I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

HUGE congratulations to @bloomsburylit.bsky.social author Eleanor Careless, whose book has been shortlisted for the University English book prize! universityenglish.ac.uk/university-e... Check out 'Incarceration in the Poetry of Anna Mendelssohn' here: www.bloomsbury.com/incarceratio...

The annual observance marks how far into the new year women must work to make what men earned in the previous year. This year, it's March 26, a day later than it was in 2025. n.pr/4t9rLqU

My debut memoir essay collection about the new Black arts movement is out. Feel free to check it out. 💜 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/770199...

youtu.be/Q6nem-F8AG8?... Don't be Gary.

Peter Thiel lecturing about the antichrist is a bit on the nose, isn't it? www.reuters.com/technology/t...

A great write up in @thewiremagazine.bsky.social of 'striking' @bloomsburylit.bsky.social book 'Listening In'. Check the book out here: www.bloomsbury.com/listening-in...

A really thoughtful, generous review of Jesse Wolfe's book 'Love, Friendship and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury'. Book published by @bloomsburylit.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/love-friends...

Up on the Bloomsbury website at last: Carole Boyce Davies, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Janell Hobson,Angelique V. Nixon and Christen A. Smith's 'Black Feminist Theories' will be a hugely significant book. Plus it'll be publishing in paperback, which is great too! www.bloomsbury.com/black-femini...

Wrote about @samcohen.bsky.social’s book banning volume for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. The volume invites us to consider why books matter—and it shows the many ways they’re under attack, even here in progressive NYC. lareviewofbooks.org/article/bann...

The folks at @standard.co.uk.web.brid.gy asked me to report from the floor of #MWC26. There were foldable phones, massive stands, and a hell of a lot of humanoids. Read my take here www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/mo...

Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse Five to come to grips with the horrors he witnessed before and after the bombing of Dresden. And the big through line is those in favor of war have never experienced the cruelty, dehumanization or casual brutality of it. This mfer wouldn’t last a minute.

Amidst the usual stream of horror and sadness, this brightened up my morning www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175 Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?” www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

If you're thinking about heading to #MLA27, there are several session calls I'm involved with that could be of interest to DH, electronic literature, and games folks: first up, the MLA Committee on Information Technology has calls on AI in DH & language pedagogy: mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web... (1/3)

Literally the first thing academics pointed out about LLMs YEARS AGO was that they would be used for catastrophic levels of fraud—how nice that now the AI bros are confirming what we all knew by running fraud experiments to tell cheats which LLM to use to cheat

Another good news year for Bloomsbury Open Collections!

Obviously a good thing that checks and balances are hardwired into these things, if we DO have to live with them, but OpenAI is a gutless, craven, unprincipled cesspool of a company. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nice review of Lucas Hardy's 'Theologies of Pain' in Transatlantica: 'Lucas Hardy’s compelling book deepens our understanding of the epistemology of pain in the Puritan imagination': www.bloomsbury.com/theologies-o...

A rather lovely short documentary based on @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social and @bloomsburylit.bsky.social book 'How to Weather Together' by Astrida Neimanis and Jen Hamilton. Check out the doc here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tQn... and the book here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/how-to-we...

BAVS Rosemary Mitchell Prize now open for submissions!

Awesome to see (well, hear) @bloomsburylit.bsky.social authors Jennifer Hamilton and Astrida Neimanis talking about their new book 'How to Weather Together' on the 'Cultures of Energy' podcast: cenhs.libsyn.com/249-weatheri... Grab a copy of the book here: www.bloomsbury.com/how-to-weath...

Heading into the city to see the Constable/Turner exhibition and then to see Fatboy Slim at Alexandra Palace. Afternoon/evening ahead looking lovely!

Just what we needed...MORE resources funnelled towards developing AI!!! Hooray...

Worth flagging the series here as well, actually! Edited by Bryan Cheyette and Martin Eve - New Horizons in Contemporary Writing: www.bloomsbury.com/series/new-h...

A huge CONGRATS to the @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social editors of 'The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature' for winning the BACLS edited collection prize. CHeck the book out here: www.bloomsbury.com/many-worlds-...

Just scorched earth (literally) from him at this point. What a horrendous human being. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Really interesting call for papers for next year's MLA, on 'Precarity Reimagined—Working-Class Representation since 2020'. Any interest, reach out to Simon as below. Please repost and recirculate as you can!

Enraged Brontë fans making their feelings known in Fleet

Really nice to see the final paperback jacket proof for the latest in @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Global Challenges...' series. Edited by Roman Bartosch, Ursula Heise & Kate Rigby, 'Unsettling Extinction': www.bloomsbury.com/unsettling-e...

"Reform UK's threat to defund Bangor University 'shows how bullying would be its style in government'"

#EnglishCreates: Futures We are thrilled to share today's blog by Caroline Lucas, Britain’s first Green MP: 'Literature is the way we exercise the muscle of the imagination... And unless we can imagine a greener, fairer world, we’ll struggle to achieve it.' universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

Congratulations to Fatima Naveed, winner of the @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social Academic Writing Fellowship for 2025! www.bloomsbury.com/connect/late...

⚠️ 12th February is the deadline to apply for the role of Impact Associate at University of Nottingham, working with the Indigenous North American Collection.

Also out now from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - another I've been waiting for, 'How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change' by Astrida Neimanis and Jen Hamilton: www.bloomsbury.com/how-to-weath...

I know I've been banging on about this for ages but it really is BRILLIANT! 'Listening In' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social tells the story of audio surveillance from the very first (and tragically unsubtle) bug, to in-home AI: www.bloomsbury.com/listening-in...

Interesting take on AI and the various vested interests surrounding it; www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Today's commute listen open.spotify.com/album/3gkxsf...

My fab colleagues are at the APA conference this week and keen to mingle, so if you're in the area and at a loose end then do swing by!

Also publishing in Aug (but you can order your paperback copy now): 'Black Feminist Theories', an amazing collection which brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers across transnational contexts. Perfect for course use! www.bloomsbury.com/black-femini...

Delighted to have a final jacket for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Vonnegut's War'! A fetching £20/$27 jacketed hardback, it fuses biography with popular history & textual analysis, telling the story of the making of a modern classic and the writer that created it. www.bloomsbury.com/vonneguts-wa...

Pretty sobering stuff - they don't get much more evil than Thiel and Palantir...

literally thousands of people with unique expert knowledge and skills being made redundant, universities in the brink of closure, but sure, let's publicly fund the bullshit machine

I resent being (increasingly bluntly) directed to help support the house of cards that technocrats like Altman, Musk et al have built.

Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously! 4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE ⁦‪ MARK RUSKELL MSP‬⁩ ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿by emailing [email protected] now!WOOP!

Keep on rocking in the free world, Greenland. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

I hope all the AI boosters understand that they’re training their kids that only chumps do things the hard way—by working diligently and going through the discomfort and hassle of learning and acquiring skills. And also teaching them that a 30% error rate is good enough.