@lancasteruni.bsky.social Fabulous as your campus was, not much point pitching to my daughter if you're threatening to cut 1 in 5 academic jobs. Sorry, thought you should know.

Wow, massively overworked lecturers. This is KCL? Well, that just moved down the list for my son's consideration. (Note: aforementioned list is NOT hypothetical.)

Rescued the Northanger Abbey "horrid novels" from the basement of the uni library and my mission is to read them all during my sabbatical...might start with a short one 🤣

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Is… “Too often people go to university to explore research and knowledge” …the single most stupid thing a member of the cabinet has ever said?

Oh the delight of seeing Alixion (or Alison as we came to calling it due to autocorrect) on the new DWM. Brilliant news for Robin.

"Anybody remotely interesting is mad in someway or another" #DoctorWho Magazine speaks to the writer of ALIXION about reviving this lost Seventh Doctor adventure on audio! Read a preview on the website 👀 bbc.in/4mbeKdj

The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine – Issue 620 – heads back to the 1990s with its cover story, as a lost Seventh Doctor adventure, Alixion, by Robin Mukherjee, is revived as an audio drama

'Alixion' from @bigfinish.bsky.social. An interesting one this. Some delicious concepts and thoughtful emotional beats. I can definitely imagine this on tv in season 27. Love the character of Colin and the music/sound design is particularly brilliant. Very good indeed. :)

Writer Robin Mukherjee discusses Big Finish producing his "lost" Doctor Who TV story, "Alixion," from the Seventh Doctor's era, as an audio drama. / #DoctorWho #BigFinish

High-ranking, STEM-friendly Imperial should be one of the LOUDEST voices in any argument that Education = Earnings. This seems an extraordinarily meagre offer.

Publishing today! Ghosts and the Gothic, edited by @ruthheholt.bsky.social and @joparsons.bsky.social The first book to examine ghostly presences (and absences) in #Gothic texts bit.ly/3I59Uzy #Ghosts #GothicStudies Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/

OUT NOW! 🫧 The Seventh Doctor and Ace finally visit the spa on Alixion, 26 years after they were originally supposed to. 🫧 Click https://bgfn.sh/7spa to listen to the brand-new Doctor Who Lost Story. 🫧

I know I bang on about this all the time but fuck it. This is the information crisis, right here, happening in Nate Silver's brain. The concept of "credentialism" comes out of the vibe we get that we know loads about stuff because we read a wikipedia article and *maybe even followed the links*.

Re souvenirs: At the Olympic Museum in Lausanne recently (caught the wrong bus in Bath), I witnessed a mother and child in the gift shop. Child presents mother with mascot plush. Mother upends it, views price tag. "Ah, NON!" That was me most of the weekend in Switzerland. Lovely place, tho.

WARNING! 🪲 Don't listen to this if you suffer from entomophobia. 🪲 Click bgfn.sh/7spa to pre-order the Doctor Who Lost Story, Alixion, due for release later this month!

Can I watch it, yet? How about now? How about now? ...

What’s the name of the condition where a large % of those you feel cheerful to see are either dead authors or academics you’ve never met IRL?

Sometimes I feel I’m standing outside, pressed against the window of my life, with only the foggy glass to prove I was here at all.

Rails are great. Going off the rails is great. The only mistake is ever trying to force everything back on the rails.

...(All together:) "TOO LATE!"...

Right, that's 6 hours’ sleep (incl. interval), time to get back at it. This inattention isn’t going to distract itself, y'know.

Well, I've reached the anxiety point of the overwork cycle, so I'm going to snuggle up with some literary theory and bore my eyes to sleep.

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage. Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants. Don't fall for it.

It's a copyediting day.

Amazing how such small numbers have been identified as the voice of the nation when, for comparison, 100,000 turned out for trans pride last month in London.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social please tell BBC News we’re sick of 4 MP Party Reform being rammed down our throats daily with drivel like this👇🏼report The @libdems.org.uk have 72 MPs, Greens 4, SNP 9 but they don’t get a look in 🤷🏼‍♂️ Soon BBC News will report what Farage has for breakfast 🙄

yes this. some of it is because... it *is* unrealistic for all kids to imagine themselves in the 'hero' role in film, music, fashion. not everyone is going to be a movie star. but there are a bloody lot of jobs on a TV/film set (and *certainly* in games) that aren't 'be the star'.

Wants.

I found this on Bluesky and I think it's an excellent reminder of how toxic and deceitful Farage and his pals are.

Briefly dropped in at a university #Clearing centre earlier, just to feel the hubbub. Closest I'll ever get to being in an NFL 'war room' on draft day. Good luck to anyone still looking for their next step... there's always a route.

Congratulated myself for rearranging the office shelves so everything fits. Miraculous! Just noticed a not insignificant amount of @katemossewriter.bsky.social hiding under the piano.

We need your help! The East Anglian Folklore Centre is having a fundraiser. We desperately want to keep our space open and have achieved so much this last year. But for it to continue we need your support. As little as 50p and a share would mean the world. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

He missed the comedy potential. 'Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it!' – HHGG. 'It slid forward, crushing the frantic penguins' = unintended hilarity from HPL. 'Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna / Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe' = my fave childhood nonsense.

News outlets are under no obligation to report press releases, so publishing this article was a choice. Perhaps if the BBC didn’t feel the need to pump out garbage so fast that they can’t distinguish the possessive “its” from the contraction “it’s,” they would avoid giving Altman free advertising.

Venice | Toronto | New York

Hey... I made a proper film with Adrian Towell. I get to be a talking head (the dream) Come explore Byron's life and poetry at Newstead Abbey with us www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v_3...

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

We're looking for a fiction writer to teach Creative Writing half-time on our BA and MA at the University of Bristol next year. Details: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... Please share!

Stayed late at the university library today. Not *my* university library, obviously – that closes at 5pm sharp. That said, my university has the cleanest toilets in Britain, while today’s... [*shudders*] Remember, folks, there are no perfect universities.

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

I started late with glasses. Ten years in, I still forget, and steam up every time I open the oven. Every. Damn. Time.

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

"Artificial Intelligence will have an impact ten times greater than that of the Industrial Revolution," says somebody whose only knowledge of the Industrial Revolution must come from Artificial Intelligence.

My beloved private school closed in 1982. Bloody Starmer!

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

The one of the right – font and tracking – is basically early-2000s Apple marketing. I think I saw an ad aping the 'Mac vs PC' campaign recently. We've looped that fast?

This is especially true of module titles, where managers often think these should be cryptically exciting, but students just want to know what the module is about.

I really think universities underestimate how true this is for a lot of students and their parents. They don’t want us to try to pretend to be cool. They want us to be a bit dusty, and very serious. Enthusiastic, definitely! But also nerdy. We’re selling them ACADEMIA.