Peter Adkins
@peteradkins.bsky.social
Lecturer in Modernism at University of Edinburgh | Author of 'The Modernist Anthropocene' and editor of 'Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene' | Judge of James Tait Black Prize in Fiction | Views here not necessarily those of my employer etc etc | He/him
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We are now accepting proposals from scholars interested in applying for the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships program in 2026. This is a great program for early career (<8 yrs from PhD) scholars to be with @greenhouseuis.net for 2 years on own project.
www.uis.no/en/research/...
www.uis.no/en/research/...
January 16, 2026 at 10:56 AM
We are now accepting proposals from scholars interested in applying for the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships program in 2026. This is a great program for early career (<8 yrs from PhD) scholars to be with @greenhouseuis.net for 2 years on own project.
www.uis.no/en/research/...
www.uis.no/en/research/...
Starting Friday by tuning into the second day of the excellent Early Petropoetics conference. Papers from @tobahjoy.bsky.social on Shell's collaboration with British artists and Bettina Egger on petropoetics in early comic strips.
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Starting Friday by tuning into the second day of the excellent Early Petropoetics conference. Papers from @tobahjoy.bsky.social on Shell's collaboration with British artists and Bettina Egger on petropoetics in early comic strips.
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Imagine this... and then realising that it doesn't even fund the HE system properly anyway. One of the worst Public Policy Disasters in decades. Willetts and Osborne have obvs dined out on it and gone on to great success tho. That's Britain, always failing upwards! 🇬🇧
This is clearly depressing and radicalising in a way a tax wouldn't have been.
January 15, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Imagine this... and then realising that it doesn't even fund the HE system properly anyway. One of the worst Public Policy Disasters in decades. Willetts and Osborne have obvs dined out on it and gone on to great success tho. That's Britain, always failing upwards! 🇬🇧
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Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...
Hundreds of staff leave Edinburgh University amid cuts drive
According to the university, 345 of these departures were the result of a targeted voluntary severance (VS) scheme run by the institution in 2025.
www.heraldscotland.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:36 AM
Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...
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Some professional news: I'm now hiring two postdocs to be part of the research project I'm leading on global republicanism and the making of democratic cultures in the early 19th century. If you know someone for whom this may be relevant, don't hesitate to let them know.
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
2 Postdoctoral positions in Intellectual History at the Department of History - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kultur og Samfund - Historie, fag, Aarhus Universitet
www.au.dk
January 13, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Some professional news: I'm now hiring two postdocs to be part of the research project I'm leading on global republicanism and the making of democratic cultures in the early 19th century. If you know someone for whom this may be relevant, don't hesitate to let them know.
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
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Final call! 🔔 Register to attend New Work in Modernist Studies 15 by 5pm this evening - we have an exciting array of papers covering identities, ecologies, readerships, travel, gossip and silence. Sign up here: forms.gle/BjALZ5Ukapzu...
Full programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Full programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
January 7, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Final call! 🔔 Register to attend New Work in Modernist Studies 15 by 5pm this evening - we have an exciting array of papers covering identities, ecologies, readerships, travel, gossip and silence. Sign up here: forms.gle/BjALZ5Ukapzu...
Full programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Full programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
We're ALSO looking for a poet! Two years, part time teaching post in a friendly department.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ075/t...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ075/t...
October 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
We're ALSO looking for a poet! Two years, part time teaching post in a friendly department.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ075/t...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ075/t...
What a line-up!
We’re picking up right where we left off as the 2025 Fall Term Woolf Seminar Series gets underway!
All seminars will be held online and conducted in English.
Registration details will be shared ahead of each talk. Stay tuned! #virginiawoolf #woolfseminars
All seminars will be held online and conducted in English.
Registration details will be shared ahead of each talk. Stay tuned! #virginiawoolf #woolfseminars
October 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
What a line-up!
We're hiring! Come and join a friendly department in the Scottish capital. A two year part-time contract in Creative Writing (Prose): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY206/t...
Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Prose) at The University of Edinburgh
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Prose) on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We're hiring! Come and join a friendly department in the Scottish capital. A two year part-time contract in Creative Writing (Prose): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY206/t...
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Exciting opportunity here for doctoral students with funding for travel.
Click here to apply: www.uis.no/en/research/...
#EnvHum #Petrocultures
Click here to apply: www.uis.no/en/research/...
#EnvHum #Petrocultures
September 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Exciting opportunity here for doctoral students with funding for travel.
Click here to apply: www.uis.no/en/research/...
#EnvHum #Petrocultures
Click here to apply: www.uis.no/en/research/...
#EnvHum #Petrocultures
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NUJ protest in Edinburgh tomorrow in response to the targeted killing by Israel of the Al Jazeera journalists Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Noufal - 6 pm, outside Waverley Station.
August 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
NUJ protest in Edinburgh tomorrow in response to the targeted killing by Israel of the Al Jazeera journalists Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Noufal - 6 pm, outside Waverley Station.
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We are recruiting!
An exciting new opportunity has opened up here at Gladstone’s Library.
We are looking to recruit an Archivist who will work in the Library’s busy Reading Rooms. Working in a team of five, this role is a mix of public-facing and office-based work.
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An exciting new opportunity has opened up here at Gladstone’s Library.
We are looking to recruit an Archivist who will work in the Library’s busy Reading Rooms. Working in a team of five, this role is a mix of public-facing and office-based work.
1/3
August 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We are recruiting!
An exciting new opportunity has opened up here at Gladstone’s Library.
We are looking to recruit an Archivist who will work in the Library’s busy Reading Rooms. Working in a team of five, this role is a mix of public-facing and office-based work.
1/3
An exciting new opportunity has opened up here at Gladstone’s Library.
We are looking to recruit an Archivist who will work in the Library’s busy Reading Rooms. Working in a team of five, this role is a mix of public-facing and office-based work.
1/3
Does anyone want a free month's premium subscription to @edinburghminute.bsky.social? Got some promo codes when I signed up!
August 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Does anyone want a free month's premium subscription to @edinburghminute.bsky.social? Got some promo codes when I signed up!
Rereading Woolf's 1917 diary and finding myself tickled once again by the anecdote in which she and Desmond McCarthy stay up late trying to vocalise the cat's "Mrkgnao" in Joyce's Ulysses (she can't have disliked it *quite* as much as she professed).
July 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Rereading Woolf's 1917 diary and finding myself tickled once again by the anecdote in which she and Desmond McCarthy stay up late trying to vocalise the cat's "Mrkgnao" in Joyce's Ulysses (she can't have disliked it *quite* as much as she professed).
Exciting day to see what the postman has for me.
July 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Exciting day to see what the postman has for me.
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Lots of bad solutions proposed for UK universities in the press:
Limit research to Oxford and Cambridge, curb VC pay, teach more “efficiently” etc
But
1. Fees have flatlined meaning they don’t cover the costs of
2. the massive loans that VCs took out for buildings when unis were privatized.
1/
Limit research to Oxford and Cambridge, curb VC pay, teach more “efficiently” etc
But
1. Fees have flatlined meaning they don’t cover the costs of
2. the massive loans that VCs took out for buildings when unis were privatized.
1/
July 18, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Lots of bad solutions proposed for UK universities in the press:
Limit research to Oxford and Cambridge, curb VC pay, teach more “efficiently” etc
But
1. Fees have flatlined meaning they don’t cover the costs of
2. the massive loans that VCs took out for buildings when unis were privatized.
1/
Limit research to Oxford and Cambridge, curb VC pay, teach more “efficiently” etc
But
1. Fees have flatlined meaning they don’t cover the costs of
2. the massive loans that VCs took out for buildings when unis were privatized.
1/
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we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already
Oxford University and @cam.ac.uk have each received a £6.25 million gift to expand their outreach work with socio-economically disadvantaged students in STEM subjects.
Find out more ⬇️
Find out more ⬇️
Joint donation to Oxford and Cambridge helps young people overcome
The University of Oxford has received a £6.25 million gift to expand its outreach work with socio-economically disadvantaged students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
www.ox.ac.uk
July 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already
Quoth the raven, "baguette".
July 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Quoth the raven, "baguette".
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Reporter: “Why do you think so many countries and governments around the world are just ignoring what’s happening in Gaza?”
Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”
Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”
This is how.
Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
June 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Reporter: “Why do you think so many countries and governments around the world are just ignoring what’s happening in Gaza?”
Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”
Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”
This #modwrite I am trying to be super organised by starting my paper on fossil fuel in The Voyage Out for the Woolf conference in Sussex next month. Will I actually get it written early for once?
June 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This #modwrite I am trying to be super organised by starting my paper on fossil fuel in The Voyage Out for the Woolf conference in Sussex next month. Will I actually get it written early for once?