We are a project partner of 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝟒𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, an EU-funded research project on ecological justice. You can now follow it on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/spea... #EnvHum #EnvJust #EnvLaw

I'm doing a talk in Bath! Come and join me at Komedia on the 4th November 2025 for a whistlestop tour of women in the Gothic across four delirious centuries! It will be fast, furious, and hair raising! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gothic-fic...

In love with Anne Carson’s poetry now and forever Though these bits also remind me of Maureen N. McLane’s My Poets (which is delightful, sad, raunchy, and the rest of it — often in relation to 19th c. authors but some 20th as well)

Wilbur is being an extremely helpful research assistant

Diverted from my research on Emily Brontë into reading Anne Carson’s funny and terrifying poem ‘The Glass Essay’ about her (and lost love and freedom and loneliness and horror) - the bits about Charlotte made me laugh out loud 🖤 www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48636/...

Wow @dukepress.bsky.social has a book series about individual songs, Singles. 📚🎶 "As a teen, Maya Angela Smith was so captivated by Nina Simone’s powerful 1965 cover of the song that it inspired her to be a French professor. In Ne me quitte pas, Smith follows this song’s long and varied journey…"

This title offers new insights into vision, fiction and depiction, exploring the visual details in women’s novels published between 1778 and 1815. Click here ➡️ tinyurl.com/ycywhuht #AnthemPress #NineteenthCenturyStudies #LiteraryCriticism #GenderStudies #NarrativeTheory #NovelStudies #getyourcopy

‘Succubus Matters’ is one of the all time great article titles - and the article has pictures 🖤🖤🖤

Kinda want to go to this and talk about where Uncle Toby is wounded 👀

Fund the arts

For Numbered, the Southern Flanders Range Froglet, an unfortunately endangered adorable frog #SciArtSeptember

Bat 15: 'Ōpe'ape'a (Lasiurus semotus), Hawai'i's only native land mammal. Their ancestors flew all the way from mainland North America to the islands! Learn more here: dlnr.hawaii.gov/wildlife/ope...

24) cochranella granulosa (sleepy) via Micah Fletcher

27) my fave medieval frog, from BnF Latin 1226, folio 44v

I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.

Worked up a poster for Sinners - that cross section of horror movies, period pieces, and roots music checks an awful lot of my boxes, and heavens but it was beautifully made.

The university relies so deeply on its faculty to do our jobs with sensitivity and care, going far beyond the letter of our contracts to mentor and advise and assist our students. You would think that it would see the inadvisability of treating its entire teaching staff with contempt. And yet!

Feeling a little too emotional over this beautiful painting on my neighbor’s garbage can

@yalebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves with the cover of my new book. Out in January for anyone interested.

Happy Whiskers Wednesday!🐱

Happy #NewComicBookDay everyone! Drew a couple of funky little medieval marginalia guys reading the newest issue of their favourite comic. It’s about a not-so-dark knight with laser eyes. What are YOU reading this week?

I've been keeping a little lid on it in case it didn't get accepted but... Just signed a contract on a new book! I'm going to be writing 'Byron and Newstead: A Poetic History' for Cambridge University Press!

Word Cloud of Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

LOL So, the whole ms of the Brontë poems is 192 pages, 26,084 words. Anne’s poetry makes up 44 of these pages, 5,563 words. Emily: 45 pages, 5,960 words. Charlotte… 103 pages! 14,563 words!!

If you’re planning to write something today, Roland Barthes would like to remind you that you will be in the realm of jouissance:

The International Day of Sign Languages celebrates the linguistic identities of the Deaf community and all who use sign language. John Bulwer was the first person in Britain to advocate for the education of deaf people. His 1644 book explores the communicative and rhetorical power of hand gestures.

Frog poem

#CFP 'Reframing the Enlightenment: intellectual and political disputes today' Paris, 10-12 June 2026 Please send proposals to [email protected] by the 26 October Link to the full CFP here: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve... #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ @isecs-sieds.bsky.social

This is guaranteed to improve your day

Yes everyone stop what you're doing and just watch it trust me www.youtube.com/watch?v=8al5...

This year I will be leading the Cabinets of Curiosity project for History undergraduates at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social - find out more about the project here, and come and join us! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

The law is: if you see Cookie Monster singing ‘God’s Away on Business’ you must reskeet it 🖤

Having typed up Poems, I thought ‘anguish / languish’ might be more prominent here as it’s a favourite Brontë rhyme - I’m gonna split up the individual sisters’ contributions and see if their word clouds look significantly different…

Finished typing up the Brontë poems and made a word cloud for your viewing pleasure

honestly getting close to suggesting this, or models like this.

Reinventing conferences: Rather than selecting the papers and panels you’d be vaguely interested in, you select the people you’d like to hang out with (choice between ‘regularly’ and ‘one-off encounter’), and a conference programme is constructed to accommodate everyone’s preferences.

🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #Contemporary #Japanese Yoshiki Matsuda (b. 1975) CLOUDS AND BATS, 2019 Walnut, hinoki cypress, lacquer, mineral pigments, dyed mud pigments, gypsophila seeds

I read this poem and said ‘oof’ and realised I’d read it under a quote post reading ‘oof’ (and then found a quote post with ALT text)

Fine: 1) What’s happening to the U.S. is part of a transnational far-right, autocratic wave and it cannot be treated as a purely domestic issue 2) A major subset of these dynamics is globalized kleptocracy/oligarchy; tackling that requires rebuilding & enhancing int’l anti-corruption mechanisms

Reinventing conferences: Organisers agree to produce a programme to show to your home institution for money but when you get there it’s all just coffee breaks, lunches, and wine receptions and there’s a room where you can do your paper if you really want to.

Bat 12: Amara's first bat, from "Amara and the Bats" by @emmaillustrate.bsky.social. Such a lovely picture book, with warm, cozy illustrations and a relatable young bat fan as the leading lady.

Bat 9: The fastest mammal in the world, Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis).

Join us at virtual @chawtonhouse.bsky.social for a Jane Austen Book Club event with @devoney.bsky.social to celebrate her new book, 'Wild for Austen'. You may have thought Austen was a quiet spinster, but Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest. Tickets here: chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/onl... #booksky

Publishing today! You may have thought Jane Austen was a quiet spinster, but Devoney puts that myth to rest. @devoney.bsky.social's book is an entertaining look at Jane Austen's life, writing & legacy. Filled with remarkable details never before published, ‘Wild for Austen’ is out now. #booksky

This looks fun! Here comes the motherfucking bride! (Although the 1st comment on YouTube is correct - they are trying to hide the fact it’s a musical)

Narcissus is not allowed on the table, as it happens-pens-pens-pens

Narcissus is not allowed on the table, as it happens

People are doing rapture jokes like there’s no tomorrow.

One of my brilliant doctoral students, @whitbyabi.bsky.social will be talking about Anne Lister and Dorothy Wordsworth at this online research summit on Saturday 18 October. Visit here to see the full programme and to book a free place: www.annelisterresearchsummit.org/2025