Carlisle's research/editing skills are so good--I have taken advantage of them multiple times. Hire them! (A message to chairs of search committees too . . . )

Oh good

See this is how I think universities should/can work. We have infrastructure, libraries, buildings, admin support and an absolute fuckton of smart, passionate people in ongoing jobs, being paid to research and teach. We are the epitome of WE CAN JUST DO THINGS underreacted.leaflet.pub/3m23gqakbqs2j

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theatre as a kid (back when the screen was spangled with cigarette smoke):

Looking to the following week, 10/7 we've a public, virtual talk by Anouk Lang combining literary study & critical making: "plotspaces", 3D-fabricated sculptural objects representing the spatial+scalar shifts in a poem. Open to all (register for zoom info):

Boston-area friends, if you're in the vicinity of Harvard tomorrow, please come to @harvardbookstore.bsky.social for a conversation about novels, LLMs, public opinion polls, collages, cut-ups, and patchwork with me and @tomcomitta.bsky.social. It will be a wild ride--hope you can join us for it!

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

Ah the sweet revolutionary taste of Lemsip.

I've posted on Substack about my PhD research. I'm writing about the way White children's writers have worked within the fantasy genre to explore a different relationship to Country than the realist "everything in Australia will kill you" mode allowed. open.substack.com/pub/msmisrul...

oh my god new life plan for my widowhood

This is so wholesome I don’t know what to do with my face.

Okay, my feed is full of US politics at the moment and I have a question, which is: how come it is called both "acetaminophen" and "paracetamol"? I thought drugs were like... species? with a single Latin name? 🤔

One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.

Unimelb is on Bluesky! QUICK LOOK BUSY

Moo Deng is getting do teenager 😍😍😍

OMG there is only one answer and it is D

The media and politicians must recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm SIGN HERE! notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.

it's a shame that Disney was allowed to snatch up all the entertainment IP, but on the upside, now that creative folks are deciding not to work with them, we might get cool new stuff that isn't a rehashed marvel story or being shoehorned into Star Wars

They’re only Tim Tams if they come from the Tim Tam region of Australia. Otherwise they’re just:

Oh my God this reminded me that we were talking about the new Spinal Tap movie and I found out that MY GIRLFRIEND HAS NEVER SEEN THIS IS SPINAL TAP! So much joy awaits us

Um @unamccormack.bsky.social ?

Forbidden riff bsky.app/profile/mkir...

Yayy!

I was interviewed in WE WILL RISE AGAIN: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope, out from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social on December 2nd. You can preorder the collection now at www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...!

I think a lot about Saruman lately. He claims to join Sauron becuase it’s impossible to resist the might of Mordor, he’s simply powerless against him etc, but then it’s Saruman, not Sauron, who causes almost all the problems for the fellowship in the first two books.

This book sounds amazing

Mine has bookable Playstation 4 and Nintendo Switch consoles, a food bank, an exhibition of art by local artists, and three separate apps (one for ebooks, one for audiobooks, one for comics and graphic novels) for instant borrow/download

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Snapshot of middle-aged/middle-manager/ lesbian life: we’ve just heard that my gf’s ex died this week, so I’m driving Q to a mutual friend’s place so they can reminisce while I sit in a corner catching up on work that needs doing before Monday

It was more than 2 seasons but I still don’t understand why Warehouse 13 was not massive. Created by @janeespenson.bsky.social, many Star Trek guest stars, unbelievable chemistry in the ensemble cast, great plotting, CCH Pounder, a gay Buddhist, and the best version of Running Up That Hill

The University of Melbourne English and Theatre Studies Statement on the closure of Meanjin. 12 September 2025

This is why AI art is dead inside; the thing wrong with it can never be wrong with you.

Quote posting so I can pin this

Hey, Bostonians & more far-flung friends, the Novel Theory seminar I co-convene at Harvard has a cool line-up for the fall: a roundtable on the Novel in the Age of AI, Margaret Cohen on Claire de Duras, JC Cloutier on Nick Drnaso. You are so welcome to join us! (occasionally even on Zoom)

Well look what's out today! It's the paperback of the rather splendid "Autobiography of Mr Spock", as told by me, and published by @titanbooks.bsky.social! #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW #StarTrekTOS #StarTrekDis #Spock titanbooks.com/9648-the-aut...

Proofs! I hope that novel people and #19thc people will like this essay on Ali Smith & her remaking of Victorian serial fiction (hey, I hope that people like and read Ali Smith!). Many thanks to @ceyingst.bsky.social for their help in the final stages of the essay's preparation.

As we head into the new academic year in Australia, I'd like to reshare this document of #neurodivergent study tips that I compiled. It's based entirely on tips by neurodivergent people, and I have had learning advisors tell me it was very helpful and had good info. #historysky #academicsky 1/3

Heading into my second year in Melbourne, have I got the seasons right? 1. Too cold 2. Pollen 3. Too hot 4. Wet leaves everywhere

Started the day with 219 emails, finishing it with 37, THANK YOU FROG FRIENDS

Talking Country at VU in 2026! Submit a paper! I will possibly be there revisiting my book Now and Rome and talking about what happens to Arendt when you think about Country rather than the polis as the organising principle of human (and more-than-human) plurality www.vu.edu.au/30th-FILLM-C...

tackling the inbox at the end of the day with a combination of ASMR whispering and frog noise mynoise.net/NoiseMachine... mynoise.net/NoiseMachine...

I wrote for Crikey about the decision to shut Meanjin down - and to sever a connection to a hopeful progressive vision of Australian culture

#18thc pals, pls RT: @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social & I are assembling a roundtable for the American Society for 18th-C Studies mting in Philly in April, on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century. Abstracts due 9/22. Pls help us think together about this fabulous novelist's wayward ways with our period & its 📚.

you mean to tell me TALKING ABOUT FEELINGS is an essential survival skill and the first skill squashed by oppressors?

I’ve said this before but one of the weird things about being in a relationship with a big age gap is having to recategorise celebrities one at a time from “super old” to “same age as my partner”. It’s been 22 years and I did not realise I was on with someone older than Chrissie Hynde!

People who live in shame will never be able to help anyone else break free & it shouldn't be up to them.

It's the half anniversary of the publication of Binding Media and it is still half off (only $37.50!!) until Sept 8 during the end-of-summer sale at @stanfordpress.bsky.social

As an activist who helped lead the campaign against Robodebt, I can only think back to the days when legal scholars told us we had no chance of winning in court, and how I thought, fuck it, we’ll keep fighting anyway The Robodebt class action payout is now the largest *ever* in Australian history