Bloody Hell Warwick, WTAF brand.warwick.ac.uk/en/brand-gui...

Another day, another moron telling us we support genocide

Delighted to see this finally announced! Liverpool-led AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards Funding loads of Environmental/Medical Humanities PhDs with CHASE, @livunienglish.bsky.social, & lots of collaborators!!!

*Urgent action for academics and trade unionists - sign this letter opposing the ban on Palestine Action* The UK government's plan to extend terrorism laws is a grave threat to civil liberties and freedom of expression. Join us in opposing this repressive move. tinyurl.com/PalActionlet...

A) BOSS Pets: A merseyside pet shop whose name plays on the Liverpool word meaning "very good" B) Hugo BOSS: A clothes company founded by an actual Nazi; made the uniforms for the SS using forced labour. And yet it's B suing A to protect their brand. Wild. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

yet another reason Val is the queen of crime and she-who-shall-not-be-named will only every be a derivative, unloved and unloving pretender.

I can't get the absolutely harrowing recording of Kipling's poem "Boots" in 28 Years Later out of my head as it goes from metronomic to hysterical 1 youtu.be/mcvLKldPM08?...

Nah First half of 28 Weeks: tense and clever take on military-industrial context. Second half: "what happens if a helicopter fights a zombie"

My wife thinks she drives because I am a danger to myself and others who can't check his left-hand mirror without swerving...little does she know she's just my beard

Difficult to express the contempt I feel for this. No, not all Jews think "Yes, there is a genocide happening right now and children are being burnt alive, but on the other hand some of those protesting really are antisemites, which is bad, so who knows what to do?" archive.ph/E1vxH

The trouble with having so many MPs from two certain universities is that they seem to think every other university a) is worthless b) is not the cornerstone of many local economies

as ever our excellent PhD students doing typically excellent things

Famous Scientists Discover New Formula for Pusillanimity www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

We have never been human; but I'll try anything once

Have you heard the good news is the bad news?

Every time an editor says 'kill your darlings' a demon child dies (only to be reborn, louder, slimier and screaming for more delicious headspace about 3 weeks later)

📢ACTUAL ACADEMIC JOB🚨 Tell the ECRs in your lives that we have full-time, 12-month teaching fellowship @livunienglish.bsky.social So, while the world continues to burn, they can at least be paid properly to teach books and in a friendly department that is 75% human (10% Witch; 15% miscellaneous)

"He's Not the Messiah He's a Very Naughty Boy"

'They fuck you up, your mum and dad'

My Eye Movement? Rapid.

Universities: students, the main problem with AI is that not declaring you use it might affect your marks. AI: Hi kids, make ethnic cleansing fun again! edition.cnn.com/2025/02/26/w...

Just finished @rrrahul.bsky.social's amazing translation of this neon nightmare of a book by Michel Nieva which was just as thrillingly weird and wonderful as the cover suggests and totally gross in all the best ways serpentstail.com/work/dengue-...

As I begin wading through the whirlwind of semi-colons that signals the beginning of marking season I am going to keep murmuring this to myself for comfort...

My niece, bemused at me getting weepy while we were watching the end of Paddington 3: "are you crying because they have to eat marmalade forever now"

Quite something that this is the most positive headline I've read in 2025 www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

Have now been thinking about monometric sonnets all day and remembered this total banger...which is also very @bsky.app appropriate

Slightly taken aback by the amount of poetry-geek glee reading a 3-in-1 anapestics sonnet generated in me

Farage fetishizing "Judeo-Christian" civilisation is a) an Islamophobic dog-whistle b) a way of ignoring centuries of Christian antisemitism c) pretty rich coming from someone whose schoolmate accused him of singing Neo-Nazi ditty “gas ‘em all, gas ‘em all” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

To do list for Tuesday: 1. Book Dentist 2. Finish marking late assessments 3. POISON ALL MY UNDERGRADS' MINDS WITH POEMS THEN LAUGH MANIACALLY

I can't even curse them to further spursy decades of trophyless irrelevance because we all know that's going to happen anyway

Spurs haven't won anything for years EXCEPT this court case allowing them to rip up a re-wilded park... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

How I think I look when teaching/How I actually look

well this looks like it'll be amazeballs

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in cows...

I sometimes imagine an alternate timeline where the wonder that is Teen Vogue existed in the late 90s and saved older milennials from ourselves...

📢 Actual paid publishing job at world's sexiest academic press (for any fellow academics who also have undergrads asking them how to get into publishing)

Unsure whether one of my local Labour MP's complaints about "progressive politics" harming communities and "Churches" (?!?!?!?!) is an instance of a) Racism b) Stupidity b) Cynical careerism d) All of the above www.politicshome.com/news/article...

THIS So much of the hand-wringing about GenAI in universities revolves around plagiarism and marking (ie not being able to fairly/accurately rank students). The real worry should be how it (often) disrupts what students are actually learning -- how to think and communicate complex thoughts

I am starting to suspect that Oxford nurturing the Bullingdon Club, Dominic Cummings, Sunak and Liz Bloody Truss was all a cunning plan to eventually bankrupt other universities via Brexit/Visa crisis and thereby keep them in sherry for another 1000 years.

1. Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds (3 of the 5 biggest urban areas in the UK) - 72 miles 2. Shenfied to Reading (ie the Elizabeth Line; 78 miles) 3. Oxford-Cambridge; with less than 10% of the population of 1 (85 Miles) FFS

I dunno, MAYBE fast, functioning and cheap East-West Travel across the cities and universities of the North of England would drive growth faster than Reeve's latest tech unicorn solution.

But thei were all of them deceivid for anothir environment-killinge plagiarism machyne was made

Overjoyed for our @livunienglish.bsky.social PhD James Walsh who passed his viva yesterday for an absolute banger of a thesis about Shax and contemporary sonnets. If you want to read someone writing with nerve and verve about everything from sexbots to the tar sands then keep an eye out for him!

marveling at the chutzpah for an "industry insider" to complain that campus has become "quite literally a hostile environment" for arms manufacturers when the students were protesting against university campuses being LITERALLY blown up in Gaza www.gbnews.com/news/defence...

Liverpool: apparently now so woke that arms industry calls us threat to "Nation's Security" : ) thetab.com/2025/01/11/a...

DRAG! CHOLERA! SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE (v excited watching this Liverpool/Margate project develop... run by a group of excellent organisms. Folks should sign up and see what they are up to) fwdrag.art

It is January 13th 2035, the UK annual infrastructure budget has already be spent on self-driving Teslas that report imaginary potholes. The Amazon drones intended to fix them actually just send Chat-GPT generated pictures to Insta boasting they have "fixed another pothole for you woke fleshbags"

Sartre on snot

LOL at "our universities are flourishing", topped only by three countries following the UK out of the EU.

My nephew made me a top trump card and it's given me imposter syndrome