🚨Call for Papers! ❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day 🗺️Loughborough University 📅27 March 2026 💷 FREE For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for... Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at [email protected] for more information

lovely perspective view of the newly built Covent Garden market from 1831

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

The indispensable Carlyle Letters Online, guided by Brent Kinser, has found a new home at Western Carolina University: carlyleletters.wcu.edu This magnificent resource features free access to all of the letters of the 50-volume Duke-Edinburgh edition completed in 2023. #Victorian #19th-c.

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Join the team at Theatre Journal! We are seeking two new colleagues, an Online Editor and a Performance Review Editor. Please share widely and consider applying! Don't hesitate to reach out with questions.

You don’t have to be a climate scientist to know the Arctic is losing permafrost; in Svalbard, the dislocation is obvious even to an untrained eye... The Arctic Seed Vault Shows the Flawed Logic of Climate Adaptation | Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

✨AI's swift rise has reshaped academia—almost unnoticed! 🤔 A silent revolution unfolds… what will it mean for learning & the future? 🚀 #AIimpact Source: https://phys.org/news/2025-09-opposing-inevitability-ai-academia.html

Students want to create! With their own brains! UIC English is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in prose fiction. As we are one of the very few PhD programs in Creative Writing, PhD is strongly preferred. Happy to answer questions; please share around. uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

The journal Victorians (formerly The Victorian Newsletter) is out, with new format and new editor Kristen Pond, featuring a forum on amateurism and professionalization in science with intro by @aktange.bsky.social. Some terrific work here, and all is Open Access. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55573 #C19th

A thing I learned when I had small children, but seem continually to forget in relation to myself is that tired can actually point to hungry, and grumpy can mean tired.

#onthisday, 24 September 1927, #Bermondsey opened its £150,000 Grange Road Baths. Some papers lammed the council for providing 'luxurious' #TurkishBaths on the rates as they were well fitted out for a local authority facility. Gay friendly. Closed 1973—"structural defects". Demolished 1975. 🗃️ #C19th

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

She basically invented astrophysics. She proved the laws of chemistry, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics, not just gravity, applied universally. She determined the composition of the sun and primacy of hydrogen in the universe. She advised the PhDs of Frank Drake and Frank Kameny.

CHOTINER: So you’ve become very famous for hating fish AHAB: One fish in particular CHOTINER: Yes, I see that, and, in this case the fish is actually a whale AHAB: I’m not sure I see what you’re getting at

The thing I love about teaching close reading via the strike scene in North and South is 1) how easy students find it to identify language they think is important; 2) how that can build out to a bigger claim about humanisation or dehumanisation; and 3) how you can then get them to see the other side

After some delay on the part of yours truly 🙄 the recording of our Sept. #RSVPDigiEvent on grantscrafting is now live on YouTube. And just in time - Curran Fellowships are due in just a few short weeks on Oct. 15! Many thanks to our panelists + to Clare Horrocks for chairing! youtu.be/L5XRtqh1qoE

Rachel Calder examines how The Bookseller #tradejournal laid the foundation for the communication and information system that remains at the heart of today’s global #publishing industry. Read about founder Joseph Whitaker’s innovative strategies in VPR 58.1: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Carlos Vives carries the mantle of Colombia's vallenato tradition. Now 30 years after his landmark recording, he revisits songs from La Tierra del Olvido with a 12-piece band.

The Secret Service said it found over 300 SIM servers, 100,000 SIM cards and other illicit materials in multiple sites surrounding New York City ahead of the U.N. General Assembly.

Good peeps 🎉: My kid's principal. Big heart. Wise thinker. Great writer. High expectations. An impressive role model for all the students, but esp. for the Black ones. His kicks are always in the school colors. His energy is always positive w/o being sugary or fake. Signs newsletters "love y'all."

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

One of the things I really liked about S2 of “Andor” was how few Imperial Stormtroopers there were. Lucas put them in masks for two reasons, IMHO: 1) it made them terrifying, their inhuman faces frozen in frowns, with no pity, feeling, etc. Echo of his enforcer robots in THX-1138.

I was just thinking about a few years ago when my brother almost died; no family knew that he was unconscious in a hospital. Set up your emergency contact correctly in your phone, please. Hopefully, it'll never be needed, but if it is, it is all the difference in the world to your loved ones.

Do you have questions about how to secure funding for a research project in this challenging higher ed landscape? Get advice from the experts by joining us on 29 September for our free webinar, Supporting Faculty Research in Difficult Times. webinars.mla.org/webinar/supp...

OpenAI “found that o3—its most powerful system—hallucinated 33% of the time when running its PersonQA benchmark test…. The new o4-mini hallucinated at … 48%. When running another test called SimpleQA, which asks more general questions, the hallucination rates for o3 and o4-mini were 51% and 79%.”

Congrats to MFA nonfiction student Julia Oschwald Tilton who won the prose Epiphany 2025 Breakout Writers Prize! Judge Hilary Leichter noted: ”‘Fertile’ is a beautiful example of the way a single word, when examined carefully, can contain multiple registers of beauty, pain, and promise"

What a fabulous resource! Wedgwood's intellectual work occupied such a fascinating space within #C19 debates about religion, science, and women's work. What a treasure, to have #OpenAccess to her writings. {I also highly recommend Sue Brown's biography, which is cited in Stone's bibliography.}

We have a wonderful line up of keynote speakers for RSVP-Dublin: KATHERINE BODE (Australian National University) will deliver the Wolff keynote and ANDREW LEWIS and TEJA VARMA PUSAPATI will be in conversation for the Colby keynote! And you too can be there - submit a proposal by Nov 1.

This is a brilliant opportunity. Happy to answer any questions if anyone is interested in applying!

Victorianists: Got a new book? Want to review one? Hit me up! Next deadline's the end of this calendar year.

“Right to work” laws are a total scam. They silence American workers and keep them underpaid. The Nationwide Right to Unionize Act would solve this problem, and @repbradsherman.bsky.social and I want to get it done.

Google's AI has actually been trained largely by 2,000 workers paid between $16 to $21 an hour, according to new reports. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Good morning fellow #18thCentury #Romanticism and #DigitalHumanities friends! My monograph, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical will be out in March 2026! I hope you'll request that your library purchases a copy, & snag one for yourself! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

hey if you're going to @navsa2025.bsky.social & want to split a room with somebody to help keep costs down, the wonderful Kate Oestreich has built a crowdsourced roomshare page, which is available below and at the website: navsa.georgetown.edu

If a stranger were to materialize where I'm writing, they'd be hard press to guess the weather outside. Me: long pants, lightweight shirt. Person 1: short, summery skirt; lightweight dress shirt 2: long pants; two layers of shirt, including flannel 3: shorts; golf shirt 4: long pants; sweatshirt ❤️MN

@dessadarling.bsky.social making the podcast circuit! Looking forward to hearing her on Secrets from the Scene.😀 No snappy insights yet, but don't wait for me. Listen when you can; she puts words to ideas so well. Always a joy.

Postscript by Seamus Heaney who died twelve years ago today

Concerned that we are losing the necessary ratio. 15% of teachers/faculty should be irretrievably strange eccentrics. Every learning experience should have some element where in later life you can reflect with former classmates about how bizarre at least one (1) class per year was.

Fall Out Boy We didn’t start the fire update going back in time before LLMs. Cover song with new lyrics youtu.be/ijYSkpDoiFE?... Cambridge Analytica, 9/11

It's been a heartbreaking week here in Minnesota, but the ever so thin, personal silver lining was co-facilitating the @umnenglish.bsky.social grad orientation with wonderfully brilliant and compassionate colleagues.

My Dept of History at W. Michigan University in Kalamazoo is hiring an Asst/Associate Prof in African American History. Please come join us! 2-2 load/generous research & travel funding, diverse & culturally lively community/ free college in MI for kids. ?s welcome. www.wmujobs.org/postings/4277

All full up on relentless doom-scrolling for the moment. Back to contemplating wallpaper.

Unsurprisingly, some great philosophical discourse about today's realities and the past few decades between @amandaknox.com and @dessadarling.bsky.social. Restorative justice, beauty standards, racism/accountability, artistry, growing within ourselves through reflective practice.

Education is not just for work hours; it is for life:

Now reading. Fascinating to learn of the expert literary criticism readers of Good Housekeeping enjoyed in the 20s, from writers Virginia Woolf, Rose Macaulay, as well as novelist Clemence Dane. And how seriously women's magazines took their role in educating their newly enfranchised readers.

Sheridan le Fanu published his vampire novella 'Carmilla' in a magazine called 'The Dark Blue' between 1871 and 1872. I don't think I've ever seen a bound volume of The Dark Blue until today...and it's BEAUTIFUL! 💙 #c19th #vampires

Remember the tune "Little Boxes," written by Malvina Reynolds and popularized by Pete Seeger? A new, old recording from Prof Emerita--and legendary [email protected] finds Stekert taking on Reynolds’ “On the Rim of the World." From Stekert’s personal archives: ellenstekert.com