Student asked me for more adaptations of classic novels from a WoC perspective (thinking of Wide Sargasso Sea), but prompted bc we read this (tinyurl.com/bdeshedj) and she loved the Miss Lambe character. Help?

So happy and proud that you can read these articles! Watch this space for more additions!! And thank youuu to @ernestopriego.com and @wilkinsp.bsky.social for your support

We are pleased to share that our Special Collection: Graphic Biographical Fiction (edited by @mariajuko.bsky.social and Nancy Pedri) has launched today, Monday 8 December 2025, with an initial set of two articles. All in glorious Diamond, consortial #OpenAccess! #ComicsStudies @openlibhums.org

A man?? winning the Booker prize????? Is that even possible? It hasn't happened since the far-flung days of 2023. Our legends say that a man also won it in the ancient, prehistoric era of 2021, but surely that is just an old wives tale meant to frighten MFA students before bed.

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

‘“Though she never quite found happiness, it was always something she insisted on: the right to be happy, even ecstatic.”’

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

me rolling up to every costume party i've ever been to

"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

The East Wing is totally gone. I can’t believe it

Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material. Oh my.

I want to do a 🧵 about the Sidney Sweeney thing, because it's *extremely* revealing & educational. First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares. Let's look at the *structure* of the episode.

Hello all! I have had a cancellation for Romancing the Gothic and am therefore looking for talk proposals on any American Gothic (I am including every country from Chile to Canada here) for 11th September. Give me a shout if you have a pitch! (Online talk, runs twice, paid)

Another fantastic workshop by @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social I'm really looking forward to receive my copy of her latest book soon!!!

The difficulty with writing anything about anything is that any given thing, on closer inspection, appears to be connected to every thing, and now you’ve gone from writing about anything to writing about everything 😅

Some of the sweetest segments teach concepts like “I can like something and not spend all my time doing it.” So simple, and so counter to messaging we get everywhere else. m.youtube.com/watch?v=kIq8...

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Me and my book project

First day of this year's class trip (this time to Norderney) - thanks to Deutsche Bahn we thought we would never get to our destination but the ferry ride was already one of many highlights

We live in a world where the same people who believe a man built a boat big enough for every animal don't believe in climate science because it’s “unproven.”

looks into the camera

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

Vom 23. bis 29. Juni streicht die #FUBerlin das "E", um zu zeigen, was fehlt, wenn Substanz gestrichen wird. Allein für 2025 sollen die Kürzungen rund 37 Million n uro betragen. D r B rlin r S nat g fährd t damit L hr, Forschung und Zukunftssich rh it. All Infos ➡️ tinyurl.com/aktionswoche...

This is the movie my bf and I watched and realized we are more than just great friends - been together for 6+ years now

This year marks the 30th anniver­sary of Jesse and Céline meet­ing in Vien­na with no phones, no pho­tos, and no future. Richard Lin­klater’s roman­tic com­e­dy about their intense attention has nev­er looked more attractive.

Director Ryan Coogler's SINNERS continues to kill it at the box office.

"Learning to grow" collagraph by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan #WomensArt

Indie solidarity. The symbiosis between indie bookshops and indie publishers makes it possible for us to do what we do. Manifesto printed for #indiebookshopweek

living through 2025 and having to wake up, go to work, handle responsibilities etc feels like this

Israel accused of ‘forcibly intercepting’ Gaza aid boat as activists detained – live

Most relationships consist of one partner who can fall asleep immediately and one resentful insomniac

Driving to the gym, windows down, blasting the audiobook for Middlemarch like it’s the song of the summer.

Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’

This starts today for me!! Can't wait to see and hear all these wonderful speakers and their presentations! I'll be speaking about Brontë biofiction tomorrow 🌸

Watched La Haine on the big screen tonight - sweet jesus what a movie

10 years ago I read This Changes Everything by @naomiaklein.bsky.social I was amazed and felt anxious at the same time thinking about our planet's future. Today I've finally started reading Doppelganger. Once again I am amazed by Klein's writing and anxious thinking about AI etc. A must read.

OH MY GOD THIS GAME CHANGER IS LIKE A FEVER DREAM BUT ALSO WHATEVER THE OPPOSITE OF A NIGHTMARE IS.

Dear All, I have here a CFP for an edited book with a preliminary title "Other Spaces: Spatiality in Popular Culture." Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2025. The full CFP below. Should you have any questions, please DM me. 😁👩‍🎓📖

Gonna make myself a t-shirt which reads ‘Ask Me Not ChatGPT’ to encourage students to seek help from an expert and not a bullshit plagiarism machine

Very excited for this!!

This is scary!

EVERY SINGLE TIME it's been proven that HELPING people is cheaper and more effective than doing nothing. Why can't we grasp this?

Make America Film Again ... like when the US movie industry rose to prominence by walling out international imports, which was never because the medium of film co-originated in multiple countries at once & was always an irreducibly global art form.

Not In Our Name - Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against the Supreme Court Ruling If you are a feminist academic or work in education please consider adding your name - link to sign in the letter below. t.co/cDSQlqqroH?s...

first time baking gluten-free bread - it's a Sunday alright