Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh 🚲 🌳🗻🎨✍️

‘walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch’
-Billy Collins
Feeling my way into meaning makes sense to me
#PoetryHelps

I like this beautiful poem from the latest @newyorker.com

Spring is showing up and I am elated 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

Some joy in the midst of a week dominated by grief and rage

Friendship Anthology: Launch Join us for an online launch of an anthology by care experienced young people on the theme of friendship.

Please come to our online launch of the Friendship Anthology 31st March www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friendship...

Media must stop normalizing the far right Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences.

Media must stop normalizing the far right
Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences

www.politico.eu/article/medi...

For folks in Edinburgh:

Colleagues at Edinburgh Napier are still under threat of compulsory redundancy.

There is a rally in front of the Scottish Parliament, Thursday 5 March 10:30am for 11:00am start.

We're crushing a sector that supports our city and region. Why?

Collage with a realistic looking green plant with yellow flower against a black background

Oenothera Biennis, Common Tree Primrose. 1781, collage by Mary Delany (1700-1788),known for her botanical flower collages or 'paper-mosaicks' #WomensArt

‘Treat us fairly’: skilled workers face having their dream of settling in UK snatched away As government mulls doubling requirement to 10 years, the uncertainty is putting many who came to Britain to work under strain

The inverse correlation between the pointless cruelty and quality of life & economic promise in the UK:

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Thursday 2nd April Day of Co-Creation Join us for a day of events celebrating collaboration and creativity - zine-making, creative writing and more! Browse and register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/day-of-co-creation-4808673

✨Join us for a Day of Co-Creation!✨

On 2nd April we're hosting a day of creative, participatory research events: climate‑anxiety writing, community archive zine‑making, and a book launch on artist‑researcher collaboration (4:30pm)

Join one session or the whole day! edin.ac/3Mx3Qly

Looking back, Looking Forth – Climate Anxiety and the Archives Join Rhiannon Bull to write about your experiences of climate change, prompted by materials from the School of Scottish Studies Archives.

Looking Back, Looking Forth: Climate Anxiety & the Archives at 11am - Explore climate anxiety through collaborative writing with Rhiannon Bull, drawing on historic materials from the Scottish Studies Archives during this creative co‑creation event: writeclimate.eventbrite.co.uk

Making Knowledge Together: Exploring community archives through zine-making An interactive zine workshop with the Poverty Truth Community and Dr Emma Davidson of the Binks Hub.

Making Knowledge Together: Exploring community archives through zine-making at 2pm - A hands‑on zine workshop led by the Poverty Truth Community team, inviting participants to creatively engage with archives and reflect on archiving as a research method: making.eventbrite.co.uk

A Field Guide to Artist-Researcher Collaborations: Book Launch A creative launch of a creative book about creative collaborations: celebrate the publication from the Binks Hub and Outwith at the Library.

Book Launch: A Field Guide to Artist-Researcher Collaborations at 4:30pm - Join us to celebrate the launch of a brand new field guide with a fun, hands‑on event exploring creative methods for collaborating ethically with artists: fieldguide.eventbrite.co.uk

Charisma without routinization, or how tech entrepreneurs turn into tech oligarchs Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

"figures who continue to command allegiance even in the absence of demonstrable success"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Need to read more closely but seems like strategy that only works for certain categories of people. Also makes think of how women's competence is weaponised against them.

Welcome back to my garden beautiful bumble

Monochrome photograph featuring two women climbing on a rock face with ropes both wearing long dresses and hats

Rock climbers Lucy Smith and Pauline Rankin of the Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club, 1908, Salisbury Crags, Scotland #WomensArt
Welcome to #WomensHistoryMonth

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Sad the media culture is obsessed with negativity - they don’t know what news is unless it is bad news so they must find something dirty and dark. But like you keep saying, there are many wonderful people who care - there are reasons to be hopeful even if the media don’t want to talk about that.

Perfection from Ada Limón
#PoetryHelps

Environmental action can improve wellbeing in Scotland If fairness is built in from the start, environmental action can cut bills, improve homes, and reduce food insecurity in Scotland

"Hunger and hardship are part of everyday life for too many people in Scotland. Trussell’s previous ‘Hunger in Scotland’ research estimated that in 2024, 1 million people across Scotland, including 210,000 children, lived in food insecure households."

Scientists face fallout for past associations with Epstein Jack Horner, who was a consultant for the Jurassic Park films, is among the researchers whose work or careers have been affected because of revelations from newly released documents.

Pity Nature couldn't be bothered to interrogate the structured misogyny that underpins these examples. A list is not an analysis.

Wow

Amen

Beautiful carrots,
one of the simple joys of life 🥕🥕

Great thread - always on the hunt for images I can use in teaching

Mitsy has a new spot 🐈‍⬛🖤

Collage exploring friendship and love

📣New on our blog!

@aroeschmarsh.bsky.social explores why friendship matters and why care-experienced young people often face barriers to connection.

Read about her creative project, new resources and what’s coming next: edin.ac/4aRsvcK

Friendship is a lifeline 💛

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VACANCY: 2 x Lecturer in Sociology with a focus on...

1. 'race' & anti-racism
2. political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class)

£42-58k, apply by 3 March.
www.linkedin.com/posts/the-un...

FINAL DEADLINE THIS WEEK - If you're interested in submitting a piece of creative writing on #climatechange to help this @glasgow.ac.uk research, you have until 28th February 🌏✏️

#AcademicSky @uoe-sps.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @byleaveswelive.bsky.social

Beyond the Youth Worker: Why Families Are the Missing Link in Youth Work - Centre for Research on Families and Relationships Olivia Darby discusses their recent research on youth work and family engagement. The WONDER Foundation works in over 20 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America to empower women and gi...

Back in January, Olivia Darby from the WONDER Foundation wrote this piece for @crfr.bsky.social on why famlies are the missing link in #youthwork:

Beyond the Youth Worker: Why Families Are the Missing Link in Youth Work: edin.ac/49SCiQg