Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…
Rebecca Bowler
@greenbowlerhat.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in C20th English Literature at Keele | Working (slowly but surely) on Critical Eds of May Sinclair | Past Chair of BAMS | Modernist Wellness | She/Her
"[M]oney is much weirder and more capacious than the austere and exclusionary monetary politics that’s now threatening the future of our universities (and much more besides) will ever allow."
Weird Epistemologies of Money and Trust in Fitzgerald, Ford, and Larsen; or, Isn’t Money Weird?
By Rob Hawkes What follows is a slightly expanded version of a talk I gave at the ‘Weird Modernisms’ conference at Loughborough University, UK (1-4 July 2026), a collaboration between the UK-based …
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Here is a fantastic opportunity, 3 years full time, a chance to really develop, alongside lovely colleagues. Replacing me so colonial or non European history particularly welcome. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRR630/l...
Lecturer in History and Digital Humanities at Keele University
An academic position as a Lecturer in History and Digital Humanities is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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Keele Uni used to do this. Sounds like utter chaos. www.keele.ac.uk/thekeeleoral...
Raft Races on the Lake
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Mollie Goodfellow@hansmollman.bsky.social · 4mo agoThey should have to build the boats for the boat race themselves like the Red Bull Soapbox
Sheena! So exciting! 👏 🎉
Rue Baldry@ruebaldry.bsky.social · 5mo agoHuge congratulations to Sheena Kalayil & Fly On The Wall Press for inclusion of The Others on the longlist of the Women’s Prize for fiction announced today. I’m so proud of my small, independent, Northern Press run by Isabelle Kenyon! @ @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social womensprize.com/revealing-th...
The students on my gothic module got me a card (it’s my birthday tomorrow)! ON POINT.
Excited for Robin Ince in our little campus cafe tomorrow!
Who remembers the European Computer Driving License? Just apropos of nothing….
This is the best thing I have ever seen! In case anyone else of my generation needs a little cheer this morning …
ℳatt@matttomic.bsky.social · 7mo agoItalian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
This is the best thing I have ever seen! In case anyone else of my generation needs a little cheer this morning …
ℳatt@matttomic.bsky.social · 7mo agoItalian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
Justice department ‘not investigating’ Renee Good killing in contrast to 2020 inquiry on George Floyd death
Justice department ‘not investigating’ Renee Good killing in contrast to 2020 inquiry on George Floyd death
In 2020, Trump DoJ investigated police killing of Floyd in Minneapolis, leading to four officers’ convictions Six years after the US justice department launched an immediate criminal investigation of the video-recorded killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, deputy attorney general Todd Blanche confirmed on Sunday that the department is “not investigating” the fatal 7 January shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in the same city. The killing of Good, less than a mile from where Floyd was murdered in May 2020, was recorded on at least five phones, including one held by the ICE agent who shot her, Jonathan Ross. Continue reading...
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10 years. My brain hurts a lot. I think on some level I really do believe that he was the cosmic glue holding the world together. lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-do...
I don't think we know we are in this song | Los Angeles Review of Books
An appreciation of David Bowie's alien glamorous life
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Our University inflicts a monstrous amount of routine business on one, faculty meetings and committees of every sort, so that during term-time one can do no continuous reading at all—reading of books, I mean. When vacation comes, my brain is so tired that I can read nothing serious for a month…
The Letters of William James, Vol. II
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Well here’s something: the BBC has included LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK in a round-up of the must-reads of 2026. I’m sandwiched between Liza Minnelli and Cher - a big camp old Merry Christmas to me! ✨
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
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Hooray for Jonathan Coe name checking Dorothy Richardson again! “Random dips and scoops” is how Richardson read Proust, at least on the second reading - the word she used was “piecemeal”
Hooray for Jonathan Coe name checking Dorothy Richardson again! “Random dips and scoops” is how Richardson read Proust, at least on the second reading - the word she used was “piecemeal”
Some wonderful humans in this video (including my PhD supervisor on piano, a man of many talents 😂)
Sheffield UCU@sheffielducu.bsky.social · 8mo agoDay 16 of our strike action! What better time to bring out this classic banger The rain won't dampen our sprit today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnZV...
‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’ 💀
Anna Aslanyan@anna-aslanyan.bsky.social · 8mo agoBritish Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Almost exactly a month ago I fell and broke my ankle, really badly, and I have been in pain and immobile since. I have never been one of those people who gets upset that occasionally disabled people get some form of help from the state, but sudden disability … 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Disabled people driving luxury cars on your dime? Just the latest rightwing lie peddled by Labour | Frances Ryan
Starmer’s ailing government is happy to pursue ideas like cutting Motability, but all ministers will do is damage lives and themselves, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Almost exactly a month ago I fell and broke my ankle, really badly, and I have been in pain and immobile since. I have never been one of those people who gets upset that occasionally disabled people get some form of help from the state, but sudden disability … 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Disabled people driving luxury cars on your dime? Just the latest rightwing lie peddled by Labour | Frances Ryan
Starmer’s ailing government is happy to pursue ideas like cutting Motability, but all ministers will do is damage lives and themselves, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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