Frank Cogliano
@frankcogliano.bsky.social
Professor of American History, University of Edinburgh. Author (with Peter S. Onuf) of Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours (Liveright, 2026).
Not going to lie, the annual #Franksgiving talk/toast is always the most stressful performance of the year. When you lecture you can recycle material - there's always a new group. With this, I have to come up with new material every time because the core group is the same.
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Not going to lie, the annual #Franksgiving talk/toast is always the most stressful performance of the year. When you lecture you can recycle material - there's always a new group. With this, I have to come up with new material every time because the core group is the same.
Annual reminder: if you're not in a place where Thanksgiving is celebrated at the end of November there's no reason to succumb to Black Friday nonsense. It's just Friday ...
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Annual reminder: if you're not in a place where Thanksgiving is celebrated at the end of November there's no reason to succumb to Black Friday nonsense. It's just Friday ...
Franksgiving: Come for dinner, suffer through a PowerPoint presentation first ...
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Franksgiving: Come for dinner, suffer through a PowerPoint presentation first ...
Highlight of tonight's broadcast: Ally McCoist talking about cricket.
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Highlight of tonight's broadcast: Ally McCoist talking about cricket.
Congratulations Chris Bates who received his doctorate today at the @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social graduation! Well done Dr Bates!
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Congratulations Chris Bates who received his doctorate today at the @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social graduation! Well done Dr Bates!
I'm old enough to remember when the principal of the university attended graduation.
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I'm old enough to remember when the principal of the university attended graduation.
Frankly, I find the whole, "Scotland is the greatest country in the world" discourse annoying. But then ... (All taken in the past 24 hrs.)
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Frankly, I find the whole, "Scotland is the greatest country in the world" discourse annoying. But then ... (All taken in the past 24 hrs.)
Reposted by Frank Cogliano
Job alert! 🚨 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Edinburgh Uni to work w/a team of historians on a new project, Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana, which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Job alert! 🚨 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Edinburgh Uni to work w/a team of historians on a new project, Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana, which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
We're on the verge of a "reply all" cascade. God help us all.
November 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
We're on the verge of a "reply all" cascade. God help us all.
Liverpool-Nottingham Forest
a man in a suit and tie is laughing while sitting at a table .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is laughing while sitting at a table .
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Liverpool-Nottingham Forest
Friday at 4 pm is the perfect time to start work on a new book, right? (Actually, starting work on a proposal for a new book.)
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Friday at 4 pm is the perfect time to start work on a new book, right? (Actually, starting work on a proposal for a new book.)
#BellaDogliano facing the new (very frosty) day. 🥶
November 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
#BellaDogliano facing the new (very frosty) day. 🥶
Reposted by Frank Cogliano
Does he even own a suit?
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Does he even own a suit?
Reposted by Frank Cogliano
"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn."
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Less than Greggs? Public have no idea of value of top universities, study finds
Belief that snack chain’s revenues exceed those of Oxford’s one of many misconceptions about UK’s HE sector
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn."
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
The cheering for each Scotland goal tonight shook our block of flats and rolled around Lochrin Basin. On nights like this it's great to live in the centre of the city.
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The cheering for each Scotland goal tonight shook our block of flats and rolled around Lochrin Basin. On nights like this it's great to live in the centre of the city.
Reposted by Frank Cogliano
Reposted by Frank Cogliano
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
Authors' photo.
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Authors' photo.
I miss real tickets but Bob really delivered last night. Still getting it done at 84. (The phone ban works and Glasgow crowds never disappoint.)
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I miss real tickets but Bob really delivered last night. Still getting it done at 84. (The phone ban works and Glasgow crowds never disappoint.)
Reposted by Frank Cogliano
The sound you hear is of cricketers all over the world laughing forever.
November 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The sound you hear is of cricketers all over the world laughing forever.
It's only been two days and I'm done with the Ken Burns "discourse." Watch it, don't watch it. I don't care. I'm muting you all.
November 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It's only been two days and I'm done with the Ken Burns "discourse." Watch it, don't watch it. I don't care. I'm muting you all.