"...nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions." -Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)

In a charming introductory scene, Woman of Tomorrow takes Supergirl from her usual position of pristine virtue to a far messier place (physically and emotionally). In doing so, it sets the stage for what might be the most poignant exploration of Kara’s character in the history of comics. 1/12

PERSEPOLIS author Marjane Satrapi has died, aged 56, a year after her husband's passing.

I saw Marjane Satrapi speak about her work at Smith College 19 years ago, and she said something I have thought about and taught ever since when I teach comics. “I draw what I can’t write and I write what I can’t draw.“

Book announcement!! 🎉 CREATURES OF STORY AND SONG looks through Britain’s stories and poems to rediscover our lost species. It’s time to remember what people thought about wolves, lynxes, great whales, great auks, sturgeon & more when they were all still here! 🐺🦫🐳💚 @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Adieu, Marjane 😢

Congratulations and fingers crossed, Emily!

#DIBLives ‘Eva threw her whole soul into the national movement...No native of Ireland in past or present history ever devoted a life more constantly or consistently to the service of the country than [she] did.' Mary Anne Kelly or 'Eva of the Nation' d. #OTD 1910. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...

#DIBLives A prolific writer, an astute businesswoman and an engaging companion, novelist Maria Edgeworth (d. #OTD 1849) was adept at observing and mimicking life. With Edgeworthstown House as her anchor, her novels examined human society through focusing on local life. www.dib.ie/biography/ed...

Come and work with us at @ouliterature.bsky.social ! We are looking for a lecturer in Romantic Studies to join our wonderful department. Details in the link below: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ222/l... @bars.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @sharpweb.org

As you know, the thing for all of us to remember is that they *never* stop at trans people or whoever is the current victim. They will erode women's rights, disabled people's rights, LGBTQ+ people's rights, pensioner's rights, minority rights, and just keep going and going. Solidarity is key.

The call for proposals is now open for Museums+Tech 2026! 🏛 What does place mean in an age of digital everything? That's the big question we're asking at M Shed, Bristol on 27 November. #MusTech2026

UK Comics creator today: queerer, more neurodivergent than ever!

New dataset published: this is the audio + transcripts of AI-generated podcasts using NotebookLM to analyse how it "translated" source documents from different times and cultures. My favourites are the 20 podcasts generated from an empty PDF. The paper about it is in press. doi.org/10.18710/RNT...

Today @drjogrady.bsky.social wrote to the University of Reading. Trans staff and students are being forced into formal grievances just to find out why policies that affect their daily lives exist. That is not legal compliance. It is institutional opacity. We’re calling on Reading to act.

Music Computing job opportunity with colleagues in the STEM faculty at the OU: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN260/r... #AcademicJobs

📢 #HT2026 Late Breaking deadline extended 📢 More time to submit your research! 📝 New deadline: June 1 Submit your work and join the latest discussions in hypertext research. 🔗 Details: ht.acm.org/ht2026/ #HT2026 #ACM #Hypertext #Research #CFP

📣 FREE online conference CfP: Telling the truth? Authorship, audiences and authenticity across discourse, texts and narratives Nov 5-6 2026 👉 Deadline June 1 Submit@ telling-truth.sciencesconf.org/user/submit #linguistics #literature #creativewriting #translation @ouliterature.bsky.social

Still a few days left to apply!

Fancy creative writing and decaf? ☕️Join me this Friday! @ouliterature.bsky.social #londoncoffeefestival www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tasting-no...

A federal judge granted the motion for a summary judgment on all counts in favor of the AHA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @modernlanguage.bsky.social in our lawsuit to restore the NEH, ruling that the mass termination of grants was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect." 🗃️

In her 143-page ruling, Judge McMahon ordered the agency to rescind the cuts while saying the plaintiffs had suffered “irreparable injury.” “The injury is not limited to the loss of money,” Judge McMahon said. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...

Update for anyone returning to this thread: I've added click-to-focus city filtering and full-state shareable links to the explorer. bsky.app/profile/docu...

✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa. Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality. docuracy.github.io/datini/ #DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory

We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5

I am looking forward to two big events this summer. The first is my online conversation with @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social as part of the SHARPIES festival, organised by SHARP. The second is that I am keynoting the ACM Hypertext 2026 conference and hope/plan to do this in-person, in London. More soon.

The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2026. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on OA or with an open access component. Deadline 30/06:

New Head of Service for Museum Data Service 📣 We are delighted to announce that Dr Mia Ridge @miaout.bsky.social will become Head of Service for Museum Data Service, the transformative initiative which is connecting all the object records across the UK’s museums 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...

Happy birthday, Jane!

Can't find your ballot? Get another. Replacements ballot requests end SUNDAY MIDNIGHT: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...

Job alert! @ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Thanks for the repost @trendingworld.bsky.social The conference is online, and free! The Sigrid Nunez and Karen McCarthy Woolf talks will be hosted by OU writers @emmaclairesweeney.bsky.social and @janeyeh3.bsky.social #literature #freeonline

After an excellent first day of conference we're really looking forward to our guest authors on Friday: Karen McCarthy Woolf at 18:00 and Sigrid Nunez at 20:00. Tickets here: tinyurl.com/5793w2ch @littlebrown.bsky.social @viragopress.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social @sarahsavitt.bsky.social

We are delighted to host Sigrid Nunez at our Letters and Literature conference on the 7th of November. One week to go! Tickets here: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/... @sarahsavitt.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social @littlebrownbooks.bsky.social @viragopress.bsky.social #sigridnunez

And we are thrilled to host @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social on 7/Nov at the Letters and Literature conference. One week to go! Tickets here: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/... @carcanet.bsky.social @tseliotprize.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @rsliterature.bsky.social 4 m

“How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter" (Haruki Murakami). Join the Open University for an international celebration of Letters and Literature, November 5-7. Full programme at digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/... @carcanet.bsky.social @thepostalmuseum.bsky.social

Lovely to see a postcard of my Alma Mater Bologna

We’re into week two of the ballot, time to get back to basics. Why vote? Because your voice is the only way to change what’s happening in our sector: 📉 Falling pay ⚠️ Rising insecurity 💬 Broken national agreements Every vote counts. Vote YES. Post your ballot. #WeAreTheUniversity

We are delighted to be supporting the W&A Working-Class Writers' Prize 2025 with @writersandartists.bsky.social @ruppin.bsky.social, @societyofauthors.bsky.social and @openuniversity.bsky.social Submissions open on 1st November 2025. www.writersandartists.co.uk/about-wa-wor... PLEASE SHARE

Postcards continue to arrive from speakers all over the globe as we prepare for the upcoming international conference, Letters and Literature. Full details of the programme at digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/... @modernistudies.bsky.social @mklitfest.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social

Sigrid Nunez, one of the USA’s most esteemed authors, talks to Open University novelist Emma Claire Sweeney about the letters of Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag. mklitfest.org/sigridnunez #openuniversity #creativewriting #lettersandliterature #sigridnunez

The first of a series of postcards for our free online conference: Letters and Literature 1500-2025, 5-7 November 2025. Full programme: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/... Every day we'll share a postcard sent to us by one of our guest speakers. Watch out for tomorrow’s!

How do different ways of reading affect our experience of literature? In collaboration with the BBC, Open University lecturer @shaftowheed.bsky.social has developed a short quiz to show how different formats affect our reading experience. You can find the quiz here: www.instagram.com/ouconnect/re...

And to his further appearance on BBC Radio 4 this evening!

Looking forward to listening to my colleague Ed’s award-nominated story this afternoon!

The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music is now in paperback! So happy that this is now a very affordable book. A big shoutout to all the brilliant contributors!

Welcome to Bluesky to my colleagues at @ouliterature.bsky.social !

Excited to see the preparations for our upcoming Conference: ‘Letters and Literature 1500-2025: histories, forms, communities’ Online only from the 5th to 7th of November 2025. More details soon!

A fascinating article in @theconversation.com on Jane Austin heroines co-written by OU English and Creative Writing lecturer Dr Emma Sweeney. Check it out: theconversation.com/who-was-jane...

VCs don’t run universities. We do. After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot. Ballot opens October. Vote YES. #WeAreTheUniversity