pauline Mackay, Director of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies and Research Associate Dr Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman photographed at the University of Glasgow. Prof MacKay is holding a book of Burns poetry and Dr Yeoman is holding a plate with haggis.

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Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) @sahavoice.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

In 2023 @uofglasgow.bsky.social was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize in recognition of the range & impact of the projects undertaken at the @glasgowburns.bsky.social, chiefly Editing & Curating Burns for the 21st Century More about the project👇 @murrayp.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social

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Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century

An AHRC-funded Project to produce a multi-volume edition of the Works of Robert Burns

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Pauline Mackay @paulinemackay.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

COMING SOON! Sign up to be notified of the Museums in the Metaverse Beta! #InnovationAccelerator #MuseumsInTheMetaverse #CulturalHeritage #XR

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Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) @sahavoice.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

✍️Museums have long faced a fundamental challenge: globally less than 10% of museum collections are typically on public display. Through our Extended Reality (XR) platform, we are hoping to address this by creating digital twins of rare & precious objects that can be experienced in entirely new ways

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Reimagining Cultural Access: Museums in the Metaverse By Professor Neil McDonnell and Dr Pauline Mackay | SAHA: The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance

A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.

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Murray Pittock : @murrayp.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Splendid discussion today on role of Museums in the Metaverse in cultural tourism & placemaking in Future Cities Forum Cultural Cities 2025 with Michelle Charters OBE, Craig Hassall AM & many more @ahallardyce.bsky.social @fergusbruce.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social

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Pauline Mackay @paulinemackay.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Robert Burns declared this ‘one of the finest songs I ever made in my life; and, besides, is composed on a young lady, positively the most beautiful, lovely woman in the world’. Wonderful from the University of Glasgow Chapel Choir. #BurnsNight #RobertBurns #Scotland

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University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk · 07/01/2025

Global study reveals 77% want digital access to museum collections. The study on virtual museums reveals “not just what future audiences want but how museums can adapt to meet these demands”, says report co-author UofG's @murrayp.bsky.social. Report: gla.ac/4h1XQLe

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Largest survey of its kind charts immersive digital future for museums worldwide

A global survey has revealed an overwhelming public interest in accessing museum collections through virtual reality (VR) and extended reality (XR) technologies.

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The Centre for Robert Burns Studies @glasgowburns.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Happy Hogmanay from the team at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies! 🎆 Wherever you are we are sure you will be singing Auld Lang Syne along with us tonight. Visit our blog to read about the origins of the iconic Scottish anthem: www.gla.ac.uk/news/archive... #hogmanay #auldlangsyne

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The first appearance of Auld Lang Syne is studied by UofG academics

In 4th volume of The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns, due to be published in February, Professor Kirsteen McCue has looked at Burns’ songs for George Thomson including Auld Lang Syne

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UofGARC @uofgarc.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Curious about what research happens in the ARC? We set ourselves a challenge...can we explain what we have achieved so far, in 60 seconds or less?

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Pauline Mackay @paulinemackay.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The Museums in the Metaverse team are delighted to launch this Kelvin 200 VR experience! Working with The Hunterian, Edify & Lateral North. Come and try it in the University of Glasgow’s ARC-XR, Wed 18th, 10am-4pm; Thurs 19th, 10am-1pm! 👀

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Pauline Mackay @paulinemackay.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Join @glasgowburns.bsky.social for the Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference on Saturday 18th January 2025 @uofglasgow.bsky.social ARC! In collaboration with the NTS Robert Burns Birthplace Museum. Info and booking below! 👀 👇

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Pauline Mackay @paulinemackay.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies is on BlueSky! Follow for research and events about Robert Burns (1759-96). 👀 in the run up to Burns Season 2025! Beginning with insights into our annual conference planned for 18th January! #RobertBurns

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University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk · 28/11/2024

A newly found 18th-century portrait at Scotland's Barnbougle Castle could be a rare lifetime likeness of poet Robert Fergusson, says UofG's Prof Professor Gerard Carruthers. It will be unveiled tomorrow at Irvine Burns Club. Read more: gla.ac/3ZopxrE Photo:Martin Shields

Man stands holding a gold-framed portrait of a young man in a large and ornate Castle.

A man sits at a desk reading an 18th century book and close by is a gold framed portrait of a young man and a wooden timer.

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Pauline Mackay @paulinemackay.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

‘Poets are such outré Beings, so much the children of wayward Fancy and capricious Whim, that I believe the world generally allows them a larger latitude in the rules of Propriety, than the sober Sons of Judgement and Prudence.—‘ Robert Burns to Wilhelmina Alexander, November 1786.

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