The public historian, author and creator of the You’re Dead to Me podcast Greg Jenner warned…”The arts and humanities are fundamental to the flourishing of our society; knowledge gathering, critical thinking and creativity should be defended as sacred things.”

Andrew McRae@mcraeandrew.bsky.social · last mo.

👀 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Gothic Studies is recruiting! We seek a new assistant editor 🧛‍♂️

Jesus Christ the world is being eaten alive by this self optimisation bullshit

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 7mo ago

seriously though can someone not just make Instagram but without the algorithm

Account has been hacked (badly) urgh bear with me

We need to bully these people, badly

brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Very cool!

I think one of the reasons why people don't take the study of the humanities seriously is they think being a history buff = being a historian and reading a lot = being a literature scholar because there's still so little public understanding of what methodologies in those fields actually look like

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 8mo ago

I’m jumping off a bit here but this is something that always grinds me about how people treat history. Lots of people are history hobbyists, and that’s great! It is different from being a Professional Historian. Passion does not equal skills and expertise.

It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

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For my American horror homies this Thanksgiving: A great article to send a family member on why we love scary movies. www.bbc.com/future/artic... #horrorcommunity #horrormovies #anxiety

'The paradox of horror': How scary films can soothe your anxiety

Jump scares and gore might not seem like the most soothing watching, but scary films can actually be the ideal therapy during anxious times.

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My students said they love my rants on it. Taught The Time Machine. Told them OpenAI wants them to become Eloi.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is

it's the healthiest thing we can do for the internet!!! y'all can get started for free on neocities!! it's like geocities but now!!! neocities.org go get started!!!

Neocities

Create and surf awesome websites for free.

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www.theguardian.com/education/20... the total lack of critical thinking in this article and obliviousness to the actual conditions of HE seems to suggest this writer would have benefited from exposure to a liberal arts course

It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters

Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng

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OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8

OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates

A burning platform

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' ... a foundational contribution to regional gothic studies.' A brilliant review of 'Cornish Gothic' by @joanpassey.bsky.social in @victstudies.bsky.social! muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... Discover more about this 'compelling' book here: www.uwp.co.uk/book/cornish...

I am genuinely dumbfounded that anybody, even for a nanosecond, might have thought that LLM simulations of human participants could provide novel insights on the human mind

M.J. Crockett@mjcrockett.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

I'm doing a talk in Bath! Come and join me at Komedia on the 4th November 2025 for a whistlestop tour of women in the Gothic across four delirious centuries! It will be fast, furious, and hair raising! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gothic-fic...

Did Victorians believe heavy drinking caused spontaneous human combustion? Dr Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social is going to enlighten us on this rather unusual subject, on Thursday 16th October at Glenside Hospital Museum, and we can't wait! Tickets here: glensidemuseum.org.uk/introducing-...

I love Amelia B Edwards, not least because 'A Thousand Miles Up the Nile' has so many euphemistic applications

absolutely gobsmacked to find red and white flags painted on zebra crossings and roundabouts in my little part of bristol, ST GEORGE.

Spotted @jendeavour.bsky.social and @joanpassey.bsky.social’s books in the wild (“the wild” being The Bodies in the Bookshop in Cambridge in this instance)

Ahh yes, my favourite Jane Austen novels - The Schutzstaffel, Postage and Packaging, Member of Parliament, Electronic, Not Applicable and Phosphorous <3

a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel

it's been DAYS since i saw it but i still can't stop thinking of the GENIUS of casting Jacob Anderson as Daniel Hall

This is why I am sometimes grumpy when people tell me how lucky I am to live somewhere with limited public transport links and an economy built on on low paid seasonal work. Yes, it's beautiful, but that's not enough, particularly for the young. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Young people in England’s coastal towns three times more likely to have a mental health condition

They are suffering disproportionately and without help, say researchers, and unless they are given a voice, problems will continue to mount up

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I’m (Lauren) pleased to announce the safe arrival of my first child, ‘The Gothic at War’, weighing 75 pounds. It was a long and difficult birth but worth the effort. If you want to support my sweet child, why not order a copy for you library: www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-got... #AcademicChatter #Gothic

I actually loved Thunderbolts. A profoundly on the nose reflection on self loathing and loneliness where a group hug saves the day but I'm a simple creature and I love a haunted house story with found family

Did you know? 100 years ago today, the BBC broadcast the #ShippingForecast for the very first time, produced by the Met Office for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. More than just a lifesaver, it’s become a beloved part of Britain’s cultural identity. Learn more: bit.ly/4kg877D 🛳️🌊

For 30 years I've been experimenting with ways to see & use the online collections of libraries, archives & museums. I've made useful things, playful things, & weird things. Here's a big list of them for you to explore! https://wraggelabs.com #GLAM #histodons #digitalHumanities

Wragge Labs

A compilation of things I've built over the last 30 years to help people see and use the online collections of libraries, archives, and museums.

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At this point I think I may be one of an incredibly small number of people to have read the second Sullivan report in detail. It is uniformly poor scholarship, containing flagrant fabrications and misrepresentations, calling into question Alice Sullivan's ability to conduct basic academic research

it’s hard to stress just how important it is for universities to provide tailored support for students for whom english is not a first language, and how counter-productive these proposed redundancies are www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @ucu.org.uk

University of Bristol jobs at risk amid lower student numbers

The university says the number of applicants to the languages course has fallen in recent years.

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Massive Attack via Instagram.