We're so back

Last minute oppo drop: he likes soccer and cricket

The managerial class have discovered the word “cadence”. Get your hands off our words, bandits!

No memento mori more effective than needing to scroll ever longer to select your birth year.

Men will literally record an album on a four-track TEAC 144 Portastudio rather than go to therapy

I have looked on the Works that were in the desert and which you were probably saving for ye Mighty to despair at Forgive me they were lifeless so vast and so trunkless

Crackly old jazz, blues and gospel playlist for Hallowtide open.spotify.com/playlist/4T7...

They literally ruin everything they touch

When you look at your Google Scholar citations

Crackly old jazz, blues and gospel playlist for Hallowtide open.spotify.com/playlist/4T7...

This one is a bit special. I feel very lucky to have been invited to contribute an essay to a special issue of dream journal Feminist Media Histories on new methods in feminist film and media studies, edited by one of my very favourite scholars @katherinegroo.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

Wish people could see that AI poetry is as fragmentary, uncanny, glitchy, and cliched as AI video

No big deal - I'm just accidentally in passing in a sentence with Anna Kornbluh and Peter Brooks. Genuflecting as they pass by.

Imagine Ezra Pound with a fully monetised podcast

Can’t wait for the bubble to burst

You can't do malaprop, cuckold, or old debauch comedy these days, because of woke

Syllabus! A unit on home, empire, and the unheimlich. Texts from Victor Séjour, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Alice Perrin, Marcus Clarke, Rabindranath Tagore, Lettice Galbraith, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and more ...

Syllabus! A unit on home, empire, and the unheimlich. Texts from Victor Séjour, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Alice Perrin, Marcus Clarke, Rabindranath Tagore, Lettice Galbraith, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and more ...

Dr @noreenmasud.bsky.social, Associate Professor in Creative and Critical Writing from the Department of English, has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize, awarded by the @leverhulme.ac.uk - one of only 30 recipients from across the UK who will receive £100,000.

Why read Lacan, why learn all these super-subtle forms of ideological critique, when the big guy is out there posting diarrhoea jet fighter videos. What are we doing here.

Huge congratulations to Ashley Kniss, winner of the 2024 James W. Gargano Award from the Poe Studies Association for her essay, "Gothic Mycology and Posthuman Ethics in Poe’s 'The Fall of the House of Usher'"!! @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Common Sense Media rates del Toro's Frankenstein 1 out of 5 for positive role models - don't be like Victor, kids

No kings except jazz and calypso royalty

the one stop accordion shop implies the existence of the two shop accordion shop

Hundreds of talks on Gothic and Horror topics by experts from around the world? Check it out!

I wrote to Tony Burke about the closure of Meanjin, and finally received a reply from the office of Jason Clare, who had been forwarded the message because it was an issue for higher education, rather than the arts (!). This is a wholly embarrassing and inadequate buck pass and response.

Lobbying the local cinema to show @realgdt.bsky.social's Frankenstein on the big screen, as nature intended

flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university

Someone on here compared the rooftop skating scene in One Battle After Another with Singin' in the Rain ... I can't find the original post but I love that idea. Little moments of rebellion, joy, weightlessness, despite the police on patrol

Rank the macerated remains of our university system from 1 to 10

Love writing? Curious about how to get published? Teaching creative writing? Come join a vibrant community of writers at Read, Write, Publish: Hobart on Monday 27th October! www.facebook.com/share/19hBVu... @utas.edu.au

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

I sent a book proposal out into the wild. Will I ever hear from it again y/n

We are hugely honoured to have won the 2025 MSA Book Prize for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses and Modernism. Thank you to everyone involved. It was a huge joy to work on such a wonderful period in Pacific writing.

I wonder if I've escaped a ghastly fate.

International socialism and “Pluto is a planet again” is the winning agenda for failing liberal democracies

Why didn't anyone tell me there's a new Throwing Muses album

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

Love how PTA made only a loose Pynchon adaptation while out-Pynchoning Pynchon’s character names youtu.be/HiZY9rr4hHk?...

Autocorrect changing my "abject, invisible other" to an "abject, invisible mother" is so 90s-academia-coded

Reading a Rachel Ingalls story (On Ice, 1987) and oh no 🚩🚩🚩

The endgame of all rightwing crunchiness (anti-vax, anti-childcare, anti-pharmaceuticals during pregnancy and childbirth, MAHA diets, homesteading) is women bearing more sacrificial pain

this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

Feels like university managers are practicing disaster capitalism everywhere in the English-speaking world, all at once

If it’s 1994, the opening shot is tree-height over a busy street, and the orchestra is hitting that diminished fifth, we’re in for some hijinks

📚 Now available! 📚 THE TIGER SKIN AND OTHER TALES OF THE UNEASY, published by @blpublishing.bsky.social I’ve wanted to bring Violet Hunt’s supernatural fiction back for a while now, so am happy to see these stories reach a wide audience again. Please share!

So proud of the work our union has done to achieve this. I've been in a lot of change plans in the UK and Aus, and this is the most resounding victory I've ever seen. All other unis should be on notice: your governance needs major reform. (ps join your union 💪) www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Statement of support for the Save Meanjin campaign, from colleagues in the Screen and Cultural Studies program at the University of Melbourne savemeanjin.org

This is disgraceful - both the workload and the AI ‘workaround’

So many of the half-baked AI implementations are happening in professional arenas that have been hollowed out by extraction and divestment. No journalist needs a writing aid unless they’re being paid too little to write too much, no teacher needs a commenting tool unless they’re overextended.