If you're a Guy Gavriel Kay fan, check out the latest instalment of Philip Chase and Evan's GGGKR series. This one is about The Darkest Road (the third book of The Fionavar Tapestry). #booktube #fantasy www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMQf...

Want to come work in my Film Studies department in Ottawa, Canada, for a year? Application deadline is March 6. All areas of specialization welcome. Please spread the word! @carleton.ca carleton.ca/deputyprovos... #filmstudies #jobopportunity

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

most of all, fuck everybody who sees romance as a cash register rather than a genre worthy of respect. the booktok to AI slopfest pipeline has been the most grim, depressing downward spiral. it sucks.

This is actually fascinating.

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Consider applying to be the new editor of the German Studies Review. Applications due by this Friday, February 6: www.thegsa.org/blog/cfa-gsr...

You may only just have recovered from #BSECS2026, but our hardworking reps are already planning our #PGR #ECR conference, University of Montpellier Paul-Valery, 3-4 September 2026 on 'Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation' Deadline for submissions: 13 March 2026 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

If you care about Don Lemon, don't forgot Mario Guevara (reporter who was filming police at a No Kings rally in June) was targeted for his journalistic activity; detained for 112 days; and deported. He had no criminal charges against him and was on the path to getting a green card.

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We had eradicated this disease. And now because of targeted disinformation, children, immunocompromised people, elderly folks, and so many others become victims in this proxy war and we have a new avoidable pandemic.

Very exciting job announcement! Permanent early medieval (Britain and/or Europe) teaching post at KCL. I know first-hand that this is a great opportunity to work with amazing colleagues and students. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

A lovely thread of dogs who love the snow. In case you also need that this morning.

Call for Papers: The Third International Asian Stardom, Celebrity and Fandom Conference The Technologies of Asian Stardom, Celebrity and Fandom Conference University of Nottingham Ningbo China Date: 23–25 October 2026 live-china-uon.cloud.contensis.com/en/humanitie...

CFP: EUPOP 2026 – Spectacle Revisited Individual paper and panel contributions are invited for the thirteenth annual international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), 1–3 July 2026. Deadline: 28 February 2026 Find out more 👉https://ow.ly/Qo5y50XU7zn

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to TV on the Radio (3 times) Wolf Parade Franz Ferdinand Bambara Future Islands (3 times)

Call for Papers: IJDS is accepting submissions for an upcoming special issue, "Mothers of the Magical Kingdom: Disney and Maternal Figures." We encourage critical engagement with how Disney mediates maternal power, agency, vulnerability, and identity. Full CfP: drive.google.com/file/d/1SScR...

The deadline for submitting a proposal for the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association annual conference is 30 Jan digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026-annual-.... The conference is 15-16 June and this year’s theme is Sustainability (broadly defined).

⏰ You have one week left to submit an abstract for GIFCon 2026! ⏰ Our theme is Technologies of the Fantastic, and the deadline for submission is January 18th The full CfP and all information can be found via the link in our bio #Fantasy #FantasyConference #CallForPapers #GIFCon #GIFCon2026

A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Apropos which: recommendations for anything on embodied experiences of ordinary/everyday mobility (e.g. not "travel" or "travel writing") in C18th England?

Happy 13th birthday to the most essential artwork of the current era, @kcg.bsky.social ‘s “This is fine,” to all those who celebrate.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Grants! We are offering small grants (maximum £500 each) to support projects in book history & bibliography. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections. Application is brief; deadline is 27th February 2026. Details at oxbibsoc.org.uk/grants/

It’s New Year’s EVE not New Year’s STEVE

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

Still seeking. I know someone must have received these in a Lucky Bag and gone "oh but it's so...pink."

Medievalists: has anyone ever written on the impact that C19 vicars had on the editing and discussion of medieval sources? I’ve no idea where to start with this, but recently wanted to explore it as a side project… 🧐

This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:

I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!” And I hate to say it But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas Quit.

The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society has a new website that is well-worth checking out for details of the annual conference, journal, and news of the inaugural ECR bursary, which was awarded to @mzukovs.bsky.social. The next bursary will be announced shortly. www.ecis.ie/news-events/

Have you heard?! We currently have 2 vacancies on the #BSECS Council: 1. Postgraduate Representative 2. Communications Officer (working with me!) Posts are voluntary but #BSECS pays travel and accommodation costs, the term of office is 3yrs. Details here: www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...

genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.

Dear Santa, If I’ve been naughty, it was done gently, with good intentions and excellent manners And if we’re being honest, quite charmingly.

Guy Gavriel Kay fan? Check out his recent talk about fantasy and history at the University of Manitoba. (with chapters so you can jump to the main event 😉) youtu.be/NrKd1jRP_X0

My life's work lies in ruins The Center for European Studies, the African Studies Center, the Carolina Asia Center, the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies are all slated to close.

Come work with us! The History Department at the University of Guelph has launched our search for a tenure-track position in the History of the Middle East. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

Vacancy: Assistant Professor of Celtic, with a specialism in Old Irish, University of Cambridge. #MedievalSky www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

I also feel like his body of work really disproves the persistent claim that joyful, hopeful, funny, romantic or lighthearted stories are inherently intellectually lesser and can't be Real Art

On Thursday I’m talking at the Society of Antiquaries about how 19th-century editors dealt with the scandalous contents of Pepys’s diary (and who leaked the unpublishable bits) 👀 The talk is live-streamed and tickets are free www.sal.org.uk/event/samuel...

The memory of the mass femicide at Polytechnique is still painful. Today marks the 36th anniversary of the Montreal massacre, where 14 women — students at Université de Montréal’s École Polytechnique — lost their lives in a mass shooting motivated by misogyny. #December6

This came to me in a dream

Heads up! Share widely! An opportunity to work with their new chair DaMaris Hill, be in a great region of the country, and join a legendary institution! morgan.peopleadmin.com/postings/8399

I honestly think that a lack of understanding of asexuality and compulsory sexuality is a big issue that we to rarely see addressed. If you don't understand that our society is allonormative, you will continually conflate sexuality and trangression/resistance 1/

How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?

Call For Papers: #CFP #Film ‘Stars and Screen’ #Cinema and #Media #History Virtual #Symposium, May 16, 2026 Proposals Due: February 1, 2026 starsandscreen.blogspot.com/2025/10/call... #CinemaStudies #MediaStudies #FilmStudies #conference #CallForPapers #CinemaHistory #MediaHistory #FilmHistory

We have MA scholarships available for theses on 18th-century/Romantic poetry and/or settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty in poetry and other literary forms ... details here! www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.