ICYMI: Thames & Hudson has signed On Censorship by “one of contemporary art’s most influential figures”, Ai Weiwei. The book will be published on 29th January 2026 👇 #BookSky

A customer just came into the shop and bought 12 books for her friend’s birthday. She’s going to wrap them individually and write a different month of the year on each one, so her friend has a new book to read every month until her next birthday. And I think that’s just the most thoughtful gift.

There is no clear evidence that paracetamol has any harmful effects on an unborn baby.

CAUTION! From November 3, 2025, #LinkedIn will use members' data to improve the content-generating AI the company uses (excluding the messages). You can opt out checking the settings and disabling the corresponding option. Do it now, if you wish, but check again in November.

Raising £10000 to support UCU members facing financial hardship taking industrial action to protect jobs. Donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

We’re thrilled to announce that the OLH (@openlibhums.org) is partnering with award-winning poetry publisher the87press to relaunch its flagship poetry journal The Hythe Review. More on The Hythe Review: www.openlibhums.org/journals/ #WritingCommunity #the87press #literature #londonpoetry

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…

“Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’.” - business secretary, Peter Kyle. What do they want knowledge for? Heaven forbid that students go to university to learn something!

And this is why the Office for Students monitoring the proportion of graduates in highly skilled employment “to assess the effectiveness of higher education” is inherently a biased and an unfair way to measure teaching excellence. Designed to perpetuate the status quo & put post-92s in their place

What a great bench-bookcase! Is it custom made?

Trinity University: Tenure-track Assistant Professor of English: Medieval Literature: memorients.com/news/trinity...

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

“This radiates with joy.” Perhaps you too are desperate for some friggin’ joy. Publishers Weekly has given Prieta Is Dreaming — a posthumous collection of stories by Gloria Anzaldúa forthcoming from SUNY P — a starred review. 💫 www.publishersweekly.com/9798855804553

The disappearance of arts, humanities and social science degree courses in some parts of the UK means that thousands of students will be unable to pursue these subjects, the British Academy has warned. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

👇👇👇 That’s why many students don’t attend classes. They’re busy working two (sometimes three) jobs, with the repercussions for attainment, mental health, etc. Not everyone’s family has spare money to help out. And don’t get me started on fees in England…

An important new book by a team of experts on the tremendous violence of the revolutionary world, in which Europeans’ enlightenment humanism co-existed with their assaults on each other & the often genocidal destruction of non-European societies.

Perhaps obvious to those in the know, but can anyone recommend scholarship on the political positioning of so-called 'middlebrow' authors?

Time for Covid booster, but I don’t know what vaccine is most effective for current version of the virus and who would sell them in the UK. Does anyone (Prof Greenhalgh?) know? Thanks! @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social

Yes, I’d love an extension to the summer 🙏 … but since that’s not possible, folk working in philosophy can have the next best thing, an extension to this cfp deadline. 👇

Why am I not surprised? Good to see research in this area which should inform appraisals, promotion processes etc.

Double rainbow in Sheffield!

So pleased to see this special issue come to fruition.

At last, some proper British vandalism. (source - www.facebook.com/share/p/1MeV...)

Everyone in HE! Read the summary if this report. Some really well chosen examples….https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-hugely-overestimate-graduate-regret-while-underestimating-economic-value-of-universities-and-being-wrong-on-tuition-fees-new-study

Trip to the seaside, England style!

The Quakers are doing exactly what all public services are legally allowed to do even if the EHRC wants to pretend they're not: say gender-based toilets are inclusive and for anyone bothered by that as a matter of belief, there are stand-alone cubicles that they are very free to use. 1/

This is so fucking depressing. Something that can be irretrievably proven to work and save hundred, thousands of lives (across all possible vaccines I mean) and people have just gone mad and decided that no, they know best.

The BBC is about to shut its Written Archives to the public. Writers and researchers rely on these archives. They belong to the licence payers. Please sign and share this open letter.

If you have an emergency phone you don't want someone to find out about, please be aware that this is happening soon.

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Excellent response to the GCSE resit situation.

A rather quizzical squash from my colleague's garden

Having children dress as characters for book week teaches them to embrace naive mimesis. They should be encouraged to personify formal categories like omniscient naration, free indirect discourse, etc

It's alive! Publication day! Play in Utopian and Dystopian Ficion arrived in the mail. Thanks Liverpool University Press for producing such a beautiful book.

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

Aged 5-25 and looking for poetry magazines, competitions, or writing groups? Check out our Poetry Opportunities database on Young Poets Network: ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/poetry-opportunities/

The University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies is offering a PhD scholarship on “Robert Burns & the Environment” – part of a new research strand on Burns, the Environment & Sustainable Cultural Heritage DEADLINE 18 AUGUST #C18th #Romanticism www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

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Criticising the ban on Palestine Action is not the same as saying "I support this organisation". It cannot be reasonably be stretched to mean I back a group, because the premise of the statements are different. But the doubt is designed to shut people up. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

“Don’t obey in advance” (Timothy Snyder)

The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Not the point of this fascinating article, but it remains darkly ironic to me that the Humanities have fallen backwards into being the safe financial bet of degrees

What’s with many job adverts not having a salary range? It’s such a waste of everyone’s time if people apply and then it turns out it pays less than they would accept. Wasting applicants and companies’ time.

#SheffEvents #Date260725

Withdrawal of public funds for everything (except contribution for STEM) has engendered an uncaring university system. Successive govs (mainly Conservative) have been drumming the individualist rhetoric and denying the value of humanities arts and social sciences. We’re reaping what they sowed.

Measles 👏 is 👏 airborne. 👏 Covid 👏 is 👏 airborne. Vaccinate 98% of population Clean the air re windows and purifiers for winter We are failing our children people!

Drove by an establishment in France called ‘Pain and Snacking’, which also happens to be my writing process.

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I wish the field of science was more attuned to the #MatthewEffect (essentially the "rich" getting richer over time) The consequences are real.