Starmer’s defenders are doing their utmost this morning to remind us that the overriding loyalty of British government is not to the electorate or parliament but to the bond markets.

Ask yourself: how can I embody Leonora Carrington smearing her period across Buñuel's ugly love nest today?

The Ripples

circulating amongst the gay millennials

🚨 1 in 4 staff at Goldsmiths to be axed. All while senior management get eye-watering pay rises and £16m is spent on consultants and lawyers. This is the reality of Higher Education in the UK. Our members have voted for industrial action, support them. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1447...

Very excited to share my first ever published article exploring the presentation of queer loneliness in Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers and Francis Lee’s God’s Own Country! Available to read open access at the link: doi.org/10.1080/0091...

I made the mistake of commenting on an instagram reel about local communities being unable to access universities. What was interesting is how many people (including students and librarians) think unis exist solely for paying students and their gates should be shut tight for anyone who doesn’t pay

Oh my god!!!

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Humble brag about receiving some really positive peer review comments for an article I wrote!

One thing about me is, I could spot the top of Bjork’s head from a mile away

The inevitable next stage of academic publishers profiting from academics' work is here - scraping it for AI then charging subscriptions for access to the AI summaries, and then again for the citations. Academic content assetization as we called it in a recent paper. www.science.org/content/arti...

The thesis has been handed in, the existential crisis has begun

What if I just submitted my thesis this week?

Okay everybody! Please help me with this! Universities everywhere are increasingly awful, so let's put together some New Year's Resolutions to help them get better! I'll start! 1) Stand up for the importance of good education for good lives for people, society, and planet.

#modwrite Having finished my christmas job- I’m finally getting round to submitting my proposal for BAMS/ MSA Weird Modernisms, and correcting typos in my thesis manuscript.

Christmas reading

This averages out at a violation roughly every four hours, around the clock, continuously since 10 October. At what point do we stop calling it a ceasefire when Israel has just literally not ceased firing

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏 Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections. In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

Anyone know of any journals accepting poems (preferably queer leaning but I’m amenable)? all my usual spots are closed ☹️

Library day- finishing up the final chapter of the thesis on queer objects in Orlando!

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Gen AI has been trained and developed in ways that no university research ethics committee would approve. And yet as academics we supposedly need training in how to use it ‘ethically’…

Did some mandatory gen AI training. Unfortunately, I was given an opportunity to provide feedback.

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Goodbye #woolf2025 My first Woolf conference. Leaving with a ton of ideas of things to read and consider in my thesis.

Pre #Woolf2025 visit to charleston

Just in time for the end of pride, a poem of mine in queerlings issue 9 www.queerlings.co.uk/issues

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Finally starting work on a ‘new’ thesis chapter (new in the sense that it was the first chapter I thought of but, two years later, am only just drafting) which means spending the day re-reading Orlando!

No grift has ever come to a dead stop like "Free Speech On Campus". Months of headlines when Oberlin changed some cafeteria wording. But when students are kidnapped and imprisoned - from universities denied billions on speech grounds - the free speech zealots roll up the medicine tent and skip town.

Wondering if anyone knows where I might find a possible home for an essay on queer loneliness in All of Us Strangers and God’s Own Country, and/or a review of Charlie Porter’s Nova Scotia House (needn’t be ‘academic’)

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

Today’s poetry haul from @toppingsbath.bsky.social

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

So excited to find out that my paper ‘“Pausing to watch the boys bathing in the Serpentine”: Sexually Dissident Bathing with Duncan Grant in Jacob’s Room’ has been accepted for the 34th Virginia Woolf conference!!

Reader: no, it's fucking not.

#modwrite Sat in bed and (very slowly) editing a new thesis chapter on ‘queer moments of being’

Come see me! Panel 9 – 4-5:30pm

The Kelvingrove Review (Glasgow’s student run home for PGR and ECR reviews) are excited to announce our call for cover art!

For #ModWrite we have a packed autumn issue of The Modernist Review. We also bid farewell to senior editors @jenniferashby.bsky.social & Serena Wong as this is their last full issue as Reps! Yours, Jennifer, Serena, Jung Hsin Hsieh, Jingjing Cao, & Ryan O'Shea