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Emily Hay @emilyhay.bsky.social · Jul 9

Had a lovely time today at @kingjamesconf.bsky.social presenting on James’ use of his mother in his English succession 👑

Main takeaway from the day? My aggressive hand gestures whilst presenting…

Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · Jul 9

Emily Hay explains how James rejected the attempts of others to vilify his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots. Although their relationship remained highly transactional in life, James honoured his mother with her magnificent tomb many years after her death

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Dr Chiara Bullen @chiarab.bsky.social · Jun 12

Great opportunity for queer working-class writers in Glasgow! Deadline tomorrow!!

The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · May 30

PLEASE SHARE 🙏
OPEN CALL FOR AN UNPUBLISHED WRITER: ART WRITING COMMISSION
Responding to Holly Rennie Brown’s new curatorial project ‘The City’, exploring Glasgow through a queer, working-class lens. For eligibility, brief & details of how to apply ⬇️

The City: Art Writing Commission - The Alasdair Gray Archive

OPEN CALL FOR AN UNPUBLISHED WRITER: ART WRITING COMMISSION

thealasdairgrayarchive.org

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Emily Hay @emilyhay.bsky.social · May 27

Congrats Jade - this is excellent news! 🎉

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Emily Hay @emilyhay.bsky.social · May 20

It's me! After handing over the reins of SGSAH Digital Curator to the wonderful Isabella Shields I can still be found in spirit on the SGSAH Research website as the Featured Researcher for May 🌞 👑

SGSAH @sgsah.bsky.social · May 20

🌟 New Featured Researcher: @emilyhay.bsky.social 🌟

A familiar face in a new light! Emily’s PhD, with @uofgartshums.bsky.social explores how Mary Queen of Scots shaped her image through poetry and letters from 1567–1587. ✍️ 👑

🔗 Read more: sgsahresearch.com/featured-res...

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⚢ Wheypenwifestre 🔆 @nizzy.cc · Apr 16

"Woman" is now legally classified as "broodmare," I'm sure this will have absolutely zero long term consequences for reproductive healthcare down the line.

After all it's not like anti-trans agitation is part of a far wider far-right, explicitly natalist movement or anything, right?

Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · Apr 16

One thing I missed that Jess draws attention to is that the court very explicitly refers to pregnancy--that is, to gestational capacity--as the measure of womanhood, in order to exclude trans women from the category.

Well. What else is there to say?

There you go. Now we all know what a woman is.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · Apr 16

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.

The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010

www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · Dec 11

I wish universities would 'start to ask questions' about how many academic 'leadership' roles they can afford!

The proliferation of vice/deputy/pro/associate 'leadership roles' over the last 10-20 years has been quite extraordinary.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Dec 11

'Universities are starting to ask questions about how much research they can afford to do, and whether to cap their losses, bringing “difficult decisions about the activities they can continue to pursue”, according to senior figures in the sector.' Sadly, 'starting' started earlier than this.

Universities ‘asking how much research they can afford to do’ - Research Professional News

Crisis in universities’ finances spells “difficult decisions about research activity they can continue”, leaders warn

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Charlie Spragg @cvspragg.bsky.social · Mar 26

Fantastic time at #RSA25 in Boston! Over the moon that my panel ‘Keeping Up Appearances: Royal Bodies at the Jacobean Court’ was a success! So grateful to
@emilyhay.bsky.social and @glonsber.bsky.social for their excellent papers - both will also be presenting at @kingjamesconf.bsky.social ! 👑

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Emily Hay @emilyhay.bsky.social · Mar 22

Had a wonderful time speaking at #RSA2025 this morning alongside @cvspragg.bsky.social and Gabriel Lonsberry on our panel “Keeping Up Appearances: Royal Bodies in Jacobean Britain” (even as a Marian interloper!) 👑

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Emily Hay @emilyhay.bsky.social · Feb 11

@sgsah.bsky.social is advertising for my replacement as Digital Curator (and for a new Blogger)! Apply to get experience working as part of a great team and to fulfil all your wildest nosey 👃 tendencies in learning about what SGSAH PhD researchers are up to! ✨

SGSAH @sgsah.bsky.social · Feb 5

📢 WE ARE HIRING 📢

Two vacancies are now open to join the SGSAH team. A fantastic opportunity to boost your proficiency in content curation 📝

Apply to be our new Blogger🔗 jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/sgsah-bl...

Apply to be our new Digital Curator🔗 jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/sgsah-as...

@uofgcareers.bsky.social

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Dec 5

'Only 37 per cent of PGRs say they have had the chance to teach or demonstrate, according to the survey, published on 5 December, which received responses from PGRs at 57 UK and four Australian universities.' 1/2

Teaching opportunities for PhDs dry up in university cash crisis

Barely one in three postgraduate researchers now have opportunity to teach, finds Advance HE survey, with financial pressure on institutions likely to blame

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · Dec 5

This

Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · Dec 5

Why Wolf Hall is a symbol of English cultural domination

There’s umpteen untold stories from the histories of Scotland, Wales and Ireland that the BBC could tell. Instead we get more Tudors, the ultimate pleaser for the Home Counties middle-classes www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2477...

Wolf Hall: Everything that’s wrong with English cultural domination

The gatekeepers of culture in London are wearyingly dull - as pedestrian, derivative and unimaginative as Hollywood executives with their…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Paul Malgrati @paulmalgrati.bsky.social · Nov 16

Here’s a provisional clanjamfry of scholars, novelists, bodies and poets involved in Scottish literature and present on Bluesky.

Feel free to comment if you’d like to be added.

go.bsky.app/3EEXPcA

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Emily Hay @emilyhay.bsky.social · Jan 23

🚨Calling all Scottish teachers🚨

I've been working with Scottish Book Trust to research the benefits and barriers to using Scots in the classroom, and we want to hear from you! Please complete and share the survey 👇
surveymonkey.com/r/SBT-Scotsi...

Scots in the Classroom

Web survey powered by SurveyMonkey.com. Create your own online survey now with SurveyMonkey's expert certified FREE templates.

surveymonkey.com

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Dr Lucy R. Hinnie @yclepit.bsky.social · Jan 23

Out now: Women Writing Socially In Academia.

A joy to be a part of this, and an excuse to write about being annoyed at Taylor Swift in an academic context.

It's a belter. Please share widely, order for your libraries and enjoy the compassionate solidarity.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Women Writing Socially in Academia

This book meets the need to enable women’s capacity, in academic settings, to structure their own writing practice and that of others in the community.

link.springer.com

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Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social · Dec 7

The new issue of Scottish Literary Review is out now on Project Muse! There are some excellent essays here by Emily Hay on early modern Scottish women writers, Craig Buchanan on the Sobieski Stuarts and Nuri Batuhan Luleci on Irvine Welsh. Also a bumper crop of reviews 👇
muse.jhu.edu/issue/51851

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Emily Hay @emilyhay.bsky.social · Jan 10

Thanks Rhona! 💛

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Emily Hay @emilyhay.bsky.social · Jan 3

Brought in 2024 with a 1000-piece Tudors jigsaw puzzle 🧩
My favourite part is obviously Mary making an iconic appearance, but for some reason she’s in demure white rather than martyrs red here 🪓

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