Five classes I took at uni? Hard to choose!

Celtic Civ.
Cosmology & Culture
Early Gaelic Lit
Northern Britons 5th-12th Cen.
Intro Archaeology

Quick shout out for an awesome database of the Pictish symbol stones: outreach.mathstat.strath.ac.uk/outreach/pic... (doesn't have those only found in recent years, but incredible resource nonetheless.)

Thanks. Added to bibliography right after "The feminine Christ in Bede’s Biblical Commentaries" (Arthur G. Holder) and a couple of Ally Kateusz's papers that touch on similar depictions.

From my TBR (so haven't read yet):
Helga the Fair - S. J. Taylor (MG; forthcoming June2026)
Hild - Nicola Griffith (don't know how much is "remote" exactly)

(I have that feeling I'm going to think of ten more the moment I post and go away. 😅)

Love the art! (in case of interest re: Celtic knotwork and other patterns, I think some of George Bain's breakdowns/instructions are available online now, and Cynthia Thickpenny has more recently done work analyzing how the key patterns work and transition.)

I would 100% watch a heartwarming animated movie about a curious gosling having adventures lost in Pictland and trying to find its goose family flock again while all these Pictish history things play out in the background! 😂🥰

YA heist! Sounds super fun. (And I love the saving their families from eviction motivation--I already want to know what happens!)

(the quote is from Glasgow Uni's website btw)

(which may be why post-doc listings sometimes say PhD as in, you need to *be* a PhD holder already, not a pre-doc/ PhD *student*).

Anyway, that's what I've pieced together over the years. Open to corrections/details if others know more.

I hope that helps at least a little. 😅

5/5

Out of the larger pool of post-grads those attempting to attain a PhD could be termed pre-doctoral students because they don't yet have their doctorate; contrast to post-docs who now have their doctorate.

4/

As I understand it, post-grads is a large catch-all for degree programmes after undergraduate (bachelors, honours/masters see above, etc) that might cover masters/PhD/others. 3/

I don't know if there's others offering masters that are not post-graduate besides those 4 unis. But I happened to know about them.

"A note on names: At Glasgow (and the other three ancient universities in Scotland), an Honours level degree in the Arts is called a Master of Arts (MA) .... These should not be confused with the Master of Arts offered by some universities in England, which refers to a postgraduate qualification."

"never heard of"... or possibly already read about obsessively and gone to very niche talks about! 😂
I still want to go in person some day! No matter how many pictures and 3d models you look at, there's always an added dimension to seeing something in person, moving in the space, hearing its echoes.

Oh no! Did it crash into the wall or did it land on the grass? I hope it didn't sustain too much damage (besides the obvious with the break at the base).

Have you read/heard Ira Glass on "the gap"? I've heard people expand on this further, but here's the less-than-2min version if you're interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=91FQ... I keep coming back to this when I'm utterly discouraged by my own writing still not measuring up to where I want it to be.

Where are you seeing a possible book? I just thought they were holding each other by the wrist?

They want us to feel overwhelmed and helpless in the face of all this. A huge barrage of awfulness right out of the gate. It's part of the plan.

So part of resistance is just deciding to hope anyway.

🫂