The Brontë Society's Annual Lecture was delivered this weekend by @drclaireocall.bsky.social 'A happy Heathcliff and Cathy': The influence of Emily Brontë on Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes. Claire is also Editor of Brontë Studies, the journal of the Brontë Society. www.bronte.org.uk/events/bront...

I’m honoured to be included in the forthcoming anthology The Book of Bogs: Stories from the Yorkshire Moor and Other Peatlands, edited by the brilliant Anna Chilvers and Clare Shaw. It’s published by Little Toller Books. 💚 www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

The Brontë Parsonage Museum’s very first read-along begins in October. We’re reading Charlotte’s second novel, Shirley. We’ll dive into the novel’s three volumes over the first three weeks of the month. In the final week, there is a live discussion to explore your thoughts questions & responses.

We're offering 2-for-1 tickets on our upcoming event with the brilliant Liz Williams! Liz will be in conversation with @drclaireocall.bsky.social to discuss all things folk Britain. Use code 2FOR1TOWN at checkout (link to tickets below) @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @thegraystonunity.bsky.social

I just really want AI to go the way of MiniDisc players.

Er, no, it’s not, it’s really not.

Open letter on the Polari Prize longlist and the inclusion of John Boyne, who openly expresses his transphobic and misogynistic views. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere. But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.

Today marks Emily Brontë's birthday 📚💙 Discover more about Emily in Emily Brontë Reappraised by @drclaireocall.bsky.social The book conjures a new image of the great writer by looking at her afresh from the vantage point of the new millennium saraband.net/sb-title/emi... #Booksky #EmilyBronte

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

Our wonderful researchers are exhibiting 'Materials of pandemic care across time' today and tomorrow at the British Academy Summer Showcase. Tickets are free and available through the link below 👇

This was the first of many highlights at the Summer Showcase - the British Academy's free festival of ideas. Discover our full programme through the link below: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...

Sneak peak at slide: isn’t it great we have images of Patrick Brontë!

We are deeply disappointed that the Data Bill will not include the necessary provisions to keep creators' works safe from being used without their knowledge or permission by AI companies, despite clear and unified calls from across the creative industries. (1/3)

Really looking forward to this! #healthhumanities

💥 'Violence, Health, and the Health Humanities' workshop, hosted by @uniofreading.bsky.social Centre for Health Humanities! Join us for this event, feat. an in-person & online keynote by @drclaireocall.bsky.social, on health, ageing, and violence.  📣 All welcome! See poster for details.

Our petition to Parliament to ban wind farms on protected peatland in England has 10000+ names! Thanks to all who’ve signed so far - let’s keep on keeping on and #protectourpeat #stopcalderdalewindfarm #teampeat #teamnature #teambat #teamnewt #walshaw #moor #peat #blanketbog

👇🏽👇🏽 #amquerying #writingcommunity

The #Brontës: Sisters of Disruption - produced & directed by Dhivya Chetty (for Wise Owl Films/Sky Arts) & presented by Anita Rani - airs tonight, 9pm. Honoured to be among the all-female contributors telling this proto-feminist #history. Catch it on Sky Arts through Sky, Now TV or Freeview.

Come celebrate Charlotte Brontë’s birthday with me and @drclaireocall.bsky.social! Tickets still available at www.bronte.org.uk/events/celeb....

Love Charlotte Brontë? Come and celebrate her birthday online with us. Links via the Brontë Parsonage Museum #brontë #charlottebronte #victorianliterature #brontës

Also thrilled to be an invited guest on the #Brontë Parsonage Museum’s podcast ‘Behind the Glass’ last summer. Episode out now. In it, I discuss a specific #Museum object (owned by Charlotte) that’s NEVER been on display. Listen here #history #gender #brontës podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

My review of Jo Waugh’s fantastic monograph - Charlotte #Brontë and Contagion - is out. It’s a brilliant health/medical humanities book for #Victorianists. Free access to my review via this link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #healthhumanities #medicalhumanities #Victorian #brontestudies

Unsurprisingly, #meta has stolen some of my academic books, edited books, journal articles & reviews without my permission to train #AI. Pure theft. Academic publishing houses need to stand with non-academic publishers in defending our #copyright 😡

Myself & Maddy Potter are putting together a proposed new companion to #Dracula. We want to engage much more with new areas & the novel's multimedia afterlife to show the value of the text today. Feel free to message any questions. Full CFP here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/01/...

Looking forward to this 🙋🏼‍♀️

The Contemporary Research Group hosted the fantastic Lucy Holdsworth in our research seminar series this evening. Her paper was called ‘Michelle Misremembers: Gothicising the Self in Satanic Life Writing’.

Yes to utopian thinking in and about universities!

This👇

Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business. We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

Quick show and tell this afternoon for the VC @lborouniversity.bsky.social and the Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities of some of the materials we use to explore early modern health @lboroenglish.bsky.social

Our brilliant colleagues - bravo Elaine!

Please read the link/ consider signing the petition and sharing It is clear that this form of shooting/land use is terrible both for biodiversity and climate change @naturescotland.bsky.social @greeneindy.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social @ruthtingay.bsky.social @wildjustice.bsky.social

Please sign and share the Parliamentary petition to protect #sphagnum and natural #CarbonCaptureandStorage #blanketbog by banning #windfarms on protected #peatland in England petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Infrastructure construction is one of the biggest threats to #wetland #biodiversity.

Every time you share a "The Conversation" post I want to remind you that they have a multi-million dollar annual budget and pay writers zero dollars, including adjuncts and grad students. We cannot rely on exploited labor to achieve a better public humanities. www.patreon.com/posts/better...

Sobering, and important. Hannah Yelin (Ox Brookes): 'Her latest paper, published in the journal New Formations, found that 74 per cent of academics had experienced online harms as a result of sharing research publicly – affecting their careers and causing significant physical and mental harms.' 1/3

The incomparable Kate Lister (@k8lister.bsky.social): "I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."

It's like someone took all the worst parts of the twentieth century, and put them together to make Elon Musk.

"The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in Non-Fiction written by women. The 2025 longlist varies in subject matter, style and genre, and the 16 books make for an incisive and original reading list." womensprize.com/prizes/women...

Wow. Its already happened. Google Maps now has an utterly confusing Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) label, which changes depending on your zoom. 🧪

Upcoming #conference @FU_Berlin / @EXC2020 in #Berlin. #NeoHistorical Fiction at 2025. #PrizedTemporalities and Contested Progress. Funding for travel/accommodation is available! Apply for abstracts by late Jan 2025.

Check out our #ConferenceCall 4 #neohistorical fictions conference👇, funding available, apply by End of Jan 2025.

One of the best ghost stories ever. The 1989 adaptation freaked me out when I first saw it (as it should have done) #ghoststory #thewomaninblack www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Very proud to be on of the Boggarts contributing to this stunning collection thar now includes #PattiSmith 🤩🤩🤩 Please support this Crowdfunder to help us save the #moors around Haworth and in/across #Brontë Country: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/give-peat-...

Brief work trip to #Galway - my terrible photography skills don’t do justice to how beautiful some the city and campus is.

An overview of the #Brontë sisters' lives & writing careers, by @drclaireocall.bsky.social #19thC open.spotify.com/episode/5ISu...

💔 #ripbenjaminzephaniah

Listening ‘Imagining Queer Ecologies’ (intermittently) today and thoroughly enjoying it so far. A paper on gay frogs was BRILLIANT! 💚🐸👏🏻