If you can help, please do make contact with Elliot.

Hi everyone! I'm currently looking for participants for interviews for my PhD research. I'm working on the history of the LGBT+ community in rural Ireland, the way being in rural Ireland impacted the community and how the community impacted rural Ireland, 1970-2000.

Things I Would Mandate If I Actually Ran English: • A factoid is a popularized false fact. It is not a cute little fact. • No one would ever write "begs the question" in any of its meanings. It's just gone. • People in Ingrid Bergman's predicament are not gaslit. They're gaslighted.

Twenty six years married today! ❤️

Statutory annual photo of me with Trinity’s big golden ball.

Man who lives in gold house says “that’s the establishment”.

The glamorous life of the commuting lecturer.

A generation of academics torture themselves in order to boost student satisfaction scores, and then the bosses decide students will be just as well off with a chatbot that tells them "Your work is deeply satisfactory — more than that, it meets the criteria for an upper second"

The Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival kicks off today! 🎉 Start your week with a dose of inspiration and discovery, and join us for thought-provoking talks and panel discussions that will spark new ideas and conversations. #TCDAHFest #ResearchMatters

If you write professionally in the UK, make sure to sign up to ALCS for your fair share of royalties

'A panel of five judges, chaired by O’Farrell, will assess 15,000 words of a novel in progress, and both winner and runner-up will receive not only money, but mentoring from Mantel’s literary agency, AM Heath; the publishing house John Murray; and the creative writing charity Arvon.'

📢 We’re hiring! The Poetry School is seeking a Marketing & Communications Manager (Maternity Cover) to join our team for 12 months. £30k FTE | Hybrid (London/Leeds + home). 🗓️ Apply by Mon 6 Oct, 9am 🔗 Full details: poetryschool.com/ope...

Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Creative Writing - 5 years University College Dublin Full time, temporary www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS472/l...

Do you know a young reader (16-24) who could help us select the next Laureate na nÓg? Applications close next Friday - we'd particularly love to hear from young people from underrepresented backgrounds or communities. More information + application form childrenslaureate.ie/young-reader...

this exists it is called thinking

Join us on Monday evening!

Tell me your favourite objects in crime fiction! I’m thinking the statue of the Maltese Falcon, Dickie Greenleaf’s signet ring, etc etc

Join us on Monday evening!

One little trick that stops me buying more clothes than I should is being allergic to alpaca. Everything has alpaca in it these days. Try it! Be allergic to alpaca!

Our next #RSVPDigiEv is about a month away! Join us Oct. 17 to hear about recent updates to the Curran Index from editors @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin in a talk, "From Periodicals to Dailies: Attribution Scholarship and the Joys and Challenges of Archival Plenitude." rs4vp.org/oct-digital-...

Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsullied…

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Warwick English came 5th in The Guardian today, which is great for us. But also notice that Lancaster came 3rd for Creative Writing & 7th for English - but the university is decimating programmes & firing 1/3 of academic staff over the next six months 🤔🤔🤔 @lancasterucu.bsky.social #saveartsandhums

Look at this absurd level of cuteness

Back at my printing night class (in-depth etching this time) and I will repeat my advice to academics: get a hobby. Preferably get a hobby that you can fail at and it doesn't matter. In facts it only makes it better.

Melaniabot has powered down.

If DJT is 6 feet 3 or whatever it is he claims, what height is Melania??

Doesn't look like this is hybrid sadly but definitely one for London folks!

Calling all Victorianists with Lego Ideas accounts! (yeah, I see you) VOTE FOR LEGO CRYSTAL PALACE beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

🎉 Happy Birthday to #AgathaChristie who was #bornonthis day in 1890. She is a celebrated English detective novelist and playwright from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, who has revolutionised crime fiction and is the creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. #CrimeFiction

This might be the first true thing this person has ever said.

conference.rs4vp.org RSVP @rs4vp.org conference in Dublin at Trinity @tlrhub.bsky.social in 2026. So exciting!

conference.rs4vp.org RSVP @rs4vp.org conference in Dublin at Trinity @tlrhub.bsky.social in 2026. So exciting!

Vacuous, generic and scattershot advice for incoming 1st years on the use of AI at university. Especially liking 'Chin recommends giving it class notes and asking it to generate practice exam questions.' Surely we can't be the only programme that supplies students with past & practice exams?

Three years ago today. Onwards and upwards.

Roll up, roll up! www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

Good morning fellow #18thCentury #Romanticism and #DigitalHumanities friends! My monograph, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical will be out in March 2026! I hope you'll request that your library purchases a copy, & snag one for yourself! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Hello friends, has anyone applied successfully for an RSVP @rs4vp.org Linda Peterson award who would be willing to share your application with me? Thanks so much.

Hello friends, has anyone applied successfully for an RSVP @rs4vp.org Linda Peterson award who would be willing to share your application with me? Thanks so much.

This is exactly what happened to me in 2022. Don’t ignore vague pain and swelling and be prepared to advocate for yourself. #womenshealth app.independent.co.uk/2025/09/11/2...

I spoke to the Irish Times for this very good and rounded piece on the real-world effects of C***GPT in the humanities classroom: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Major university merger announced. The start of a wave?

"Dozens of domestic cats, including nearly 70 this year, have been infected with H5N1, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. Many of the animals became infected after consuming raw milk or raw pet food contaminated with the virus."

Would any European academic friends (literary studies) like to host me for Erasmus teaching next year? Where should I go?

Quick rundown for non-US academics of whether you're likely to be eligible for the Anthropic payout: 1. you have works published in or before 2022 2. which are registered for US copyright (most likely if you had a US publisher, not otherwise): check here publicrecords.copyright.gov 1/2

Awwwww

As with Ballymena, what's useful about the DUP's acquiescence to far right fearmongering about migrants is that it's so very clearly just about the racism. Net migration to NI *for the past 22 years* amounts to less than 62,000 people. That's less than 3k a year, in a state of 1.9 million people.