Exciting news! Madeline Bassnett's Climate Change Cookery: Recipes and Resilience in England's Little Ice Age 1550-1700 is now avalilable for pre-order: www.concordia.ca/press/climat... (full disclosure: Madeline is my partner, but the book really is brilliant!) #earlymodernclimatechange

Happy Birthday, Shakespeare!

Super cool

I've seen students use AI writing tools to help them "write in the style of a scientific paper". And the AI tools are really good at that - too good. A better idea? Use them to help *avoid* the thickets of jargon and swamps of tedium that typify our literature! scientistseessquirre... 🧪

Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.

The solution is right above us. Solar panels on existing buildings, car parks, and along highways generate clean power without sacrificing farmland or wild spaces. Let's use our built world first. #Renewables #Innovation

Check out all of the beautiful books published by members of @saaupdates.bsky.social since our 2024 meeting! If you will be in Denver for #Shax2026, I hope you'll join us for a celebration on Friday, April 3rd, from 10:30-11:00am in the Centennial Foyer! sites.google.com/trinity.edu/...

Starting shortly until 1 pm EST. Reimagining #Shakespeare, Remaking World Systems . Online and in person. #Macbeth #McGill

Join us next Wed 28 Jan @ 08.30 EST for Reimagining Shakespeare, Remaking World Panel Systems, a symposium/online webinar opening with theatre-maker Robert Lepage in conversation w Laurette Dubé & Paul Yachnin followed by 5 interdisciplinary panels anchored in #Macbeth. stratfestbsky.social

Glorious winter #crosscountryskiing #wintersports

Getting ready for 2026 this morning by brainstorming “Heating up the Little Ice Age in Shakespeare,” a chapter for The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and the Natural World, ed. Karen Raber and Todd Borlik. @oxunipress.social #climatechange #extremeweather #LittleIceAge #Shakespeare #weatherwatching

Submitted my chapter ‘Cannonfire Distractions and “Distract” Ophelia: recovering the environmental politics of Hamlet through sound, affect, and memory’ for Shakespeare and Ecological Crisis: Interventions in the Face of Climate Emergency, ed Rebecca Lemon & Carolyn Sale (Edinburgh UP 2026).

In addition to the purchase discount, OUP academic is also offering readers a free chapter (my Introduction). Happy reading. fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

I'm delighted to post that OUP is offering a 30% discount on hardback copies of my new book, *Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation: disability, gender, race, ecology*: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/.... Use discount code AUFLY30.

Very excited about next year's Othello, to be dir by Haysam Kadri @abtheatreprjcts.bsky.social, w the beautifully & powerfully spoken André Sills as Othello, Evan Buliung Iago, Krystin Pellerin Desdemona, Jordin Hall Cassio, Jessica B. Hill Emilia, & Rylan Wilkie Roderigo. What a fabulous line-up!

Don't you wish your department/university did more to help grad students learn to write? Teaching writing is hard, but students are eager to learn. I can help! I can teach a one-week intensive course for you. Details here: scientistseessquirre.... Get in touch!

If you're in the UK, you can pre-order my book from Waterstones at 25% off with the code "OCTOBER25" #Shakespeare #EarlyModern www.waterstones.com/book/whats-i...

@profjoubin.bsky.social sums up Shakespeare in three words!

If you missed part or all of #G4G2025, you can watch all of the individual recorded presentations here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

My book "On Freedom," the case for the value of freedom and a proposal for a better future, with a new foreword accounting for where we are today, will be out in paperback October 28th. timothysnyder.org/on-freedom

Last day to enroll for seminars at #WSC2026!

Arrived yesterday, just in time for today's online #G4G2025. Congratulations Katie and Elizabeth! 🎊 events.humanitix.com/globe4globe.

Tomorrow! Register here for the online Shakespeare and Environmental Justice Symposium Fri 10am-Sat 10am EDT events.humanitix.com/globe4globe. Program shakespearereloaded.edu.au/sites/defaul.... Hope to see you there. #Globe4Globe2025

One week left to enroll in the World Shakespeare Congress seminars, including "Anthropocene Shakespeare: Research, Practice, Transformations" led by Sophie Chiari and me. www.wsc2026.org/seminars/. Join us! #Shakespeare #Anthropocene #ecocriticism #ecodramaturgy #researchinpractice #WSC2026

You guys, Kit was a hell of a playwright.

One week until #Globe4Globe2025 Shakespeare and Environmental Justice. Check out the fabulous 24-hr programme Frí 12-Sat 13 Sept of international speakers: events.humanitix.com/globe4globe. #eco-Shakespeare. #Shakespeare. #ecotheatre #ecocriticism #anthropocene

I’ve just heard Gabriella Smith’s sonically astounding Breathing Forests, an eco-musical evocation of the precarity & resilience of contemporary forests. Incredible! UK residents can listen again. Rest of the world isn’t so lucky. I wonder if there’s a recording…. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Reposting after the long weekend in Canada and the US and for la rentrée. Good luck everyone.

Okay, that’s literally what happened when I taught The Lorax at the beginning of my 1000-level banned books course!

TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE has a COVER👀 (this is a late C16 embroidered coif - never in fact assembled - in the V&A. All the crazy scale with added big cats, like an acid trip As You Like It. I love that it is a bit stained and messy.) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I've been away from social media for a while. Thanks to everybody who has followed me here despite my silence. I'll launch my first bsky post with news about my new book: Shakespeare,St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation: disability, gender, race, ecology academic.oup.com/book/60795.