My fab team @katandthetexts.bsky.social, Lena Gotteswinter and I will host the interdisciplinary conference "Encampment, Confinement, and Community: Camps in U.S. American Media" Dec. 3-5, 2026. Spread the word, apply, and come join us at @tu-dortmund.de! The biggest Christmas tree of Europe awaits.

Excited to share the poster for our conference - we're accepting submissions until 10 October!

Gerade an einer Umfrage zum Thema Machtmissbrauch an Hochschulen teilgenommen, jetzt geht's mir schlecht. Trotzdem, so wichtig, ihr solltet auch mitmachen: s2survey.net/mami_dhs/ #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan #PDprekär

My lovely colleague Nicole Mellin and I are organizing a conference on contemporary reading cultures, so if two days of booktok, (dark) romance, developments in publishing, the construction of "the reader", fan fiction, etc. sound intriguing to you, we're looking forward to reading your abstracts!!

Apply for this exciting @tu-dortmund.bsky.social conference on “Contemporary Reading Cultures” organized by my fabulous colleagues @katandthetexts.bsky.social & Nicole Mellin!

I'm excited to get started!

Tonight's discussion: on a spiritual level, soup is spherical.

If people need guidance on doing alt text, especially alt text on social media, I have a ton of posts and threads collected here that can give you background on alt text, what it is, how to do it, where it comes from, etc. One thing in there that's a surprise to many? Alt text goes back to 1993.

i don't know what i want my first bluesky post to be, so here are some books i bought on a recent trip to london and edinburgh