As I'm working on a new project about plagiarism I was very concerned by the experience of Professor Arday. The right undermining Black professors by weaponising issues of academic integrity is a real issue and I have no doubt he has been subject to harassment. But why lie about the marathons?

Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor

Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism

theguardian.com

We're 61% of the way there! But we need the support of more libraries to get to 100% - please come and join the @ojcollective.bsky.social community! Have questions or want to arrange a video call? DM us, email info@openjournalscollective.org or visit openjournalscollective.org.

Not quite a 'test bed' as this model has already been adopted at several other institutions for a good while, but it's terrible that the subsidiary continues to be embedded within HE policy, as if it's a completely normal way to run things

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

'A restructure at London South Bank University that is dividing staff into teaching and research tracks could become a “test bed” for the wider sector, staff claim.' New staff to be employed by a subsidiary, and won't have access to TPS. 1/4

Is there a more satisfying book to read aloud than ‘Mr Brown Can Moo!’ The last page is *chef’s kiss*

I’m a few months into my coaching journey and it’s been so brilliant to get to know writers at varying stages of their process and help them on their way. I’m keen to work with more people so do get in touch to discuss a first meeting and rates!

So happy to read this excellent review of my brilliant friend Eva O'Connor's play! Go see it in Edinburgh!

For Dolores review – dependency and desire in portrait of obsessive friendship

Eva O’Connor’s intense new play explores the lives of spiky Glaswegian Mo and naive Dubliner Réaltín through competing monologues, blunt humour and dance moves

theguardian.com

I’m a few months into my coaching journey and it’s been so brilliant to get to know writers at varying stages of their process and help them on their way. I’m keen to work with more people so do get in touch to discuss a first meeting and rates!

'The UK will not have enough water for future datacentres, the water industry has said in stark criticism of the government’s AI growth plans.' 1/2

Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says

Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’

theguardian.com

Traders at Brixton market fight back against private equity takeover of the site, want community ownership. PE will kill the market, currently owned by a Texas billionaire. Once it is gone, it's gone forever. Solidarity for resistance to big business, PE and financialisation of everything.

‘It’s like home’: Brixton market traders fight to stop site being sold to big business

Campaign hopes to buy site for community, fearing it could go same route of corporate gentrification as Camden and Old Spitalfields

theguardian.com

What can we learn from data about the current trends in university staffing in the humanities, social sciences and arts subjects? 🧵 Read on for key insights or see the full analysis: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

Wrote a little bit about my trip to Lamb House in Rye

Henry James in Rye

Or, the missing secretary

katiedacunhalewin.substack.com

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

Wrote a little bit about my trip to Lamb House in Rye

Henry James in Rye

Or, the missing secretary

katiedacunhalewin.substack.com

Really moved by this account of collective action

Target Culture and How To Defeat It

Universities across the UK have been subjected to Outcomes-Based Performance Management, a system used to evaluate academics against arbitrary targets and goals. Nick Megoran outlines the resistance.

open.substack.com

Good news, but the fact that this is only happening now, nearly three years after the cyber attack shows 1) what a huge job BL staff have had rebuilding services, 2) that the BL is underfunded, and 3) the impact this has had on academic research, especially in the humanities.

Digital Scholarship @ British Library@bldigischol.bsky.social · 4w ago

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored

Really enjoyed talking with Matt at @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social last month! We discussed so much, a favourite place in Portugal, trying to find time to write, as well as the enduring mythology of the perfect writer’s room. You can find the recording of our chat here:

#199: Katie da Cunha Lewin — How Space Shapes Creative Work, the Myth of the Perfect Writing Room, Building Creative Rituals, and Writing in Imperfect Conditions | London Writers' Salon

Writer Katie da Cunha Lewin on how physical spaces shape creative work, why the perfect writing room is a myth, and the rituals and routines that sustain a writing life.

podcast.londonwriterssalon.com

Really enjoyed talking with Matt at @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social last month! We discussed so much, a favourite place in Portugal, trying to find time to write, as well as the enduring mythology of the perfect writer’s room. You can find the recording of our chat here:

#199: Katie da Cunha Lewin — How Space Shapes Creative Work, the Myth of the Perfect Writing Room, Building Creative Rituals, and Writing in Imperfect Conditions | London Writers' Salon

Writer Katie da Cunha Lewin on how physical spaces shape creative work, why the perfect writing room is a myth, and the rituals and routines that sustain a writing life.

podcast.londonwriterssalon.com

Giving a talk with the Smithsonian on the 24th August at 12 ET/5 GMT. I’ll be talking about Woolf, Baldwin, and a range of contemporary writers, including the much-maligned millennial novelist. Do come along!

Creative Spaces: The Places Where Books We Love Were Written

What makes a writer’s space so fascinating? Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s reflections on the importance of space for creativity, author Katie da Cunha Lewin examines how writers have worked...

smithsonianassociates.org

Giving a talk with the Smithsonian on the 24th August at 12 ET/5 GMT. I’ll be talking about Woolf, Baldwin, and a range of contemporary writers, including the much-maligned millennial novelist. Do come along!

Creative Spaces: The Places Where Books We Love Were Written

What makes a writer’s space so fascinating? Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s reflections on the importance of space for creativity, author Katie da Cunha Lewin examines how writers have worked...

smithsonianassociates.org

I'll be there, diligently taking notes and nodding

I'm looking for some collaborators on a piece imagining a contemporary version of or response to Virginia Woolf's 1932 'Letter to a Young Poet'. You can read it below: yalereview.org/article/virg...

Virginia Woolf: “Letter to a Young Poet”

A letter by Virginia Woolf: “My dear John: Did you ever meet, or was he before your day, that old gentleman…”

yalereview.org

Wrote a bit on two recent Lerner pieces (not Transcription!) and the pull of the essay

Shape

On Ben Lerner's two hearts

open.substack.com

Wrote a bit on two recent Lerner pieces (not Transcription!) and the pull of the essay

Shape

On Ben Lerner's two hearts

open.substack.com

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

The bonfire of the humanities

150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences

technosphere.earth

SHAME ON YOU

University of Exeter@exeter.ac.uk · 2mo ago

We’re delighted to be able to share some exciting news: We’ve climbed 19 places in the QS World University Rankings 2027, and we’re now ranked 136th globally. This achievement reflects the growing strength of our reputation as one of the world’s top universities. news.exeter.ac.uk/staff-news/e...

Marking one year since I left my beloved job at Coventry because of their punitive plan to hire everyone through a subsidiary company. That practice is now becoming commonplace within the sector. Sending solidarity to those who are going through similar schemes and facing other attacks on their jobs

"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

Brilliant news!

Canongate@canongate.co.uk · last mo.

Starting this month we’re making a change to how we pay our authors. In some ways it's a process tweak but it's also a really important one: we're paying royalties quarterly rather than twice a year.

Everyone already knows this about Elaine May!!! DON'T MAKE ME SHARE MY ARTICLE AGAIN www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Marginalized for her ‘immense ambition’, the genius of director Elaine May is finally being recognized

As a new retrospective opens, collaborators of the Mikey and Nicky film-maker explain how she blazed a trail for female directors in Hollywood

theguardian.com

Good. I’ll save my tears for racialised minorities, trans people, my friends and colleagues in HE, and everyone else his government has thrown under the bus.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last mo.

Breaking news: Keir Starmer has announced that he will step down as prime minister amid a collapse in his popularity less than two years after he swept the Labour Party back to power with a promise to rebuild Britain. ft.trib.al/whPxdm3