Re-upping this with thanks to @cardiffbookhistory.bsky.social for shepherding this #Rom2Uni special issue through to publication and to all contributors for their patience and ideas and hard work 🖤🖤🖤

"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn." #HigherEd www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Delighted to receive these beauties in the mail today: the newly paperbacked volumes of The Cambridge History of the Gothic that I co-edited with @dalegothic96.bsky.social and @catherinespooner.bsky.social for @universitypress.cambridge.org

CFP for Special issue of Literature Compass in memoriam Simon James 500 word Abstracts due: 30th November 5000 word Essays due: 31 May 2026 With ALT text:

How English at www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/ is helping the NHS #EnglishCreates

More great impact from www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/ bringing literature and literary opportunities to new groups

And yet more: creative writing colleagues at www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/ help patients with long covid. More evidence that English can help to create a better, healthier world #EnglishCreates

your regular reminder that authoritarian populism will make your country corrupt and poor. look at Hungary

Join us for a two-day #DigitalHumanities workshop at Cardiff University, June 30–July 1. Open to postgraduates and early career academics: it's free but places are limited. £50 travel bursary available! Please share! @cardiffuni.bsky.social #dh

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

A fascinating post by @cardiffunilib.bsky.social Rare Books Librarian, Ken Gibb, about the artistry that accompanied American zoologist Daniel Giraud Elliot's 'Monograph of the Felidae' (1883). There are plenty of beautiful kitties to marvel at! #zoology #19thcentury #illustration #archives #cats

I seem to have upset the Nigel Farage fan club - so let me be clear. This man sows hate, lies and division. He is a grifter and a conman. He does not represent the vast majority of Britons. Repost if you agree P.s. multiculturalism is great.

Last day on Twitter / X for @wshed.bsky.social. Please support us in this conscious uncoupling by giving Watershed a follow and a boost - SO much of our business has come through that channel its a bit scary. www.watershed.co.uk/news/so-long...

Still at a loss for that crucial Christmas present all the family will love? Look no further than this wonderful essay collection on Ambient Stories in Practice and Research, ed. by Amy Spencer, the latest in our Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures series. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ambient-s...

‘The Female Vampire in Hispanic Literature’ edited by Megan DeVirgilis is out now! This is the first critical study of the female vampire in both Latin American and Spanish literatures 📚 Follow the link for more! www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-fem...

We pretty much follow back all PhD candidates 🫡 It’s tough out there 🥺

Our Ridiculous Book is *ridiculously* cheap (under £100) for whatever Black Friday is! The perfect present for the Romanticist in your life / your university library!!

Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.

King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £125m a year tax free from the tax payer and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed. But he still needed a 45% pay rise. Like if he needs a pay cut. RP if you want the Monarchy gone. #AbolishTheMonarchy

As I have somehow surpassed 7k followers on here I thought it might be nice to do a giveaway: All 7 of my books to one lovely winner. Just share and like to be in with a chance! 😁📚

Twitter didn't gain relevance by being the biggest platform, it gained relevancy through the quality of the content and individuals. The main goal for everyone here should be to encourage global defender, media, and establishment accounts to transition to #BlueSky. That'll provide legitimacy.

Delighted to announce the publication of some wonderful new #digitalcultures #digitalhumanities titles from our Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures (tinyurl.com/2wkze7dk), co-edited with @jenkidd.bsky.social.

Out now 📚 'Interspatiality: Inhabiting Literary Geography' by Sheila Hones goes beyond the interdisciplinary ‘literature and geography’ paradigm to consider literary geography as itself a specialist academic field. Read more: www.uwp.co.uk/book/intersp...

KLAXON: Call for Papers! Please spread the word. We are delighted to be co-hosting the next #englishsharedfutures @englishassociation.bsky.social Conference from 3-5 July 2025 and warmly welcome submissions. Further details here: englishsharedfutures.org/cfp #cfp 1/

www.englishsharedfutures.org/cfp Hope this is of interest to colleagues in English who have not yet spotted it. The last two conferences were excellent.