I can't be the first one to play this game with the latest @lrb.co.uk

From the latest issue of The Onion. This is just brilliant writing.

For some reason it is very difficult to get students to accept that the angels in Doctor Faustus might be actual angels and for some reason this Bothers Me

We're going to get dragged into the Iran war, aren't we? (See headline.) www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

AI - revolutionising scholarship...

Just when you think you're completely immune to clickbait

Please repost: Can you recommend a piece of writing (by you or anyone else) that sets out to make the writer's research in early modern lit/culture accessible to a general readership? I mean Conversation-type stuff but not necessarily The Conversation.

Can't tell you how thrilled I am to see my PhD student Mary Bellman's first article published! 🥳 'The Demetrius Dilemma: The Implications of Induced Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream' in the British Shakespeare Association's journal, *Shakespeare*: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

PGT scholarships in English at Sheffield

The second article from the forthcoming special issue I am guest editing on Shakespeare and Middleton has now been published open access. Thanks to Shaun Nowicki for this piece 🙂 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This follows the first article, by @freeburian.bsky.social, which received online publication late last year: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nice to be able to use this picture of a rolwagen (roll-wagon) in my _Country Wife_ seminar

Unsolicited google translation

_The Revenger's Tragedy_ bites deep right now. Wonder what my students will make of it next week.

Forthcoming PG colloquium at the University of Sheffield -- please repost! pgrcolloquiumsheffield2026-ximez.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...

Third Marvell seminar of the week, so that's three times I've quoted Bertie Ahern allegedly describing Cromwell as a 'murdering bastard' on encountering a portrait of him in Robin Cook's office

Oooh! So pleased to see Ellie Collins’ book out in our series!! Such wonderful repertory work! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719090868/ CC @shakesinstitute.bsky.social

Nice bit of editorial bitchiness from Lewis Theobald here

Descending further into a parody version of myself as I suggest that students might watch a video of The Mountain Goats' 'Romans 10: 9' before the _Doctor Faustus_ seminar

Well, he has been in the news I guess

Bill Angus and I are very pleased that our edited collection on Reading the River in Shakespeare's Britain (published by Edinburgh University Press) will soon be out in paperback:

Early modern hive mind: somewhere Andrew Gurr argues that the speech about surveying in 2 Henry IV is a rueful reflection on the Burbages' failed first attempt to open a theatre in Blackfriars. I can't find this anywhere (you'd think it'd be in _The Shakespeare Company_ but no). Anyone?

🚨🇮🇪 A single Dublin data centre found to consume as much power as 200000 homes. Uncovered by @lnbdublin.bsky.social Reported by Jack Horgan Jones @irishtimes.com

My workflow planning model is getting increasingly sophisticated.

monarch sounding more left wing than our current Labour government rn

Best thing I've seen all day.

Funded PhD opportunities at the University of Sheffield: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I have a new book out:

Calling it: the 'Nesquik tax'

Special issue, "Adapting Shakespearean Romance in Indian Cinema" (guest-edited by @thea987.bsky.social and Rosa Garcia-Periago) out now! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2... #Shakespeare #earlymodern

Finally got round to leaving the Labour party, so don't say I didn't get anything done on a strike day 😢

it's on presale in two days, sign up for the link: laylo.com/mountaingoat...

'legegs'

It's one of those days when the only way forward is to buy the new Mountain Goats album

Wondering whether any metal bands have ever used a theorbo onstage for one of their slow numbers, and if not why not

Annual whiteboard sketch of invention, nature's child, fleeing stepdame study's blows

Current task: making the response to readers sound less grumpy

The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**! 📅 Abstracts due 24/11. Full details can be found here: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Did a Triffid design this notebook?

Remembering when, in the wake of a conversation in which I questionably proposed ideological overlap between Aphra Behn and Jilly Cooper, I produced this mashup:

Rules of the new semester: No matter how easy to find a given item may be on your module's VLE, if you are trying to guide a student to it in real time it will mysteriously disappear

Because obviously 'Basket of deplorables' worked really well for Hillary

Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781... #earlymodern #economic #history

this poem is astonishing and I am so grateful to Eileen for bringing it to our attention last year & again this year.

Michael Mann and Peter Hotez are leading experts on climate change and vaccines, respectively, and in recent years, have both been targeted by those who seek to discredit them. That experience led the two to come together to write the new book "Science Under Siege." www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...