An Irving Penn portrait, from 1947, of the hulking Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen and his chic wife, Dagmar, seems made for the coldest days of winter: www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

We're hiring! Come work with us @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @bkhistoxford.bsky.social !!! Professorship of Bibliography and Modern Book History www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP968/p...

This is good. If anyone wants to do something similar in humanities and social sciences give me a shout on.ft.com/48pT7jP

Rest in peace #RachelCooke, a writer I admired on the page for a long time. I only met her once and in our brief chat she radiated such warmth, intelligence and puckishness. What a blessing she was.

Post-doc applications for next year's seminar on "Translation" at Rutgers' Center for Cultural Analysis are "live"! The seminar will be co-ed by Preetha Mani and Jeff Lawrence. Fellow academics: let your early-career colleagues, students, and former students know! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/263...

“We have the brightest and the best. Let’s keep it that way.” @rupahuq.bsky.social MP and academic stands with UCU members voting for fair pay, secure jobs and a stronger future for higher education. Vote. Share. Mobilise. We can do this.

Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...

"Libraries and archives are the labs of humanities and social science scholars, and history is not possible without them." 🔥

This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.

Zadie Smith called it “essential reading.” Next Tuesday (25 Nov), discover the extraordinary 'The Third Reich of Dreams' in a seminar with Amanda Rubin-Lewis & Devorah Baum. 📍 Wolfson College Free and open to all Register: shorturl.at/dHVbc @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social

🕯️ Santanu Das, Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at @ox.ac.uk, @engfac.bsky.social, highlights the essential need to acknowledge the millions of men of color who served in WW1, placing their stories back in history. #PLPEXPeditions

Utopia. 🌈 It's an important topic to think about in this troubled moment. Today, come join @duncanbell.bsky.social & Astor Visiting Professor Douglas Mao @ox.ac.uk for a conversation about this timely, timeless topic. Huge thanks to @mpblanco.bsky.social for her organisational masterminding

I fell in love with Pudlo Pudlat's "Winds of Change/ Vents de changement" in the Baud/Jacot collection of Arctic print and sculptures. Now the collection has a new home! ARCTIC WORLDS: From Alaska to Nunavut Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer, until 3 July , 2026 musee.boulogne-sur-mer.fr

Workshop: Learn how to write an abstract! ❄️ Join us at 12:00 EST (17:00 BST / 18:00 CET) on Sunday 29th June and learn how to make your abstract sing. Can’t make the live session? We’ll send a link to watch the recording out to everyone who RSVPs. ✨ RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/1FSF...

Fantastic coverage of our #POLARX conference about #women and #extractivism at the world's poles by New York Times bestselling author and journalist @juliaflynnsiler.bsky.social juliaflynnsiler.com/2025/06/16/a...

Very excited to be attending the Polar X workshop online today and tomorrow, organized by @mendelight.bsky.social and Cécile Roudeau, focusing on gender and extractivism. Grateful to colleauges who make space for hybrid gatherings! polar-x.weebly.com

Management's threat to make £140million of cuts at the University of Edinburgh is shocking. Yesterday, we heard from branch president, Sophia, on the questions this announcement has raised. The Scottish govt must call on university management to halt these devastating cuts.

Interested in polar archives? A workshop on establishing a Polar Archive Network is set for 17–18 March 2025 at the @scottpolar.bsky.social (Cambridge, UK & online) to shape a Polar Archive Network & draft a SCAR action group proposal. Register by 28 Feb: scar.org/scar-news/ar...

A message from @ducuuo.bsky.social 📢 We're calling on university management to rule out the use of compulsory redundancies 🔥

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host the 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for #Victorian Studies on 23–25 July. Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC

I signed this letter for these reasons:

Still vicariously feeling #TheaKopalaRøhme and #LisenStrøm's calm exhilaration as they ski Norway's remote arctic peninsula. Just one of the brilliant films on show at this year's @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social 👏👏https://youtu.be/5aE9ygwf7Oo?feature=shared

What does #OscarWilde have to do with #AI? In a "Turning Point" piece for #TextualPractice, Charlie Tyson & I unpack that Read "The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI" Published online today! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🌟 Join us for our next Activist Workshop: Having Hard Conversations about Abortion 🌟 🗓 Sat Feb 15, 1-2:30pm ET on Zoom. Learn how to talk to your friends and family, young children, and teens about abortion. Register here! www.arcc-cdac.ca/activist-wor... #prochoice #cdnpoli #ActivistWorkshop

Droit à l’avortement en Pologne : une cour d’appel ordonne un nouveau procès dans une affaire emblématique

Americanists! Come be our colleague @engfac.bsky.social joblist.mla.org/job-details/...

We need two people to lead Environmental Humanities into a future that needs #envhum work more than ever. Please apply 👇

Alright, so today, in my book, it's 19 June 1914, and my polar team has landed at Igarka, in #Siberia. But for you and me, that means a virtual saunter down this icy tunnel in the Museum of #Permafrost maps.app.goo.gl/5mKteRfsRsqU...

Damit schreiben auch Sie endlich Ihren Roman: Der Optimierungspodcast verrät, wie Sie kreativ in Schwung kommen – mit Tipps der Autorin des Buchs "Der Weg des Künstlers".

Salut, hi! Je cherche un.e stagiaire postdoctoral.e! www.linkedin.com/posts/julien...

Take a chance on love this Valentine's season with our "Blind Date with a Book" display! All of these used books were carefully chosen by booksellers to be someone's perfect match. Could it be you? Find out soon, these blind date books are only available in store while supplies last! 💕

Which reminds me that I can put on a jumper and a scarf instead of turning up the radiator in my in office today

Boston/ Cambridge friends: don't miss Eli Zuzovsky in conversation with Claire Messud @harvardbookstore.bsky.social about becoming a man, queer lust, shame and the threat of war www.harvard.com/event/eli-zu...

Come on @financialtimes.com! You can do better than misleading international readers by quoting #MordechaiRichler -- one of Canada's dead greats but also one its most unrepresentative, divisive and polemical writers -- to illustrate a piece about Canadian identity on.ft.com/40JbbSe

There's still time to register for our FREE online Teachers' Conference this Sat, 8 Feb! Prof Ros Ballaster and Prof Adam Smyth will give mini lectures, Prof Sos Eltis will explain the Oxford admissions process & we'll have a panel discussion on 'New Ways into English'. Register now! #TeamEnglish

More Cardiff UCU on the Cardiff Uni cuts. “The University has access to hundreds of millions of reserves, of which a really big chunk is accessible. “We are just bemused why they’re pushing ahead with such brutal and callous cuts when other options are on the table.” BBC Wales, 30th January 2025.

Bowled over to find "Property of the civil society for The Future of the Proletariat" inscribed above the entrance to this grand building. It turns out that it was part of a visionary turn of the century solidarity system to provide pensions to workers by investing their contributions in property

In Paris, you read the writing on the wall (Rimbaud's masterpiece about being lost and at sea) And take this snap So all can see That what is required is more Humanity, more poetry, more memory ...

The Greene Door project from @greeneandheaton.bsky.social is accepting applications for underrepresented unagented writers - deadline 21 March. This is how I got connected with my agent! greeneheaton.co.uk/the-greene-d...

Writing residency for older writers! Please share!

Yessssssssss @joshuaidehen.bsky.social @richardsullivan.bsky.social youtu.be/PS9Bc_GQBEs?...

"I was reading LITTLE WOMEN and Louisa May Alcott and assuming that that was a normal life and longing for that kind of life. Books assumed a huge role in my life especially because I was not going to school" -- Gloria Steinem www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Instantly recognisable, this carving of Queen Victoria was made by a Yoruba artist in Nigeria. The Queen never travelled outside Europe, so the carver may have copied her from a popular image of the Queen in Africa, which was a 3/4 length portrait - maybe why the figure is cut off rather abruptly!

Calling all teachers of English! Our Teachers' Conference is taking place on 8 February from 11am - 3pm. The FREE online event features mini lectures, admission info, resources showcase and a panel discussion. Registration is now OPEN. Pls share! #cpd #TeamEnglish #EduSky #EnglishTeacher

Remember that scene in chapter 8 of Huysmans' À REBOURS [AGAINST THE GRAIN] when amorphophallus plants shoot up around Des Esseintes?

We're looking to appoint to the News UK #Professorship of Language and Communication. The Professor will promote the study of English language and communication in Oxford at all levels and stimulate interest in the subject in the wider academic community and beyond. #AcademicSky #Language

A once in a generation opportunity in Old Norse at St John's Oxford and English Faculty. #OldNorse. I'm retiring in three days' time! www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...