Turned this into a thread! Some initial thoughts on the reclaiming of nostalgia, heritage, family, home, and nationhood in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show (which had historian @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social as an advisor!).

Dearest hivemind: I'm gearing up for a brief residency and wanting to actually make some progress on my new project on faith, faithlessness, and the spiritual. Who are your favorite poets / books even tentatively related that you'd suggest? Queer and non-Judeo-Christian even better!

And here is Joan Hassall's 1973 wood engraving illustration to Austen's "Love and Freindship"--presumably picturing Laura and Sophia, as they faint alternately on the sofa

Exquisite work in this thread

Tonight!!!!

Loved doing this interview with the wonderful Ben Daniels and Anthony Lau about their rare revival at the National Theatre of a shocking Terence Rattigan play giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Stumbled on Punctuation Personified: or, Pointing Made Easy (London: John Harris, 1824), and I'm kind of in love. publicdomainreview.org/collection/p...

Philly! This is tomorrow! Come along!

@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk I am in you and it is the coolest thing🥰 www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/textil...

Still time to sign up for next week's BARS Digital Event!

Friends! We are looking for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in 17th century literature. Help me spread the word? It’s limited term, but I can promise wonderful students and lovely colleagues for a very nice bit of teaching experience… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Happy BandCamp Friday! There’s 20% off everything in my shop today. Use code DREAM, expires 11:59 Fri 6 Feb. Happy Friday & happy listening! 💚 angelinemorrisonmusic.bandcamp.com

We are beyond delighted about this article in @thequietus.com about The Black British Folk Collective - huge thanks to Patrick Clarke 🖤

Childhood forever, childhood for all ✊

Happy publication day to "Dance and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century"! So many thanks to Bloomsbury and all of the contributing authors who worked with Mark, Ian, and me to bring this volume together! We could not have done it without you! #dancehistory #18thcentury

Marie Spartali Stillman: Pre-Raphaelite muse and talented artist in her own right, whose own important work is often overlooked. More than just a model.

Please remind yourself that asylum seekers do not use taxis - the Home Office uses taxis to transport asylum seekers

cannot wait to talk about poetry + work this Saturday in the free nation of Philadelphia at Lot 49 books, with beautiful geniuses @keegancf.bsky.social and Gina Myers. Come along! Bring your friends enemies lovers comrades!

Groundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/

Monks in the ninth–eleventh centuries identified with bees to make sense of their place in medieval society. In bees, they found an ideal of communal life, selfless virtue, and chastity. By living with bees and writing about them, these monks forged a distinct, nonbeenary gender.

excited to host Johanna at Rutgers on February 19 for a panel on close reading today feat. brilliant contributors - come if you're local?

Absolutely this! And, like social media (but more permanent), what you've written in a particular context may well be revisited in a different one years later. People try to control how this happens but it doesn't always work.

NOW. Now it is the day. These are for shows from April 7-19.

AI: “do you want me to summarise this folder” Me: no, I want to open the folder and summarise it with my own eyes, a quaint process that I call “reading”

Btw, my gorgeous cover star is a gynandromorph gypsy moth, female on its left side, male on the right. It was caught in Berlin in July 1864 and pictured by German entomologist Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg in 1877. It makes more than one appearance in my book! #booksky #histsci #sts #queerhistory 🦋🌈📚🗃️

I have done my new compulsory "You have to be polite to the racists and transphobes" training for work. I think I can still call them that in terms of exercising *my* free speech and right to protest, so long as I do it politely.

Also, if you like this podcast, I have written quite a number of novels. I mention it only because a WHOLE BOOK GROUP came to my show last night and they were surprised to hear I'd ever published a book. And I've been publishing them since 2004 so that suggests I've got work to do on promotion.

One of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.

Just to say, this book has for a variety of reasons been a particularly hard write, and I’ve been beset by doubt until pretty much yesterday. But this feeling, when the flow happens, is just the best. Why would you ever want a machine to do this for you?

Snowdrops growing in a Scottish woodland.

There should be a lengthy German word to describe the feeling of being trans and enduring the deliberate witch hunt of 'you're a threat to children,' co-ordinated by the very people and systems who were and are active dangers to children, hiding in plain sight and celebrating their crimes together.

I have spent fifty years rolling my eyes at conspiracy theories where all the elite rich people are in a secret evil gang, and thrillers where everyone remotely important has the same Dark Secret, and now sodding look.

Honestly, reality can't plot for shit.

🌞 Spring Tour dates! Come along if I’m round your way. Full details & ticket info in bio or here, www.bandsintown.com/a/7187010-an... 🩷 #folksong #blackhistoryisbritishhistory

www.raceandregency.org/podcast We are so lucky to have brilliant Shruti Jain hosting and producing the @race-regency.bsky.social podcast!

Philadelphia you ARE perfect! See you next Saturday, Philly people <3

I received a graduate certificate in women's and gender studies from Texas A&M in 2018. If you know my work, you know how much that foundation shaped what I do. I'm not sure what else to say right now.

My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏 UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈📚🐵 US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗃️🦋

NEW TRAILER 👀

Sign the petition against University of Sheffield's shameful treatment of striking staff: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.

Who wants to learn more about medieval chivalry AND get to chat to me for an hour live every week (plus plenty of forum-based interaction also)? Of course you do: www.lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/medi... Please share with any friends who might enjoy it!

The Banff Centre is a wondrous place, and this award includes 100% tuition remission plus accommodation and meals! banffcentre.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?...

'A consultation run by the City of London Corporation and published on Thursday found that nearly 90% of respondents backed trans-inclusive access to the ponds' 💪🏳️‍⚧️❤️

A transphobic hate group tried to bring a case to ban trans folk from using the appropriately gendered pool at Hampstead Heath, as they’ve been doing for years. The case got dismissed. You wouldn’t know it from this headline.

bumping this in case anyone would like a free ticket to this concert (on Schubert's birthday!)

17th-century pews in a humanities lecture theatre at the University of Glasgow. James Boswell possibly sat on these while attending lectures by Adam Smith on moral philosophy in 1759. While a student here Boswell partied while at the same time became convinced he wanted to become a Catholic monk.

Hey! Anyone in the UK! Please do this! #UKHE is a clusterfuck and I can imagine even the MPs who do care are a bit overwhelmed. But this is something very concrete they can do. And it's crucial: we need an end to this short-sighted 'cost-saving' that wrecks long-term destruction.

THE RUFFS ARE BACK #earlymodern is SO hot right now! #Impact.