Who wants to join me in the new-version-of-Outlook-haters' support group?! 🤮 Begging everyone to stop "updating" things by making them worse

Tfw your undergrad experience was traumatic but 20 years later still the comfiest hoodie you have ever owned

"so good to get into my comfies" I murmur to myself as I switch my daytime loose trouser and graphical tee for my nighttime loose trouser and graphical tee

Home from our epic travels and immediately downloading a sound clip of the SNCF jingle because apparently it sends my child to sleep when played very loudly and repeatedly over a train station PA

So far packing includes 90% more books than necessary - so far, very much like my optimistic pre-baby packing, except the books are much shorter yet somehow heavier

Psyching myself up to take the 14-month-old to Europe on the train. Any local knowledge of family friendly things to see/do/eat in Lille much appreciated! (She currently wants to walk everywhere and she is *not* fast ...except when running towards a hazard)

Paid opportunity for PhD students and ECRs! The Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (@montaguletters.bsky.social) 2026 Summer Internship Programme is open for applications. Deadline: 1st April 2026 More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6359

[gilet shorts and backwards cap boy to fellow gilet shorts and backwards cap boy] bro is that a new gilet #SpringOnCampus

Took a load of dogface's belongings to donate to the greyhound trust. Leaving without a new pointy friend (because they probably wouldn't enjoy the toddler) broke my heart a bit. Even though I knew they wouldn't be her, the dogface-shaped hole just isn't getting any smaller

Why doesn't outlook have 👎 as an auto reaction

Let’s publish soon! 😉 🍻

Autocorrect from @drbeard79.bsky.social that we need to publish soon (for "pub soon") and yes I will be using this as my new verb for going to the pub please and thankyou

#DH colleagues - does anyone know of live/participatory training courses in SNA softwares such as Gephi/nodeXL for humanities data, online or in person? Thinking summer schools, multi-day courses rather than brief intro @ukiedh.bsky.social

Had a middle-aged panic about upper body strength specifically in relation to being able to pick up my child in future as an older parent so long story short I went bouldering and now I will be picking up NOTHING for approximately a week

Deadline in two days!

Day 365 of parenting completed (with only a minor late night decorating frenzy). We are ready to meet our ONE YEAR OLD in the morning 🤯

📣 Come work with us! #18C 📣 This one is for the #DH crowd! We seek a Content Engineer to assist in maintaining and developing the digital resources of the Voltaire Foundation. More information and application process on our website: voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/va...

We’re hiring a two-year DH postdoc for our HAVI project, to work on a new type of knowledge graph architecture for the humanities (and beyond). Deadline soon (18 Jan)! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Apps are open for a Lead Engineer as part of the Digital Library project at UoL! The appointee will be part of the redevelopment of the library's entire digital offering, and a brilliant cross-service project team. Please share! Details here: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Happy (belated) Publication Day to @arry-k-arry.bsky.social!

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!