Call for Papers – BSLS Winter Symposium 2026: Alternate Histories of the Body. 30th January 2026. See full CfP here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...

📣 CFP British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 2026 -- "Alternate Histories of the Body" I'm very excited to be organising this together with Lloyd Maedhbh Houston! 🥳 Send us your abstracts by November 21! #academicsky #callforpapers #literatureandscience

Look on my new triceratops fabric and rejoice! (She's going to be napkins for my friend)

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

If you’re working on any area of fantasy and the fantastic, come and join us at Glasgow in June 2026 and do consider presenting or running a workshop! All the info you need and the full CFP is here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20... @uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

This review is AMAZING. Go read it if you're at all interested in rail infrastructure.

CfP: BSLS Annual Conference 2026 The twenty-first annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Strathclyde, on 9th-11th April 2026 (in person). Details including CfP here: bsls.ac.uk/conference20...

As they say, when you invent the wheel, you invent the parking violation. But Assyrians had a solution. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...

JOB KLAXON (fully funded PhD in Environmental Humanities in the literary studies department at Ghent University)

Martian tripods on the VPR! I wonder why... 😁

A moment of silence for all the informative footnotes that simply have to go. Your minutiae will live on in my memory in place of more useful things forever. 😢

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

It's out! 🥳 My 2024 Rosemary VanArsdel Prize-winning essay on the differences between the serialised and book versions of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds has just appeared in the Victorian Periodicals Review. If you're interested in science, genre, and serial novels' audiences, check it out 👇

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

This sounds great, and I think would translate to historicist literary criticism fairly well

Congrats to yevhenyashchuk.bsky.social for his #VanArsdelPrize winning essay “‘A Special Correspondent of the Times Sends a Telegram from Odessa’: Kyiv Newspapers, Victorian Media, and the Translation of the International Crisis in 1875–78.” Learn about VPR’s prizes at rs4vp.org/awards. @rs4vp.org

Bicycle tracks on Mars actually go way back! At the end of the nineteenth century, (some) astronomers were observing straight lines all over the surface of Mars -- the so-called Martian canals. The decades around 1900 saw dozens of theories about what those lines might be. 1/

I am so here for allll the applied fantasy research

One of the abiding pleasures of living in a Dutch-speaking place is the many signs for poets' bureaus and vacancies for poets. Of course, in Dutch these are cleaning services, but every time I walk past the poets' room in the Faculty of Arts it makes me smile.

Accidentally poured C-3PO on my coffee today

What a fabulous thread!

Hello! If you have a position at a UK university please sign this thanks

Whoever it is going round Glasgow putting daft signs on stuff, please keep up the good work. Thanks.

we're experiencing a reality famine in which people retreat into imaginary worlds — narrative and virtual. /x

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

Sharing this far and wide--great opportunity for ECRs and PGRs to organise a themed online symposium with the support of the British Society for Literature and Science! #academicsky

For the past year or so, my colleagues and I have been working with the authors of Our Bodies Ourselves, as well as the successor org to the Boston Women's Health Course Collective to digitize the very early printings of this once (and still) radical text: ourbodiesourselves.org/the-latest/b...

Just over two more weeks to submit to the BSLS/JLS essay prize - open to all PGRs and ECRs, the prize comes with publication in the Journal of Literature and Science and £100 prize money. www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/04/call...

applying for jobs again

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie 99th Percentile Girls

Dr Guyton at last! On Tuesday I defended my dissertation, "Popular Astronomy: Mediating Outer Space in German and British Periodical Culture, 1890-1950." #PhDone

I have waited my whole life, for this moment....

Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation.

Is there a weird archivists starter pack? I want to follow more people who are absolute perverts for niche collecting/preservation and who post pics of stuff they love

"I said I never liked the Escariats. I did. Yeah. They were the very same in school." I've listened to this three times, and laughed harder and harder each time.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

If you take a video of coatimundi, and play it in reverse, you’re suddenly in Jurassic Park! 🦕 🔊 sound up 📽️Joan Mellera

Excellent start to the week.

You know you're a real author when you party too much and wake up hung oeuvre

I am so excited to announce that I have migrated my Gutenbot over from Twitter (Musk killed it back in 2023)!! the Gutenbot posts a false invention attribution to Johannes Gutenberg once a day. These silly & very false attributions question the narrative of Gutenberg’s print achievements & legacy.

Today I handed in my dissertation. It was sunny. 😊

Oh come all ye people, the fish-doorbell is back! visdeurbel.nl/en/

I am still proud of having quoted the Season One theme song "Cheer Up, Hamlet" in my A-level English Lit coursework. "Your incessant monologising fills the castle with ennui, Your antic disposition is embarrassing to see, And by the way, you sulky brat, the answer is "to be"!" Watch and enjoy.

This is AMAZING, we should all know that Machiavelli was a pancake nerd.

Cool book, you guys!