Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...

Make a Bond movie academic No Time to Cry

@randongenerator.bsky.social and I did a little something over the last few years 👀🥳

An interview with @randongenerator.bsky.social and @sandropology.bsky.social, the guest editors of our latest issue 'Novel Media / Media Novel' 👩🏽‍💻🧑🏽‍💻👨🏽‍💻 c21.openlibhums.org/news/873/

@amreibahr.bsky.social additional material zum heutigen 'Arbeit in der Wissenschaft' Newsletter 🫠🙃😪

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Applications are now open for the School of Modern Languages PhD scholarship. The successful recipient will receive full tuition fees and an annual stipend paid at a rate set by @uniofstandrews.bsky.social: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

There's lots of brilliant research internships & artist residencies here from @sgsah.bsky.social (nb only for current PhD researchers in Arts & Hums in Scotland, due to our funding source), but I'll highlight some of the publishing & literary ones, nb deadline 31 Oct ... 1/ bsky.app/profile/sgsa...

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

Watching different scenes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail for teaching prep - I think my life is peaking 😍

Der CDU-Politiker Lübcke wurde von einem AfD-Wahlkämper erschossen. SPD-Politiker Ecke wurde krankenhausreif geschlagen, mutmaßlich von AfD-Fans. Alice Weidel & ihre Faschisten werden da friedlichen, demokratischen Protest bei einem Interview aushalten. Lasst die Täter nicht Opfer spielen.

My favourite quote from this (which rings true so loudly) is: "Liberal learning occurs in dialogue with those who object to us, who offer a different perspective or experience — who read the same book as us in a completely different light."

Excellent representation of @standrewsenglish.bsky.social in this book with essays by my supervisor James Purdon and @dranindyar.bsky.social 😍 Go give it some love!

Do you want to work with us? 7 PhD positions, full time, for 3 years, at the faculty of humanities at NTNU (Trondheim): www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Deadline for applications is 15 October, applicants must align the application with one of the relevant research groups (see the call for details).

Cologne

Requesting signatures and circulation assistance for this letter, please. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

📢Our new website is finally live! Visit us at www.bacls.org to: * sign up for membership * apply for the 2025 BACLS Prizes * nominate yourself to become part of the BACLS Executive Committee and much more!

We’re in great company in our panel on ‘Speculative Fiction, Speculative Politics’ with papers by @sandropology.bsky.social on spy fiction and @thehubble101.bsky.social on Ken MacLeod. @bacls.bsky.social #WHN25

Getting stuck while we're writing is a feature, not a bug. It's the point of the exercise. It's what happens when we are trying to express something we have not expressed before. That friction forces us to make the tools we need to understand and express it. Getting stuck is how we make meaning.

We have a new review on the BSLS website, Sandro Eich has reviewed Paul Hamann-Rose's Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/05/hama...)

OfS does not know cost of Sussex inquiry. After I sent an FOI request, the Office for Students refused to divulge the known costs it incurred during its probe into free speech at the Uni of Sussex, & said it doesn't know how much it spent in total. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising an open ended lectureship in Early Modern English Literature at Glasgow. Details here, and please share: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

📢Exciting opportunity: @c21literature.bsky.social is seeking a new editor for a three-year term, to start on 19th May 2025 C21, the journal of BACLS, is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication & circulation of 21C writings. More details on the role: c21.openlibhums.org/news/793/

The state is now disappearing people, in this case another graduate student, because of their political beliefs. This is fascism. We have arrived. Where is Rumeysa Ozturk?

I got my first payment today and it properly paid off!! 😍 How is this not communicated to PGRs on day 1 when they arrive at their university!?!!

632 job cuts have been proposed by the executive team at the University of Dundee. Today we launch our first full-length video that highlights the devastating impact this news is having on staff, and how this will affect Dundee. Please share to amplify our voice. #WeAreThe632 youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI

Tenure didn’t protect anyone at Columbia. Let this be a lesson in the need for labor solidarity across all ranks in higher ed.

Regierungssysteme in der globalen Demokratiekrise. @transcript-verlag.bsky.social verlost 5 Ex. meines Buches. Der Blog argumentiert, dass nicht alle demokratischen Regierungssysteme gleich anfällig für die Autokratisierung sind. Teilnahme durch Teilen! blog.transcript-verlag.de/globale-demo...

“I have been watching my friends lose their postgraduation jobs and seeing layoff announcements at places where I thought I might work. The opportunities we worked so hard to pursue are evaporating in front of us. Some are considering leaving the country after graduation.”

Want some new poetry for your friday morning? Check out our second issue of the Seaford Review! We are very thankful to all the poets who trusted us wirh their work 💖 www.seafordreview.com/p/issue-two

Our wonderful colleague Usha explains how the current financial crisis and proposed 632 FTE job cuts is affecting her right now. Many colleagues feel the same way. The "recovery plan" needs to be scrapped. It's had a devastating effect on staff and students. #WeAreThe632 #SaveDundeeUni #SaveHE

🎤 Join SUP's @dominiquewalker.bsky.social, @paulmclarke.bsky.social and Dr Richard Marsden to learn more about #OpenAccess book publishing! 📅 When: 27 March 10:00 - 10:45am (GMT) 📍 Where: Online Register: research.open.ac.uk/events/open-... @openuniversity.bsky.social #OUOpenResearchWeek2025

Roses are red Violets are blue

Every time university senior managers tell you they care, show them this little detail from Dundee.

Oh to be severed and live as one of the goat people 😩🥰

Philosophers: spread the word, apply, come to St Andrews, have research fun with us! philjobs.org/job/show/28814

Literature scholars and international relations scholars should have some sort of battle-of-ideas contest on the term "realism"

My favourite kind of hypocrisy is University VCs wanting to be protectors and champions of knowledge and then shutting down entire humanities devisions to save a few quid (Times article from 2022, THE article from this week) @ucu.org.uk

Diese vollkommen sinnlosen Liveblogs, die nur Zitate wiedergeben, müssen wirklich aufhören. Das ist kein einordnender Journalismus, das ist leere Aufschreiberei. Vance ist ein Faschist und tagesschau.de macht sich so zu seinem Sprachrohr.

Footnote game is strong today

Die Polizei hat heute in Senftenberg (Brandenburg) einen Sprengstoffanschlag auf eine Geflüchtetenunterkunft verhindert. Ein 21-Jähriger aus Sachsen wurde festgenommen, neben Waffen wurden mehrere Kugelbomben sichergestellt. Das zugespitzte rassistische Klima ermächtigt auch zu solchen Taten. 1/2

It is high time we asked 'what is the academic reason for your suggested cuts'? Because administration, however essential, should not be the factor for cuts. And cutting 'cheap' Humanities departments solves nothing, when the issues are at the top. /7

How I think I look when teaching / How I actually look

"Some subjects may not seem to contribute much on a spreadsheet, but they all contribute to a “university”, as we once understood the word." but also, SHAPE disciplines contribute a *lot* to spreadsheets. The question is what kind of data we deem to be important.

chng.it/rKzSyXwCmr Please sign and share widely ✍️🔄

At the end of a terrible day for UK Higher Education, Research Professional News has a damning scorecard of failure, with 750 jobs under threat just at Cardiff, Kent, Durham and the University of East Anglia.

Call for Papers: British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies – What Happens Now Conference (BACLS-WHN) 10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling Proposal Deadline: Friday, 7 February docs.google.com/forms/d/1MQD...