“To make yourself merely technically useful to a company or an industry is to make yourself vulnerable to replacement by automation at any moment. Thinking, creating, understanding – these cannot be replaced, certainly not by AI. Trust me. I’ve tried.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen Marche

Mastery of banal style is losing its usefulness – but language is more powerful than ever. It’s up to the writer to do what machines can’t

theguardian.com

We have worked with Dr Lucy Neville @drbluestocking.bsky.social, Criminology Lecturer at Southampton Uni to include information from her PhD project that included data about #sexworkers murdered in incidents of #domesticviolence. Read her study: www.scribd.com/document/678... #IDEVASW #IDEVASW2025

“For the thousands of women who clock in each day at factories, fabrication shops and construction sites across America, Czech's murder has validated the vulnerability they feel working outnumbered and alone” www.ibtimes.co.uk/minnesota-ma...

New academic book haul makes me VERY happy! #shelfie #BookLove

cc @drbluestocking.bsky.social, I believe your book "Girls who like boys who like boys: Women and gay male pornography and erotica" would be of relevance

Mel Stanfill@melstanfill.bsky.social · 11mo ago

my article with @rouselaurenc.bsky.social, "Quantifying fandom: Identity, romance, and platform preferences on archive of our own," is out today in New Media & Society! now we know how fandom demographics relate to their practices in a broader way. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/KNQFQ...

Can’t help but reflect on the *5 years of strikes* we did to defend our pensions, on this, the day USS announce their £10 billion surplus.

Amidst the bleakness, I've just published an article exploring how young trans people are dealing with life in the UK @geographers.bsky.social. Do read to understand more about how trans youth are navigating & thriving in these times. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exploring Young Trans and Non-binary People’s Strategies and Spaces for Navigating Marginality in the United Kingdom: A Novel Resilience, Resistance, and Restoration Framework

Amid recent, unprecedented sociopolitical scrutiny and hypervisibility of young trans people in the United Kingdom, this article considers how trans youth develop individual and collective mechanis...

tandfonline.com

starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government

“Defending the rights of migrant sex workers is essential to a broader movement for immigrant justice… Otherwise, the state will keep using the same fascist playbook: target sex workers and the most marginalized first, then expand its reach to others” #sexworkiswork truthout.org/articles/sex...

Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics

Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.

truthout.org

Having a Cultural Evening with @drbluestocking.bsky.social Celebrating the AMAZING #LauraHarris Collaborative Art Installation at the John Hansard Gallery #SoProud #BuildingsThatMove 😍❤️🥂🥂🥂

I have never seen people run away from the scene of a public policy disaster quicker than this one. Astonishing and disgraceful. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

Universities have ‘lost sight of responsibility over public money’

Baroness Smith says institutions failing to rein in spending despite demanding financial support from government

telegraph.co.uk

Introducing Our University's New, Totally Reasonable Criteria for Promotion and Tenure www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/int...

Introducing Our University’s New, Totally Reasonable Criteria for Promotion and Tenure

Since the founding of our august institution, we have awarded promotion and tenure based on how many pages of your research we could read before fa...

mcsweeneys.net

“No matter how long we get to parent our children, there are only limited numbers of “I love you”s we can say to them. That, too, is a fact.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Deaths—and Lives—of Two Sons

The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then James died.

newyorker.com

Legit! #writers #booksky #writingcommunity

"The real project was always us: the work of understanding, and not the accumulation of facts... No amount of peer-reviewed scholarship, no data set, can resolve the central questions that confront every human being: How to live? What to do? How to face death?’" www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?

Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.

newyorker.com

“That’s the problem with paralysis – it gets into everything. You can’t look at the news, but you know it’s still there... Frozen feels preferable to adapting to a new reality. Sometimes you don’t have to look for it – trouble will find you anyway” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it? | Zoe Williams

The truth is paralysing. But after JD Vance met the far-right leader Alice Weidel in Germany, it is time to be clear about what we are seeing, writes Zoe Williams

theguardian.com

“We have our own witches – women who like the witches of old cannot live in the boxes they are put in. Women who are shamed and doubted in public, regardless of who is wrong or right. I could not live in the box I had been put in” www.themanifeststation.net/2025/02/14/t...

The Witch’s Bridle | The Manifest Station

Scot seems to recognize that the tall tale is actually an instruction for controlling and disciplining women. Bridle the woman before she bridles you. Violate the woman before she violates you.

themanifeststation.net

“Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the ‘Woke’ Parts” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Opinion | Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts

The administration’s war on universities defies rational self-interest.

nytimes.com

“If I were to ask “What makes you proud to be British?”… I would put money on many of your answers being the very subjects that are currently under threat at our universities. Our history, theatre, music, language, literature – our culture” - @whoresofyore.bsky.social inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...

An act of grotesque vandalism is taking place in British universities

The entire arts and heritage sector in the UK will be irreparably damaged

inews.co.uk

It’s fun starting a new hobby with ADHD because I never know if I’ve found a new lifelong passion or if I’m going to spend $2000 on stuff and immediately lose all interest

“While there is every reason to be outraged, we cannot let that outrage flood us and stop our minds” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler

Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage

theguardian.com

“Romantasy and BookTok driving a huge rise in science fiction and fantasy sales” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

Romantasy and BookTok driving a huge rise in science fiction and fantasy sales

The subgenre helped increase the market share by 41.3% last year aided by bestseller Fourth Wing from Rebecca Yarros while food and drink topped nonfiction sales

theguardian.com

Incredible review from the wonderful InCommon of the exhibition on now in Winchester @miloustella.bsky.social

In Common@incommon.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Coming out as transgender caused a huge glitch in the way people have thought about me & those relationships. Queering Connections introduced me to far more examples of “glitches” in our relationships" Review - Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship at The Winchester Gallery tinyurl.com/4h99rmec

“Shaping pleasure, shifting boundaries: a roundtable on the future of porn studies” #PornStudies www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NVIW4...

Shaping pleasure, shifting boundaries: a roundtable on the future of porn studies

The roundtable, ‘Shaping Pleasure, Shifting Boundaries: A Roundtable on the Future of Porn Studies,’ took place in June 2024 via Zoom and was recorded, transcribed and then edited to cut digression...

tandfonline.com

Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.

Seems like it’s not the case that funding will be pulled from/denied grants featuring these words, rather that the occurrence of these words will trigger a “human review”. So mentions of statistical bias, blood-brain barrier &c will be fine. It’s specifically “EDI” research that will be defunded.

Here are the words putting science in the crosshairs of Trump’s orders

National Science Foundation staff have been combing through thousands of active science research projects, alongside a list of keywords, to determine if they include activities that violate Trump’s ex...

washingtonpost.com

Darby Saxbe@darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

“When you teach your daughter…that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind & accepting, that she must not rock the boat, you are NOT strengthening her prosocial sense, you are damaging it—& the first person she will stop protecting is herself” www.seattlemet.com/news-and-cit...

Personal Essay: What It’s Like to Date a Serial Cheater

Jake seemed too good to be true. He was.

seattlemet.com

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE 🎉 ✨️ 🎉🎊 My Book Is Officially Out 🥂😍💃💃AND The Best Part Is It's #OpenAccess Can't Believe I am Starting 2025 as a Published Author 🤓🤓 6 Years of Hard Work has Officially Paid Off 🍾🍾🍾