PLS REPOST: "The collection is a powerful rebuttal to the notion of the integral relationship of disability—medieval and otherwise—with sin, stigma, and shame. So doing, it recentres medieval disability history as a lived history that merits exploration and celebration." www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Here are 10 ways to honor autistic people! While #AutismAwareness has a role, especially in spaces where autism info is bad/absent, autistic people deserve the love & respect that come with #AutismAcceptance — not merely acknowledgment that autism exists: thinkingautismguide.com/2023/10/ten-... 1/

Our next English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare webinar is on 7 April at 6pm. This month we will be exploring The #Tempest with Dr Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social & Professor Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social. The webinars are free and open to all! Book now >>

Good galloping Providence, the Atheist’s Tragedy was a perfect piece of theater, #Shax2025. Who knew predestination could be so hilarious? Bravi, MBU MFAs! Woot!

Actual libraries also have immense ethical value for making books / media / resources available for free while compensating the creators. We don't need a new system that cuts them out to give tech companies more profits.

Check out our cfp below for Shakespeare/Movement 👇🏻 Ellie and I will be at SAA/RSA next week for in-person chat or just lmk if you have any questions. Exciting! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A week to go until #Shax2025 & #RSA2025 and I presume everyone has now completed their crucial research? By which I mean what are the best bookshops, diners, and places to see while Shakespearing in Boston? Recommendations welcome! @saaupdates.bsky.social #Shakespeare #earlymodern

Tonight! Lights on at the Blackfriars with me talking about Lear and madness! Tickets: americanshakespearecenter.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/ins...

There's still time to make a change 🗣️ Add your name to this author-organised letter and encourage the government to change its course on copyright exemption for generative AI use of creatives works docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #CreativeRights #ArtificalIntelligence #PayTheCreator

We need to act now if we are to save our Arts. Here’s my new blog on Brexit, the Arts Council and my personal experience of “levelling up” raenicholls.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/a...

If you work in the creative industries, please give feedback on this government public consultation on AI and our copyright. ALCS provides help here with answering the questions, and you don’t have to answer every question to submit it. The consultation ends SOON, Feb 25th:

This also means that registration is open! Early Bird fees until 31 March, don't miss out on those (we're a feathery society after all... 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦‍🔥) Registration details and form: www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-biennial... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

The American Shakespeare Center’s new Little Women is a beautiful, moving production which has so much to offer the present moment in its exploration of the costs of doing the right thing, and the solidarity on which we depend. Here’s my review: cometothepedlar.home.blog/2025/02/08/t...

Are you a #ShaxGrad attending #Shax2025 in Boston? Join the FREE symposium hosted by the SAA Graduate Committee: How to Navigate SAA as a Grad Student: A Virtual Q&A Friday, February 21 at 2pm EST / 11am PST on Zoom. Register at https://buff.ly/3DWfv91

The deadline to submit proposals to the #Shax2026 program committee for next year’s Denver conference is February 15! Have questions? Contact the committee for more information or check out website: buff.ly/3F488Kr

A bit thrown by seeing Britain/British used to discuss early modern (i.e. pre-1707) London - like, I guess it’s an ancient name and James VI/I was trying to make fetch happen and all, but most of the time they do seem to be actually just talking about England…

A new BlueSky presence for the AMS Music and Disability Study Group — and a very important survey to help us launch a Community of Practice beyond the Study Group itself. Please fill out and boost! #MusicAndDisability #Musicology #Accessibility #DisabilityStudies

Ooh this looks good! Echoes of Care by Jaipreet Virdi

Exactly this. So frustrating.

I love everything about this

And if you’ve never read Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About 'Technology,'" give yourself 10 minutes to do so—in many ways I feel my whole research & pedagogical philosophy are wrapped up in this short, brilliant text—it’s usually day 1 reading in my classes www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...

Yup me too - even though I’ve got all this stuff switched off they were still gonna charge me for it!

Fellow SAA and RSA goers: Has anyone else had a registration reminder for RSA even tho they’ve already registered for SAA? There’s no reply function and no way of doing anything other than coughing up a second registration fee through the link… I don’t want to get kicked off my panel!!

Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?

Hmm. Didn’t really like Emilia Pérez tbh. It seemed to me to really make most sense seen as a sort of Umbrellas of Cherbourg thing, but applied to a totally inapt subject.

Periodic reminder that if you want to chuck EEBO into the sea, Internet Archive scanned the STC's original high-res films using 2024 tech and they're all available here (and link to Wing in the next post).

Mildly amazed to see the RSC flogging merch with this graphic. Anyone else spot the problem? shop.rsc.org.uk/products/gre...

Job alert: the National Library of Scotland is looking to recruit a permanent, F/T curator of early modern books and other printed material. Please share widely! nls.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

Sound and the Senses embodied experiences of hearing, listening and voicing With @racheljwillie.bsky.social & @spparkle.bsky.social www.rensoc.org.uk/rensoc25-sem...

[wind horns] The Oxford World's Classics Titus Andronicus, feat. my new introduction, is now a month out from publication (just in time for Valentine's Day!) and available to pre-order here: pages.oup.com/trade/collec...

So this is very exciting! We have 16 places on our AHRC-funded Print Matters Summer School. There is no course fee, and applicants get 4 nights B&B accommodation and a travel bursary of up to £100. The Summer School is open to all disciplines and career stages. www.thinicepress.org/events/print...

The Sixteenth Century Journal is looking for a book review editor.

My very last issue (on ♿️) has now come out with BMJ Medical Humanities: I have stepped down from my role as Editor in Chief. There are a lot of factors—after 17 years editing two consecutive journals, it was time. But there’s more, and I feel we should talk about the climate of #academic publishing

My latest essay, Against Hope Labor in the Public Humanities, was just published in Public Humanities as an open access article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For years now I have made it a habit whenever possible to turn off any and all autocorrect / autocomplete options on all devices (and after any sneaky updates reactivate them). I find it infuriating to be told what I meant to write whether it’s wrong or right!

Oh wow - everyone who said Conclave is amazing was totally right. It’s this year’s Anatomy of a Fall for me. Utterly compelling.

Relevant for anyone drafting a response: the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society has just released their survey about authors and genAI, which shows overwhelmingly that authors want compensation and control - d16dqzv7ay57st.cloudfront.net/uploads/2024... (Also join ALCS, you get money!)

Brush up your Shakespeare! Read along with our monthly webinar or just drop in to hear the conversation: english.web.ox.ac.uk/english-facu... Please repost!

Love this trilogy so much - cannot recommend highly enough esp if you like classics or renaissance stuff. So clever and beautiful - reminds me somewhat of Le Guin’s The Dispossessed in the way it tests what ideals might be like put into practice

Very interesting thoughts about the railways, esp. for Nottingham/ Lincoln / Newark people.

So Wired Magazine did a profile of me! www.wired.com/story/murder...

There doesn't seem to be a sense that the role of universities is to preserve endangered knowledge. That histories, minority languages and literatures, need to be sustained and preserved precisely *because* there are currently fewer people who want to study and know how to value them.

Thanks to living in a far-off land these days it took a *lot* longer for my contributor copy of Shakespeare/Play to arrive…! Worth the wait though - so chuffed to be in the company of these amazing co-contributors and editor!

#BSA2025 cfp 👇🏻 (Deadline 27 Jan for round 2)

So nice that so many people are coming to bluesky!! Welcome! What are you up to? I’m currently working on: finishing up a draft of my intro to a new edition of Richard III. I’ve avoided this play for so long (!) but have ended up really enjoying working on it!

PROGRAMME!!!!! Make your Monday evenings #earlymodern! You won't regret it, because would you look at this beaut. All very welcome, in person @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom (but register (for free!) to get the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/eur...) #skystorians 🗃️ Mondays, 5:30 (UK time)

Just published. My new book on Early English texts, including The Grave; on language, history, fiction, Magna Carta, script, and the date of the Tremulous Hand. @ArcHumanities — thank you!

Rereading The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon so I can then read the sequel. They are both giant brick-sized so I may be some time…