Christine Ferguson
@cferguson.bsky.social
Professor of English, specialising in Esotericism Studies,Victorian Literature, and History of Spiritualism & Occultism. Fan of Indian cinema and all things horror related. Based in Glasgow
Rarely has this nation produced a freer or more vivid imagination. How lucky I am to see his art almost ever day as I travel through Glasgow’s west end. Happy birthday to a true visionary!
“I am a chorus in search of a tragedy, a raker of middens in the industrial North.
“I am a genius in an obscure line of business. Try me a little.
“I may have something you can use.”
The artist & writer Alasdair Gray (1934–2019) was born #OTD, 28 Dec
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www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
“I am a genius in an obscure line of business. Try me a little.
“I may have something you can use.”
The artist & writer Alasdair Gray (1934–2019) was born #OTD, 28 Dec
💙📚
1/5
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
BBC Arts - BBC Arts - Alasdair Gray at 80: Under the Helmet
Archive documentary from 1964 on the influential Scottish artist and writer.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Rarely has this nation produced a freer or more vivid imagination. How lucky I am to see his art almost ever day as I travel through Glasgow’s west end. Happy birthday to a true visionary!
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Happy Solstice everyone
December 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Happy Solstice everyone
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'Property', a compact little ecocritical Siegfried Sassoon poem. 'We nothings use a name / Nor ask whence acorns came / Before the oak was planted'.
December 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
'Property', a compact little ecocritical Siegfried Sassoon poem. 'We nothings use a name / Nor ask whence acorns came / Before the oak was planted'.
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REGISTER NOW - The Literary Agents are back to talk Adapting Sherlock with
Ken Ludwig (Baskerville)
Mark Shananan (A Sherlock Carol)
Jeffrey Hatcher (Holmes and Watson)
and the Sherlock Holmes Untold team.
Zoom, Fri Jan 9th, 10:30-11:30 EST
Register here: www.doingsofdoyle.com/p/the-litera...
Ken Ludwig (Baskerville)
Mark Shananan (A Sherlock Carol)
Jeffrey Hatcher (Holmes and Watson)
and the Sherlock Holmes Untold team.
Zoom, Fri Jan 9th, 10:30-11:30 EST
Register here: www.doingsofdoyle.com/p/the-litera...
December 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
REGISTER NOW - The Literary Agents are back to talk Adapting Sherlock with
Ken Ludwig (Baskerville)
Mark Shananan (A Sherlock Carol)
Jeffrey Hatcher (Holmes and Watson)
and the Sherlock Holmes Untold team.
Zoom, Fri Jan 9th, 10:30-11:30 EST
Register here: www.doingsofdoyle.com/p/the-litera...
Ken Ludwig (Baskerville)
Mark Shananan (A Sherlock Carol)
Jeffrey Hatcher (Holmes and Watson)
and the Sherlock Holmes Untold team.
Zoom, Fri Jan 9th, 10:30-11:30 EST
Register here: www.doingsofdoyle.com/p/the-litera...
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Qesser Zuhrah and Amy Gardiner-Gibson are on day 46 of their hunger strike. Heba Muraisi is on day 45. All are at a high risk of death.
In 1981 - the last time there was a hunger strike like this - Martin Hurson died after 46 days.
In 1981 - the last time there was a hunger strike like this - Martin Hurson died after 46 days.
December 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Qesser Zuhrah and Amy Gardiner-Gibson are on day 46 of their hunger strike. Heba Muraisi is on day 45. All are at a high risk of death.
In 1981 - the last time there was a hunger strike like this - Martin Hurson died after 46 days.
In 1981 - the last time there was a hunger strike like this - Martin Hurson died after 46 days.
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Orphean sprig! Melting baby! Warm chihuahua!
#EdwinMorgan reading “Trio”, published in The Second Life (1968) and recorded by Ewan McVicar in 1990 at Tower Studio, Glasgow 🎄❄️
#EdwinMorgan reading “Trio”, published in The Second Life (1968) and recorded by Ewan McVicar in 1990 at Tower Studio, Glasgow 🎄❄️
December 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Orphean sprig! Melting baby! Warm chihuahua!
#EdwinMorgan reading “Trio”, published in The Second Life (1968) and recorded by Ewan McVicar in 1990 at Tower Studio, Glasgow 🎄❄️
#EdwinMorgan reading “Trio”, published in The Second Life (1968) and recorded by Ewan McVicar in 1990 at Tower Studio, Glasgow 🎄❄️
Coming your way in September 2026!
December 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Coming your way in September 2026!
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British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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'Institutions including the University of Cambridge and Queen’s University Belfast joined the list of those reporting deficits in their newly-published financial accounts as universities of all sizes continue to face financial challenges.' Leicester, Derby, LMU & Liverpool John Moores also noted.
UK universities report ongoing deficits after ‘difficult year’
Cambridge, Queen’s University Belfast and Leicester record shortfalls for the second year in a row as latest accounts highlight sector-wide financial challenges
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:09 AM
'Institutions including the University of Cambridge and Queen’s University Belfast joined the list of those reporting deficits in their newly-published financial accounts as universities of all sizes continue to face financial challenges.' Leicester, Derby, LMU & Liverpool John Moores also noted.
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Congress just gave $900 billion to the US military in case you were wondering if there were any repercussions for blowing up civilian ships on the high seas. Meanwhile, the FIFA peace participation trophy guy still manages to keep the Epstein list out of the headlines.
December 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Congress just gave $900 billion to the US military in case you were wondering if there were any repercussions for blowing up civilian ships on the high seas. Meanwhile, the FIFA peace participation trophy guy still manages to keep the Epstein list out of the headlines.
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This is *exactly* the same phrasing as the management used @qmul.bsky.social.
This is work that has been withdrawn as part of legal industrial action. Management is demanding staff undoes their own industrial action and performs the work they have not been paid for, on top of their existing work.
This is work that has been withdrawn as part of legal industrial action. Management is demanding staff undoes their own industrial action and performs the work they have not been paid for, on top of their existing work.
December 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is *exactly* the same phrasing as the management used @qmul.bsky.social.
This is work that has been withdrawn as part of legal industrial action. Management is demanding staff undoes their own industrial action and performs the work they have not been paid for, on top of their existing work.
This is work that has been withdrawn as part of legal industrial action. Management is demanding staff undoes their own industrial action and performs the work they have not been paid for, on top of their existing work.
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Thanks once again to the Times Higher for reminding us all - hundreds of job losses and the evisceration of entire disciplines later - who the real victim is in all of this.
Cardiff University’s plans to cut 400 academic jobs and close several departments prompted a media firestorm that heaped opprobrium on its v-c. But she also received support for her efforts to put the university back on an even financial keel, she tells Chris Havergal
https://ow.ly/c2Oy50XGUf0
https://ow.ly/c2Oy50XGUf0
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Thanks once again to the Times Higher for reminding us all - hundreds of job losses and the evisceration of entire disciplines later - who the real victim is in all of this.
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this is insane
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
this is insane
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It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
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If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students.
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
Every sympathy for University of Essex (and pressures facing them) but this is very bad news for Southend.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Roles to be lost are part of wave of redundancy programmes across UK’s higher education sector
giftarticle.ft.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students.
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
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Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
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Please share!
Two new postdoc positions have opened in the RADHEART project at the University of Bergen.
The first is on ancient Rabbinic literature from the 2nd – 7th century CE.
#AcRel #sblaar #AncientBlueSky
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Two new postdoc positions have opened in the RADHEART project at the University of Bergen.
The first is on ancient Rabbinic literature from the 2nd – 7th century CE.
#AcRel #sblaar #AncientBlueSky
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Study of Religion (289814) | University of Bergen
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Study of Religion (289814), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Friday, March 6, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Please share!
Two new postdoc positions have opened in the RADHEART project at the University of Bergen.
The first is on ancient Rabbinic literature from the 2nd – 7th century CE.
#AcRel #sblaar #AncientBlueSky
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Two new postdoc positions have opened in the RADHEART project at the University of Bergen.
The first is on ancient Rabbinic literature from the 2nd – 7th century CE.
#AcRel #sblaar #AncientBlueSky
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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This is incredible. Reading Arcadia at the moment and just read this bit last night.
December 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
This is incredible. Reading Arcadia at the moment and just read this bit last night.
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‘Marie’ Christmas, Victorianists!
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited ‘Marie Corelli Reconsidered’, a special issue of Victoriographies.
It features @janetteleaf.bsky.social Adam Lewis Smith, Keiko Kiriyama, Stephen Edwards, and our own detective work into the authorship of The Twin Soul (1887) 🔍
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited ‘Marie Corelli Reconsidered’, a special issue of Victoriographies.
It features @janetteleaf.bsky.social Adam Lewis Smith, Keiko Kiriyama, Stephen Edwards, and our own detective work into the authorship of The Twin Soul (1887) 🔍
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Journal Home - Victoriographies Home
www.euppublishing.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
‘Marie’ Christmas, Victorianists!
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited ‘Marie Corelli Reconsidered’, a special issue of Victoriographies.
It features @janetteleaf.bsky.social Adam Lewis Smith, Keiko Kiriyama, Stephen Edwards, and our own detective work into the authorship of The Twin Soul (1887) 🔍
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited ‘Marie Corelli Reconsidered’, a special issue of Victoriographies.
It features @janetteleaf.bsky.social Adam Lewis Smith, Keiko Kiriyama, Stephen Edwards, and our own detective work into the authorship of The Twin Soul (1887) 🔍
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Oxford academics aim to ban university use of secret lawsuits.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Oxford academics aim to ban university use of secret lawsuits - Research Professional News
Motion to governing body raises concern over important decisions being made “behind closed doors”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Oxford academics aim to ban university use of secret lawsuits.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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It's an amazing feeling, being part of something that only one or two people have read, until December 4th, when you get your chance to read what I've been banging on about for months and months and months.
Link to order below:
Link to order below:
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
It's an amazing feeling, being part of something that only one or two people have read, until December 4th, when you get your chance to read what I've been banging on about for months and months and months.
Link to order below:
Link to order below:
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.