Was very happy to be invited on BBC Word of Mouth to discuss my research on the manosphere and language. If you missed the live broadcast on Sunday, it's available wherever you get your podcasts. pca.st/episode/5ce9...

We're putting on a Humanities EPQ masterclass at the University of Derby on the 11th October for year 12 & 13 students! Sign up here: www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...

It’s the Autumnal Equinox in the UK today. Persephone’s Katabasis, Demeter’s goodbye.

Just learned a fun new way for women to hate their bodies! Apparently the weight on the side of your thighs should be thought of as “saddle bags”! So fun! So normal! 🫠

I had a dream last night that I set up a direct debit to my university’s coffee shop. I crave caffeine even when I’m asleep, apparently 😂

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 SCOTLAND FRIENDS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I am coming to Glasgow & Edinburgh in October for folkloric fun 🧚🏻‍♀️ Message me for ticket links 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

HELLO THIS IS THE BOOK THAT KICKSTARTED MY PhD GOOD CHOICE

There’s a lady on the train reading The Penelopiad and I’m trying desperately to be normal about it

I’m on my third cold in three months and I’m feeling pretty sorry for myself

Happening today! Hope to see you there 🥂 💛

What could be scarier than radicalised misogyny? Come & see me talk about incels, PUAs, tradwives, and the rest of the manosphere at the Derby QUAD on the 30th October! 👻 www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/rcman...

I close all my tabs at the end of the day and I think it’s the secret to my success

The surrogacy industry in the US is frankly dystopian. Aside from treating people’s wombs like an uber, there’s also the declining rights of pregnant people in the US, private healthcare & the increased medical risks of surrogacy. But honestly… (cont.)

If anyone needs some good news today, Graham Linehan has been arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of inciting violence because of his posts on X

Yesterday I started a paragraph with “Incestuous incels aside,” 😂🫠

Happy Bake Off day to all who celebrate 🍰🎪

It's September, which means we're officially in the month of the Transatlantic Literary Women celebration event! Come along to a friendly get together where we're celebrating YOU & all our achievements in 2025! Hope to see you there. 🥂 transatlanticladies.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/t...

Do any of my #ClassicsSky friends have a source on the punishment for rape/assault of a Vestal Virgin? I only know of one, and I don't want to cite that author Romanists, help a girl out!

I haven’t written a single word yet today, but I HAVE made a pretty good mind map, soooo…

I get a very specific joy when my mum orders vegetarian food when we eat together ☺️

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Yesterday I was formatting tables in word and fiddling with landscape & portrait in the same document. Today I’m doing an excel spreadsheet. Can someone please deliver me from this purgatory 😪

This was such a brilliant event thank you - still thinking about it! Also, told my 4 y/o the muffin joke and she thinks it’s absolutely hilarious 😆

My next Folklore & Women event will be in Leicester! Join me on the 9th September if you can! 🧚 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folklore-w...

Currently travelling to Norwich for my Folklore & Women event at Maddermarket theatre! 🎭 🧚🏻‍♀️

How am I poorly AGAIN 😩 chronic illness and fatigue are kicking my butt 😪

Looking forward to this talk tonight with @shelbyjudge.bsky.social

New blog post 🌞 This one was supposed to be about all the exciting things I'm working on right now - the book! the tour! - but it quickly became about the pressure of the summer for academics! 🌞 theshelbiad.blogspot.com/2025/08/summ...

Relatedly: new blog post tomorrow on TheShelbiad.blogspot.com

@shelbyjudge.bsky.social really enjoyed your seed talk/lecture in Manchester the other night. I thought it suggested why Bernini chose to make Medusa look anguished

I have done so much procrasti-working today

] ] ] ]reproach ]delicate ]Artemis ] - Sappho, fragment 84 (trans. Carson)

There are still some tickets left for my Folklore & Women SeedTalks events in Newcastle, Norwich, and Leicester!

Freakier Friday was everything I wanted it to be and more

@shelbyjudge.bsky.social Lovely to attend the talk on Women and Folklore last night in Manchester by ‪Dr Shelby Judge. Amazing turn out, great venue & lots to enjoy in this entertaining and informative lecture. A nice way to hang out with a good friend too. And lots more for my reading pile...📚

Very excited... 🌱🧜‍♀️🧙‍♀️👹🧛‍♀️ #seedtalks @shelbyjudge.bsky.social #CalderValleyParanormal

If air beds stayed inflated, they would be the most comfortable mattress option. I believe this with my entire self.

It’s 5:30pm and I did it 🎊🍻

I want to write 3,000 words today & finish a draft of this chapter

Still some last minute tickets left for my Folklore & Women event in Manchester on the 6th August! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folklore-w...

What better way to get back into work than with a blog post? This is the final instalment of the Mythic Masculinities series & it's the wandering wonder himself: Odysseus! 🚣‍♂️ #classicssky #blogger theshelbiad.blogspot.com/2025/07/anci...

First day back after 3 weeks of annual leave. Oh god, the emails…

Not even 24 hours and 180,000 of you have now signed up. Billionaires already have three parties fighting for them. It’s time the rest of us had one. Join us: yourparty.uk

Obsessed with this. The arts have always been a site of resistance to oppressive regimes, which is why censorship is one of the most important weapons in a dictator’s arsenal. 👀 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Out of office still on… I’ll be back to my regularly scheduled nonsense on Monday

Knossos Palace & Archaeological Museum, Crete 🇬🇷

I just did perhaps my best literary analysis ever… about Twilight. Okay, hear me out: Aro represents Catholicism (Italy) and Carlisle represents Mormonism (America, new improved rules)

Out of office is on 💃🏼🌞🇬🇷

Fun first day at the Transatlantic Literary Women Symposium @shelbyjudge.bsky.social @laurakatherine95.bsky.social

Had the most amazing two days of papers, conversations, and laughter at the Transatlantic Literary Women Symposium 🩷 thank you to my beautiful, brilliant teammates for making it such a success @laurakatherine95.bsky.social @drlaurarattray.bsky.social 🩷