💚 Amazing!!! 😲 There is so much potential in this moment... Thank you to everyone who has been part of this so far. Let's keep it going. Let's make hope normal again. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

Very pleased to learn at the end of last week that my article for Shakespeare Survey 78, "The BBC's Television Adaptations of Henry VI and Britain's National Identity Crises," has now been published online. If you'd like to read it, here's the link: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Mid-October anenomes

Looks like we might have an update about CR from our SMT this Friday (Oct 24)

It really is time that scholarly editions were given their research dues I'm learning SO much as part of the Oxford Marlowe team I'm in awe of the vast amount of knowledge and expertise (not to mention interpersonal skills) it takes to be a general editor of such a project

I've discovered the antidote to #Severance all-too-real workplace vibes Late to this, but taking #TedLasso into the new working week seems a decent coping strategy

Because Ben's generally too modest in promoting his own wonderful work, #skystorians: www.pennpress.org/978081222434...

17 yo daughter made this on our walk:

Series 1 #RiotWomen is an emotional blast "Riot Women review – 'Sally Wainwright’s menopausal punk drama is one of her best' | Television | The Guardian share.google/HLLWOfVFtSeI...

Just finished #RiotWomen Ep 4 What a terrific series 👏

*New Publication!* Lovely end to the week - 'John Gielgud on Air: 65 Years of Performing Shakespeare on Radio' out now in Shakespeare Survey. It shows that not only was he a leading stage actor, but he was an audio drama pioneer too. If you have access, here's the link: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

And let’s not forget Falkner trying to bully university leaders into preemptively enforcing her proposed anti-trans rules.

This is an important and hugely hopeful piece. Thanks to one of the few mainstream journalists prepared to stand up against the anti-trans media tide @iandunt.bsky.social

Busy morning prepping for the Wyrd Revels, but also for a workshop on Friday - playing around with morality plays and The Castle of Perseverance, in Cambridge. And that's after a meeting about Thomas Nashe. So a fair amount of dancing this weekend. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/session-1-...

Lurking at the bottom of the garden…

Why is our government allowing the destruction of tertiary education? Do something

You go to university to LEARN - better earnings are only a POTENTIAL side effect. It is all encapsulated in the old-fashioned phrase 'reading for a degree'.

The full @qmucu.bsky.social list provides an important overview of UKHEI now 👇 UK HE shrinking share.google/w6kDES0FwUrx...

Who runs Labour’s housing policy? The biggest profit-driven big developers, that’s who. Not councils, not Mayors with carefully Green-influenced policies, not housing co-ops or charities, not even housing associations. And definitely not homeless families.

This is Zack Polanski - choose calm, and join the Greens! 💚

A HUGE thankyou to @lancasterucu.bsky.social Exec Team for the fantastic work they're doing to help us push back at our employer's CR plans 👇

HR departments are finishing their calculations of the harm done by Clearing, it seems… This is completely unsustainable; we can’t drastically adjust our staffing every single autumn in response to the volatility of the recruitment cycle. #SaveHE #UKHE qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

New series just dropped! Victorian/ 19th C Global Anglophone folks, please take a look. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

My employer is promoting a staff how to 'toolkit' called 'Compassionate Communication' You couldn't make this stuff up

The beauty of the cut #tomato. Ready for #roasting for a #pastasauce. Delicious #organicgardening

In the garden this morning. www.driftwoodbysea.co.uk

🗣️The season closes with a panel discussion - Dr Tabitha Stanmore, Professor Liz Oakley-Brown, and Dr Rebekah King will be discussing all things Wyrd after the performance of Doctor Faustus (1616) on Saturday. #horror #wyrd #revels #drama #history #AudioDrama www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...

🚨4 Days till the Revels! Don't despair, there are still tickets available for the Revels 🧙‍♀️The Witch of Edmonton (selling fast) 🧠The Wise-woman of Hogston 🥧Thyestes 😈Doctor Faustus (in two different versions!) and post show discussions to boot! #horror 21-25th Oct at The White Bear Theatre

Liquidambar leaf palette just now👇🏼. Pause for a moment if you’re feeling anxious-your brain’s likely to release dopamine due to a positive response to colour gradation, certain bright colours & looking at images our brains find appealing. A pause here will make your day slightly easier to tackle 🍁

💚💚💚 Proud to be a member of @greenparty.org.uk 💚💚💚

Wonderful, Wonderful Words by #BenjaminZephaniah Spoken From the Heart by @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What's that I see before me? A new Romancing the Gothic conference! Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Radcliffe's last publications with a conference on the work of women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror... romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...

The conference takes accessibility seriously. This means all our conferences are online and they are free to speakers. We offer accessibility training. We provide slides ahead of time with alt-text, encourage written copies of papers, provide a code of conduct and clear guidelines on the day 1/

Wonderful to meet up online with @rebekahking.bsky.social @magicnotwitches.bsky.social and @beyondshakes.bsky.social Master of the Wyrd Revels Robert Crighton this evening in advance of our post-show discussion 👇

A Garden In October Part 4 #nature #pov #garden #flowers

I updated the Online Class page so that now you can: See the programme right up to the end of the year! See ALL out Saturday and Sunday talks from the last 5 years!! romancingthegothic.com/class-schedu...

BBC caves to complaints and agrees to major Zack Polanski interview www.thenational.scot/news/2554271...

<taps the sign>

And, fwiw, how is the labour market universities’ fault? It isn’t, and it would be very useful if people understood this.

Just watched Ep 1 👇 Completely hooked ! #RiotWomen Riot Women (TV Series 2025– ) - IMDb share.google/98oGX7Y3Li4X...

Teaching Term Week 2 - We're thinking about about Renaissance and Reformation representations of the Goths via "Titus Andronicus"

A new week - and a new huge milestone! @greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!! We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again! Join.greenparty.org.uk

🎊It's October, it's getting dark outside, and the Wyrd Revels are on their way from 21-25th! 😈Doctor Faustus (two different versions!) The Wise-woman of Hogston 🧙‍♀️The Witch of Edmonton! & Thyestes! Book now! #drama #horror www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...

And let's not forget that UKHEI employees- not SMTs - are ensuring students and colleagues are in a safe and secure environment

SMTs: "Do the teaching" "Do the research" "Do public engagement" "Do the curriculum transformations" "We will sack 1 in 3 to 1 in 4 staff to ensure the University is sustainable in the future" "Tuition fees set to be lowered at universities with poor teaching" share.google/WYTarKD1iRgm...

'Our University would do well to stop neglecting the threats to humanities education, and start publicly taking up the banner of the humanities.' Could (and should) be said of so many universities, across the globe.

Rachel Ruysch, b. 3 June 1665 - d. 12 Oct 1750. Still Life with Bouquet of Flowers, 1698 (Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main)