🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #FineJewellery #Late19thCentury THE GODDESS NYX RIDING A BAT, late 19th century Shell cameo brooch

Mary Shelley's Dundee (www.maryshelley.co.uk) histories, biographies, an interactive map, the "Dundee Edition" of Frankenstein, comics, annual writing prizes, resources and more (with teaching guides and materials, and SO MUCH more, to come) - FREE

The second volume of Die, Split the Party, sees Charlotte Brontë as Goth Queen join in Goth Jumanji, retelling the story of Angria and Gondal as role playing games turned real (and imagining Charlotte burn Emily’s 2nd novel and lots of Gondal stuff) in an issue called ‘Self-Insert’ 🖤

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...

I agree with all the takes about an attack on the humanities being an attack on critical thinking, &c. It’s also about joy, though. ‘Why bother studying that’ is always also a sneer at — why do you think you should get to do something you enjoy? Grow up and be miserable all the time!

Millie Alcock and Eve Ridley work really sweetly together - David Corenswet is a cute Superman, possibly for The Ages - I would’ve traded Lobo for the psychedelic interstellar dragon from the Woman of Tomorrow strip

This would be super fun - the Poirot character would be an Orc private detective on a train powered by magical steam from Hobbiton to Mordor - various elves, hobbits, dwarves and men as suspects - dead wizard.

Ignore the naysayers - Supergirl is a blast! Fun, action-packed, about how to live with grief! Krypto is a very good boy!

OMG, you're a genius. They can have a sing-along with Thomas's hymns, which somehow end up with a beat because the cassette deck in the hold car got a bit confused. Skull can have a full freak-out about what he's written about the afterlife.

It’s been 10 minutes and I’m still laughing to myself about ASSHPL

Debating whether walking into a session to teach secondary school children about Mary Shelley and Frankenstein with a cap on that says 'gothic tendencies' on it is a) allowed and/or b) a good idea... I think it would be at least funny

After years of campaigning and lobbying, UCU has welcomed the fall in employer contributions to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme. With rates falling and employers set to save around £900m, there is now no excuse for post-92 universities to deny staff access to TPS. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1456...

More good news on the research front (unusual enough) as the pilot study from my transimperial forestry project has just been accepted for publication! And in the biggest journal of my career to date, no less.

HARRISON FORD IS THE PRIEST / DRIVER!

Scholastic and Scholasticer.

On 1 July, we had a wonderful time at our Radical Print symposium, co-organized by CECS director Prof Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social, CECS friend Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social and Sarah Griffin, special collections librarian @uoyborthwick.bsky.social. 1/3

The Road Trip Movie We Didn’t Know We Needed & We All Deserve As A Little Treat @markhamillofficial.bsky.social to voice the skull

Just in case anyone missed this: the Vagrancy Act (1824), legislation introduced post-Napoleonic wars to criminalise people suffering from the effects,finally repealed. It was used 2412 times between 2019-2024 to arrest people for simply living on the street: www.crisis.org.uk/get-involved...

The Bride of Frankenstein Lives! This comic looks *so* cool 🖤

"Go to work you clown."

100% would read 😂😂😂

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Goldsmiths is going through hard times at the moment: solidarity to all who are there @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

I promise i will still not care about your sport if you let trans people play

▫️-Crescent Witch-▫️ #art #oc #illustration #digitalart

We recently added a stained glass station, and one of our members made these stained glass flowers for her frog planter! 🐸🐸

True Love 🧡

Coming soon: the game-changing, years-in-the-making new biography of M.R. James written my most excellent colleague, Darryl Jones! @profdarryljones.bsky.social @irishgothichorror.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

SEL is pleased to announce the publication of our inaugural SEL: The Roundtable on Early Modern Women's Rage. Part of our Living Discourse initiative, SEL: The Roundtable brings together scholars to participate in a roundtable discussion surrounding a central theme.

if you say "moses supposes his toeses are roses, but moses supposes..." to the lads they holler back "ERRONEOUSLY!" beastie boys style it's incredible

very exciting news. my new double poetry collection Agate Head / Stone Soup is coming soon! she’s a tête-bêche or perhaps a tête-BÊTCH I should say. my first new poems in like ten years. preorder from your favorite indie or go here!

underrecognized holiday: new notebook day

Totally outside my research expertise, but I've just discovered that @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social has the House of Fraser archive dating from 1849. It's a gorgeous peek into changes in fashion, culture & consumerism. Call your fashion historian pals! #c19th housefraserarchive.ac.uk

🦇 BCT and 100+ organisations have sent a letter to the next Prime Minister of the UK to adopt 4 critical measures for nature. Join us & sign this petition to urge the next PM to take decisive action and reset the Government's approach to safeguarding nature: www.change.org/p/a-nature-r...

Publication Day for “The Anthropocene and Literature”! Massive thanks to Tore Rye Anderson for this magnificent volume. So exciting to be in this company! Get your copy for 20% off today! (link in comments) www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Back on my Wagner bullshit with the Hallé’s Walküre, part of the Elder Ring Cycle

If companies can't run data centres without polluting our air and water, pushing up energy bills, abusing workers' rights, harming local communities or wrecking the climate – then they shouldn't be allowed to run them A safe climate and healthy environment are necessities – tech bro profits aren't

This is expressly against the will of the people.

also Northumbria offerred a 12k 'transition payment' to switch to USS, that looks like a ludicrious offer in light of this reduction... @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

This is so plausible it's scary

My conspiracy theory is that the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has an acronym so close to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to connect the former’s awful policies in the minds of the British public with the latter to enable a future government to withdraw more easily

Oh my god oh my god The Bride of Frankenstein Lives!

A wall in the hot, July sun. Artist: CF Tunnicliffe What to Look for in Summer, 1960

Early spring. Illustration to a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. https://www.wikiart.org/en/koloman-moser/early-spring-illustration-to-a-poem-by-rainer-maria-rilke-1901-1

'Hinting at future policy positions, Bennett added...the party would “look at” the Office for Students following the successful legal action against the regulator by the University of Sussex. “The way it’s been set up as a market regulator of a market-driven system – that’s really a problem.”' 3/3

'Challenging the view that a degree is only worthwhile if it leads to a high-paying job, she described the “utter downplaying” of the humanities and social sciences, while STEM subjects are put on a “golden pillar”, as “horrifying”.' Greens do not think fewer people should go to university. 2/3

'Amid this noise, one party stands apart: the Greens. “Our philosophical position is that education is a public good,” Natalie Bennett, former leader of the party, told Times Higher Education.' 1/3

A kawaiiiary if you will

New kawaii diary for July