Doing life-admin by filling in my details on the new luggage tags I bought in Liverpool last weekend 😁

Farewell old blue sofa. You were a bargain buy and gave us 13 years of good service. 🙏 But now your springs are broken and we are getting older, it's time to make way for this forest green velvety, taller number 😍

Now watching #CabinFever #HeyHoWe'llGo #MuppetTreasureIsland #30thAnniversary

Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King's College London. Deadline: 16th March 2026 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/137845-...

So I was looking for incidences of the word "vagina" in c19th newspapers (for legit scholarly reasons, I promise) and thought bloody hell that's a lot more results than I expected. And turns out that predominantly keyword seach is finding "G spot" in proximity... 😂😳

Not a problem, I hate prawns, so she can definitely have my share as long as I get some noodles :)

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'In an emergency briefing sent to all members, the University and College Union (UCU) branch at Oxford has warned that the university’s college-based system and use of emeritus professorships may be putting female colleagues at risk.' 1/2

This is a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.

New podcast alert: me and Elizabeth Bobbitt discussing the editing of Radcliffe’s posthumous works. (Warning: I sound like a chipmunk 🐿️) player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/editi...

Disability and the Gothic has now been published and is available online FOR FREE for the next 2 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The Perilous Deep is available as an audiobook from today! If you prefer your books via your ears than your eyes, head over to www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Peril...

Absolute Tune.

Have any of your colleagues recently been made redundant by a UK university? Have you? Do you fear losing your job? What has been the effect of redundancies on departmental morale? We are keen to hear your views

Seen.

I am gutted for the students who struggled with the experience, and I am angry for them that they have to pay extortionate fees at all. That, in fact, is one of the things we have fought against during years of strikes. But *everyone* suffered, some considerably more than this, during a pandemic.

Nearly home after an epic surprise birthday weekend trip to Liverpool, organised by my bestest. Saw SO much, ate way too much & Beatles tour bus passengers sang happy birthday to me, so this really is the tiniest snippet of all the joys ❤️🎂 Also, very much recommend "Shiverpool" & related tours 🖤

Although not denouncing and disregarding A.I. completely, interesting to see this from vice dean for A.I. initiatives at Columbia University

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1) Today (23:59) is the deadline for submitting responses to the Home Office "consultation" on their plans to make life a lot more difficult for foreigners living in the UK: www.gov.uk/government/c...

Pre-order Games That Haunt Us now! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/979876512...

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

AMAZING present from a friend 🖤🖤 #MinorHauntings #TalesoftheWeird @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Cheeky birthday meal and drinks with these fabulous ladies / work friends and the marvellous Snoops ❤️ @lizbaz.bsky.social @publicradionerd.bsky.social

I find myself in need of £130 to join a trade union with, so here I am, shilling books with a hopeful expression. ko-fi.com/s/7292dd0671

FINALLY sitting down this evening with @leannecalvert.bsky.social's 2024 article on trans* histories of the family in 18th C Ireland and its absolutely 👌🌟 Also picking up more than a few further reading suggestions! doi.org/10.1080/1081...

Day One (of the many months) of Big Birthday celebrations: "surprise" family gathering with an amazing cake made by my sister 🎂❤️ and an evening @crescenttheatre.bsky.social seeing a very entertaining adaptation of Clue/do 🔎🕵‍♀️

Once again, happy posthumous birthday to my homie Charles Dickens and, for the first and last time, Happy 40th (😳🙈) Birthday to me! 🎂🥂🥳🍾

Geez the British Library newspapers database is really keen to log you out. If 5 minutes is an acceptable measure of "inactivity" this is going to be a troublesome day of research.

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Romanticists and Long Eighteenth Centuryists — there’s an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) being advertised, a joint appointment with St Peter’s College. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK016/a...

Wuthering Heights is not a romance. Obviously. But why do people think it is? So many reasons but... I'm going to be exploring how we got here through adaptation history in a workshop so come join me! www.eventbrite.com/cc/romancing...

NEW on Wonkhe: University study has never been more focused on labour market outcomes and local economic needs. Phil Power-Mason, Helen Charlton, Fran Walker-Martin and Sarah Bloomfield think through the vocabulary buff.ly/1G17bEP

I hope to fuck this is some sort of temporary glitch 😳

Have absolutely lost the plot. Chapter should be max 15k, and is currently totting up at *checks*... *checks again*... 38.5k. And no, it can't be two separate chapters. Time to kill a significant number of darlings.

Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar with @emilybaughan.bsky.social (chaired by @kieranconnell.bsky.social). Snacks and drinks provided as usual. All welcome! www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

Working with records of traumatic histories Wed, 25 Feb | 13:00 GMT | Online 🎤 Eliza McKee, @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy 🎤 Hari Jonkers, @holocaustnorth.bsky.social 🎤 Gillian Boll and Malcolm Mathieson, @amnestyuk.bsky.social Info and registration here: shorturl.at/jAfJO

Barely one-tenth of the population are aware that England will introduce a new system of “lifelong” student funding in a year’s time, according to new polling. Tom Williams reports #LLE #edusky https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/just-12-cent-public-aware-lle-year-launch

Oh, hi @ruthheholt.bsky.social 🖤 @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesoftheWeird

Nooooooooo 💔💔😭 #CatherineOHara you Queen. Sleep well.

Raging against the overwhelming number of bloody birthday card options that say "Mum" "Mummy" or even "Mammy" but not the correct appellation: "Mom"

My short story "The Cold Moon Crown" will be appearing in the Winter edition of WAXEN, which goes on sale February 1. If you're into Christmas stories involving weird old-money families with skeletons in the closet, I daresay you might enjoy it.

What a shockingly short-sighted, lazy, mercenary way to avoid investing in the essential resources of TAs, human tutors, libraries, pastoral care, community learning and more, and putting money in the pockets of destructive inequitable corporations Absolute bullshit. I hope parents resist.

Shout out to fellow academics who also spend their days researching & writing abt weird, sickening & horrendous historical things. Reading the most heinous deeds, thinking you are all detached, and objective, and then suddenly you pause: "hmm I wonder why I feel so sick / sad today" 🤔

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Join @gothicstudies.bsky.social as our new Assistant Editor! Deadline Monday 9th March. Annual honorarium of £200. More information in attached image, via the @igagoths.bsky.social newsletter or you can message me and I can send you the text if preferred.

The British Library’s PhD placement scheme for 26/27 is now open. My team are offering an exciting placement aiming to raise the profile of our illustrated newspaper collection: www.bl.uk/services/res...

I notice reaction videoson youtube to RATM *Killing in the Name of* seem to be on the increase... 👀 Also seems a good time to revisit Foos *The Pretender* music video... 👀