This is an excellent thread summarising the state of UKHE and why we should be angry. These intellectual losses have very real effects for UK society as a whole, making us less creative, less intelligent, less healthy, and altogether poorer.

'The numerals in Shelley's final manuscripts offer poignant clues about the works he never lived to write.' Fascinating and illuminating new insight into the multitudes of mysterious numerals and calculations in P. B. Shelley’s manuscript notebooks 📖⬇️

If you've got time next Tuesday 7 July), 11 am BST, feel free to attend this online lecture. Here is the link. meeting.tencent.com/dm/cRAF9nhLz...

British Academy President's statement on the UK's higher education crisis, July 2026.

Actually, it was a volunteer archivist at The National Archives, Kew called Michael Scurr who found it, not the "UK" that found it. (with a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers). giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

✨️Job Alert✨️ Lecturer in English Literature (18-19c) 📍Liverpool John Moores University, fixed term jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

⚡️Job Alert⚡️ 📖 Research Associate - The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley 📍Manchester Metropolitan University, fixed term Please share with ECRs! manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

"The Univ. of Hertfordshire has decided to close all eight Humanities undergraduate programmes in English Language and Linguistics, English Literature, Creative Writing, History and Philosophy.... PLEASE sign this petition to support staff and students in Humanities" www.change.org/p/save-the-h...

Please consider signing and sharing. So very many of us in the Humanities and Social Sciences are affected. c.org/RQYq55rPmk

Review of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 4, by Ross Wilson: www.review19.org/view_doc.php... @hopkinspress.bsky.social 📖

ISLE, a leading journal in the environmental humanities, is seeking 2 Associate Editors to begin on July 1, 2026. Read the call for applications (deadline June 15) at www.asle.org/stay-informe...

Job alert: Lecturer in Creative Writing, Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. Esp. interested in literary fiction, stage or screen writing, & poetry. #academicjobs @uofgartshums.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk @univeng.bsky.social @nawewriters.bsky.social www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

📣 Job Alert (permanent) 📣 Lecturer in English Literature (Romanticism), The Open University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ222/l...

Together with Sarah Albientz, Claire Aniel-Buchheit, Thomas Beugniet, Thomas Caubet, Léo Grillet and Léo Laglenne, I'm putting together a conference on Anarchist Spaces from c. 1870 to today. The CFP is here: echelles.u-pariscite.fr/events/event... Abstracts expected by 26 June!

Petition to save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire: c.org/9JLppW5tMS

Blogpost revisiting hosting ‘Romanticism Goes to University’ #Rom2Uni ending with the UK HE Shrinking list and solidarity to @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social in particular (on your phone you might have to scroll *quite* far down to get there!)

Reminder! Join us for the K-SAA Members' Meeting this Friday, May 15. There will be K-SAA news, event announcements, and a lecture by Nicholas Roe. Current & future members are encouraged to attend and take part in the discussion! RSVP here: www.k-saa.org/events/k-saa... #KSAAEvents

Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Creative Writing (Permanent) Maynooth University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL937/a...

Lecturer in Global Environmental History Lancaster University - School of Global Affairs ´skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL786/l...

Funding for climate solutions! National Geographic is offering grants up to $100,000 for storytelling and science projects. Deadline Monday 25 May 2026. More info: buff.ly/XzgRchb #ClimatePledge #NationalGeographic #ResearchFunding

New blog up on the Places, Plants and People Archive Network website, featuring lots of beautiful images of Kew Gardens! By @alyssamyers.bsky.social collections.reading.ac.uk/places-plant...

DREAM postdoc for ME circa 2013 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

There was once an idea that it was a good thing for people, regardless of social background, to study the arts and humanities because those fields address what it is to be human. That idea was always under pressure, but to see its near destruction in recent years has been depressing.

The Conversation invites academics across the UK to write a poem inspired by climate change research.

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

OMG semi-affordable paperback edition of my and @rjdashwood.bsky.social’s ridiculous book is available to pre-order from today! Coleridge falling down a mountain! Austen feeling silly! The Woman of Colour as more comedy than tragedy! Somehow, BBC’s Ghosts! How to work with Lake District museums!

This is British Higher Education now. 👇

Senior Research Associate University of East Anglia - School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing (LDC) fixed term basis from 1 September 2026 until 30 April 2029, to work on the AHRC-funded project Beyond the Essay: Creative-Critical Teaching. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRJ527/s...

Full Professor for English Literature and Culture of the 16th to 18th Centuries and Gender Studies Universität Tübingen www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRJ172/f...

Exciting lecturing job being advertised in the Department of English at Stockholm University - with a desirable expertise in 19thc literature: @bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

In the UK (and not just the UK) university sector, we're living, working, thinking and being made redundant (sic) with and by emergencies. Join Wendy Brown, Margot Finn, Eva von Redecker and Sasha Roseneil, convened by Paul Gilroy and John Sabapathy, for 'Learning in Emergency States'. 5 June. 1/2

2 weeks left to apply for the BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship @ljmuofficial.bsky.social! Please share widely with ECRs and don’t hesitate to reach out with questions. We look forward to hearing from you! Deadline: Monday 11 May 2026

Do you work on Ann Radcliffe? Do you work on women writers and producers of the Gothic and horror? Do you work on topics related to people of marginalised genders in the Gothic? Join us! Submit an abstract for our upcoming online conference! romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland. Deadline April 21st - please circulate! www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Call for Papers! 2026 Wordsworth Summer Conference: 'Wordsworth's Texts' Get your abstracts and bursary applications in to [email protected] by 15th May. More info on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6383

📢 Fully-funded PhD scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at the University of Sydney (supervised by me) and the University of Glasgow (supervised by Matthew Sangster), with time at both institutions. Applications due 21 April More details: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Restructures treat departments as interchangeable boxes on a chart, but staff hold deep local knowledge, research networks and community links that can’t be ‘reallocated’ overnight. Once that’s broken, it’s hard to rebuild. That’s why staff must have a real say in any changes.

The CFP deadline for our Brontë Studies special issue on poetry is coming up - 1st April! Don’t be a fool - submit something!

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Just a reminder to Arts, Humanities & Social Science postdocs with 10 years of the PhD that membership in the British Academy's Early Career Researcher Network is free and available across the UK. Independent researchers welcome; if employed at an, you do not need to be in a research position. 1/2

My book has its very own webpage 🥳 October 2026 www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Applications for IES Fellowships in the 2026/27 academic year are now open! You can apply for an ECR or Research fellowship, with terms from 6 months to 3 years. The application deadline is 10 April. ies.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...

The School of English at Trinity College Dublin is looking to hire an 18th century specialist: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS657/a...

#EnglishCreates: Futures We are thrilled to share today's blog by Caroline Lucas, Britain’s first Green MP: 'Literature is the way we exercise the muscle of the imagination... And unless we can imagine a greener, fairer world, we’ll struggle to achieve it.' universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

: Half of UK universities face a deficit next year. Up to 50 could close. That is a sector in crisis. Simply blaming a tuition fee freeze and nudging fees up with inflation is not a plan. Where is the long-term strategy for higher education? #Universities #HigherEducation

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years. Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Concerned that the UK—not the US, which remains far more resilient than everyone thinks—is the test case for what happens when you build a system of mass higher education then take it apart: it has happened far more quickly and is far more fragile here.

Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of Literature in English University of Oxford - Balliol College Literature of the long 19th century Permanent www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM832/t...

#EnglishCreates: Futures continues with this post by Francesca Mackenney and Jamie Castell (Cardiff University): 'How do representations of sound in literature shape our awareness of the natural world?' Read the full post here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat... #EnglishStudies #Ecocriticism