Jane Yolen was an absolutely lovely human and also an almost absurdly talented writer. It's wonderful when both things are wrapped up in the same person. I considered her a friend and a colleague, and I will miss her. Condolences to the each of the many of us who knew her. Her memory is a blessing.

We won't see another like her. We just won't. And part of that is that she had the strength and grace to value her children and grandchildren as uniquely themselves, and to value her literary descendants (some of whom are the same people) as themselves. She was so warm and witty and wonderful.

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Jane Yolen’s books meant a lot to me. The world is richer because she lived, and poorer now that she’s gone.

the two flanks of leftist politics are communism and anarchism. communists want to relitigate tiananmen square and anarchists truly believe that the world wants a vegan bookstore collective. I will die for either group before I lift a finger to help the volkisch-left DC pundit dipshits

wow

oh, she will be missed. What glorious worlds she created.

this might be the best headline i’ve ever read

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If you’re kind of not really a sports fan but looking for something to join in with for the next few weeks I can highly recommend the Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup, which starts tomorrow, rather than that other thing. #TheCricket

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Kudos to Brian Rosenberg. He gets it. I wish this piece had been around nine years ago when my family, students, and colleagues went through our devastating loss. See reply post. #academicsky

I've been too busy getting ready to move house to have walks round the parks to see the bluebells this year. Tell me where you have seen them this year. folksy.com/find/item/86... #Bluebells #OriginalArt #Drawing #Watercolour #Painting #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #bsnm

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Good morning and I am hiring! I'm looking for a colleague to join me in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. 📚 uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

"What we need now isn’t another class on how to use CoPilot but an institutional reflection on the emotional and mental cost of quickly advancing these tools in higher education. AI in academia is making a perfect cocktail for burnout, and we are already fatigued." 📚

Reform politicians in the UK are importing culture war bullshit and targeting LGBTQ+ people by attempting to censor library collections 📚📜

Data: you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone timharford.com/2026/06/data...

Interesting: a new study pre-registration describes work to measure the death and injury caused when people from rural and suburban areas come into cities and crash into pedestrians and cyclists while jay-driving (a word I think I've just invented, but it's actually perfect here given the etymology)

"Curriculum frameworks continue to reproduce racialised, gendered and class-based exclusions... shaping what is remembered, what futures are rendered possible for learners, and whose knowledges are legitimised" IOE academics discuss the need for decolonial, transcolonial alternatives bit.ly/4vNsVtD

This is well worth a read - particularly interesting for how it frames the role of the institutional / library-based publisher, and its reflections on what such presses have the ability to provide (and I mean this in a capacious sense) as well as some of the dynamics created by "prestige".

What would it look like for female characters to be fully realized moral agents? @catbussell.bsky.social returns to Mothership with an analysis of how rarely women get to be bad, or even just morally gray, in video games today: www.mothership.blog/awful-women-...

We condemn the monstrous attack that took place on Monday evening on Stephen Ogilvy. Our thoughts are with him and his family. There can never be any justification for racism, vigilantism, or collective blame. Please read our full statement: ucu.org.uk/article/1454...

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"What can we do when we’re suffocated by the throat? The answer remains clear and unchanged: anything." Marcel Mariën on Theory of Immediate World Revolution, out in English for the first time this September - preorder now and save 30%

“Book-to-screen adaptations are having a moment — a very white moment. As studios race to adapt bestselling romances, thrillers, and fantasy novels, many Black writers remain stuck in development limbo—or never get considered at all.“

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We're proud to announce a new edition of Walter Rodney's seminal work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - out September 29th. www.versobooks.com/blogs/readin...

Philosophy is tough. My liberal arts education has never felt so useful. My latest for @insidehighered.com: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... #AcademicSky

it’s finally watermelon time

My gf has roped a load of churches into getting their members to collect a load of food that can then be distributed to those who need it across Belfast. Many are afraid to leave their houses, even to get food. People have been delivering food to strangers since this started.

Violence against people named Evie.

It’s a beautiful day. The group chats are open and people are having a wonderful time!

If you want something to cheer you up, this is marvellous (and would make a great rom com). Best wishes to the happy couple.

When my mentor at uni retired, people travelled from far and wide to his retirement dinner, because he poured constant love and care into the lives of his students for forty years. I have rarely seen so much love in one room. It's not that he meant it to be reciprocated, but he got it all back.

GOOD MORNING NEW YORK CITY.

I am so constantly, ceaselessly, and quite genuinely angry about how AI slop has started to ruin fun animal videos on the Internet.

The saga over this plan and this sorry conclusion is going to be *the* case study of why Starmer failed as PM.

Whenever people discuss the modern perils of disagreement framed as "people don't know how to be civil" I think about how civility is what got us to pogroms and concentration camps. It was "friends across the aisle" and lesser evil voting. It was letting bygones be bygones and trusting the process.

We have a maybe two minute walk to school. It crosses a road that is so busy that two kids have been hit, and we have personally witnessed at least six near misses when drivers chance the crosswalk and speed. It’s terrifying. It needs changing.

I shall watch this with interest. There's no way to get 60% of kids actively travelling to school without disrupting current patterns of car-based mobility. This includes making all urban streets safer, not just those right outside schools www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Met no one with even the vaguest clue what's happening, largely thinking this is just a normal public sector squeeze. The point people realise, as with all things like this (NHS too) will be way past the point things broke and take a lot more than a small step back to fix.

'The career ladder in academia is of particular interest as it is a “greedy” occupation due to its lack of substitutability among workers, long hours with increasing returns to productivity, and the importance of establishing and maintaining personal contacts.' Academia is a "greedy" occupation.

Someone please buy these so I can't. PLEASE. My self control is fraying. 😅😬🤦🏻‍♀️

Want to know what it's like to work in museums? Simply watch the Indiana Jones films, and then dismiss everything you've seen

Be warned by @gsoh31.bsky.social "elites tend to accommodate themselves to power. Some university chiefs have apparently been meeting with Nigel Farage’s lieutenants, and more will no doubt follow."

Everything is a lot right now, but it is also the time of year when MYFest launches and that lovely, lovely community comes together and thinks about inclusion, EdTech, accessibility, wellbeing and, well, Minecraft (MYFest is excellent for all ages!). You can find out more below. Do join us!