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Peter Adkins

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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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Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · Oct 9

We're ALSO looking for a poet! Two years, part time teaching post in a friendly department.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ075/t...

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Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · Oct 7

What a line-up!

TR Virginia Woolf Topluluğu - Virginia Woolf Society of Turkey @vwoolfturkiye.bsky.social · Oct 3

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

Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · Oct 7

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

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Katie Ritson @untamed.bsky.social · Sep 17

Exciting opportunity here for doctoral students with funding for travel.
Click here to apply: www.uis.no/en/research/...

#EnvHum #Petrocultures

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Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social · Aug 11

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.

Poster, reading:

ISRAEL, STOP KILLING PALESTINIAN JOURNALISTS

On Sunday, Al-Jazeera journalists and media workers Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Noufal were deliberately targeted and killed by Israel.

Join the Edinburgh & District branch of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) to demand an end to Israeli attacks on journalists, a complete embargo on UK arms exports to Israel, and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Tuesday 12th August 2025, 6pm
East End of Princes Street (opposite Waverley Station)

NUJ Edinburgh & District Branch

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · Aug 8

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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Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · Aug 5

Ah, that makes it even more interesting and entertaining!

Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · Aug 5

We had a virtual screening and discussion of the film with Nariman at Crude Representations. It is *so* good! Apparently DT could see the oil tankers from his childhood bedroom window arriving at Llandarcy. So it's only fitting he'd be sent to Abadan!

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Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · Aug 4

Does anyone want a free month's premium subscription to @edinburghminute.bsky.social? Got some promo codes when I signed up!

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Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · Jul 23

I love the idea that there might be a Triestine easter egg (so to speak) smuggled within the cat's miaow.

Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thanks for the clarification - deleting my original post at risk of spreading misinformation.

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Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · Jul 23

I had never even considered this, but it tracks!

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Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · Jul 22

I always have to try to make the sound aloud when I read it!

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Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · Jul 22

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).

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Sean Seeger @sean-seeger.bsky.social · Jul 11

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 The Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex is looking to hire both a fixed-term Lecturer in Literature and a fixed-term Lecturer in Theatre Studies. For full details about each post, see the link below. vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

vacancies.essex.ac.uk

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Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · Jul 18

Exciting day to see what the postman has for me.

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · Jul 18

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.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jul 17

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

University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Jul 17

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 ⬇️

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

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Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · Jul 17

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Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag

Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation

www.theguardian.com

Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · Jul 16

Quoth the raven, "baguette".

Photo of a raven on a window railing with half of a baguette in its beak.

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · Jun 11

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.”

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Jun 11

This is how.

Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

Reporter: How did the Israelis treat you, we saw them giving sandwiches?
Greta Thunberg: They probably have posted lots of PR stunts, they did an illegal act by kidnapping us in international waters but that’s not the real story here. The real story is the genocide in Gaza and systematic starvation.
Reporter: Are you worried about the others?
Greta: Yes…I’m calling for everyone who can to mobilize to demand their immediate release and, of course, to demand not only humanitarian aid being let into Gaza but also a ceasefire and most importantly an end to the occupation, an end to the systemic oppression and violence that Palestinians are facing on an everyday basis.
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.”

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Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · Jun 10

Congrats! Can't wait to read it!

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Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · Jun 9

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?

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · Jun 5

We have a new review on the BSLS website: Aaron Scott Pugh reviews Sebastian P. Klinger's Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899-1929 (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/06/klin...)

Klinger, Sebastian P., Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899-1929 – The British Society for Literature and Science

www.bsls.ac.uk

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