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The BARS President’s Fellowship is open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on any aspect of Romantic Studies to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to £1500. Deadline 7th Nov 2025. www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

"if anything employment outcomes are worsening more rapidly for those with fewer skills looking for blue-collar jobs than the highly skilled seeking knowledge work" on.ft.com/43eYeRZ @jburnmurdoch.ft.com as ever doing the essential work. It's not just AI. And education still matters

What’s so depressing about these kinds of proclamations is the lack of fact accuracy. At my uni, graduate outcomes for English students are far better than those doing economics, for example.

for the Monday crowd: my first book, Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work, is now up on the Columbia UP site, with a gorgeous cover and gorgeous (and too-generous) blurbs. Out this August and pre-orderable from May! @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-...

1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system. Thread below ⬇️

Part 1: Badenoch calls for curb on rip-off degrees such as English. Part 2: Tory Party misspells Britain on conference merch.

Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

This is a disaster for Newham, where I live, & a disgrace under Labour.

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

You’ll be shocked to hear that their recommendation is not limiting the circumstances in which AI is deployed, but rather accepting the inevitability it will occasionally have catastrophic effects.

Cover art is in! Wastelands and Wonderlands coming in April. Massive thanks to the creative team at SUNY for another brilliant cover! This has some amazing contribs and I can't wait for you to read their work!

Some Good News, everybody! "Nonprofit environmental organization the Ocean Cleanup has announced that it's on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034"

All UK HE news talks of contraction. Bronze TEF providers will be defunded. Research funding is to be more "targeted". Total continuation of the Conservatives' vision for HE, under Labour.

love a typology

That three major British newspapers jumped on the poorly sourced (ATF to Steven Crowder to WSJ) line about the bullets having ‘trans’ symbols (actually a, wait for it, Helldivers 2 code) is such a tell on what they really care about. They really need to apologise (they won’t)

I disagree profoundly with the view that all research in universities should be externally funded. I'm also curious about why such a view needs to be expounded in the most provocative and insulting terms, rather than presented e.g. as dry financial pragmatism -what is the point of the obnoxiousness?

Lecturer in Liberal Arts (R&T) University of Glasgow www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM506/l...

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Keen to reach new audiences? We are offering up to £8k to humanities and social sciences researchers to deliver public engagement projects working in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum. Deadline 15th Oct www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...

& just like that, it’s autumn.

Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵

I miss the days when it was socially unacceptable to talk like a Nazi

We're delighted to announce the shortlist from our February 2025 open call: huge congratulations to the selected authors, and thank you to all writers who trusted us with their projects! 💚 Read the full shortlist & longlist on our blog: buff.ly/bxFrVii

Got to the parenting stage where the toddler is now immune to the 19thC sounding illnesses because he’s had them so often, but I’m not. Hello Hand, Foot & Mouth (mainly mouth & crashing viral fatigue).

Have you read Amber Jamilla Musser? If not, you should.

An English degree remains an excellent choice for HE study. "The latest Data for English Degree Graduates shows comparable employment and wage outcomes to Business, Law and STEM subjects and higher wage growth over 3 years." universityenglish.ac.uk/we-have-a-ne...

Come and get Weird with us in Loughborough! Save the date for 1-4 July 2026 (also coincides with my birthday!) @lboroenglish.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

One of the students in Gaza with a funded university place in the UK has written about her story for @aljazeera.com: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Introducing to BlueSky world!

Back to Aristotle.

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

Gonna write a Trump spoof called The Art of the Toddler Deal, full of anecdotes of crap deals my toddler has tried & failed to fulfil (“I’ll stay in the bath longer & have no books tonight…I WANT A STORY”).

JOB ALERT! Canongate is looking for both a Publicity Assistant and a Deputy Publicity Director (maternity) to join our team, in Edinburgh or London. Full details for both roles are on our website, so if you or someone you know might be interested, please do take a look: canongate.co.uk/about/jobs

I’m in that weird feverish ‘end of writing an article’ moment in which time rushes so fast.

Just glorying once again in the jacket for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social book 'How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change' by Astrida Neimanis and Jen Hamilton, now complete with a LOVELY endorsement from the utterly amazing Naomi Klein. www.bloomsbury.com/how-to-weath...

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

BREAKING: Palestine Action will be able to challenge the UK Government's ban on the organisation Co-founder Huda Ammori won a legal battle at the High Court today

Social media posts would have been so much more interesting had everyone made ice cream during the pandemic rather than sourdough.

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

'The core of oracy education is the ability to make connections'. @englishassociation.bsky.social agree. What is there not to like? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Good news: (limited) data on AHRC success rates is now available, after a hiatus. Bad news: the success rates. www.ukri.org/blog/update-...

People are starving to death, or being gunned down while desperately trying to access food at aid sites — even journalists are in grave danger. This abhorrent situation cannot be allowed to continue www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

So here for this thread.

'The funding scenario for students may, however, be even bleaker when the requirement for institutions to match fund scholarships disappears with the start of landscape awards next year, the figures suggest.' 3/3

'Excluding institutional co-funding, the number of AHRC-funded PhD students funded under the DTP/landscape route will fall from 372 in 2024-25 to 150 in 2026-27, a 60 per cent cut, the research council says.' 2/3