Ooo, I’m very curious about this! Will definitely be attending if it’s available online.

This. Angry weather. But I’m still going to go see it.

Please join us for this inaugural lecture! We're beginning the seminar series with such an excellent speaker and truly an expert within the environmental humanities. You won't want to miss it! 🌱

We are thrilled to announce that the CfS for Issue 9, ‘Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century’ is now live! Articles should be submitted by 23:59 on 16th April 2026 to [email protected]. Do share widely and we look forward to hearing from you! www.rrrjournal.com/call-for-sub...

“Violet took a bite of bread and a mouthful of tea and mixed the two together in her mouth.”

Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.

There's still just over two weeks left to apply to our workshop exploring historical approaches to non-human life. It will take place on 9-10th April 2026, and aims to bring together scholars across disciplinary divides. PGR and ECR support available thanks to the generosity of our sponsors!

Check out our very first ECEN newsletter! It's brief, fun to read, and there are a couple of exciting opportunities inside too! If you haven't already subscribed but would like to, you can sign up on our website or simply email/DM myself or @calsutherland.bsky.social 🍃

Happy New Year from CECS! Please enjoy these pictures of the snow dusted topiary garden behind our home in Heslington Hall from this morning. May your year be suitably sprinkled with fresh ideas about the eighteenth century and bright paths forward in your research ❄️🌳❄️ #UKsnow #18thCentury

If you’ve got an itch to develop your creative practice across page, stage and screen - then we have a brand new MA programme that might just interest you. Come & learn with my colleagues & I in beautiful York! Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Still time to register for Affective Atmospheres — 18–19 Feb at Civic House, Glasgow. A free, in-person conference exploring place and atmosphere. Supported by @triphilosophy.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk Artwork by Jinjoon Lee 🔗 placememory.net/affective-at...

A working walk: thinking through the beginnings of a paper about atmosphere and archive. Tested some ideas out on an attentive audience 🐑

The festive season is coming to a close here in Somerset. Time for calm and renewed focus 😌

I'm very excited to announce the launch of the #18thC Ecologies Network! Co-convened by myself & @calsutherland.bsky.social at @cecs-york.bsky.social , ECEN is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies of the period 🌱 Find out more: hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...

The #18thC Ecologies Network, based @cecs-york.bsky.social is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies the period. Details of their seminar series will be published here: hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c... #skystorians #climate #environhist 🗃️

Had a lovely time listening and learning about volcanic sublimity and coping with climate catastrophe last night with @bars.bsky.social 🌋Excellent papers from @dilarakalkan.bsky.social @katlion.bsky.social and Chloe Melvin! And huge thanks to our wonderful chair @davidhiggins.bsky.social

This is TONIGHT!!! 7pm GMT!! Come talk Romantic climate and catastrophe with us 🌋🌪️🌧️🌩️⛅️

Reminder that I am chairing an online event tomorrow night on 'Volcanic Romanticism'. Featuring talks by @katlion.bsky.social, @womanofclouds.bsky.social, Dilara Kalkan, and Chloe Melvin. You can register for free at the link below. @bars.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...

In which Johanna Winant (@johannawinant.bsky.social) and I make the case for teaching whole books. And argue for a model of close reading that would bridge high school, college, and professional practice slate.com/life/2025/10...

Volcanic Romanticism!! 🌋On a Thursday evening with @bars.bsky.social ! What could be more thrilling? Please join me, @dilarakalkan.bsky.social Chloe Melvin, Katerina Liontou and @davidhiggins.bsky.social on 30th October at 7.30pm to discuss the weather of 1816, the Diodati Circle, and more!

Returned to Harewood House one last time before the Austen Meets Turner exhibition closes. What an honour to have played a small part in this extraordinary display. Today, I explored the incredible walled garden!

Today’s my final day working with the wonderful YSC team @rigb.org I can’t believe how quickly 3 months has flown by! It’s been an inspiring, enriching & rewarding experience. If a little exhausting at times 😅 I’ve learned more than this word limit allows…🙏 Now to get back to that PhD thing!

💜Grateful to be part of #BARS2025 Romantic (Un)Consciousness at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social 💜Inspiring panels both in person & online—deep gratitude to the amazing organizers: @drcleoocy.bsky.social @zooeyziller.bsky.social @womanofclouds.bsky.social

I wrote a little blog post for @rigb.org, all about the institution's history of artistic experimentation! Even managed to get a sentence about clouds in 🌦️... It's a 4-minute read so please do check it out. www.rigb.org/explore-scie...

After a brilliant day of papers and a monograph workshop at our PGR & ECR conference, Trinity College let us see some of their collection in the Wren Library, including PB Shelley’s famous register entry from the Hotel de Villes de Londres!

Wending my way back to Kings X & reflecting on the last two days. What an enriching, thought-provoking time we’ve had at #BARS2025. All thanks to the wonderful Romantic people of the world (truly, folk travelled far & wide!) More to follow but for now: team William or team Dorothy?

Such a treat to be sharing more on my current work on Romantic clouds 🌧️ ☁️⛅️🌩️ Live from #BARS2025 !!

It’s been a while since I’ve shared on here…I’ve been busy @rigb.org helping run the summer workshops programme with the wonderful team at the Young Scientists Centre 🤓 But I’m back because #BARS2025 starts today!! See all you beautiful BARS folk in Cambridge shortly!

Cirrus display for the first day of my internship @ri-science.bsky.social. Can’t wait to spend summer working at this incredible institution ☺️

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱"Transformative progress towards a better future must appreciate, build on and empower people’s aspirations towards the fair and just sharing of benefits and burdens within and across societies, with future generations, and with the rest of life on Earth."

Oxford clouds hit differently

I’m very excited to be in Oxford for the Before Earthrise Symposium, organised by @carolineanjali.bsky.social, & can’t wait to present my paper tomorrow! Today, I indulged in a nostalgic wander around all my old undergrad haunts & discovered some new spots too…Oxford is a special place ✨

Just a woman in her beloved landscape reading about women and landscape, thinking about identity (my own and theirs) in relation to landscape. Happy Friday! 🌳🌾🌿

There’s an advantage we in the humanities have, which never before struck me as an advantage: it’s a lot harder to stop us when we don’t need labs.

Solidarity to the folks who walk to work and are erased by Bike to Work Week.

It was a privilege to hear @titachico.bsky.social speak about her work on meteorological instruments & literary devices in the 18thC this afternoon ❄️ leaving with lots to think about ☁️

Last night I spent a a magical evening at Harewood House ✨exploring the NOW OPEN Austen & Turner exhibition. A fascinating exploration into the lives & legacy of these two important artists. It was an honour & delight to contribute in some small way. A very proud @cecs-york.bsky.social moment!

Stratocumulus overhead ☁️ and fair weather to follow… Red sky at night still doing its job 🌅

With academic futures looking more uncertain, the alt-ac career path is ever more important for PhDs and ECRs. I’m excited to learn more at this roundtable in September!

Spending my Sunday with this fascinating book 🌥️I can’t believe I didn’t find this earlier on in my research…😌

If you’re presenting at this year’s @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social Conference, I strongly recommend submitting to be considered for this exciting prize. We’ll be sharing more information in due course!

We're delighted to announce that registration is now OPEN for the British Association for Romantic Studies 2025 ECR & PGR Conference, 'Romantic (Un)Consciousness'. Please visit our conference website for further details and to register! barsconference2025.wixsite.com/home @bars.bsky.social

If you hadn't heard...registration for the BARS 2025 Conference is OPEN!! And we have loads of treats in the programme that you won't want to miss out on. To join us in Cambridge & online, register here: barsconference2025.wixsite.com/home

Very excited to find out that I'll be presenting BARS PGR/ECR conference 'Romantic (Un)Conciousness' later this year in Cambridge! Can't wait to talk all about Catherine Morland and Northanger Abbey. @bars.bsky.social Big thank you to @drbeard79.bsky.social for the title inspiration 😂