Getting a jump on my new years resolution and as per @dralexiswolf.bsky.social 's recommendation will be taking the baby to Europe on the train in 2026 🚂 🚂🚂

Be near me board cheeses

Having a kid as an older millennial means sometime in the 2040s Audrey will realise the funny song mummy and daddy made up about cleaning her bum was actually Eminem

The loveliest thing that has been happening this week is friends have been sharing their Ellie memories, and my favourite so far is the time our neighbour was watching her and took her out in the back lane for a wee and she navigated him to the local pub for some fuss off the smokers

We said goodbye to dogface yesterday. She was the best girl, and we are utterly devastated. We had far longer with her than we ever could have reasonably expected, but nowhere near as long as we wanted. What an absolute queen she was.

Please congratulate @arry-k-arry.bsky.social on a fabulous first book, and also congratulate me on having read it already, both astonishing feats in 2025, the year we handed all our autonomy to a cute but despotic tiny new boss

The child is finally at nursery again after a series of bugs so I was able to take a van full of stuff to the tip as my slow descent into being my dad continues. See also muttering "what can they all be doing, surely they don't need to be here" at any other vehicle on the road whenever I go anywhere

the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face

On the precarity front, I actually wrote a piece about this [for free!] for a subject association magazine and when I suggested that it be made available beyond subscribers to that association (because it was mainly institutional members so independent scholars unlikely to read it), LOL no way man

"You just gotta hang on in there, we all paid our dues" 🙄

Delighted to see this in the wild and particularly enjoying the lovely visualisation of Hamilton's networks on the cover! #18thC #DH

It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!

📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly @sas-news.bsky.social

First time in years we are home for trick or treaters for various reasons but most of all because I will be damned if I am missing the opportunity to answer the door with a baby dressed in a pumpkin outfit

A bold choice, commissioning Philip Larkin for your bedtime story book

Happy birthday last weekend to our wise and beautiful hound. She loves ivy and fish, & is scared of bees & advent calendars.

I don't particularly care for Jane Eyre *ducks*

My oldest child is 14 years young today! She came to us as a bouncy not-quite-7-year-old and remains a knockout, if a bit creaky. Happy Birthday Dogface! 🎈

Bob Dylan, _Infidels_ ...which is as a result as well as being comfortably the worst Dylan album, is also my favourite

Goethe got got!

Mary Hamilton and her networks: Gender, sociability, manuscript. Important (we would think so, wouldn't we?) special issue of JECS, now in copy-editing. Intro + 4 research papers by the team (see www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/further-read...) + 5 outside contributions. #18thC #langsky

The only suitable replacement for Melvyn on In Our Time

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

My policy of not posting images of the baby on social media is being sorely tested by the impression of the dog she is currently workshopping

Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.

"What is actually prolific and relevant to the majority are low-cost technologies that solve day-to-day business and social problems." Yes! Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world | Eleanor Drage www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Baby: hi mum I have a new noise I can make I won't spoil the surprise but you'll know when you hear it Me: cool cool cool can't wait anyway time to go to sleep baby Baby: *articulated lorry doing emergency stop* 🙃

UoL colleagues, this looks like a fantastic programme!

I regularly buy a dozen bottles of Badger Ale and 2 packs of mushrooms at my local supermarket. I put them on the conveyor belt in that order hoping the cashier will burst into song as they put them through the till, but they never do.

Apropos of #LKFS2025 today:

Conferencing mum-style at #LKFS2025

Just booked a ticket for the Bring Your Own Baby screening of Clueless at my local cinema because Paul Rudd in his "back when I first had my creepy attic portrait painted" era is the definition of One For The Mums

The dog maintains that she is not technically on the baby's mat if her bum isn't on the baby's mat

Want to bid but your archive/library lacks the funds? Don't forget that you can apply to us for an acquisition grant and we can make speedy decisions!

We did it! Two days of conference and minimal meltdowns. Audrey was fine too #IIIF #ConferenceBaby

I can't believe I missed #NationalGreyhoundDay. Headed like a snake! Neck like a drake!

I’ve just seen that our local support charity for children with disabilities, which is fundraising to cover its costs, was featured in a story on the bbc website a few days ago. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... They are a lifeline to many. Please consider donating. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

The middle of the greyhound bsky/glam bsky venn diagram is a sweet spot 🐶 📜 *Here's* a good tike Of which there are few like

Have a deadline this month for something v small I agreed to before I knew I would be on leave, and feel like if I can meet this commitment with a still-tiny baby, my brain might one day recover from current mush-state. Anyway, hope the editors enjoy rambling notes I wrote on my phone while she naps

The great thing about having very small kids is you can cancel social engagements with the non-specific "somebody had a tantrum" and people generously assume it wasn't in fact you, an adult

My new article on rock, Romanticism, and Lacan is a love letter to P J Harvey AND a love letter to David Sigler, one of the editors of Romanticism on the Net whose Lacanian literary criticism inspired my own. It was fun to write and I hope you’ll enjoy reading it:

Okay, I got rid of that bathwater like you asked, but promise me you won't be angry about something

It’s officially publication day!! I can’t quite believe it. After years of thinking, writing, planning, & editing: it’s here. I’m so grateful to my agent & everyone at The Bodley Head for the incredible work. If you’re in Scotland, come to the launch tomorrow

We are on holiday and so is the dog. She has a whole other crew at her dog sitter's local park and it's like the cast of Lady and the Tramp

The University of Glasgow & the British Library have announced a fully funded PhD Studentship on "Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection" www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Your reminder that Gjon's Tears should have won in 2021 #Eurovision

@arry-k-arry.bsky.social on Armenia: "well it's not for me but I'm happy for all the mums in the audience" #Eurovision

Really enjoyed the Latvian entry from Jacob's Ladder's Pans People, I like my euro bangers nightmarish [complimentary] #Eurovision

best unicode character is "ꙮ" without a doubt. used one time in a single 15th century manuscript to emphasise "many-eyed seraphim" and unicode thought it was really important that we can type that whenever we want