Die Hand, die die English Studies hält, hat nur vier Finger, wahrscheinlich eine Metapher für irgendwas

Um 5:15 aufstehen, erst mal sehen, dass der Zug ausfällt... liebt man. Trotzdem auf dem Weg zum #anglistiktag2025!

Negroni Week AND Publication Week? That does sound like an auspicious connection! Pirates, prepare your drink of choice! #AcademicPublishing #earlymodern #piracy

I deleted mine a while ago, but here is a reminder for all of you who haven't done so yet.

Today is the 846th anniversary of the death of Hildegard of Bingen: saint, abbess, composer, writer, visionary, but best known of course for once seeing the Gruffalo appearing from the Bride of Christ’s, um...

An amazing new article by @sagebrice.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 'Not just gay penguins: on the importance of queer/trans ecologies for critical geography' 🌈🎓

This year I have already written 5 peer reviews and 2 expert opinions (for fundings bids etc). I have also declined at least as many requests (because I am only 1 person and should also be publishing myself instead of reading and reviewing other people's work). So yes, the system is broken.

Freue mich nach 6 Wochen immer auf den 1. Schultag aber vergesse zuverlässig, dass er um 11:15 vorbei ist.

Möchte gerne: forschen (und muss, weil Deadlines). Muss aber erst: Staatsexamen korrigieren, Hausarbeiten korrigieren, Masterarbeiten korrigieren, Master Defences durchführen, demnächst Kurse vorbereiten. Vorlesungsfreie Zeit gerade leider eher Korrekturzeit. (Ich heule leise, aber ich heule.)

Things are getting real! The website for #britcult2025 has gone live: www.britcult.de/conference20.... Check out our exciting programme, register until October 20, then join us for a 3-day conference on the Re-Orientation of Gender (Studies) in the 21st century. #AcademicConference #GenderStudies

A student complains that an instructor is going against "our president's order" in teaching "gender ideology" and "transgenderism" and violates "my religious beliefs.” A Republican state representative from Texas posts the video of this exchange, taken by the student, on X. x.com/brianeharris...

Trying to buy myself a couple of working hours by bribing 9yo with a massive slice of cake and 2 Percy Jackson books (not pictured). People who tell you they would never bribe their kids are liars, don't trust them. #AcademicParenting #RaisingReaders

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Wie arg die Normalisierung von Antifeminismus und Behindertenfeindlichkeit aktuell ist, sieht man auch daran, dass solch eine Aussage von Söder nicht von seinem Presse-Team eingefangen wird und die Interviewenden von der FAZ auch nicht zurückfragen, wie er das meint. Alles normal, wa?

First work week after holidays - last week of summer break for 9yo, who is home and bored. Wish me luck. #AcademicParenting

Bunte Tüte, aber es sind die Extra-Papiertüten aus dem Urlaub, in denen sich alles sammelt, was beim organisierten Packen übersehen wurde. Bin dann mal für mehrere Stunden Tüteninhalt sortieren.

🏴‍☠️Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy: Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800, edited by @susannegruss.bsky.social & Marcus Hartner, the newest book in @amsterdamupress.bsky.social Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 book series is out *22 Sept 2025* Available to preorder: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

The worst moment of a holiday: choosing the last book (I'm halfway through Katabasis, so it will have to be a short one).

The kids are on a sibling outing by the beach. Phone rings after ca. 10 mins (cue slight parental panic). They wanted to know whether seagulls stand on one foot to keep the other warm. Phew.

It's a cold case. The syllabus contains a full, detailed confession, but no one noticed for five years ... until it was sent to the provost for review under the new state-mandated gen ed assessment process. It passed the initial review phase because the learning outcomes are fine.

A thread which gets to the heart of UKHEI redundancies 👇 Solidarity with Edinburgh University employees ✊️

Interessant, wie das Unterbewusstsein immer mal wieder die (nicht mehr aktuellen) Ängste um die Zukunft in der Wissenschaft auspackt. Heute geträumt, ich hätte mich zum 2. Mal auf eine Stelle bewerben müssen, die ich bereits hatte. Der Bewerbungsvortrag zerfiel dann in unlogisches Geschwafel. 1/2

Cover-reveal of the first book in the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social book series 'Pop Culture in Context' I co-edit with @lizwfab.bsky.social & @hermioneclone.bsky.social! Congrats to Vaughn @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & many thanks to @davideisler.bsky.social,our editorial director,for all your hard work!

I can definitely see a shrimp in my frothed milk - a Northern German latte art specialty, perhaps? 9yo says it's a rat, though. 🦐 or 🐀?

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

Das ist eine Falle für unsere kleinen Gäste, oder? ODER?

Meine middle-aged Version von Pommes mit Ketchup und Limo im Freibad sind Pommes mit Trüffelöl & Parmesan und ein Flens im Strandkorb. 🌊🩵🌊

Neu auf Spotify und YouTube (als Vodcast): "Gender Gap in der Literatur" (aus anglistisch-amerikanistischer und germanistischer Perspektive). Danke an GENIAL-forschen+ (@uni-bamberg.de) für die Einladung! open.spotify.com/episode/28j8... youtu.be/JDv2rPfC10U?...

So the most recent iteration of academic phishing emails are fake awards for random articles? Hilarious!

Liebe Studierende, leider kann ich die Folien für die kommende Sitzung nur mit Verspätung bei Moodle einstellen, da ich kurzfristig durch eine dienstliche Angelegenheit (Exorzismus) verhindert bin.

Out of Office - our family holiday library is located under the stairs, what's not to love.

9yo has established a family book club called "Book Love". I now have my own member's pass and I am HERE for it. #AcademicParenting #RaisingReaders

August. Perfect month for a cold and some Lemsip.

Ea kann kein „Verbot von Gendersprache“ geben, auch wenn man das immer wieder liest, denn, Achtung: Es gibt gar keine „Gendersprache“. Geschlechtergerechter Sprachgebrauch ist keine „Sprache“. Wer dieses Wording nutzt, verwendet entweder bewusst oder naiverweise ein irreführendes Narrativ.

Ein Kind etwas verzagt in einer Ferienbetreuung abgeben, in der es niemanden kennt: immer wieder schwer. Und immer wieder beeindruckend, wenn man dann mit einem "Ich schaff das, Mama!" weggeschickt wird.

Kulturstaatsminister Weimer hat angekündigt, Kolonialismus nicht in das Gedenkstättenkonzept des Bundes aufzunehmen, da es den Holocaust relativiere. Das ist falsch und erfüllt AfD-Positionen. Darüber uvm habe ich mit den DLF gesprochen. 🎤👇 www.deutschlandfunk.de/erinnerungsp...

Servicepost für alle Eltern in Bayern: 1. Ferientag, Brotboxen nicht im Ranzen vergessen!

Last day of school traditions: spaghetti ice-cream (the best!) and an end-of-school book (or two) for everyone. Now both kids are reading. #AcademicParenting

3 tabs opened, a note-pad with a to-do-list in front of you, and a pair of spectacles handy. Surfing on the #earlymodern internet in 1622. #skystorians

A full week - meetings, a coaching, oral exams, marking. BUT: no course prep!

I have tried to avoid the AI summaries as much as possible but they still pop up. They are sometimes so confidently wrong I have to stop myself from throwing my phone.

Citations and acknowledgements are not the same. LLM-based AI generates word salad, no matter how plausibly it might mimic words written by a person. 1/

Please join us tomorrow, on 22 July 2025, at 11 AM CET, for the founding event of the Legal Humanities Association (LHA). The association places Law and Humanities research and methodologies ever more squarely on the academic map. More information can be found here: lnkd.in/e-CJQShR.

Asking students for main take-aways from a class in the last week of term: never gets old. #AcademicTeaching

Normalisieren bitte: schon eine Woche vor dem Urlaub Abwesenheitsnotiz einstellen, Sachen abarbeiten, Neues ignorieren.

The front matter of my forthcoming edited collection includes the phrase "No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any matter for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems." I like it a lot. #AcademicPublishing

I have reached the point in the semester where anything under 60 emails in my inbox that I still need to reply to feels ok. Argh. 2 more weeks, then 1 week of oral exams, then: relative (email-)silence.

all mushroom allegories are werewolf erotica in the end muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Very cool activity prepared by a student yesterday: the other students had to allocate quotes to Great Expectations and Mister Pip. Great fun!

Hitzefrei für Unis, wann?