A thread of how to say “nobody asked you” from around the world, starting with this one… A Lithuanian way of telling someone to mind their own business is ne tavo kiaulės, ne tavo pupos. It means “not your pigs, not your beans.”

ICYMI: The impact of small creative businesses in the UK in international markets is outstripping the rest of the economy says a new report from Newcastle University, with publishing exports rising in particular 👇 #BookSky

Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

Dental Phantom, c.1898. Or, what it feels like to live in 2025. The dental phantom was first created by the Glaswegian dentist Eduard Oswald Fergus a few years earlier as a tool for students to practice their craft before working on human subjects.

Honored for @equityunbound.bsky.social to be among the shortlisted nominees for the OE Global Awards on "How We Share" alongside the work of Mays Imad awards.oeglobal.org/2025-finalis...

Ok, all aboard, let’s go. #pynchon #shadowticket

Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza FAO, UNICEF, WFP & WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire & unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger & malnutrition.

Fraudulent scientific papers appear to be subject to a kind of Moore's law: the number of suspect papers has "doubled every 1.5 years—10 times faster than the rate of growth of the literature as a whole." 🧪

HUGE DAY My editor copies of 'Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' arrived!! I'm so excited for this to be out in the world (officially 7th Aug) The volume asks 'what would a neurodivergent framework for literary studies look like'?

We have a new review on the website! Anatolii Kozlov reviews Stuart J. Taylor's, Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/05/tayl...)

Many thanks to @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social for such an attentive review of my book for @thebsls.bsky.social . Don’t miss out 😉: If it’s not already in your libraries, go ahead and ask your lovely librarians.

Thanks @thetattooedprof.bsky.social foe the shout out to my scope of practice model. Check it out y’all! #HigherEd #FacDev

Come and join this event at the NLS tomorrow where @sudlow-mckay.bsky.social and myself will be representing @edinburghnapier.bsky.social's Heritage Collections to talk about the nurses at Craiglockhart War Hospital (1916-1919). There's still time to register! www.tickettailor.com/events/edinb...

Delighted to share the news that my first book, Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction, is out now and available from Palgrave Macmillan. Huge thanks to all involves. Tell yir libraries 😉https://bit.ly/4af4YQy

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