Wishing everyone peace and love during this festive season 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️❤️❤️❤️❤️💫

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Never can these words tire from being read. #Poetry #EmilyDickinson ❤️💫

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Pleased to have been part of this call for evidence, with others in EA #FE community. Good English as a specialist subject addressed as well as cross- college provision of essential literacy & oracy skills in ITE programmes for all. Dual professional role in FE needs more considered attention. ⬇️

With the number of children living homeless in England at an historic high, new research shows 52% of teachers in England have worked with children living in temporary accommodation in the last year schoolsweek.co.uk/52-of-teache...

📣📣 “If the government is serious about improving the current system, they should prioritise granting refugees permanent status sooner. This will reduce Home Office bureaucracy, save public money and improve social cohesion.” RAMFEL's Nick Beales in @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Please I’m begging be careful what you repost. Some good tips here. Assume anything online could be AI at this point. (Especially if it’s meant to evoke a strong emotion or reaction. yes this includes cute animal photos/videos).

Alan Milburn is calling for a ‘movement’ to address the lost generation of young people not earning or learning, according to @fenews.bsky.social as his investigation into the causes of record unemployment and inactivity among 16 to 24 year olds opens. www.fenews.co.uk/skills/alan-...

#PoemsAbout #Money drops Friday. Write the debt buried under glitter. Buy-now-regret-later. Bank balance versus belonging. Tag it right. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Get prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

His latest book, which was published at the end of November, is the second in a series of short stories. ‘As The Sky With Stars - Tales From The North’ is set in Manchester, Lancashire and the northern hills, with Mike asking ‘what makes a story northern?’...

Join us this Thursday for a special evening with poet and Portico member Mike Harding as he shares stories from his latest books as a fundraiser for Reuniting the Portico Library...

Open up the window for today's #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase advent calendar and you'll find the funny festive poem 'Just Doing my Job' by Clare Bevan ⚔️ ✨ 🎄 Enjoy the humour and see if you can bring out the comic punchline in your performance of this poem! poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/just-d...

Thank you majority: "According to the most recent edition of an annual Harris Poll, for the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy." You're right.

Help shape our work 👋 We’re looking for people with lived experience of the asylum system in the UK to join our first Voices by Experience Advisory Panel. Find out more about the volunteer role at www.refugeesathome.org/jobs

Sign up for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social own Susan Allen Ford's Deirdre Le Faye memorial lecture, hosted online by Chawton house! chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/onl...

Newest paperback entry in our Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities series now on the website! 'Unsettling Extinction' (ed. Roman Bartosch, Ursula Heise & Kate Rigby) presents cutting-edge work on species extinction across the environmental humanities. www.bloomsbury.com/unsettling-e...

Just published today from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - the latest addition to our medical humanities series: 'A Cultural History of Vertigo': www.bloomsbury.com/cultural-his... with a lovely blurb from @travisclau.bsky.social

We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.

We don’t have to be stuck with bullsh*t like meta. We left twitter/x; we can find or build a new platform for what meta offers, right? I’m right now looking at @hardcover.app as an alt to Goodreads—and @shepherdbooks.bsky.social too. People are building alts. We gotta make a better world.

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

What's the Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research? I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...

"Reading is vast, like the sea, but you can dip into it anywhere and be refreshed. Reading takes you into other minds and makes them part of your own. Reading releases you from the limits of yourself. Reading is freedom. Now read on." RIP, John Carey.

This year was hard, but you chose welcome. When fear got louder, you showed up and turned care into action. You stood beside people rebuilding their lives. People like you are the much-needed hope in the road ahead. We keep going together. Share this and tell us what “welcome” means to you.

NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era #drama #theatre #Shakespeare #performance #adaptation #appropriation #historicism #empire #culture #materialism #TeamEnglish #renaissance #bardolatry #postcolonial #woke #socialjustice #theory #queer www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DQYB2TS5

"In almost every region, the top 1% was wealthier than the bottom 90% combined, the report found, with wealth inequality increasing rapidly around the world." #wealthtax #yachts #socialism #capitalism www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

On racial justice & equity “those academics,activists & campaigners who have already fought battles & had arguments from which we should learn & build upon. I would like to see greater integration & connection with what we plan to do today & tomorrow informed by what happened yesterday.” N Rollock ⬇️

Watching Refaat was a reminder of why I do what I do. Teaching storytelling is powerful, sacred act. And a great responsibility. A duty that must be fulfilled with courage, humility and care

I taught Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire (edited Jehad Abusalim et al, 2022) yesterday. The supplementary texts included this TED talk by Refaat Alareer thanks to which my students have discovered his lecture videos. Looking forward to their essays youtu.be/YsbEjldJjOw?...

Do you know why reading a screen and a physical piece of paper differs? Or why handwriting is processed differently to typing? Or how multiple-choice quizzes are poorer for memory than narrative answers? Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath explains all www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

⚖️ 🌍 On Human Rights Day, explore a range of materials from the archives of the world’s largest humanitarian network. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 1919-1997: Widening the Range of Our Digital Archives. https://ow.ly/G9xA50XzYpC

#ReadPalestine Day 5 #AMapofHome by Randa Jarrar is a stunning, brave, brash, poignant, hilarious, all-together brilliant novel. If revolution is powered by joy (and vice versa) this book shows how revolutions are intimate, personal, familial and public. All at once!

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“The winners find courage, empathy and delight in places and moments where these seem entirely impossible” (S Singh June 2025 The Bookseller) This year’s #JhalakPrize submissions close 12th December,folk! THE prize you want your authors/illustrators entered in. www.jhalakprize.com/terms-and-co...

#ReadPalestine Day 7 Refaat Alareer’s #IfIMustDie brings together the work of an incisive, intrepid and infinitely curious mind. I can’t read this stunning volume without mourning all the work he never had a chance to write

New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion. It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops

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Nominations are open for the newly-founded Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize, administered by the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature and awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. £300 prize. ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...

You can see more about us and our research themes on our website. If your research speaks to our thematic programmes of #Generativity #ImageAndLanguage #BeingHuman #SyntheticWorlds especially in ways that blend & cross disciplines, please take a look (2/3) leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk

Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Feeling frustrated about hostile immigration policy & want to take action? Here’s your chance 👀 For 7 days, donations to Bail for Immigration Detainees are doubled! Every £1 becomes £2 towards free legal advice, helping people get out of detention ⬇️ donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

It's nearly that time again! Join hundreds of festive sightseers for a seasonal poetry reading and the illumination of the Christmas Tree at Trafalgar Square this Thursday 4 December, 5:30pm - 6:30pm. The event is free to attend, no tickets necessary. 🎄 Photo: Hayley Madden

Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.

Hope is here. Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️

In the 20 odd years since I last saw this play, I have bathed in doom enough to find Godot hilarious and devastating in equal measure. This production was extraordinary, and will stay with me for life. If you get the chance to see it, take it. Thank you to @alexwinter.com & co.💙

Even after the mansion tax is applied, the owner of a £5m home in Westminster will pay proportionately less in property tax than the owner of a £210k Band B property in Sunderland.

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The RSPB has been researching exactly the grim irony I explore in my book: disappearing birds’ popularity in road names. @rspb.bsky.social, in The Cuckoo’s Lea, you’ll discover how old bird names did it properly! #PlaceNames #birdsandplace @deborahmeaden.bsky.social @dramirkhangp.bsky.social

I had so much fun collaborating with New Scientist on this article!