One of those days where I’m highly active from like 5 am to 10, then sleepy the rest of the day

I have returned from being away, to find this truly touching collection by @kathrynbeevor.bsky.social has arrived!🙌🏻 #PeakPoetry features poems by well known poets beside poems from schoolchildren. A fab idea, the poems are super AND book proceeds raised will go to KASIN, (Kids at School in Nepal) 👏🏻

Do I know anyone who somewhat likes me who is around Cambridge (UK, not US) at all for the foreseeable future and might want to dig around in an archive?

"I will say more about this below" is the academic equivalent of "just give me a second"

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

"a stages theory incites us to imagine what a radically different social formation of the future might be like: an effort of the imagination I have tended to call, following Marcuse+Bloch, The Utopian Impulse, without which political action seems to me impossible." Jameson, one year gone, eternal

Find I always do the best writing when I have one or two books open that I am actively reading and thinking about (and sometimes quoting from). The thing that used to frustrate me about academic works--their necessary limitations and gaps--become the places where I can fit in my own words

This was the best thing they had at the ren faire

My alter ego is a wizard-poet

What Will It Be Like To Be An Academic in Ten Years? #philsky #academia #highered #philosophy #education

“1630” from Songs for the Dead Not sure why but this poem has been bouncing around in my memory lately. #poem

“I need a way to remember where I was in my manuscript” “Ah, yes. Perfect…”

www.reddit.com/r/NotTimAndE... Man, things are not cool right now

Can’t read my own research publications (paywall). Can’t read the science news articles I’m interviewed for and quoted in (paywall). 🥹

Great poetry readings at Blackwell's Newcastle this week from @corrintachibana.bsky.social @samszanto.bsky.social and @marymulholland.bsky.social. Always lovely to meet a fellow @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social author too! @saltpublishing.com @livecanon.bsky.social

One of those days where I'm tired and all the articles are paywalled

The struggles of creative writing: so many unfinished projects and half-formed narratives, but none of them compare to the idea you just had...

The piece that comes closest to me to tackling Charlie Kirk not as a thinker-and-speaker-of-problematic-thoughts but as a doer of unfortunately world-influencing deeds is this one by Justin Ling www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/who-was-ch...

My new year's resolution for 2026 is now "be at a significant cognitive disadvantage"

It’s crazy that in 20 years scamming has gone from “I’m a prince who needs to transfer his fortune to you” to “hey I have a halfway decent job with okay benefits right here”

Small victories, like basing your D&D character on the name of your favorite Romanticist. No one has to know.

Question for academics/people who “do research”: do you feel like your family understands your work or why it is important to you?

A reminder that we're collecting for our 2025 contingent publication lists!

Just got Pat Metheny tickets on a whim. I've seen him three times before, but not since 2019!

In autumn, we don’t just eat, we feast on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Chapter 5 open, fork poised over literary delight, puzzle and sculpture to taste the story with our eyes… Savouring every detail of this classic this season.

Azure sea and sky. #RoyalCat #CatEmperor #MeowQuotes #Caturday #kitten #pet #cat #cats #cozy #CatLife #Meow #catlover #CatsOfInstagram #CatsofBluesky #CatMom #CatHumor #blueskyねこ部 #AIART

Absolutely #booksky

This looks crazy cool

The Creative Writing PhD-holder's version of white line fever is clicking on a job opening in "Creative Writing" when it actually says "College Writing"...

Remember that the online day of the BARS PGR & ECR conference is tomorrow! Find the full programme here: barsconference2025.wixsite.com/home (and in your email inbox if you’ve registered).

We'll have early paperbacks of #TheCompanyOfOwls at this event in Ambleside on 7th October - it's free to attend and open to anyone - come along if you can! #DorothyWordsworth #RomanticLegacies #LakeDistrictLit #CumbriaCulture #LakePoets #NatureWriting #Memoir #Biography #BookSky

Magic finally printing cards that I can relate to

Excited to announce that my article "Poetic Lines and Social Thought" is now published over at contempaesthetics.org/2025/08/28/p... An essay about #poetry #poetics and a little bit about aliens 👽

For #BARS2026 I kind of want to jump in to some of this labouring-class poetry that I included in my review of Fulford's edition (NOW AVAILABLE): doi.org/10.1080/1050... Could you do a retrospective on writing poems in your head while working at a mechanical job?

My article on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is out now! read.dukeupress.edu/eighteenth-c...

Dunno if I shared this one, me and @estellunaris.bsky.social in front of the River Cam 🤓

Huge thanks to all who attended the BARS 2025 Early Career and Postgraduates Conference! We had a wonderful time! See you this Friday 12th Sept for the online portion of the conference!

New video out on our TikTok page about Chloe’s trip to see Frankenstein: The Musical (directed by @catherinequirk.bsky.social) at Edge Hill University last month: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdqGJcBf/

Me: "No, I'm not jetlagged. I was only in the UK for 3 days" Also me: *gets up at 3 am to update CV and send out emails*

My review of Tim Fulford's "Robert Southey: Lives of Labouring-Class Poets" is available now from European Romantic Review (tandfonline.com).

im sorry man, there just some shit that matters to more than money. the ability for all people to have equal access to art and science, through any means necessary, is one of those things. your publisher is your enemy, not your audience

Didn’t get a full-time thing I really wanted. This is all I’m gonna say about it, but academia is so up and down. 😢

Post #BARS2025 thinking about how much we have to squeeze out every drop we can of intellectual (and sometimes moral) companionship—there’s never enough time (or space) but there’s always next time around.

I think if anyone asks what the theme of this BARS conference was, I’m going to say “portals” and leave it at that

My favorite part of this was seeing Coleridge’s marginalia in the first edition LB making changes to the Rime And also just the building itsellf 😍

✨ Fast facts about the Pforzheimer awards! - Who can apply: Grad students, untenured faculty, & independent scholars - Purpose: Expenses related to research in Romantic-era literature & culture - Award amount: $3,000 - Deadline: Nov. 1 Find more info & apply today! www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...

“… and wait for this whole thing to blow over.”

📣Incoming BARS Communications Fellow 2025-2026 📣 We received a number of very high quality applications for the Comms Fellow position. We are delighted to announce that the new Fellow working on the BARS Blog and social media in the next academic year is Chloe Wilcox (@sadpphicstanza.bsky.social)